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!

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.

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

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

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

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).

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

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.

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.

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!

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"

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

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

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!

We are excited to host Samet Budak (Princeton) next Thursday 29 January at 5PM CET (note the unusual timeslot!). The topic of his paper is Greek translations in the early Ottoman period! If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link.

Off to a great start to 2026 this morning with Roman Gundacker. See you on the 29th for the next paper on Greek translations in the early Ottoman Empire!

Happy New Year everyone! We are starting off 2026 next Friday 9 Jan at 10 AM with a paper by Roman Gundacker (ÖAW/UniVie) on Manetho's Aegyptiaca. If you're not yet on the mailing list and interested in attending, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social

Warm congrats to our colleague Giorgia Nicosia for being awarded one of the Research Awards of the Associazione Internazionale di Studi Tardoantichi. Find her in the ceremony photo! studitardoantichi.org/en/2025/11/2...

Next week Lusine Sargsyan (Matenadaran/YSU) will enlighten us about the production of Armenian manuscripts in Romania! Tune in on Thu 20 Nov at 10 AM CET. f you're not yet on out mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link

Later this month we are hosting a new Book in the Spotlight. On Mon 24 Nov at 4PM CET Peter Van Nuffelen (Ghent) will present The Fragmentary Greek Chronicles after Eusebius, which he recently published with Lieve Van Hoof. Discussant will be @monica-berti.bsky.social (Leipzig)!

In the next TeTra seminar which will take place next Thursday 6 November at 4PM CET Ellen Muehlberger (Michigan) will speak about the voice of Mary of Egypt. If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register with @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link.

We are excited to host Anna Ohanjayan (Yerevan State University / Matenadaran) who will be speaking next Thu 23 Oct (10 AM CET) about the Tōnapatchaṛ, a fascinating genre in Armenian literature! If you're not yet on the mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social

Next Thursday 9 October, Eleanor Baker (@eleanormaybaker.bsky.social) will explore the world of Middle English book curses. All welcome!

Fixed or surprisingly fluid? Next Thursday 11 September at 10 am CET, Carlo Emilio Biuzzi (Ghent University) will explore the transmission of Syriac legal literature. All welcome!

The next TeTra paper, on Armenian manuscript colophons, will be delivered next Thursday 14 August by Lewis Read (University of Vienna)! If you are interested in attending and are not yet on the mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link!

We are excited to Jasmine Dum-Tragut next Thursday 31 July at 4PM CET (!), who will be delivering a paper on Armenian horse medicine manuscripts! If you are not yet on the mailing list and are interested in attending, do get in touch w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social

The next paper will take place on Friday 18 July at 4PM: Bishara Ebeid (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia) •Transposing Tradition: The West Syriac Reworking of an East Syriac Nicene Commentary• If you're not on the mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link.

The next TeTra event is another Book in the Spotlight, this time with Sofia Puchkova. Discussant is Samuel Fernández (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile). Tuesday 1 July at 4PM CET, don't miss it! If you are not yet on the mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social

The next TeTra paper will be delivered next Thu 19 June at 4PM (!) by Kayla Dang (Saint Louis). The topic is The Unusual Travels of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib’s Covenant with the Zoroastrians. If you're not on the mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link.

Next week we offer the floor to one of the long-term participants in our seminar. Boško Erić (University of East Sarajevo) will be speaking about the Letter of Mara bar Serapion on Thu 5 June, at 10 AM. If you're not yet on the mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social