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
The CLAIM ERC-CoG & GenAut FWF-START projects
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ERC-CoG project "Secondary Pseudepigraphy," 2026–2031, CLAIM.univie.ac.at/ FWF-START project "Generative Authority," 2024–2029, GenAut.univie.ac.at/ @erc.europa.eu | @univie.ac.at | @fwf-at.bsky.social
GenAut recording | Basil Lourié "Saint Dionysius the Areopagite and Those with Him: What They Say to Us from the Liturgical Calendar" Enjoy! The programme: genaut.univie.ac.at?page_id=671 youtu.be/XQicrdPNJxc
GenAut | Basil Lourié "Saint Dionysius the Areopagite and Those with Him: The Liturgical Calendar"
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Tomorrow!
GenAut seminar | Basil Lourié "Saint Dionysius the Areopagite and Those with Him: What They Say to Us from the Liturgical Calendar" Tuesday 13 July at 4 pm CET. See you there! genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671
GenAut seminar | Basil Lourié "Saint Dionysius the Areopagite and Those with Him: What They Say to Us from the Liturgical Calendar" Tuesday 13 July at 4 pm CET. See you there! genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671
GenAut recording | Margaret Cormack "The Cult of Saint Clement in Iceland." Enjoy! The programme: genaut.univie.ac.at?page_id=671 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxH-...
GenAut | Margaret Cormack "The Cult of Saint Clement in Iceland"
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GenAut talk | Dan Batovici "Outside Looking In, Inside Looking Out: The Literary Dossier of Clement of Rome" [hybrid] Thursday, 27 June, 8.30pm CET at the AELAC Conference 2026. From the organisers, the Zoom link for this talk is: zoom.us/j/9814841977...
GenAut seminar | Margaret Cormack (College of Charleston) "The Cult of St Clement in Iceland." See some of you there! genaut.univie.ac.at
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...
GenAut talks | Come meet us this summer in Oxford, St Moritz, Regensburg, Leeds, Leuven, Bucharest, and Vienna! Updated talk list at genaut.univie.ac.at?page_id=35
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
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
Meet our team! Starting in June: Sara Giorgetti. The GenAut Project: "The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters" genaut.univie.ac.at/ genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=37
GenAut recording | Grace Stafford "Pilgrimage to Saint Thecla: Access and Authority." Enjoy! The programme: genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmHv...
GenAut | Grace Stafford "Pilgrimage to Saint Thecla: Access and Authority"
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GenAut seminar | Grace Stafford (Universität Wien), "Pilgrimage to Saint Thecla: Access and Authority" Tuesday, 19 May 2026 at 10am CET. See some of you there! genaut.univie.ac.at
GenAut research trip | More photos from our colleague's @dekayra.bsky.social trip to Deir al-Surian for manuscript work.
GenAut seminar | Grace Stafford (Universität Wien), "Pilgrimage to Saint Thecla: Access and Authority" Tuesday, 19 May 2026 at 10am CET. See some of you there! genaut.univie.ac.at
GenAut research trip | Our colleague Maria S. Thomas @dekayra.bsky.social at Deir al-Surian for manuscript work. Here are some photos!
GenAut recording | Anna Lampadaridi "Some Remarks on Pankratios of Taormina’s Hagiographic Dossier: Exploring Texts and Cult Issues." Enjoy! The online seminar: genaut.univie.ac.at?page_id=671
GenAut | Anna Lampadaridi "Pankratios of Taormina’s Hagiographic Dossier: Texts and Cult Issues"
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GenAut seminar | Anna Lampadaridi (CNRS), "Some Remarks on Pankratios of Taormina’s Hagiographic Dossier," Tuesday, 21 April 2026 at (10am CET) genaut.univie.ac.at
GenAut research trip | A few snapshots from these weeks' manuscript work in Oxford and Cambridge.
GenAut seminar | Anna Lampadaridi (CNRS), "Some Remarks on Pankratios of Taormina’s Hagiographic Dossier," Tuesday, 21 April 2026 at (10am CET) genaut.univie.ac.at
GenAut talk | Maria S. Thomas and Christoph Scheerer, “The Hierotheos Dossier in Greek and Syriac” Gesprächskreis zum christlichen Diskurs im Mittelmeerraum bis zum Ausklang der Spätantike, Vienna, 26 March 2026, 5pm CET. genaut.univie.ac.at?page_id=35 etfcg.univie.ac.at/forschung/ge...
GenAut recording | Philipp Pilhofer, "The Circle of Barnabas: Generative Authority in Cypriot Hagiography" The online seminar: genaut.univie.ac.at?page_id=671
GenAut | Philipp Pilhofer "The Circle of Barnabas. Generative Authority in Cypriot Hagiography"
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Tomorrow ! GenAut online seminar | Philipp Pilhofer (Vienna), "The Circle of Barnabas. Generative Authority in Cypriot Hagiography" Tuesday, 24 March (10 AM CET). See you there! •Followers of the Apostles in Cultic Contexts• genaut.univie.ac.at
The first paper in our 2025 seminar was offered by the author. Congrats! Recording here:
GenAut | Marianna Cerno "Gesta sancti Clementis: An Unknown Fragment of the Pseudo-Clementine Novel"
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Congrats to Marianna Cerno for publishing a new ps. Clementine text she identified recently, for which she suggests a date of composition in the fourth century! Basically, new apocryphon just dropped. You can find a discussion of her book here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmQe...
If you're interested in the papers coming out of the project, we're keeping an up to date list at genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=35. Come say hi in Rome, Saint Maurice, Leeds, Leuven, Bucharest, Vienna, and Glasgow, in the following months!
Brief presentation of the project by Dan Batovici for AIEP/IAPS, with a preview of the ERC CoG CLAIM project that will start in September. Many thanks Lavinia Cerioni for the kind invitation! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMCo...
"Generative Authority" and "Secondary Pseudoepigraphy"
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GenAut talks | Andy Hilkens and Lewis Read, “A Constantinopolitan Synaxarion for Armenians: The Tawanac’uyc’ of Yovsep’.” •Christian Liturgy and Memory Practices from Medieval Iberia to Central Asia• Vienna, 5-6 March. @andyhilkens.bsky.social @lewread.bsky.social www.oeaw.ac.at/detail/veran...