The road to Rome: Aspects of religious conflict and mobility in the greater Mediterranean, 700-900, Tübingen, April 8-9, 2022
Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future
For information about the papers and presenters, and to register, please see:
https://campuspress.yale.edu/duraeuropos2022/
“Byzantine Missions: Meaning, Nature, and Extent” Symposium
Date: April 29-30, 2022, at 9:00am EDT via Zoom
Though closely connected with the study of conversion and Christianization in the premodern era, the history of Christian missions has received little attention in recent scholarship. The recipients of Christian faith—individuals, nations, or social groups—and the processes of integrating the new religion have continued to attract analysis, but the agents of religious transformation have been relatively understudied, especially beyond the boundaries of medieval western Europe.
The symposium aims to illuminate the inner motives that characterized Byzantine missions, the changing incentives that inspired them, and the nature of their missionary activity; and ultimately to better understand how the Byzantines perceived the universal claims of their empire and their church. At the same time, the organizers hope to throw light on the broader religious dynamics of the medieval world.
Free and open to the public. Register here: https://www.doaks.org/
To register for the in-person event (including lunches), please email Dr Rei Hakamada (rei.hakamada@theology.ox.ac.
Registration to participate online is via the following link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/
PROGRAMME
Thursday 17th March
Lecture Room, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St. Giles’, Oxford, OX1 3LU
9.00: Welcome
9.15: Rei Hakamada (Okayama University / University of Oxford), Lay Hesychasts? Isidore and Palamas among Lay People
10.00: Mihail Mitrea (Babeș Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca / Institute for South-East European Studies, Bucharest), Hesychasm and Hagiography in Fourteenth-Century Byzantium [online]
10.45: Coffee
11.15: Ralph Greis (St Joseph’s Benedictine Abbey, Gerleve), The Connection Between Liturgical Theology and Hesychastic Spirituality in the Homilies of St. Gregory Palamas
12.00: Christiaan Kappes (Ss Cyril and Methodius Byzantine Catholic Seminary), Gregory Palamas’s Theotokos in Light of Latin Contacts and his Reception of Latin Literature in Byzantium
12.45: Lunch
13.45: Marie-Hélène Blanchet (CNRS, UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée, Paris), John VI Cantacuzene, the Hesychast Crisis and the Latin World: An Ambiguous Strategy
14.30: Judith Ryder (University of Oxford), When To Speak and When To Hold Your Peace: The Conflict between Demetrios Kydones and Philotheos Kokkinos
15.15: Coffee
15.45: Monica White (University of Nottingham), Hesychasm in Rus?
16.30: Norman Russell (St Stephen’s House, Oxford), Engaging with Islam in Late Byzantium: Strategies of Resistance and Accommodation
17.15: Drinks – The Maison française d’Oxford is delighted to offer participants a glass of champagne
Friday 18th March
Miles Room, St Peter’s College, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford, OX1 2DL
10.30: Eiji Hisamatsu (Ryukoku University), The Jesus Prayer and Yoga: The Early Literature of Hesychasm and the Svetasvatara Upanishad [online]
11.15: Vassa Kontouma (École Pratique des Hautes Études, PSL, Paris), The Re-enchanted Universe of Iakovos of Nea Skete (19th c.). A Hesychast Response to the Copernican Revolution?
12.15: Final remarks
12.30: Lunch
Conference program ‘Narrative forms in Byzantine Literature: Theory and Practice’ (online, 7-8 April 2022)
Fourth Byzantine Colloquium of the University of Buenos Aires
Keynote speakers include Inmaculada Pérez Martín (ILC-CSIC, Madrid) and Martin Hinterberger (University of Cyprus).
Conveners: Pablo Cavallero, Tomás Fernández, Reinhart Ceulemans
Papers are sought for ‘The Medical Paratext’ a conference organised by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (University of Edinburgh) and Sophia Xenophontos (University of Glasgow), funded by the Wellcome Trust to be held, to be held on 7-8 September 2022 at the University of Glasgow.
‘Paratext’ is a term coined by Gérard Genette in 1987 to refer to the material surrounding a printed text, including titles, prefaces, introductions, and footnotes. The notion of the paratext has recently been introduced to the study of medieval codices, with scholars working on medieval palaeography and codicology currently negotiating its various categorisations and the challenges thereof. An important category of medieval manuscripts that has often been neglected in that respect is that of medical codices. This conference aims to plug this gap by applying the concept of the paratext right to the very heart of the study of medieval medical manuscripts containing texts in a variety of languages, including Arabic, Persian, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and other European vernacular. It thus seeks to make a significant advance in our understanding of how medieval medical manuscripts were used by their producers and consumers.
We are interested in encouraging theoretical reflection on the following subjects/questions:
• Giulia Ecca (Sapienza University of Rome) Sivan Gottlieb (Bar-Ilan University)
• Fabian Käs (University of Cologne)
• David Langslow (The University of Manchester)
• Oliver Overwien (Humboldt University of Berlin)
• Ignacio Sánchez (University of Warwick) Anna Maria Urso (University of Messina)
• Iolanda Ventura (University of Bologna)
• Elvira Wakelnig (University of Vienna)
Scholars are invited to submit abstracts of ca. 250 words to sophia.xenofontos@glasgow.ac.
International Conference „Still ‘Caput Mundi’? The Role of Rome between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages in the Western Mediterranean“
Organized by the RomanIslam – Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies, University of Hamburg, and headed by Prof. Sabine Panzram and Dr. Rocco Selvaggi.
The workshop will take place on 3-5 March 2022 (in person and on Zoom) and will comprise the following lectures:
Thursday, March 3, 6 pm – 8 pm (CET)
Friday, March 4, 9:30 am – 8:30 pm (CET)
Saturday, March 5, 9:30 am – 8:30 pm (CET)
Please confirm your participation by March 3, 2021 (3 pm) to romanislam@uni-hamburg.de.
Documenter les défis de l’Église miaphysite tardo-antique
March 17-18, 2022
Château d’Angers
Entre 536 et 588 (date probable de la mort de Jean d’Éphèse), un événement historique frappant et inattendu se produit à l’échelle de l’Empire romain chrétien d’Orient : la restructuration d’une importante Église institutionnelle (principalement en Syrie, en Mésopotamie et en Egypte) et à ses frontières (voire même au-delà). Basée sur une affirmation miaphysite (une seule nature incarnée de Dieu le Verbe), cette communauté doit alors justifier son existence (sur les plans théologique, canonique et historique). Privé de soutien officiel et parfois même persécutée, elle entend néanmoins perpétuer son action et développer sa dynamique. Intense, ce processus offre donc la rare opportunité d’observer la reconfiguration d’une Église qui cherche à cultiver un lien fort avec son passé et ses héritages. Ainsi donc un important effort est-il alors consenti pour doter les assemblées miaphysites d’une armature hiérarchique, doctrinale et canonique, au moment où elles sont confrontées à des défis vitaux. Aussi notre réunion aura-t-elle vocation à considérer la formation de ce corpus de références, sa variété ainsi que ses caractéristiques et le devenir de son exploitation jusqu’aux débuts de la domination arabo-musulmane.
Call for papers and posters to the 4th CISEM International Congress, which will be held in Cuenca between the 17th and 19th of October 2022 and focuses on the topic Living in Late Antique Mediterranean.
You will find the complete Call For Papers attached to this email as well as a link to our website where you can find more information. We welcome you to share this announcement with any students that may be interested.
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