April D. DeConick

Mapping Death

Alan F. Segal                                         Professor of Religion and Ingeborg Rennert Professor of Jewish Studies

Barnard College, Columbia University

January 19^th, 9-11:30 am, private Seminar

Rituals of Immortality: The Bible and the Rise of Immortality among Jews and Christians

Greg Shaw                                             Professor of Religious Studies

Stone Hill College

Feb. 16^th, 9 -11 am, private Seminar

11:30 am -1 pm, RSVP Cohen House Luncheon and Public Lecture

Iamblichean Theurgy: Reflections on the Practice of Later Platonists

Mark Turner                                         Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science

Case Western Reserve University

March 9^th, 9-11 am, private Seminar

11:30 am -1 pm, RSVP Cohen House Luncheon and Public Lecture

How to have an afterlife

Dale Martin                                          Woolsey Professor of Religious Studies

Director of Graduate Studies

Yale University

March 23^rd 9-11 am, private Seminar

11:30 am -1 pm, RSVP Cohen House Luncheon and Public Lecture

Confusions of Death: On the Lack of Unanimity on Death in Earliest Christianity

Roger Beck                                           Professor Emeritus, Department of History and Classics

University of Toronto

April 13^th

9-11 am, private Seminar

11:30 am -1 pm, RSVP Cohen House Luncheon and Public Lecture

Ecstatic Religion in the Roman Cult of Mithras

For the Cohen House Luncheon and Public lectures, RSVP Michael Domeracki (msd5@rice.edu). 

Sponsored by the Mellon Foundation, the Humanities Research Center, the program for Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations, the Religious Studies Department, and the Linguistics Department.