The Seventh Annual UCLA Graduate Late Antiquity Conference
314 Royce Hall, University of California, Los Angeles
6 April, 2002
The conference is open to the public and there is no registration fee. However, email pre-registration is encouraged. Abstracts for conference papers are posted below, highlighted in Green text.
Preliminary Program
9.00 - 9.30 Registration
9.30 - 10.00 Opening Remarks
10.00 - 11.00 Panel One
Ethnic Argumentation in Eusebius of Caesarea's Preparatio Evangelica
Aaron Johnson - University of Colorado, Boulder
The Christian Zelig: Late Roman Aristocrats as Disciples of Christ
Michael Williams - King's College, Cambridge University
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 - 12.30 Panel Two
Justifiably Outraged or Simply Outrageous?
The Isaurian Incident of Ammianus Marcellinus XIV.2.1
Linda Honey - University of Calgary
Sasanian Debt-Law and the Idea of Justice
Ali Anooshahr - University of California, Los Angeles
12.30 - 2.00 Lunch Break
2.00 - 3.00 Panel Three
Tragic Fate: The Oresteia and the Performance of Tragedy in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Ameila Brown - University of California, Berkeley
The Post-Chalcedonian Church: A Non-Chalcedonian Perspective
Volker Menze - Princeton University
3.00 - 3.30 Coffee Break
3.30 - 4.30 Panel Four
Healing and Salvation in Early Egyptian Christianity
Nefertiti Takla - University of California, Los Angeles
Hermetic Literature and Translations in Late Antiquity
Kevin van Bladel - Yale University
4.30 - 5.00 Closing Remarks
Directions and Parking Information
Royce Hall, Room 314 is a lecture hall on the third floor of Royce, on the south side of the building. The room is close to the west stairwell and elevator.
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, the underground structure directly downhill from Royce, is the closest non-restricted access parking structure. Single day on-campus parking is $6.
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