Religion, Cognition, and Community in Antiquity: A Colloquium in Memory of Roger Beck
When and Where
Description
A Colloquium in Memory of Roger Beck, Professor of Classics in the Department of Historical Studies
Schedule
from 9:00am Light Breakfast
9:30am Introduction (Andreas Bendlin)
9:45am Martin Revermann (UTM): “Picking up Eleusis: Ancient Spectatorship Primed by Mystery Cult Experience”
10:50 am Aldo Tagliabue (Notre Dame), “Pronoia in the Second Sophistic: A Cognitive and Narratological Approach”
11:50am–12:10 pm Coffee Break
12:10pm Mareile Haase (UTM), “Appropriating Osiris in Literature and Art during the Roman Imperial Period”
1:10–2 pm Buffet Lunch
2pm John Kloppenborg (UTSG, Department for the Study of Religion), “Were there Cultic Associations in Antiquity?”
3pm Matthew McCarty (UBC), “The Labours of Mithras: Working to Make a Worship Community”
4–4:30 pm Coffee Break
4:30pm Andreas Bendlin (UTM): “‘May It Become Salt and Water for Him’: Coping and Social Control in the Curse Tablets from Roman Mainz”
5:30–5:45pm Final Discussion
[image: Mithras killing the bull, ca. 150 BCE, the Louvre; CC BY-SA 3.0]
For Questions: contact Lana Radloff (l.radloff@utoronto.ca)