Erin Galgay Walsh

I’m excited to see everyone in Chicago for #NAPS2025! I’m so very sorry for the weather - stay warm! 🥶

Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW Paula Fredriksen begins Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years with a question: considering the variety of gods and local deities present in both the ancient Mediterranean and the…

Today on AJR, Joseph Foltz reviews Paula Fredriksen's Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years (Princeton University Press, 2024).

A Memory of Violence by Christine Shepardson - Hardcover Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Looking forward to reading this! August 2025! The subtitle is: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity

The Mother Whose Catholic Faith Inspired the Future Pope

A lovely story to start the day with - wishing all those who love and nurture others a very special holiday ♥️

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There's a lot to be said about the presence or absence of women in early Christian ascetic communities, and that is often influenced by the way that ascetics did (or did not!) think of masculinity as the aim of ascetic practice

It’s a good time to be a historian of Christianity in Chicago! An alum of our neighbors, the Catholic Theological Union no less. Bringing it home to Hyde Park! #popeleoxiv #pope

🎉 New Spotify podcast has just dropped!

🎙️ Listen to @mara-nicosia.bsky.social (recently completed @britishacademy.bsky.social fellow) about her new book @gorgiaspress.bsky.social

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Check your email for full details. Feel free to contact the chair, Scott Moringiello, @historiographos.bsky.social, or me. Many thanks to those who have already sent nominations!

The Nominating Committee of the North American Patristics Society is still accepting nominations for positions on the board and other committees. Help shape the future of our society! Self-nominations welcome! #NAPS2025

Take Action Now to Save the NEH - AAR Yesterday, the AAR endorsed a statement by the National Humanities Alliance (NHA) on threats to the NEH posed by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which aimed to substantially reduce NEH...

#AAR #Advocacy | We learned this morning (April 3) that DOGE has begun terminating previously awarded NEH grants. If you have been or might be affected, we've put together resources from the National Humanities Alliance (NHA) to help: aarweb.org/news/take-ac...

Join us on April 29 for our final East of Byzantium lecture of the year: The Malleability of Memory in Memorializing the Saints with Mary Farag. 12:00 PM ET on Zoom. Register: eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-eve...

Winter Lecture Series: Armenian Christian Martyrs in Text & Image, presented by Dr. Ani Shahinian. March 26, 11am-12pm (CT). Visit HMML.org to RSVP for this free, virtual event. Pictured: Collection of Our Lady of Bzummār Convent, Bzummār, Lebanon. (BzBz 00079)

RSVP for “Armenian Christian Martyrs in Text and Image,” a free, virtual event happening on March 26 at 11 a.m. (CT): hmml.org/programs/eve...
 
Special guest Dr. Ani Shahinian is a cataloger of Armenian manuscripts at HMML and a researcher of Christian martyrdom in Late Medieval Armenia.

A great article in Sightings today from my brilliant colleague, Prof. Angie Heo #martinmartycenter #uchicagodivinity martycenter.org/sightings/ev...

Martin E. Marty, Influential Religious Historian, Dies at 97 A staunch champion of pluralism, he was described in Time magazine as “the most influential living interpreter of religion in the U.S.”

A fitting tribute to an exemplary scholar and teacher - he will be missed in Swift Hall and beyond
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This year I'm on the #aar steering committees of the Middle Eastern Christianity Unit & Religion and Memory Unit. Check out our CfP(s) & consider submitting a proposal!

MECU June: papers.aarweb.org/group/14948
MECU Nov.: papers.aarweb.org/group/14947
R&M Nov.: papers.aarweb.org/group/14993

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2024 NAPS Presidential Address: Ex-Jews, Christians, and Conversion in Late Antiquity ANDREW S. JACOBS Abstract: In this essay, I reorient our attention to conversion in late antiquity by focusing on conversion as a narrative shaping late ancient culture rather than attending to the reality (or unreality) of converts. When we treat conversion hermeneutically rather than phenomenologically, we can begin to appreciate how conversion narratives in late antiquity produce a distinct form of affiliation we can call “religion.” Using the story of Joseph of Tiberias from Epiphanius’s Panarion as my springboard, I look at various narratives of Jews converting to Christianity and explore how they engage with, but never resolve, key questions about will and coercion, self and other, and difference and identity. The religion that emerges from these conversion narratives is agonistic, deeply shaped by imperial logics, but also open to possibilities of resistance that might have disrupted the very production of “religion.”

well hellooooo

Friends submitting proposals for AAR - please check out the call from the Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit led by @riccardiswartz.bsky.social and @phildorroll.bsky.social #aar2025

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Possibilities in the Past: The Challenges and Payoffs of Public Scholarship — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW In this article, we argue that, despite and precisely because of these real cautions, public scholarship can further three core academic responsibilities: teaching, service, and even research.

We begin 2025 with a #pedagogy article on public scholarship, teaching, and research from Emily Chesley and Rebekah Haigh, co-hosts of the podcast Women Who Went Before @rebekahjhaigh.bsky.social

I'm excited to ring in the new year by sharing the first review of my book (by Yulia Minets), published in the Journal of Early Christian Studies.
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2024 AJR Year in Review — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW Ancient Jew Review is thankful for our community of contributors and readers invested in learning about Jews and their neighbors in the ancient world. For the year of 2024, these are our ten most-read...

Farewell 2024! These are the 10 most-read essays this year on Ancient Jew Review: www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2024/12...

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the NAPS membership sign-up/renewal process has some changes this round!

1) graduated dues based on income
2) link to our standard of conduct policies
3) collecting demographic information to improve inclusion going forward!

Opinion | How Higher Education Can Win America Back Jefferson believed in the egalitarian potential of education, and we should, too.

“A good college education opens pathways for transformative achievement. And by doing so, the school inspires still more people to change their life trajectories through learning.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/o...

New podcast ep! Mike Motia interviews Blake Leyerle about what it meant for ordinary believers to live a Christian life in late antiquity? Featuring In Christians at Home: John Chrysostom and Domestic Rituals in Fourth-Century Antioch (Penn State University Press, 2024).

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Today on AJR, Fr. Andrew Younan writes about his new translation of Narsai's verse homilies www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2024/12...
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Opinion | Pope Francis: There Is Faith in Humor The best thing to do in front of a mirror is to laugh at ourselves. It is good for us.

“Narcissists are continually looking into the mirror, painting themselves, gazing at themselves, but the best advice in front of a mirror is to laugh at ourselves. It is good for us.”

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I made a starter pack for specialists in Eastern Christian Studies- check it out, share with others, and let me know who else to add!

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