Vienna Dialogues vom 29.-30. Mai 2015
People on the Move and the Ideas they Bring:
Mobility of Ideas, Motifs and Texts in Byzantium and Beyond
Friday, 29 May to Saturday, 30 May, 2015
Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna
Friday, 29 May
13:30
Registration and Coffee
13:45
Welcoming Remarks
Claudia RAPP (Dep. of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Vienna University)
14:00-15:00
Christian HOGEL (Department of History, University of Southern Denmark Odense)
Did Niketas Magistros, Envoy and Author, Introduce Eastern Modes of Narration into Byzantine Literature? ABSTRACT
Respondent: Olof Heilo (Dep. of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Vienna University)
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Manolis ULBRICHT (Seminar for Semetic and Arabic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin)
The "Long March" towards West - How Did Europe get to Know the Qur'an? ABSTRACT
Respondent: Elvira Wakelnig (Department of Oriental Studies, Vienna University)
16:30-16:45
Break
16:45-17:45
Emilio BONFIGLIO (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford)
New Perspectives on the Classification and Identification of the Pseudo-Chrysostomca in the Greek and Oriental Traditions. ABSTRACT
Respondent: Volker Menze (Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest)
17:45-18:00
Break
18:00-19:00
Konstantin VETOCHNIKOV (Bibliothèque Byzantin, Collège de France, Paris)
Michel, archeveque de Bethléem, hiérarque du Patriarcat de Jerusalem, ambassadeur du Patriarche Oecuménique en pays russes (Michael, Erzbischof von Bethlehem, Hierarch des Patriarchats von Jerusalem, Botschafter des Ökumenischen Patriarchen in russischen Landen) ABSTRACT
Respondent: Jürgen Fuchsbauer (Department of Slavic Studies, Regensburg University)
19:30
Dinner for Conference Participants, Gasthaus Pfudl
Saturday, 30 May
09:00-10:00
Réka FORRAI (Department of History, University of Southern Denmark, Odense)
Looting Letters: the Latin Canon of Greek LIterature in the Medieval West. ABSTRACT
Respondent: Christian Gastgeber (Division of Byzantine Research, IMAFO, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Kostas YIAVIS (Department of Medieval and Modern Greek Philology, University of Thessaloniki)
Cultural Mobility and Exchange in the Vernacular Byzantine Romance. ABSTRACT
Respondent: Carolina Cupane (Division of Byzantine Research, IMAFO, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
11:30-11:45
Break
11:45-12:45
Christophe ERISMANN (Department of Philosophy, University of Lausanne)
Transferring Aristotelian Logic from Alexandria to Constantinople: Manuscripts, Concepts, Perspectives.
Respondent: George Karamanolis (Department of Philosophy, Vienna University)
12:45-13:15
Concluding Discussion
Moderator: Alexander RIEHLE (Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Vienna University)
13:30
Lunch for Conference Participants, Ristorante Da Capo