Wednesday 16 September
9.30-9.40: Opening–Maria Conterno:
Found in Translation
9.40-10.20:C. Tavolieri (Rome)–Historiography and Hagiographic texts: the Syriac Versions of
Palladius’ “Historia Lausiaca”
10.20-11.00:E. Delacenserie (Gent)–The reception of Socrates of Constantinople’s “Ecclesiastical
History”: a case-study for intercultural exchanges
11.30-12.20:C. Noce–S. Robbe (Rome)–Translating Eusebius’ “ChurchHistory” in the West and in the East: Rufinus and his contemporary Syriac colleague
12.20-13.00: General discussion
Egypt
14.00-14.40:L.M. Frenkel (São Paulo)–Coptic conciliar historiography: appropriation of history and the creation of the past between conciliar acts and hagiography in the Acts of Ephesus 431
14.40-15.20:A. Camplani (Rome)–Religious and cultural otherness in Egyptian historiographical and
hagiographical texts of Late Antiquity: the transmission and manipulation of documents about non-
Egyptian groups and churches
16.00-16.40:P. Pilette (New York/Louvain-la-Neuve)–Translation process and open tradition:
Transformation of historical knowledge through the“History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria”
16.40-17.20:J. Stutz (Basel)–Eutychius of Alexandria, Constantine and the Arian legacy
17.20-17.50: General discussion
Thursday 17 September
Islam and the (Far) East
9.30-10.10:F. Furlan (Padova)–The Mahdī and the Torah: curiosity and diffidence towards Jewish
written tradition in a chapter of the“Kitābal-Fitan” by Nu’aym b.Ḥammād
10.10-10.50:S. Rapp (Huntsville, Texas)–Historiographical Encounters of the Cross-Cultural Kind: The
Iranian Epic and Caucasian Historical Literature at the Margins of the Iranian and Byzantine Worlds
11.20-12.00:G. Dabiri (Gent)–Iranian Kings and Biblical Prophets in the construction of moral types in Early Islamic Historiography
12.00-12.40:J. Scheiner (Göttingen)–The Byzantines in Early Islamic Historiography: Indicators for
‘cultural translation’ in al-Azdī’s Book on the Conquests of Syria
12.40-13.00: General Discussion
Latin and the (Far) West
14.00-14.40:R. Praet (Gent)–Lingua Latina Perennis?–The decline of Latin from an antiquarian perspective
14.40-15.20:F. Montinaro (Tübingen)–Muhammad and Samo
15.20-16.00: General discussion followed by coffee (JAN DHONDTROOM)
Friday 18 September
The in-between
9.00-9.40:S. Ford (Oxford)–Intercultural Influences in the Samaritan Chronographic Tradition
9.40-10.20:J. Corke-Webster (Durham)–Letters between Cultures: Jesus and Empire in Eusebius of
Caesarea’s “EcclesiasticalHistory”
10.20-11.00:P. Wood (London)–Constantine in Mesopotamia. The fourth century in the Chronicle of Seert
11.00-11.30: coffee break(JAN DHONDTROOM)
Conclusion
11.30-12.10:S. Johnson (University of Oklahoma)–Form, content, and genre in Eastern
historiography: is anything not intercultural?
12.10-12.40: General discussion
Everyone who wishes to attend the conference is kindly asked to register by writing to Panagiotis
Manafis,panagiotis.manafis@ugent.be(no registration fees required).