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 at 10 am CET unless otherwise noted next to the date of the paper.
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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 6
Mateusz Kusio (KU Leuven)
The Manuscript Tradition of Commodianus: On the Reception of an Obscure Poet
February 19, 4pm CET | TeTra Lecture:
Willy Clarysse (KU Leuven)
Remnants of Christian books from the second to to the eight centuries AD
March 6
Georgi Mitov (ÖAW / University of Vienna)
The (Deified) Human Body: Some Aspects of the Study of Byzantine Funeral Rites
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 8
Antonietta Castiello (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg)
The memory of the Palmyrene diaspora through its inscriptions
May 22
Angelo Gargiulo (UGent)
Meteorology and Culture of the self in John Lydus’ De Ostentis
June 5
Boško Erić (University of East Sarajevo)
New insights into 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 1 | Book in the Spotlight, 4 pm CET
Sofia Puchkova (University of Leicester), Re-envisioning Theodore: Theodore of Mopsuestia’s Biblical Exegesis in his Catechetical Homilies
Vigiliae Christianae Supplements 185
Brill, 2024.
Discussant: Samuel Fernández (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
July 18, 4 pm CET
Bishara Ebeid (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
The West Syriac Reworking of an East Syriac Nicene Commentary
July 31, 4 pm CET
Jasmine Dum-Tragut (Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg)
Medieval Armenian horse medical books and their role in the equine world east of Byzantium
August 14, 4 pm CET
Lewis Read (University of Vienna)
Accessing the place of memory: digital tools for the study of Armenian colophons
September 11
Carlo Emilio Biuzzi (UGhent / EPHE)
Western Syriac Kanonessammlungen: A Renewed Description of Canonical Manuscripts from the 6th to the 10th Century
October 9
Eleanor Baker (University of Oxford)
‘Hoo thys boke stelyth schall have cryst curse and myne’: Middle English Book Curses and Perceptions of the Material Text
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)
Character Building: Tracing the Voice of Mary of Egypt
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November 20
Lusine Sargsyan (Matenadaran)
Armenian manuscript heritage in Romania
November 24 | Book in the Spotlight, 4 pm CET
Lieve Van Hoof (Universiteit Gent) & Peter Van Nuffelen (Universiteit Gent),
The Fragmentary Greek Chronicles after Eusebius
Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Discussant: Monica Berti (Universität Leipzig)
December 1
Federica Gigante (University of Oxford)
Slavery and the European encounter with Islamic material culture