Third Annual Graduate Student Conference, 4 April 1998

Our Third Annual Graduate Student Conference, held on 4 April 1998 in the South Bay Room, at Covel Commons on the UCLA campus was a terrific success, thanks to all of our presenters.

Below is the schedule and list of presenters:

THIRD ANNUAL UCLA GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
ON LATE ANTIQUITY
4 APRIL 1998

Registration: 9.00 - 9.30
Opening Remarks: 9.30 - 9.45
First Panel: 9.45 - 10.45
"Materiality, Geography and Teaching in the Catechetical Lectures of Cyril of Jerusalem"
David Soloff
University of California, Berkeley
"Clerical Celibacy, Christian Marriage and Illegitimacy in Late Antiquity"
Laura Wertheimer
University of California, Santa Barbara

Break: 10.45 - 11.00
Second Panel: 11.00 - 12.30
"Implications of Military Transfers: P. Oxy. 4359"
Robert Caldwell
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
"Regional Approaches to the Cities of Early Byzantine Asia Minor"
Abram Hubbell
University of California, Los Angeles
"An Empire Fragmented? Breaking Down the Myth of English Isolation in the 7th Century"
Deanna Forsman
University of California, Los Angeles

Lunch: 12.30 - 2.00
Third Panel: 2.00 - 3.00
"Fourth and Fifth Century Christian Views of Julian"
David Tipton
University of California, Santa Barbara
"Between a Rock and A Hard Place:
Another Look at Ambrose of Milan in the Court of Magnus Maximus"
Mike Proulx
University of California, Santa Barbara

Break: 3.00 - 3.15
Fourth Panel: 3.15 - 4.15
"Who Saved Antioch?
The Role of Oratory in the Aftermath of the 387 Riot of the Statues"
Justin Stephens
University of California, Santa Barbara
"Barsanuphius' Disciples: Spiritual Authority at Tawatha"
Jennifer L. Hevelone-Harper
Princeton University

Closing Remarks: 4.15 - 4.45