Mapping Death Lecture Series

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

An Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Research Seminar

Lectures:

January 19, 2011: "Rituals of Immortality: The Bible and the Rise of Immortality Among Jews and Christians" 
Alan F. Segal, Columbia University

February 16, 2011: "Iamblichean Theurgy: Reflections on the Practice of Later Platonists"
Greg Shaw, Stonehill College

March 09, 2011: "How to have and Afterlife"
Mark Turner, Case Western Reserve University

March 23, 2011: "Confusions of Death: On the Lack of Unanimity on Death in Earliest Christianity"
Dale Martin, Yale University

April 13, 2011: "Ecstatic Religion in the Roman Cult of Mithras"
Roger Beck, University of Toronto at Mississauga

April 21, 2011: "Year's End Symposium"
Jeffrey J. Kripal, April D. DeConick, Grant Adamson, Matthew J. Dillon, Rebecca Gimbel, Franklin Trammell, Adriana Umaña.