Wisdom on the Move: Late Antique Traditions in Multicultural Conversation

Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Ph.D. (1982), Birmingham University, is Willard Prescott and Annie McClelland Smith Professor of Religion and History, Brown University. Publications include Knowing Bodies, Passionate Souls (2017); Song and Memory: Biblical Women in Syriac Tradition (2010); Scenting Salvation (2006). Thomas Arentzen, Ph.D. (2014) and docent (2018), Lund University, is Researcher in Greek Philology, Uppsala University. Publications include The Virgin in Song: Mary and the Poetry of Romanos the Melodist (2017) and The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium (2019).Henrik Rydell Johnsén, Ph.D. (2007), Stockholm University, is Researcher and Senior Lecturer in History of Religions at Stockholm University. Publications include “Repentance and Confession” (2019), ”Physicians, teachers and friends” (2018), “The Virtue of Being Uneducated” (2018), Reading John Climacus (2007).Andreas Westergren, Ph.D. (2012), Lund University, is Researcher and Lecturer in Church and Mission Studies at Lund University. Publications include “The Monastic Paradox” (2018), “Paideia, Piety and Power” (2018), “Monastic Space” 2016), Sketching the Invisible (2012),