Translating Byzantium and Byzantium Translating
1st International Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Graduate Conference, Vienna, June 2-3, 2023
Day 1:
08:30–09:15 ARRIVAL AND REGISTRATION | Central European University
09:15-09:30 WELCOME | Aleksandar Anđelović, Cosimo Paravano, and Lewis Read | University of Vienna
09:30–11:00 FIRST SESSION: TRANSLATION TECHNIQUES IN ARMENIAN | Chair: Tara Andrews | University of Vienna
09:30–10:00 Anush Apresyan | Mesrop Mashtots Research Institute of Ancient Manuscript
The Spiritual-Cultural Significance of the Translation: Nemesius of Emesa’s Treatise on Human Nature
10:00–10:30 Rok Kuntner | Würzburg University
Translation Technique in the Armenian Version of the Alexander Romance
10:30–11:00 Piruza Hayrapetyan | Central European University
The Armenian Version of the Apocalypse of the Theotokos: A Closer Witness to the Greek Original?
11:00–11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30–12:30 SECOND SESSION: SYRIAC AND GREEK TEXTS FROM THE 6TH CENTURY | Chair: Volker Menze | Central European University
11:30–12:00 Carlo Emilio Biuzzi | Institut de Recherche et Histoire des Textes (IRHT-CNRS)
Monks and Physicians: A Preliminary Study of the Amida Community of Constantinople in the 6th century AD
12:00–12:30 Laura Mariotti | KU Leuven
Cyril of Scythopolis Facing John Rufus: Disclosing a Local Debate and Competing Narratives of Holiness within Palestinian Monasticism
12:30-13.30 LUNCH
13:30–15:00 THIRD SESSION: SYRIAC GLIMPSES FROM LATE ANTIQUITY | Chair: Grigory Kessel | Austrian Academy of Sciences
13:30–14:00 Alex Lopez | Catholic University of America
Barbaric but Erudite: Syriac Language in Early Byzantine Texts
14:00–14:30 Giovanni Gomiero | Ghent University
The Greek-Egyptian “Reading Revolution” Within East Syrian Monasticism Between the 6th and the 7th Century: The Longue Durée of an Intellectual Reform as Told by Thomas of Marga.
14:30–15:00 Giovanni DiRusso, Julia Hintlian| Harvard University
“Its Own Nature, Knowledge, and Form:” Paronomasia in the Syriac Translation of Evagrius of Pontus’s Great Letter
15:00-15.30 COFFEE BREAK
15:30–16:30 FOURTH SESSION: GREEK STORYTELLING BETWEEN EAST AND WEST / Chair: Krystina Kubina | Austrian Academy of Sciences
15:30–16:00 Romina Luzi| École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Palaiologan Romances: Between Continuity and Disruption
16:00–16:30 Alessandra Guido | La Sapienza University of Rome
From Indian mitra to Byzantine φιλία: Reshaping the Categories of Friendship in the Eleventh-century Byzantine Rewriting of Kalila wa-Dimna
16:30-17.00 BREAK
17:00-18.00 KEYNOTE LECTURE: BYZANTIUM AND TRANSLATION: SOME REFLECTIONS / Claudia Rapp | University of Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences
18:00-20.00 BUFFET DINNER
DAY 2:
08:30–09:15 ARRIVAL AND REGISTRATION | Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna
09:15-09:30 WELCOME | Andrei Dumitrescu, Dunja Milenković, Osman Yüksel Özdemir (Central European University)
09:30–11:00 FIRST SESSION: BYZANTIUM AND THE WEST | Chair: György Geréby | Central European University
09:30–10:00 Angelos Zaloumis| University of Patras and EPHE-PSL
Certain Latin Excerpts used Against Filioque by Gennadios Scholarios and John Eugenicus During and After The Council Of Ferrara - Firenze
10:00–10:30 Olga Vlachou | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
John Parastron: The Bilingual Franciscan Saint of Constantinople
10:30–11:00 Ilinca-Simona Ionescu | University of Bucharest
A Homo Christianus and His Demons: The Reception of Michael Psellos by Sixteenth-century Spanish Humanists
11:00–11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30–13:00 SECOND SESSION: GREEK TO GREEK | Chair: Christophe Erismann | University of Vienna
11:30–12:00 Andreas Prasinos|National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Metaphrasis as a New Literary Genre of Translation in Byzantine Scholarly Literature
12:00–12:30 Anastasia Theologou | Central European University
The Transformation of the Concept of Sympatheia from Antiquity to Byzantium: Plato, Plotinus, Psellos
12:30–13:00 Ricarda Schier | Ghent University
Theatre and θέατρον
13:00-14:00 LUNCH
14:00–15:00 THIRD SESSION: BYZANTINE IMAGES IN WESTERN TRANSLATIONS | Chair: István Perczel | Central European University
14:00–14:30 Germano Germanò | Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples
The Dancer and the Siren: New Evidence About Byzantine Visual Culture in the Sculpture of Apulia
14:30–15:00 Elena De Zordi| Ca' Foscari University of Venice
The Translation of the Byzantine Last Judgement in 12th century Scandinavia Between Gotland and Iceland
15:00-15.30 COFFEE BREAK
15:30-16:30 KEYNOTE LECTURE: TRANSLATING ANCIENT POETRY INTO CHRISTIAN HYMNOGRAPHIE: TWELFTH_CENTURY COMMENTATORS ON LANGUAGE AND AUTORSHIP IN LITURGICAL CANONS | Baukje van den Berg| Central European University
17:00-19.00 WINE RECEPTION
Venues
- June 2nd 2023: Central European University, Quellenstrasse 51, 1100 Vienna
- June 3rd 2023: Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies University of Vienna, Postgasse 9, 1010 Vienna
Organization
- Aleksandar Anđelović | UniVie
- Andrei Dumitrescu | CEU
- Dunja Milenković | CEU
- Osman Yüksel Özdemir | CEU
- Cosimo Paravano | UniVie
- Lewis Read | UniVie
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