PROGRAM

June 25 (Thursday)

9:00-9:45            Introductory Remarks

Tijana Krstić (Central European University)

9:45-11:15         Panel 1: Making the Corpus, Making the Community

Chair: István Perczel (Central European University) 

Sinae Kim (University of Toronto): Cut, Paste, Preach: Communal Making and Circulation of Preaching Texts in Medieval Chinese Buddhism

Ephrem Ishac (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Medieval Research): Preaching and Communal Identity: Contextualizing Medieval and Early Modern Syriac Liturgical Homilies 

Adrian Pirtea (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Medieval Research): Preaching in Medieval al-Quds: The Arabic Homiletic Corpus attributed to Patriarch Athanasius of Jerusalem (Mid-15th Century)

11:15-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00    Panel 2: Varieties of Preaching

Chair: Florian Schwarz (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Iranian Studies)

David Quinter (University of Alberta): Written Vows (Ganmon) as Preaching Texts in Medieval Japan: Eison’s Vow for the Saidaiji Mantra of Light Assemblies

Rıza Yıldırım (University of Vienna): Beyond Preaching: Ritual, Narrative, and Religious Learning in Traditional Alevi Communities

Radu Mustață (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Scriptural Scarcity, Liturgy, and Preaching Practice in Malabar at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century

13:00-14:30     Lunch

14:30-16:00      Panel 3: Preaching to the Monks, Nuns and Clergy

Chair: Pavlina Rychterová (University of Vienna)

Claudia Rapp (University of Vienna/Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Medieval Research): Hearing and Reading Monastic Sermons in Byzantium

Anna Zajchowska-Bołtromiuk (Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN, Warsaw): Preaching Clerical Identity in the Middle Ages: Dominican Sermones ad clerum in the Cathedral of Wrocław

Maria Grazia Bartolini (State University of Milano): The Preacher and His (Female) Audience: Monastic Discipline, Female Spirituality, and Confessionalization in Stefan Iavors′kyi’s Sermons to the Nuns of the Ascension Convent in Kyiv

16:00-16:15 Coffee Break

16:15-17:45      Panel 4: Rhetoric of Preaching 

Chair: Birgit Kellner(Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia)

Ryan Overbey (Skidmore College): The rhetoric of magic and the magic of rhetoric in the Great Lamp of the Dharma Dhāraṇī Scripture

Adinel Dincă (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca): Shaping or Being Shaped: Parish Preachers, Preaching, and Community among Transylvanian Saxons (1400–1500)

Meryem Yetkin (Sabancı University, Istanbul): Contestation from the Pulpit: Sultan’s Preacher Atpazarî Fazıl Osman Efendi and Celvetî Preaching in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Cities

18:30    Dinner 

June 26 (Friday)

9:30-11:00      Panel 5: Preaching and Brokering of (Inter) Communal Relations

Chair: Bruno De Nicola(Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Iranian Studies)

Ottó Gecser (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest): Representations of Jews and Christian–Jewish relations in Latin sermons from the Kingdom of Hungary around 1500

Emese Muntán (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies): Franciscan preaching, accommodation, and Catholic community-building in 17th-century Ottoman Bosnia

Derin Terzioğlu (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul): Murder in the Great Mosque: Preaching, Violence and Public Opinion in Early 18th-century Bursa

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-12:45    Panel 6: Preachers’ Notebooks as Archives of Practice

Chair: Tijana Krstić (Central European University)

Patrick Koch (Hamburg University, Institute for Jewish Studies): Interpreting Scripture for the Sermon: A Sixteenth-Century Preacher’s Notebook

Anna Ohanjanyan (Matenadaran Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, Yerevan): Becoming a Preacher: Grigor K'ēōmiwrchean and his Pocket Sermon Book in Armeno-Turkish

Stauros Grimanis (Athens): Preaching Orthodoxy in Early Modern Venice: The Autograph Sermon Notebooks of Gavriil Seviros, First Bishop of Philadelphia in Venice

12:45-14:00     Lunch

14:00-15:30      Panel 7: Multilinguality and Vernacularization in Preaching 

Chair: Walter Pohl (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Medieval Research)

Pavlina Rychterová (University of Vienna): Vernacular Preaching and Religious Education in Late Medieval Eastern Central Europe

Cristian Gașpar (Central European University):  Reformation Through Preaching: Identity Building and the Dynamics of Vernacularization in the First Old Romanian Gospel Homiliary, the Tîlcul Evangheliilor (1567)

Ovidiu Olar (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies): Preachers and Preaching in Early Modern Wallachia (16th - 18th Centuries)

15:30-15:45      Coffee Break

15:45-17:15      Discussion

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