The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities The Hebrew University of Jerusalem cordially invite you to a Joint Conference on
Orality and Literacy XIV: Textualization
Sunday-Wednesday June 20-23, 2021
Sunday, June 20, 2021
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
17:00-19:00 Opening Session
Greetings
Sergiu Hart, Head of the Humanities Division, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, Organizing Committee
Keynote Lecture
Chair: Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, Tel Aviv University
Niall W. Slater, Emory University Textualization from the Bottom Up
Monday, 21 June, 2021
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
9:30-11:00 Session I:
Linguistic Aspects Chair: Hannah Rosén, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Aaron Koller, Yeshiva University Textualization and Oralization in Early Near Eastern Writing
Ronald Blankenborg, Radboud University Deictic Phonation in Textualization: Pragmatically Preserved Greek Particles
Rodrigo Verano, Complutense University of Madrid How to Make a Literary Text of a Conversation: Evidence from Plato’s Dialogues
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:45 Session II:
Material Culture Chair: Benjamin Isaac, Academy Member; Tel Aviv University
Raymond F. Person, Jr., Ohio Northern University Textualization across Media: A Case Study Based on Person Reference in Talk and Material Culture
Teddy Fassberg, Tel Aviv University Speaking Objects as Texts
Manuela Giordano, University of Siena Textualizing Democracy and The Eion Herms
12:45-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-16:00 Session III:
Homer and Hesiod Chair: David Schaps, Bar-Ilan University
Elizabeth Minchin, Australian National University Moving Towards Textualization: Evidence for Poetic Preparation in Homer
Massimo Giuseppetti, Università degli Studi Roma Tre Textualization as Interpolation? Reconsidering Repetition in Greek Epic Poetry
Ruth Scodel, University of Michigan Works and Days and the Difficulties of Textualization
16:00-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-17:45 Session IV:
Early Poetry Chair: Deborah Gera, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Deborah Beck, University of Texas at Austin Sappho, Lyric, and Biography: Textualization as a Mode of Thought
Jan Skarbek-Kazanecki, University of Łodz The Transmission of the Theognidean Tradition as a Mnemonic Cultural Practice
Andrea Rotstein, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Phoenician Oral Poetry: The Missing Link
Tuesday 22 June, 2021
Maiersdorf Faculty Club Room 405 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus Campus
09:30-11:00 Session V:
Greek Prose Chair: Jonathan Price, Tel Aviv University
Greetings: Barak Medina, Rector, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Giulia Donelli, University of Bristol Between Orality and Textuality: Epigraphical Letters and Early Greek Literary Prose
Christopher Haddad, Oxford University From Elocution to Epistolography
Uri Yiftach, Tel Aviv University Between Law and Phantasy: Court Proceedings as a Source on Language, Style and Literature
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:45 Session VI:
Textualizing Historical Figures Chair: Donna Shalev, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Il-Kweon Sir, Cambridge University Early Greek Tyrannic Discourse and the Textualization of the Tyrant
Margalit Finkelberg, Academy Member; Tel Aviv University Textualizing Socrates: Plato’s Version
Lisa Cordes, Humboldt University Textualizing Historical Figures in Cicero’s Dialogues – Dynamics and Ambiguities
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Maiersdorf Faculty Club, Room 405 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus Campus
9:30-11:00 Session VII:
Textualizing Popular Traditions Chair: Joseph Geiger, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Daniela Dueck, Bar-Ilan University Textualizing Naïve Geography in Classical Antiquity
Daniel Wendt, Free University Berlin (Con) Textualizing Anecdotes. Written Orality and Natural Narratives in Livy’s Early History of Rome
Sonia Pertsinidis, Australian National University The Eagle and the Serpent: Textualization and the Fables of Babrius
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:45 SessionVIII:
BetweenTextandPerformance Chair: Yoav Rinon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Daniel Anderson, Coventry University Early Writing Metaphors in Performance
Łukasz Berger, Adam Mickiewicz University Oral Design in Plautus’ Verse: The Context of Rehearsal and Performance
Alexander Kirichenko, Humboldt University How to Do Things with Letters: Orality and Textuality in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
12:45-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-16:00 Session IX:
Late Antiquity Chair: Gabriel Danzig, Bar-Ilan University
Han Baltussen, The University of Adelaide Fact, Fiction or ‘Faction’? Eunapius’ Use of Written and Oral Sources
Chiara Militello, University of Catania From Literacy to Orality and Back: The Complex Textualization of Late Neoplatonic Lectures
Hossein Sheikh, University of Göttingen Establishment and Composition of the Zoroastrian Legal Corpus after the Muslim Conquests
16:00-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-17:45 Session X:
Textualization and Religion Chair: Guy Stroumsa, Academy Member;
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Oxford University
Jordi Redondo, University of Valencia Oral Patterns in the Greek Pentateuch?
Maren Niehoff, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Preserving or Creating Orality in Texts? The Sermons of Origen and Rabbi Abbahu
Evgenia Moiseeva, Salzburg University The Rise of the Written Word in Manichaeism
Concluding Remarks
The conference will take place at The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Albert Einstein Square, 43 Jabotinsky St., Jerusalem, and at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus Campus The event will be streamed live on the Israel Academy website: www.academy.ac.il and on Zoom by pre-registration
links to zoom and to registration for physical attendence
https://academy.ac.il/Index/Entry.aspx?nodeId=936&entryId=22423
link to conference site https://oralityliteracyxiv.wordpress.com
