BULLETIN Association canadienne des études patristiques (ACÉP)/ Canadian Society of Patristic Studies (CSPS) Volume 30, no. 2 (NOVEMBER/NOVEMBRE 2006)

MESSAGE DU PRÉSIDENT/ MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

Dear Colleagues,

It is with pleasure and honour to address you in my second two-year mandate as President. I would like to thank all of you for supporting and trusting me. In retrospect, we had an outstanding conference in Toronto last May—a very big thank-you to our 2006 program chair, Mona Tokarek Lafosse, for her tireless efforts to ensure such a successful conference. The Federation has announced that participation in last May’s Congress at York University was the largest in its 75-year history, and our society’s conference was also one of the largest on record.

Our next conference will be held at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 26-28 May 2007. Bill Richards (CSBS) has kindly agreed to serve as our local representative in Saskatoon and to assist Tim Hegedus, our program chair for 2007 and the CSPS Vice-President, in his efforts to coordinate our presence at that conference. The AGM in Toronto decided in May to propose two books for discussion next year, Patrick Gray’s and Robert Kennedy’s. As usual, we might have one joint session with the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies.

I would like to thank our society for co-sponsoring (with $250) the recent colloquium on “The Reception and Interpretation of the Bible in Late Antiquity” which I organized in Montreal. The colloquium was a major success and our society was well represented alongside a plethora of reputed scholars from North America and Europe. You can learn more about the colloquium at http://theology.concordia.ca/2006colloquium.

Please remember that 2007 is Oxford year. Preparations for the International Patristic Conference to be held in Oxford, UK, 6-9 August 2007, are well under way and registration will only be accepted until 15 December 2006. You can find out more on the event from https://www.academici.com/cgi-bin/events.fpl?op=detail&id=53377 or by asking our colleague, Theo De Bruyn, who is the person in charge for Canada.

The Executive would like to remind you that our society is registered as a charitable organization and therefore is able to accept tax deductible donations. I would like to encourage you to consider donating to our society when renewing your membership. You will thus be able to support our field.

Lucian Turcescu, President

Concordia University, Montreal

CONGRESS OF THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES/

CONGRÈS DES SCIENCES HUMAINES

APPEL DE COMMUNICATION/CALL FOR PAPERS

La société canadienne des études patristiques tiendra sa réunion annuelle à l’Université de Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan du 26 au 28 mai, 2007 dans le cadre du Congrès des sciences humaines. Vous êtes invites à présenter, en français ou en anglais, une courte communication suivie d’échanges, le tout reparti sur une période de trente minutes. Des communications sur n’importe quel thème patristique sont demandées. La Fédération canadienne des sciences humaines encourage des communications qui explorent le thème du Congrès de cette année, « Des communautés de savoir à un savoir public», mais nous accueillons les communications sur toutes les matières concernant notre domaine. On devra faire parvenir au plus tard le 31 janvier 2007 le titre de la communication, un bref résumé d’une centaine de mots, et une indication de tout besoin technique éventuel (équipement informatique ou audiovisuel) au responsable du programme. Vous pourriez envoyer vos soumissions par courriel au responsable du programme, Dr. Tim Hegedus.
Il faut que le programme soit approuvé pour distribution en février. Donc, les soumissions qui n’arrivent pas à l’heure ne peuvent pas être inclues. On ne peut pas accorder des demandes de audiovisuel après la date limite.

Tim Hegedus, Ph.D.
thegedus@wlu.ca (intitulé votre courriel “CSPS abstract”)

The Canadian Society of Patristic Studies will hold its annual meeting at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 26-28, 2007. Papers in English or French are invited for presentation in the form of short communications followed by discussion (time for presentation and discussion is usually 30 minutes). Papers on any theme relevant to patristic studies are invited. The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences encourages papers exploring the topic of this year’s Congress, “Making Public Knowledge - Making Knowledge Public,” but we welcome submissions on any topic relevant to our field. Proposed titles, an abstract of approximately 100 words, and an indication of audio-visual requirements should be submitted by January 31, 2007 at the latest. Please submit proposals via e-mail to the programme coordinator, Dr. Tim Hegedus. The programme must be approved for printing in February; therefore, proposals that are not submitted in time cannot be accommodated within the schedule. Audio-visual requests cannot be granted after the deadline.

Tim Hegedus, Ph.D.
thegedus@wlu.ca (please entitle your email “CSPS abstract”)

PRIX D’ESSAI/ESSAY PRIZE

Nous invitons des rédactions d’étudiants sur le christianisme ancien du IIe au VIe siècle. Sont éligibles les rédactions de vos étudiants de premier cycle ou des cycles supérieures qui ont été réalisées au cours de l’année civile 2006.

Prix: Le gagnant ou la gagnante recevra le statu de membre étudiant de l’association pour un an. De plus, il remportera, à son choix, un des deux prix suivants: un chèque de 100 dollars ou un remboursement d’une partie de ses frais (jusqu’à concurrence de 200 dollars) de voyage au Colloque annuel de l’association pendant la réunion des Congrès des sciences humaines à l’Université de Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, du 26 mai au 28 mai, 2007, afin d’y présenter son essai. Si le gagnant ou gagnante informe la société de son intention de présenter l'essai de gain en mars 30, 2006, il/elle recevra aussi une inscription sans frais.

Date limite: le 31 janvier 2007.

Le gagnant/la gagnante sera contacté le 20 mars 2007 ou avant cette date.

Veuillez adresser les textes à:

Dr. Lorraine Buck
45 Inkerman Dr.,
CHARLOTTETOWN. PE
C1A 2P4

Faculty and students are invited to recommend student essays that deal with early Christianity (100-600) for this prize. To be eligible, essays should have been submitted in the course of the calendar year 2006. Both graduate and undergraduate essays will be considered.

Award: The winning essayist will receive one year of membership in the Society, as well as the choice between a cheque for 100 dollars or the assurance of receiving the costs (up to a limit of 200 dollars) of his or her travel to the annual conference of the Society during the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 26-28, 2007, for the purpose of presenting the winning essay. If the essay winner informs the Society of his/her intention to present the winning essay by March 30, 2007, he/she will also receive a complimentary registration.

Deadline: January 31, 2007

Notification: The winner will be notified on or before March 20, 2007.

Please address submissions to:

Dr. Lorraine Buck
45 Inkerman Dr.,
CHARLOTTETOWN. PE
C1A 2P4

ANNONCES / ANNOUNCEMENTS

CSPS-ACÉP members are cordially invited to plan an early arrival in Saskatoon for a bilingual, international, interdisciplinary conference on “Sixteenth-Century Commentary / Le commentaire au XVI^e siècle” hosted May 24-25 in Saskatoon by University of Saskatchewan faculty in Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies, just before the Congress opens on May 26. Accommodation will be available through the Congress website from May 23. Congress participants are welcome to register for both (or either of) the conference’s academic programme and its excursion to Wanuskewin Heritage Park, an archaeological site exhibiting 6,000 years of native culture. The excursion on May 25 from 1 to 8 p.m will include a sack lunch, native dancing, guided tours and other educational activities for adults and children, and a bison barbecue dinner. To register for either the academic programme or the excursion, visit the “Sixteenth-Century Commentary”website: http://www.usask.ca/cmrs/conference/index.html

SR APPEAL: As many of you know, for the last couple of years Mary Ann Beavis and I have been sharing the editorship of the CCSR’s SR series. Mary Ann looks after Bible and religious studies submissions and I do theology and history. We are having increasing difficulty in finding readers for the manuscripts sent in all areas, and this is a cry for help. Would you (1) please tell us the areas in which you consider yourself competent to evaluate manuscripts (please don’t be modest), and (2) would you also tell us the areas in which you know your friends/colleagues have competencies (in case they don’t read this, or are shy). In either case, e-mail or snail-mail addresses would be very helpful. Our e-mails are mbeavis@stmcollege.ca and joanne.mcwilliam@utoronto.ca. Evaluating a manuscript is an act of collegiality and kindness. The honorarium is now $150, but we know your time is worth more than that. We find it a bit embarrassing when we have to go to the United States for readers. Most of the time we should be able to look after our own. Thank you for any help you can give us, All good wishes, Mary Ann Beavis and Joanne McWilliam.

NOUVELLES/NEWS

MICHAEL KALER recently and successfully defended his dissertation. Since then, he has begun his postdoctoral project, researching the use of Paul's image and writings among the writings found at Nag Hammadi (at McMaster, under the supervision of Annette Yoshiko Reed), as well as continuing to teach Coptic at U of T, leading enthusiastic reading groups of Coptophiles at U of T and McMaster, and contributing articles to upcoming issues of the Harvard Theological Review and Vigiliae Christianae. In non-academic pursuits, he is also collaborating with Toronto pop group the Ugly Bug Band, writing lyrics and music for an album of 'Bible songs for gnostics,' to be released spring 2007."

CHARLES KANNENGIESER : A second edition, revised and updated, of the Handbook of Patristic Exegesis (Brill, 2004) is in preparation for Oxford Conference of 2007. Any advice or complementary information would be warmly welcomed, send them to kannenc@alcor.concordia.ca

ANNE PASQUIER : je viens d'être nommée représentante pour le Canada ou correspondante pour la revue Adamantius (Journal of the Italian Research Group on Origen and the Alexandrian Tradition). Les articles sont les bienvenues, entre autres sur le gnosticisme.

TIM PETTIPIECE: I successfully defended my dissertation, “Counting the Cosmos: Five-part Numeric Patterning in the Manichaean Kephalaia,” in August at Université Laval. I was also invited to present “The Limbs of the Soul: The Manichaean Reception of an Apocryphal Motif” to the Ottawa Apocrypha Workshop (UofOttawa) and “Separating Light from Darkness: Biblical Traditions in Manichaean Exegesis” to the Colloquium, Reception and Interpretation of the Bible in Late Antiquity. In addition, I have an article, “The Faces of the Father: “Pentadization” in Kephalaia Chapter 21 forthcoming in Vigiliae christianae.

KEN STEINHAUSER: My critical edition was published: Anonymi in Job commentarius, edidit Kenneth B. Steinhauser adiuvantibus Hildegund Müller et Dorothea Weber, Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum 96. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2006.

MARK VESSEY is doing time as Associate Head and Chair of the Graduate Program in the English Department at UBC, where he has also been appointed (honorary) Professor of Later Latin Literature in the Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies. This summer he gave papers at international conferences on Jerome, in Cardiff, and on Erasmus, in Oxford. He recently contributed an introduction and notes to a new edition of A. C. Outler’s translation of Augustine’s Confessions, to appear next year in the Barnes & Noble Classics series, as well as a chapter on “Literary Methodologies” to the Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies and one on Renaissance views of
Christian late antiquity to the Blackwell Companion to Late Antiquity (both in press). In October he co-hosted a conference at UBC on “The Performance of the Past: History and Histrionics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.” Next March he will speak at a conference on the Confessions organized by undergraduate medievalists at the University of Toronto. He hopes to be part of a panel at the next Oxford Patristics Conference entitled “407 and All That,” devoted to Christian responses to barbarian incursions into the Western Roman Empire. He is under contract to edit the Blackwell Companion to
Augustine.

BUREAU DE L'ACÉP/ CSPS EXECUTIVE

(2003-2004)

Président / President Lucian Turcescu (2006-2008)

Vice-president / Vice-president Tim Hegedus (2006-2008)

Secrétaire / Secretary Lorraine Buck (2006-2009)

Trésorier / Treasurer Steven Muir (2006-2009)

Président du programme / Programme Chair Tim Hegedus (2006)

Editeur du Bulletin / Bulletin Editor Tim Pettipiece (2004- 2007)

RAPPEL DU TRÉSORIER/REMINDER FROM THE TREASURER

Here is a reminder for all members who have not already done so to send
in their annual membership fees.  The fees are as follows:

65.00$ as regular member, with SR subscription.
40.00$ as regular member, already receive SR.
48.00$ as student/retired member, with SR subscription.
17.00$ as student/retired member, already receive SR.

Please send to the treasurer, Steven Muir, at the address below:

Steven C. Muir, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Concordia University College of Alberta
7128 Ada Boulevard
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5B 4E4

Ce bulletin est publié deux fois par année, en avril et novembre, par l’Association canadienne des études patristiques (ACÉP), et distribué aux membres de l’association. On peut trouver la version électronique à : http://www2.ccsr.ca/csps. Des contributions, nouvelles, information patristique, et des corrections d’adresse, etc. sont toujours bienvenus. Adressez toutes les communications à l’ éditeur : Tim Pettipiece (timothy.pettipiece.1@ulaval.ca)

The Bulletin is published twice each year, in April and November, by the Association Canadienne des Études Patristiques/ Canadian Society of Patristic Studies, and distributed to members of the Society and other interested parties. It is available on the Society's homepage: http://www2.ccsr.ca/csps. Contributions, new information on research and other scholarly activities in patristics, and corrections of addresses, etc., are always welcome. Please address all correspondence to the Editor: Tim Pettipiece (timothy.pettipiece.1@ulaval.ca)