Sunday, April 11, 2021

 Epiphanies of the Saints in Late-antique Literature"

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On behalf of prof. Julia Doroszewska, University of Warsaw:

Dear Colleagues,

I am delighted to announce that registration for the international conference "Epiphanies of the Saints in Late-antique Literature" has been just opened.

The conference will be held on 21 May 2021, 10:00-18:15 CET, via Zoom.

Participation is free of charge upon registration which closes on 16 May 2021.

The conference programme, as well as the registration form and the link to the meeting on Zoom are available at the conference website: 

The keynotes include: Danuta Shanzer, Vincent Déroche, Stephanos Efthymiadis, and Bryan Ward-Perkins.

For your convenience, I am copying the programme below.

With my best wishes,

Julia Doroszewska
Conference organizer


PROGRAMME
10:00-10:15 WELCOME ADDRESS

10:15-11:15 PATTERNS AND MODES 
Vincent Déroche (Paris; key note) /Modes of epiphany in early Byzantine hagiography: convictions, strategies and hesitations
 
Stavroula Constantinou (Nicosia) /Patterns of epiphany in Byzantine miracle stories 
Robert Wiśniewski / Chair

11:30-13:00 DOUBTS AND QUESTIONS 
Danuta Shanzer (Vienna; key note) / “Did I, or didn't I (see him/her)?” 
Bryan Ward-Perkins (Oxford; key note) /Why were Martin of Tours and Julian of Brioude so rarely seen by their devotees? 
Przemysław Piwowarczyk (Katowice) /Bifurcated hagiography: epiphanies of Saint Menas in Greek and Coptic miracle collections 
Stavroula Constantinou / Chair

14:30-15:30 TRICKS AND SECRETS 
Stephanos Efthymiadis (Nicosia; key note) / The epiphany of "secret saints": questions of cult and literary promotion for late-antique holy men and women who did not seize the glory of the day 
Julia Doroszewska (Warsaw) / Saint tricksters: playful epiphanies in late-antique literature Danuta Shanzer / Chair

15:45-16:45 DISPUTES AND DEFINITIONS
Efthymios Rizos (Thessaloniki) / "Not physical, but real": debating and defining the apparitions of the saints in the Greek Fathers during the 5th and 6th centuries 
Paweł Nowakowski (Warsaw) / "He judged it preposterous to oppose visions from God". The know-how of the visions of living ascetics in late-antique Syria and Palestine 
Bryan Ward-Perkins / Chair

17:00-18:00 'PAGANS' AND PARALLELS 
Darja Šterbenc Erker (Berlin/Vienna) / Epiphanies in ancient Roman literature 
Krzysztof Pierzchalski (Cracow) / Epiphany dreams in antiquity: a cognitive approach 
Julia Doroszewska / Chair

18:00-18:15 CLOSING REMARKS


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