Holy Hero(in)es: Literary Constructions of Heroism in Late Antique and Early Medieval Hagiography -
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 18-19-20/02/2016
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal en Letterkunde (KANTL) (Ghent, Belgium)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Prof. dr. Koen De Temmerman; Klazina Staat; Julie Van Pelt
INFO: web - j.baird@bbk.ac.uk - zena.kamash@rhul.ac.uk
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: registro online / registration online / registrazione online
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
T H U R S D A Y
09.00-09.10 Opening
Panel 1: Reading Saints (chair: Johan Leemans)
09.10-09.40 Aldo Tagliabue (University of Heidelberg) The literary construction of a transcendent hero in Pontius’ Life of Cyprian
09.40-10.10 Candace Buckner (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Dangerous Solitude: The connection between heresy and anchoritism in the Coptic Lives of Macarius the Great and Macarius of Alexandria
10.10-10.40 Ewa D. Zakrzewska (University of Amsterdam) How to construct empathy with a martyr? The case of the Bohairic Coptic Martyr Acts
10.40-11.10 Coffee
Panel 2: Gender (chair: Christian Høgel)
11.10-11.40 Anne Alwis (University of Kent) Rhetorical Heroines: The reconstruction of the virgin martyr in Byzantium
11.40-12.10 Erin Galgay Walsh (Duke University) Holy Fool and Ascetic Heroine: The Life of Onesima in the Syriac Tradition
12.10-12.40 Michelle Quay (University of Cambridge) Female Heroism in Sufi Hagiographical Texts: From Sulami (d. 1021) to ‘Attar (d. ca. 1221)
12.40-14.00 Lunch
Panel 3: Writing Saints (chair: Marco Formisano)
14.00-14.30 Markéta Kulhánková (Masaryk University) Telling and Showing in the Construction of Heroes in Byzantine Edifying Stories
14.30-15.00 Christa Gray (University of Glasgow) Heroic Writing: constructions and reflections of the author in Jerome’s Lives’ of Holy Men
15.00-15.30 Virginia Burrus (Syracuse University, New York) The Life of Constantina: performativity, pedagogy, eros
15.30-16.00 Coffee
16.00-17.00 Poster Presentations Annunziata Di Rienzo, Regina Fichera, Fiona Fritz, Rivkah Gillian Glass, Aaltje Hidding, Susanne Hummel, Niamh Kehoe, Riccardo Macchioro, Nicholas Mataya, Maria Sole Rigo, Lane Springer
17.00-18.00 Keynote Lecture (chair: Kristoffel Demoen) Stephanos Efthymiadis (Open University of Cyprus) Saints and second heroes: cases and forms of an extended narrative in Byzantine hagiography
18.00 Reception
F R I D A Y
Panel 4: (Side) Characters(chair: Wim Verbaal)
09.00-09.30 Nike Koutrakou (independent researcher) Between Confrontation and Support: figures of temporal power as a Saint’s supporting figures in 6 th century Byzantine Hagiography
09.30-10.00 Alessia Miriam Berardi (University of Toronto) The Latin Life of Saint Alexis (BHL 286): a puzzling heroism
10.00-10.30 Klazina Staat and Koen De Temmerman (Ghent University) Home and away: family heroes and sanctity in Latin late antique Lives
10.30-11.00 Marcia A. Morris (Georgetown University) Saint Theodosius of Kiev as Narrative Device
11.00-11.30 Coffee
Panel 5: Saints and Politics (chair: Ghazzal Dabiri)
11.30-12.00 Zainab Saberpour (Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Teheran) A Divine Warrior at War: Analyzing the Narratives of the Battle between Rostam and Isfandiar
12.00-12.30 Gowaart Van Den Bossche (Ghent University) The Hero as Ideal Ruler: Notes on the Narrative Constructions of Ibn ͨAbd al Ẓāhir’s Biography of Baybars
12.30-14.00 Lunch
Panel 6: History (chair: Peter Van Nuffelen)
14.00-14.30 Matthew O’Farrell (Macquarie University) The Deeds of Ardashir and the Legend of Constantine. Parallel Lives?
14.30-15.00 Ahmad Khan (University of Oxford) Constructing heroes in medieval Sunnism: rebellion, persecution, and death in Manaqib works
15.00-15.30 Helen Giunashvili (Ilia State University) Sasanian Iran and Georgia: Issues of Cultural-Religious Interrelations in the Light of Old Georgian Hagiographical Writings
15.30-16.00 Coffee
Panel 7: Intertextuality (chair: Jeroen Deploige)
16.00-16.30 Nienke Vos (VU University Amsterdam) Narrating Heroism: The Case of Sulpicius’ Vita Martini
16.30-17.00 Marianne Sághy (Central European University) Inclyti Martyres: Constructing the Roman Martyr as Hero(ine) in the Epigrams of Bishop Damasus
17.00-17.30 Piet Gerbrandy (University of Amsterdam) Notker and Hartmann on the impossibility of writing the life of St. Gallus
20.00 Conference Dinner in Het Pand, Onderbergen 1, 9000 Gent
S A T U R D A Y
Panel 8: Local Saints (chair: Marc Van Uytfanghe)
09.00-09.30 Sergey Minov (University of Oxford) The Syriac Life of Mar Yareth the Alexandrian: Constructing the Life of a local holy man in the late antique Mesopotamia
09.30-10.00 Sabine Fialon (Université Montpellier III) Rhétorique de l’éloge et construction des modèles de sainteté dans l’hagiographie africaine (IIe-VIe siècles)
10.00-10.30 Marta Tycner (Universities of Warsaw and Oxford) Pagan deities and Christian saints in Late Antique Gaul
10.30-11.00 Christian Høgel (University of Southern Denmark) Saint Sampson: founder of hospital and broker of imperial humanitarianism
11.00-11.30 Coffee
Panel 9: Collective Lives (chair: Danny Praet)
11.30-12.00 James Corke-Webster (Durham University) Surveying Hero(in)es: The Collective Biographies of Eusebius of Caesarea
12.00-12.30 Johan Leemans (KU Leuven) Heroes for Changing Times. The Literary Construction of Martyrdom in Gregory of Nyssa's Second Homily on the Forty of Sebaste
12.30-13.00 Discussion & Concluding Remarks
13.00-14.00 Lunch