(Re)Create. Towards a Theory of Heteronomous Texts

You are kindly invited to an interdisciplinary and international conference hosted by the DFG Research Training Group 2792. The conference will focus on the strategies and intentions in heteronomous texts in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Heteronomy is defined as intentional dependence of one text on others. The new text, whether it is a commentary or an excerpt, acknowledges the norm set by another text. Examining how this acknowledgement is expressed in the text provides new insights into its autonomous role and significance.

If you would like to attend, either in person or via Zoom, please send us an email at [email protected].

Conference programme Thursday, 5 September 2024

1:00 PM Conference Office Opens

2:00 PM Welcome by the Organising Committee

2:30 PM Keynote. Rachel L. Love (Harvard University, USA): Historical Notes: Ancient History in the Commentarial Tradition

3:45 PM Coffee Break

4:15 PM Gregor Diez (University of Graz, Austria): The Compilation of the Polybian Parts in the Excerpta de Legationibus

5:00 PM TBA

6:00 PM Reception

7:00 PM Joint Dinner

Friday, 6 September 2024

9:00 AM Michael Berger (University of Vienna, Austria): Autonomy and Heteronomy of the Manuscript Copy. Some Considerations on Scribal Practices and the Relationship of Cod. Pal. germ. 341 and Cod. Bodm. 72

9:45 AM Mafalda Gomes (University of Porto, Portugal): von mannes minne:(Re)Creating Love-Shaped Autonomy in Medieval German literature

10:30 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM Andreas Henn (University of Freiburg, Germany):Barlaam and Josaphat: From the Buddha Legend to Existential Christian Platonism

11:45 AM Olena Peleshenko (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine): The Tale of Macarius of Romeand its Translations in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Ukrainian Manuscript Collections: Towards an Understanding of Christian Censorship in the Byzantine Empire and Rus'

12:30 PM Lunch Break

2:30 PM Caterina Carpinato (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy): Writing, Reading and Speaking Greek in 16th Century Venice: Confronting the Ancient World and the Ancestors?

3:15 PM Angelos Zaloumis (University of Patras, Greece): Gathering Flowers: How Two Overlooked 14th c. ByzantineflorilegiaConfirm the Authorship of the DubiousAdversus Cantacuzenumand Reveal the Direct Sources of the Patristic Quotations Found in Manuel Kalekas’De essentia et operatione

4:00 PM Nina Vanhoutte (Ghent University, Belgium): To Cite or not to Cite: Heteronomy in Niketas of Herakleia’s Grammatical Poems

4:45 PM Coffee Break

5:15 PM Keynote. Stefano Valente (Universität Hamburg, Germany): nullam rem (lexicographicam) e nihilo:Greek-Byzantine Lexica Between Heteronomy and Autonomy

7:00 PM Joint Dinner

Saturday, 7 September 2024

10:00 AM Venue opens

10:15 AM Immanuel Musäus (University of Greifswald, Germany): Is Myth a Text? – Ancient Scholars’ Ways of Dealing with Myth

11:00 AM Reinhard G. Kratz (University of Göttingen, Germany): The Productive Transmission of the Hebrew Bible

11:45 AM Alicia Hein (University of Tübingen, Germany): A Single Figure out of Many Texts: Elijah as Malachi’s Messenger-Prophet-Priest

12:30 PM Lunch Break

2:30 PM Markus Kersten (University of Mainz, Germany): Sublime Smallness? Ausonius on Being Dependent

3:15 PM Jennifer Weintritt (Northwestern University, USA): Translating, Epitomizing, Networking: The Doloneia in Baebius Italicus’ Ilias Latina

4:00 PM Scott Di Giulio (Mississippi State University, USA): Recompilation and Practices of Ancient Literary Production: The Roman Miscellany as a Case Study in Heteronomy

4:45 PM Coffee Break

5:15 PM Keynote. Therese Fuhrer (University of München, Germany): Seneca’s Tragedies as a Staging of ‘Conscious Dependency’

6:30 PM Formal Closing