Seminar hosted by Giorgia Nicosia (UGent), Marion Pragt (KU Leuven, @worldlyscribe.bsky.social), Andy Hilkens (UniVie, @andyhilkens.bsky.social), and Dan Batovici (UniVie, @danbatovici.bsky.social). Website: TeTra.univie.ac.at.
In case you missed it! The recording of So Miyagawa's paper is now online on our YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiEf...
TeTra | So Miyagawa "Examining the Apocalypse of Elijah"YouTube video by TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminarwww.youtube.comTomorrow!
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research SeminarWe continue next Thursday 23 July at 10 AM, with Mehdy Shaddel (Cambridge/Liège)! The topic of his paper is •ʿUmar II as Reformer: The Social and Fiscal Backdrop to His Edicts)• If you are interested in attending and are not yet on the TeTra mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social!
We continue next Thursday 23 July at 10 AM, with Mehdy Shaddel (Cambridge/Liège)! The topic of his paper is •ʿUmar II as Reformer: The Social and Fiscal Backdrop to His Edicts)• If you are interested in attending and are not yet on the TeTra mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social!
Tomorrow at 4PM!
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research SeminarTeTra continues during the summer! Next Thursday 9 July at 4PM CET @somiyagawa.bsky.social (University of Tsukuba) will speak about the Coptic Apocalypse of Elijah. If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link.
Tomorrow!
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research SeminarNext Thursday 18 June at 10 AM CET! Irene Tinti (Florence) •Debates in the Margins: Tracing Interconfessional Relations through the Lens of Medieval Armenian Manuscripts• If you want to receive the Zoom link and are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social
If you missed last week's excellent paper, here it goes! William Barton (@krithemp.bsky.social) •Byzantine Letters in Golden Age Spain. On Vicente Mariner’s Translation of Theophylact Achridensis’ Correspondence•
TeTra | William Barton "Byzantine Letters in Golden Age Spain"YouTube video by TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminarwww.youtube.comTomorrow, with William M. Barton! @krithemp.bsky.social
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research SeminarNext Thursday 11 June, 10 AM! William M. Barton (Universität Innsbruck) •Byzantine Letters in Golden-Age Spain: On Vicente Mariner’s translation of Theophylact Achridensis’ Correspondence• Image, BNE, MS 9813, f. 673r
For those who missed Thursday's Book in the Spotlight, here is the recording! Great conversation between Christine Shepardson, the author of A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious DIfference in Late Antiquity, and @philipforness.bsky.social!
TeTra | Book in the Spotlight: Christine Shepardson, A Memory of Violence (2026)YouTube video by TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminarwww.youtube.comTomorrow!
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research SeminarSave the date! Thursday 4 June at 4PM CET Book in the Spotlight: Christine Shepardson: A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 2026) Respondent will be Philip Forness (KULeuven).
If you missed Thursday's paper by Karolina Tomczyszyn (KU Leuven), the recording is now on our YouTube channel youtu.be/AfxOpW8PqFA
TeTra | Karolina Tomczyszyn "Literary Curation in the Letters of Jacob of Edessa"YouTube video by TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminaryoutu.beNext week! With Christine Shepardson (The University of Tennessee Knoxville) and @philipforness.bsky.social (KU Leuven)!
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research SeminarSave the date! Thursday 4 June at 4PM CET Book in the Spotlight: Christine Shepardson: A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 2026) Respondent will be Philip Forness (KULeuven).
Tomorrow!!!
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research SeminarNext Thu 28 May, 10 AM Karolina Tomczyszyn (KULeuven) •Approved Teachers and Insignificant Rhetoricians: Literary Curation in the Letters of Jacob of Edessa, George, bishop of the Arabs, and John of Litarb• Don't forget to register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link
Rachael Helen Banes (University of Vienna) gave a paper in our seminar last week on a fascinating graffito. Here is the recording if you missed it! youtu.be/lpn2WIEnaL8
TeTra | Rachael Helen Banes "The Demonic Duck Graffito at Didyma in its wider Epigraphic Landscape"YouTube video by TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminaryoutu.beTomorrow!
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research SeminarNext Thursday 7 May we are hosting a paper by Rachael Banes (IMAFO, ÖAW) who will be speaking about a mysterious inscription •A Fowl Demon? The "Demonic Duck" Graffito at Didyma in its wider Epigraphic Landscape• If you're not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social