Video streams: Workshop I

 

 

This page contains videostreams of the lectures and discussions of the first workshop:

 

Prof. Dr. Hagit Amirav (Amsterdam): Welcome and Introduction

 

OPEN LECTURE: Prof. Dr. Averil Cameron (Oxford): New Themes and Styles Revisited Again

 

Questions and Remarks on Averil Cameron’s Lecture

 

OPEN LECTURE: Prof. Dr. Nicholas de Lange (Cambridge): A General Survey of Internal Developments within Judaism, 5th-8th Centuries

 

Wout van Bekkum (Groningen): Developments and Changes in Jewish Hymnology

 

Questions and Remarks on Wout van Bekkum’s Lecture

 

Dr. Hagit Amirav (Amsterdam): The Christian Commonwealth in Anti-Heretical Texts: The Case of the Emperor Justinian

 

Questions and Remarks on Hagit Amirav’s Lecture

 

Dr. Joke van Saane (Amsterdam): Psychological Models and Concepts of Authority, in Relation to (Contemporary) Religion

 

Questions and Remarks on Joke van Saane’s lecture

 

Prof. Dr. Angelika Neuwirth (Berlin): The Qur’an and the Discovery of Writing: An Epistemic Turn in Late Antiquity

(in absentia, read by Prof. Dr. Guy Stroumsa)

 

Dr. Emilie Villey (Berlin): Syriac Astronomical Texts (6th-8th c.): Christian Voices Defending Ptolemaic Astronomical Science

 

Questions and Remarks on Emilie Villey’s Lecture

 

Dr. Muriel Debié (Paris): Historical and Hagiographical Genres in Syriac Literature

 

Questions and Remarks on Muriel Debié’s Lecture

 

Prof. Dr. Mariella Menchelli (Pisa): Synesius’ Curricular Studies and his Mirror for Princes: Some Observations on the Genre of specula principum in the First Centuries of Byzantium

 

Questions and Remarks on Mariella Menchelli’s Lecture

 

Prof. Dr. Bas ter Haar Romeny (Leiden): Concluding Remarks; followed by a plenary discussion chaired by Prof. Dr. Paul van Geest (Tilburg, Amsterdam)