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Join Catherine Conybeare and Jim Wetzel for a lecture in anticipation of the publication of Conybeare's book, Augustine the African.

Augustine the African | Catherine Conybeare, Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities, in conversation with Jim Wetzel, director of the Augustinian Institute at Villanova University.

What difference does it make that one of the core thinkers of the Western intellectual and religious tradition was born in North Africa and spent his life there? In anticipation of the publication of Conybeare's book, Augustine the African, she and Wetzel explore the importance of this paradigm shift.

Catherine Conybeare was educated in Classics at Oxford and in Medieval Studies at Toronto; she has been at Bryn Mawr since 2002. She is fascinated by cultures of Latin over the longue durée, and has recently started a book series on that theme with Cambridge University Press. Her teaching ranges from Cicero and Lucretius to Abelard and Petrarch. Her research centres on late antiquity, and especially the writings of Augustine of Hippo. She has written four monographs, including The Irrational Augustine (2006) and The Laughter of Sarah (2013), and more than eighty articles and reviews on such topics as aurality, touch, violence, and the self. Conybeare's next monograph, Augustine the African, will be published by Liveright (North America) and Profile (UK) in 2025. She has been the recipient of a number of awards and fellowships, including from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the NEH.

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