Perspectives on Language and Culture in Early Christianity - 10-11-12/09/2015, Leuven (Belgium)
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 10-11-12/09/2015
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Rita Beyers (UAntwerpen); Tim Denecker; Mark Janse (UGent); Mathieu Lamberigts; Gert Partoens; Pierre Swiggers; Toon Van Hal.
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INFO: web (News section) - tim.denecker@arts.kuleuven.be
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: 40€ online
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
Thursday, September 10, 2015
09:30 [Registration]
10:30 [Welcome address]
Session: “Overview I: The place of Christian litera ture”
11:10 Willy Clarysse, “Remnants of Christian books preserved from the second to the eighth century
AD”
Keynote 1
11:45 Thorsten Fögen
12:30 [Lunch]
Session: “Uses and concepts of language”
13:30 Dmitry Biriukov, “Strategies of Naming in the Polemics between Eunomius and Basil of Caesarea in the Context of Ancient tradition”
14:05 Jonathan Watt, “Patristic Conceptions of Language Universals”
14:40 Stuart Rowley Thomson, “‘Prayers uttered in barbarian tongues have greater power’: Early Christians and Barbarian Languages”
15:15 [Coffee]
Session: “Language and theological controversies”
15:45 Luise Marion Frenkel, “The nature of a discourse and the uniqueness of meaning: Christian tradition and imperial authority during the Nestorian controversy”
16:20 Viola Gheller, “Theological polemic and linguistic clashes in Visigothic Aquitaine”
16:55 [Coffee]
Keynote 2
17:15 Alfons Fürst (LECTIO keynote)
18:00 [Reception]
Friday, September 11, 2015
Session: “Language and style I”
9:30 Alessio Persic, “Brevi sermone et rustico scripsit (Hier. De viris inl., 97)”
10:05 Arkadiy Avdokhin, “Inscribed dialogues: late antique epigrams between pagan and Christian idioms”
10:40 [Coffee]
Session: “Overview II: Speaking in foreign languages”
11:10 Yuliya Minets, “Topos of Xenolalia in Christian Literature of Late Antiquity: Origins and Development”
Keynote 3
11:45 Louis Holtz
12:30 [Lunch]
Parallel session A: “The Greek Church Fathers”
13:30 George Karamanolis, “Cratylus Revived: Early Christians on the Origin and Nature of Language”
14:05 Marco Quircio, ““And God said”: Basil of Caes area on language in the Hexaemeron”
14:40 Martin Wenzel, “Learning Christian Language with Gregory of Nyssa: The Meaning of Theological Language in a Cappadocian Catechetical Context”
Parallel session B: “Language and thought in Augustine”
13:30 Sarah Byers, “Philosophical Language in Augustine and Victorinus”
14:05 Gábor Kendeffy, “Divine Verbum as Veritas and Veracitas: Saint Augustine's decisive argument against lying”
14:40 Anneli Luhtala, “Neoplatonist Themes in Augustine’s Educational Works”
15:15 [Coffee]
Session: “Translation: Texts and strategies I”
15:45 Godwin Mhuriyashe Mushayabasa, “Influences on the translation techniques in the Peshitta to
Ezekiel: the LXX and the history of translation philosophy”
16:20 Samuel A. Pomeroy, “Resourcing ὁ Σύρος : Towards a Critical Assessment of John Chrysostom’s Linguistic References”
16:55 [Coffee]
Keynote 4
17:15 Josef Lössl
Saturday, September 12, 2015
Session: “Early Christian thought on language history, and its reception”
09:30 Raf Van Rooy, “Nostrae Hebraeae uicinissima dialectus : Christophorus Crinesius on the Syriac hypothesis of Theodoret of Cyrrhus”
10:05 Josef Eskhult, “Augustine on the nature of language and on the diversity of languages: a survey of his semio-linguistic and ethno-linguistic thought”
10:40 [Coffee]
11:10 Nicolas De Maeyer & Tim Denecker, “Language History in the Venerable Bede's Biblical Commentaries: Canonization and adaptive strategies”
11:45 [Lunch]
Session: “Translation: Texts and strategies II”
13:00 Jörn Albrecht, “Deux versets de l’Apocalypse dans la traduction de Saint Jérôme retraduits dans plusieurs langues européennes”
14:35 Robert Crellin, “Translating verbal aspect: the Greek aorist in the Latin New Testament translation tradition”
14:10 Hans Förster, “The Latin and Coptic translation of John 20:18 – sloppy work or change of
story?”
14:45 [Concluding remarks]
[Closure]