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University of California Los Angeles The Graduate Student Association for the Study of Late Antiquity Contact Information E-mail walterward2@hotmail.com (Walter Ward) Contact Address The Tenth Annual Graduate Late Antiquity Conference c/o The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Box 951485 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1485 The Call for Papers can be viewed here. Past Conferences The Third Annual UCLA Graduate Late Antiquity Conference Saturday, 4 April 1998 The Fourth Annual UCLA Graduate Late Antiquity Conference Saturday, 10 April 1999 The Fifth Annual UCLA Graduate Late Antiquity Conference Saturday, 15 April 2000 The Sixth Annual UCLA Graduate Late Antiquity Conference Saturday, 12 May 2001 The Seventh Annual UCLA Graduate Late Antiquity Conference Saturday, 6 April 2002 The Eighth Annual UCLA Graduate Late Antiquity Conference Saturday, 5 April 2003 The Ninth Annual UCLA Graduate Late Antiquity Conference Saturday, 1 May 2004

The Graduate Student Association for the Study of Late Antiquity supports the study of the transformation of the classical world into Byzantium, the Latin Medieval West, and the Islamic Near East. We seek to bring together scholars from various disciplines in order to examine aspects of that transformation, including political, religious, cultural and socioeconomic change. The Tenth Annual UCLA Graduate Late Antiquity Conference 190 Royce Hall, University of California, Los Angeles Saturday, April 30, 2005 It is a pleasure to announce the UCLA Graduate Student Association for the Study of Late Antiquity's Ninth Annual Graduate Student Conference, April 30 2005, in Royce Hall 190 (on the UCLA campus). The conference program, abstracts, directions and parking information are available below. 9:00-9:30 Registration 9:30-10:00 Preliminary Remarks 10:00-12:00 Moral values East, West, and South The Perception of Baiae and Luxuria in the Fourth Century C.E.: The Evidence from the Letters of Q. Aurelius Symmachus Tim Watson UCR Sexual Communism: A New Look at the Rebellion of Mazdak Khodadad Rezakhani UCLA Andromeda and the Ethiopian Soul in Black and White Robert Brophy Syracuse University 12:00–1:00 Lunch Break 1:00–2:30 Views of Christianity and Paganism in Antioch Smoking Altar, Burning Bull: Antioch’s opposition to Julian’s Sacrifices Jason Shattuck UCSB  Early forms of Antiochene Christology  with special emphasis on the Odes of Solomon and Syriac Acts of Thomas Tenny Thomas Oxford 2:30–3:00 Coffee Break 3:00-4:30 Representations of Female Virtue in Late Antiquity The Consecration of a Sister and Fashioning of a Christian Matron: Gregory of Nazianzen’s Oration on Gorgonia Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent Brown Rescuing the Damsel in the Brothel: Folk Tale Responses to Hadrian’s Persecution Hope Blacker UCLA 4:30-5:00 Closing Remarks Lunch Will Be Provided Directions and Parking Information The conference will be held in Royce Hall on the UCLA campus, in Room 190. Room 190 is a lecture hall on the first floor of Royce, on the south side of the building. The room is close to the main southern entrance. Directions to UCLA: http://www.transportation.ucla.edu/parking/spdirect.HTM The "North Entrance" to campus, accessible by Sunset Boulevard, is the most convenient to Royce Hall. Parking structure 4, and underground structure directly downhill from Royce, is the closest non-restricted access parking structure. Single day on-campus parking is $7. The link below provides a map of event locations, parking and information booths, and parking structures (click on "Royce Hall"): http://www.transportation.ucla.edu/eventmap/eventmap.html Sponsored By The University of California Multicampus Research Grant on the History and Culture of Late Antiquity The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Site Credits Image: Barbarini Ivory Musée de Louvre, Paris André Grabar, The Golden Age of Justinian (Odyssey Press, New York: 1967) 279. Last Modification Date 24 April 2005

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