Lorton Performance Center, 550 S. Gary Place, Tulsa, OK 74104

All sessions will be occur in the Gussman Concert Hall; food and beverage services will be offered in the lobby/foyer.

N.B. Tulsa’s time zone is Central Standard Time (CST/GMT-6)

THURSDAY, MARCH 20

Registration/Sign In 2:30-3:30 PM (in the lobby/foyer)

Welcome Remarks 3:30-4:00 PM

Keynote Address I 4:00-5:30 PM

Virginia Burrus (Syracuse University), “The Heroic and the Fragile: Kehinde Wiley, Late Ancient Poetry, and the Gender of Martyrdom”

Reception 5:30-7:30 PM

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FRIDAY, MARCH 21

Continental Breakfast 8:30-9:00 AM

Session 1: Gender, Identity, and Authority in Late Antique Egypt 9:00-10:30 AM

Chair: Caroline Schroeder (University of Oklahoma)

Evan Axel Andersson (UC, Santa Barbara), “‘Gender Confusion’ in Egyptian Applied Magic? On the Pronouns of Pantous, Apis, and Others.”

Elizabeth Buchanan (University of Findlay), “Women, Family and Credit in Late Antique Egypt.”

Claire Koen (Fordham University), “Demonological Techniques of the Self in the Life of Paul of Tamma.”

Beverage Service 10:30-11:00 AM

Session 2: Mothers and Widows 11:00 AM-12:30 PM

Chair: Andrew Magnusson (University of Central Oklahoma)

Misa Nguyen (UC, Santa Barbara), “Who’s Afraid of a Pregnant She-Wolf? Distrust and Authority in Late Antique Pregnancies.”

Dennis Trout (University of Missouri), “turtur vera fuisti: Authorizing Widowhood in the Coemeterium Commodillae (Rome).”

A.E.T. McLaughlin (Cathedral Preparatory School), “Motherhood and the Making of the Virgin Mary in the Sixth Century.”

Lunch 12:30-2:00 PM

Session 3: Women and the Church 2:00-3:30 PM

Chair: Merle Eisenberg (Oklahoma State University)

Jaclyn Maxwell (Ohio University), “Rude Widows, Disobedient Virgins, and Female Teachers: John Chrysostom on the Limits of a Priest’s Authority.”

Adam M. Schor (University of South Carolina), “Mansplaining in Late Antiquity: Gender and Expertise in the Letters of Bishops to Learned Women, 350-450 CE.”

Jacqueline Long (Loyola University Chicago), “Authority, Deference, and Gender: Galla Placidia Writes to Bishops.”

Beverage Service 3:30-4:00 PM

Session 4: Asceticism and Authority 4:00-5:30

Chair: Rangar Cline (University of Oklahoma)

Matthew Ryan Hassall (University of Liverpool), “Ascetics for Equality: The Council of Gangra as a Counter-Radical Exercise in Ecclesiastical Authority.”

Debra Foran (Wilfrid Laurier University), “Communities in Transition: exploring the relationship between secular and religious settlements in Byzantine and early Islamic Jordan.”

Margaret Cotter-Lynch (Southeastern Oklahoma State University), “Mosaic Gender: Mary of Egypt and the Lives of the Desert Mothers.”

Beverage Service 5:30-6:00 PM

Keynote Address II 6:00-7:30 PM

Michele R. Salzman (UC Riverside), “Gender and Authority: Constantina, Constantius II, and The Bishops in Fourth-Century Rome.”

Reception 7:30-9:00 PM

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SATURDAY, MARCH 22

Continental Breakfast 8:30-9:00 AM

Session 5: Female Agency, Identity, and Authority I 9:00-10:30 AM

Chair: Margaret Cotter-Lynch (Southeastern Oklahoma State University)

Hagith Sivan (University of Kansas), “Educating or Indoctrinating? How to Fashion Female (Illi)Literacy in Jewish (and Christian) Late Antiquity.”

Yuliya Minets (University of Alabama), “The Forgotten Face of Chalcedonian Christology: St. Euphemia and her multiple appearances in the 5th and 6th centuries.”

Hope Williard (Utrecht University), “The Agency of Late Antique Female Letter Carriers.”

Beverage Service 10:30-11:00 AM

Session 6: Female Agency, Identity, and Authority II 11:00 AM-12:30 PM

Chair: Nicole Lopez-Jantzen (CUNY BMCC)

Carl Rice (Vassar College), “Escaping the ‘Prostitute’s Shame’: A Law of Constantius II on Enslaved Sex Workers.”

Christopher Flavin (Northeastern State University), “The Durability of Self: Silence and the Matrices of Feminine Identity.”

Emily Knoppe (Missouri State University), “St. Brigid of Kildare: Legend or Saint?”

Lunch 12:30-2:00 PM

Session 7: Inscribing Identity 2:00-3:30 PM

Chair: Matthew Pereira (Oklahoma State University)

Jeremy Swist (Grand Valley State University), “‘A Lying, Pretentious Little Greek’: Julian, Ammianus, and the Exemplum of Hadrian.”

Cristalle Watson (Mount Allison University), “‘Maronem sine Christo possimus dicere Christianum’? Proba’s Cento Vergilianus, Typology, and a Contested Christian Identity for Vergil.”

Laurent Cases (National Taiwan University), “The Many Identities of John Son of Laurentius from Lydia.”

Beverage Service 3:30-4:00 PM

Session 8: Fashioning Authority 4:00-5:30 PM

Chair: Jonathan Arnold (University of Tulsa)

Bailey Benson (Boston University), “The Sebasteion at Boubon: Portrait Display and Imperial Dynastic Associations.”

Amélie Belleli (University of Limoges), “The Empress’ costume during Late Antiquity and the blurring of gendered frontiers.”

Marco Cristini (University of Florence), “The Long-Bearded Emperors: The Evolution of the East Roman Imperial Portrait on Coinage (602-711).”

Downtime (travel to banquet location) 5:30-7:00 PM

Banquet (101 Archer Building, 101 E. Archer Ave, Tulsa, OK 74103) 7:00-9:00 PM

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