More than two dozen scholars from all over the country (and England) convened at LSU from Feb. 15 to 17th, to celebrate Prof. David Brakke at a conference in his honor. The "New Approaches to Asceticism in Late Antiquity" conference was attended by colleagues and doctoral students whom he has mentored and was co-sponsored by faculty from LSU and Michigan. 

Papers were presented by:

Brian Alt, Michael Beshay (Pennsylvania State University), David Maldonado-Rivera (Kenyon College), Kate Cooper (University of London), Jennifer Hart (Curry College), Ellen Muehlberger (University of Michigan), Andrew Crislip (Virginia Commonwealth University), Stephen Shoemaker (University of Oregon), Rebecca Krawiec (Canisius College), Tola Rodrick (University of Alabama-Birmingham), Austin Busch (SUNY-Brockport), Caroline Schroeder (University of Oklahoma), Stephen Davis (Yale University), Charles Bobertz (St. John's School of Theology and Seminary), Diane Fruchtman (Rutgers University), J. Albert Harrill (Ohio State University), Georgia Frank (Colgate University), and David Frankfurter (Boston University).

View the conference program for a list of the sessions, as well as a written tribute to Dr. Brakke via the pdf file below: