{"id":1,"date":"2024-11-12T17:23:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T17:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tetra.univie.ac.at\/?p=1"},"modified":"2026-09-13T10:19:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T10:19:05","slug":"2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tetra.univie.ac.at\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"TeTra 2026 Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Text and Transmission Research Seminar <\/strong>is hosted by Giorgia Nicosia<\/a> (Universiteit Gent), Marion Pragt<\/a> (KU Leuven), Andy Hilkens<\/a> (Universit\u00e4t Wien) and Dan Batovici<\/a> (Universit\u00e4t Wien) and aims to put together in the same room on-going projects on various traditions and historical contexts \u2013 online, normally on Thursdays at 10 am CET unless otherwise noted next to the date of the paper<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Skip ahead to the next upcoming event!<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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January 9<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roman Gundacker<\/strong> (Austrian Academy of Sciences \/ University of Vienna)
Manetho’s Aegyptiaca: A Long, Crooked, And Rocky Path from Egyptian Sources to Byzantine Manuscripts<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

January 29, <\/em>5 pm CET<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samet Budak<\/strong> (Princeton University)
Greek Translations in the Early Ottoman Empire: A Curious Case of Knowledge and Power<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

February 26<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maria S. Thomas<\/strong> (University of Vienna)
Publishing in a Twelfth-Century Syriac Monastery: Manuscript Production, Authority, and Scribal Practice at the Monastery of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

March 12<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gabrielle Russo<\/strong> (Ghent University)
Regional Panegyric and the Tulunid Dynasty<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

March 26<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Julia Schwarzer <\/strong>(KU Leuven)
A Mischievous Manuscript or Infidel Rule Reimagined: Julian in Coptic Sources<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 8<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daria Kohler<\/strong> (KU Leuven)
The state of the text: corrections in Greek and Latin literature <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 16<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Erdman<\/strong> (The British Library)
A Silken Thread between Scripts: Two Copies of a Late 19th Century Silk Production Manual in Ottoman and Armeno-Turkish<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 30<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Larisa Ficulle Santini<\/strong> (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
The Words to Say It. How to Talk about Fertility Control in Byzantium<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 7<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rachael Helen Banes<\/strong> (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
A Fowl Demon? The “Demonic Duck” Graffito at Didyma in its wider Epigraphic Landscape<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 28<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karolina Tomczyszyn<\/strong> (KU Leuven)
Approved Teachers and Insignificant Rhetoricians: Literary Curation in the Letters of Jacob of Edessa, George, bishop of the Arabs, and John of Litarb<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

June 4, 4pm CET<\/strong> | Book in the Spotlight:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christine Shepardson<\/strong> (University of Tennessee Knoxville), A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
University of California Press, 2026.
Discussant: Philip Forness<\/strong> (KU Leuven)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

June 11<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

William Barton<\/strong> (University of Innsbruck)
Byzantine Letters in Golden Age Spain. On Vicente Mariner\u2019s Translation of Theophylact Achridensis\u2019 Correspondence<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

June 18<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irene Tinti<\/strong> (University of Florence)
Debates in the Margins: Tracing Interconfessional Relations through the Lens of Medieval Armenian Manuscripts<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

July 9<\/em>, 4pm CET<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So Miyagawa<\/strong> (University of Tsukuba)
Examining the Apocalypse of Elijah<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

July 23<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehdy Shaddel<\/strong> (University of Cambridge)
\u02bfUmar II as Reformer: The Social and Fiscal Backdrop to His Edicts (the Fiscal Rescript and Ris\u0101la f\u012b al-fay\u02be)<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 20<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Julie Dainville<\/strong> (Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles)
In the Rhetor\u2019s Classroom: Rhetorical Tradition and the Papyri<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

September 10<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeroen Verrijssen<\/strong> (Ghent University)
The Names of the Watchers: Genealogies in Enoch<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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September 17<\/em>, 4 pm CET<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maria Doerfler<\/strong> (Yale University)
The Bible at the Burial: Scripture\u2019s Role in Syriac Christian Funerary Hymnography<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

October 1<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giulia Paoletti<\/strong> (Ghent University)
Writing Texts, Shaping Readers: The Making of Byzantine Paraenetic Literature<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

October 22<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ya\u2019el Nu\u2019emah-Kremer<\/strong> (University of Oxford)
Crafting Women\u2019s Histories in Syriac Late Antiquity: Methods, Limits, Possibilities<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

November 26<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorele\u00ef Vanderheyden<\/strong> (University of Heidelberg)
RSVP to the Past: Coptic Vernacular Epistolary Cultures and the Future of Digital Textual Dialogue<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

December 3<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philipp Pilhofer<\/strong> (University of Vienna)
The Material Side of Teaching and Learning at an Early Modern University<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

December 21<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anush Sargsyan <\/strong>(Matenadaran)
Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi in the Armenian tradition<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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