OUR KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Dr. MacCormack is a historian of the Roman empire, late antiquity and the early modern Spanish world, with a special interest in the peoples and cultures of the Andes. She has worked on the reasons for, and consequences of political and religious change, focusing on the impact of Christianity in the Roman Mediterranean and in the Andes. Another of her interests is the interrelation between word and image, language and visual culture in the Roman empire and early modernity. Currently, she is working on the impact of the classical tradition as formulated in Spain and of memories of the Inca empire on the development of early modern political cultures in the Andes. Her interest in teaching is focused on the nature of knowledge: on what we think we know, and why, and what we might actually know.

Dr. MacCormack will deliver our conference’s keynote address, entitled “Ways of Textual Exegesis: Augustine Thinks about the Book of Genesis.”

She will speak on Friday, October 26, 2007, at 7:00pm, in the Rowe Building, Room 1009.

Professor Sabine G. MacCormack

 

University of Notre Dame

Professor, Department of Classics

Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C. Professor of Arts and Letters, Department of Art, Art History, and Design

 

(B.A., Oxford University; Diploma in Archives, Liverpool University; D. Phil., Oxford University)

Atlantic Classical Association

Annual Meeting 2007