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The Patristic Day 2026: Apocalypticism in Early Christianity
AT THE END OF THE WORLD: A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Apocalyptic Imaginary in the Past and Present, together with Collegium Patristicum Lundense invites to the The Patristic Day 2026: Apocalypticism in Early Christianity
Program
13.15 Jayne Svenungsson (Lund University): Introduction: At the End of the World – A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Apocalyptic Imaginary in the Past and Present
13.30 Cecilia Wassén (Uppsala University): Apocalyptic Voices from the Judean Desert: John the Baptist and the Dead Sea Scrolls
14.00 Tobias Hägerland (University of Gothenburg): A Thousand Years in Jerusalem: The Earliest Interpretations of the Book of Revelation
15.00 Nathan Betz (Universität Regensburg): What’s the Point of Late Antique Apocalyptic Literature? Toward a More Coherent Theory of Early Christian Communication
15.30 Katarina Pålsson (Lund University): ‘As the Day of Judgment Draws Near’: How to Prepare for the End According to Bede the Venerable
16.15 Panel discussion: Apocalypse Then and Now – Historical and Contemporary Developments, with the speakers, Mårten Björk (Lund University), David Dunér (Lund University), Aaron James Goldman (Lund University), and Lena Liepe (Linnaeus University)
17.30 Dinner in LUX staff dining room
Registration (if you plan to partake at dinner) to Andreas Westergren (andreas.westergren@ctr.lu.se) no later than April 28. Registration fee: 300 SEK (Students 150). The fee can be paid in advance to pg 17 46 32-0, or on the spot.