Trinity Term 2022 saw a lecture series at Christ Church on the medieval commentary tradition, organised by the Oxford Medieval Commentary Network. Video recordings of the lectures by Madalena Brito, Maria Czepiel, and Zachary Giuliano are now available to watch online, along with an extensive video archive of papers from last year’s OMCN workshop.
The CfP for the upcoming OMCN conference on 29 September is still open.
Dear all,
The Early Text Cultures research network at the University of Oxford is pleased to announce the programme of the workshop Translating Cultures in Contact, which will conclude the seminar series on Textual Cultures in Contact. The event will take place online on Zoom, on Tuesday 5th July, from 9:00 to 16:00 BST (UK time).
The event will explore dynamics of textual and cultural translation in Hellenistic Egypt, the medieval Latin, Greek and Arabic worlds, and Tibet and Mongolia. Please find the programme below; abstracts can be found on our website.
To receive the Zoom link for the event, please register here.
9:00–9.10 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Domenico Giordani, UCL / University of Oxford
9:10–10:20 SESSION I: BYZANTINE TRANSLATIONS OF LATIN
CHAIR: Domenico Giordani, UCL / University of Oxford
1. On the boundaries of philology and history of science: the Greek translation of the Semita Recta
Flavio Bevacqua, Università degli Studi di Padova
2. Translating Saint Jerome into Greek: the Life of Hilarion (BHL 3879)
Anna Lampadaridi, Paris, CNRS (UMR 5189 HiSoMA)
10:20–11:30 FIRST BREAK
11:30–12:30 SESSION II: HELLENISING ANCIENT EGYPT
CHAIR: Jordan Miller, University of Oxford
3. Textual and Historical Observations on Inscribed Foundation Plaques of Hellenistic Egypt
Efstathia Dionysopoulou, Université de Lyon II
4. Untranslatability and the Case of Ptolemaic Priestly Decrees
Giulia Tonon, University of Liverpool
12:30–13:30 LUNCH BREAK
13:30–14:40 SESSION III: TRANSLATING FOUNDATIONAL FIGURES
CHAIR: Natasha Downs, University of Edinburgh
5. Tibetan Buddhism and the Cult of Chinggis Khan
Dotno Pount, University of Pennsylvania
6. Greco-Arabic, Beyond Translation: Homer by the Rivers of Babylon
Teddy Fassberg, Tel Aviv University
14:40–15:00 THIRD BREAK
15:00–16:00 SESSION IV: FINAL ROUNDTABLE
CHAIR: Flaminia Pischedda, University of Oxford
If you have any questions, please get in touch with us by replying to this email. Please do feel free to forward this email to anyone who may be interested.
We look forward to seeing you there!
All best wishes,
ETC Board
15-16 July 2022, Somerville College & Online
in association with Oxford Medieval Studies, sponsored by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Organisers: Antje Elisa Chan (Lincoln College, Oxford), Godelinde Gertrude Perk (Somerville, Oxford), Raphaela Rohrhofer (Somerville, Oxford), Alicia Smith (English Faculty, Oxford)
This international hybrid conference, held in Somerville College (Oxford) on 15th and 16th July, is the first academic event to focus solely on Julian’s writing, life, contexts, and influence long after her death. Offering thought-provoking panels and roundtables on a range of topics, from anchoritic transformations of the mundane to critical race studies, it maps out new and emerging dimensions in Julian scholarship.
The Somerville College choir will perform anthems based on Julian’s writing; a new play by writer-director Cindy Oswin, exploring the effect of age on the anchorite, will premiere at the conference. The opening lecture will be given by Professor Nicholas Watson (Harvard) with responses from Professor Laura Saetveit Miles (Bergen) and Professor Barry Windeatt (Cambridge). Professor Liz Herbert McAvoy (Swansea) will close the conference.
We particularly encourage graduate students and early-career researchers to attend; lower fees are offered for graduate students, unwaged and low-waged attendees.
To register: https://bit.ly/3vTAu5y
More info: https://visionsofjulian.mml.ox.ac.uk/
Thursday 14th July
18:00-19:00 In-Person Welcoming Performance
New Music for a New Vision
by Dr. Alison Daniell (University of Southampton), Louise Stewart (Multitude of Voyces), and members of Somerville College Choir, dir. Will Dawes
Friday 15th July
09:15 Opening session
Keynote speaker – Nicholas Watson
Julian of Norwich: Witness and Recension
Respondents – Laura Saetveit Miles, Barry Windeatt
11:30 Panel 1
TRANSFIGURING THE MUNDANE
Chair: Elizabeth Robertson
Gillian Adler
Julian of Norwich and Medieval Traversals of Time
Raphaela Rohrhofer
Julian of Norwich on Love and Nothingness
Laura Kalas
Producing Passioun: Reading Pain Generatively in the Revelations of Love
Jo Koster
The Custom of Our Prayer: Establishing the Context of Julian’s Anchoritic Discourse
14:00 Panel 2
MATERIAL AND IMMATERIAL
Chair: Annie Sutherland
Fred Morgan
“But I saw not synne”
Anna-Nadine Pike
“dereworthy blod”, Meditation and Performance in Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love and British Library, MS Egerton 1821
Melissa Tu
“These words seyd our Lord”: Virtual Voices in Julian’s Text
Victoria Yuskaitis
Julian of Norwich’s Cell: The Role Archaeology Plays in Strengthening Authenticity and Impact
16:00 Roundtable 1a (at Pusey House)
CREATIVE ENGAGEMENTS WITH JULIAN
Moderator: Antje E. Chan
Max Brumberg-Kraus and Jennifer Awes-Freeman
“Visions of Divine Love”: A Poetic and Visual Response to Julian’s Revelations
Caroline Golum
Creative Engagement with Revelations of Divine Love as Transcendental Cinema
Laura Varnam
Voices in Dialogue: Meeting Julian through Margery in Contemporary Creative Adaptations
16:00 Roundtable 1b (at Pusey House)
JULIAN IN THE COVID ERA
Moderator: Hannah Lucas
Gill Butterworth
An Icon for Such a Time as This: A Pre-UK First Lockdown Anticipatory Consideration of Julian of Norwich and Pandemic Themes
Margaret Healy-Varley
Reading Julian for Resilience
Richard Norton
Julian of Norwich, The Church and Covid-19: A Scholarly and Pastoral Response
17:30 Roundtable 2a (at Pusey House)
PREMODERN CRITICAL RACE STUDIES AND JULIAN OF NORWICH
Moderator: Mishtooni Bose
A conversation between:
Michelle M. Sauer
Dorothy Kim
Bailey Ludwig
Kyle Moore
17:30 Roundtable 2b (at Pusey House)
JULIAN AND MODERN CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICES
Moderator: Godelinde Gertrude Perk
Carla MacKinnon
When a Woman Sits Alone: A Creative Project Inspired by Julian of Norwich
Emma Pennington
Doorway to Silence: An Analysis of the Use of Julian’s Text by Contemplative Prayer Groups Today
Claire Foster-Gilbert
Contemplating Cancer Cells: A Personal Account of Julian’s Companionship Enduring and Writing about Two and a Half Years of Treatment for Myeloma
Saturday 16th July
09:00 Panel 3
MODERN RESPONSES TO JULIAN
Chair: Alicia Smith
Laura De Gaspari
Divine Motherhood in Julian of Norwich and Spiritual Maternity in Edith Stein
Heather Glover
Beholding as Interpretive Strategy: Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love and Christina Rossetti’s The Face of the Deep
Simon Horobin
“A dangerous book”: C.S. Lewis on the Revelations of Julian of Norwich
Nancy Bradley Warren
Julian of Norwich: New Visions of Her Lives and Afterlives
11:00 Panel 4
TEXTUAL INTERVENTIONS
Chair: Laura Saetveit Miles
Samira Lindstedt
Towards a Grammar of Revelation: Editing and Translating Julian’s Revelations
Fumiko Yoshikawa
What Do Scribal Corrections Show in Paris, BNF, Fonds Anglais MS 40?
Brenna Duperron
Editing Community in the Works of Julian of Norwich
13:30 Panel 5
BEYOND THE ANCHORHOLD
Chair: Nicholas Watson
Alexis Becker
Behovely Work
Laurence Bond
“With alle the faith of haly kyrke”: Social Meaning and Dissent in the Writings of Julian of Norwich
David Palko
Moving Beyond Economics with Julian of Norwich
Chase Padusniak
Julian and the Politics of Norwich
15:30 Panel 6
WORKING ON / WITH JULIAN
Chair: Ayoush Lazikani
Juliana Dresvina
Julian of Norwich’s Shewings: A Medieval Failure, An Early Modern Success
Daniel Fishley
The Weakness of A Revelation: Julian of Norwich, John Caputo, and the Questioning Event of Theology
Hannah Lucas
The Good Enough Mystic: Toward a Practical Theory of Julian Scholarship
Melaney Poli
How We got “Saint Julian”: A Short History in Images
17:15 Respondent
Liz Herbert McAvoy
18:15-19:30 Play
A darkly humorous play written and performed by Cindy Oswin
‘Cell’ examines the enclosed life of Julian of Norwich into old age.
20:00-21:30 Closing Dinner
The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature are pleased to announce the 2022 Medium Ævum Annual Lecture will be taking place on Saturday, 2 July (4:30-6pm BST):
Dr Ryan Perry (University of Kent) will deliver the annual lecture on ‘Middle English Books of Devotion and Liturgical Privatisation in Fifteenth-century England’, as part of the ‘Pfaff at 50’ conference at the University of Nottingham marking 50 years since the publication of Richard W. Pfaff’s ground-breaking New Liturgical Feasts in Later Medieval England.
Dr Perry’s lecture will examine several devotional texts (such as pseudo-Bonaventure’s Meditationes vitae Christi and its English redaction by Nicholas Love) alongside manuscript assemblages to investigate how vernacular religious materials were put in service of individualised or household reading programmes. Such programmes might imitate the rhythms of the official liturgy or alternatively be understood in some respects as quasi-liturgies, reflecting improvised devotional regimens and structures of pious observance.
Registration details for in-person and online attendance are available at the following link: https://pfaff50.wordpress.com/keynote/
A Double Act: Introductory Seminar and Research Conference
Corpus Christi College (Oxford), Trinity Term 2022
For info, programme, and registration form: http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2022/06/17/eunuchus#Programme
A hybrid weekly seminar in Trinity Term (Tuesdays 11.30am, 26 April to 14 June) and one-day research conference (Friday 17 June); in collaboration with the APGRD, Corpus Christi College Classics Centre, and the University of Leipzig. Organizers: Stefano Cianciosi (LMH, Oxford), Domenico Giordani (LMH, Oxford/UCL), Vincent Graf (Leipzig/Oxford), and Giuseppe Pezzini (CCC, Oxford).
Corpus Christi College Classics Centre and the APGRD are pleased to invite you to a double act dedicated to Terence’s most successful and most controversial comedy, Eunuchus, which will consist of a weekly introductory seminar and a one-day research conference, both open to everyone.
Introductory Seminar
Tuesdays 11.30-1pm, 26 April – 14 June
Corpus Christi College (Oxford) and on Zoom
Our programme encompasses a wide array of topics and perspectives on the play — from textual criticism to gender studies, from ancient and modern reception to stage-related issues and performance. In addition to presentations on selected passages given by graduate students and early career researchers, the first five sessions will include short introductions on several aspects of the text such as transmission, language, metre, Greek model, and the historical context of its performance.
We’d like to stress that the seminar is open to everyone and it is by no means expected that participants will have any prior knowledge of the Eunuchus or of Roman comedy in general. In fact, our aim is to bring different approaches to bear on the text and thus open up new avenues for interpretation.
Research conference: The Reception of Terence Eunuchus
Friday 17 June
Auditorium, Corpus Christi College (Oxford) and on Zoom
As Terence’s most successful play, Eunuchus was consistently part of the Latin school canon from the late Roman Republic to the modern era. Over a period of more than two thousand years, the comedy has been edited, performed, commented on, criticised, illustrated, and imitated numerous times. By bringing together experts on the ancient, medieval, and modern reception of the play, the workshop aims to discuss a wide range of approaches and provide insight into the colourful afterlife of one of Rome’s most successful poets.
Confirmed speakers:
Edith Hall (University of Durham)
Antony Augoustakis (University of Illinois, Urbana Campaign)
Andrew Cain (University of Colorado Boulder)
Vincent Graf (University of Oxford/Leipzig)
Giovanna Di Martino (University College London)
Andrea Peverelli (Leiden University)
Giulia Torello-Hill (University of New England)
Andrew Turner (University of Melbourne)
Beatrice Radden Keefe (Universitӓt Zürich)
Stefan Feddern (Universität Leipzig)
Contact
If you have any questions or queries, please feel free to email Stefano Cianciosi at stefano.cianciosi@lmh.ox.ac.uk
The 2022 Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference organising committee is pleased to announce the programme for Medicine and Healing.
Medicine and Healing: The 18th Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference
21st-22nd April, online and in-person at Ertegun House, St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LD.
Sponsored by the Ertegun Graduate Scholarship Programme in the Humanities, Oxford Medieval Studies, the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature.
Organising Committee: Katherine Beard, Ashley Castelino, Corinne Clark, James Cogbill, Nia Moseley-Roberts, Diana Myers, Grace O’Duffy, Caleb Prus and Eugenia Vorobeva.
To register for online or in-person attendance, please visit our website.
Programme
THURSDAY 21st APRIL
9:30-9:55 Registration (in-person)
9:55-10:00 Opening Remarks
10:00-11:30 Session 1: Charmed (chair: Katherine Beard)
11:30-12:00 Break with refreshments
12:00-13:30 Session 2: Call the Midwife (chair: Diana Myers)
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:30 Session 3: The Seventh Seal (chair: James Cogbill)
15:30-16:00 Break with refreshments
16:00-17:00 Keynote Address 1
17:00 Drinks Reception
19:00 Conference Dinner (optional)
FRIDAY 22nd APRIL
9:30-10:15 Medicine & Healing at Oxford: Manuscript & Social Session (with refreshments)
10:15-11:15 Session 4: Being Human (chair: Caleb Prus)
11:15-11:45 Break with refreshments
11:45-13:15 Session 5: Inside Out (chair: Corinne Clark)
13:15-14:15 Lunch
14:15-15:45 Session 6: Sister Act (chair: Eugenia Vorobeva)
15:45-16:15 Break with refreshments
16:15-17:15 Keynote Address 2
17:15-17:20 Closing Remarks
Image: Medieval dentistry, from the fourteenth-century Omne Bonum of James le Palmer (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).
The Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Maison française d’Oxford invite you to attend the hybrid conference Hesychasm in Context: Theology and Society in the Fourteenth Century, Thursday 17th – Friday 18th March 2022. All of the papers will be livestreamed.
To register for the in-person event (including lunches), please email Dr Rei Hakamada (rei.hakamada@theology.ox.ac.uk) as soon as possible, as numbers are limited.
Registration to participate online is via the following link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArc-2trj4iGdfuVWLi81Wc0ybeFo43Xx-i.
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
Image: St. Gregory Palamas, Monastery of Vatopedi, Mount Athos (Creative Commons CCO 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication)
Princeton, Oxford, University of Vienna, Mainz, Free University Berlin
2 -3 June 2022, Vienna
In the spirit of fostering closer links between the participating universities, their teaching staff and their students, and building on their research strengths in Late Antique, Byzantine and Early Medieval studies (roughly defined as extending to the year 1000), this conference invites contributions from graduate students (MA and doctoral level) that deal with any aspect of these cultures. A total of 18 students and about 9 teaching staff will participate from across the five universities. Vienna will host the event, including offering lunch and dinner on Friday, 3 June. Vienna will also be able to pay for the accommodation for ca. 20 people for two nights each. Papers are allocated 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of discussion.
Julia Smith and David Addison will lead the Oxford contingent. The Faculty of History has made available funding to cover the travel for 3 students, who will be selected on the basis of this Call for Papers. To be considered for inclusion, please send the following
Information to both Julia.smith@history.ox.ac.uk and David.Addison@all-souls.ox.ac.uk by 28 March 2022:
Outline programme
Thursday, 2 June
14.00 Coffee
14.30-18.30
6 papers plus breaks
Friday, 3 June
9.00-13.00
6 papers plus breaks
Lunch
14.30-18.30
6 papers plus breaks
19.00 Conference Dinner
Saturday, 4 June
10.00 Guided visit of the Papyrussammlung (Austrian National Library), with Bernhard Palme (optional)
11.30 Student-organized sight seeing (optional)
The Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference committee is thrilled to announce that the theme for 2022 will be Medicine and Healing. We look forward to hearing talks from our keynote speakers, Professor Emilie Savage-Smith and Dr Hannah Bower. The conference will be held in person (with limited measures in place for online papers) at Ertegun House, Oxford, on 21 and 22 April. We are pleased to call for papers which relate to all aspects of medicine and healing in Medicine and the medieval world.
Examples of areas of interest include but are not limited to:
o Ecocriticism
o Theology; faith as healing
o Humours
o Plague
o Childbirth
o Veterinary medicine
o Mental health
o Magic and amulets; folklore
and belief
o Manuscripts
o Hagiography
o Gendered approaches
o Technologies of healing
Papers should be a maximum of 20 minutes. We intend to provide bursaries to help with speaker travel costs, and we are welcoming applications from graduate students at any university. Please email abstracts of 250 words to
oxgradconf@gmail.com by 15th January.
We are pleased to announce the programme of the conference that will conclude the seminar series on Scribal Identity and Agency, hosted by the Early Text Cultures research network at the University of Oxford. The event will take place online on Zoom (UK time) on 16 – 17 December 2021 and will include talks on the Late Bronze Age city of Ugarit, ancient Rome, medieval Christianity and Islam, and monastic communities in early modern Ethiopia and Tibet. To receive the link please register here.
Abstracts can be found here.
PROGRAMME (UK TIME)
DAY 1 (16 December)
4—4.15pm
Introduction & Greetings
Session 1. Urban Scribes in Mediterranean Antiquity: East and West
4.15—4.45pm
Philip Boyes (Cambridge)
Script and Identity in Late Bronze Age Ugarit
4.45—5.15pm
Benjamin Hartmann (Zurich)
Consequences of Literacy: Identity and Agency of Roman scribae
5.15—5.45pm
Joint Q&A
Session 2. (Non-)Marginal Scribal Identities in the Christian and Islamic Middle Ages
6.15—6.45pm
Elaine Treharne (Stanford)
Networks of Female (?) Scribal Activity, 1100-1250
6.45—7.15pm
Vevian Zaki (Oxford)
To be a Scribe of Christian Arabic Texts: Skills and Challenges
7.15—7.45pm
Joint Q&A
DAY 2 (17 December)
Session 3. Inscribing Religious Communities into the Modern Era
4.45—5.15pm
Brenton Sullivan (Colgate)
Monastic Constitutions and the Dissemination of Administrative Power in Premodern Tibet
5.15—5.45pm
Denis Nosnitsin (Hamburg)
Scribes from Ethiopia (East Tigray): Practices, Profiles, Portraits
5.45—6.15pm
Joint Q&A
6.15—6.30pm
Break
6.30—7.30pm
Final Roundtable
Everyone is extremely welcome.