The Impact of Learning Greek, Hebrew and 'Oriental' Languages on Scholarship, Science, and S
This year’s LECTIO conference will seize the 500th anniversary of the foundation of the Leuven Collegium Trilingue as an incentive both to examine the general context in which such polyglot institutes emerged and—more generally—to assess the overall impact of Greek and Hebrew education. Our focus is not exclusively on the 16th century, as we also welcome papers dealing with the status and functions accorded to Greek, Hebrew, and other ‘Oriental’ languages in the (later) Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period up to 1750. Special attention will be directed to the learning and teaching practices and to the general impact the study of these languages exerted on scholarship, science and society.
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 13-14-15/12/2017
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe (Irish College) (Leuven, Belgium)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Seminar für Klassische Philologie; Dr. Diego De Brasi
INFO: web - raf.vanrooy@kuleuven.be
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: inscripción online / registration online / registrazione online
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
Wednesday 13 December 2017 | Conference day 1 | University Hall
15.00 - 16.00 Registration & Welcome coffee
17.00 - 18.00
Academic Session | Promotiezaal University Hall 01.46 | Naamsestraat 22 Leuven
Opening of the Conference by Luk Draye | Chairman of Steering Committee of Lectio
Speech by Bart Raymaekers | Vice Rector of KU Leuven
Keynote Lecture by Saverio Campanini (Bologna), Hebrew Students and Teachers Across Borders in the Renaissance | Chair – Pierre Van Hecke
18.00 - 19:30 Reception | Jubileumzaal University Hall
Thursday 14 December 2017 | Conference day 2 | Irish College
Session 1: Jewish Studies in Medieval Times | Chair – Christophe Geudens
09.00 - 09.30
Abraham Melamed (Haifa), Hebrew As the Original Philosophic Language in the Writings of Medieval Jewish Scholars
09.30 - 10.00
Ayelet Wenger (Oxford), Hints of Greek and Latin Scholarship in a Medieval Rabbinic Dictionary
10.00 - 10.30
Vito Andrea Mariggiò (Salento), The Maḥbarot of ‘Immanu’el of Rome and the Classical Tradition
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee
Session 2: Trilingualism and Education | Chair – Xander Feys
11.00 - 11.30
Elia Borza (Louvain-la-Neuve), Deux exemples de cours universitaires de grec: Chalcondylas et Musuros
11.30 - 12.00
Raf Van Rooy (Leuven), In Rutger Rescius’ Classroom at the Leuven Collegium Trilingue: his Study Program and Didactic Method
12.00 - 12.30
Natasha Constantinidou (Nicosia), Publishing for the College de France: Gerard Morrhy and Chrestien Wechel (c. 1530-1550)
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
Session 3: Trilingualism and Sciences | Chair – Yannick Anné
13.30 - 14.00
Nicola Carpentieri (Mansfield, Connecticut) & Isaac Lampurlanés Farré (Barcelona), Between Philology and Medical Theory: Avicenna, Ibn al-Quff and Gerard of Cremona on Phrenitis
14.00 - 14.30
Sara Fani (Firenze/Copenhagen), The Theoretic and Linguistic Approach to the 16th-Century Arabic Edition of Avicenna’s Works
14.30 - 15.00
Laurent Waelkens (Leuven), Du juriste Reuchlin au linguiste Érasme: la consolidation de la culture gréco-romaine
15.00 - 15.30 Coffee
Session 4: Conrad Gessner and the Study of Greek | Chair – Raf Van Rooy
15.30 - 16.00
Mikhail Sergeev (St. Petersburg), The Importance of Greek for Conrad Gessner
16.00 - 16.30
Grigory Vorobyev (St. Petersburg/Münster), Conrad Gessner as a Reader of Aristotle: Greek Words in the Early Modern Zoological Nomenclature
17.00 - 18.00
Academic Session | Mercierzaal University Library
Keynote Lecture by Luigi-Alberto Sanchi (Paris), Greek Studies in Western Europe: Acme of Medieval Culture or Dawn of Modern Times? | Chair – Toon Van Hal
18.00 - 19.30
Visit of the Exhibition ‘Erasmus’ Dream. The Leuven Collegium Trilingue 1517-2017’ | University Library
20.00 Conference Dinner
Friday 15 December 2017 | Conference day 3 | Irish College
Session 5: Greek Studies in Protestant Germany | Chair – Wim François
09.30 - 10.00
Ralph Keen (Chicago), Melanchthon as Advocate of Trilingual Humanism: Imitation and Exhortation
10.00 - 10.30
Cressida Ryan (Oxford), Greek Tragedy, the New Testament and the German Reformation
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee
Session 6: Trilingualism in Northern and Eastern Europe | Chair – Luigi-Alberto Sanchi
11.00 - 11.30
Xander Feys (Leuven), Reading Virgil through Homer: The Role of the Greek Language in Petrus Nannius’ Classes
11.30 - 12.00
Tomas Veteikis (Vilnius), Ὡς οἷόν τε περὶ ταῦτα διαπονητέον: Importance of Mastering Greek as Expressed in the Handwritten Greek Oration from 16th-Century Lithuania
12.00 - 12.30
Janika Päll & Anu Põldsam (Tartu), Trilingual Poems in the Collegia of the Swedish Empire in the 17th Century
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
Session 7: ‘Oriental’ Languages: Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic | Chair – Andy Peetermans
13.30 - 14.00
Wim François (Leuven), The Burning of the Talmud in Rome (1553) and the Interventions of Andreas Masius
14.00 - 14.30
Margherita Farina (Paris), Maronite Grammars Reconsidered: Syriac Studies and the Development of Renaissance European Linguistics
14.30 - 15.00
Katarzyna Starczewska (Madrid), Nec quidquam feliciter sit quod accuratione cum Alcorano certare queat: Latin Translations of the Qur’ān as Teaching Material for Arabic Learners in 16th- and 17th-Century Europe
15.00 - 15.30 Coffee
15.30 - 16.00 Plenary discussion & concluding remarks