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Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry
Australian Catholic University
Melbourne, Australia
Please join us for the next meeting in our 2025 BECS Global online seminar series here at ACU/IRCI, with Dr Amelia Brown (MQ/American Academy at Athens) on “When Early Christianity met Imperial Power: New Attributes of Roman Emperors from Constantine I to Theodosius.”
September 8, 2025 at 12:57 AM
The 2025 Semester 2 schedule for the BECS Global Seminar is set, with presentations by Bernadette Brooten (Brandeis), Amelia Brown (MQ and AAA), Paul Trebilco (Otago), Ben Edsall (ACU), and Paul Roche (Sydney).
August 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Registration is still open for our Makarios conference on Love of Neighbor and Human Flourishing (deadline 15 May) which will take place at ACU’s Rome campus in partnership with Baylor, Harvard, and Boston College! >
April 17, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Join for a hybrid BECS Seminar with Prof. Bronwen Neil on “Sarcophagi on the Street: Burial in the Necropoleis at Roman Ostia” to be held at 11:00 am AEDT on Thursday, 3 April 2025.
March 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Come study with us. ACU has just been rated #22 in the world in Theology, Divinity, and Religious Studies in the QS World University Rankings for 2025. #1 in Australia.
March 13, 2025 at 4:45 AM
The 2025 Seminar 1 schedule for the BECS Global Seminar Series is now available with contributions from Sarah Corrigan, Stephen Carlson, Bronwen Neil, Sabrina Inowlocki, and David Woods.
February 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
IRCI's Dr Jonathan Zecher led a public-facing lecture on the Melbourne Gospels at the National Gallery of Victoria as part of the "Being Human" exhibition organised by UniMelb.
December 2, 2024 at 9:43 PM
Congratulations to two teams led by IRCI scholars for Discovery Project grant success from the Australian Research Council totalling almost a half a million dollars!
November 26, 2024 at 5:54 AM
Join Australian colleagues for drinks and nibbles at a reception sponsored by ACU and the University of Divinity at #AAR #SBL on the conference Monday from 6-8 pm, Mission Brewing, 131 14th St, San Diego!
November 12, 2024 at 9:13 PM
CALL FOR PAPERS for the 2025 biennial Makarios conference on the role of love for one's neighbor in the Christian tradition.

Paper abstracts of up to 300 words and an up-to-date CV should be uploaded by December 1st, 2024 (details below).
November 5, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Join us Thursday for a hybrid seminar with Alan Cadwallar giving a paper on 'Romanisation of Colossae'.

Contact becs.seminar@acu.edu.au for the Zoom link.
September 2, 2024 at 12:39 AM
Please join us 6 June for a BECS Global Online seminar with Prof Annette Weissenrieder on “A New Edition of the Codex Vercellensis Luke Based on Multi-Spectral Images”!

Contact becs.seminar@acu.edu.au for the Zoom link.
May 29, 2024 at 11:18 PM
Join us for a hybrid Global BECS Seminar with David Lloyd Dusenbury on 'A Metaphysically Rich Physiology of Consent: Freedom & Sexuality in the First Christian Anthropology' on 4 April AU (3 April US).
April 2, 2024 at 1:31 AM
IRCI’s HDR student, Rebecca Lloyd-Hagemann, on “It’s Not Always About the Lads: Censure of Homosocial Intimacy Between Women in Late-Antique Hippo” at the Australasian Society for Classical Studies
February 14, 2024 at 11:06 PM
IRCI’s HDR Student Haydn Lea on “A Scandal in Iconium: Theological Belief in the Conversion of Thecla” at the Australasian Society of Classical Studies
February 14, 2024 at 10:35 PM
IRCI’s Sarah Gador-Whyte on “Justinian’s Vestal Virgins: The Deaconess as Protector of the Empire?” at the Australasian Society for Classical Studies
February 14, 2024 at 10:28 PM
Our schedule for Semester One 2024 for the BECS Global Seminar.
February 7, 2024 at 10:00 PM
BECS Global Seminar today with Harmut Leppin of Goethe University on ‘Emperior Maurice: From Failure to Holiness.”

This is a hybrid seminar, contact becs.seminar@acu.edu.au for the Zoom link.
February 7, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Tomorrow is the final BECS seminar for the year featuring Jennifer Glancy on The Enslaved Patriarch in Josephus and Philo, with ACU’s Emeritus James McLaren responding.
December 6, 2023 at 12:54 AM
Join us for our next BECS Global Seminar on 2 November (11:00 a.m. Melbourne) with Kai Akagi of Rikkyo University with "Ephesians 3:15 as an Allusion to Genesis 12:3 in the Context of Fatherhood and Household Metaphors in Ephesians."

IRCI's Joey McCollum @joeymccollum.bsky.social is responding.
October 27, 2023 at 6:09 AM