Inter-cultural Transmission of Intellectual Traditions in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. A comparative perspective
Conference
The conference aims to bring together scholars whose work involves dealing with the proliferation of various intellectual traditions across political, linguistic and religious boundaries from late antiquity to the early modern times (4th – 17th c.). All participants are encouraged to present a close examination of a particular case of intercultural transmission and contribute to some more general conclusions concerning this phenomenon that can be observed in various historical periods and regions. The topics cover (but are not limited to) translation movements, education and science, art theory and philosophy, religious as well as political contexts of intercultural transmission, etc.
Paper sessions will begin on Thursday, September 27, and continue through Saturday, September 29, with each 20-minutes paper followed by critical discussion. The working language of the conference is English. The conference will take place in the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, which coorganises the conference together with the University of Warsaw.
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PROGRAMME
Thursday, 27th September 2012
9.15-9.45 Registration (also possible later during breaks)
9.45 Opening of the conference
Session Ia: REVIVING OF ANCIENT MOTIVES AND LITERARY DEVICES
Chair: Emilio Bonfiglio
10.00-10.20 Weronika Sygowska-Pietrzyk (Warsaw): Flavio Biondo’s “Roma instaurata” as an example of both transmission of ancient texts and spreading of the Renaissance writings in fifteenth and sixteenth century Europe
10.20-10.40 Katarzyna Bożeńska (Warsaw): The art of travelling and exploration of cultural “otherness” in the early modern Europe
10.40-11.00 Piotr Kołodziejczyk (Warsaw): Monsters without form. The possible similarities in Aristotle's theory of monsters and the monstrous child in The King of Tar
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-11.50 Michał Czerenkiewicz (Warsaw): The ideal commander in view of the history and literary tradition according Simon Starowolski (1588-1656)
11.50-12.10 Barbara Grondkowska (Lublin): Patristics and Exegesis: the Presence of the Church Fathers in the Sixteenth-Century Sermons
12.10-13.00 Discussion
13.00-14.00 Lunch break
Session Ib: LITERATURE/LEARNING AND IDENTITY
Chair: Olga Grinchenko
14.00-14.20 Emilio Bonfiglio (Geneva): The Language and the Topics of the Armenian Fathers in the Golden Age of Armenian Literature: the Case of John Mandakuni
14.20-14.40 Evina Steinova (The Hague): Reception of the ancient systems of reference in Early Middle Ages
14.40-15.00 Coffee break
15.00-15.20 Boris Todorov (Sofia): The universal chronicles in Church Slavic: the implications of availability
15.20-15.40 Lilly Stammler (Sofia): St. Maximos Kausokalibites and his influence on the 14th century peripatetic asceticism
15.40-16.10 Discussion (ca 35 minutes)
Friday, 28th September 2012
Session IIa: CONTEXTS OF RECEPTION OF PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS: MEDIEVAL MIDDLE EAST
Chair: Mykhaylo Yakubovych
9.30-9.50 Benjamin de Lee (Oregon): Aristotle in Arabic and Greek: The Revival of Aristotelianism in the ninth-century eastern Mediterranean
9.50-10.10 Anna Izdebska (Warsaw): The career of the Pythagorean Golden Verses among the Arabs
10.10-10.30 Jakub Sypiański (Paris): Did the Arabs send scientific missions to Byzantium?
10.30 Coffee break
11.00-11.20 Elżbieta Karczyńska (Poznań): 'Resigned Reason' – Ancient Heritage and the Formation of Arab Reason. A Critical Survey of al-Jabri Thought
11.20-11.40 Paolo Lucca (Venice): Free Will and Determinism in Eznik of Kołb
11.40-12.30 Discussion
12.30-13.30 Lunch
Session IIb: CONTEXTS OF RECEPTION OF PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS: RENAISSANCE & THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
Chair: Karolina Wiśniewska
13.30-13.50 Anna Kowalcze-Pawlak (Cracow): Living the Lives of Witches: Aristotle, Revenge and Female Nature
13.50-14.10 Johannes Thon (Halle-Wittenberg): The Transmission of Islamic language conceptions to Christian hebraists by Jewish Hebrew grammarians
14.10-14.20 Short break
14.20-14.40 Ada Łobożewicz (Warsaw): Transmission of Western Hermetic Tradition to Poland in the 16th and 17th century
14.40-15.00 Mykhaylo Yakubovych (Ostroh): Reception of ibn Sina in Early Modern Ottoman Philosophy: Case of al-Aqkirmani
15.00-15.40 Discussion
15.40 Cofee break
Session III: PHILOSOPHICAL DIALOGUE BETWEEN MEMBERS OF DIFFERENT CULTURES
Chair: Barbara Grondkowska
16.10-16.30 Tobias Winnerling (Düsseldorf): Stuck between the logics. Jesuits’ and Buddhists’ East Asian debates in the 16th century
16.30-16.50 Michał Choptiany (Cracow): Ioannes Broscius and calendars. Chronology in the service of irenicism and proselytism
16.50-17.10 Anna Kołos (Poznań): Skepticism as the intellectual attitude towards faith and reason in 17th century Poland. A comparative study of literature in reference to Western philosophy
17.10 Discussion (ca 30 minutes)
Saturday, 29th September 2012
Session IV: TRANSMISSION OF LEGAL IDEAS
Chair: Piotr Chmiel
9.30-9.50 Adam Izdebski (Warsaw): Transmission versus adaptation in the Byzantine Farmer’s Law (Nomos Georgikos)
9.50-10.10 Natalia Ivanusa (Giessen): An Example of Legal Transmission: Magdeburg Law in the Cities in Lesser Poland
10.10-10.30 Maria Joanna Filipiak (Göttingen): Romanization of legal practice in Polish cities of the 16th century on the example of Bartlomiej Groicki
10.30-11.00 Discussion
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
Session V: THE ROLE OF INTERCULTURAL TRANSMISSION IN THE FORMATION OF CULTURAL/RELIGIOUS IDENTITY
Chair: Lilly Stammler
11.30-11.50 Filip Doroszewski (Warsaw): Christianizing Dionysus: some remarks on the cultural unity of Late Antique Egypt
11.50-12.10 Marijana Vuković (Budapest): Uncovering the Original Language of Early Christian Martyrdoms among Inter-culturally Transmitted Textual Versions
12.10-12.30 Olga Grinchenko (Oxford): Calendrical features of the Byzantine Pasltika and Asmatika and their transmission into Slavonic liturgical books
12.30-13.00 Discussion
13.00-14.00 Lunch
Session VI: INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE'S ROLE IN THE FORMATION OF CULTURAL AND POLITICAL IDENTITY
Chair: Adam Izdebski
14.00-14.20 Paweł Figurski (Warsaw): Epistola dedicatoria Mathildis Suevae (sent ca. 1025) – intercultural transmission of idea of christianization between Piasts and nobles of the German Reich
14.20-14.40 Vitaliy Shchepanskiy (Ostroh): Intercultural religious relations of Ukraine and Scandinavia in the 10-12th century
14.40-15.00 Karolina Wiśniewska (Warsaw): ‘Turcken puechlein’ in the Circuit of Intercultural Transmission of the pre-Mohács Habsburg Monarchy
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-15.50 Anna Horeczy (Warsaw): Venice as the model of the respublica mixta in the Polish political thought of the 16th century and beginning of the 17th century
15.50-16.10 Natalia Zientek (Warsaw): Seventeenth-century diaries as evidence of intercultural relations. Poles versus the rest of Europe
16.10-16.30 Piotr Chmiel (Warsaw): Tutti scismatici, tutti corrotti. The perception of Georgia and of the Georgians in regard to their confession according to the letters produced by Italian missionaries and travelers (Pietro Avitabile, Cristoforo Castelli, Pietro della Valle) of the 17th century
16.30-17.15 Discussion
17.15 Concluding discussion (ca 20 minutes)
