Congratulations to our TeTra colleague Giorgia Nicosia for publishing her PhD work as a book — in Open Access, so have a feel! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Madalina Toca
@madalinatoca.bsky.social
Late antiquity, epistolography, manuscripts | Humboldt Fellow in Bamberg. Research Associate at the University of Vienna and KU Leuven. Former Royal Society of Edinburgh Saltire Early Career Fellow in Classics at the University of Edinburgh
Tomorrow! Don't forget to register!
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar@tetraseminar.bsky.social · 2mo agoNext Thu 20 August 10 AM CET Julie Dainville (Brussels) will deliver the paper •In the Rhetor's classroom: Rhetorical tradition and the papyri• If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link Image: P. Oxy . 4855 col. 3
Next Thu 20 August 10 AM CET Julie Dainville (Brussels) will deliver the paper •In the Rhetor's classroom: Rhetorical tradition and the papyri• If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link Image: P. Oxy . 4855 col. 3
Tomorrow – GenAut seminar | Rachael Helen Banes (Wien, GenAut team) "Apostolic Successors in Epigraphic Databases: What Does the Data Show?" Tomorrow 11 August at 10 am CET. See you there! genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671
GenAut talks | Come meet our colleagues Maria S. Thomas and Andy Hilkens in Leuven at the EABS Annual Conference in Leuven! It's a nice session too (on Thursday): •Biblical Reception in Eastern Christian Traditions• Room: MTC 00.12 Time: 2:30–4:30 PM
TeTra talks | Andy Hilkens will give two talks in Oxford this week: "Clement of Rome in the Armenian Tradition," and "Ephrem Armenus: the Armenian reception of the homilies of Ephrem of Nisibis and Ephrem Graecus," at Pembroke College. Join in if you're around! www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/event/clemen...
Come work with the CLAIM team in the new ERC project in Vienna! Apply here: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct... Details CLAIM.univie.ac.at/ @erc.europa.eu | @univie.ac.at | @etf-univienna.bsky.social
Come join us in Leuven for our Summer School on translations!
LECTIO Institute@lectio-institute.bsky.social · 4mo agoV LECTIO Interdisciplinary Summer School “Translations in the Premodern and Early Modern World” 8-9 September 2026, Old Abbey of Kortenberg. Masterclasses, research pitches, and a lot of conversations across disciplines! Program and registration (until 30 June): www.kuleuven.be/lectio/event...
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Meet our team! Starting today: Rachael Helen Banes. Welcome aboard, Rachael! The GenAut Project: "The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters" genaut.univie.ac.at/ genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=37
GenAut research trip | More photos from our colleague's @dekayra.bsky.social trip to Deir al-Surian for manuscript work.
GenAut research trip | Our colleague Maria S. Thomas @dekayra.bsky.social at Deir al-Surian for manuscript work. Here are some photos!
GenAut talks | Maria S. Thomas, "Publishing in a Twelfth-Century Syriac Monastery: Manuscript Production, Authority, and Scribal Practice at the Monastery of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem," Thursday 26 February, online. @dekayra.bsky.social.
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar@tetraseminar.bsky.social · 8mo agoJoin 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
Congrats to our collaborators @worldlyscribe.bsky.social, Giorgia Nicosia, @madalinatoca.bsky.social, and Adrian Pirtea for their articles in the newly published thematic issue of the Journal of Eastern Christian Studies (co-edited by Marion). Several in Open Access! brill.com/view/journal...
The first talk of this years online seminar: Jakob Engberg, "The Care for the Remains of Polycarp in the Martyrdom of Polycarp in its Second Century Context." Tuesday, 17 February (10 AM CET) •Followers of the Apostles in Cultic Contexts• genaut.univie.ac.at
We're thrilled to share with you the programme for the 2026 online seminar of the project! The series is curated by our colleague Maria S. Thomas (@dekayra.bsky.social). All welcome! Let us know if you'd like to add you to the email list. genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671
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...
We are looking for a one-year full-time Research Associate to work on Coptic manuscripts in Manchester as part of a wonderful project that connects mss with local communities. Requires strong skills in Coptic, English, & Arabic. Deadline 31/10. Please share! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Associate – Coptic in Manchester (UKRI):John Rylands Library
Key collaborators are the Coptic Church in Stockport, Manchester, and the Coptic Church in Llandudno, Wales. The project has an extensive and international advisory board. A PDRA seeking an academic career may find the balance between traditional research and co-creation appealing.
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Meet our team! Starting today: Maria S. Thomas The GenAut Project: "The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters" genaut.univie.ac.at @dekayra.bsky.social
There is a new Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Vienna, offering both Senior and Early-Career 1-year fellowships for 2026/27. Deadline 1 Sept 2025. Might be interesting for someone out there. vicas.univie.ac.at/
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
Four-year postdoc in Syriac studies in Vienna. Join my team in the FWF START Project "Generative Authority: The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters," genaut.univie.ac.at/ Deadline June 1st. Happy to respond to any inquiries! @fwf-at.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
Working with Manuscripts
It’s a nice moment when you receive the first copies of a book you’ve written. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of opening the box of authors’ copies of Working with Manuscripts, wri…
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Peter Tarras@petertarras.bsky.social · 2y agoImportant #ForthcomingPublication! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Bookmarked: From Vienna to the World: Launching the First Public Syriac HTR Model on Transkribus – The Digital Orientalist https://digitalorientalist.com/2025/02/18/from-vienna-to-the-world-launching-the-first-public-syriac-htr-model-on-transkribus/ #HTR_Syrisch_Transkribus Today’s post is […]
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This Friday in Edinburgh. Do come along if you are around and you have a thing for letter collections!
Summer School in Salzburg, Austria, June- 30 July 4, 2025. On Biblical Manuscripts and Their Use in Biblical Studies: The Hebrew, Greek, Latin Texts of Joshua: “The Jericho story."
