2025 Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society, Chicago, May 22–24, 2025

The 2025 Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society will take place on May 22–24, 2025, at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago. The meeting will include up to seven online sessions, which are intended to enable participation by NAPS members whose circumstances preclude them from attending large in-person meetings. Three thematic sessions with open calls for papers are planning to be online, leaving four more sessions for individual papers and possible pre-arranged thematic sessions.

Thematic Sessions with Open Calls for Papers: In-Person Sessions

Comedy, Satire, and Humor in Late Antique Polemic
Organizer: Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos

Considering the Birds of the Air: Birds and Avian Imagery in Early Christian and Patristic Thought
Organizer: Daniel Edwards

Digital Humanities Committee’s Practicalities Session: Tutorials in Workflows, Front-end Software, and Efficient Digital Scholarship
Organizer: Corey Stephan

Mapping Early Christianity from the Margins
Organizer: Jonathan Zecher

New Frontiers in Maximus the Confessor: Dubious, Spurious, or Lesser-Known Writings
Organizer: Kevin Clarke and Corey Stephan

Portraits of Holiness in Verse
Organizer: Erin Galgay Walsh

Religion, Medicine, Disability, Health and Healing in Late Antiquity
Organizer: Jonathan Zecher

Scripture and the Arts in Clement of Alexandria
Organizer: Cody Barnhar

Thematic Sessions with Open Calls for Papers: Online Sessions

Digital Humanities Committee’s Language Tools Session: Textual Markup & Analysis
Organizer: Paul Dilley 

Religion, Medicine, Disability, Health and Healing in Late Antiquity
Organizer: Jonathan Zecher

Useful and Personal Objects as Evidence for Early Christian Belief
Organizer: Arthur Urbano