The following schedule may change.
12:30pm | Graduate Student Lunch
1:30–2:30pm | Graduate Pre-conference/Symposium Session 1
2:45–3:45pm | Graduate Pre-conference/Symposium Session 2
4:00–5:30pm | Keynote Lecture: Patricia Rosenmeyer (George L. Paddison Professor of Classics, UNC Chapel Hill), "Ancient Pilgrim or Armchair Traveler: the Curious Case of P. Lond. III 854"
Session chair: Olivia Stewart Lester
6:00pm | Participants’ Dinner/Graduate Student Dinner
9:00–10:30am | Session 1: Pseudepigraphic Letters in Ancient Mediterranean Literature
Session chair: Brian Lee
Leanna Boychenko, "Teaching by Pseud-Example: Egyptian Pseudepigraphic Letter-Teachings and Isocrates’ Busiris"
Jenn Finn, "Heroic Pseudepistolography in the Ancient Near East"
10:30am | Coffee
10:45am–12:15pm | Session 2: Pseudepigraphic Letters in Ancient Judaism
Session chair: David Lincicum
Laura Carlson Hasler, "Is Ezra 4 a Satire? Parody, Time and, Affordance in Ezra’s Persian Correspondence"
Mark Lester, "Between Letter and Literature: On the History and Transformation of Paratexts in the Book of Revelation"
12:15–1:30pm | Lunch
1:30–3:45pm | Session 3: Pseudepigraphic Letters in Ancient Christianity
Session chair: Chris Skinner
Olivia Stewart Lester, "‘A Letter as if By Us’: 2 Thessalonians and the Poetics of Epistolarity"
Hugo Mendez, "Why (Not) Write a Pseudepigraphic Epistle? The Ambiguous Genre of 1 John"
David Lincicum, "The Remarkable Life of Ignatius: Fiction and Authorial Excess in the Long Recension"
3:45pm | Coffee
4:00–5:30pm | Reflections on Pseudepigraphy, Scripture, and Tradition; Final Discussion
Session chair & response: Julian Sieber
John Fitzgerald
Devorah Schoenfeld
Thomas Bolin
6:00pm | Participants’ Dinner