TeTra | Text and Transmission Research SeminarThe Text and Transmission Research Seminar is hosted by Giorgia Nicosia (Universiteit Gent), Marion Pragt (KU Leuven), Andy Hilkens (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) and Dan Batovici (Universität Wien) and aims to put together in the same room on-going projects on various traditions and historical contexts – online, normally at 10 am CET unless otherwise noted next to the date of the paper.
January 15
Ted Erho (Universität Hamburg/Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
A letter of Alexander I of Alexandria preserved in Ethiopic
January 23
Lea Niccolai (University of Cambridge)
Who needs words? Philo of Alexandria on the writtenness of Scripture
February 19, 4pm CET | TeTra Lecture:
Willy Clarysse (KU Leuven)
Remnants of Christian books from the second to to the eight centuries AD
February 27
Antonietta Castiello (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg)
The memory of the Palmyrene diaspora through its inscriptions
March 6
Georgi Mitov (ÖAW / University of Vienna)
The (deified) human body: some aspects of monastic funeral rites in Byzantium (11th-15th c.)
March 27
Guillermo Menéndez Sanchez (UGent)
The figure of Addas-Adimantus in Christian heresiology and his impact on the image of Manichaeism
April 17, 4 pm CET | TeTra Lecture:
Robin Darling Young (The Catholic University of America)
The Transformation of the Letters of Evagrius, from Greek to Syriac and Armenian
April 24
Federico Alpi (University of Florence/FSCIRE)
Entangled creed(s): The Armenian version of the Didascalia CCCXVIII Patrum in context
May 29
Martina Ambu (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Translations of Salama
June 5
Boško Erić (University of East Sarajevo)
New insights in the Letter of Mara bar Serapion
June 19, 4 pm CET
Kayla Dang (Saint Louis University)
The unusual travels of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib’s covenant with the Zoroastrians
July tba
Jasmine Dum-Tragut (Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg)
Medieval Armenian horse medical books and their role in the equine world east of Byzantium
July 18
Bishara Ebeid (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
tba
August 14
Lewis Read (University of Vienna)
Accessing the place of memory: digital tools for the study of Armenian colophons
September tbd
Carlo Emilio Biuzzi (UGhent / EPHE)
tba
September 25, 4 pm CET
Blossom Gordana Champlain (MF Norwegian School of Theology, Oslo)
Trafficking the Fathers: paradoxes of race and heritage in the possession of the Christian past
October 23
Anna Ohanjanyan (Matenadaran / Yerevan State University)
The Armenian collection Tōnapatchaṛ: the recension of the school of Haghpat
November 6, 4 pm CET
Ellen Muehlberger (University of Michigan)
tba
November 20
Emilio Bonfiglio (Universität Hamburg)
Early Armenian Historiography and Textual Criticism: New Manuscript Finds and Old Challenges
December 1
Federica Gigante (University of Oxford)
Slavery and the European encounter with Islamic material culture