Translating Byzantium and Byzantium Translating

June 2 (Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University) - Room C-322

June 3 (Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna)

 

Conference Program


Friday June 2, 2023

08:30-09:15

Arrival and Registration

09:15-09:30

Welcome: Aleksandar Anđelović, Cosimo Paravano, and Lewis Read (University of Vienna)

 

Session 1: Translation Techniques in Armenian

09:30-10:00

The Spiritual-Cultural Significance of the Translation: Nemesius of Emesa’s
Treatise on Human Nature

Anush Apresyan (Mesrop Mashtots Research Institute of Ancient Manuscripts)

 

10:00-10:30

Translation Technique in the Armenian Version of the Alexander Romance

Rok Kuntner (Würzburg University)

 

10:30-11:00

The Armenian Version of the Apocalypse of the Theotokos: A Closer Witness
to the Greek Original?

Piruza Hayrapetyan (Central European University)

 

Session 2: Syriac and Greek Texts from the 6th Century

11:30-12:00

Monks and Physicians: A Preliminary Study of the Amida Community of
Constantinople in the 6th century AD

Carlo Emilio Biuzzi (Institut de Recherche et Histoire des Textes
(IRHT-CNRS))

 

12:00-12:30

Cyril of Scythopolis Facing John Rufus: Disclosing a Local Debate and
Competing Narratives of Holiness within Palestinian Monasticism

Laura Mariotti (KU Leuven)

 

Session 3: Syriac Glimpses from Late Antiquity

13:30-14:00

Barbaric but Erudite: Syriac Language in Early Byzantine Texts

Alex Lopez (Catholic University of America)

 

14:00-14:30

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.

Giovanni Gomiero (Ghent University)

 

14:30-15:00

“Its Own Nature, Knowledge, and Form:” Paronomasia in the Syriac
Translation of Evagrius of Pontus’s Great Letter

Giovanni DiRusso, Julia Hintlian (Harvard University)

 

Session 4: Greek Storytelling between East and West

15:30-16:30

Palaiologan Romances: Between Continuity and Disruption

Romina Luzi (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)

 

16:00-16:30

From Indian mitra to Byzantine φιλία: Reshaping the Categories of Friendship
in the Eleventh-century Byzantine Rewriting of Kalila wa-Dimna

Alessandra Guido (La Sapienza University of Rome)

 

Keynote

Byzantium and Translations: Some Reflections

Claudia Rapp (University of Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences)

 

 

Saturday June 3

08:30–09:15 

Arrival and Registration

09:15-09:30 

Welcome: Andrei Dumitrescu, Dunja Milenković, Osman Yüksel Özdemir (Central
European University)

 

Session 5: Byzantium and the West

09:30–10:00

Certain Latin Excerpts used Against Filioque by Gennadios Scholarios and
John Eugenicus During and After The Council Of Ferrara - Firenze

Angelos Zaloumis (University of Patras and EPHE-PSL)

 

10:00–10:30

John Parastron: The Bilingual Franciscan Saint of Constantinople

Olga Vlachou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

 
10:30–11:00

A Homo Christianus and His Demons: The Reception of Michael Psellos
by Sixteenth-century Spanish Humanists

Ilinca-Simona Ionescu (University of Bucharest)

  

Session 6: Greek to Greek

11:30–12:00

Metaphrasis as a New Literary Genre of Translation in Byzantine Scholarly
Literature

Andreas Prasino (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

 
12:00–12:30

The Transformation of the Concept of Sympatheia from Antiquity to Byzantium:
Plato, Plotinus, Psellos

Anastasia Theologou (Central European University)

 
12:30–13:00

Theatre and θέατρον

Ricarda Schier (Ghent University)

 

Session 7:  Byzantine Images in Western Translations

14:00–14:30

The Translation of the Byzantine Last Judgement in 12th century Scandinavia
Between Gotland and Iceland

Elena De Zordi (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)

 

14:30-15:00

The Touch of God’s Hand: A Hidden Angel in the Byzantine Life of Pope Silvester?

Andrei Dumitrescu (Central European University)

  

Keynote

Translating Ancient Poetry into Christian Hymnography: Twelfth-Century
Commentators on Language and Authorship in Liturgical Canons

Baukje van den Berg (Central European University)

 

Conference Organizers

Aleksandar Anđelović, Andrei Dumitrescu, Dunja MilenkovićOsman Yüksel Özdemir, Cosimo Paravano, Lewis Read

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