The Biblical and Early Christian Studies program hosts a monthly global research seminar series which showcases outstanding work in the field and nurtures scholarly conversation with participants from Australia and around the world.

Speakers pre-circulate or deliver live papers on a wide range of topics ranging from the social scientific study of the New Testament to Late Antique philosophy, which is then discussed during the hour-long online meeting. All seminars are accessible via Zoom.

2024 Global Seminar Series

Registration for Seminars will be via Zoom. If you would like to join our mailing list to receive announcements of upcoming seminars, or with any other questions, please email becs.seminar@acu.edu.au. In second semester 2023 we will have these monthly seminars:

Hartmut Leppin (Goethe University, Frankfurt)

18 February 2024 Hybrid (in-person and online) seminar

Title: ‘Emperor Maurice: From failure to holiness’

Time:11:00am (Melbourne) / 12am (London) / Wed7th 7pm (New York)

460.28 Conference Room, 4th floor, 250 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne

Contact: BECS.seminar@acu.edu.au


Hugo Mendez (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

7 March 2024 Online (Zoom) seminar

Title: ‘“From the Beginning”: Rethinking the Message of 1 John’

Time:9am (Melbourne) /Wed6th 10pm (London) / 5pm (New York)

Contact: BECS.seminar@acu.edu.au


David Lloyd Dusenbury (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

4 April 2024 Hybrid (in-person and online) seminar

Title: "A Metaphysically Rich Physiology of Consent: Freedom and Sexuality in the First Christian Anthropology"

Time:11am (Melbourne) / 1am (London) / Wed3rd 8pm (New York)

460.28 Conference Room, 4th floor, 250 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne

Contact: BECS.seminar@acu.edu.au


Kelsie Rodenbiker(University of Glasgow)

9 May 2024 Online (Zoom) seminar

Title: Canon, Lists, and Scriptural Vitality in the New Testament Manuscript Tradition’

Time:5pm (Melbourne) / 8am (London) /3am(New York)

Contact: BECS.seminar@acu.edu.au


Annette Weissenrieder(Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)

6 June Online (Zoom) seminar

Title: ‘A New Edition of the Codex VercellensisLuke Based on Multi-Spectral Images’

Time:5pm (Melbourne) / 8am(London) / 3am (New York)

Contact: BECS.seminar@acu.edu.au

Past BECS Global Research Seminar Series

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11 February, Mark Vessey, 'Latin Crafting the Unfinished Christian: The Baptistery as Workshop in Greek Catecheticlal Instructions'

25 February, Kim Harkins, 'Seeing through the Eyes of Hermas'

11 March, Georgia Frank, Crafting the Unfinished Christian: The Baptistery as Workshop in Greek Catecheticlal Instructions'

25 March, Jennifer Knust, 'From Bethany to and Back Again'

8 April, Robyn Faith Walsh, 'Redescribing Early Christian Literature: The Gospels, the Satyrica, and Anonymous Sources'

22 April, Christine Gerber, 'What Would Paul Have Written? On the Interpretation of Pseudepigraphic Letters'

6 May, Volker Henning Drecoll, 'Simply More Promising: Christianity and Platonism as Concepts' 

20 May, Ben Edsall, 'Reading Gospels and the Space of the Present'

3 June, Emiliano Fiori, 'A Geological Approach to Syriac Miaphysite Christology (6th—9th Centuries): Detours of a Patristic Florilegium from Antioch to Tagrit'

26 August, Gerhard Van den Heever, 'Do Religions, in Fact, Die? and How Do The Die?  On the Christianisation of the Late Antique Mediterranean World" Reflections from where We Are'

9 September, Stephen C. Carlson, 'Presbyters in Papias'

23 September, Jens Schroter, 'Why did Christians Write Apoclypses: Reflections on the Developments of a Genre'

7 October: Majella Franzmann, Manichean Communities and Their Liturgy'

21 October: Michael Champion, Emotions and Education in Late Antique Asceticism'

18 November: Janet Spittler, 'The Acts of John by Prochorus: The most Popular Late Antique Text that You've Never Heard of'

2 December: Professor Han Baltussen'Θεῖος in Eunapius‘ Lives of Philosophers and Sophists. Notes from a Translator

30 April: Francis Watson, 'The Eusebian New Testament and its Readers'

14 May: David Brakke, 'The Gospel of Judas: Fragments of an Anchor Yale Bible Volume'

28 May: Teresa Morgan, 'What Does it Mean to Live in a Relationship of Trust with God and Christ?'

11 June: Robin Darling Young, 'Constitution for a New Politeia: Evagrius'Letters and Instructions'

25 June: Gareth Wearne, 'The Sectarian Hypothesis of Qumran Origins at (Nearly) 75 Years: A Review and New Reconstruction'

9 July: John Barclay, 'The Lord's Supper or the Lion's Share: The Negotiation of Transactional Orders in 1 Cor 11.17-34'

23 July: Andrew Radde-Gallwitz, Gregory of Nyssa and the Metaphysics of Bodies'

6 August: Candida Moss, 'Fashioning Mark: Early Christian Discussions about the Scribe and the Status of the Second Gospel'

20 August: David Lincicum, 'The Wisdom of Solomon: A Christian Text?'

3 September: Margaret M. Mitchell, 'Mark, the Long-form Pauline Eὐαγγέλιον'

17 September: Samuel Fernandez, 'Who Accused Whom? The Outbreak of the Arian Crisis in the Light of the Contemporary Documents'

1 October: Mark G. Brett, 'What is Political Theology?'

15 October: Musa Dube, 'Boundaries and Bridges: Journeys of a Postcolonial Feminist in Biblical Studies'

29 October: Niki Clements, 'Cassian's Therapy of Desire'

12 November: Dawn LaValle Norman, 'The Role of Women in Late Imperial Dialogues: The Body, Desire, and the Intellectual Life'

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