https:\/\/divinity.vanderbilt.edu\/news\/relacs2017.php<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The hinterland of Alexandria was the setting for some of the earliest and most important monastic settlements in late antique Egypt. It is this area that produced the famous \u201csayings of the desert fathers,\u201d and it is in this area, above all, that Christian pilgrims from the Roman Empire encountered Egyptian monasticism. This is the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7000,"featured_media":7739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,14,16,19,1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conferences","category-divinity-school","category-events","category-hart","category-lectures","category-news","category-vrc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7741,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7734\/revisions\/7741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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rofessor of history of art, will moderate a workshop session entitled “The Western Delta in Late Antiquity:\u00a0 Archaeology and History” that will be presented by Ariel Lopez, Rhodes College,\u00a0 at 9:15 a.m. on Friday, October 20, in the Divinity School Reading Room.\u00a0 The session is part of ReLACS 2017, a two-day interdisciplinary workshop on the study of Late Antiquity that features presentations 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.<\/p>\n