BYZANTINE & MEDIEVAL LINKS INDEX
Notice: until this list is updated, please use www.netserf.org
[March 2001: this list is now quite out dated. Many links are dead, and there are hundreds of of additional resources around. Manual maintence of this list long ago became unfeasible. I do intend to update it, once I have located good links management software.]
This page attempts to track ALL Byzantine material on the Internet, and ALL significant entry points for Medieval studies. Ancient and Classical links, except insofar as they impinge directly on Byzantine and Western Medieval matters, should be sought out via the direct links provided to ARGOS associates which track and maintain sites devoted to the Ancient world.
Since this page was begun, the Medieval and Byzantine Internet has exploded in size. As a result, although I will take suggestions, I will no longer add the following materials:
Syllabi for courses, unless the page contains additional material - texts, graphics, lecture notes.
History Department sites, unless the page contains additional material - texts, graphics (etc.)
Sites at geocities, or any other free web site which forcibly opens pop up windows.
AOL sites, which seem to last just a few weeks on average.
Sites which do not look to be stable: e.g. temporary exhbition pages.
Sites for individual Orthodox or Easter Catholic churches, unless the page contains additional material (see above).
Gopher sites. Gopher is dead.
The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use.
Update Information 2006:
In 2006 the Internet History Sourcebooks Project is undergoing a major overhaul to remove bad links and add more documents.
2. This project is both very large and fairly old in Internet terms. At the time it was instigated (1996), it was not clear that web sites [and the documents made available there] would often turn out to be transient. As a result there is a process called "link rot" - which means that a "broken link" is a result of someone having taken down a web page. In some cases some websites have simply reorganized sub-directories without creating forwarding links. Since 2000, very few links to external sites have been made. An effort is under way to remove bad links.
2. All links to documents marked [at this Site] should be working. [In the Internet Medieval Sourcebook, but not the other associated sourcebooks, if there is no indication of the file's location then the text is hosted locally and the link should be working.]
3. Users may attempt to locate texts not currently available, or where the links have changed via The Internet Archive/Way Back Machine. Alternately, a search via Google may locate another site where the document is available.
Feedback and Help
While I encourage notes, comments and feedback in general, I am unable to reply to all of them. I am especially not able to reply to students (or students' parents!) seeking help with homework.
For guidance on homework, research, how people lived/ate/dressed in the past, see the various Help! pages:
Ancient History Help
Medieval Studies Help
Modern History Help
I am unable to help locate details about your family, or give translations of your name or nickname into Chinese (a very common request)!
If you find bad links, or typographical errors, please do notify me by telling me the URL (web address) of the specific page with the fault, and (in the case of bad links) the URL of the bad link.
Finding Texts and Information on this Site
Use the Search page to find texts or other items located at this web site.
I am always happy to hear from people who wish to submit copy permitted texts to the various sites below.
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THE INTERNET HISTORY SOURCEBOOKS
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
A "classroom usable" sourcebook of copy-permitted material for Ancient history and civilization courses.
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
This is an online source book of copy-permitted, although not necessarily copyright-free, source material for Medieval Studies. It is the largest online resource of medieval and Byzantine textual sources.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Now with almost as many online texts as the Medieval Sourcebook, this also constitutes a "classroom usable" sourcebook of copy-permitted material for Modern European history and Modern Civilization courses. North American and Latin American documents are located within its structure.
SUBSIDIARY SOURCEBOOKS
The following consist of thematically based subsets of texts, with some additional documents and links, of the three main Sourcebooks listed above.
Internet African History Sourcebook
Internet East Asian History Sourcebook
Internet Global History Sourcebook
Internet Indian History Sourcebook
Internet Islamic History Sourcebook
Internet Jewish History Sourcebook
Internet History of Science Sourcebook
Internet Women's History Sourcebook
People With a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* History
SOURCEBOOK THEMES
The following consist of thematically based subsets of texts entirely taken from the three main Sourcebooks listed above, along with documents from the subsidiary sourcebooks.
Travelers' Accounts
Traveler's accounts of their journeys and the lands they visit are important sources in understanding the past. As outsiders, travelers often note aspects of a culture that are too commonplace for local commentators to mention. More than this, travelers often provide some insight into how their own society understood itself in relation to other cultures.
Legal History: Ancient and Medieval
COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHIES
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HISTORICAL STUDIES WEBSITES
Guide to Byzantine and Medieval Studies on the Internet
This is organized into subject areas.
Byzantium: Byzantine Studies on the Internet
This page reflect my primary interest as a historian - the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire.
Medieval New York
A guide prepared by students in my Fordham medieval courses to the Middle Ages in New York City.
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COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHIES
The Crusades
Saints: A Research Guide
The Byzantine Saint: A Bibliography
Listening to Medieval Music [Discography]
Bibliographical Guide to Lesbian and Gay History
Bibliography of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Catholic Studies
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COURSE PAGES by Paul Halsall
Update Information 2006:
As of late 2005 links to course pages at UNF at Internet History Sourcebooks Project will no longer work, and have been removed. It is hopped that this "darkening" will not be permanent.
Western Civilization Surveys [1000 level courses]
Western Civilization I: to 1715
A website created for Fall 1999 and later for a lecture course taught at the University of North Florida. Full online lecture notes are included.
Western Civilization II: since 1715
A website created for Spring 2001 and later for a lecture course taught at the University of North Florida. Full online lecture notes are included.
European History and Historians I
A website created for a Graduate Teaching Assistant course taught Fall 2000 and later at the University of North Florida. This course parallels a typical undergradiuate survey course, but with a reading load directed at graduate students who will be teaching such courses.
European History and Historians II
A website created for a Graduate Teaching Assistant course taught Spring 2001 and later at the University of North Florida. This course parallels a typical undergradiuate survey course, but with a reading load directed at graduate students who will be teaching such courses.
Shaping of the Modern World
An entirely online course (called Core 4) in modern history taught in Sping 1998 at Brooklyn College. Full online lecture notes are included. Useful additional resources include.
Portrait Gallery -- images of individuals significant in modern history (i.e. since 1500)
Core 4 Images - a much wider array of images for use in teaching modern history.
See also an older approach: Modern History Course
A page created for my Fall 1997, and after, Modern History survey course at Fordham University, The West: From the Enlightenment to the Present.
Core Abroad in Israel and Greece
A website created for Summer 2000 for a foreign study course taught at the University of North Florida. This site includes hundred of high quality images from sites and museums.
Core Abroad in France, Spain, and Portugal
A website created for Summer 2001 for a foreign study course taught at the University of North Florida. This site includes hundred of high quality images from sites and museums.
Medieval Courses [3000 level courses]
Medieval Europe
A website created for Fall 1999 and later courses taught at the University of North Florida. Full online lectures notes are included.
See also an older approach: Medieval Studies Course or low graphics version
A page created for my Fall 1996, and after, Medieval survey course at Fordham University, The Shaping of the Medieval World.
Byzantine History
A website created for Spring 2000 and later courses taught at the University of North Florida.
The Crusades
A website created for Spring 2000 and later courses taught at the University of North Florida.
Myth, Epic, and Romance: Medieval History in Film
A website created for Summer 2001 and later courses taught at the University of North Florida.
Seminar Courses [4000/5000 level courses]
Sex and Gender in Pre-Modern Europe
A website created for a 4000 level research course taught Spring 2000 and later at the University of North Florida.
Saints, Sainthood and Society
A website created for a 4000 level research course taught Fall 2000 and later at the University of North Florida.
World History Courses
Chinese Studies Course
A page for my course in Chinese culture, taught at Brooklyn College, Fall 1995-Spring 1999
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The IHSP recognizes the contribution of Fordham University, the Fordham University History Department, and the Fordham Center for Medieval Studies in providing web space and server support for the project.
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
Jewish Studies
Was Jesus Christ a Jew Bible Study
For one reason or another, some people do not believe that the Messiah was a Jew. In this Bible study we are going to take a look at the human genealogy of our Lord and see if Jesus Christ was a Jew or not.
The first thing we need to know is who was the first Jewish person in the Bible. The word Jew is used ten times in the Old Testament and each time the same Hebrew word is used. Lets take a look at the definition of Jew from the Strong's Concordance.
Jew 3064 Yehuwdiy (yeh-hoo-dee'); patronymically from 3063; a Jehudite (i.e. Judaite or Jew), or descendant of Jehudah (i.e. Judah).
3063 Yehuwdah (yeh-hoo-daw'); from 3034; celebrated; Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory.
We see that Jewish people by blood are a descendant of Judah. Judah is one of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel and he is the first Jewish person in the Bible.
So now that we know Judah was the first Jewish person of the Bible, lets take a look at the genealogy of the Messiah. For that we need to go to the gospel of Luke.
Luke 3:23
V23 And Jesus Himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,
The "as was supposed" in this verse means as reckoned by law. In Matthew 1:16 we are told that Joseph was begotten by Jacob (not the same Jacob that had his name changed to Israel by God) and was his natural son. Joseph could be the legal son of Heli, therefore, only by marriage with Heli's daughter Mary and be reckoned so according to law. Joseph was Heli's son in law because he was the husband of Heli's daughter Mary.
So the genealogy given in Luke 3:23-38 is that of Mary, the mother of the Messiah. Lets skip down to verse 33.
Luke 3:33-34
V33 Which was the son of Aminadab, which was the son of Aram, which was the son of Esrom, which was the son of Phares, which was the son of Juda,
V34 Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Isaac, which was the son of Abraham, which was the son of Thara, which was the son of Nachor,
Juda 2455 Ioudas (ee-oo-das'); of Hebrew origin [3063]; Judas (i.e. Jehudah), the name of ten Israelites; also of the posterity of one of them and its region. KJV - Juda (-h, -s); Jude.
The name Juda from verse 33 is of Hebrew origin and is spelled as Judah in the Old Testament. He was a son of Jacob and the first Jewish person in the Bible. God changed Jacob's name to Israel in Genesis 32:28 The Bible tells us that our Lord was a Jew because His mother Mary did have some Jewish blood in her as she was a descendant of Judah.
Mary's cousin Elisabeth (Luke 1:36) was of the daughters of Aaron (Luke 1:5) which makes Elisabeth a descendant of Levi. This also means that Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ was a descendant of Levi on her mothers side. The Levitical priesthood are descendants of Levi. Jesus Christ was both a Jew and a Levite.
For one reason or another, some people do not believe that the Messiah was a Jew. In this Bible study we are going to take a look at the human genealogy of our Lord and see if Jesus Christ was a Jew or not.
The first thing we need to know is who was the first Jewish person in the Bible. The word Jew is used ten times in the Old Testament and each time the same Hebrew word is used. Lets take a look at the definition of Jew from the Strong's Concordance.
Jew 3064 Yehuwdiy (yeh-hoo-dee'); patronymically from 3063; a Jehudite (i.e. Judaite or Jew), or descendant of Jehudah (i.e. Judah).
3063 Yehuwdah (yeh-hoo-daw'); from 3034; celebrated; Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory.
We see that Jewish people by blood are a descendant of Judah. Judah is one of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel and he is the first Jewish person in the Bible.
So now that we know Judah was the first Jewish person of the Bible, lets take a look at the genealogy of the Messiah. For that we need to go to the gospel of Luke.
Luke 3:23
V23 And Jesus Himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,
The "as was supposed" in this verse means as reckoned by law. In Matthew 1:16 we are told that Joseph was begotten by Jacob (not the same Jacob that had his name changed to Israel by God) and was his natural son. Joseph could be the legal son of Heli, therefore, only by marriage with Heli's daughter Mary and be reckoned so according to law. Joseph was Heli's son in law because he was the husband of Heli's daughter Mary.
So the genealogy given in Luke 3:23-38 is that of Mary, the mother of the Messiah. Lets skip down to verse 33.
Luke 3:33-34
V33 Which was the son of Aminadab, which was the son of Aram, which was the son of Esrom, which was the son of Phares, which was the son of Juda,
V34 Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Isaac, which was the son of Abraham, which was the son of Thara, which was the son of Nachor,
Juda 2455 Ioudas (ee-oo-das'); of Hebrew origin [3063]; Judas (i.e. Jehudah), the name of ten Israelites; also of the posterity of one of them and its region. KJV - Juda (-h, -s); Jude.
The name Juda from verse 33 is of Hebrew origin and is spelled as Judah in the Old Testament. He was a son of Jacob and the first Jewish person in the Bible. God changed Jacob's name to Israel in Genesis 32:28 The Bible tells us that our Lord was a Jew because His mother Mary did have some Jewish blood in her as she was a descendant of Judah.
Mary's cousin Elisabeth (Luke 1:36) was of the daughters of Aaron (Luke 1:5) which makes Elisabeth a descendant of Levi. This also means that Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ was a descendant of Levi on her mothers side. The Levitical priesthood are descendants of Levi. Jesus Christ was both a Jew and a Levite.
Human Rights
Obama's moment on human rights
The US should make joining the UN Human Rights Council a priority.
Washington - After eight years of neglect, President-elect Barack Obama is eager to have the United States re-engage with the United Nations. A good way to begin would be to join the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
President Bush snubbed the preeminent international human rights policymaking body when it was established in 2006, with disastrous results. A speedy reversal by Mr. Obama would give hope to moderate governments that yearn for a stronger UN human rights program. It would also invigorate the entire UN system, generate goodwill, and encourage others to help with tough policy challenges like Guantanamo Bay.
There is no time to be lost.
Dec. 10 is the 60th anniversary of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but it will not be much of a celebration. The UN's human rights program has been badly weakened by an ill-advised reform and by America's absence from the Human Rights Council.
Until 2006, UN human rights policy was made by the Human Rights Commission, a body of 53 governments that included Sudan and Zimbabwe. Sudan's membership, at the peak of the genocide in Darfur, caused outrage in Washington and prompted calls for reform. The commission was voted out of existence in 2005 and replaced by the council.
The problem is that no governments have clean hands when it comes to human rights, so basing election to the council on good behavior would have excluded most of the world's powerful governments. That would not have been credible.
As a result, the new council was organized along the lines of the much-maligned commission, into five regions. The big difference was that Africa and Asia each received almost twice as many seats as the West in the horse-trading. This was a recipe for mischief, and the Bush administration made it worse by declining even to apply for membership.
In the three years since, hapless Western governments have been consistently outmaneuvered and outvoted on the council. They suffered a particularly serious reverse in March this year, when Islamic governments weakened a key UN inquiry into freedom of expression.
Even more damaging has been the steady erosion of independent "rapporteurs" who follow the record of individual governments. Their reports have long been the gold standard for international human rights monitoring, but such finger-pointing against individual governments could soon be a thing of the past.
The African bloc has insisted – successfully – that any country monitors be approved by the government under review, and the rapporteurs for Cuba, Belarus, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Liberia have all been retired. This means, incredibly, that the UN has no formal process for monitoring human rights in eastern Congo, which is in the throes of a deadly conflict. Many predict that the days may be numbered even for the UN's rapporteur on Sudan, which triggered the whole reform in the first place.
In place of these country inquiries, the council has established a process that is both bureaucratic and toothless. Known as the "Universal Periodic Review," it requires that all UN member governments submit to a three-hour review by the council every four years. This puts zero pressure on violators.
All of this represents a sweeping retreat from the 1990s, when 15 governments were subject to critical public appraisal by the UN. Country-specific inquiries may have unfairly penalized weak governments. But in this age of genocide, the pendulum has surely swung too far in the wrong direction.
Can the trend be reversed? Yes, but it will require vision. This should not be difficult. All governments understand that global challenges such as climate change and recession will put immense pressure on the weak and require a strong human rights response from the UN.
Such a vision will need a strategy. The US should start by courting moderate governments that feel obliged to vote with their regions but could probably be persuaded to support a less politicized approach. Many have greeted Obama's election with relief, but to take advantage of their goodwill, his team must propose a practical agenda instead of lamenting the council's shortcomings. This should start with a commitment to abide by international standards of behavior. There can be no more preaching human rights and practicing torture.
Second, the US should call for an overhaul of the Universal Periodic Review. It desperately needs independent oversight.
Finally, Obama and his nominee for UN Ambassador, Susan Rice, should appoint a delegate with a proven commitment to human rights. Such an agenda would require an investment in diplomatic capital. But it would also produce a huge return – for the US and for human rights.
• Iain Guest is an adjunct professor at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, where he teaches human rights. He also directs the Advocacy Project, an NGO in Washington that supports community-based human rights groups.
The US should make joining the UN Human Rights Council a priority.
Washington - After eight years of neglect, President-elect Barack Obama is eager to have the United States re-engage with the United Nations. A good way to begin would be to join the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
President Bush snubbed the preeminent international human rights policymaking body when it was established in 2006, with disastrous results. A speedy reversal by Mr. Obama would give hope to moderate governments that yearn for a stronger UN human rights program. It would also invigorate the entire UN system, generate goodwill, and encourage others to help with tough policy challenges like Guantanamo Bay.
There is no time to be lost.
Dec. 10 is the 60th anniversary of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but it will not be much of a celebration. The UN's human rights program has been badly weakened by an ill-advised reform and by America's absence from the Human Rights Council.
Until 2006, UN human rights policy was made by the Human Rights Commission, a body of 53 governments that included Sudan and Zimbabwe. Sudan's membership, at the peak of the genocide in Darfur, caused outrage in Washington and prompted calls for reform. The commission was voted out of existence in 2005 and replaced by the council.
The problem is that no governments have clean hands when it comes to human rights, so basing election to the council on good behavior would have excluded most of the world's powerful governments. That would not have been credible.
As a result, the new council was organized along the lines of the much-maligned commission, into five regions. The big difference was that Africa and Asia each received almost twice as many seats as the West in the horse-trading. This was a recipe for mischief, and the Bush administration made it worse by declining even to apply for membership.
In the three years since, hapless Western governments have been consistently outmaneuvered and outvoted on the council. They suffered a particularly serious reverse in March this year, when Islamic governments weakened a key UN inquiry into freedom of expression.
Even more damaging has been the steady erosion of independent "rapporteurs" who follow the record of individual governments. Their reports have long been the gold standard for international human rights monitoring, but such finger-pointing against individual governments could soon be a thing of the past.
The African bloc has insisted – successfully – that any country monitors be approved by the government under review, and the rapporteurs for Cuba, Belarus, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Liberia have all been retired. This means, incredibly, that the UN has no formal process for monitoring human rights in eastern Congo, which is in the throes of a deadly conflict. Many predict that the days may be numbered even for the UN's rapporteur on Sudan, which triggered the whole reform in the first place.
In place of these country inquiries, the council has established a process that is both bureaucratic and toothless. Known as the "Universal Periodic Review," it requires that all UN member governments submit to a three-hour review by the council every four years. This puts zero pressure on violators.
All of this represents a sweeping retreat from the 1990s, when 15 governments were subject to critical public appraisal by the UN. Country-specific inquiries may have unfairly penalized weak governments. But in this age of genocide, the pendulum has surely swung too far in the wrong direction.
Can the trend be reversed? Yes, but it will require vision. This should not be difficult. All governments understand that global challenges such as climate change and recession will put immense pressure on the weak and require a strong human rights response from the UN.
Such a vision will need a strategy. The US should start by courting moderate governments that feel obliged to vote with their regions but could probably be persuaded to support a less politicized approach. Many have greeted Obama's election with relief, but to take advantage of their goodwill, his team must propose a practical agenda instead of lamenting the council's shortcomings. This should start with a commitment to abide by international standards of behavior. There can be no more preaching human rights and practicing torture.
Second, the US should call for an overhaul of the Universal Periodic Review. It desperately needs independent oversight.
Finally, Obama and his nominee for UN Ambassador, Susan Rice, should appoint a delegate with a proven commitment to human rights. Such an agenda would require an investment in diplomatic capital. But it would also produce a huge return – for the US and for human rights.
• Iain Guest is an adjunct professor at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, where he teaches human rights. He also directs the Advocacy Project, an NGO in Washington that supports community-based human rights groups.
History and Philosophy of Science
The Program in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at Stanford
About the Program
The Program in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at Stanford teaches students to examine the sciences, medicine and technology from myriad perspectives, conceptual, historical and social. Our community of scholars includes core faculty and students in History and Philosophy and affiliated members in Classics, Anthropology, English, Political Science, Communication and other disciplines. Together, we draw upon the multiple methods of our disciplines to study the development, functioning, applications and social and cultural engagements of the sciences.
Stanford's Program in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology is a collaborative enterprise of the Departments of History and Philosophy. Each department has its own undergraduate and graduate degree programs in this area, but these overlap and interact in several ways. First, because of the interdisciplinary structure of requirements, students who come into the program through each department take courses and work with faculty in the other. This helps to create a single community of students and faculty, as does the colloquium series, which brings everyone together regularly throughout the year. The faculty from the two departments also team-teach core courses in which students do joint coursework, and the graduate students conduct joint activities including an annual conference, Critical Conversations.
About the Program
The Program in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at Stanford teaches students to examine the sciences, medicine and technology from myriad perspectives, conceptual, historical and social. Our community of scholars includes core faculty and students in History and Philosophy and affiliated members in Classics, Anthropology, English, Political Science, Communication and other disciplines. Together, we draw upon the multiple methods of our disciplines to study the development, functioning, applications and social and cultural engagements of the sciences.
Stanford's Program in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology is a collaborative enterprise of the Departments of History and Philosophy. Each department has its own undergraduate and graduate degree programs in this area, but these overlap and interact in several ways. First, because of the interdisciplinary structure of requirements, students who come into the program through each department take courses and work with faculty in the other. This helps to create a single community of students and faculty, as does the colloquium series, which brings everyone together regularly throughout the year. The faculty from the two departments also team-teach core courses in which students do joint coursework, and the graduate students conduct joint activities including an annual conference, Critical Conversations.
Gender and Society
Gender and Society: Explorations, Discoveries, and Revelations in a Gendered World Location: Michigan, United States
Call for Papers Deadline: 2008-06-15 (Archive)
Date Submitted: 2008-05-21
Announcement ID: 162505
Gender and Society: Explorations, Discoveries, and Revelations in a Gendered World
Call for Papers: Great Lakes History Conference
October 17th and 18th, 2008
The 33rd annual Great Lakes History Conference, sponsored by Grand Valley State University, will be held in Grand Rapids, Michigan on October 17th and 18th, 2008. All fields of history as well as other disciplines are invited to submit proposals related to this year’s theme: Gender and Society: Explorations, Discoveries, and Revelations in a Gendered World. We invite scholars from a wide range of fields and disciplines to exchange ideas and research on this topic. We also welcome panels on innovative ways of teaching this year’s theme to students at every level.
We are pleased to announce two very distinguished keynote speakers for this year’s conference, both of whom have authored numerous significant publications in the field of gender history. Judith P. Zinsser is a Professor in Women’s Studies at Miami University, a former President of the World History Association, and representative at the United Nations World Councils. Her most recent book is La Dame d’Esprit: a Biography of the Marquise Du Châtelet (Viking 2006). Our second keynote speaker is Bonnie S. Anderson, who is Broeklundian Professor of History at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her most recent book, Joyous Greetings: The First International Women’s Movement 1830-1860 (Oxford UP, 2000), demonstrates how early radical feminists in Britain, France, Germany and the USA came together to form the world’s first international women’s movement. Judith Zinsser and Bonnie Anderson co-authored the 1988 classic A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present, a publication whose twentieth anniversary will be celebrated and recognized at this year’s Great Lakes History Conference.
We welcome individual papers and arranged panels addressing this year’s topic. We encourage comparative work across regions and chronological boundaries. The conference will be organized around themes that have dominated recent scholarship. If you are interested in presenting a paper, please send an abstract of approximately 200 words and a curriculum vitae by June 15, 2008. Please include your address, email, and phone number. Those interested in commenting on a session should send a CV and indicate areas of expertise. Papers must take no longer than 30 minutes in a 2-paper session or 20 minutes in a 3-paper session. Sessions will last 90 minutes.
Conference headquarters will be at the L.V. Eberhard Center of Grand Valley State University in downtown Grand Rapids. Hotel accommodations will be available at the Days Hotel of Grand Rapids, which is across the street from the Eberhard Center. The conference is within easy walking distance of museums and restaurants. Grand Rapids is served by most major and regional airlines.
Please address all inquiries and abstracts to:
Dr. Craig Benjamin
benjamic@gvsu.edu
or
Dr. Scott Stabler
stablers@gvsu.edu
Great Lakes History Conference
Dr. Scott Stabler
Grand Valley State University
1 Campus Drive, 1060A Mackinac Hall
Allendale, MI 49401
616-331-3895
Email: stablers@gvsu.edu
Call for Papers Deadline: 2008-06-15 (Archive)
Date Submitted: 2008-05-21
Announcement ID: 162505
Gender and Society: Explorations, Discoveries, and Revelations in a Gendered World
Call for Papers: Great Lakes History Conference
October 17th and 18th, 2008
The 33rd annual Great Lakes History Conference, sponsored by Grand Valley State University, will be held in Grand Rapids, Michigan on October 17th and 18th, 2008. All fields of history as well as other disciplines are invited to submit proposals related to this year’s theme: Gender and Society: Explorations, Discoveries, and Revelations in a Gendered World. We invite scholars from a wide range of fields and disciplines to exchange ideas and research on this topic. We also welcome panels on innovative ways of teaching this year’s theme to students at every level.
We are pleased to announce two very distinguished keynote speakers for this year’s conference, both of whom have authored numerous significant publications in the field of gender history. Judith P. Zinsser is a Professor in Women’s Studies at Miami University, a former President of the World History Association, and representative at the United Nations World Councils. Her most recent book is La Dame d’Esprit: a Biography of the Marquise Du Châtelet (Viking 2006). Our second keynote speaker is Bonnie S. Anderson, who is Broeklundian Professor of History at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her most recent book, Joyous Greetings: The First International Women’s Movement 1830-1860 (Oxford UP, 2000), demonstrates how early radical feminists in Britain, France, Germany and the USA came together to form the world’s first international women’s movement. Judith Zinsser and Bonnie Anderson co-authored the 1988 classic A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present, a publication whose twentieth anniversary will be celebrated and recognized at this year’s Great Lakes History Conference.
We welcome individual papers and arranged panels addressing this year’s topic. We encourage comparative work across regions and chronological boundaries. The conference will be organized around themes that have dominated recent scholarship. If you are interested in presenting a paper, please send an abstract of approximately 200 words and a curriculum vitae by June 15, 2008. Please include your address, email, and phone number. Those interested in commenting on a session should send a CV and indicate areas of expertise. Papers must take no longer than 30 minutes in a 2-paper session or 20 minutes in a 3-paper session. Sessions will last 90 minutes.
Conference headquarters will be at the L.V. Eberhard Center of Grand Valley State University in downtown Grand Rapids. Hotel accommodations will be available at the Days Hotel of Grand Rapids, which is across the street from the Eberhard Center. The conference is within easy walking distance of museums and restaurants. Grand Rapids is served by most major and regional airlines.
Please address all inquiries and abstracts to:
Dr. Craig Benjamin
benjamic@gvsu.edu
or
Dr. Scott Stabler
stablers@gvsu.edu
Great Lakes History Conference
Dr. Scott Stabler
Grand Valley State University
1 Campus Drive, 1060A Mackinac Hall
Allendale, MI 49401
616-331-3895
Email: stablers@gvsu.edu
Gay and Lesbian Studies
National Coming Out Day Project
workshop idea
PLEASE CONSIDER PARTICIPATION IN THIS RESPONSE ACTION !!!
Every October 11th, thousands of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and allies celebrate National
Coming Out Day. They hold workshops, speak-outs, rallies and other kinds of events where they dispel myths
about same-gender loving people and sexual minorities and affirm the coming out experience.
In an affront to the positive spirit of this event, in the past, anti-gay groups like, Truth Comes Out Project,
announced plans to screen their film during this same time period as a counter move to the Coming Out event.
The people in the film boldly and irresponsibly claim that through participation in "ex-gay' programs,
same-gender loving people can change and become heterosexual. (news release)
In an effort to share with the public the full story about "ex-gay" change programs and the often devastating
effects they can have on the LGBT people of solid faith who endured them, we are promoting a nationwide
series of screenings of the documentary Fish Can't Fly. Author and activist Wayne Besen, filmmaker Tom
Murray, former "ex-gay" participant Shawn O'Donnell and performance artist Peterson Toscano are asking
LGBT-affirming groups and individuals to organize screenings of Fish Can't Fly throughout the month of
October. We believe these "ex-gay" survivors' stories must be heard in order to stop the damage daily
perpetuated against LGBT youth and adults, damage done by ministries who dishonestly persuade people that
change is possible. Fish Can't Fly poignantly exposes the pain, confusion, loss and heartache endured by
victims of "ex-gay" programs and celebrates the power of coming out.
We call on concerned LGBT individuals and allies to make it possible for thousands of people to hear a positive
message about coming out and the truth behind "ex-gay" programs. You can show Fish Can't Fly, an
83-minute documentary film, to family and friends followed by informal discussion or you can seek to organize a
screening through your church, university, or local community center followed by a more organized discussion.
Perhaps you know people that have been through "ex-gay" programs that can attend the screening and speak
to the audience and answer questions first hand about their experiences.
Below is a list of resources available. The DVD is being offered at an introductory price of $15.00 which will go
a long way in helping to support this film and it's message about the lives of LGBT people who are struggling to
balance their spirituality and sexuality. After your screening, you may even consider passing the DVD on, or
donating it to a LGBT group or reconciling church. While our resources are fairly limited, for those that may
plan a larger event, we may even be able to help you arrange a speaker if one is available in your area.
Tom Murray
Wayne Besen
Peterson Toscano
Shawn O'Donnell
workshop idea
PLEASE CONSIDER PARTICIPATION IN THIS RESPONSE ACTION !!!
Every October 11th, thousands of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and allies celebrate National
Coming Out Day. They hold workshops, speak-outs, rallies and other kinds of events where they dispel myths
about same-gender loving people and sexual minorities and affirm the coming out experience.
In an affront to the positive spirit of this event, in the past, anti-gay groups like, Truth Comes Out Project,
announced plans to screen their film during this same time period as a counter move to the Coming Out event.
The people in the film boldly and irresponsibly claim that through participation in "ex-gay' programs,
same-gender loving people can change and become heterosexual. (news release)
In an effort to share with the public the full story about "ex-gay" change programs and the often devastating
effects they can have on the LGBT people of solid faith who endured them, we are promoting a nationwide
series of screenings of the documentary Fish Can't Fly. Author and activist Wayne Besen, filmmaker Tom
Murray, former "ex-gay" participant Shawn O'Donnell and performance artist Peterson Toscano are asking
LGBT-affirming groups and individuals to organize screenings of Fish Can't Fly throughout the month of
October. We believe these "ex-gay" survivors' stories must be heard in order to stop the damage daily
perpetuated against LGBT youth and adults, damage done by ministries who dishonestly persuade people that
change is possible. Fish Can't Fly poignantly exposes the pain, confusion, loss and heartache endured by
victims of "ex-gay" programs and celebrates the power of coming out.
We call on concerned LGBT individuals and allies to make it possible for thousands of people to hear a positive
message about coming out and the truth behind "ex-gay" programs. You can show Fish Can't Fly, an
83-minute documentary film, to family and friends followed by informal discussion or you can seek to organize a
screening through your church, university, or local community center followed by a more organized discussion.
Perhaps you know people that have been through "ex-gay" programs that can attend the screening and speak
to the audience and answer questions first hand about their experiences.
Below is a list of resources available. The DVD is being offered at an introductory price of $15.00 which will go
a long way in helping to support this film and it's message about the lives of LGBT people who are struggling to
balance their spirituality and sexuality. After your screening, you may even consider passing the DVD on, or
donating it to a LGBT group or reconciling church. While our resources are fairly limited, for those that may
plan a larger event, we may even be able to help you arrange a speaker if one is available in your area.
Tom Murray
Wayne Besen
Peterson Toscano
Shawn O'Donnell
Gay and Lesbian Studies
Conversations about GOD and
struggling to be Gay
ARE PEOPLE BORN GAY? CAN GAY PEOPLE BE
CURED?
Is religion something that only belongs to a few? Taking a
secular point of view, FISH
CAN’T FLY explores the lives of Gay men and women of faith
as they recall their journeys to put their sexuality and
spirituality in harmony. While the whole concept of
changing ones’ sexual orientation may be viewed with a
high level of skepticism, ridicule and even humor by the
larger GLBT community, these are the stories of those who
have tried.
Finding that their strong religious convictions and faith
seemed to be used against them, these are the personal
stories of people who have participated in “ex-gay”
ministries and found in fact that they did not provide a “cure
“…. the answers seemed to come from within. The stories
they recall are sad, frightening, poignant and yet
surprisingly inspiring and enlightening. With less of a focus
on the "ex-gay" movement, the film is more about the
telling of stories behind the debate and the role religion can
play in one's life. During our lives, each of us embarks on a
journey to find our place in the world. Being Gay can make
that process more difficult….being Gay and having strong
religious convictions can make it doubly hard.
The film contains candid, fascinating and heartfelt
discussions about God and being Gay. There are even some
surprisingly humorous events in hindsight. With the
current social and political climate, this feature length
documentary by award winning filmmaker Tom Murray, is
timely
struggling to be Gay
ARE PEOPLE BORN GAY? CAN GAY PEOPLE BE
CURED?
Is religion something that only belongs to a few? Taking a
secular point of view, FISH
CAN’T FLY explores the lives of Gay men and women of faith
as they recall their journeys to put their sexuality and
spirituality in harmony. While the whole concept of
changing ones’ sexual orientation may be viewed with a
high level of skepticism, ridicule and even humor by the
larger GLBT community, these are the stories of those who
have tried.
Finding that their strong religious convictions and faith
seemed to be used against them, these are the personal
stories of people who have participated in “ex-gay”
ministries and found in fact that they did not provide a “cure
“…. the answers seemed to come from within. The stories
they recall are sad, frightening, poignant and yet
surprisingly inspiring and enlightening. With less of a focus
on the "ex-gay" movement, the film is more about the
telling of stories behind the debate and the role religion can
play in one's life. During our lives, each of us embarks on a
journey to find our place in the world. Being Gay can make
that process more difficult….being Gay and having strong
religious convictions can make it doubly hard.
The film contains candid, fascinating and heartfelt
discussions about God and being Gay. There are even some
surprisingly humorous events in hindsight. With the
current social and political climate, this feature length
documentary by award winning filmmaker Tom Murray, is
timely
Late Antique and Byzantine Studies
Byzantium Comes to Britain
During winter 2008-9, the Society is collaborating with several other institutions, with the support of the London Centre for Arts and Cultural Enterprise http://lcace.org.uk, in organising a series of events and activities to accompany the Royal Academy exhibition, Byzantium 330-1453 http://royalacademy.org.uk/byzantium
See the calendar of events, to which all are welcome. http://lcace.org.uk/events
Prof Peter Heather (King’s College London)
Predatory migration and the first millennium
University of Cambridge: Late Antique, Byzantine and Early Medieval Studies Seminar
The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX
2.30-4.30pm
For further details contact: Dr. Richard Flower or Alice Rio
Annual Runciman Lecture
Judith Herrin (King’s College London)
We are all children of Byzantium
King’s College London: Centre for Hellenic Studies
Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar
Great Hall, King’s College London.
The University of London Working Seminar on Editing Byzantine Texts from Manuscripts will resume its regular meetings on Fridays 16.30-18.30, starting on Friday 6 February 2009, at the Institute of Historical Research, Seminar Room, third floor, Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.
For further information::
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Hellenic-Institute/research/Seminar.htm
Lisa Shekede (Independent)
A Nabataean Wall Painting at Siq al-Barid, Petra: Context and Conservation
5.30pm in Seminar Room 1, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London.
For further details contact: A Claridge or Peter Stewart
Catherine Holmes (University of Oxford)
Archbishop Eustathios of Thessaloniki's 'Capture of Thessaloniki' as a lens for east-west relations in the 12th- and 13th-century eastern Mediterranean world
King’s College London: Centre for Hellenic Studies
Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar
Saint David’s Room, Strand Campus, 5.30pm
12 Feb Birmingham Laura James (London)
The Egyptian Free Officers and Sudanese independence
University of Birmingham: Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies
Whitting Room (436), 4th floor, Arts Building, 5.15pm
17 Feb Cambridge Prof Jill Harries (St Andrews)
Constantine I, The Legislator
University of Cambridge: Late Antique, Byzantine and Early Medieval Studies Seminar
The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX
2.30-4.30pm
For further details contact: Dr. Richard Flower or Alice Rio
17 Feb London Annual BIAA Lecture
Rowena Loverance
From Edinburgh 1958-London 2008: Byzantine art for our times?
King’s College London: Centre for Hellenic Studies
Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar
Council Room, King’s College London, TBC
Contact: Siobhan McKeown: biaa@britac.ac.uk
18 Feb Nottingham Dr Clive Bridger (Xanten Regional Müseum)
Recent research on the Late Roman period in Xanten and the Lower Rhineland
University of Nottingham: The Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies
Archaeology, Room A58, 4.30pm.
21 Feb Cambridge Cross-Cultural Interactions between the Mediterranean and Western Europe during the Late Byzantine (Palaiologan) Period
Department of Art History, Open University, Warburg Institute and SPBS
OU East of England Centre, Hills Road, Cambridge.
10.30am-5.00pm
For further information download Word.doc (193kb)
http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/arthistory/events.htm for details and registration (FREE).
20-22 Feb Cambridge The Friends of Mount Athos will hold their next residential conference at Madingley Hall, Cambridge, over the weekend of 20-22 February 2009. For further details (available in due course) please contact Dr Graham Speake, Hon Secretary, Friends of Mount Athos, Ironstone Farmhouse, Milton, Banbury OX15 4HH speakeg@aol.com
23 Feb London Jason Mander (Oxford)
The Iconography of the Roman Family: Interpreting Portraits of Children in Funerary Contexts
5.30pm in Seminar Room 1, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London.
For further details contact: A Claridge or Peter Stewart
24 Feb London Barbara Zipser (Royal Holloway University of London)
Medical books and their readers - Byzantine iatrosophia in context
King’s College London: Centre for Hellenic Studies
Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar
Council Room, King’s College London, TBC
26 Feb Birmingham Vassilis Lambropoulos (Michigan)
The death of tragedy and the return of God Pan after
Nietzsche
University of Birmingham: Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies
Whitting Room (436), 4th floor, Arts Building, 5.15pm
27 Feb London Byzantium Comes to Britain
Byzantine Art in the Making
A Study Day at the British Museum.
This workshop is being organised by the British Museum, the Leverhulme Network, the Sussex Centre for Byzantine Cultural History and the Courtauld Institute, with support from LCACE. It will focus on how Byzantine art was made and the ways in which manufacturing techniques affect appearance.
For further details and booking information:
download pdf (118kb)
or contact B.K.Bjornholt@sussex.ac.uk
28 Feb London Byzantium Comes to Britain
Byzantium in London
Byzantium may seem remote from London both in time and space. This workshop will bring the two societies together by investigating the ways in which they interacted in the past and by exploring the reminders, remnants and reflections of Byzantium that can be found in London today.
Venue: Hellenic Centre, Paddington Street
For further details and booking information: http://www.rhul.ac.uk/history/research/byzantiuminlondon.html
download pdf (118kb)
or contact B.K.Bjornholt@sussex.ac.uk
28 Feb York Byzantine Ravenna
New Perspectives
Department of History of Art, University of York and SPBS
King’s Manor, University of York.
9.15am-5.00pm
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/histart/byzantine-ravenna.html for details and registration (£5 for SPBS members which includes refreshments and sandwich lunch).
Contacts: Rosemary Morris or Becky Sanchez
During winter 2008-9, the Society is collaborating with several other institutions, with the support of the London Centre for Arts and Cultural Enterprise http://lcace.org.uk, in organising a series of events and activities to accompany the Royal Academy exhibition, Byzantium 330-1453 http://royalacademy.org.uk/byzantium
See the calendar of events, to which all are welcome. http://lcace.org.uk/events
Prof Peter Heather (King’s College London)
Predatory migration and the first millennium
University of Cambridge: Late Antique, Byzantine and Early Medieval Studies Seminar
The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX
2.30-4.30pm
For further details contact: Dr. Richard Flower or Alice Rio
Annual Runciman Lecture
Judith Herrin (King’s College London)
We are all children of Byzantium
King’s College London: Centre for Hellenic Studies
Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar
Great Hall, King’s College London.
The University of London Working Seminar on Editing Byzantine Texts from Manuscripts will resume its regular meetings on Fridays 16.30-18.30, starting on Friday 6 February 2009, at the Institute of Historical Research, Seminar Room, third floor, Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.
For further information::
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Hellenic-Institute/research/Seminar.htm
Lisa Shekede (Independent)
A Nabataean Wall Painting at Siq al-Barid, Petra: Context and Conservation
5.30pm in Seminar Room 1, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London.
For further details contact: A Claridge or Peter Stewart
Catherine Holmes (University of Oxford)
Archbishop Eustathios of Thessaloniki's 'Capture of Thessaloniki' as a lens for east-west relations in the 12th- and 13th-century eastern Mediterranean world
King’s College London: Centre for Hellenic Studies
Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar
Saint David’s Room, Strand Campus, 5.30pm
12 Feb Birmingham Laura James (London)
The Egyptian Free Officers and Sudanese independence
University of Birmingham: Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies
Whitting Room (436), 4th floor, Arts Building, 5.15pm
17 Feb Cambridge Prof Jill Harries (St Andrews)
Constantine I, The Legislator
University of Cambridge: Late Antique, Byzantine and Early Medieval Studies Seminar
The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX
2.30-4.30pm
For further details contact: Dr. Richard Flower or Alice Rio
17 Feb London Annual BIAA Lecture
Rowena Loverance
From Edinburgh 1958-London 2008: Byzantine art for our times?
King’s College London: Centre for Hellenic Studies
Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar
Council Room, King’s College London, TBC
Contact: Siobhan McKeown: biaa@britac.ac.uk
18 Feb Nottingham Dr Clive Bridger (Xanten Regional Müseum)
Recent research on the Late Roman period in Xanten and the Lower Rhineland
University of Nottingham: The Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies
Archaeology, Room A58, 4.30pm.
21 Feb Cambridge Cross-Cultural Interactions between the Mediterranean and Western Europe during the Late Byzantine (Palaiologan) Period
Department of Art History, Open University, Warburg Institute and SPBS
OU East of England Centre, Hills Road, Cambridge.
10.30am-5.00pm
For further information download Word.doc (193kb)
http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/arthistory/events.htm for details and registration (FREE).
20-22 Feb Cambridge The Friends of Mount Athos will hold their next residential conference at Madingley Hall, Cambridge, over the weekend of 20-22 February 2009. For further details (available in due course) please contact Dr Graham Speake, Hon Secretary, Friends of Mount Athos, Ironstone Farmhouse, Milton, Banbury OX15 4HH speakeg@aol.com
23 Feb London Jason Mander (Oxford)
The Iconography of the Roman Family: Interpreting Portraits of Children in Funerary Contexts
5.30pm in Seminar Room 1, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London.
For further details contact: A Claridge or Peter Stewart
24 Feb London Barbara Zipser (Royal Holloway University of London)
Medical books and their readers - Byzantine iatrosophia in context
King’s College London: Centre for Hellenic Studies
Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar
Council Room, King’s College London, TBC
26 Feb Birmingham Vassilis Lambropoulos (Michigan)
The death of tragedy and the return of God Pan after
Nietzsche
University of Birmingham: Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies
Whitting Room (436), 4th floor, Arts Building, 5.15pm
27 Feb London Byzantium Comes to Britain
Byzantine Art in the Making
A Study Day at the British Museum.
This workshop is being organised by the British Museum, the Leverhulme Network, the Sussex Centre for Byzantine Cultural History and the Courtauld Institute, with support from LCACE. It will focus on how Byzantine art was made and the ways in which manufacturing techniques affect appearance.
For further details and booking information:
download pdf (118kb)
or contact B.K.Bjornholt@sussex.ac.uk
28 Feb London Byzantium Comes to Britain
Byzantium in London
Byzantium may seem remote from London both in time and space. This workshop will bring the two societies together by investigating the ways in which they interacted in the past and by exploring the reminders, remnants and reflections of Byzantium that can be found in London today.
Venue: Hellenic Centre, Paddington Street
For further details and booking information: http://www.rhul.ac.uk/history/research/byzantiuminlondon.html
download pdf (118kb)
or contact B.K.Bjornholt@sussex.ac.uk
28 Feb York Byzantine Ravenna
New Perspectives
Department of History of Art, University of York and SPBS
King’s Manor, University of York.
9.15am-5.00pm
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/histart/byzantine-ravenna.html for details and registration (£5 for SPBS members which includes refreshments and sandwich lunch).
Contacts: Rosemary Morris or Becky Sanchez
Jewish Studies
Exploring Jewish Learning and Culture
About Spertus
Spertus is a Jewish institution grounded in Jewish values that invites people of all ages and backgrounds to explore the multi-faceted Jewish experience. Through its innovative public programming, exhibitions, collections, research facilities and degree programs, Spertus inspires learning, serves diverse communities and fosters understanding for Jews and people of all faiths, locally, regionally and around the world.
Through a synergy of cultural and academic programming, Spertus creates an engaging environment for people of all ages and backgrounds.
More than 200,000 people each year take part in creative, multi-dimensional programming that ranges from the intellectual rigor of formal degree programs to the richness of cultural celebrations, from the vitality of interactive children's activities to the significance of thought-provoking exhibitions.
Our logo is a flame accompanied by the biblical phrase, yehi or, “let there be light”. It symbolizes the Spertus commitment to learning—through education and the arts, today and for the future.
Spertus Institute is a partner in serving our community, supported by the JUF/Jewish Federation.
About Spertus
Spertus is a Jewish institution grounded in Jewish values that invites people of all ages and backgrounds to explore the multi-faceted Jewish experience. Through its innovative public programming, exhibitions, collections, research facilities and degree programs, Spertus inspires learning, serves diverse communities and fosters understanding for Jews and people of all faiths, locally, regionally and around the world.
Through a synergy of cultural and academic programming, Spertus creates an engaging environment for people of all ages and backgrounds.
More than 200,000 people each year take part in creative, multi-dimensional programming that ranges from the intellectual rigor of formal degree programs to the richness of cultural celebrations, from the vitality of interactive children's activities to the significance of thought-provoking exhibitions.
Our logo is a flame accompanied by the biblical phrase, yehi or, “let there be light”. It symbolizes the Spertus commitment to learning—through education and the arts, today and for the future.
Spertus Institute is a partner in serving our community, supported by the JUF/Jewish Federation.
Human Rights
Why the Student World Assembly?
The Student World Assembly engages students from around the world in critical reflection and innovative thinking. Students deliberate on significant global issues that are pertinent to their school, their community, and the world at large. Modeled as a representative democracy, SWA’s philosophy is “Promoting Global Democracy, One Student at a Time,” making it a unique member-based global organization, dedicated to global democracy, human rights, and preparing students to be the leaders of the next generation.
In accordance with its philosophy, SWA provides a venue for students to address many vital social and political issues affecting our global future. It is a way for students to express themselves as effective global citizens. Consistent with its purpose, SWA has formulated the following goals for its members:
Promoting global democracy
Supporting human rights
Encouraging grassroots learning, action and participation forums
Developing leadership skills through hands-on organizing and advocacy for pressing global issues
Voting, deliberation and action on current pressing issues-locally and globally
Bridging the digital divide by connecting students around the world and through subsidizing access to technology
Networking through local and international meetings
To unite all students and encourage them to become agents of change on important global issues
To foster leadership skills by introducing or reinforcing democracy through practical experience
Maintaining member participation after graduation, thus allowing the SWA to grow into an elected World Assembly that derives its moral power from its representation of all people individually
SWA is one of many active student and youth-run organizations in existence today. Though many of these groups focus on similar issues of democracy, human rights, environmental preservation and world peace, SWA stands out as a unique force amongst them with its encompassing and open-ended qualities.
Everything is run democratically here at SWA. Students may raise any issue to be discussed, in the same way that they may propose ways for a problem to be solved. There is no specific agenda involved with SWA. Every student gets a chance to express their opinion, and all views are accepted. To help students establish an informed opinion, SWA tries to educate members as thoroughly and unbiased as possible. An extensive list of suggested readings, educational links, and downloads is available to assist SWA members on their path to spreading global democracy.
The online discussion forum is a unique aspect of SWA. Free speech, an essential part of democracy, is practiced in full. Students can discuss pressing global issues at length without fear of censorship and propaganda. Every voice is heard and informed dialogue commences. Through the discussion forums, every member is provided the opportunity to speak his or her opinion, thus helping to educate one another from any part of the world.
SWA elections allow for global representation and provide leadership skills as well. Students are given the opportunity to represent SWA as Chapter Officers (on a local level), International Officers, and Committee Chairs. Students learn exactly how the democratic election process works, how to campaign for elected positions, as well as how to run a governing body. These steps provide SWA youth with the necessary skills they need to succeed as effective leaders in the future.
The annual International Convention provides another medium through which students can take part in a worldwide pure democratic voting process. A proxy voting system has been put into place so that every single SWA member has the chance to cast a vote, regardless of whether or not they can attend the annual International Convention. Members select a delegate whose views they agree with the most, and choose them to cast their vote while at the Convention. Voting is based on beliefs and ideas, rather than geographic location, nationality, fear or any other factors that inhibit a democratic vote.
The annual International Convention is the high-point of SWA activities throughout the year. It is a time where all three themes of the Student World Assembly are put into place at one time. Students will educate (and be educated), participate and take action on a pressing global issue chosen by the entire student-member base throughout the year. The Student World Assembly encourages its members to approach and combat pressing global issues, as well as important issues that arise on a local level. Our belief is that “together, we can make a difference, one student at a time.”
For more information, please visit: SWA's Concept of Global Democracy
The Student World Assembly engages students from around the world in critical reflection and innovative thinking. Students deliberate on significant global issues that are pertinent to their school, their community, and the world at large. Modeled as a representative democracy, SWA’s philosophy is “Promoting Global Democracy, One Student at a Time,” making it a unique member-based global organization, dedicated to global democracy, human rights, and preparing students to be the leaders of the next generation.
In accordance with its philosophy, SWA provides a venue for students to address many vital social and political issues affecting our global future. It is a way for students to express themselves as effective global citizens. Consistent with its purpose, SWA has formulated the following goals for its members:
Promoting global democracy
Supporting human rights
Encouraging grassroots learning, action and participation forums
Developing leadership skills through hands-on organizing and advocacy for pressing global issues
Voting, deliberation and action on current pressing issues-locally and globally
Bridging the digital divide by connecting students around the world and through subsidizing access to technology
Networking through local and international meetings
To unite all students and encourage them to become agents of change on important global issues
To foster leadership skills by introducing or reinforcing democracy through practical experience
Maintaining member participation after graduation, thus allowing the SWA to grow into an elected World Assembly that derives its moral power from its representation of all people individually
SWA is one of many active student and youth-run organizations in existence today. Though many of these groups focus on similar issues of democracy, human rights, environmental preservation and world peace, SWA stands out as a unique force amongst them with its encompassing and open-ended qualities.
Everything is run democratically here at SWA. Students may raise any issue to be discussed, in the same way that they may propose ways for a problem to be solved. There is no specific agenda involved with SWA. Every student gets a chance to express their opinion, and all views are accepted. To help students establish an informed opinion, SWA tries to educate members as thoroughly and unbiased as possible. An extensive list of suggested readings, educational links, and downloads is available to assist SWA members on their path to spreading global democracy.
The online discussion forum is a unique aspect of SWA. Free speech, an essential part of democracy, is practiced in full. Students can discuss pressing global issues at length without fear of censorship and propaganda. Every voice is heard and informed dialogue commences. Through the discussion forums, every member is provided the opportunity to speak his or her opinion, thus helping to educate one another from any part of the world.
SWA elections allow for global representation and provide leadership skills as well. Students are given the opportunity to represent SWA as Chapter Officers (on a local level), International Officers, and Committee Chairs. Students learn exactly how the democratic election process works, how to campaign for elected positions, as well as how to run a governing body. These steps provide SWA youth with the necessary skills they need to succeed as effective leaders in the future.
The annual International Convention provides another medium through which students can take part in a worldwide pure democratic voting process. A proxy voting system has been put into place so that every single SWA member has the chance to cast a vote, regardless of whether or not they can attend the annual International Convention. Members select a delegate whose views they agree with the most, and choose them to cast their vote while at the Convention. Voting is based on beliefs and ideas, rather than geographic location, nationality, fear or any other factors that inhibit a democratic vote.
The annual International Convention is the high-point of SWA activities throughout the year. It is a time where all three themes of the Student World Assembly are put into place at one time. Students will educate (and be educated), participate and take action on a pressing global issue chosen by the entire student-member base throughout the year. The Student World Assembly encourages its members to approach and combat pressing global issues, as well as important issues that arise on a local level. Our belief is that “together, we can make a difference, one student at a time.”
For more information, please visit: SWA's Concept of Global Democracy
History and Philosophy of Science
About Us
History and Philosophy of Science studies science just as science studies the world. From global warming to gene technologies, from cyber-relationships, to religion and politics, science and technology mediate change and help us understand the world and our place in it. HPS brings together teaching and research in the history of science and medicine, the philosophy of science, the social studies of science and technology, Social Theory and Computer Applications.
HPS seeks to bridge the two cultures of the sciences and the humanities. And with science and technology's central place in modern life, we need to think about scientific knowledge and its applications in a systematic, critical way. While most of us are not professionally trained to manipulate scientific knowledge independently, we can acquire a form of scientific and technological literacy that enables us to understand 'where the science is coming from' and what it means for us and our needs.
The University of Melbourne began teaching HPS in 1946, one of the first places in the world to do so. It is one of the most eclectic programs in the university, embracing interests in 'almost everything'.
In this section of the website you will find:
Associate Professor Helen Verran
Contact
Rm 204, Old Quad
The University of Melbourne
VIC 3010 Australia
T: (03) 8344 0229
E: hrv@unimelb.edu.au
Academic profile
Helen Verran has taught in HPS at University of Melbourne since 1990. Before that she worked briefly in science studies and education at Deakin University after spending most of the 1980s working at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. In 2003 her book Science and an African Logic in which she examines her experiences of working across knowledge traditions in Nigeria, won the Ludwik Fleck Prize.
Since returning to Australia Helen has been involved with several Yolngu Aboriginal groups and individuals as they negotiate valid ways for Yolngu knowledge traditions to work with the sciences. An early publication from this work is Singing the Land Signing the Land. Recently Helen has worked in close collaboration with Michael Christie of Charles Darwin University on the Indigenous Knowledge and Resource Management in Northern Australia project and the Indigenous Consultants Initiative. She is currently collecting the many papers she has written as part of this work into a book with the working title ‘Science and the Dreaming. Doing Practical Empirical Philosophy’.
Helen has a developing research interest in sustainability and its working knowledges. This interest has grown out of her teaching philosophy of biology and ecology and environmentalism. In this research she works closely with Marianne Lien of the Institute of Anthropology at University of Oslo. Together Helen and Marianne have established the Performing Natures at Worlds Ends Workshop.
Helen supervises a group of active research students across a diverse range of topics; at a methodological level they share an interest in practical empirical philosophy.
History and Philosophy of Science studies science just as science studies the world. From global warming to gene technologies, from cyber-relationships, to religion and politics, science and technology mediate change and help us understand the world and our place in it. HPS brings together teaching and research in the history of science and medicine, the philosophy of science, the social studies of science and technology, Social Theory and Computer Applications.
HPS seeks to bridge the two cultures of the sciences and the humanities. And with science and technology's central place in modern life, we need to think about scientific knowledge and its applications in a systematic, critical way. While most of us are not professionally trained to manipulate scientific knowledge independently, we can acquire a form of scientific and technological literacy that enables us to understand 'where the science is coming from' and what it means for us and our needs.
The University of Melbourne began teaching HPS in 1946, one of the first places in the world to do so. It is one of the most eclectic programs in the university, embracing interests in 'almost everything'.
In this section of the website you will find:
Associate Professor Helen Verran
Contact
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Academic profile
Helen Verran has taught in HPS at University of Melbourne since 1990. Before that she worked briefly in science studies and education at Deakin University after spending most of the 1980s working at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. In 2003 her book Science and an African Logic in which she examines her experiences of working across knowledge traditions in Nigeria, won the Ludwik Fleck Prize.
Since returning to Australia Helen has been involved with several Yolngu Aboriginal groups and individuals as they negotiate valid ways for Yolngu knowledge traditions to work with the sciences. An early publication from this work is Singing the Land Signing the Land. Recently Helen has worked in close collaboration with Michael Christie of Charles Darwin University on the Indigenous Knowledge and Resource Management in Northern Australia project and the Indigenous Consultants Initiative. She is currently collecting the many papers she has written as part of this work into a book with the working title ‘Science and the Dreaming. Doing Practical Empirical Philosophy’.
Helen has a developing research interest in sustainability and its working knowledges. This interest has grown out of her teaching philosophy of biology and ecology and environmentalism. In this research she works closely with Marianne Lien of the Institute of Anthropology at University of Oslo. Together Helen and Marianne have established the Performing Natures at Worlds Ends Workshop.
Helen supervises a group of active research students across a diverse range of topics; at a methodological level they share an interest in practical empirical philosophy.
Gender and Society
News
Messages for a gender fair society
January 2008
"MV United" is a Gender Mainstreaming Peer Review which will be hosted by Flanders, in Leuven, on 28th and 29th February 2008. From its title you might think that the event will focus on gender issues in football teams or in company mergers but instead it will be all about the vital role that the media can play in redressing inequality between women and men.
This Peer Review is one link in a chain of events organised by different Member States within the framework of the European Community of Practice on Gender Mainstreaming (GM CoP). The idea is that key people who are in a position to transfer good practices that have been developed either in EQUAL or European Social Fund Programmes can meet their counterparts from other Member States and explore together how these achievements can be used to integrate the gender dimension into their respective policy areas. Whilst past events have covered education and training, employment and business support and regional and local development, the Leuven gathering is targeting public and private media. During the event, Flanders will proudly present its awareness raising campaign that aims to overcome traditional gender roles and stereotypes. This campaign has a particular emphasis on television channels, but other media are also used to reinforce the message.
"Programme makers" and "decision-makers" from other Member States are invited to run a professional eye over "telenovelas," reality shows and "docu-soaps" that were, or are currently being, produced in Flanders, thanks to EQUAL funding. They will also have the chance to look at all the other products and projects including the interactive website that is at the heart of the campaign, a magazine that focuses on the reconciliation of work and family life, a theatre play, internet games and the various focus groups, which were organised to encourage open debates amongst different target groups: men from immigrant communities, young people and men who just became fathers. Questions discussed were about how participants plan to reconcile work and private life; if they wish to spend more time with their family or to share the unpaid work at home more evenly with their female partners. A white book documents the results of those roundtables.
All the different activities are intended to reach the public-at-large, and especially children, teenagers and young adults. The message is geared to stimulate thinking and discussion about gender roles in private life, in the labour marker and in society as a whole.
Even small glimpses of the stories reveal the innovative approaches used by the producers. For instance, "Emma", the telenovela named after its heroine, follows her difficult pathway to the labour market after her father has been murdered. Thrown out of the house by a cruel step-mother and after a modest start as a receptionist, she eventually builds a successful career in television. A story "à la Cinderella," but it then turns into a thriller with Emma chasing the murderer of her father. Clues to the eventually outcome are hidden in an internet game which has become a huge hit amongst young people.
"De grote oversteek" (The big crossing) is another television programme which attracts a huge audience because it involves humour and lots of strange situations. This series features men and women as they move from one village to another and, at the same time, change gender roles for a full week. So, a woman who worked in a newspaper shop has to start work on a farm and since the owner has a bad back, she has to do almost all the jobs on the farm. In another case, an older man who could not cook and never washed the dishes was matched with a younger male from the other village who was equally useless in the kitchen. To avoid going hungry, they had to learn how to cook and run the household. The older host, who had always preached that housework was a task for women, made a real laughing stock of himself when forced to take on a homemaker role.
The Peer Review that is being organised by the Flemish ESF Authority will provide a forum for the producers to present these innovative elements of the campaign and to discuss them with counterparts from 12 European Member States. Workshops will provide the chance to view film footage with English subtitles and also enough time for a sharing of experiences and ideas. This Peer Review will not only involve media professionals but also the decision-makers who have responsibility for programme content and financing. Representatives of European institutions have also been invited to join the debate.
Previous Peer Reviews have brought together decision-makers and practitioners from regional and local governments, employment offices and enterprises in Graz, enabled exchange and networking amongst gender equality bodies and experts in Dublin and promoted gender equality as part of personnel development of public and private enterprises in Florence. All these events are documented on the Internet platform of the GM CoP which is a meeting place for all those interested in gender equality and gender mainstreaming within the context of the ESF and acts as a warehouse that stocks gender equality products and tools from throughout the European Union.
Click here to have a look at the programme for the Peer Review in Leuven.
Film footage will shortly be available at the GM CoP's web platform but a little taster is only four clicks away: go to MV United then navigate via "De Grote Oversteek" and "Ondeek meer" (it's at the bottom of the first article on the "De Grote Oversteek" page) to "Bekijk de generiek."
Messages for a gender fair society
January 2008
"MV United" is a Gender Mainstreaming Peer Review which will be hosted by Flanders, in Leuven, on 28th and 29th February 2008. From its title you might think that the event will focus on gender issues in football teams or in company mergers but instead it will be all about the vital role that the media can play in redressing inequality between women and men.
This Peer Review is one link in a chain of events organised by different Member States within the framework of the European Community of Practice on Gender Mainstreaming (GM CoP). The idea is that key people who are in a position to transfer good practices that have been developed either in EQUAL or European Social Fund Programmes can meet their counterparts from other Member States and explore together how these achievements can be used to integrate the gender dimension into their respective policy areas. Whilst past events have covered education and training, employment and business support and regional and local development, the Leuven gathering is targeting public and private media. During the event, Flanders will proudly present its awareness raising campaign that aims to overcome traditional gender roles and stereotypes. This campaign has a particular emphasis on television channels, but other media are also used to reinforce the message.
"Programme makers" and "decision-makers" from other Member States are invited to run a professional eye over "telenovelas," reality shows and "docu-soaps" that were, or are currently being, produced in Flanders, thanks to EQUAL funding. They will also have the chance to look at all the other products and projects including the interactive website that is at the heart of the campaign, a magazine that focuses on the reconciliation of work and family life, a theatre play, internet games and the various focus groups, which were organised to encourage open debates amongst different target groups: men from immigrant communities, young people and men who just became fathers. Questions discussed were about how participants plan to reconcile work and private life; if they wish to spend more time with their family or to share the unpaid work at home more evenly with their female partners. A white book documents the results of those roundtables.
All the different activities are intended to reach the public-at-large, and especially children, teenagers and young adults. The message is geared to stimulate thinking and discussion about gender roles in private life, in the labour marker and in society as a whole.
Even small glimpses of the stories reveal the innovative approaches used by the producers. For instance, "Emma", the telenovela named after its heroine, follows her difficult pathway to the labour market after her father has been murdered. Thrown out of the house by a cruel step-mother and after a modest start as a receptionist, she eventually builds a successful career in television. A story "à la Cinderella," but it then turns into a thriller with Emma chasing the murderer of her father. Clues to the eventually outcome are hidden in an internet game which has become a huge hit amongst young people.
"De grote oversteek" (The big crossing) is another television programme which attracts a huge audience because it involves humour and lots of strange situations. This series features men and women as they move from one village to another and, at the same time, change gender roles for a full week. So, a woman who worked in a newspaper shop has to start work on a farm and since the owner has a bad back, she has to do almost all the jobs on the farm. In another case, an older man who could not cook and never washed the dishes was matched with a younger male from the other village who was equally useless in the kitchen. To avoid going hungry, they had to learn how to cook and run the household. The older host, who had always preached that housework was a task for women, made a real laughing stock of himself when forced to take on a homemaker role.
The Peer Review that is being organised by the Flemish ESF Authority will provide a forum for the producers to present these innovative elements of the campaign and to discuss them with counterparts from 12 European Member States. Workshops will provide the chance to view film footage with English subtitles and also enough time for a sharing of experiences and ideas. This Peer Review will not only involve media professionals but also the decision-makers who have responsibility for programme content and financing. Representatives of European institutions have also been invited to join the debate.
Previous Peer Reviews have brought together decision-makers and practitioners from regional and local governments, employment offices and enterprises in Graz, enabled exchange and networking amongst gender equality bodies and experts in Dublin and promoted gender equality as part of personnel development of public and private enterprises in Florence. All these events are documented on the Internet platform of the GM CoP which is a meeting place for all those interested in gender equality and gender mainstreaming within the context of the ESF and acts as a warehouse that stocks gender equality products and tools from throughout the European Union.
Click here to have a look at the programme for the Peer Review in Leuven.
Film footage will shortly be available at the GM CoP's web platform but a little taster is only four clicks away: go to MV United then navigate via "De Grote Oversteek" and "Ondeek meer" (it's at the bottom of the first article on the "De Grote Oversteek" page) to "Bekijk de generiek."
Gay and Lesbian Studies
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Topics
Transexuality, Intersexuality, and Gender Mutability
Gays/Lesbians in Motion Pictures
Medical Sciences and Technology (for works about international AIDS epidemic)
Documentaries and Related Works
Absolutely Positive.
Men and women who are HIV positive talk about how afraid they are of getting AIDS, how they handle the disease, and how it affects their lives. Directed by Peter Adair. 1991. 87 min. DVD 5436; vhs Video/C 2323
AIDS Quarterly.
58 min. each. Spring 1989: Stopping AIDS stopping drugs -- The art of medicine. Video/C 2337 Fall 1989: AIDS and the second sex -- What is a family -- A question of civil rights. Video/C 2338 Winter 1989: The education of Admiral Watkins -- AIDS update -- A death in the family. Video/C 2336 Winter 1990: The Trial of Compound Q -- Money and morals. Video/C 2239
A.I.D.S.C.R.E.A.M.
AIDS has become a convenient excuse to desexualize gay men and thereby destroy gay liberation. This experimentally processed film expresses Queer anger and rage at the no-win constructs of straight culture's refusal to accept the political impact of the disease on gay identity.c1990. Video/C 2964
Akermania, Volume One.
Early films by director Chantal Akerman exploring real time, self-definition and sexual identities. 1992. 89 min. Video/C 999:980
All God's Children.
A look at the Black Church's embracement of African American lesbians and gay men as dedicated members of its spiritual family with commentary by prominent political and religious leaders in the Black community. c1996.26 min. Video/C 6200
Anatomy of Desire.
Looks at the history of scientific research on the question of sexual orientation and how this research has affected lesbian and gay rights. Utilizes interviews with historians, psychiatrists and writers blended with rare archival footage to illuminate the growing debate on the origins of sexual preference. 1995. 48 min. Video/C 5078
And the Band Played On.
Based on the book by Randy Shilts (Anthropology RA644.A25.S481 1987; Main Stack RA644.A25.S481 1987; Moffitt RA644.A25.S48 1988; Public Hlth RA644.A25.S48 1988) Follows the struggle of a handful of strong-willed men and women who took on the fight to save lives in the face of a mysterious illness now called AIDS. 140 min. Video/C 999:969
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And the March Continues! (Y sigue la marcha andando!)
A film by Guadalupe Olvera San Miguel. Combines documentary and narrative forms to present a history of the lesbian movement in Mexico from its orgins to the present. Interviews with Mexican lesbians and movement leaders present impressions of daily life in their country. Dist.: Frameline. 1997. 30 min. Video/C 7275
Army of Lovers or the Revolt of the Perverts (Armee der Liebenden Oder Aufstand der Perversen)
In 1978, German gay rights activist filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim documented segments of the American gay liberation movement at the celebration of a San Francisco gay rights march. Among the individuals interviewed are a gay Nazi, porn-film stars, author John Rechy who defends gay male promiscuity, and members of the Gay Activists Alliance, the National Gay Task Force, the Mattachine Society, and the founders of the Daughters of Bilitis. 96 min. Video/C 9518
Ballot Measure 9.
Documentary investigation of events surrounding the 1992 campaign for Oregon's anti-gay ballot initiative. Videocassette release of a film originally produced bythe Oregon Tape Project in 1994. A film by Heather MacDonald. 72 min. Video/C 4325
Interview with Heather MacDonald in Lavender Limelight.
Because This is About Love: A Portrait of Gay and Lesbian Marriage.
Various gay and lesbian couples who chose to publicly commit their love for one another in a wedding ceremony are interviewed. This program is devoted to these articulate couples who celebrate their bond solemnly.c1991. 28 min. Video/C 3305
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Beefcake
A chronicle of the rise and fall of queer cult photographer Robert Henry Mizer, creator of the popular 1950's magazine Physique Pictorial. A blend of fact and fiction, Beefcake focuses on the 1950's world of male-physique magazines and Mizer's Athletic Model Guild. Written and directed by Thom Fitzgerald. 1999. 93 min. DVD 1867
Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community.
A social history of homosexuality in America from the 1920s to 1969, showing how this group has moved from a secret shame to the status of a publicly viable minority group. Tells how a group consciousness coalesced after the 1969 police raid on Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City, and the three-day riot that followed gained them national publicity and the birth of the gay movement. Director, Greta Schiller. 1985. 87 min. DVD 2766; also VHS Video/C 1461 [See Also: Stonewall Archives]
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Nichols, Peter M. "Tracing 30 Years Of Gay Life," New York Times, Jun 4, 1999; Late Edition (East Coast); pg. E.1:25
[Benning, Sadie] The Videos of Sadie Benning.
Eighteen-years-old Sadie Benning recorded thoughts and images of her nascent lesbianism with the help of a Fisher Price Pixelvision camera. 1989-1992. 86 min. Video/C 2749:1-2
[Benning, Sadie] The Videos of Sadie Benning. Vol. 2
Contains three videos by Sadie Benning who uses an inexpensive camera and toys, drawings, and scrawled diary entries to record the thoughts, feelings and images that reveal her emerging lesbian sexuality. Contents: A place called lovely -- It wasn't love -- Girl power. DVD 8057
Beyond Hatred (Au dela de la haine)
Examines the events behind the violent death in Rheims, France of Francois Chenu, a young gay man who was murdered by 3 homophobic skinheads in 2002. The film follows the lengthy trial of the accused killers, and offers a moving firsthand account of the complex emotional response of the victim's family. In so doing, it explores the social and psychological roots of homophobia and similar hate crimes as well as demonstrating the emotional maturity that enables the rare human quality of forgiveness. Director, Olivier Meyrou. 2006. 86 min. DVD 8647
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Bill T. Jones: Still Here.
A look at dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones's highly acclaimed dance,"Still/Here". At workshops around the country, people facing life-threatening illnesses are asked to remember the highs and lows of their lives, and even imagine their own deaths. They then transform these feelings into expressive movement, which Jones incorporates into the dance "Still/Here". Jones demonstrates for Moyers the movements of his life story--his first encounter with white people, confusion over his sexuality, his partner Arnie Zane's untimely death from AIDS, and Jones's own HIV status. 1997. 56 min. Video/C 5255
Black Hair and Black-eyed
A film by Julie Whang.From what sources does a young Korean-American lesbian draw her sense of identity? From her mother, from fashion magazines, from the boy she dances with, or the girl she sleeps with, or her own barren apartment? Dist.: Frameline. 1994. 9 min. Video/C 5215
Bolo Bolo.
Through interviews, interspersed with images of gay sexual encounters, film explores responses to the AIDS crisis by members of the South Asian community of Toronto, Canada.1990. 30 min. Video/C 3829
Center for Asian American Media catalog description
Boys Beware!
An "educational" film against exposure of young boys to homosexuals. Produced by Sid Davis. 1961. 10 min. DVD 4845; also on DVD 8569
Boys Shorts: Six Short Films
Contents: Resonance -- R.S.V.P -- Anthem -- Relax -- Billy Turner's secret -- Dead boys club. Showcases six short films with gay themes produced in the 1990s. Resonance: an exploration of gay-bashing in the back streets of Sydney. RSVP: A powerful portrait of loss punctuated by the haunting voice of Jessye Norman. Anthem: A collage of erotic images that celebrates the lives of African American men. Relax: An elegant film about one man's fears regarding HIV testing. Billy Turner's Secret: An upbeat comedy about a young Black man coming out to his roommate. The Dead boys' club: A steamy tribute to the '70's world of promiscuity and disco balls from the perspective of gay life in the '90's. 1993?. 119 min. Video/C 6226
Evans, Greg. "Boys' Shorts: The New Queer Cinema." (movie reviews) Variety v352, n1 (August 16, 1993):40 (1 page).
Holden, Stephen. "Boys' Shorts: The New Queer Cinema." (movie reviews) New York Times v142 (Wed, July 21, 1993):C17(L), col 1, 12 col in.
Bright Eyes.
This production explores attitudes toward homosexuality in three parts: one, the early scientific view of homosexuality as a disease; two, the pre-World War II view (especially in Germany) of homosexuality as a crime; and three, current attitudes, complicated by the spread of AIDS. 1985?. Dist.: Video Data Bank. 85 min. Video/C 3286
Gever, Martha. "Pictures of Sickness: Stuart Marshall's Bright Eyes." In: Queer Looks: Perspectives on lesbian and Gay Film and Video / editors Martha Gever, Pratibha Parmar, John Greyson. pp: 186-203. New York: Routledge, 1993.(Main Stack PN1995.9.H55.Q4 1993; Moffitt PN1995.9.H55.Q4 1993)
Butterflies on the Scaffold (Mariposas en el andamio)
A documentary examining the issues gays and transvestites face in the context of evolving attitudes towards homosexuality in Cuba. It is a highly unusual look at how a group of working class drag queens in a Havana suburb have become an integral part of their neighborhood. A film by Margaret Gilpin and Luis Felipe Bernaza. 1995. 74 min. Video/5461
Came Out, It Rained, Went Back in Again.
This delightful short drama explores the perils of coming out as it follows a day in the life of one young girl who would be a lesbian. Director, Betsan Morris Evans. 10 min. Video/C 3409
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Campus Culture Wars: Five Stories About PC.
University of Pennsylvania: racially insensitive language, Harvard University: gay rights, Stanford University: multicultural ideals, Pennsylvania State: sexual harassment, University of Washington: radical feminism. c1993. 86 min. Video/C 3328
Cancer in Two Voices.
This film provides a glimpse into the real lives of two lesbian women, Sandy and Barbara, especially into their coping with Barbara's breast cancer. Sandy and Barbara had almost three years together from the time Barbara's cancer was diagnosed until her death in 1988. The film is based on home videotapes made during that time. A film by Lucy Massie Phenix based on original videotapes by Ann Hershey. 1994. 43 min. Video/C 4002
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Can't You Take a Joke?
Presents a series of vignettes in which boy meets boy and girl meets girl, using the romantic music and visuals of Hollywood film noir to explore the ideal of love at first sight. A film by Viki Dun. c1991. 14 min. Video/C 9131
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Carmelita Tropicana: Your Kunst Is Your Waffen
Carmelita Tropicana, a lesbian Latina performance artist who supports herself as a building super on New York's Lower East Side, winds up in jail with three other women after a protest at an abortion clinic. Humorous monologues and campy production numbers ensue. Performers: Carmelita Tropicana, Annie Iobst, Sophia Ramos, Livia Daza Paris. A film by Ala Troyano. 1994. 28 min. Video/C 8354
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The Castro. (Neighborhoods, The Hidden Cities of San Francisco)
Chronicles the history of the Castro district from a working class neighborhood to the center of gay and lesbian life in San Francisco. 1997. DVD 9561 [preservation copy]; vhs Video/C 5004
The Celluloid Closet.
Footage from over 120 films shows the changing face of homosexuality (both male and female) in the movies from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990s. Many noted actors, writers and commentators provide funny and insightful anecdotes regarding the history of the role of gay men and lesbians in the movies. Based on: Celluloid closet / Vito Russo (UCB Main PN1995.9.H55 R8 1987; UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H55 R8 1987) 102 min. DVD 706; Video/C 4717
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Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker.
Examines the life and personal views of Dr. Evelyn Hooker, a psychologist who has spent her life researching the causes of homosexual behavior. Director, Richard Schmiechen. Dist.: Frameline. 1992. 75 min. Video/C 3430
Chicks in White Satin.
Here comes the bride ... both of them! A student produced Academy Award winning film documenting the formal Jewish wedding of two California women, Heidi Stern and Deborah Ellis, and the reverberations among each of their families. A film by Elaine Holliman. 1993. 25 min. Video/C MM309
The Cockettes.
This engaging tribute looks at the rise and fall of a San Francisco theatrical troupe called The Cockettes between the years 1969 and 1972. The sensation of the hippie movement in San Francisco, they were described as "hippie and freak drag queens," people who were allowed to live at the end of their imaginations. Uses interviews and vintage footage to revisit this lost corner of recent cultural history. A film by David Weissman & Bill Weber. 2001. 100 min. DVD 222
Coming Out Under Fire.
Gay men and lesbians who were in the United States military service during World War II discuss their experiences with the response of the military establishment towards their sexual orientation. Producer/director, Arthur Dong. Based on Allan Berube's Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two (New York: Free Press, c1990. (UCB Ed/Psych D769.2 .B46 1990; UCB Main D769.2 .B46 1990; UCB Moffitt D769.2 .B46 1990). 71 min. DVD 4423; also VHS Video/C 3447
Common Threads.
The story of the AIDS Memorial Quilt established by the San Francisco NAMES Project Foundation in 1987 to commemorate the lives lost to AIDS. From the thousands memorialized in the quilt, profiles five individuals--including a recovered IV drug user, a former Olympic decathlon star and a boy with hemophilia--whose stories reflect the diversity and common tragedy of those who have died from AIDS. Celebrates their unique personalities and achievements, interweaving these personal histories with a chronology of the epidemic's development and the negligence of the government. Directed by Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman. 1990. 80 min. DVD 2761; also VHS Video/C 1774
Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter.
Shows interactions between an Alzheimer's patient and her daughter. The daughter discusses how she has dealt with her mother's illness and describes various stages of the disease. Producer/director/writer, Deborah Hoffmann. c1994. 45 min. Video/C 3976
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Movie Review Query Enginge
Bergman, T. "Personal narrative, dialogism, and the performance of "truth" in Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter." Text and Performance Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 20-37, Jan. 2004
Pincus, Elizabeth. "Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter." (video recording reviews). Advocate, n683 (June 13, 1995):60 (2 pages).
Goodman, Walter. "P.O.V.: Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter." (television program reviews) New York Times v144 (Tue, June 6, 1995):B3(N), C16(L), col 3, 13 col in.
Congressional Briefing on Homosexuals in the Military with Major Melissa Wells-Petry.
U.S. Army attorney, Major Wells-Petry, discusses the homosexual exclusion policy of the armed services and the legal, social, medical and philosophical basis for that policy. 1993. 60 min. Video/C 3283
Consenting Adults.
Presents a study of homosexuality in men and women, using filmed interviews with practicing homosexuals, to provide insight and bases for understanding and discussion. 1969. 40 min. Video/C 69
Cut Sleeve: Lesbians & Gays of Asian/Pacific Ancestry.
Gay and lesbian individuals from Asian and Pacific Island backgrounds discuss their attitudes and experiences as homosexuals. 1991. 24 min. Video/C 3101
Daddy & Papa (Story About Gay Fathers in America)
A documentary exploring the personal, cultural, and political impact of gay men who are making the decision to raise children themselves. Through an examination of four gay male families, this documentary traces the critical issues that inevitably intersect their private lives, the ambiguous place of interracial families in America, the precariousness of surrogacy and adoption, the complexities of marriage and divorce within the gay community, and the legality of their own parenthood. Director/producer/writer, Johnny Symons. c2002. 57 min. DVD 1879
De Colores: Lesbian and Gay Latinos: Stories of Strength, Family and Love (Lesbianas y ays Latinos: historias de fuerza, familia y amor)
This documentary examines the struggles of Hispanic gays and lesbians coming out to their parents, especially in a culture that places value on "family tradition" above all else. Through interviews and commentaries, the stories of this largely ignored community are contrasted against similar experiences by Anglo-Americans. 2001. 28 min. Video/C 8809
Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World.
Explores the lives of gay and lesbian people in non-Western cultures, where most occurrences of oppression receive no media coverage at all. 2005. 60 min. DVD 4789
Dear Jesse.
Gay North Carolina filmmaker Tim Kirkman's open letter to his senator, Jesse Helms whom he criticizes for his anti-homosexual policies. Also includes footage of an interview with Matthew Shepard, a gay man who was murdered, a victim of a hate crime. Writer/director, Tim Kirkman. Originally produced in 1998. 83 min. Video/C 7185
American Library Assn. Video Round Table Notable Videos winner
Desire.
Director Stuart Marshall chronicles the imprisonment of homosexuals in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Also examines the "discovery" of homosexuality by the medical and psychoanalytic professions in the 1890's, and the subsequent movements in Germany during the early years of this century demanding recognition of gay and lesbian rights.c1992. 88 min. Video/C 3313
A Different Kind of Black Man: On Being Gay...
Interviews with successful, black gay men about their ideas and feelings on such issues as sexuality, masculinity and their perception of and their role within the black community. 2001. 19 min. Video/C 8145
Dirty Laundry: A History of Heroes
A history of Chinese who immigrated to Canada and of gay Chinese Canadians. 1996. 31 min. Video/C 4428
Center for Asian American Media catalog description
Does Your Mother Know?
Interviews with lesbian students at the University of California, Berkeley concerning their views on family and personal relationships. Produced by students enrolled in Ethnographic Film (Anthropology 138B) in Spring of 1996, at the University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Anthropology. Sheila Quinlan, Shu Hung. 1996. 28 min. Video/C 4414
Dream Girls
This fascinating documentary, produced for the BBC, opens a door into the spectacular world of the Takarazuka Revue, a highly successful musical theater company in Japan. Each year, thousands of girls apply to enter the male-run Takarazuka Music School. The few who are accepted endure years of a highly disciplined and reclusive existence before they can join the Revue, choosing male or female roles. Dream Girls offers a compelling insight into gender and sexual identity and the contradictions experienced by Japanese women today. 1994. 50 min. Video/C 7630
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Dress to Kill
Directed by Lawrence Jordan. Eddie Izzard spins free-flowing jokes about San Francisco, transvestitism, squirrels, American optimism, Hitler, the British royal family, mass murder and Stonehenge. Izzard romps through human history and transforms surprisingly complex ideas into biting satire--as well as knockout bits of sublime frivolity, like describing the movie Speed entirely in French. 1998. 180 min. DVD 1497
Dry Kisses Only.
Through manipulated film clips this videotape explores the lesbian subtext of classical Hollywood films. 1990. 75 min. Video/C 2750
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Ecce Homo.
A Film by Jerry Tartaglia. Interweaves images from Jean Genet's masterpiece Un Chant d'Amour with images from gay male sex films. It forces the viewer to question the point of view in looking at "pornographic" images. AIDS hysteria portrays gay sex as sinful, politically incorrect, or a public health hazard. Ecce Homo asks whether this taboo is against gay sex or against seeing gay sex. 199?. Video/C 2694
The Edge of Each Other's Battles: The Vision of Audre Lorde
Documents black lesbian poet and activist Audre Lorde's (1934-92) social vision, using footage from the four-day conference: I am your sister: forging global connections across differences, held in Boston in 1990. At the conference 1,200 men, women and young people from 23 countries examined the issues of the relations between race, class, gender and sexuality through Lorde's work. Interviews with the organizers of the conference are intercut with conference footage, including performances, controversies and speeches. Producer, director, writer, Jennifer Abod. 2000. 59 min. DVD 7917
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Erotic Celebrations.
Four short films by poet, playwright and avant-garde filmmaker, James Broughton. Contents: The Bed (1968) (20 min.) -- Erogeny (1976) (6 min.) -- Hermes bird (1979) (11 min.) -- Song of the Godbody (1977) (10 min.). 47 min. Video 999:1076
Exclusion.
A discussion of gays in the military sponsored by the Christian fundamentalist Christian Action Network. 1993. 60 min. Video/C 3283
An Evening with Les Ballets Trockadero. Program 1
Contents: Swan Lake. Act II -- Le corsaire (Pas de deux) -- Go for Barocco -- The dying swan -- Raymonda's wedding. Presents performances by the all-male ballet troupe Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. Founded in 1974 for the purpose of presenting a playful, entertaining view of traditional, classical ballet in parody form and in travesty, the comedy is achieved by incorporating and exaggerating the foibles, accidents, and underlying incongruities of serious dance. 100 min. DVD 3277
An Evening with Les Ballets Trockadero. Program 2
Contents: Les sylphides -- Le grand pas de quatre -- Yes, Virginia, another piano ballet -- The dying swan -- Paquita. Presents performances by the all-male ballet troupe Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. Founded in 1974 for the purpose of presenting a playful, entertaining view of traditional, classical ballet in parody form and in travesty, the comedy is achieved by incorporating and exaggerating the foibles, accidents, and underlying incongruities of serious dance. 100 min. DVD 3278
Eve's Daughters
Five lesbian women share their struggles of living in a racist, sexist, and homophobic society. They return as refugees from spiritual exile, refusing to be victims any longer and call upon the church not only to repent of its homophobia, but to celebrate the spiritual gifts they have because they are lesbians. Produced & directed by Anne Macksoud, John Ankele. 1995 DVD 9909
Faith & Politics: The Christian Right.
Film reviews the goals, political aspirations and successes of the traditional, family-oriented Christian Right political movement. Examines their organizations and their views on such issues as abortion, homosexuality, creationisn, freedom of speech, school curriculum, home schooling and political activism. 1995. 47 min. Video/C 4013.
The Bible says about the Gay and Lesbians: Romans 1:18-32
1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness, 1:19 because what can be known about God is plain to them; because God has made it plain to them. 1:20 For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people are without excuse. 1:21 For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened. 1:22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling a mortal human being and birds and four-footed animals and reptiles.1:24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves. 1:25. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.1:26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones, 1:27 and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed in their passions for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. 1:28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done. 1:29 They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips, 1:30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents, 1:31 senseless, covenant-breakers, heartless, ruthless. 1:32. Although they fully know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.
Transexuality, Intersexuality, and Gender Mutability
Gays/Lesbians in Motion Pictures
Medical Sciences and Technology (for works about international AIDS epidemic)
Documentaries and Related Works
Absolutely Positive.
Men and women who are HIV positive talk about how afraid they are of getting AIDS, how they handle the disease, and how it affects their lives. Directed by Peter Adair. 1991. 87 min. DVD 5436; vhs Video/C 2323
AIDS Quarterly.
58 min. each. Spring 1989: Stopping AIDS stopping drugs -- The art of medicine. Video/C 2337 Fall 1989: AIDS and the second sex -- What is a family -- A question of civil rights. Video/C 2338 Winter 1989: The education of Admiral Watkins -- AIDS update -- A death in the family. Video/C 2336 Winter 1990: The Trial of Compound Q -- Money and morals. Video/C 2239
A.I.D.S.C.R.E.A.M.
AIDS has become a convenient excuse to desexualize gay men and thereby destroy gay liberation. This experimentally processed film expresses Queer anger and rage at the no-win constructs of straight culture's refusal to accept the political impact of the disease on gay identity.c1990. Video/C 2964
Akermania, Volume One.
Early films by director Chantal Akerman exploring real time, self-definition and sexual identities. 1992. 89 min. Video/C 999:980
All God's Children.
A look at the Black Church's embracement of African American lesbians and gay men as dedicated members of its spiritual family with commentary by prominent political and religious leaders in the Black community. c1996.26 min. Video/C 6200
Anatomy of Desire.
Looks at the history of scientific research on the question of sexual orientation and how this research has affected lesbian and gay rights. Utilizes interviews with historians, psychiatrists and writers blended with rare archival footage to illuminate the growing debate on the origins of sexual preference. 1995. 48 min. Video/C 5078
And the Band Played On.
Based on the book by Randy Shilts (Anthropology RA644.A25.S481 1987; Main Stack RA644.A25.S481 1987; Moffitt RA644.A25.S48 1988; Public Hlth RA644.A25.S48 1988) Follows the struggle of a handful of strong-willed men and women who took on the fight to save lives in the face of a mysterious illness now called AIDS. 140 min. Video/C 999:969
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And the March Continues! (Y sigue la marcha andando!)
A film by Guadalupe Olvera San Miguel. Combines documentary and narrative forms to present a history of the lesbian movement in Mexico from its orgins to the present. Interviews with Mexican lesbians and movement leaders present impressions of daily life in their country. Dist.: Frameline. 1997. 30 min. Video/C 7275
Army of Lovers or the Revolt of the Perverts (Armee der Liebenden Oder Aufstand der Perversen)
In 1978, German gay rights activist filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim documented segments of the American gay liberation movement at the celebration of a San Francisco gay rights march. Among the individuals interviewed are a gay Nazi, porn-film stars, author John Rechy who defends gay male promiscuity, and members of the Gay Activists Alliance, the National Gay Task Force, the Mattachine Society, and the founders of the Daughters of Bilitis. 96 min. Video/C 9518
Ballot Measure 9.
Documentary investigation of events surrounding the 1992 campaign for Oregon's anti-gay ballot initiative. Videocassette release of a film originally produced bythe Oregon Tape Project in 1994. A film by Heather MacDonald. 72 min. Video/C 4325
Interview with Heather MacDonald in Lavender Limelight.
Because This is About Love: A Portrait of Gay and Lesbian Marriage.
Various gay and lesbian couples who chose to publicly commit their love for one another in a wedding ceremony are interviewed. This program is devoted to these articulate couples who celebrate their bond solemnly.c1991. 28 min. Video/C 3305
Description from Filmakers Library catalog
Beefcake
A chronicle of the rise and fall of queer cult photographer Robert Henry Mizer, creator of the popular 1950's magazine Physique Pictorial. A blend of fact and fiction, Beefcake focuses on the 1950's world of male-physique magazines and Mizer's Athletic Model Guild. Written and directed by Thom Fitzgerald. 1999. 93 min. DVD 1867
Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community.
A social history of homosexuality in America from the 1920s to 1969, showing how this group has moved from a secret shame to the status of a publicly viable minority group. Tells how a group consciousness coalesced after the 1969 police raid on Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City, and the three-day riot that followed gained them national publicity and the birth of the gay movement. Director, Greta Schiller. 1985. 87 min. DVD 2766; also VHS Video/C 1461 [See Also: Stonewall Archives]
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Nichols, Peter M. "Tracing 30 Years Of Gay Life," New York Times, Jun 4, 1999; Late Edition (East Coast); pg. E.1:25
[Benning, Sadie] The Videos of Sadie Benning.
Eighteen-years-old Sadie Benning recorded thoughts and images of her nascent lesbianism with the help of a Fisher Price Pixelvision camera. 1989-1992. 86 min. Video/C 2749:1-2
[Benning, Sadie] The Videos of Sadie Benning. Vol. 2
Contains three videos by Sadie Benning who uses an inexpensive camera and toys, drawings, and scrawled diary entries to record the thoughts, feelings and images that reveal her emerging lesbian sexuality. Contents: A place called lovely -- It wasn't love -- Girl power. DVD 8057
Beyond Hatred (Au dela de la haine)
Examines the events behind the violent death in Rheims, France of Francois Chenu, a young gay man who was murdered by 3 homophobic skinheads in 2002. The film follows the lengthy trial of the accused killers, and offers a moving firsthand account of the complex emotional response of the victim's family. In so doing, it explores the social and psychological roots of homophobia and similar hate crimes as well as demonstrating the emotional maturity that enables the rare human quality of forgiveness. Director, Olivier Meyrou. 2006. 86 min. DVD 8647
Description from First Run Icarus catalog
Bill T. Jones: Still Here.
A look at dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones's highly acclaimed dance,"Still/Here". At workshops around the country, people facing life-threatening illnesses are asked to remember the highs and lows of their lives, and even imagine their own deaths. They then transform these feelings into expressive movement, which Jones incorporates into the dance "Still/Here". Jones demonstrates for Moyers the movements of his life story--his first encounter with white people, confusion over his sexuality, his partner Arnie Zane's untimely death from AIDS, and Jones's own HIV status. 1997. 56 min. Video/C 5255
Black Hair and Black-eyed
A film by Julie Whang.From what sources does a young Korean-American lesbian draw her sense of identity? From her mother, from fashion magazines, from the boy she dances with, or the girl she sleeps with, or her own barren apartment? Dist.: Frameline. 1994. 9 min. Video/C 5215
Bolo Bolo.
Through interviews, interspersed with images of gay sexual encounters, film explores responses to the AIDS crisis by members of the South Asian community of Toronto, Canada.1990. 30 min. Video/C 3829
Center for Asian American Media catalog description
Boys Beware!
An "educational" film against exposure of young boys to homosexuals. Produced by Sid Davis. 1961. 10 min. DVD 4845; also on DVD 8569
Boys Shorts: Six Short Films
Contents: Resonance -- R.S.V.P -- Anthem -- Relax -- Billy Turner's secret -- Dead boys club. Showcases six short films with gay themes produced in the 1990s. Resonance: an exploration of gay-bashing in the back streets of Sydney. RSVP: A powerful portrait of loss punctuated by the haunting voice of Jessye Norman. Anthem: A collage of erotic images that celebrates the lives of African American men. Relax: An elegant film about one man's fears regarding HIV testing. Billy Turner's Secret: An upbeat comedy about a young Black man coming out to his roommate. The Dead boys' club: A steamy tribute to the '70's world of promiscuity and disco balls from the perspective of gay life in the '90's. 1993?. 119 min. Video/C 6226
Evans, Greg. "Boys' Shorts: The New Queer Cinema." (movie reviews) Variety v352, n1 (August 16, 1993):40 (1 page).
Holden, Stephen. "Boys' Shorts: The New Queer Cinema." (movie reviews) New York Times v142 (Wed, July 21, 1993):C17(L), col 1, 12 col in.
Bright Eyes.
This production explores attitudes toward homosexuality in three parts: one, the early scientific view of homosexuality as a disease; two, the pre-World War II view (especially in Germany) of homosexuality as a crime; and three, current attitudes, complicated by the spread of AIDS. 1985?. Dist.: Video Data Bank. 85 min. Video/C 3286
Gever, Martha. "Pictures of Sickness: Stuart Marshall's Bright Eyes." In: Queer Looks: Perspectives on lesbian and Gay Film and Video / editors Martha Gever, Pratibha Parmar, John Greyson. pp: 186-203. New York: Routledge, 1993.(Main Stack PN1995.9.H55.Q4 1993; Moffitt PN1995.9.H55.Q4 1993)
Butterflies on the Scaffold (Mariposas en el andamio)
A documentary examining the issues gays and transvestites face in the context of evolving attitudes towards homosexuality in Cuba. It is a highly unusual look at how a group of working class drag queens in a Havana suburb have become an integral part of their neighborhood. A film by Margaret Gilpin and Luis Felipe Bernaza. 1995. 74 min. Video/5461
Came Out, It Rained, Went Back in Again.
This delightful short drama explores the perils of coming out as it follows a day in the life of one young girl who would be a lesbian. Director, Betsan Morris Evans. 10 min. Video/C 3409
Description from Women Make Movies catalog
Campus Culture Wars: Five Stories About PC.
University of Pennsylvania: racially insensitive language, Harvard University: gay rights, Stanford University: multicultural ideals, Pennsylvania State: sexual harassment, University of Washington: radical feminism. c1993. 86 min. Video/C 3328
Cancer in Two Voices.
This film provides a glimpse into the real lives of two lesbian women, Sandy and Barbara, especially into their coping with Barbara's breast cancer. Sandy and Barbara had almost three years together from the time Barbara's cancer was diagnosed until her death in 1988. The film is based on home videotapes made during that time. A film by Lucy Massie Phenix based on original videotapes by Ann Hershey. 1994. 43 min. Video/C 4002
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Can't You Take a Joke?
Presents a series of vignettes in which boy meets boy and girl meets girl, using the romantic music and visuals of Hollywood film noir to explore the ideal of love at first sight. A film by Viki Dun. c1991. 14 min. Video/C 9131
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Carmelita Tropicana: Your Kunst Is Your Waffen
Carmelita Tropicana, a lesbian Latina performance artist who supports herself as a building super on New York's Lower East Side, winds up in jail with three other women after a protest at an abortion clinic. Humorous monologues and campy production numbers ensue. Performers: Carmelita Tropicana, Annie Iobst, Sophia Ramos, Livia Daza Paris. A film by Ala Troyano. 1994. 28 min. Video/C 8354
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The Castro. (Neighborhoods, The Hidden Cities of San Francisco)
Chronicles the history of the Castro district from a working class neighborhood to the center of gay and lesbian life in San Francisco. 1997. DVD 9561 [preservation copy]; vhs Video/C 5004
The Celluloid Closet.
Footage from over 120 films shows the changing face of homosexuality (both male and female) in the movies from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990s. Many noted actors, writers and commentators provide funny and insightful anecdotes regarding the history of the role of gay men and lesbians in the movies. Based on: Celluloid closet / Vito Russo (UCB Main PN1995.9.H55 R8 1987; UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H55 R8 1987) 102 min. DVD 706; Video/C 4717
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Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker.
Examines the life and personal views of Dr. Evelyn Hooker, a psychologist who has spent her life researching the causes of homosexual behavior. Director, Richard Schmiechen. Dist.: Frameline. 1992. 75 min. Video/C 3430
Chicks in White Satin.
Here comes the bride ... both of them! A student produced Academy Award winning film documenting the formal Jewish wedding of two California women, Heidi Stern and Deborah Ellis, and the reverberations among each of their families. A film by Elaine Holliman. 1993. 25 min. Video/C MM309
The Cockettes.
This engaging tribute looks at the rise and fall of a San Francisco theatrical troupe called The Cockettes between the years 1969 and 1972. The sensation of the hippie movement in San Francisco, they were described as "hippie and freak drag queens," people who were allowed to live at the end of their imaginations. Uses interviews and vintage footage to revisit this lost corner of recent cultural history. A film by David Weissman & Bill Weber. 2001. 100 min. DVD 222
Coming Out Under Fire.
Gay men and lesbians who were in the United States military service during World War II discuss their experiences with the response of the military establishment towards their sexual orientation. Producer/director, Arthur Dong. Based on Allan Berube's Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two (New York: Free Press, c1990. (UCB Ed/Psych D769.2 .B46 1990; UCB Main D769.2 .B46 1990; UCB Moffitt D769.2 .B46 1990). 71 min. DVD 4423; also VHS Video/C 3447
Common Threads.
The story of the AIDS Memorial Quilt established by the San Francisco NAMES Project Foundation in 1987 to commemorate the lives lost to AIDS. From the thousands memorialized in the quilt, profiles five individuals--including a recovered IV drug user, a former Olympic decathlon star and a boy with hemophilia--whose stories reflect the diversity and common tragedy of those who have died from AIDS. Celebrates their unique personalities and achievements, interweaving these personal histories with a chronology of the epidemic's development and the negligence of the government. Directed by Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman. 1990. 80 min. DVD 2761; also VHS Video/C 1774
Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter.
Shows interactions between an Alzheimer's patient and her daughter. The daughter discusses how she has dealt with her mother's illness and describes various stages of the disease. Producer/director/writer, Deborah Hoffmann. c1994. 45 min. Video/C 3976
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Bergman, T. "Personal narrative, dialogism, and the performance of "truth" in Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter." Text and Performance Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 20-37, Jan. 2004
Pincus, Elizabeth. "Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter." (video recording reviews). Advocate, n683 (June 13, 1995):60 (2 pages).
Goodman, Walter. "P.O.V.: Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter." (television program reviews) New York Times v144 (Tue, June 6, 1995):B3(N), C16(L), col 3, 13 col in.
Congressional Briefing on Homosexuals in the Military with Major Melissa Wells-Petry.
U.S. Army attorney, Major Wells-Petry, discusses the homosexual exclusion policy of the armed services and the legal, social, medical and philosophical basis for that policy. 1993. 60 min. Video/C 3283
Consenting Adults.
Presents a study of homosexuality in men and women, using filmed interviews with practicing homosexuals, to provide insight and bases for understanding and discussion. 1969. 40 min. Video/C 69
Cut Sleeve: Lesbians & Gays of Asian/Pacific Ancestry.
Gay and lesbian individuals from Asian and Pacific Island backgrounds discuss their attitudes and experiences as homosexuals. 1991. 24 min. Video/C 3101
Daddy & Papa (Story About Gay Fathers in America)
A documentary exploring the personal, cultural, and political impact of gay men who are making the decision to raise children themselves. Through an examination of four gay male families, this documentary traces the critical issues that inevitably intersect their private lives, the ambiguous place of interracial families in America, the precariousness of surrogacy and adoption, the complexities of marriage and divorce within the gay community, and the legality of their own parenthood. Director/producer/writer, Johnny Symons. c2002. 57 min. DVD 1879
De Colores: Lesbian and Gay Latinos: Stories of Strength, Family and Love (Lesbianas y ays Latinos: historias de fuerza, familia y amor)
This documentary examines the struggles of Hispanic gays and lesbians coming out to their parents, especially in a culture that places value on "family tradition" above all else. Through interviews and commentaries, the stories of this largely ignored community are contrasted against similar experiences by Anglo-Americans. 2001. 28 min. Video/C 8809
Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World.
Explores the lives of gay and lesbian people in non-Western cultures, where most occurrences of oppression receive no media coverage at all. 2005. 60 min. DVD 4789
Dear Jesse.
Gay North Carolina filmmaker Tim Kirkman's open letter to his senator, Jesse Helms whom he criticizes for his anti-homosexual policies. Also includes footage of an interview with Matthew Shepard, a gay man who was murdered, a victim of a hate crime. Writer/director, Tim Kirkman. Originally produced in 1998. 83 min. Video/C 7185
American Library Assn. Video Round Table Notable Videos winner
Desire.
Director Stuart Marshall chronicles the imprisonment of homosexuals in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Also examines the "discovery" of homosexuality by the medical and psychoanalytic professions in the 1890's, and the subsequent movements in Germany during the early years of this century demanding recognition of gay and lesbian rights.c1992. 88 min. Video/C 3313
A Different Kind of Black Man: On Being Gay...
Interviews with successful, black gay men about their ideas and feelings on such issues as sexuality, masculinity and their perception of and their role within the black community. 2001. 19 min. Video/C 8145
Dirty Laundry: A History of Heroes
A history of Chinese who immigrated to Canada and of gay Chinese Canadians. 1996. 31 min. Video/C 4428
Center for Asian American Media catalog description
Does Your Mother Know?
Interviews with lesbian students at the University of California, Berkeley concerning their views on family and personal relationships. Produced by students enrolled in Ethnographic Film (Anthropology 138B) in Spring of 1996, at the University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Anthropology. Sheila Quinlan, Shu Hung. 1996. 28 min. Video/C 4414
Dream Girls
This fascinating documentary, produced for the BBC, opens a door into the spectacular world of the Takarazuka Revue, a highly successful musical theater company in Japan. Each year, thousands of girls apply to enter the male-run Takarazuka Music School. The few who are accepted endure years of a highly disciplined and reclusive existence before they can join the Revue, choosing male or female roles. Dream Girls offers a compelling insight into gender and sexual identity and the contradictions experienced by Japanese women today. 1994. 50 min. Video/C 7630
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Dress to Kill
Directed by Lawrence Jordan. Eddie Izzard spins free-flowing jokes about San Francisco, transvestitism, squirrels, American optimism, Hitler, the British royal family, mass murder and Stonehenge. Izzard romps through human history and transforms surprisingly complex ideas into biting satire--as well as knockout bits of sublime frivolity, like describing the movie Speed entirely in French. 1998. 180 min. DVD 1497
Dry Kisses Only.
Through manipulated film clips this videotape explores the lesbian subtext of classical Hollywood films. 1990. 75 min. Video/C 2750
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Ecce Homo.
A Film by Jerry Tartaglia. Interweaves images from Jean Genet's masterpiece Un Chant d'Amour with images from gay male sex films. It forces the viewer to question the point of view in looking at "pornographic" images. AIDS hysteria portrays gay sex as sinful, politically incorrect, or a public health hazard. Ecce Homo asks whether this taboo is against gay sex or against seeing gay sex. 199?. Video/C 2694
The Edge of Each Other's Battles: The Vision of Audre Lorde
Documents black lesbian poet and activist Audre Lorde's (1934-92) social vision, using footage from the four-day conference: I am your sister: forging global connections across differences, held in Boston in 1990. At the conference 1,200 men, women and young people from 23 countries examined the issues of the relations between race, class, gender and sexuality through Lorde's work. Interviews with the organizers of the conference are intercut with conference footage, including performances, controversies and speeches. Producer, director, writer, Jennifer Abod. 2000. 59 min. DVD 7917
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Erotic Celebrations.
Four short films by poet, playwright and avant-garde filmmaker, James Broughton. Contents: The Bed (1968) (20 min.) -- Erogeny (1976) (6 min.) -- Hermes bird (1979) (11 min.) -- Song of the Godbody (1977) (10 min.). 47 min. Video 999:1076
Exclusion.
A discussion of gays in the military sponsored by the Christian fundamentalist Christian Action Network. 1993. 60 min. Video/C 3283
An Evening with Les Ballets Trockadero. Program 1
Contents: Swan Lake. Act II -- Le corsaire (Pas de deux) -- Go for Barocco -- The dying swan -- Raymonda's wedding. Presents performances by the all-male ballet troupe Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. Founded in 1974 for the purpose of presenting a playful, entertaining view of traditional, classical ballet in parody form and in travesty, the comedy is achieved by incorporating and exaggerating the foibles, accidents, and underlying incongruities of serious dance. 100 min. DVD 3277
An Evening with Les Ballets Trockadero. Program 2
Contents: Les sylphides -- Le grand pas de quatre -- Yes, Virginia, another piano ballet -- The dying swan -- Paquita. Presents performances by the all-male ballet troupe Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. Founded in 1974 for the purpose of presenting a playful, entertaining view of traditional, classical ballet in parody form and in travesty, the comedy is achieved by incorporating and exaggerating the foibles, accidents, and underlying incongruities of serious dance. 100 min. DVD 3278
Eve's Daughters
Five lesbian women share their struggles of living in a racist, sexist, and homophobic society. They return as refugees from spiritual exile, refusing to be victims any longer and call upon the church not only to repent of its homophobia, but to celebrate the spiritual gifts they have because they are lesbians. Produced & directed by Anne Macksoud, John Ankele. 1995 DVD 9909
Faith & Politics: The Christian Right.
Film reviews the goals, political aspirations and successes of the traditional, family-oriented Christian Right political movement. Examines their organizations and their views on such issues as abortion, homosexuality, creationisn, freedom of speech, school curriculum, home schooling and political activism. 1995. 47 min. Video/C 4013.
The Bible says about the Gay and Lesbians: Romans 1:18-32
1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness, 1:19 because what can be known about God is plain to them; because God has made it plain to them. 1:20 For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people are without excuse. 1:21 For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened. 1:22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling a mortal human being and birds and four-footed animals and reptiles.1:24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves. 1:25. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.1:26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones, 1:27 and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed in their passions for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. 1:28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done. 1:29 They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips, 1:30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents, 1:31 senseless, covenant-breakers, heartless, ruthless. 1:32. Although they fully know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Late Antique and Byzantine Studies
LATE ANTIQUITY NEWSLETTER 3.2 (2005)
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L.A.N. THE LATE ANTIQUITY NEWSLETTER
Volume 3 no.2
March, 2005
Conferences in 2005
4-6 April 2005. "Innovation and Continuity in Romano-Celtic Religion", University College London. The aim of the conference is to improve our understanding on the evolution, the origin and the raison d’etre of local religions in the Roman West. In the Roman Empire we witness the interaction and integration of different polytheist religions in a drastically changing environment. At the centre of this conference, we therefore attempt to focus on transitional places, i.e. pre-Roman cult places that continued to be occupied and that were transformed during the Roman period. Obvious examples are Hayling Island in Britain, as well as Ganum, Nimes and Ribemont in France. Furthermore there are cult places on hilltop sites whose architectural form acquired typically Roman features. But we also know of rituals that are non-Roman in character, like the many horse sacrifices, even in the highly ‘Romanised’ Gallia Narbonensis. All these places serve to illustrate the romanisation of cults, rituals, cult architecture, sculptures and epigraphy. As a result, a number of questions regarding cult continuity will be rasied on the continuity of cult places. How different was the cult activity in the Empire from its pre-Roman predecessor? The conference will provide a venue which brings together scholars from different countries and disciplines: archaeologists, ancient historians, epigraphists, sociologists, art historians, and linguists.
Speakers include: Isabelle Faudut (Paris), Tony King (Winchester), Martin Henig (Oxford), Roger Tomlin (Oxford), Manfred Hainzmann (Graz), Elixzabeth Jerem (Budapest), Wolfgang Spickermann (Osnabruck), Patricia De Bernardo and Joaquin Gorrochategui (Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain), Francisco Marco Simón and Francisco Beltrán Lloris (Zaragoza), Karlheinz Dietz (Würzburg), Gerhard Bauchhenss (Bonn).Further info: ralph.haussler@gmx.net.
8-9 April 2005. 'The Parables of Jesus Conference'. Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. URL: http://www.amherst.edu/~religion/ParablesConference/conf.html.
15-16 April 2005. Graduate Student Conference focused on topics in the field of patristics and the history of Christianity in Late Antiquity. Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, Mass. To register, please email Megan Nutzman, conference coordinator, at mnutzman@hchc.edu.
17-18 April 2005. "Shaping the Middle East: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in an Age of Transition, ca. 500-800 c.e." University of Maryland, College Park. Keynote Lecturer: Oleg Grabar ("Late Antique, Christian, and Islamic: The Many Facets of Middle Eastern Art in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries"). Conference program: www.jewishstudies.umd.edu/events. Contact info: 301 405 4975 or jwst@arhu.umd.
22–24 April 2005. "Urban and Rural Settlement in Anatolia and the Levant, 500-1000: New Evidence from Archaeology." Dumbarton Oaks Program in Byzantine Studies annual spring symposium. Keynote lecture by Prof. Cyril Mango scheduled for 5:30 p.m., Thursday, 21 April, this lecture will be open to the public. Contact: Caitlin McGurk (202-339-6940); byzantine@doaks.org. URL: http://www.doaks.org/conferences.html.
5–8 May 2005. 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, at Kalamazoo, Michigan. Contact: Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ., 1903 W. Michigan Ave., Kalamazoo, MI 49008-4079. URL: http://www.wmich.edu/ medieval/congress.
5-8 May 2005. "Contact and Synergy from the Archaic Period to Late Antiquity". The Association of Ancient Historians 2005 Meeting, University of Missouri-Columbia. URL: http://www.trentu.ca/ahc/aah/welcome.shtml.
14–15 May 2005. "Astro-Medicine: Medicine and Astrology, East and West," a colloquium held at the Warburg Institute, London. Contact: Charles Burnett, Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB (Charles.Burnett@sas.ac.uk).
5-8 June 2005. "Early Christian Studies and the Academic Disciplines". Catholic University of America. URL: http://csec.cua.edu/conference/conference2005.cfm.
16-21 June 2005. "La mobilité des personnes en Méditerranée, de l'Antiquité à l'époque moderne. Procédures de contrôle et documents d'identification. VI : Le monde de l'itinérance ". Istanbul, Turkey. Organizers: l'Institut français d'Études anatoliennes, l'Université Paris VIII, l'EHESS, la Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme, le CNRS (UMR 8585 et UMR 8066) and l'Institut Universitaire Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples. For details, contact Prof. W. Kaiser (email : kaiserw@t-online.de).
24-26 June 2005. "HISTORY AS TRANSLATION", Vicennalia Celebration for Translated Texts for Historians. University of Liverpool. The colloquium theme is the role of translation in the historiographical process. Papers will reflect on ways in which translating can change or make history and speakers will consider how translation has influenced historians past and present to rethink their positions and methods as historians, and so to reshape the histories that they might otherwise have written. A central theme is translation of historical texts in the period of late antiquity itself, including topics in hagiography, multilingualism and the transmission of Eusebius of Caesarea's historical works. Other speakers will survey the role of translations in changing approaches to the study of late antiquity during the twenty years of TTH's evolution. For general information please contact Mary Whitby (mary.whitby@ccc.ox.ac.uk) or Mark Humphries (Mark.Humphries@nuim.ie). For registration, travel advice and accommodation suggestions please contact Janet Smith (J.M.Smith@liv.ac.uk).
6th-9th July 2005. The fourth "Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church" conference will be held in Melbourne, Australia, 6th-9th July 2005. The conference will focus on the theme of 'The Spiritual Life'. Invited speakers will address aspects of the spiritual life in the Jewish, early church and Byzantine traditions, eastern and western. We are now calling for other papers on related subjects, including monasticism, the relationship between dogma and spiritual practice, the Desert Fathers, hesychasm, the role of prayer and women in ascetic communities. Keynote and selected papers will be published in the series Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church (Volume IV). Abstracts due 29 April, 2005. URL: http://www.prayerspirit.com.au/.
31 July–3 August 2005. The First International Conference on the History of Exact Sciences along the Silk Road, at the Dept. of Mathematics, Northwest University, Xian, 7110069, China. This series of conferences will provide a platform for those who are interested in the comparative study of history of mathematics and astronomy in the old civilizations along the Silk Road, from China to Greece, including Japan, Korea, India, Arabic/Islamic countries, Mesopotamia, Egypt and Medieval Europe. It is hoped that every 2 or 3 years a conference will be organized in different countries. Each time the conference will focus on one or two special topics, and about 10 invited speakers coming from all the fields mentioned above will offer plenary talks on the main topics. The main topics at the first conference are mathematical methods in astronomy, and transmission and transformation of exact sciences; contributions related to other topics in the history of mathematics and astronomy along the Silk Road are also welcome. Call for papers, authors are requested to submit the title and abstract at the latest by 15 June 2005. Contact: Anjing Qu and/or Baoshan Yang, Center for the History of Mathematics and Sciences Northwest University, Xi'an 710069, China (+86-29-8303334; fax: +86-29-8303908; hs@nwu.edu.cn)
5-7 October 2005. 'Living in Antiquity: Jews, Greeks and Christians. Villanova University. This conference focuses on the intersection of Jews, Greeks, and Christians in antiquity. It is an interdisciplinary effort to examine this period from different religious, social, philosophical, and cultural perspectives. The aim is to deepen our understanding of how these three traditions thought of their gods, themselves, and the world around them. Abstracts due 31 March. URL: http://www.geocities.com/lgustafs/antiquity.swf.
14-16 October 2005. "Reading, Community, and Identity," the 30th annual Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference (PMR), at Villanova University in Villanova, Pa. Call for papers, proposals for papers, panels, or sponsored sessions in all areas and topics in late antiquity, medieval studies, and renaissance/reformation studies. Papers related to the plenary topic are especially encouraged, but all topics are open. Proposals must be postmarked or e-mailed by 30 April. Contact: PMR, c/o Anna Misticoni, The Augustinian Institute, Villanova Univ., 800 Lancaster Ave., Villanova, PA 19085 (PMR.conference@villanova.edu). URL: http://www3.villanova.edu/augustinianinstitute/main/PMR.htm.
28-30 October 2005. 21st Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. Abstracts due: April 1. URL: http://www.byzconf.org/.
15-19 November 2005. "Lessons Learned: Reflecting on the Theory and Practice of Mosaic Conservation". The 9th Conference of the International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics, Hammamet or Sousse, Tunisia. Further details: http://www.byzantium.ac.uk/ (click 'Events Calendar').
Looking ahead to Conferences in 2006-07
21-26 August 2006. 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies, London. The theme will be "Display," explored under eight headings which highlight different aspects of the theme and different disciplines within Byzantine Studies. URL: http://www.byzantinecongress.org.uk/.
2-8 September 2007. 'Epigraphy and the Historical Sciences'. 13th International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, Oxford University. Details on website: http://ciegl.classics.ox.ac.uk/index.shtml.
Recent Books
Accorinti, Domenico (trans.), Nonno di Panopoli. Le Dionisiache. Vol. IV: canti XL-XLVIII. Testo greco a fronte. BUR Classici Greci e Latini. Milano: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, 2004. Pp. 758. EUR 19.00 (pb). ISBN 88-17-00262-3
Agosti, Gianfranco (trans.), Nonno di Panopoli. Le Dionisiache. Vol. III: canti XXV-XXXIX. Testo greco a fronte. BUR Classici Greci e Latini. Milano: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, 2004. Pp. 898. EUR 19.00 (pb). ISBN 88-17-00261-5.
Bassett, Sarah, The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 291. $85.00. ISBN 0-521-82723-X.
Borca, Federico, Confrontarsi con l'Altro. I Romani e la Germania. Milano: Lampi di stampa, 2004. Pp. 125. EUR 14.00 (pb). ISBN 88-488-0318-0.
Boyarin, Daniel. Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Chritianity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8122-3764-1. Pp. xv +374
Kessler, Edward, Bound by the Bible: Jews, Christians and the Sacrifice of Isaac. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 222. ISBN 0-521-83542-9. $75.00.
Brubaker, Leslie, and Julia M.H. Smith (edd.), Gender in the Early Medieval World. East and West, 300-900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 333. $29.99 (pb). ISBN 0-521-01327-5.
Campbell, Brian, Greek and Roman Military Writers. Selected Readings. Routledge Classical Translations. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 231. $27.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-28547-X.
Clark, Gillian, Christianity and Roman Society. Series 'Key Themes in Ancient History'. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 137. $24.99 (pb). ISBN 0-521-63386-9.
Edwards, Douglas R. (ed.), Religion and Society in Roman Palestine. Old Questions, New Approaches. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 194. $87.50. ISBN 0-415-30597-7.
Evans, Roger Stevens. Sex and Salvation: Virginity as a Soteriological Paradigm in Ancient Christianity. New York: University Press of America, 2004. ISBN 0-7618-2769-2. Pp. xvii + 185. $30 (paper).
Frilingos, Christopher A., Spectacles of Empire. Monsters, Martyrs, and the Book of Revelation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. 192. $35.00. ISBN 0-8122-3822-2.
Greco, Claudia (ed.), Nonno. di Panopoli. Parafrasi del Vangelo di S. Giovanni. Canto tredicesimo. Hellenica, 12. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2004. Pp. 176. EUR 17.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7694-744-2.
Grig, Lucy, Making Martyrs in Late Antiquity. London: Duckworth, 2005. Pp. 207. L45.00. ISBN 0-7156-3285-X.
Hall, Linda Jones, Roman Berytus. Beirut in Late Antiquity. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 375. $95.00. ISBN 0-415-28919-X.
Harmless, William, S.J. Desert Christians: An Introduction to the Literature of EarlyMonasticism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-19-516223-4. Pp. xxiv + 488.
Harris, W.V., and Giovanni Ruffini (edd.), Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece. Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, 26. Leiden: Brill, 2004. Pp. 296. $99.00. ISBN 90-04-14105-7.
Heidl, György. Origen's Influence on the Young Augustine: A Chapter of the History ofOrigenism. Eastern Christian Studies III. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003. ISBN 1-59333-079-0. Pp. xiv + 328.
Hill, Timothy D., Ambitiosa Mors. Suicide and Self in Roman Thought and Literature. Series 'Studies in Classics'. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 335. $80.00. ISBN 0-415-97097-0.
Holloway, R. Ross. Constantine and Rome. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-300-10043-4. Pp. xiv + 191. $35.
Horstmanshoff, H.F.J., and M. Stol (edd.), Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine. Studies in Ancient Medicine, 27. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Pp. 407. $110.00. ISBN 90-04-13666-5.
Jacobs, Andrew S. Remains of the Jews: The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8047-4705-9. Pp. xiv + 249. $55.
Jeanjean, Benoi^t, and Bertrand Lanc,on, Saint Je/ro^me. Chronique. Continuation de la Chronique d'Euse\be, anne/es 326-378. Collection 'Histoire'. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2004. Pp. 207. EUR 19.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7535-0018-5.
Keating, Daniel A. The Appropriation of Divine Life in Cyril of Alexandria. Oxford Theological Monographs. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-19-926713-8. Pp. x + 315.
Konrad, C.F. (ed.), Augusto augurio. Rerum humanarum et divinarum commentationes in honorem Jerzy Linderski. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. Pp. 203. EUR 36.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08578-5.
Lactantius, Divine Institutes, translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Bowen and Peter Garnsey. Translated Texts for Historians 40. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-85323-988-6. Pp. xiv + 472. $21.95
Laird, Martin. Gregory of Nyssa and the Grasp of Faith: Union, Knowledge and Divine Presence. Oxford Early Christian Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-19-926799-5. Pp. x + 240.
Lieu, Judith. Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman Context. NewYork: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-1992-6289-6. Pp. 370. $99.
McGuckin, John. Saint Cyril of Alexandria and the Christological Controversy: Its History, Theology and Texts. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2004. ISBN 0-88141-259-7. Pp. xv + 427. $22.99 (paper).
——. The Westminster Handbook to Patristic Theology. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004. ISBN 0-664-22396-6. Pp. xxiii + 367
Nancy, Michel, and Eric Rebillard, editors. Hellénisme et christianisme. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2004. ISBN 2-85939-825-2. Pp. 195. €21.
Odahl, Charles Matson, Constantine and the Christian Empire. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 400. $104.95. ISBN 0-415-17485-6.
Rademaker, Adriaan (ed.), Sophrosyne and the Rhetoric of Self-Restraint. Polysemy and Persuasive Use of an Ancient Greek Value Term. Mnemosyne Suppl. 259. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Pp. 375. EUR 85.00. ISBN 90-04-14251-7.
Sauer, Eberhard W. (ed.), Archaeology and Ancient History. Breaking down the Boundaries. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 206. $34.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-30201-3.
Smith, Andrew, Philosophy in Late Antiquity. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 151. $26.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-22511-6.
von Haehling, Raban (ed.), Griechische Mythologie und fruehes Christentum. Die antiken Goetter und der eine Gott. Darmstadt: WBG, 2005. Pp. 336. EUR 59.90. ISBN 3-534-18528-5.
Whittaker, C.R., Rome and its Frontiers. The Dynamics of Empire. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 246. $96.95. ISBN 0-415-31200-0.
Younger, John G., Sex in the Ancient World, from A to Z. London/New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. 217. $79.00. ISBN 0-415-24252-5.
Information and announcements may be forwarded to:
Scott Bradbury
SBRADBUR@email.smith.edu
Editor, Late Antiquity Newletter
Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures
Smith College
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L.A.N. THE LATE ANTIQUITY NEWSLETTER
Volume 3 no.2
March, 2005
Conferences in 2005
4-6 April 2005. "Innovation and Continuity in Romano-Celtic Religion", University College London. The aim of the conference is to improve our understanding on the evolution, the origin and the raison d’etre of local religions in the Roman West. In the Roman Empire we witness the interaction and integration of different polytheist religions in a drastically changing environment. At the centre of this conference, we therefore attempt to focus on transitional places, i.e. pre-Roman cult places that continued to be occupied and that were transformed during the Roman period. Obvious examples are Hayling Island in Britain, as well as Ganum, Nimes and Ribemont in France. Furthermore there are cult places on hilltop sites whose architectural form acquired typically Roman features. But we also know of rituals that are non-Roman in character, like the many horse sacrifices, even in the highly ‘Romanised’ Gallia Narbonensis. All these places serve to illustrate the romanisation of cults, rituals, cult architecture, sculptures and epigraphy. As a result, a number of questions regarding cult continuity will be rasied on the continuity of cult places. How different was the cult activity in the Empire from its pre-Roman predecessor? The conference will provide a venue which brings together scholars from different countries and disciplines: archaeologists, ancient historians, epigraphists, sociologists, art historians, and linguists.
Speakers include: Isabelle Faudut (Paris), Tony King (Winchester), Martin Henig (Oxford), Roger Tomlin (Oxford), Manfred Hainzmann (Graz), Elixzabeth Jerem (Budapest), Wolfgang Spickermann (Osnabruck), Patricia De Bernardo and Joaquin Gorrochategui (Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain), Francisco Marco Simón and Francisco Beltrán Lloris (Zaragoza), Karlheinz Dietz (Würzburg), Gerhard Bauchhenss (Bonn).Further info: ralph.haussler@gmx.net.
8-9 April 2005. 'The Parables of Jesus Conference'. Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. URL: http://www.amherst.edu/~religion/ParablesConference/conf.html.
15-16 April 2005. Graduate Student Conference focused on topics in the field of patristics and the history of Christianity in Late Antiquity. Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, Mass. To register, please email Megan Nutzman, conference coordinator, at mnutzman@hchc.edu.
17-18 April 2005. "Shaping the Middle East: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in an Age of Transition, ca. 500-800 c.e." University of Maryland, College Park. Keynote Lecturer: Oleg Grabar ("Late Antique, Christian, and Islamic: The Many Facets of Middle Eastern Art in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries"). Conference program: www.jewishstudies.umd.edu/events. Contact info: 301 405 4975 or jwst@arhu.umd.
22–24 April 2005. "Urban and Rural Settlement in Anatolia and the Levant, 500-1000: New Evidence from Archaeology." Dumbarton Oaks Program in Byzantine Studies annual spring symposium. Keynote lecture by Prof. Cyril Mango scheduled for 5:30 p.m., Thursday, 21 April, this lecture will be open to the public. Contact: Caitlin McGurk (202-339-6940); byzantine@doaks.org. URL: http://www.doaks.org/conferences.html.
5–8 May 2005. 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, at Kalamazoo, Michigan. Contact: Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ., 1903 W. Michigan Ave., Kalamazoo, MI 49008-4079. URL: http://www.wmich.edu/ medieval/congress.
5-8 May 2005. "Contact and Synergy from the Archaic Period to Late Antiquity". The Association of Ancient Historians 2005 Meeting, University of Missouri-Columbia. URL: http://www.trentu.ca/ahc/aah/welcome.shtml.
14–15 May 2005. "Astro-Medicine: Medicine and Astrology, East and West," a colloquium held at the Warburg Institute, London. Contact: Charles Burnett, Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB (Charles.Burnett@sas.ac.uk).
5-8 June 2005. "Early Christian Studies and the Academic Disciplines". Catholic University of America. URL: http://csec.cua.edu/conference/conference2005.cfm.
16-21 June 2005. "La mobilité des personnes en Méditerranée, de l'Antiquité à l'époque moderne. Procédures de contrôle et documents d'identification. VI : Le monde de l'itinérance ". Istanbul, Turkey. Organizers: l'Institut français d'Études anatoliennes, l'Université Paris VIII, l'EHESS, la Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme, le CNRS (UMR 8585 et UMR 8066) and l'Institut Universitaire Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples. For details, contact Prof. W. Kaiser (email : kaiserw@t-online.de).
24-26 June 2005. "HISTORY AS TRANSLATION", Vicennalia Celebration for Translated Texts for Historians. University of Liverpool. The colloquium theme is the role of translation in the historiographical process. Papers will reflect on ways in which translating can change or make history and speakers will consider how translation has influenced historians past and present to rethink their positions and methods as historians, and so to reshape the histories that they might otherwise have written. A central theme is translation of historical texts in the period of late antiquity itself, including topics in hagiography, multilingualism and the transmission of Eusebius of Caesarea's historical works. Other speakers will survey the role of translations in changing approaches to the study of late antiquity during the twenty years of TTH's evolution. For general information please contact Mary Whitby (mary.whitby@ccc.ox.ac.uk) or Mark Humphries (Mark.Humphries@nuim.ie). For registration, travel advice and accommodation suggestions please contact Janet Smith (J.M.Smith@liv.ac.uk).
6th-9th July 2005. The fourth "Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church" conference will be held in Melbourne, Australia, 6th-9th July 2005. The conference will focus on the theme of 'The Spiritual Life'. Invited speakers will address aspects of the spiritual life in the Jewish, early church and Byzantine traditions, eastern and western. We are now calling for other papers on related subjects, including monasticism, the relationship between dogma and spiritual practice, the Desert Fathers, hesychasm, the role of prayer and women in ascetic communities. Keynote and selected papers will be published in the series Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church (Volume IV). Abstracts due 29 April, 2005. URL: http://www.prayerspirit.com.au/.
31 July–3 August 2005. The First International Conference on the History of Exact Sciences along the Silk Road, at the Dept. of Mathematics, Northwest University, Xian, 7110069, China. This series of conferences will provide a platform for those who are interested in the comparative study of history of mathematics and astronomy in the old civilizations along the Silk Road, from China to Greece, including Japan, Korea, India, Arabic/Islamic countries, Mesopotamia, Egypt and Medieval Europe. It is hoped that every 2 or 3 years a conference will be organized in different countries. Each time the conference will focus on one or two special topics, and about 10 invited speakers coming from all the fields mentioned above will offer plenary talks on the main topics. The main topics at the first conference are mathematical methods in astronomy, and transmission and transformation of exact sciences; contributions related to other topics in the history of mathematics and astronomy along the Silk Road are also welcome. Call for papers, authors are requested to submit the title and abstract at the latest by 15 June 2005. Contact: Anjing Qu and/or Baoshan Yang, Center for the History of Mathematics and Sciences Northwest University, Xi'an 710069, China (+86-29-8303334; fax: +86-29-8303908; hs@nwu.edu.cn)
5-7 October 2005. 'Living in Antiquity: Jews, Greeks and Christians. Villanova University. This conference focuses on the intersection of Jews, Greeks, and Christians in antiquity. It is an interdisciplinary effort to examine this period from different religious, social, philosophical, and cultural perspectives. The aim is to deepen our understanding of how these three traditions thought of their gods, themselves, and the world around them. Abstracts due 31 March. URL: http://www.geocities.com/lgustafs/antiquity.swf.
14-16 October 2005. "Reading, Community, and Identity," the 30th annual Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference (PMR), at Villanova University in Villanova, Pa. Call for papers, proposals for papers, panels, or sponsored sessions in all areas and topics in late antiquity, medieval studies, and renaissance/reformation studies. Papers related to the plenary topic are especially encouraged, but all topics are open. Proposals must be postmarked or e-mailed by 30 April. Contact: PMR, c/o Anna Misticoni, The Augustinian Institute, Villanova Univ., 800 Lancaster Ave., Villanova, PA 19085 (PMR.conference@villanova.edu). URL: http://www3.villanova.edu/augustinianinstitute/main/PMR.htm.
28-30 October 2005. 21st Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. Abstracts due: April 1. URL: http://www.byzconf.org/.
15-19 November 2005. "Lessons Learned: Reflecting on the Theory and Practice of Mosaic Conservation". The 9th Conference of the International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics, Hammamet or Sousse, Tunisia. Further details: http://www.byzantium.ac.uk/ (click 'Events Calendar').
Looking ahead to Conferences in 2006-07
21-26 August 2006. 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies, London. The theme will be "Display," explored under eight headings which highlight different aspects of the theme and different disciplines within Byzantine Studies. URL: http://www.byzantinecongress.org.uk/.
2-8 September 2007. 'Epigraphy and the Historical Sciences'. 13th International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, Oxford University. Details on website: http://ciegl.classics.ox.ac.uk/index.shtml.
Recent Books
Accorinti, Domenico (trans.), Nonno di Panopoli. Le Dionisiache. Vol. IV: canti XL-XLVIII. Testo greco a fronte. BUR Classici Greci e Latini. Milano: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, 2004. Pp. 758. EUR 19.00 (pb). ISBN 88-17-00262-3
Agosti, Gianfranco (trans.), Nonno di Panopoli. Le Dionisiache. Vol. III: canti XXV-XXXIX. Testo greco a fronte. BUR Classici Greci e Latini. Milano: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, 2004. Pp. 898. EUR 19.00 (pb). ISBN 88-17-00261-5.
Bassett, Sarah, The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 291. $85.00. ISBN 0-521-82723-X.
Borca, Federico, Confrontarsi con l'Altro. I Romani e la Germania. Milano: Lampi di stampa, 2004. Pp. 125. EUR 14.00 (pb). ISBN 88-488-0318-0.
Boyarin, Daniel. Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Chritianity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8122-3764-1. Pp. xv +374
Kessler, Edward, Bound by the Bible: Jews, Christians and the Sacrifice of Isaac. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 222. ISBN 0-521-83542-9. $75.00.
Brubaker, Leslie, and Julia M.H. Smith (edd.), Gender in the Early Medieval World. East and West, 300-900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 333. $29.99 (pb). ISBN 0-521-01327-5.
Campbell, Brian, Greek and Roman Military Writers. Selected Readings. Routledge Classical Translations. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 231. $27.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-28547-X.
Clark, Gillian, Christianity and Roman Society. Series 'Key Themes in Ancient History'. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 137. $24.99 (pb). ISBN 0-521-63386-9.
Edwards, Douglas R. (ed.), Religion and Society in Roman Palestine. Old Questions, New Approaches. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 194. $87.50. ISBN 0-415-30597-7.
Evans, Roger Stevens. Sex and Salvation: Virginity as a Soteriological Paradigm in Ancient Christianity. New York: University Press of America, 2004. ISBN 0-7618-2769-2. Pp. xvii + 185. $30 (paper).
Frilingos, Christopher A., Spectacles of Empire. Monsters, Martyrs, and the Book of Revelation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. 192. $35.00. ISBN 0-8122-3822-2.
Greco, Claudia (ed.), Nonno. di Panopoli. Parafrasi del Vangelo di S. Giovanni. Canto tredicesimo. Hellenica, 12. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2004. Pp. 176. EUR 17.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7694-744-2.
Grig, Lucy, Making Martyrs in Late Antiquity. London: Duckworth, 2005. Pp. 207. L45.00. ISBN 0-7156-3285-X.
Hall, Linda Jones, Roman Berytus. Beirut in Late Antiquity. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 375. $95.00. ISBN 0-415-28919-X.
Harmless, William, S.J. Desert Christians: An Introduction to the Literature of EarlyMonasticism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-19-516223-4. Pp. xxiv + 488.
Harris, W.V., and Giovanni Ruffini (edd.), Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece. Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, 26. Leiden: Brill, 2004. Pp. 296. $99.00. ISBN 90-04-14105-7.
Heidl, György. Origen's Influence on the Young Augustine: A Chapter of the History ofOrigenism. Eastern Christian Studies III. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003. ISBN 1-59333-079-0. Pp. xiv + 328.
Hill, Timothy D., Ambitiosa Mors. Suicide and Self in Roman Thought and Literature. Series 'Studies in Classics'. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 335. $80.00. ISBN 0-415-97097-0.
Holloway, R. Ross. Constantine and Rome. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-300-10043-4. Pp. xiv + 191. $35.
Horstmanshoff, H.F.J., and M. Stol (edd.), Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine. Studies in Ancient Medicine, 27. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Pp. 407. $110.00. ISBN 90-04-13666-5.
Jacobs, Andrew S. Remains of the Jews: The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8047-4705-9. Pp. xiv + 249. $55.
Jeanjean, Benoi^t, and Bertrand Lanc,on, Saint Je/ro^me. Chronique. Continuation de la Chronique d'Euse\be, anne/es 326-378. Collection 'Histoire'. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2004. Pp. 207. EUR 19.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7535-0018-5.
Keating, Daniel A. The Appropriation of Divine Life in Cyril of Alexandria. Oxford Theological Monographs. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-19-926713-8. Pp. x + 315.
Konrad, C.F. (ed.), Augusto augurio. Rerum humanarum et divinarum commentationes in honorem Jerzy Linderski. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. Pp. 203. EUR 36.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08578-5.
Lactantius, Divine Institutes, translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Bowen and Peter Garnsey. Translated Texts for Historians 40. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-85323-988-6. Pp. xiv + 472. $21.95
Laird, Martin. Gregory of Nyssa and the Grasp of Faith: Union, Knowledge and Divine Presence. Oxford Early Christian Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-19-926799-5. Pp. x + 240.
Lieu, Judith. Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman Context. NewYork: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-1992-6289-6. Pp. 370. $99.
McGuckin, John. Saint Cyril of Alexandria and the Christological Controversy: Its History, Theology and Texts. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2004. ISBN 0-88141-259-7. Pp. xv + 427. $22.99 (paper).
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Nancy, Michel, and Eric Rebillard, editors. Hellénisme et christianisme. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2004. ISBN 2-85939-825-2. Pp. 195. €21.
Odahl, Charles Matson, Constantine and the Christian Empire. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 400. $104.95. ISBN 0-415-17485-6.
Rademaker, Adriaan (ed.), Sophrosyne and the Rhetoric of Self-Restraint. Polysemy and Persuasive Use of an Ancient Greek Value Term. Mnemosyne Suppl. 259. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Pp. 375. EUR 85.00. ISBN 90-04-14251-7.
Sauer, Eberhard W. (ed.), Archaeology and Ancient History. Breaking down the Boundaries. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 206. $34.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-30201-3.
Smith, Andrew, Philosophy in Late Antiquity. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 151. $26.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-22511-6.
von Haehling, Raban (ed.), Griechische Mythologie und fruehes Christentum. Die antiken Goetter und der eine Gott. Darmstadt: WBG, 2005. Pp. 336. EUR 59.90. ISBN 3-534-18528-5.
Whittaker, C.R., Rome and its Frontiers. The Dynamics of Empire. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 246. $96.95. ISBN 0-415-31200-0.
Younger, John G., Sex in the Ancient World, from A to Z. London/New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. 217. $79.00. ISBN 0-415-24252-5.
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