Our last student presentation of the quarter is on Tuesday, May 19, noon –1:20 pm, in Swift 200. Delicious lunch will be served!

Drew Durdin (Ph.D. candidate in the HR) will present his dissertation chapter entitled “”A Roman ‘theological’ discourse: on empire, knowledge, and religion.” In this presentation he will use “theology” as an analytic term to emphasize a cognitive aspect of Roman religion that often gets eclipsed behind theories of ritual. The paper will investigate the employment of “theology” as a tool to explore how and why certain historical, social, and political conjunctions incited a self-conscious and self-reflective discourse among the Romans with which they rendered their traditional ritual practices as an object of knowledge.

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