Presentations

2025

13.2.2025: Emilio Bonfiglio, “La tradition arménienne de In parabolam de filio prodigo [CPG 4577] du pseudo-Chrysostome”, Textes patristiques grecs et versions orientales seminary, Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, Paris. 

8.2.2025: Emilio Bonfiglio, Response: “The Pseudo-Epiphanian Homily Ի Թաղումն Տեառն and Its Relationship with the Greek Original: The Resilience of a Disrupted Text?” by Lorenzo Colombo, and “The Armenian Acts of Thomas: Textual Transmission and Fluidity” by Mari Mamyam, graduate and early career international workshop Armenian & Byzantium V, University of Oxford. 

10.1.2025: Emilio Bonfiglio, “The Vienna Agathangelos: A Study of Palimpsest W56”, 16th General Congress of the Association Internationale des Études Arméniennes, University Geneva and University of Lausanne (9–11 January). 

9.1.2025: Jost Gippert, “Approaching the Early Centuries. Palimpsests and Their Significance for the History of Armenian Literacy”, Association internationale des études arméniennes, XVIe Conférence générale,Université de Genève / Université de Lausanne.

2024

4.12.2024: Emilio Bonfiglio, “Rediscovering the Palimpsested Vienna Agathangelos (Mekhitarists’ Congregation, MS 56)”, Österreichisch-armenische Studiengesellschaft, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. 

19.11.2024: Jost Gippert, "Albanian Inscriptions in Artsakh?" Sacred Grounds, Shared Vision. Preserving Holy Sites for a Joint Christian Ministery. Preserving the Religious and Cultural Sites in Artsakh, Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas, Rome.

14.11.2024: Emilio Bonfiglio, “The Armenian Translation of John Chrysostom’s Commentary on the Psalms”, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford.

13.11.2024: Emilio Bonfiglio, “Armenian Manuscript Culture and the Development of Armenian Palaeography from Late Antiquity to Early Printed Books”, Weston Library (Bodleian Libraries), University of Oxford.

8.11.2024: Emilio Bonfiglio, Response: “Provincializing Empire? Globale perspektiven auf die vormoderne Christentumsgeschichte und ihre Quellen” by Stanislau Paulau, international workshop Asiatische Christentümer in der Globalen Vormoderne, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.

21.9.2024: Emilio Bonfiglio, “The Armenian Presence in Late-Antique Jerusalem”, Unravelling Jerusalem’s Armenian Experience: Reflections on History, Photography, and Diaspora, Symposium, Pázmány Péter Catholic University / Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest. 

3.9.2024: Jost Gippert, “Textual Heritage Hidden and Obscured: Palimpsests from the Caucasus”, Lost Texts Colloquium, KU Leuven.

21.7.2024: Jost Gippert, “Approaching the Early Centuries: The DeLiCaTe project in Hamburg”, International Armenological Conference, Matenadaran, Yerevan.

21.7.2024: Emilio Bonfiglio, “(Re-)Discovering Ancient Armenian Manuscripts and Texts through Scattered Palimpsests”, International Armenological Congress, Matenadaran, Yerevan.

15.7.2024: Emilio Bonfiglio, “Le traduzioni armene e siriache dei Padri greci: alcune questioni metodologiche”, Introduzione al mondo siriaco, Seminar Series, Pontificia Università Salesiana, Rome.

11.7.2024: Emilio Bonfiglio, “Observing Armenian Identity in Late Antiquity: Armenian Material Culture and Its International Context”, Building Collaborative Research Networks That Inspire, Summer Symposium 2024, Department of Oriental Christian and Byzantine Studies & Mesrop Centre for Armenian Studies, University of Halle-Wittenberg.

20.6.2024: Jost Gippert, “Cultural Heritage Hidden and Obscured – Palimpsests from the Caucasus”, Symposium “Searching for Words”, Graz University.

13.5.2024: Jost Gippert, "Archetypes in Linguistics? Schleicher’s “Stammbaumtheorie” Today". Studia stemmatologica X: Metaphérein – Theories and Methods of Stemmatology, Monte Verità.

13.6.2024: Emilio Bonfiglio, Online presentation “Late Antique and Early Medieval Religious Architecture in the Armenian Lands: From Mesopotamia to Byzantium, from the Caucasus to the Holy Land”, ABC of European Heritage. Archaeology of the Byzantine Commonwealth online seminar, University of Rzeszów and the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, Rzeszów and Leipzig.

30.5.2024: Emilio Bonfiglio, “Between Empires: The Armenian Church in the Middle Ages”, Christentumsgeschichte II: Mittelalter, Theologische Fakultät, Freie Universität, Berlin.

20.4.2024: Jost Gippert, Online presentation “New insights into the Albanian Gospel of John”, Academy of Sciences Baku.

18.03.2024: Sandro Tskhvedadze, “Georgian Gospel Lectionaries: Comparative Approaches“, From East to West: Christian Literacy in the First Millennium, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg.

18.3.2024: Jost Gippert, “Armenian Lectionaries: types and developments, Pt. II: Examining Dating Criteria on the basis of the newly accessible palimpsest witnesses ”, From East to West: Christian Literacy in the First Millennium, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg.

18.3.2024: Hasmik Sargsyan, “Armenian Lectionaries (Čašocʻ): types and developments”, From East to West: Christian Literacy in the First Millennium, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg.

18.3.2024: Mariam Kamarauli, Presentation, “News from Paris: Updates on Paris, BnF, géorg. 5”, From East to West: Christian Literacy in the First Millennium, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg.

18.3.2024: Emilio Bonfiglio, Presentation “New Manuscript Evidence for the Development of the Armenian Uncial Script”, International conference From East to West: Christian Literacy in the First Millennium, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg.

18.3.2024: Eka Kvirkvelia, Presentation “Georgian Witnesses of the Jerusalem-rite Lectionary: Structures and Developments”, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures Hamburg.

29.2.2024: Jost Gippert, Online presentation “Arranging a Lengthy Commentary: The Case of Athos, Iviron, Georgian 6”, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures Hamburg.

9.2.2024: Jost Gippert, Book presentation “Caucasian Albania”, Armenian Embassy Vienna.

6.-7.2.2024: Jost Gippert, Presentation “Etymologies in Context”, Academy of Sciences Hamburg.

2.2.2024: Jost Gippert, Presentation “Time Reckoning in the Pre-Islamic Caucasus – Between Christian and Zoroastrian Traditions”, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures Hamburg.

25.1.2024: Emilio Bonfiglio, Presentation “Les anciennes traductions arméniennes de la Bible et la réception des variantes hexaplaires en arménien: le cas des Commentaires de Jean Chrysostome”, Éditer et commenter les paratextes bibliques: méthodes et enjeux, Collège de France, Paris.

24.1.2024: Jost Gippert, Online lecture “The Written Heritage of Caucasian Albanian”, Tetra lecture, KU Leuven.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4MloKCJ-_A

2023

21.12.2023: Jost Gippert, Interview with Udi community, Moscow: https://youtu.be/AUPVvrIiv_0?si=9uIr4ATGTSfY6qid

8.12.2023: Emilio Bonfiglio, Keynote lecture “Armenian Patristic Translations vis-á-vis Greek Originals: Some Reflections on New Finds, Philology, and Biblical Scholarship”, Forum Armenien in Wissenschaft, Kultur und Gesellschaft, Mesrop Centre for Armenian Studies, University of Halle-Wittenberg.

7.12.2023: Emilio Bonfiglio, Respondent to “Past and Present: the Canons of Partaw (768 CE)” by Tim Greenwood, international workshop Armenian Society under Caliphal Rule, University of Hamburg.

6.12.2023: Emilio Bonfiglio, Book presentation of Armenia and Byzantium without Borders: Interactions, Mobility, Responses, Österreichisch-armenische Studiengesellschaft, University of Vienna.

6.11.2023: Jost Gippert, Online presentation “A Lost Pearl Found in the Desert: Zaza Aleksidze and the Caucasian Albanian Language (უდაბნოში ნაპოვნი დაკარგული მარგალიტი: ზაზა ალექსიძე და კავკასიური ალბანური ენა)”, TSU Tbilisi.

3.11.2023: Emilio Bonfiglio, Presentation “Introduction” and “Lost in Layers or the Uncovering of the Armenian Translation of John Chrysostom’s Commentary on the Psalms through its Palimpsested Membra Disiecta”, DO Colloquium Armenian Scholars in Byzantium and Byzantine Scholarship in Armenian, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C.

1.11.2023: Eka Kvirkvelia, Lecture “Georgian Palaeography”, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures Hamburg.

1.11.2023: Jost Gippert, Lecture “Codicology”, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures Hamburg.

30.10.2023: Emilio Bonfiglio, Invited public lecture “Armenian Palimpsests before the First Millennium: Material Evidence for Armenian Translations from Greek and Original Early Armenian Writings”, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University.

26.10.2023: Emilio Bonfiglio, Presentation “Alien Wisdom for Whom? Greek Knowledge in Late Antique Armenia”, Department of Classical Studies, Tulane University.

25.10.2023: Emilio Bonfiglio, Invited public lecture “In Between Empires: Armenia and the Armenians from Xenophon’s Anabasis to Koriwn’s Life of Maštoc‘ (5th c. BCE–5th c. CE)”, School of Liberal Arts, Department of Classical Studies, Tulane University.

19.10.2023: Jost Gippert, Presentation "The Earliest Georgian Translations of the Gospel of Matthew", KU Leuven.

6.10.2023: Jost Gippert, Book presentation "The Catalogue of the Georgian Manuscripts of the Holy Monastery of Iviron", GU Frankfurt.

6.10.2023: Jost Gippert, Book presentation "Handbook Caucasian Albania", GU Frankfurt.

4.10.2023: Mariam Kamarauli, Presentation "Digital Methods of Comparative Manuscript Research: Passion of St. Febronia", International Symposium, Frankfurt.

4.10.2023: Jost Gippert, Presentation "A New Look on Georgian Suffixaufnahme: Finding out the True Rules", GU Frankfurt.

23.9.2023: Jost Gippert, Presentation "Das Kaukasisch-Albanische – eine verlorene Sprache wiederentdeckt", Universität Tübingen.

12.9.2023: Hasmik Sargsyan, "The Armenian Script Element in Persian Haram Documents", Archival Practices Materialised: The Persian and Persianate Documents (13th-14th centuries) from al-Haram al-Sharīf in Jerusalem, September 12-13, 2023, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg.

8.9.2023: Eka Kvirkvelia, Presentation "A digital annotated parallel corpus of Athonite text types: Gospel of Matthew", Paderborn.

30.8.2023: Jost Gippert, Presentation "Documenting Language and Culture in the Digital Age – Problems, Challenges, Perspectives", Summer school "Documenting Lanuage and Culture in the DIgital Age – Problems, Challenges, Perspectives", Batumi.

6.8.2023: Mariam Kamarauli, Presentation "Decipherment of Georgian palimpsests with digital methods: technologies and tools", Batumi Summer School 2023, Batumi.

13.7.2023: Jost Gippert (with Jasmine Dum-Tragut), Book presentation "Caucasian Albania", Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures Hamburg.

11.7.2023: Mariam Kamarauli, "Palimpsested Hagiography: A comparative analysis of the martyrdom of St Febronia on the example of a Georgian palimsest", Removed and Rewritten: Palimpsests and Related Phenomena from a Cross-Cultural Perspective II, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg.

11.7.2023: Hasmik Sargsyan, “Linguistic Divergence in Armenian Bible and Lectionary Palimpsests”, Removed and Rewritten: Palimpsests and Related Phenomena from a Cross-Cultural Perspective II, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg.

11.7.2023: Eka Kvirkvelia, Presentation “New Witnesses of the Jerusalem-rite Lectionary: Georgian Palimpsests Ivir. georg. 47 and Ivir. georg. 59”, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures Hamburg.

11.7.2023: Jost Gippert, Presentation “Palimpsests from the Caucasus and the DeLiCaTe Project”, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures Hamburg.

11.7.2023: Emilio Bonfiglio, Presentation “Uncovering Lost Armenian Texts: The Scriptio Inferior of MS Schøyen 575”, International workshop on Palimpsests, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg.

29.6.2023: Eka Kvirkvelia, Mariam Kamarauli, Presentation “New Witnesses of the Jerusalem-rite Lectionary Preserved in Georgian Palimpsests”, KKNCM Tbilisi.

29.6.2023: Jost Gippert, Presentation “A Georgian Double Palimpsest from Mount Athos”, KKNCM Tbilisi.

29.6.2023: Emilio Bonfiglio, Presentation “John Chrysostom’s Commentary on the Psalms in the scriptio inferior of MS Schøyen 575”, International conference Georgian Manuscript Heritage II, National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, Tbilisi.

28.6-2023: Jost Gippert, Book presentation “The Catalogue of the Georgian Manuscripts of the Holy Monastery of Iviron”, KKNCM Tbilisi.

26.5.2023: Jost Gippert, Online keynote presentation “Decipherment and Linguistic Disclosure of Caucasian Albanian”, GU Frankfurt.

22.4.2023: Emilio Bonfiglio, Respondent “Session I: Material Culture”, Graduate and early career international workshop Armenian & Byzantium without Borders IV, University of Oxford.

14.4.2023: Jost Gippert, Online presentation “New Insights into the Language of the Caucasian Albanians”, Academy of Sciences Baku.

13.2.2023: Jost Gippert, Interview with Udi community, Moscow. https://youtu.be/pj6agoBH8FI; https://youtu.be/eJZoVBAm350

24.1.2023: Jost Gippert, General lecture “Entzifferung und linguistische Erschließung des Kaukasisch-Albanischen (Decipherment and Linguistic Disclosure of Caucasian Albanian)”, University Hamburg.

2022

4.12.2022: Mariam Kamarauli, Presentation “Deciphering methods in the Project “DeLiCaTe: The Development of Literacy in Caucasian Territories“, Batumi State University, Batumi.

22.11.2022: Jost Gippert, Presentation "The Sensible Ones: Greeeks and Georgians on Mt Athos", University Odense.

20.9.2022: Mariam Kamarauli, Online Presentation "A Diachronic Analysis of Definiteness in Georgian based on the GNC", Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi.

15.9.2022: Jost Gippert, Keynote presentation "The Development of Literacy in the Caucasian Territories (DeLiCaTe)" FU Berlin.

14.9.2022: Emilio Bonfiglio, Invited lecture "Geografia, popolazione ed economia nell'impero proto-bizantino", Seminario di cililtà bizantina, University of Florence.

7.9.2022: Jost Gippert, Presentation “The Role of Iran in the Islamicisation of the Maldives”, University of St Andrews.

26.8.2022: Emilio Bonfiglio, Presentation “Scholarly Interactions between Armenia and Byzantium: Mobility of Manuscripts, Texts, Students, and Scholars”, round table “Interculturality and Mobility in Byzantium”, 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Venice.

5.7.2022: Emilio Bonfiglio, Presentation “Recovery of Lost Greek Texts: Syriac Translations Vis-à-Vis Parallel Armenian and Old Church Slavonic Translations”, round table “Syro-Armenian Studies”, 13th Symposium Syriacum and 11th Conference of Christian Arabic Studies, Paris.

22.6.2022: Emilio Bonfiglio, Presentation “ERC Advanced Grant DeLiCaTe”, on the occasion of the visit of Prof. Dr. Maria Leptin, President of the ERC, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg.

21.6.2022: Jost Gippert, Keynote presentation “Caucasian Albanian - Present Knowledge and How it was Achieved”, RSU Yerevan. Jg_yerevan_2022-06-21.pdf; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVy6jHSJAw0

11.6.2022: Emilio Bonfiglio, Online moderator of IAALA in Focus III: Meliné Pehlivanian, “The Armenian Holdings of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: From the Very Beginnings in Baroque Berlin until Today”, The International Association of Armenian Librarians and Archivists.

10.6.2022: Emilio Bonfiglio, Presentation “The Homilies on John Chrysostom’s First Exile”, international workshop ‘Rhetoric, Violence, and Exile in Late Antiquity. The Oratio funebris for John Chrysostom and its Historical Context’, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

1.6.2022: Jost Gippert, Presentation “Branching in Early Bible Transmission”, University of Bergen.

19.5.2022: Jost Gippert, Keynote presentation “Multilingual Inscriptions and Manuscripts of the Maldives”, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures Hamburg.

5.4.2022: Hasmik Sargsyan, “Loanword Derivation in Armenian Texts of the 17-19th Centuries: Turkic and Persian Loans”, The Lexicon-Grammar Interface in the Synchrony and Diachrony of Armenian, A workshop on Armenian Linguistics, April 4‒5, 2022, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.

5.4.2022: Jost Gippert, Online Presentation “The Development of Literacy in the Caucasian Territories: The “DeLiCaTe” Project”, University of Würzburg.

4.4.2022: Emilio Bonfiglio, Invited lecture “Education and Translations in Late Antique Armenia: Agency and Movements of Scholars and Books between Armenia and Byzantium”, Byzantine Studies Seminar Series, University of Edinburgh.