Online Workshop: "Armenian Society under Caliphal Rule"
10. November 2023, von AAI Webmaster
The Emmy Noether Junior Research Group ‘Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period’ (SCORE) at the University of Hamburg is delighted to announce that registration is now open for the online workshop ‘Armenian Society under Caliphal Rule’, 7–8 December 2023.
This workshop will consider the social history of Armenia in the period between the first Muslim invasions and the establishment of the Bagratuni kingdom, i.e. seventh to ninth centuries AD/ first to third centuries AH.
To register, please contact the convener, Alasdair Grant, at alasdair.grant@uni-hamburg.de. Registration will be open until the end of the event, but advanced registration is encouraged. The workshop will be hosted on Zoom and will take place in the afternoon only (local time), to accommodate participants across the Atlantic.
Workshop Programme
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Thursday 7 & Friday 8 December 2023
Convened by the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group, ‘Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period’ (SCORE), Universität Hamburg
Online via Zoom; free and open to all
All times in CET = GMT +1
For registration and queries, email alasdair.grant@uni-hamburg.de
Visit our website at https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forschung/score.html
Day 1 (07.12.23)
Chair: Alon Dar (Hamburg)
14:00–14:15: Welcome, Alasdair Grant (Hamburg)
14:15–15:00: ‘Past and present: The Canons of Partaw (768 CE)’, Tim Greenwood (St Andrews); respondent: Emilio Bonfiglio (Hamburg)
15:00–15:15: Break
15:15–16:00: ‘Around the frozen Lake of Bznunik. Climatic and environmental aspects of the Arab rule in Armenia, 7th–9th centuries’, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Vienna); respondent: John Haldon (Princeton)
16:00–16:15: Break
16:15–17:00: ‘Taxation and tribute’, Alasdair Grant (Hamburg); respondent: Noëmie Lucas (Edinburgh)
17:00–17:15: Break
17:15–18:00: ‘From Abū al-Dawāniq to Caṙay Dangi: Writing caliphal rule in Armenia’, Leone Pecorini Goodall (Edinburgh/St Andrews); respondent: Hannah-Lena Hagemann (Hamburg)
Day 2 (08.12.23)
Chair: Hannah-Lena Hagemann (Hamburg)
14:00–14:45: ‘Two Councils of Manzikert? A reassessment of the doctrinal policies of Yovhannēs Odznets‘i (c. 717–728) and the consequences of direct caliphal rule’, Stephanie Forrest (Cambridge); respondent: Walter Beers (Hamilton)
14:45–15:00: Break
15:00–15:45: ‘The birth of Armenian documentary epigraphy in the early Islamicate world’, Nik Matheou (Edinburgh); respondent: Lewis Read (Vienna)
15:45–16:00: Break
16:00–16:45: ‘Deflections and marriages in the Byzantine–Arab borderlands’, Ani Honarchian (Saint Louis); respondent: Antonia Bosanquet (Utrecht)
16:45–17:00: Concluding remarks, Alasdair Grant (Hamburg)