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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Next Thu 1 Oct at 10 AM CET, Giulia Paoletti (Ghent University) on •Writing Texts, Shaping Readers: The Making of Byzantine Paraenetic Literature• If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social ! Image: Athos, Panteleimon 1063, fol. 11v (16th c.)

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Congratulations to our TeTra colleague Giorgia Nicosia for publishing her PhD work as a book — in Open Access, so have a feel! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Next Thursday 17 September, 4PM CET (!) Maria Doerfler (Yale University) •The Bible at the Burial: Scripture's Role in Syriac Christian Funerary Hymnography• If you're not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We are excited to host Jeroen Verrijssen (Ghent University) next Thu 10 Sept, at 10 AM CET. The topic of his paper is •Towards a Typology of Onomastic Transmission: The Names of the Watchers in 1 Enoch and Its Versions• If you are interested in attending, pls register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Congrats to @sophiademue.bsky.social for winning an ERC StG! "Beta Esrael Heritage and Texts - a multilayered approach to the literary and manuscript tradition of the Ethiopian Jews" For a preview, you may wish to check out her TeTra talk – incidentaly one of the most viewed talks on our channel!

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TeTra | Sophia Dege-Müller "Texts from Ethiopian Christians to Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jewish)"

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Next Thu 20 August 10 AM CET Julie Dainville (Brussels) will deliver the paper •In the Rhetor's classroom: Rhetorical tradition and the papyri• If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link Image: P. Oxy . 4855 col. 3

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We continue next Thursday 23 July at 10 AM, with Mehdy Shaddel (Cambridge/Liège)! The topic of his paper is •ʿUmar II as Reformer: The Social and Fiscal Backdrop to His Edicts)• If you are interested in attending and are not yet on the TeTra mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social!

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

TeTra continues during the summer! Next Thursday 9 July at 4PM CET @somiyagawa.bsky.social (University of Tsukuba) will speak about the Coptic Apocalypse of Elijah. If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link.

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

If you missed last week's excellent paper, here it goes! William Barton (@krithemp.bsky.social) •Byzantine Letters in Golden Age Spain. On Vicente Mariner’s Translation of Theophylact Achridensis’ Correspondence•

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TeTra | William Barton "Byzantine Letters in Golden Age Spain"

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Next Thursday 18 June at 10 AM CET! Irene Tinti (Florence) •Debates in the Margins: Tracing Interconfessional Relations through the Lens of Medieval Armenian Manuscripts• If you want to receive the Zoom link and are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

For those who missed Thursday's Book in the Spotlight, here is the recording! Great conversation between Christine Shepardson, the author of A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious DIfference in Late Antiquity, and @philipforness.bsky.social!

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TeTra | Book in the Spotlight: Christine Shepardson, A Memory of Violence (2026)

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Next Thursday 11 June, 10 AM! William M. Barton (Universität Innsbruck) •Byzantine Letters in Golden-Age Spain: On Vicente Mariner’s translation of Theophylact Achridensis’ Correspondence• Image, BNE, MS 9813, f. 673r

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Next week! With Christine Shepardson (The University of Tennessee Knoxville) and @philipforness.bsky.social (KU Leuven)!

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

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

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Save the date! Thursday 4 June at 4PM CET Book in the Spotlight: Christine Shepardson: A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 2026) Respondent will be Philip Forness (KULeuven).

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Next Thursday 7 May we are hosting a paper by Rachael Banes (IMAFO, ÖAW) who will be speaking about a mysterious inscription •A Fowl Demon? The "Demonic Duck" Graffito at Didyma in its wider Epigraphic Landscape• If you're not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Incredibly excited to host a paper by Larisa Ficulle Santini (ÖAW) next Thursday 30 April at 10 AM CET •The Words to Say It: How to talk about fertility control in Byzantium• If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link.

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

If you missed the paper, here's the recording! Michael Erdman (British Library), "A Silken Thread between Scripts: Two Copies of a Late 19th Century Silk Production Manual in Ottoman and Armeno-Turkish"

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TeTra | Michael Erdman "Copies of a 19th c. Silk Production Manual in Ottoman and Armeno-Turkish"

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

April is a busy month for us! Next Thu 16 April at 10 AM CET, Michael Erdman (British Library) will deliver a research paper about two Ottoman and Armeno-Turkish silk production manuals! If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link.

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Come join us on Wednesday 8 April 10 AM (note the different time from usual) for a paper on corrections in Greek and Latin literature by @dareiadareia.bsky.social (KULeuven). If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link!

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Please join us on Thursday 26 March at 10 am CET for the next TeTra talk by Julia Schwarzer (KU Leuven): "A Mischievous Manuscript or Infidel Rule Reimagined: Julian in Coptic Sources"

St. Mercurius kills Julian, BM Ms. Or. 6801, f. 1v, 996–1004 CE. Image courtesy of the British Library

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Join us next Thursday, 12 March at 10 AM CET for the paper: Gabrielle Russo (Ghent University) •Regional Panegyric and the Tulunid Dynasty• If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Join us next Thursday 26 Feb at 10 AM CET for a paper by Maria S. Thomas (UniVie) on the manuscript production of the Syriac Orthodox monastery of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem in the twelfth century! If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Next week we are hosting another paper, this time by Nicolas Atas (KU Leuven) on Syriac lexica! Tune in on Thursday 5 Feb at our regular time of 10 AM CET. As always, don't forget to register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social if you're not yet on our mailing list!

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