Public lecture
Professor Laura Nasrallah is appointed honorary doctor by the University of Oslo in 2024, and on that occasion she gives the public lecture: "Speaking in Tongues: Testing the Limits of Language in Antiquity and Beyond". Everyone is welcome!
Seminar
In addition to the public lecture, there will be a seminar with Professor Nasrallah from 14.00-16.00 in room U311. The topic for this seminar is: "Justice and ancestral fault: What we might learn at the Areopagus".
About Laura Nasrallah
Laura Nasrallah is Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation, jointly appointed in Yale Divinity School and Yale University’s Department of Religious Studies. Her research and teaching bring together New Testament and early Christian literature with the archaeological remains of the Mediterranean world, and often engage issues of colonialism, gender, race, status, and power. Her books include Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses: Magic, Aesthetics, and Justice (2024), Archaeology and the Letters of Paul (2019), Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture: The Second-Century Church Amid the Spaces of Empire (2010), and An Ecstasy of Folly: Prophecy and Authority in Early Christianity (2004) as well as co-edited volumes on archaeology, race, and gender. She has served on the Council of the Society of Biblical Literature as well as many other boards and committees.