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Office of the Secretary July 2000 |
The Fourteenth Annual
NAPS Meeting was held at Loyola, Chicago, May 25-27, 2000. The
Executive Board met Thursday morning. A full report of the Board’s activities
is available at the NAPS Web site.
Congratulations to new Board members: J. Rebecca Lyman (Vice President), Clayton N. Jefford (Secretary/Treasurer), Paul Blowers (MatL) and David Brakke (MatL).
Returning Board: Joseph Lienhard
(Pres), Theresa Shaw (MatL, 2000), Maureen Tilley (MatL).
Call for Papers
Fifteenth
Annual NAPS Meeting Loyola University, Chicago May 24-26, 2001.
If
you wish to read a paper at the NAPS conference in May, 2001, please submit the
title of your paper and an abstract of about 200 words by January 15, 2001 to:
Rebecca
Lyman
Vice-President,
NAPS
The
Church Divinity School of the Pacific
2451
Ridge Road
Berkeley,
CA 94709
Only
members in good standing of NAPS may submit a title and an abstract. Inquiries and abstracts may be sent to the
address above or by e-mail to jrlyman@aol.com.
If
you are willing to chair a session at the conference, please let Rebecca Lyman
know. You need not read a paper to
chair a session. It is helpful to our
planning if you indicate your general areas of interest.
Proposals
for full sessions, which usually include three or four papers, are always
welcome. Proposals for a special
session—which might, for example, be a discussion by several members of a
recent book—are also welcome.
Your
continuing interest and help in making our annual conference interesting and
enjoyable are appreciated. We want to
make the conference as valuable as possible for all members, and we welcome
suggestions for improving the program of the annual meeting.
Call for Nominations
The
North American Patristic Society seeks nominations for an Editor of the
Patristic Monograph Series, published by The Catholic University of America
Press.
Interested candidates should: 1)
Hold membership in the Society. 2) Have an established record of publications.
3) Preferably be experienced in editing scholarly works. 4) Be of senior rank
in one's institution. 5) Ideally be able to work with both the Latin and Greek
traditions. 6) Be willing to work cooperatively with the Publications Committee
and meet with the Board of Directors at least once a year.
Every
letter of nomination (you can nominate yourself) will be answered with a more
detailed description of the editorial responsibilities.
A
letter of interest and a current curriculum vitae should be sent to:
Prof. Daniel H. Williams
NAPS Publications Committee
Department of Theology
Loyola University of Chicago
6526 North Sheridan Rd.
Chicago, IL 60626, USA
New Directory
The Secretary/Treasurer will soon prepare a new printed
directory. Data for the directory will come from the Johns Hopkins University
Press.
MEMBERS MUST UPDATE THEIR OWN PERSONAL
INFORMATION.
To do this, visit the NAPS web site and click on “information.”
Next go to the NAPS online directory. You will need your NAPS membership number
(look on the mailing label of this newsletter). Look up your own name and then follow the instructions to update
your personal information.
Or, contact Lynn Logan at (410) 516-0765; llogan@mail.press.jhu.edu
Please update your
information by September 1
Please do
not ask the Secretary/Treasurer for your membership number, he does not have
it.
Best First Article
Prize
The
North American Patristic Society will award a prize of $250 for the best first
article in patristics (that is, in any of the disciplines represented in NAPS)
published by a member of the Society in a scholarly journal. For the current competition, articles should
have been published no earlier than January of 1999.
Any
member of the Society may submit an article to the competition, whether that
person is the author or not. Articles
may be sent either as offprints or as photocopies. A short letter should accompany the submission, stating that the
article is the author’s first scholarly publication. The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2001.
The
winner will be announced at the annual meeting of the Society in May of 2001.
Submissions
should be sent to:
Joseph
T. Lienhard
Fordham
University
Department
of Theology
441
E. Fordham Rd.
Bronx
NY 10458
Books
Fitzgerald,
Allan, Cavadini, John, Djuth, Marianne, O’Donnell, James, and Fleteren,
Frederick Van, eds. Augustine Through the Ages: An Encyclopedia. Grand
Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.
Mayer,
Wendy and Allen, Pauline. John Chrysostom. London: Routledge, 2000.
Osiek,
Carolyn. The Shepherd of Hermas. Hermeneia, Fortress, 1999.
Corrections and Address
Changes
Joan
Downs. 5449 So. Woodlawn Ave. #1. Chicago, IL 60615
Earl
Lavender. Associate Professor of Bible. Lipscomb University. 3901 Granny White
Pike. Nashville, TN 37204.
Greg
Peters. 3799 Ellesmere Road. Scarborough, Ontario. M1C 1H8 Canada. (416)
208-3420.
Changing of the Guard
This newsletter is my last
official act as NAPS Secretary/Treasurer. Please address all future
correspondence to:
Clayton
N. Jefford
St.
Meinrad School of Theology
St.
Meinrad, IN 47577
cjefford@saintmeinrad.edu