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Guest Speaker on Early Christian Communities

Please join the History community for this guest speaker event:

“Dionysius of Corinth’s Travels in Early Christian Communities of the Eastern Mediterranean”

presented by Professor Cavan Concannon, University of Southern California

Thursday, April 4
4:00–5:30 p.m.
375 McKenzie Hall, UO Campus

Cavan Concannon is the research partner of the Department of History’s own Lindsey Mazurek, assistant professor of ancient history, who has collaborated with Concannon on several projects about the history of the Eastern Mediterranean. Concannon is a leading scholar in the study of ethnicity, migration, and networks in early Christianity, and he is currently an associate professor with the USC School of Religion. Wednesday’s talk will be based on his recently published book, Assembling Early Christianity: Trade, Networks, and the Letters of Dionysius of Corinth.

This event is sponsored by the University of Oregon departments of Classics, History, and Religious Studies, as well as the Oregon Humanities Center.

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