CANE’s Summer Institute is just a few weeks away, July 6-10. It is virtual, and you do not need to be a member of CANE to attend!

CSI’s theme this year is Xenia, Community, and Solidarity in the Ancient World. Under this theme we might ask such questions as: what makes up a polis or a res publica? Who gets included, and who gets excluded, and why? Can that boundary of inclusion and exclusion be crossed, and if so, how? What other kinds of communities do we see in the ancient or late antique world, like churches, mystery cults, or patronage networks? How big is that gap between an ideal community and the nitty gritty every day workings of that community in practice? How does a community even get created in the first place, and what is necessary for that to happen?

This year features courses from Mark Thatcher and Matthew Aumiller. Lecturers include Hanne Eisenfeld, Peter Machinist, Kathleen Coleman, and Caitlin Gillespie. There will also be pedagogical workshops by Jacqui Carlon and Maureen Lamb.

You can find more information, including tuition and registration, at www.caneweb.org/csi.