Specific issues in Oriental philology
Athens, 8-9 December 2011
The COMSt Team Philology and Text Criticism organized its second workshop in Athens, Greece, on 8-9 December 2011.
Click here to download the detailed workshop report (PDF).
Workshop programme
Thursday, 8 December
14.30-14.45 Opening address: Taxiarchis G. Kolias, Zisis Melissakis, Johannes den Heijer
14.15-16.15 1st Session: Dealing with Translated Texts. Chair: Alessandro Bausi
- Lara Sels, Editing Medieval Slavonic translations of Byzantine Texts
- Marie Cronier, The use of translations for the edition of an original text (Greek and Arabic)
- Andrea Schmidt, Editing an Armenian text translated from Syriac (the History of Michael the Syrian)
- Johannes den Heijer & Perrine Pilette: Research on Coptic-Arabic historiography
16.15-16.45 Coffee break
16.45-18.15 2nd Session : Large and fluid traditions. Chair: Stylianos Lampakis
- Alessandro Bausi, Purported fluid traditions (Ethiopic)
- Hugo Lundhaug: Fluid vs. authorial/mechanical textual traditions; fluid traditions attested to by very few witnesses (Coptic)
- Ilse de Vos, Dealing with a large manuscript tradition (Greek: Pseudo-Athanasius' Erotapokriseis)
18.15-18.45 Coffee break
18.45-20.15 3rd Session: Texts with a special religious status or function. Chair: Antionia Giannouli
- Michael Marx, Exploring the textual history of the Qur'an
- Ugo Zanetti, Editing liturgical texts (Greek, Coptic) (continued)
20.15-20.45 Discussion. Chair: Jost Gippert
21.00 Dinner
Friday, 9 December
9.00-10.30 4th Session: Formal aspects of critical editions. Chair: Caroline Macé
- Sébastien Moureau, Options and formats for the apparatus criticus (Greek, Latin, Arabic)
- Antonia Giannouli, Apparatus fontium, similium etc. (Byzantine Greek)
- Petra Sijpesteijn, Formats for the edition of documentary texts (Greek, Coptic, Arabic)
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.00 5th Session: Various Aspects of Philology and Textual Criticism. Chair: Ugo Zanetti
- Tara Andrews, The edition of the Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa (Armenian)
- Zuzana Gazakova, Orally transmitted popular narration preserved in manuscripts (Arabic: Sirat Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan)
- Matthew Driscoll, On Old and New Philology
12.00-12.30 Discussion and Conclusions. Chair: Johannes den Heijer
12.30-14.00 Visit to the National Library of Greece
14.30 Lunch
17.00-18.30 Meeting of Team 2
Participants
Convenors
1. Professor Kriton Chryssochoidis, Athens (GR)
2. Mr. Nikolaos Livanos, Athens (GR)
3. Dr. Zisis Melissakis, Athens (GR)
4. Dr. Nicholas Melvani, Athens (GR)
Speakers
5. Dr. Tara Andrews, Leuven (BE)
6. Professor Alessandro Bausi, Hamburg (DE)
7. Dr. Marie Cronier, Paris (FR)
8. Dr. Ilse De Vos, Oxford (UK)
9. Professor Johannes den Heijer, Louvain-la-Neuve (BE)
10. Professor Matthew James Driscoll, Copenhagen (DK)
11. Dr. Zuzana Gažákovà, Bratislava (SK)
12. Professor Antonia Giannouli, Nicosia (CY)
13. Dr. Hugo Lundhaug, Oslo (NO)
14. Professor Michael Marx, Potsdam (DE)
15. Dr. Sébastien Moureau, Namur (BE)
16. Ms. Perrine Pilette, Louvain-la-Neuve (BE)
17. Professor Andrea Schmidt, Louvain-la-Neuve (BE)
18. Professor Lara Sels, Ghent (BE)
19. Professor Susana Torres Prieto, Madrid (ES)
20. Professor p. Ugo Zanetti, Chevetogne (BE)
Participants
21. Professor Ewa Balicka-Witakowska, Uppsala (SE)
22. Professor Malachi Beit-Arié, Jerusalem (IL)
23. Professor Françoise Briquel Chatonnet, Ivry sur Seine cedex (FR)
24. Professor Paola Buzi, Ostia Lido-Roma (IT)
25. Professor Alberto Cantera, Salamanca (ES)
26. Dr. Emily Cottrell, Paris (FR)
27. Dr. Barbara Crostini, Stockholm (SE)
28. Dr. Lorenzo Cuppi, Bologna (IT)
29. Mrs. Sophia Dege, Hamburg (DE)
30. Ms. Sara Fani, Firenze (IT)
31. Professor Gianfranco Fiaccadori, Milano (IT)
32. Professor Charles Genequand, Versoix (CH)
33. Mr. Emmanuel Georgoudakis, Athens (GR)
34. Professor Jost Gippert, Frankfurt (DE)
35. Professor Alessandro Gori, Firenze (IT)
36. Mr. Grigory Kessel, Marburg (DE)
37. Dr. Marina Koumanoudi, Athens (GR)
38. Professor Eleonora Kountoura-Galake, Athens (GR)
39. Professor Stylianos Lampakis, Athens (GR)
40. Dr. Maria Leontsini, Athens (GR)
41. Professor Caroline Macé, Leuven (BE)
42. Mrs. Theodora Michelopoulou, Athens (GR)
43. Mrs. Vasiliki Papathanasopoulou, Athens (GR)
44. Professor Borbone Pier Giorgio, Pisa (IT)
45. Mr. Socratis Psilias, Athens (GR)
46. Mrs. Lucia Raggetti, Napoli (IT)
47. Mrs. Flavia Ruani, Créteil (FR)
48. Dr. Evgenia Sokolinskaia, Hamburg (DE)
49. Mrs. Emilie Villey, Caen (FR)
50. Dr. Ronny Vollandt, Paris (FR)
51. Professor Witold Witakowski, Uppsala (SE)