2nd Arabo-Greek Workshop
Connections between Byzantine and Islamic Philosophy
A Mainz History Talks workshop organized by
Joe Glynias (Cambridge, MA) and Zachary Chitwood/Johannes Pahlitzsch (Mainz)
under the auspices of the Gutenberg International Conference Center
June 9-10, 2023
Program all times are in CET
Online participant = *
Location: Helmholtz Institute Mainz (Staudingerweg 18, 55128 Mainz)
All sessions will also be broadcast over Zoom. The Zoom link for all presentations is: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87940580453?pwd=bFNGWUVUQ0ppRnNOOHU5SzVsMlJwdz09
JUN 9, 2023
15.00-15.30 Introduction
15.30-17.30, 1st session
- Adrian Pirtea (Vienna), Narratives of Recovered Antediluvian Wisdom in the Islamic and Byzantine Intellectual Traditions
- Lilli Hölzlhammer (Uppsala), Pragmatism and the Believer: On the Philosophical Approach and Religious Doubts in Kalila wa-Dimna and Its Greek Translation Stephanites kai Ichnelates
17.30-18.30 Break
18.30-20.30, 2nd session
- *Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (Athens) and Elvira Wakelnig (Vienna), The Greek Translation of Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥāq’s Questions on Medicine and Its Arabic Model
- Maria Mavroudi (Berkeley), Byzantine Translations from Arabic into Greek
JUN 10, 2023
15.00-17.00, 3rd session
- Christian Høgl (Odense), Correspondences between Narrative and Philosophical Features in Arabo-Greek Translations
- *Samet Budak (Ann Arbor), Arabo-Greek Primers and a Translation Movement at the Fifteenth-century Ottoman Court
17.00-17.30 Break
17.30-19.00 Roundtable
- Project Report: Index of Manuscripts with Arabic-Greek Translations
- Future of the Group
Moderators: Zachary Chitwood/ Johannes Pahlitzsch