{"id":7707,"date":"2017-10-17T12:15:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T17:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/?p=7707"},"modified":"2017-10-17T12:15:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T17:15:19","slug":"stephen-davis-to-deliver-keynote-lecture-at-interdisciplinary-workshop-on-late-antiquity-october-19-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/2017\/10\/stephen-davis-to-deliver-keynote-lecture-at-interdisciplinary-workshop-on-late-antiquity-october-19-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Davis to Deliver Keynote Lecture at Interdisciplinary Workshop on Late Antiquity October 19-20"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"stephenjdavis2\"Stephen J. Davis, professor of religious studies and Near Eastern languages and civilization at Yale University, will deliver the keynote lecture, “The Archaeology of Early Christian Monasticism: Evidentiary Problems and Criteria” on Thursday, October 19, at 4:10 pm in Cohen Hall 203 followed by a reception.\u00a0 Davis will open ReLACS 2017, an interdisciplinary workshop on the study of Late Antiquity, with a reassessment of what we know—and how we know what we know—about the archaeological evidence for Christian monasticism in the first millennium CE.\u00a0 Assessing the current state of the field, he will first address problems we face in both the identification and the dating of “monastic” sites and then discuss criteria by which we can engage more critically with the material evidence available to us.<\/p>\n

Since 2006 Davis has served as executive director of the Yale Monastic Archaeology Project (YMAP), conducting field work and training graduate students primarily at three sites in Egypt\u2014the Monastery of John the Little in the north; the White Monastery and its federated women\u2019s monastery at Atripe in the south.\u00a0In 2013 he initiated a related project to catalog the major collection of Coptic and Arabic manuscripts at the Monastery of the Syrians in Wadi al-Natrun, Egypt. \"WhiteMonasteryChurch\"Most recently, he has written Monasticism: A Very Short Introduction<\/em> for Oxford University Press (forthcoming in January 2018), and has founded a new book series called Christian Arabic Texts in Translation<\/em> (CATT) with Fordham University Press. His research projects include the preparation of a collaborative volume on the YMAP excavations of a monastic residence at John the Little (entitled Dwelling in the Desert), as well as publications related to his team\u2019s ongoing archaeological work at a women\u2019s monastery at Atripe in Upper Egypt.<\/p>\n

The workshop also features presentations of work by scholars working in the fields of history, classics, religious studies, law, Jewish studies, Islamic studies, art history, gender studies, archaeology, digital humanities, and literature. The steering committee that organized ReLACS 2017 includes three Vanderbilt professors, who are also workshop participants:\u00a0 David Michelson, assistant professor of the history of Christianity and history; Joe Rife, associate professor of classical and Mediterranean studies and founding program director, and Betsey Robinson, associate professor of history of art..<\/p>\n

The ReLACS 2017 workshop is sponsored by the Program in Classical and Mediterranean Studies and the Divinity School.\u00a0Additional sponsorship has been provided by\u00a0the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Religious Studies, The Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, the Department of History, the Department of History of Art, the Program in Jewish Studies,\u00a0and the Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities.<\/p>\n

The workshop is free and open to all VU faculty and students. The Thursday keynote lecture will be located in Cohen 203\u2014all other events on Friday will be located in the Divinity School Reading Room and at the Center for Digital Humanities.\u00a0 For more information regarding the full schedule, go to https:\/\/divinity.vanderbilt.edu\/news\/relacs2017.php<\/a>.<\/p>\n

*Photograph of Stephen J. Davis; and photograph showing conservation of a severely threatened early medieval wall painting of the Virgin and Child in the White Monastery Church, March 2015, by Alberto Sucato.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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