Join us for the next installment in our "No More Than A Page" series. This series gives an opportunity for faculty and advanced graduate students to receive feedback on their research in process. Presenters provide attendees with a one-page summary of their current research and attendees engage in a lively discussion.
This installment will feature Caspian Goggin, visiting assistant professor in the Department of History.
Scholars often point out that late antique Christian literature drew sharp, polarizing distinctions between "correct" Christians and everyone else, from pagans to heretics to indifferent brethren. Caspian's research examines a habit in the sources that complicates those polarizations, which they have labeled the "rhetoric of visibility": authors urged Christians to alter their behavior because others were watching and might misunderstand Christianity as a result of what they saw. Instead of simplifying the world into stable binaries, the rhetoric of visibility framed everyone as a potential insider and attempted to place responsibility for expanding the inner circle—and, with it, the author’s influence—onto everyday Christians.
This event is free, open to the public and welcoming to everyone. Co-hosted by the Center for the Study of Religion, the Department of Comparative Studies and the Humanities Institute.
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