Gli incontri annuali del CISSR si svolgono presso la sede del Centro Residenziale Universitario di Bertinoro, generalmente tra la fine di settembre e gli inizi di ottobre.
The CISSR Annual Meetings are held at the University Residential Centre of Bertinoro, Italy, usually in the last week of September or in the first week of October.
12th CISSR Annual Meeting
Bertinoro, Italy – October 1–3, 2025
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Obiettivo degli incontri annuali del CISSR è fornire uno spazio di discussione scientifica sulla storia del cristianesimo primitivo, includendo la ricerca sul Gesù storico, l’esegesi dei testi protocristiani, la storia dei primi gruppi di seguaci di Gesù nel contesto giudaico e greco-romano. Si accolgono interventi che muovano da diverse prospettive metodologiche: esegetiche, storico-religiose, archeologiche, papirologiche, di scienze sociali e antropologiche, etc.
The CISSR Annual Meetings on Christian Origins aim to provide a space for scholarly discussion on the history of early Christianity (1st–2nd centuries), including research on the historical Jesus, the interpretation of early Jewish and Christian writings, and the social history of early Christian groups in the broader context of the ancient Mediterranean world. Papers are welcome from a variety of methodological perspectives: anthropology and social sciences, archaeology and papyrology, history of religions, reception history, textual criticism, and so on.
Past Meetings
2025
- 2025 Conference Programme
- 2025 Programme Book
- Keynote Lecture: Giovanni B. Bazzana (Harvard Divinity School) – Apocalyptic Time between Presentism and the Anthropocene
2024
- 2024 Conference Programme
- 2024 Programme Book
- Keynote Lecture: Catherine Hezser (SOAS, University of London) – The Significance of Law in Rabbinic Judaism and Ancient Christianity
2023
- 2023 Conference Programme
- Keynote Lecture: Brent Nongbri (MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Oslo) – Early Christianity and the Development of the Codex
2022
- 2022 Conference Programme
- 2022 Programme Book
- Keynote Lecture: Sabine R. Hübner (Universität Basel) – The First Christians of Egypt: New Documentary Evidence from the Egyptian Hinterland
2021
- 2021 Programme Book
- Keynote Lecture: Richard S. Ascough (Queen’s University, Kingston) – Women, Work, and Worship in Occupational Associations and Early Christ Groups
2019
- 2019 Conference Programme
- Keynote Lectures: (1) Maurizio Bettini (Università di Siena) – New Ways to the Anthropology of the Ancient World // (2) April D. DeConick (Rice University) – Gnostic Theology: The One God is No Simple Matter
2018
- 2018 Conference Programme
- Keynote Lectures: (1) Nicola Denzey Lewis (Brown University) – Of Models and Men: Did Christianity Really ‘Rise’? // (2) Peter Lampe (Universität Heidelberg) – What Moves Humans to Behave Altruistically? A Look at the Early Christian World
2017
- 2017 Conference Programme
- Keynote Lectures: (1) John S. Kloppenborg (University of Toronto) – Disciplined Exaggeration: The Heuristics of Comparison in Biblical Studies // (2) Carol A. Newsom (Emory University, Atlanta) – ‘Going Negative’: The Hodayot’s Negative Anthropology in the Perspective of Second Temple Views of Human Nature
2016
- 2016 Conference Programme
- 2016 Programme Book
- Special Closing Event: Guided Archaeological Tour of Ostia Antica
2015
- 2015 Conference Programme
- 2015 Programme Book
- Keynote Lectures: (1) John S. Kloppenborg (University of Toronto) – Ancient Associations and the Study of Early Christ Groups: Recruiting New Members // (2) Francesco Remotti (Università di Torino) – ‘Man as Image of…’ – Identity or Similarity
2014
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