5 July 2022
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Programme
(all times BST)
0900–0910 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Domenico Giordani, UCL / University of Oxford
0910–1020 SESSION I: Byzantine Translations of Latin
Chair: Domenico Giordani (UCL / University of Oxford)
On the boundaries of philology and history of science: the Greek translation of the
Semita Recta
Flavio Bevacqua, Università degli Studi di Padova
Translating Saint Jerome into Greek: the Life of Hilarion (BHL 3879)
Anna Lampadaridi, Paris, CNRS (UMR 5189 HiSoMA)
1020–1130 Break
1130–1230 SESSION II: Hellenising Ancient Egypt
Chair: Jordan Miller (University of Oxford)
Textual and Historical Observations on Inscribed Foundation Plaques of Hellenistic
Egypt
Efstathia Dionysopoulou, Université de Lyon II
Untranslatability and the Case of Ptolemaic Priestly Decrees
Giulia Tonon, University of Liverpool
1230–1330 Lunch break
1330–1440 SESSION III: Translating foundational figures
Chair: Natasha Downs (University of Edinburgh)
Tibetan Buddhism and the Cult of Chinggis Khan
Dotno Pount, University of Pennsylvania
Greco-Arabic, Beyond Translation: Homer by the Rivers of Babylon
Teddy Fassberg, Tel Aviv University
1440–1500 Break
1500–1600 SESSION IV: Final Roundtable
Chair: Flaminia Pischedda (University of Oxford)