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Orality and Literacy XIV: Textualization האקדמיה הלאומית הישראלית למדעים והאוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים מתכבדות להזמינכם לכינוס משותף בנושא The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities The Hebrew University of Jerusalem cordially invite you to a Joint Conference on Orality and Literacy XIV: Textualization ראשון-רביעי י‘-י“ג בתמוז תשפ“א Sunday-Wednesday June 20-23, 2021 Program Sunday, June 20, 2021 16151745 Session IV: Early Poetry Wednesday, June 23, 2021 Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Chair: Deborah Gera, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Maiersdorf Faculty Club Room 405 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus Campus 17001900 Opening Session Deborah Beck, University of Texas at Austin Sappho, Lyric, and Biography: Textualization as a Mode of 09301100 Session VII: Textualizing Popular Traditions Greetings Thought Chair: Joseph Geiger, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Sergiu Hart, Head of the Humanities Division, Jan Skarbek-Kazanecki, University of Łodz Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Daniela Dueck, Bar-Ilan University The Transmission of the Theognidean Tradition as a Mnemonic Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, Organizing Committee Textualizing Naïve Geography in Classical Antiquity Cultural Practice Daniel Wendt, Free University Berlin Keynote Lecture Andrea Rotstein, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Con) Textualizing Anecdotes. Written Orality and Natural Chair: Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, Tel Aviv University Phoenician Oral Poetry: The Missing Link Narratives in Livy’s Early History of Rome Niall W. Slater, Emory University Textualization from the Bottom Up Tuesday, June 22, 2021 Sonia Pertsinidis, Australian National University The Eagle and the Serpent: Textualization and the Fables Reception Maiersdorf Faculty Club Room 405 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus Campus of Babrius 11001115 Coffee Break Monday, June 21, 2021 09301100 Session V: Greek Prose Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Chair: Jonathan Price, Tel Aviv University 11151245 Session VIII: Between Text and Performance 09301100 Session I: Linguistic Aspects Greetings Chair: Yoav Rinon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Chair: Hannah Rosén, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Donna Shalev, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Daniel Anderson, Coventry University Aaron Koller, Yeshiva University Giulia Donelli, University of Bristol Early Writing Metaphors in Performance Textualization and Oralization in Early Near Eastern Writing Between Orality and Textuality: Epigraphical Letters and Early Łukasz Berger, Adam Mickiewicz University Greek Literary Prose Ronald Blankenborg, Radboud University Oral Design in Plautus’ Verse: The Context of Rehearsal and Deictic Phonation in Textualization: Pragmatically Preserved Christopher Haddad, Oxford University Performance Greek Particles From Elocution to Epistolography Alexander Kirichenko, Humboldt University Rodrigo Verano, Complutense University of Madrid Uri Yiftach, Tel Aviv University How to Do Things with Letters: Orality and Textuality in Ovid’s How to Make a Literary Text of a Conversation: Evidence from Between Law and Phantasy: Court Proceedings as a Source on Metamorphoses Plato’s Dialogues Language, Style and Literature 12451430 Lunch Break 11001115 Coffee Break 11001115 Coffee Break 14301600 Session IX: Late Antiquity 11151245 Session II: Material Culture 11151245 Session VI: Textualizing Historical Figures Chair: Gabriel Danzig, Bar-Ilan University Chair: Benjamin Isaac, Academy Member; Tel Aviv University Chair: Hannah Cotton, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Han Baltussen, The University of Adelaide Raymond F. Person, Jr., Ohio Northern University Il-Kweon Sir, Cambridge University Fact, Fiction or ‘Faction’? Eunapius’ Use of Written and Oral Textualization across Media: A Case Study Based on Person Early Greek Tyrannic Discourse and the Textualization of the Sources Reference in Talk and Material Culture Tyrant Chiara Militello, University of Catania Teddy Fassberg, Tel Aviv University Margalit Finkelberg, Academy Member; Tel Aviv University From Literacy to Orality and Back: The Complex Textualization of Speaking Objects as Texts Textualizing Socrates: Plato’s Version Late Neoplatonic Lectures Manuela Giordano, University of Siena Lisa Cordes, Humboldt University Hossein Sheikh, University of Göttingen Textualizing Democracy and The Eion Herms Textualizing Historical Figures in Cicero’s Dialogues – Establishment and Composition of the Zoroastrian Legal Corpus Dynamics and Ambiguities after the Muslim Conquests 12451430 Lunch Break 16001615 Coffee Break 14301600 Session III: Homer and Hesiod Chair: David Schaps, Bar-Ilan University 16151745 Session X: Textualization and Religion Chair: Guy Stroumsa, Academy Member; Elizabeth Minchin, Australian National University The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Oxford University Moving Towards Textualization: Evidence for Poetic Preparation in Homer Jordi Redondo, University of Valencia Oral Patterns in the Greek Pentateuch? Massimo Giuseppetti, Università degli Studi Roma Tre Textualization as Interpolation? Reconsidering Repetition in Maren Niehoff, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Greek Epic Poetry Preserving or Creating Orality in Texts? The Sermons of Origen and Rabbi Abbahu Ruth Scodel, University of Michigan Works and Days and the Difficulties of Textualization Evgenia Moiseeva, Salzburg University The Rise of the Written Word in Manichaeism 16001615 Coffee Break Concluding Remarks הכינוס יתקיים באקדמיה הלאומית הישראלית למדעים, כיכר אלברט איינשטיין, רחוב ז׳בוטינסקי 43, ירושלים ובאוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים, קמפוס הר הצופים האירוע יועבר בזום ובשידור חי באתר האקדמיה www.academy.ac.il The conference will take place at The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Albert Einstein Square, 43 Jabotinsky St., Jerusalem and at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus Campus The event will be streamed live on the Israel Academy website: www.academy.ac.il and on Zoom by pre-registration ההרצאות תתקיימנה בשפה האנגלית | The lectures will be in English הכניסה ללא תשלום על בסיס מקום פנוי | מספר המקומות מוגבל, הכניסה בהרשמה מראש | חניה ציבורית ברחובות הסמוכים לאקדמיה Places are limited | Please register in advance | Admission is free of charge | Paid public parking is available in the streets adjacent to the Academy.
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