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’ “Church History” 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 “Kitāb al-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 DHONDT ROOM)
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 “Ecclesiastical History”
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 DHONDT ROOM)
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).