Mellon Seminar Distinguished Scholars

One of the biggest highlights of the Mellon Seminar is its inclusion of a number of distinguished scholars who will be visiting Rice and lecturing. The subject of my seminar is Mapping Death: Religious Preparations for the Afterlife Journey. Here is the schedule of special events. The luncheon lectures are by reservation only, so please contact me if you are considering attending. The Year's End Symposium is open to the public and needs no reservation.

Alan F. Segal Professor of Religion and Ingeborg Rennert Professor of Jewish Studies

Barnard College, Columbia University

January 19^th, 9-11:30 am, private Seminar

Rituals of Immortality: The Bible and the Rise of Immortality among Jews and Christians

Greg Shaw Professor of Religious Studies

Stone Hill College

Feb. 16^th, 9 -11 am, private Seminar

11:30 am -1 pm, RSVP Cohen House Luncheon and Public Lecture

Iamblichean Theurgy: Reflections on the Practice of Later Platonists

Mark Turner Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science

Case Western Reserve University

March 9^th, 9-11 am, private Seminar

11:30 am -1 pm, RSVP Cohen House Luncheon and Public Lecture

How to have an afterlife

Dale Martin Woolsey Professor of Religious Studies

Director of Graduate Studies

Yale University

March 23^rd 9-11 am, private Seminar

11:30 am -1 pm, RSVP Cohen House Luncheon and Public Lecture

Confusions of Death: On the Lack of Unanimity on Death in Earliest Christianity

Roger Beck Professor Emeritus, Department of History and Classics

University of Toronto

April 13^th 9-11 am, private Seminar

11:30 am -1 pm, RSVP Cohen House Luncheon and Public Lecture

Ecstatic Religion in the Roman Cult of Mithras

Year’s End Symposium

April 23, 9 am-5 pm, Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library

Jeffrey J. Kripal, Keynote Presenter

April D. DeConick, Mellon Faculty Leader Presenter

Grant Adamson, Matthew J. Dillon, Rebecca Gimbel, Franklin Trammell, Adriana Umana: Graduate Student Presenters