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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meet the CLAIM team: Martina Vercesi. Welcome to Vienna, Martina! The ERC CoG CLAIM Project "Secondary Pseudepigraphy" claim.univie.ac.at

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

GenAut recording | Kelli Bryant Gibson "Addai, Protonike, and the Veneration of the Cross." Enjoy! The programme: genaut.univie.ac.at?page_id=671 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU-N...

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GenAut | Kelli Bryant Gibson "Addai, Protonike, and the Veneration of the Cross"

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Very fresh: Giorgia Nicosia and Dan Batovici "Ignatius of Antioch at Deir al-Surian: New Excerpts from the Lost Syriac Translation." In Open Access too, so have fun: academic.oup.com/jts/advance-...

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Meet our team! Starting today: Chloé Agar. Welcome aboard, Chloé! The GenAut Project: "The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters" genaut.univie.ac.at/ genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=37

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Tomorrow: GenAut seminar | Kelli Gibson, "Addai, Protonike, and the Veneration of the Cross" 5 Sep at 4 pm CET. See you there! genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Tomorrow – GenAut seminar | Rachael Helen Banes (Wien, GenAut team) "Apostolic Successors in Epigraphic Databases: What Does the Data Show?" Tomorrow 11 August at 10 am CET. See you there! genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

GenAut talks | Come meet our colleagues Maria S. Thomas and Andy Hilkens in Leuven at the EABS Annual Conference in Leuven! It's a nice session too (on Thursday): •Biblical Reception in Eastern Christian Traditions• Room: MTC 00.12 Time: 2:30–4:30 PM

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

GenAut recording | Basil Lourié "Saint Dionysius the Areopagite and Those with Him: What They Say to Us from the Liturgical Calendar" Enjoy! The programme: genaut.univie.ac.at?page_id=671 youtu.be/XQicrdPNJxc

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GenAut | Basil Lourié "Saint Dionysius the Areopagite and Those with Him: The Liturgical Calendar"

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

GenAut seminar | Basil Lourié "Saint Dionysius the Areopagite and Those with Him: What They Say to Us from the Liturgical Calendar" Tuesday 13 July at 4 pm CET. See you there! genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

GenAut recording | Margaret Cormack "The Cult of Saint Clement in Iceland." Enjoy! The programme: genaut.univie.ac.at?page_id=671 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxH-...

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GenAut | Margaret Cormack "The Cult of Saint Clement in Iceland"

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

GenAut talk | Dan Batovici "Outside Looking In, Inside Looking Out: The Literary Dossier of Clement of Rome" [hybrid] Thursday, 27 June, 8.30pm CET at the AELAC Conference 2026. From the organisers, the Zoom link for this talk is: zoom.us/j/9814841977...

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

GenAut seminar | Margaret Cormack (College of Charleston) "The Cult of St Clement in Iceland." See some of you there! genaut.univie.ac.at

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

TeTra talks | Andy Hilkens will give two talks in Oxford this week: "Clement of Rome in the Armenian Tradition," and "Ephrem Armenus: the Armenian reception of the homilies of Ephrem of Nisibis and Ephrem Graecus," at Pembroke College. Join in if you're around! www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/event/clemen...

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

GenAut talks | Come meet us this summer in Oxford, St Moritz, Regensburg, Leeds, Leuven, Bucharest, and Vienna! Updated talk list at genaut.univie.ac.at?page_id=35

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Come work with the CLAIM team in the new ERC project in Vienna! Apply here: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct... Details CLAIM.univie.ac.at/ @erc.europa.eu | @univie.ac.at | @etf-univienna.bsky.social

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Meet our team! Starting today: Rachael Helen Banes. Welcome aboard, Rachael! The GenAut Project: "The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters" genaut.univie.ac.at/ genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=37

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Meet our team! Starting in June: Sara Giorgetti. The GenAut Project: "The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters" genaut.univie.ac.at/ genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=37

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

GenAut recording | Grace Stafford "Pilgrimage to Saint Thecla: Access and Authority." Enjoy! The programme: genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmHv...

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GenAut | Grace Stafford "Pilgrimage to Saint Thecla: Access and Authority"

YouTube video by The GenAut Project

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

GenAut research trip | More photos from our colleague's @dekayra.bsky.social trip to Deir al-Surian for manuscript work.

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

GenAut seminar | Grace Stafford (Universität Wien), "Pilgrimage to Saint Thecla: Access and Authority" Tuesday, 19 May 2026 at 10am CET. See some of you there! genaut.univie.ac.at

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

GenAut research trip | Our colleague Maria S. Thomas @dekayra.bsky.social at Deir al-Surian for manuscript work. Here are some photos!

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

GenAut recording | Anna Lampadaridi "Some Remarks on Pankratios of Taormina’s Hagiographic Dossier: Exploring Texts and Cult Issues." Enjoy! The online seminar: genaut.univie.ac.at?page_id=671

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GenAut | Anna Lampadaridi "Pankratios of Taormina’s Hagiographic Dossier: Texts and Cult Issues"

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

GenAut research trip | A few snapshots from these weeks' manuscript work in Oxford and Cambridge.

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

GenAut seminar | Anna Lampadaridi (CNRS), "Some Remarks on Pankratios of Taormina’s Hagiographic Dossier," Tuesday, 21 April 2026 at (10am CET) genaut.univie.ac.at

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

GenAut talk | Maria S. Thomas and Christoph Scheerer, “The Hierotheos Dossier in Greek and Syriac” Gesprächskreis zum christlichen Diskurs im Mittelmeerraum bis zum Ausklang der Spätantike, Vienna, 26 March 2026, 5pm CET. genaut.univie.ac.at?page_id=35 etfcg.univie.ac.at/forschung/ge...

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

GenAut recording | Philipp Pilhofer, "The Circle of Barnabas: Generative Authority in Cypriot Hagiography" The online seminar: genaut.univie.ac.at?page_id=671

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GenAut | Philipp Pilhofer "The Circle of Barnabas. Generative Authority in Cypriot Hagiography"

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Tomorrow ! GenAut online seminar | Philipp Pilhofer (Vienna), "The Circle of Barnabas. Generative Authority in Cypriot Hagiography" Tuesday, 24 March (10 AM CET). See you there! •Followers of the Apostles in Cultic Contexts• genaut.univie.ac.at

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

If you're interested in the papers coming out of the project, we're keeping an up to date list at genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=35. Come say hi in Rome, Saint Maurice, Leeds, Leuven, Bucharest, Vienna, and Glasgow, in the following months!

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Brief presentation of the project by Dan Batovici for AIEP/IAPS, with a preview of the ERC CoG CLAIM project that will start in September. Many thanks Lavinia Cerioni for the kind invitation! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMCo...

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"Generative Authority" and "Secondary Pseudoepigraphy"

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

GenAut talks | Andy Hilkens and Lewis Read, “A Constantinopolitan Synaxarion for Armenians: The Tawanac’uyc’ of Yovsep’.” •Christian Liturgy and Memory Practices from Medieval Iberia to Central Asia• Vienna, 5-6 March. @andyhilkens.bsky.social @lewread.bsky.social www.oeaw.ac.at/detail/veran...

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Our colleague's yesterday paper recording. Enjoy!

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

GenAut talks | Maria S. Thomas, "Publishing in a Twelfth-Century Syriac Monastery: Manuscript Production, Authority, and Scribal Practice at the Monastery of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem," Thursday 26 February, online. @dekayra.bsky.social.

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

GenAut recording | Jakob Engberg "The Care for the Remains of Polycarp in the Martyrdom of Polycarp in its Second Century Context" The first paper of the seminar. Full programme: genaut.univie.ac.at?page_id=671

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GenAut | Jakob Engberg "The Care for the Remains of Polycarp in its Second Century Context"

YouTube video by The GenAut Project

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

You can find us in Schenkenstraße, on the 5th floor.

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

GenAut talks | Dan Batovici, "The Migration of Violence in the Martyrdoms of Polycarp," Sat 21 Feb. Paper in the "Patterns of Violence in the Passion Narratives and Their Ancient Context" conference, Vienna 19-21 February, organised by @clarissabreu.bsky.social and @markusoehler.bsky.social.

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Congrats to our collaborators @worldlyscribe.bsky.social, Giorgia Nicosia, @madalinatoca.bsky.social, and Adrian Pirtea for their articles in the newly published thematic issue of the Journal of Eastern Christian Studies (co-edited by Marion). Several in Open Access! brill.com/view/journal...

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

The first talk of this years online seminar: Jakob Engberg, "The Care for the Remains of Polycarp in the Martyrdom of Polycarp in its Second Century Context." Tuesday, 17 February (10 AM CET) •Followers of the Apostles in Cultic Contexts• genaut.univie.ac.at

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

We're thrilled to share with you the programme for the 2026 online seminar of the project! The series is curated by our colleague Maria S. Thomas (@dekayra.bsky.social). All welcome! Let us know if you'd like to add you to the email list. genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671

The programme of the 2026 GenAut online seminar, with the general theme "The Followers of the Apostles in Cultic Contexts." It can be found online at https://genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671.

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

The 2025 series GenAut "Characters in relation to the apostles" is now completed, and you can check the recordings on youtube. genaut.univie.ac.at/?p=1635 youtube.com/@receptionmatters genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671