KU Leuven Text and Transmission Joint Research Seminar, Zoom, 10:00 am CET
The Text and Transmission Joint Research Seminar is hosted by Giorgia Nicosia (UGent/EPHE-Paris), Marion Pragt (KU Leuven), Andy Hilkens (University of Oxford) and Dan Batovici (KU Leuven/Cambridge) in an effort to put together in the same room on-going projects—in Belgium and beyond—on various traditions and historical contexts. Meetings are held online, via Zoom, normally at 10 am CET, unless otherwise indicated next to the date of the paper.
Please contact the organizers to attend.
Schedule
January 11, 4pm CET: ‘Outside Knowledge’ and the Antioch Translation Movement
Joe Glynias (Harvard)
January 24, 4pm CET | TeTra Lecture: The Written Heritage of Caucasian Albanian
Jost Gippert (Universität Hamburg)
January 25: Dis/ability and Byzantine Hagiography
Oana Maria Cojocaru (Tampere University)
February 8: Collection and Transmission in the Dead Sea Scrolls Opisthographs
Ayhan Aksu (Groningen/Leuven)
February 22: The Medieval Armenian Commentaries on Pseudo-Gregory of Nyssa's Syllogisms against the Manichaeans
Armine Melkonyan (Matenadaran/Florence)
March 7: “Be for me a mother:” The Syriac Devotion to Saint Shmuni and Child Loss in Late Antiquity
Ya’el Nu’emah-Kremer (University of Oxford)
March 19: Andreas, the brother of Magnus and his chronography: towards a new history of Greek chronicle writing
Peter Van Nuffelen (UGent)
April 11: The Two Complete Slavonic Translations of John Chrysostom’s Homilies on the Statues and Their Greek Sources
Aneta Dimitrova (Sofia)
April 25: Creative Work with Excerpts: A Lesson from the Babylonian Talmud
Monika Amsler (Bern)
May tba: A Quest for the Pericope Adulterae: A Historical Assessment of ibn Kabar and ibn al–ʿAssāl’s Notes
Mina Monier (MF Norwegian School of Theology, Oslo)
May 23: Literacy, transmission and translation: the epigraphic evidence of an East Syriac community in Mongol-era Kyrgyzstan
Benjamin Sharkey (University of Oxford)
June 7: The Sanskrit Yasna and Its Philological Project
Martina Palladino (UGent)
June 20: The Use of Sense-Lines in Greek-Latin Manuscripts of the New Testament: A Case Study
Tilke Nelis (KU Leuven)
July 11: John of Litharb, On the Soul (c. 730): A Rediscovered Work in its Syriac, Broader Christian, and Islamic Contexts
Yonatan Moss (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)