TeTra | Text and Transmission Research SeminarThe Text and Transmission Research Seminar is hosted by Giorgia Nicosia (Universiteit Gent), Marion Pragt (KU Leuven), Andy Hilkens (Universität Wien) 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 on Thursdays at 10 am CET unless otherwise noted next to the date of the paper.
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The next event:
January 9
Roman Gundacker (Austrian Academy of Sciences / University of Vienna)
Manetho’s Aegyptiaca: A Long, Crooked, And Rocky Path from Egyptian Sources to Byzantine Manuscripts
January 29, 5 pm CET
Samet Budak (Princeton University)
Greek Translations in the Early Ottoman Empire: A Curious Case of Knowledge and Power
February 5
Nicolas Atas (KU Leuven)
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February 26
Maria S. Thomas (University of Vienna)
Publishing in a Twelfth-Century Syriac Monastery: Manuscript Production, Authority, and Scribal Practice at the Monastery of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem
March 12
Gabrielle Russo (Ghent University)
Regional Panegyric and the Tulunid Dynasty
March 26
Julia Schwarzer (KU Leuven)
A Mischievous Manuscript or Infidel Rule Reimagined: Julian in Coptic Sources
April 16
Michael Erdman (The British Library)
A Silken Thread between Scripts: Two Copies of a Late 19th Century Silk Production Manual in Ottoman and Armeno-Turkish
April 30
Larisa Ficulle Santini (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
The Words to Say It. How to Talk about Fertility Control in Byzantium
May 7
Rachael Banes (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
A Fowl Demon? The “Demonic Duck” Graffito at Didyma in its wider Epigraphic Landscape
May 28
Karolina Tomczyszyn (KU Leuven)
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June 11
William Barton (University of Innsbruck)
Byzantine Letters in Golden Age Spain. On Vicente Mariner’s Translation of Theophylact Achridensis’ Correspondence
June 25
Irene Tinti (University of Florence)
Debates in the Margins: Tracing Interconfessional Relations through the Lens of Medieval Armenian Manuscripts
July 9
So Miyagawa (University of Tsukuba)
Examining the Apocalypse of Elijah
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Mehdy Shaddel (University of Cambridge)
ʿUmar II as Reformer: The Social and Fiscal Backdrop to His Edicts (the Fiscal Rescript and Risāla fī al-fayʾ)
August 20
Julie Dainville (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
In the Rhetor’s Classroom: Rhetorical Tradition and the Papyri
September 10
Jeroen Verrijssen (Ghent University)
The Names of the Watchers: Genealogies in Enoch
September 17, 4 pm CET
Maria Doerfler (Yale University)
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October 1
Giulia Paoletti (Ghent University)
Writing Texts, Shaping Readers: The Making of Byzantine Paraenetic Literature
October 22
Ya’el Nu’emah-Kremer (University of Oxford)
Crafting Women’s Histories in Syriac Late Antiquity: Methods, Limits, Possibilities
November 26
Loreleï Vanderheyden (University of Heidelberg)
RSVP to the Past: Coptic Vernacular Epistolary Cultures and the Future of Digital Textual Dialogue
December 3
Philipp Pilhofer (University of Vienna)
The Material Side of Teaching and Learning at an Early Modern University
December 21
Anush Sargsyan (Matenadaran)
Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi in the Armenian tradition