Categorie: workshop

Crash Course in Greek Palaeography

The Greek section of Ghent University, in collaboration with the Research School OIKOS and the Royal Library of Belgium, offers a two-day crash course in Greek palaeography. The course will take place on 27-28 May 2025 in Ghent and Brussels. It is intended for MA, ResMA and doctoral students in Classics, Ancient History, Ancient Civilizations, Byzantine studies, Medieval studies and related fields. Students must have a good command of Greek. The course offers an introduction into Greek palaeography from the Hellenistic period to the end of the Middle Ages and is specifically aimed at acquiring practical skills for research involving literary and documentary papyri and/or manuscripts. Participants will gain hands-on experience with original papyri housed at Ghent University Library and with manuscripts from the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels. 

Programme

The course will take place over two full days, with one session in Ghent on Tuesday, 27 May, and the other in Brussels on Wednesday, 28 May. Specialists in Greek palaeography will deliver lectures providing a chronological overview of the evolution of Greek handwriting, accompanied by introductions into the material features of both papyri and codices. The lectures will be followed by practical sessions, consisting of supervised reading of selected extracts from papyri and manuscripts in small groups. There will be guided exhibitions of selected papyri (in Ghent) and medieval manuscripts (in Brussels). 

* detailed schedule to be announced *

Practical information

The study load is equivalent to 2 ECTS credits (2×28 hours). In preparation for the course, participants will be required to read secondary literature which will be distributed several weeks in advance. Additional materials will be provided in order to help develop further reading skills after the course. 

There is no participation fee for this course. Lunches will be provided on both days free of charge. Travel and accommodation expenses are the responsibility of the participants. The train connection between Ghent Sint-Pieters Station and Brussels Central Station is frequent, with a travel time of less than 40 minutes. Participants may choose to lodge in either city.

The course will take place at the following venues:

Registration

Prospective participants should register by sending an e-mail to grigory.vorobyev@ugent.be with a short motivation letter (approximately 300 words), detailing their academic background, research interests and motivation for attending the course. Priority will be given to MA and doctoral students associated with OIKOS and those who have not previously had the opportunity to study palaeography. The deadline for registration is 1 March 2025. Applicants will be notified of the outcome shortly thereafter. 

Crash Course in Greek Palaeography

The Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, Leiden University Library and the Greek department of Ghent University offer a two-day course in Greek palaeography in collaboration with the Research School OIKOS. The course is intended for MA, ResMA and doctoral students in the areas of Classics, Ancient History, Ancient Civilizations and Medieval studies with a good command of Greek. It offers a chronological introduction into Greek palaeography from the Hellenistic period until the end of the Middle Ages and is specifically aimed at acquiring practical skills for research involving literary and documentary papyri and/or manuscripts. This course gives the unique opportunity to practice reading on original papyri and manuscripts from the collection of the Leiden Papyrological Institute and the special collections of the Leiden University Library.

Programme

The course is set up as an intensive two-day seminar. Five lectures by specialists in the field will give a chronological overview of the development of Greek handwriting, each followed by a practice session reading relevant extracts from papyri and manuscripts in smaller groups under the supervision of young researchers.

Monday, May 27

  • 10:00 Introduction
  • 10:15-11:15 Papyri of the Ptolemaic and Roman period (3rd cent. BCE – 3rd cent. CE) (Dr. Joanne Stolk)
  • 11:15-12:30 Practice with papyri of the Ptolemaic and Roman period
  • 12:30-13:30 Lunch break
  • 13:30-14:30 Papyri of the Byzantine period (4th-8th centuries) (Dr. Yasmine Amory)
  • 14:30-15:45 Practice papyri of the Byzantine period
  • 15:45-16:15 Coffee break
  • 16:15-17:00 Presentation of Greek manuscripts from the Leiden University Library
  • 17:00-17:45 Presentation of Greek papyri from the Leiden Papyrological Institute
  • 19:00 Dinner

 

Tuesday, May 28

  • 9:00-10:00 Majuscule and early minuscule bookhands (4th-9th centuries) (Dr. Rachele Ricceri)
  • 10:00-11:15 Practice majuscule and early minuscule bookhands
  • 11:15-11:45 Coffee break
  • 11:45-12:45 The development of minuscule script (10th-12th centuries) (Prof. dr. Floris Bernard)
  • 12:45-13:45 Lunch break
  • 13:45-15:00 Practice minuscule script of the 10th-12th centuries
  • 15:00-15:30 Coffee break
  • 15:30-16:30 Manuscripts and scholars of the Palaeologan period (13th-15th centuries) (Prof. dr. Andrea Cuomo)
  • 16:30-17:45 Practice manuscripts of the Palaeologan period

Practical information

The study load is the equivalent of 2 ECTS (2×28 hours). Participants will be asked to read up on secondary literature in preparation for the seminar (distributed several weeks before the course). Extra material will be handed out during the course in order to continue to improve your reading skills afterwards.

There are no fees for participation in this course. Lunches on both days and dinner on the first day are provided free of charge. Travel costs and accommodation in Leiden are at your own expense.

Registration

Please register by sending an e-mail with a short motivation (ca. 300 words, including your background, research interests and why you would like to follow this course) to yasmine.amory@ugent.be. Priority is given to OIKOS doctoral students and those who did not have the opportunity to follow course(s) on palaeography before. Registration closes by the final deadline of February 15th, 2024. Successful applicants will be notified soon afterwards.

Bloemlezing van Aristophanes’ Vrouwenparlement: #GenderBlender naar de stembus

Elk jaar nodigt het Festival Européen Latin-Grec ons uit om een meesterwerk uit de klassieke literatuur te (her)ontdekken. Dit jaar, op woensdag 20 maart, lezen we samen de komedie Vrouwenparlement (Ἐκκλησιάζουσαι) van Aristophanes, in het kader van het huidige genderdebat in onze samenleving. We nodigen jullie hiervoor graag uit. Alle geïnteresseerden zijn welkom op de bloemlezing. Leerlingen van het 4de tot 6de middelbaar zijn ook welkom voor de daaropvolgende werkwinkel.

Programma

  • 9u30-11u: bloemlezing (live of online; open voor alle geïnteresseerden)
    Gastsprekers, leerlingen, leerkrachten en studenten lezen passages voor uit de komedie, in vertaling van Arthur Oosthout (KU Leuven). Gastsprekers Tine Laureyns (actrice), Liesbet Vertriest (waarnemend Algemeen Directeur bij Stad Gent), Dirk Crommelinck (theatermaker en acteur NTGent) en Gita Deneckere (Historica en Decaan van de Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte), geven vanuit hun respectievelijke achtergronden als theatermakers, bestuurslid en historica een persoonlijke duiding van de tekst.
  • 11u-12u: werkwinkel (live; enkel voor leerlingen en hun leerkrachten)
    Leerlingen gaan actief met de komedie aan de slag, onder de begeleiding van lesgevers van onze afdeling.

Doe mee!

Oproep 1: voorlezers!

We zijn op zoek naar enthousiastelingen die tijdens ons festival een stukje tekst in vertaling willen voorlezen (enkel voor leerlingen en leerkrachten die naar de Blandijn komen). Wij bezorgen je een vlotte vertaling van de tekst en komen op voorhand al eens (online) met je samen.

Oproep 2: creatievelingen!

We verbinden ook een wedstrijd aan dit festival: wie zorgt voor de meest creatieve weergave van het langste Griekse woord (Λοπαδο­τεμαχο­σελαχο­γαλεο­κρανιο­λειψανο­δριμ­υπο­τριμματο­σιλφιο­καραβο­μελιτο­κατακεχυ­μενο­κιχλ­επι­κοσσυφο­φαττο­περιστερ­αλεκτρυον­οπτο­κεφαλλιο­κιγκλο­πελειο­λαγῳο­σιραιο­βαφη­τραγανο­πτερύγων: 171 letters) uit deze komedie? Tekening, audio-opname, filmpje, …: alle mogelijke herwerkingen of interpretaties zijn welkom! De drie meest succesvolle inzendingen winnen elk een cultuurbon voor een Vlaams toneelhuis ter waarde van €100.

Inschrijven

Schrijf je hier in voor:

  • live of online deelname aan de bloemlezing en/of de werkwinkel
  • het voorlezen van een stukje tekst uit de komedie tijdens de bloemlezing
  • de wedstrijd van het langste Griekse woord (enkel voor scholen)

Leerkrachten kunnen zichzelf én hun leerlingen inschrijven.

Deadline: 11 maart 2024

Praktische informatie

  • Wanneer: woensdag 20 maart 2024 van 9u30 tot 12u
  • Waar: Auditorium P Jozef Plateau (Plateaustraat 22, 9000 Gent) en online
  • Toegang is gratis – iedereen welkom!
  • Contact: grieks@ugent.be

 

Deel je graag een poster van het evenement? Die kan je hier downloaden.

Workshop on Editorial Practices of Byzantine Texts

During the past few decades, scholars have initiated debates about the methodologies of editing Byzantine texts. Several questions that had not been asked before, especially in relation to the specificity of Byzantine texts and manuscripts, have finally come to the forefront.

The intellectual authorship of a Byzantine text and its physical materialization often overlap and interact with each other. Many manuscripts, if not literally autographs, stand very close to the original version of texts. Sometimes, there is not even one single original, but the different versions are the reflection of authorial drafts or later elaborations. Manuscripts are often nonuniform and unstable, and present a complex and multilayered hierarchy of texts. Also, the changing linguistic reality of the Middle Ages in tension with a strong school tradition of grammar produces texts that invite the interventions of editors.

 

This workshop gathers together a group of scholars willing to share their reflections and experiences with editing medieval Byzantine texts. The workshop will address these and other similar questions:

  • How should editors deal with punctuation and accentuation? Which are the meaningful practices in manuscripts? And how do these relate to the oral performance and visual layout of texts?
  • How should editors reproduce unconventional orthography, linguistic flexibility and the fluctuation of registers? Which role does “school grammar” play in this respect?
  • Which is the role of literary genres and textual types? How should editions mark intertextuality and parallels? And what about the case of metaphrasis and rewriting?
  • What is the best way to edit texts that depend on other texts, such as commentaries and marginal scholia? And how can editors synoptically display the layers of successive annotations and textual expansions?
  • Why and how should we edit unfinished and preliminary texts, especially when a more accomplished version is preserved? Similarly, how should we treat apographa, especially the late copies of pre-Byzantine texts?

 

Programme

 

Date: Wednesday 24 May 2023

Location: leslokaal 0.4 (Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent)

 

9-9.30: Introduction (Floris Bernard – Julián Bértola)

 

9.30-10.10: “The challenges of editing rhetorical texts” (Antonia Giannouli)

10.10-10.50: “The complexities of editing florilegia” (Alessandra Bucossi)

 

10.50-11.10: Coffee break

 

11.10-11.50: “Editing Andronikos Kallistos’ works: Problems, remarks, solutions” (Luigi Orlandi)

11.50-12.30: “Editing Aristotle’s Organon in 1495: The models for Aldus Manutius’s Editio princeps of the First Analytics” (José Maksimczuk)

 

12.30-14: Lunch break

 

14-14.40: “A liturgical poem on the passion of Christ (BHG 413m) and its editorial challenges” (Maria Tomadaki)

14.40-15.20:

“Open traditions: Use and reuse of book epigrams” (Rachele Ricceri)

 

15.20-15.40: Coffee break

 

15.40-16.20: “Between Symeon the Logothete and Theophanes Continuatus: How to edit the intermediary versions (Logothete B)” (Staffan Wahlgren)

16.20-17: “Byzantine linguistic reality and the edition of texts” (Martin Hinterberger)

 

17-17.30: Wrap-up session

Registration

This event is open for anyone who is interested to attend in person or online (a link will be sent the day before the conference).

To attend the conference, please register here.

 

Crash Course in Greek Palaeography

The Greek department of Ghent University offers a two-day course in Greek palaeography in collaboration with the Research School OIKOS. The course is intended for MA, ResMA and doctoral students in the areas of Classics, Ancient History, Ancient Civilizations and Medieval studies with a good command of Greek. It offers a chronological introduction into Greek palaeography from the Hellenistic period until the end of the Middle Ages and is specifically aimed at acquiring practical skills for research involving literary and documentary papyri and/or manuscripts. We will also provide the unique opportunity to read from original papyri in the papyrus collection of the Ghent University Library and become familiar with the ongoing research projects at Ghent University.

Programme

The course is set up as an intensive two-day seminar. Five lectures by specialists in the field will give a chronological overview of the development of Greek handwriting, each followed by a practice session reading relevant extracts from papyri and manuscripts in smaller groups under the supervision of young researchers.

 

Monday, May 22

9:30 Welcome with coffee

10:00 Introduction

10:30-11:45 Papyri of the Ptolemaic and Roman period (Dr. Joanne Stolk)

11:45-13:00 Practice with papyri of the Ptolemaic and Roman period

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-14:30 Presentation of papyri from the collection of the Ghent University Library (Serena Causo)

14:30-15:45 Papyri of the Byzantine period (Dr. Yasmine Amory)

15:45-17:00 Practice papyri of the Byzantine period

19:00 Dinner (optional)

 

Tuesday, May 23

9:00-10:15 Majuscule and early minuscule bookhands (4th-9th centuries) (Dr. Rachele Ricceri)

10:15-11:30 Practice majuscule and early minuscule bookhands

11:30-12:00 Coffee break

12:00-13:15 The development of minuscule script (10th-12th centuries) (Prof. dr. Floris Bernard)

13:15-14:15 Lunch break

14:15-15:30 Practice minuscule script of the 10th-12th centuries

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-17:15 Manuscripts and scholars of the Palaeologan period (13th-15th centuries) (Prof. dr. Andrea Cuomo)

17:15-18:30 Practice manuscripts of the Palaeologan period

Practical information

The study load is the equivalent of 2 ECTS (2×28 hours). Participants will be asked to read up on secondary literature in preparation for the seminar (distributed several weeks before the course). Extra material will be handed out during the course in order to continue to improve your reading skills afterwards.

There are no fees for participation in this course. Lunches and coffee on both days are provided free of charge. There is an optional dinner on Monday at your own expense. Travel costs and accommodation in Ghent are also at your own expense.

Registration

Please register by sending an e-mail with a short motivation (including your background, research interests and why you would like to follow this course) to yasmine.amory@ugent.be. Priority is given to OIKOS doctoral students and those who did not have the opportunity to follow course(s) on palaeography before. Registration closes by the final deadline of March 1st, 2023. Successful applicants will be notified soon afterwards.

Workshop on Editorial Practices of Byzantine texts

We would like to draw your attention to a scientific workshop which will be organized in tandem with the Crash Course. This one-day workshop will take place in Ghent immediately following after the Crash Course (Wednesday May 24th) and will be devoted to editorial practices of Byzantine texts. It is organized by Julián Bértola and Floris Bernard (who are also teachers at the Crash Course). Experts will share experiences and insights concerning critical editions of Byzantine texts and manuscripts. The program will be circulated soon. Crash Course participants are warmly invited to stay one day longer in Gent and make use of this opportunity to attend this scholarly conference.

Workshop: The Reuse of Ancient and Late Antique Narratives in the Medieval Middle East and Beyond

We are delighted to invite you to a one-day workshop on The Reuse of Ancient and Late Antique Narratives in the Medieval Middle East and Beyond.

The workshop will be held in the Zaal August Vermeylen in Het Pand (Onderbergen 1, Gent, Belgium) on January 31st, 2023, and will be streamed online via Microsoft Teams.

The workshop focuses on the reception of ancient and late antique narratives across languages and cultures in the Middle Ages and brings together participants from Latin, Greek, Middle Eastern, Iranian, and Georgian studies.

Please register here by January 25th. Please email Mara Nicosia (mara.nicosia@ugent.be) if you have any queries.

For the full programme, please see https://www.novelsaints.ugent.be/event/the-reuse-of-ancient-and-late-antique-narratives/.

Workshop: Ancient concepts of fiction and narrative in the imperial period and late antiquity

We are delighted to invite you to a one-day online workshop organized by the Novel Echoes ERC-project at Ghent University, as part of the Ghent-Kent-Lille cross-border research programme, taking place on February 4th 2022.

 

This is the first of a series of three workshops co-organised by the universities of Ghent, Kent, and Lille, organized with the aim of generating new insights on the distinctions between true, false, and plausible narratives in the Mediterranean region 100-700 CE, a period of transition from pluralist polytheism to a Christian Empire and from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. This period saw a flourishing of different kinds of narratives with differing claims to truth. How do such attitudes to truth, fiction, and lies and their interrelationship alter during this period and how is this manifest in the written narratives?

 

This first workshop explores in particular texts from Late Antiquity as an inflection point for these kinds of concerns. Recent scholarship has done much to encourage a more diverse and productive approach to pagan and Christian literature rather than seeing the two as a strict dichotomy, but more work remains to be done on both the sheer breadth of underexplored texts from this period and the diversity of their engagement with questions of truth and falsehood. This workshop aims to explore this crucial transition period by looking at a variety of works which test the boundaries of such binary periodizations and open up a more nuanced understanding of fiction between and across such diverse narratives.

 

All information and registration: https://www.novelsaints.ugent.be/event/fiction-in-transition/

Biblical Poetry: The Legacy of the Psalms in Late Antiquity and Byzantium​

The conference brings together scholars working on the reception of the Psalms in later Greek poetry and exegetical literature. The Psalms were a fundamental corpus of biblical poetry, and as such were continuously referred to in Christian literature (in their Greek Septuagint translation). They played a key role in the daily life and in the development of religious sensitivity of writers from Late Antiquity and Byzantium. The production of literature related to the Psalter, notably exegetical, was impressively widespread. The Psalms influenced other genres of religious literature as well, and their poetical nature remained an important feature that later authors were well aware of. Topics that will be addressed during the conference are diverse both chronologically and thematically.

For more information: https://www.psalms2020.ugent.be

Crash-course in Greek paleography

The Greek department of Ghent University offers a two-day course in Greek paleography in collaboration with the Research School OIKOS. The course is intended for (advanced) students and PhDs in Classics, Ancient History and Ancient Civilizations with a good command of Greek. It offers an intensive introduction into Greek paleography from the Hellenistic period until the end of the Middle Ages and is specifically aimed at acquiring practical skills to read literary and documentary papyri and literary manuscripts from the originals.

Programme

Six lectures will give a chronological overview of the development of Greek handwriting, each followed by a practice session reading relevant extracts from papyri and manuscripts in smaller groups under supervision. The first day (Monday) will focus on documentary and literary papyri and we will be working with original papyri from the papyrus collection of the Ghent University Library. The second day (Tuesday) we will continue with literary manuscripts.

 

Monday (February 3)

13:00-14:00 Documentary and literary papyri from the Graeco-Roman period (Dr. Joanne Stolk)

14:00-15:00 Practice papyri of the Graeco-Roman period

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-16:30 Documentary and literary papyri from the Byzantine period (Dr. Yasmine Amory)

16:30-17:30 Practice papyri of the Byzantine period

18:30 Informal dinner (optional, at your own expense)

 

Tuesday (February 4)

9:00-10:00 Majuscule and early minuscule bookhands (4th-9th centuries) (Dr. Rachele Ricceri)

10:00-11:00 Practice majuscule and early minuscule bookhands

11:00-12:00 The development of minuscule script in the 10th-12th centuries (Dr. Maria Tomadaki)

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:00 Practice minuscule script of the 10th-12th centuries

14:00-15:00 Manuscripts and scholars of the Paleologan period (13th-15th centuries) (Prof. dr. Floris Bernard)

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-16:30 Practice manuscripts of the Paleologan period

Practical information

The study load is the equivalent of 2 ECTS (2×28 hours). Participants will be asked to read up on secondary literature in preparation for the seminar, see below. Extra material will be handed out during the course in order to continue to practice and improve your reading skills after the course.

Lunch (Tuesday) will be provided. Travel costs and/or accommodation are at your own expense.

Deadline registration: 15 January 2020

For registration and further questions contact Joanne Stolk (joanne.stolk@ugent.be)

 

Secondary literature

  • L.D. Reynolds and N.G. Wilson, Scribes and Scholars, Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature, Oxford 1991, esp. pp. 1-78.
  • G. Cavallo, Greek and Latin Writing in the Papyri, in R.S. Bagnall (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology 2009
  • R. Barbour, Greek Literary Hands: A.D. 400–1600, Oxford 1981.
  • I. Pérez Martín, “Byzantine Books”, in A. Kaldellis and N. Siniossoglou (eds), The Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium (Cambridge, 2018), 37-46
  • N. Wilson, “Palaeography”, in E. Jeffreys et al. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies, Oxford 2008, 101-114
  • H. Hunger, “Handschriftliche Überlieferung in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit, Paläographie”, in H. G. Nesselrath (ed.), Einleitung in die griechische Philologie, Wiesbaden 1997, 17-44

! CANCELLED ! Growing Corpora. Byzantine Book Epigrams and Online Text Collections

 

Since 2010, the Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams team have been growing an online corpus of metrical paratexts, several of which were previously unpublished or unknown altogether, and made them freely available to the scholarly community.

A new version of our database (https://www.dbbe.ugent.be) was launched in June 2019. Exactly one year later, we are organising a two-and-a-half-day conference. Together with anyone interested in this particular genre of Byzantine poetry, we want to celebrate and reflect on what we have achieved so far and look ahead at what is – hopefully! – yet to come. Moreover, we want to stimulate communication and collaboration with other projects that are growing online corpora of texts.

For any further information, please visit our conference website (https://www.dbbe2020.ugent.be).