Associate Professor of Eastern Christianity at KU Leuven.
Philip Forness
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Come join us in Leuven for our Summer School on translations!
Great project (Women in Syriac Christianity, 1500-1800) directed by Lucy Parker (Oxford), looking for a postdoctoral researcher interested in Arabic manuscripts
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Philip Forness
📖New book! Edited by John-Paul Ghobrial, Michael A. Reynolds, Christian C. Sahner & Jack Tannous, it reimagines the history of the region by integrating Christian experiences and sources📖
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-christi...
Free access link to my own contribution - on why Gregory of Nyssa has quite so much to say about cinnamon: online.ucpress.edu/SLA/article/...
Christians in Middle Eastern History
Ghobrial, John-Paul, Michael Reynolds, Christian C. Sahner & Jack Tannous (eds.). 2026. Christians in Middle Eastern history: Strangers no more (Edinburgh Studies in Middle Eastern Christianity). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. The dazzling array of…
Heleen Murre-van den Berg
Heute ist Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften #lndw @bbaw.bsky.social Bei uns gibt es eine Führung (21:30/22:30 Uhr): Was machen wir eigentlich, wenn wir spätantike Texte edieren? Welche Methoden wenden wir an? Und welche Rolle spielt moderne Computertechnik?
www.tagesspiegel.de/themenspezia...
Rachel Bridgewater
Our team at KU Leuven is organizing a Workshop on Letters & Epistolary Culture in Syriac Christianity at the Oxford Patristic Studies Conference (2–6 Aug 2027). We will be happy to receive proposals for papers by 30 June 2026 ([email protected]). Details in the attached file.
Tomorrow!!!
Proofs have arrived. Looking forward to the end product in early July!
Come work with the CLAIM team in the new ERC project in Vienna!
Apply here: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct...
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Marion Pragt
Arash Zeini
Alexandrinische und antiochenische Bibelexegese
The Homilies on the Song of Songs by the late antique Christian author Gregory of Nyssa are commonly studied for their spiritual interpretations and mystical theology. At the same time, his Homilies a...
Zur Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften am 6. Juni zeigen Experten in der Staatsbibliothek, wie sie tausend Jahre alte Schriften neu herausgeben – und warum das wichtig ist.
Ghobrial, John-Paul, Michael Reynolds, Christian C. Sahner & Jack Tannous (eds.). 2026. Christians in Middle Eastern history: Strangers no more (Edinburgh Studies in Middle Eastern Christianity). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. The dazzling array of languages and religions in the Middle East, from Late Antiquity to the present, has long made the region a source of fascination. But the specific features of pluralism in the Middle East have also made writing its history a difficult enterprise, as scholarly specialisation has often meant that this or that religious group becomes invisible.
V LECTIO Interdisciplinary Summer School “Translations in the Premodern and Early Modern World”
8-9 September 2026, Old Abbey of Kortenberg.
Masterclasses, research pitches, and a lot of conversations across disciplines!
Program and registration (until 30 June): www.kuleuven.be/lectio/event...
LECTIO
Next Thu 28 May, 10 AM
Karolina Tomczyszyn (KULeuven)
•Approved Teachers and Insignificant Rhetoricians: Literary Curation in the Letters of Jacob of Edessa, George, bishop of the Arabs, and John of Litarb•
Don't forget to register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link
