Lectures

Conference Invitations

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• Eichstätt – Annual Conference of the Patristics’ Working Group [“‘Grenzüberschreitungen’ im antiken Christentum”, [“‘Border crossings’ in ancient Christianity”] Key Note Speech in the Section “Sprachliche und kulturelle Grenzüberschreitungen” (22/03/2020), Title: “Übersetzungsarbeiten der Orthodoxen Kirche als ‘grenzüberschreitendes’ Phänomen im 9. Jahrhundert. Herausforderungen, Missverständnisse, Stolpersteine ... und ihre weltpolitischen Folgen” [“Translation works of the Orthodox Church as a ‘transnational’ phenomenon in the 9th century. Challenges, misunderstandings, stumbling Blocks ... and their world political consequences”]

• Nantes – ERC Synergy Project “The European Qur’an. Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion (1150–1850)” (EuQu), Journée d’études “Le Coran Byzantin”, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Ange Guépin (18/12/2019), Title: “«Coranus Graecus» : La traduction grecque du Coran utilisée par Nicétas de Byzance” [«Coranus Graecus» : The Greek translation of the Qur'an used by Nicetas of Byzantium”]

• Napels – ERC Synergy Project “The European Qur’an. Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion (1150–1850)” (EuQu), Launch Conference (16–18/10/2019), Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, Digital Humanities Panel, Title: “A Vision for Comparing Qur’an Translations. Joining Efforts in Digital Humanities”

• Berlin – Internationaler Workshop Preliminary Considerations on the Corpus Coranicum Christianum. The Qur’an in Translation – A Survey of the State-of-the-Art, Organizer: Manolis Ulbricht & Berliner Byzantinistik (05–07/12/2018), Title: „The Coranus Graecus – A Short Overview“

• Mexico City – 14^o Taller de Filosofía Antigua “Aristóteles y el tratado De Virtutibus et Vitiis”, [“Aristotle and the treatise De Virtutibus et Vitiis”] Instituto de Investigaciones Filosócas/Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (28–29/11/2017), Title: “La transmisión griega-árabe en los manuscritos del tratado pseudo-aristotélico De Virtutibus et Vitiis. Una contribución para su comparación e interpretación” [“Greek-Arabic transmission in manuscripts of the pseudo-Aristotelian treatise De Virtutibus et Vitiis. A contribution to their comparison and interpretation”]

• Berlin – International Conference Aspects of Qur’anic Scholarship – Philology meets Theology, Organized by the Centre for Islamic Theology & Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” & Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities & CRC 980 “Episteme in Motion” (23–25/09/2016), Title: “Translation as Theological Transfer: Patterns of Orthodox Theology and Byzantine Patristics in the Coranus Graecus dating back to the 1st/2nd century hijrī ” [Conference Proceedings: “أوجه المعرفة القرآنية: لقاء الفيلولوجيا واللاهوت”]

• Athens – Symposium Ελληνικά και Αραβικά κατά τους Μέσους Χρόνους: Προβολές και αντανακλάσεις [Greek and Arabic during the Middle Ages: projections and reflections], National University of Athens (09/06/2016), Title: “Ο «Coranus Graecus» και νέες προσεγγίσεις στις ελληνο- αραβικές σπουδές” [“The «Coranus Graecus» and new approaches to Greek-Arabic Studies”]

• Göttingen – International Workshop Fresh Perspectives on Early Muslim Historiography, EDRIS/Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (25–26/06/2015), Title: “Islam Interpreted: The Picture of Muslims through the Byzantine Prism”

• Vienna – Vienna Dialogues People on the Move and the Ideas they Bring: Mobility of Ideas, Motifs and Texts in Byzantium and Beyond, Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies/University of Vienna (29–30/05/2015), Title: “The ‘Long March’ towards West – How Did Europe Get to Know the Qur’an?”

• Odense – International Workshop Multi-lingual Qur’anic Material from the Three First Centuries after Hijra/Seventh to Ninth Century CE, Centre for Medieval Literature/University of Southern Denmark (30/09–01/10/2014), Title: “The Greek Translation of the Qur’an (8/9th century CE) and its Use by Nicetas of Byzantium for his ‘Refutation of the Qur’an’ (9th century CE) – a Heresiological Approach”