Classics Speaker Series: Andrew Jacobs

Andrew Jacobs, Harvard Divinity School, will give the talk "Will, Self, and Difference: Ex-Jews and Conversion in Late Antiquity" on Friday, October 14 at 4:30 pm in Klarman Hall, KG42.

"What can we learn from stories of conversion in late antiquity if we take their narrative force seriously? This talk argues that "conversion," a particular kind of Christian narrative, produces "religion" and that this notion of "religion" grapples with key questions of late ancient personhood: questions of will and coercion, self and other, and difference and identity."

In-person attendance encouraged. (Zoom link available upon request)