Join us for the 2024 UBC Medieval Workshop, which will be held October 16–18 at the Green College Coachhouse and also live-streamed via Zoom! 

Please register from the link provided on the Workshop website: https://blogs.ubc.ca/ubcmedievalworkshop2024/

Registration – free for students (at any level, any institution) and remote-only registrants – is required to attend the Workshop sessions, though it is optional for the Keynote Lecture, which will be delivered at Green College in the evening on Thursday, October 17 and also livestreamed via Zoom here:

Topic: James J. O’Donnell | « What Was Christianity? » | Keynote Lecture – 2024 UBC Medieval Workshop
Time: Oct 17, 2024 05:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/63114014919?pwd=XD29XZ7Pb4cps6A29Uwhga9Pf1g7M1.1

Meeting ID: 631 1401 4919
Passcode: 351074

(There will be a separate Zoom link for all other Workshop sessions, which will be provided to registrants closer to mid October.) 

This, the 46th edition, of the UBC Medieval Workshop will explore the late Roman Church ‘Fathers’ as writers/authors in their own works and cultural settings as well as the complex afterlives of their texts and authorial identities in the centuries after their deaths. The wide-ranging papers that will be presented, by leading authorities in the fields of Late Antique and Medieval Studies together with early-career researchers and graduate students, are intended in tribute to a superlative and prolific scholar of Late Antiquity: UBC Professor Mark Vessey (Dept. of English).

The workshop’s diverse group of presenters will explore some of the fruitful paths broken and avenues of inquiry suggested by Prof. Vessey’s influential scholarship. In so doing, they will illuminate more expansively the distinctive literary landscapes inhabited by late Roman readers and by the medieval (and still later) readers who would construct an idealized world of ‘patristic’ writers at the authoritative core of ‘ancient Christianity’ and an expansive, extra-scriptural literary canon for the post-Roman cultures of medieval Europe and beyond. The presentations at this workshop will serve to illuminate more clearly key connections among ancient, late antique, medieval, and modern cultures of writing, reading, books, and canon-formation together with the historical (and on-going) consequences for such configurations of knowledge and authority.

For their generous contributions, without which the 2024 UBC Medieval Workshop would not have been possible, we extend our sincere thanks to:

•       Brepols 
•       Green College
•       McGill-Queen’s University Press
•       St. Mark’s College & Corpus Christi College 
•       The Canadian Society of Patristic Studies 
•       The Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies (AMNE), UBC
•       The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory (AHVA), UBC
•       The Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies (CENES), UBC
•       The Department of English, UBC
•       The Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies (FHIS), UBC
•       The Department of History, UBC
•       The Department of Philosophy, UBC
•       The Diamond Chair in Jewish Law and Ethics, AMNE, UBC
•       The Medieval Studies Program, UBC
•       The Program in the Study of Religion, UBC 
•       The School of Information Studies (iSchool), UBC