2013 From 17 to 20 January I attended the 34 th annual conference of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies hosted by Macquarie University and held at Sydney Grammar paper entitled Early Papal Letters in the Collectio Pithouensis. As well I attended executive committee meetings as ACU university representative. School in conjunction with the Alexander the Great exhibition of treasures from the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg at the Australian Museum in Sydney. I presented a Sydney Grammar School From 18 February to 26 April I held two five-week National Endowment for the Humanities Research fellowships awarded by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies to work in the Vatican Film Library of St Louis University. I had held this fellowship previously in 2006. This time around I felt much more confident in working with manuscripts and got an enormous amount of work done in the ten weeks I was there. The new microfilm reader in the Vatican Film Library certainly improved the ability to read the manuscripts more easily. I presented a seminar entitled Boniface I and the Illyrian Churches on the Translation of Perigenes to Corinth: The Evidence and Problems of Beatus apostolus (JK 350). This was a very productive experience and I am grateful to everyone at St Louis University who contributed to made it so beneficial. It was great to experience some winter snow falls and watch the change of season into spring. working with the new microfilm reader in VFL at St Louis nice change of weather! University
While in St Louis I went to the tenth Shifting Frontiers conference The Transformation of Literary and Material Genres in Late Antiquity held at University of Ottawa between 21 and 24 March, where my colleague Wendy Mayer was one of the keynote speakers. I presented a paper entitled The Emergence of Papal Decretals: The Evidence of Zosimus of Rome. The interdisciplinary nature of the scholars presenting always makes this a fascinating conference. conference attendees at Shifting Frontiers From St Louis I also flew to Rome to attend the second international conference on the Collectio Avellana hosted by Loyola University of Chicago, Constantinople and Rome, East and West: Empire and Church in the Collectio Avellana, 367-553 AD, and held at the Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo on 5 and 6 April. My colleague Bronwen Neil also attended and presented. I presented a paper entitled Honorius Letter to Boniface I on Papal Elections. Once again Sander Evers did a magnificent job in hosting us and Loyola University is to be congratulated for the generous sponsorship of this event. We were housed in Tiziano Hotel on Corso Vittorio Emanuele II. This was one of the best conferences I have attended, both in terms of the quality of papers and discussion and the convivial atmosphere. One has the sense that the Banda Avellana is making progress on understanding the formation and purpose of this unique collection of late antique imperial and papal documents. I look forward to the next conference in 2015. speaking on the Collectio Avellana in Rome
After only a few days back at home in Australia after St Louis it was time to travel parked along the Via della Conciliazione for two days. again for my normal conference circuit. I attended the XLI incontro di studiosi dell antichità cristiana at the Augustinianum in Rome from 9 to 11 May, although this year I did not present a paper. The theme was La teologia dal V all VIII secolo fra sviluppo e looking at headquarters of Kings of the Holy Sepulchre from Hotel Columbus with dome of St Peter s Basilica in background crisi. This year I stayed in Hotel Columbus on Via della Conciliazione, which formerly had been the Palazzo della Rovere, built in the late fifteenth century. Half the building is still the headquarters of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre. One of the unexpected events of my stay was to see the parade of Lamborghini who ordered all the Lamborghini? While in Italy I had the opportunity not only to visit Venice and Milan again, but to see Verona, Padua, Vercelli, and to take a ferry on Lake Como to see Bellagio. Being in Vercelli gave me the opportunity to visit the Biblioteca Capitolare and examine two manuscripts. I am grateful to the director for allowing me to photograph the folios relevant for my research. This was a most valuable trip. finally got to see it this time Roman amphitheatre in Verona
library in Vercelli Bellagio On 23 to 25 May I attended the annual conference of the North American Patristics Society, at its usual venue of the Holy Inn Mart Plaza in Chicago. My paper was entitled Imperial Intervention in the Disputed Roman Episcopal Election of 419. As well I attended two meetings of the NAPS Board of Directors on 22 and 23May. My term on the board finished at this meeting. On 24 May I attended a meeting of Journal of Early Christian Studies board. My three-year term as associate editor of the journal finished and I was appointed to a second three-year term. On 31 May to 2 June I attended the Saint Emperor Constantine and Christianity International Conference commemorating the 1700 th Anniversary of the Edict of Milan held at the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš, Serbia, where I presented a paper entitled The Letter of Innocent I to Marcian of Niš. There was a fine opening ceremony at St. Sava Hall in which Serbian culture was showcased. I am very grateful to the generosity of the organisers of this conference for their hospitality. King Milan Square in modern downtown Niš opening ceremony of the conference in Niš
On 4 to 6 June I attended the annual conference of the Canadian Society of Patristic Studies held this year at University of Victoria, British Columbia. I presented a paper entitle d Zosimus and Ravenna: Conflict in the Roman Church in the Early Fifth Century. I was also the respondent in the book discussion session commenting on Lincoln Blumell s Lettered Christians: Christians, Letters and Late Antique Oxyrhynchus, vol. 39 of New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents, published by Brill in 2012. Also I chaired the second Augustine session where Robert Kennedy, Travis Kroeker and Sarah-Nelle Jackson spoke. This was my first visit to Vancouver Island and to its provincial capital, Victoria. delivering my paper in Victoria, BC
From 23 to 27 July I attended the 68 th general meeting of the Society for New Testament Studies at Murdoch University in Perth. I was invited to be Prof. Lattke s keynote address in Perth part of the Reconsidering Literarkritik of the Pauline Letters and its Impact on their Interpretations seminar, where I presented a paper entitled The Letter Credebamus post from Boniface I or Leo I? I am grateful to Prof. R. Bieringer for the invitation. Many members of the Centre for Early Christian Studies were in attendance, including Prof. Michael Lattke, who delivered one of the keynote addresses. On 2 October I attended the Centre s annual meeting, this year held on St Patrick s campus the day before our conference, where I spoke about some of our publishing strategy for the future. From 3 to 5 October I attended the first Early Christian Centuries triennial conference hosted by Australian Catholic University (formerly Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church), which was also our eighth Asia-Pacific Early Christian Studies Society conference. I presented a paper entitled Clerical Marriage in the Letters of Innocent I.