Secrets and Secrecy in Late Antiquity, Byzantium, and Early Islam - 26-27-28/07/2019, Bamberg (Germa
Secrets and secrecy are key features in late-antique, Byzantine, and early Islamic literature. They can manifest as hidden knowledge or sanctity, as disguise or the veiling of intentions, as a physical and metaphorical absence, as the creation of new identities or even as alternative modes of existence.
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 26-27-28/07/2019
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Otto-Friedrich-Universität (Bamberg, Germany)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Anne Alwis (Kent); Anis Ben Amor (Tunis); Kirill Dmitriev (St Andrews); Konstantin Klein (Bamberg).
INFO: web - konstantin.klein@uni-bamberg.de
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: Gratis / free / gratuito.
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
Friday 26th July 2019
16:00 Registration
18:15 Welcome Address
18:30 Zachary Yuzwa (University of Saskatchewan) – “A Flower Among Thorns”: Hiddenness and Holiness in the Lives of Katherine Tekakwitha
20:00 Dinner for Speakers
Saturday 27th July 2019
9:00 Coffee and Registration
9:30 Introduction to the Conference
Session I
10:00 Benjamin Pohl (University of Bristol) – The Hidden Narrator
10:10 Stavroula Constantinou (University of Cyprus) – Authorship and Secrecy: The Hidden Agenda of a Fifth-Century Hagiographer
10:40 Kirill Dmitriev (University of St Andrews) – Secrecy as a Narrative Strategy in the Legend of Barlaam and Josaphat
11:10 Coffee
Session II
11:30 Jan-Markus Kötter (University of Düsseldorf) – Literary Absence
11:40 Lieve Van Hoof (Ghent University) – Self-Fashioning Through Secrets: The Years 363–388 in Libanius’ Letter Collection
12:10 Christa Gray (University of Reading) – Concealing the Body: Hidden Burials in Jerome’s Lives of Holy Men
12:40 Lunch for Speakers
Session III
14:00 Anne Alwis (University of Kent) – Lifting the Veil
14:10 Marlena Whiting (University of Amsterdam) – Secret Women. Female Pilgrims Disguised as Men in Early-Byzantine Hagiography
14:40 Laura Franco (Royal Holloway, London) – Between Concealment and Disguise: The Cases of the Cross-Dressing Saints Euphrosyne/Smaragdus (BHG 625) and Mary/Marinus (BHG 1163)
15:10 Coffee
Session IV
15:30 Dionysios Stathakopoulos (King’s College, London) – Secret Sanctity
15:40 Klazina Staat (Ghent University) – Late-Antique Latin Lives of Chaste Couples: Secrecy as a Strategy of Belief
16:10 Christodoulos Papavarnavas (University of Vienna) – Martyrdom and Secret Holiness: The Role Swap Between a Martyr and a Flute Player
16:40 Coffee
Session V
17:00 Leah Tether (University of Bristol) – Literary Discretion
17:10 Isabel Toral-Niehoff (Free University of Berlin) – The Gentle Art of Safeguarding Secrets. Confidentiality in Arabic Advice Literature
17:40 Lale Behzadi (University of Bamberg) – Al-Jāḥiẓ on the Difficulty of Keeping a Secret
18:30 City tour
20:00 Dinner for Speakers
Sunday 28th July
9:30 Coffee
Session VI
10:00 Jenny Oesterle (University of Heidelberg) – Secrecy and Knowledge
10:10 Georg Leube (University of Bayreuth) – Gnosis on the Via Dolorosa: The Scope of Hidden Meaning in Early and Classical Arabic-Islamic Historiographical Accounts of Ali’s March to Siffin
10:40 Enass Khansa (American University of Beirut) – The Concealed Gates of Heaven
11:10 Coffee
Session VII
11:30 Benjamin Gray (Birkbeck College, London) – Masquerading Voices
11:40 Tina Chronopoulos (Binghamton University, New York) – Ineffable Speeches in the Greek Lives of St Katherine of Alexandria
12:10 Klaus van Eickels (University of Bamberg) – Revealing Secrets: Assassinations Explained or Prevented by Letters in Crusading Historiography
12:40 Lunch for Speakers
Session VIII
14:00 Konstantin Klein (University of Bamberg) – Concealing Vision: Seen but not Heard
14:10 Julia Doroszewska (University of Warsaw) – Secrets of the Saints: Tricks and Disguises in the Saintly Apparitions of the Late-Antique Miracle Collections
14:40 James Corke-Webster (King’s College, London) – Seeing and Secrecy: Visibility and Martyrs
15:10 Break
15:20 Alexandra Vukovich (University of Oxford) – Final Conclusions
16:00 Walking tour
20:00 Dinner for Speakers