Revealing Galen’s Simples Saturday, April 30, 2016; 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM	Page from the Galen Palimpsest in natural color and after processing to reveal the under text (2015).
An article published in the New York Times on June 1, 2015, described the discovery of a Syriac manuscript that contained the oldest known translation of Galen’s On the Mixtures and Powers of Simple Drugs. The text of this manuscript was erased in the eleventh century. Scientists and scholars from around the world are working to recover it. This symposium will feature the manuscript itself and presentations by imaging specialists, Syriac scholars, and historians of medicine working to reveal the secrets of this challenging manuscript. The weekend of our conference will be extremely busy on the Penn campus and some roads may be closed because of an athletics event. We earnestly advise you to walk or take public transport to the campus rather than driving. | Registration | Schedule Saturday, April 30, 2016 9:00-9:30 am Coffee Session 1: Galen, Greek Medicine, and the Syriac Palimpsest (session chair: Will Noel) 9:30-10:00 Ralph Rosen (Penn, Classical Studies) and Peter Singer (London), Galen and the Greek Medical Tradition 10:00-10:30 William Noel (Penn, Kislak Center), New Science meets Old Science: Ancient Manuscripts and Digital Technology 10:30-10:45 Discussion 10:45-11:00 am Coffee Session 2: Galen’s Simples Revealed (session chair: Michael Toth, R. B. Toth Associates) 11:00-11:10 Michael Toth (R. B. Toth Associates), Digitization and Access 11:10-11:40 Renee Wolcott (Philadelphia), The Syriac Galen Palimpsest 11:40-12:10 Roger Easton (Rochester), Imaging the Syriac Galen Palimpsest 12:10-12:40 Siam Bhayro (Exeter), Discovering Galen’s Simples 12:40-1:00 Discussion 1:00-2:30 pm Lunch (on your own) Galen Palimpsest on display in the Lea Library Session 3: New Discoveries (session chair: Ralph Rosen) 2:30-2:50 Michael Toth (R. B. Toth Associates), The New Program, the New Leaves 2:50-3:10 Peter Pormann (Manchester), The Final Frontier: Galen’s Syriac Versions and Graeco-Arabic Translation Technique 3:10-3:30 Robert Hawley, Irene Calà, and Jimmy Daccache (Paris), The Textual Interest of the Syriac Versions of Galen’s Simples 3:30-4:00 Discussion, Coffee Session 4: Digitizing Galen (session chair: Keith Knox) 4:00-4:20 Douglas Emery (Penn, Kislak Center), Open Galen: The Digital Manuscript 4:20-4:40 William Sellers (Manchester), Working with the Data 4:40-5:00 Corneliu Arsene (Manchester), Revealing the Palimpsest 5:00-5:30 pm Discussion and Closing Remarks (Ralph Rosen)
Class of 1978 Pavilion Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, sixth floor 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA Free and open to the public (please show photo ID at entrance)

Source : http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/galen.html

Call for applications | ‘Christians and Muslims in Africa. Towards a Framework for the Study of Multi-Religious Settings’ | Summer School ZMO Berlin | 14-20 July 2016

From 14-20 July 2016, the Summer School with theme ‘Christians and Muslims in Africa. Towards a Framework for the Study of Multi-Religious Settings’ will be held at ZMO Berlin. Call for applications is now open, application deadline is 15 February 2016.

Christians and Muslims in Africa. Towards a Framework for the Study of Multi-Religious Settings

Source : Leiden University http://www.hum.leiden.edu/nisis/news/call-for-applications-summerschool-zmo-2016.html

SAIMS/TMJ ESSAY PRIZE

SAIMS invites entries for its annual Essay Competition, submitted according to the following rules:

1. The competition is open to all medievalists who are graduate students or have completed a higher degree within the last three years. For PhD students the time period of three years begins from the date of the successful viva, but excludes any career break. Any candidate in doubt of their eligibility should contact the Director of SAIMS at saimsmail@st-andrews.ac.uk.

2. A candidate may make only one submission to the competition.

3. The submission must be the candidate’s own work, based on original research, and must not have been previously published or accepted for publication.

4. Submissions are welcomed on any topic that falls within the scope of medieval studies.

5. The submission should be in the English language.

6. The word limit is 8,000 words, including notes, bibliography, and any appendices.

7. The text should be double-spaced, and be accompanied by footnotes with short referencing and a full bibliography of works cited, following the guidelines on the webpage: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/saims/tmj.htm. An abstract of 200 words should preface the main text.

8. The deadline for submissions is 24 March 2016.

9. The essay must be submitted electronically to saimsmail@st-andrews.ac.uk, in both Word and pdf formats, to arrive by the deadline.

10. The submission must be accompanied by a completed cover sheet and signed declaration; the template for this is available at http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/saims/tmj.htm. The candidate’s name should not appear on the submission itself, nor be indicated in any form in the notes.

11. Decisions concerning the Competition lie with the Editors and Editorial Board of The Mediaeval Journal, who can, if they consider there to have been appropriate submissions, award an Essay Prize and in addition declare a proxime accessit. In the unlikely event that, in the judges’ opinion, the material submitted is not of a suitable standard, no prize will be awarded.

12. The value of the Prize is £500.

13. A candidate whose entry is declared proxime accessit will be awarded £100.

14. In addition to the Prize, the winning submission will be published within twelve months in

The Mediaeval Journal, subject to the usual editorial procedures of the journal.

Any queries concerning these rules may be directed to the Director of SAIMS who can be contacted at: Department of Mediaeval History, 71 South Street, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9QW

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/saims

saimsmail@st-andrews.ac.uk

Dialogue et différence au Moyen-Age est une conférence interdisciplinaire réunissant des chercheurs de tous les domaines explorant les façons dont les échanges et les interactions culturels, sociaux, politiques, religieux, scientifiques et intellectuels se sont déroulés tout au long du Moyen-Age. Le dialogue existait au-delà des frontières et à l’intérieur des sociétés médiévales, dans les monastères, les universités, les tribunaux et les places de marché ainsi que sur les champs de bataille et sur les grands chemins. Comment ces dialogues ont-ils façonné les sociétés du Moyen-Age, et comment les idées nouvelles, les personnes et les cultures se sont-elles positionnées par rapport à l’ordre ancien ? La différence a-t-elle conduit à des conflits ou à des formes de coexistence? Cette conférence vise à explorer ces questions à travers les sociétés de l’Europe médiévale, Byzance, le Proche-Orient et au-delà, de l’Antiquité tardive au 16ème siècle.

Parmi les sujets concernés :

– les sociétés construites sur les frontières culturelles, politiques et religieuses

– le dialogue interreligieux et polémique

– l’émergence de l’université

– conquête et colonisation

– hérésie et réforme

– dialogues inter- et intra-textuels

…

Les résumés doivent être soumis au plus tard le 25 novembre 2015. Pour toute information complémentaire, consulter l’annonce originale de l’appel sur le site de l’Université de Bristol.

Travaux en préparation :

•  “Compte rendu : S. Arbache, L’Évangile arabe selon saint Luc. Texte du VIIIe siècle, copié en 897. Édition et traduction. Bruxelles, éd. Safran, 2012, 159 p.” (Revue théologique de Louvain).
• “Une copie sépharade du Coran en hébreu. La traduction d’H. Reckendorf dans le manuscrit Heb. Jerusalem 8°6453″.
• “Six psaumes berbères en caractères hébraïques extraits du manuscrit de la Haggadah de Pessah de Tinrhir (sud-ouest marocain)”.

Le Prof. M.-R. Hayoun, spécialiste de philosophie juive médiévale et de la pensée judéo-allemande moderne, évoque ma thèse de doctorat dans un article publié sur le Portail juif francophone:

Dès le titre de cette traduction hébraïque du Coran, Al-Qor’an o ha-Miqra (littéralement : le Coran ou la Bible) l’auteur attentif se rend compte de l’objectif de Reckendorf : montrer que le Coran est une Bible à destination des Mahométans (sic). C’est ce processus que l’auteur entreprend de démonter dans la partie principale (pp 35-195) de cet excellent travail, mené selon les règles de la philologie et de la critique historique. Elle y traite du corpus des thèmes et des versets apparentés à la Bible hébraïque. Madame Afif en répertorie plusieurs dizaines qu’on ne pourra envisager ici que très partiellement…

Une version abrégée de l’article en question a également été publiée dans Le Huffington Post France et Le Huffington Post Canada.