Reading In and Out of Order in the Roman Mediterranean

A workshop to discuss innovative scholarship on the history of books, reading, and knowledge.

Prof. C. Mike Chin (UC Davis): ‘Small Alive Things: Origen, Rufinus, Words, and Plants’.
Prof. AnneMarie Luijendijk (Princeton): ‘Reading Christian Books In and Out of Context at Oxyrhynchus’.

Date: 11 November 2021, 16:30 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Venue: Online
Speakers: Professor C. Mike Chin (University of California (Davis)), Professor AnneMarie Luijendijk (Princeton University)
Organising department: Faculty of Theology and Religion
Organisers: European Commission (Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 891569), Centre for the Study of the Bible (University of Oxford), Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (Rare Book School, University of Virginia), Dr Jeremiah Coogan (University of Oxford)
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://bit.ly/3aNBi0G
Audience: Members of the University only
Editors: Frances Roach, Alberto Garzoni