The Many Faces of the Gods:
Examining Conceptions of Divinity in Antiquity
Keynote Speaker:
Jan Bremmer
University of Groningen
April 7th, 2007
George Wells Knight House
104 East 15th Avenue
Schedule of Events:
9:00 – 9:30 Coffee and Conversation
9:30 – 10:15 Opening Speaker:
“Where the Hell Did Their Gods Come From? – Rethinking the Multicultural Background of Greek Mythology”
Professor Carolina López-Ruiz (The Ohio State University)
10:15 – 10:45 “(Mis)Perceiving the Divine or Did Lucius Really See Isis?”
Michael Vincze (Boston University)
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30 “Anthropomorphism and Ignorance”
Bridget Buchholz (The Ohio State University)
11:30 – 12:00 “Varro in Augustine and Augustine in Varro: An Episode in the Genealogy of ‘Religion’”
Brent Nongbri (Yale University)
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 2:00 “A Multitude of Perspectives: Domestic Display and Religious Interactions in Late Antique Aphrodisias”
Ian Michael Lockey (New York University)
2:00 – 2:30 “Willing and Unwilling: The Relationship between Heraclitus and the Gods”
Andrew Barrett (Wayne State University)
2:30 – 3:00 “I Will Not Pour Out the Cedar Oil: Coercing the Gods in P. Mich. 534”
Richard Persky (University of Michigan)
3:00 – 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 – 5:00 Keynote Address:
“Hephaestus: The Construction of a Marginal God”
Jan Bremmer (University of Groningen)
5:00 – 6:00 Reception