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Seminar hosted by Giorgia Nicosia, Marion Pragt (@worldlyscribe.bsky.social), Andy Hilkens (@andyhilkens.bsky.social), and Dan Batovici (@danbatovici.bsky.social). Website: TeTra.univie.ac.at.
Next week Lusine Sargsyan (Matenadaran/YSU) will enlighten us about the production of Armenian manuscripts in Romania! Tune in on Thu 20 Nov at 10 AM CET. f you're not yet on out mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link
November 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Later this month we are hosting a new Book in the Spotlight. On Mon 24 Nov at 4PM CET Peter Van Nuffelen (Ghent) will present The Fragmentary Greek Chronicles after Eusebius, which he recently published with Lieve Van Hoof. Discussant will be @monica-berti.bsky.social (Leipzig)!
November 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
In the next TeTra seminar which will take place next Thursday 6 November at 4PM CET Ellen Muehlberger (Michigan) will speak about the voice of Mary of Egypt.
If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register with @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link.
October 30, 2025 at 10:14 AM
We are excited to host Anna Ohanjayan (Yerevan State University / Matenadaran) who will be speaking next Thu 23 Oct (10 AM CET) about the Tōnapatchaṛ, a fascinating genre in Armenian literature!
If you're not yet on the mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Next Thursday 9 October, Eleanor Baker (@eleanormaybaker.bsky.social) will explore the world of Middle English book curses. All welcome!
October 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Fixed or surprisingly fluid? Next Thursday 11 September at 10 am CET, Carlo Emilio Biuzzi (Ghent University) will explore the transmission of Syriac legal literature. All welcome!
September 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The next TeTra paper, on Armenian manuscript colophons, will be delivered next Thursday 14 August by Lewis Read (University of Vienna)!
If you are interested in attending and are not yet on the mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link!
August 7, 2025 at 9:32 AM
We are excited to Jasmine Dum-Tragut next Thursday 31 July at 4PM CET (!), who will be delivering a paper on Armenian horse medicine manuscripts!
If you are not yet on the mailing list and are interested in attending, do get in touch w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The next paper will take place on Friday 18 July at 4PM:

Bishara Ebeid (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)
•Transposing Tradition: The West Syriac Reworking of an East Syriac Nicene Commentary•

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July 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
The next TeTra event is another Book in the Spotlight, this time with Sofia Puchkova. Discussant is Samuel Fernández (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile).
Tuesday 1 July at 4PM CET, don't miss it!
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June 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM
The next TeTra paper will be delivered next Thu 19 June at 4PM (!) by Kayla Dang (Saint Louis). The topic is The Unusual Travels of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib’s Covenant with the Zoroastrians.
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June 13, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Next week we offer the floor to one of the long-term participants in our seminar. Boško Erić (University of East Sarajevo) will be speaking about the Letter of Mara bar Serapion on Thu 5 June, at 10 AM. If you're not yet on the mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Join us next Thu 22 May at 10 AM CET for a paper by Angelo Gargiulo (Ghent University) on Meteorology and Culture of the self in John Lydus' De Ostentis!
As ever, if you are interested in attending but are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The next paper is already happening next week!
On Thursday 24 April at 10 AM CET Federico Alpi (Firenze / FSCIRE) will be speaking about the Armenian version of the Didascalia CCCXVIII Patrum.
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April 18, 2025 at 8:03 AM
It brings us great pleasure to announce the second TeTra lecture of 2025 which will be delivered next Thu 17 April at 4PM CET by Robin Darling Young (CUA) on The Transformation of the Letters of Evagrius!
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April 9, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Next Thursday's paper:

Guillermo Menéndez Sanchez (Ghent University)
•The figure of Addas-Adimantus in Christian heresiology and his impact on the image of Manichaeism•

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March 22, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Next Thursday the TeTra seminar continues with a paper on Byzantine funerary rites by Georgi Mitov (ÖAW/University of Vienna)!
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March 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Next Thursday 27 February at 10 AM, we are entering the Palmyrene diaspora through its inscriptions with Antonietta Castiello (University of Oldenburg). As ever, if you are not yet on the mailing list, do not forget to register with @andyhilkens.bsky.social !
February 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
We've recently passed our one hundredth events mark. More than half of the papers and all lectures are available on our Youtube channel.

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February 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Join us on Thursday 6 February at 10 AM for a conversation with @mateuszkusio.bsky.social on the early Christian Latin poet Commodianus
January 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Who needs words? Next Thursday 23 January at 10 am CET, Lea Niccolai (Cambridge) will speak about the paradox of written scripture and unwritten divine law in Philo. All welcome!
January 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This Wednesday 15 Jan at 10 AM Ted Erho has the honour of delivering the first paper of 2025. The topic is a letter of Alexander I of Alexandria that is preserved in Ethiopic.
If you're not yet on the mailing list and would like to attend, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social
January 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The first lecture of the year will be delivered on Wed 19 Feb 2024, at 4PM CET, by Willy Clarysse (KU Leuven) on Remnants of Christian books (2nd-8th cent. AD).
If you are not yet on the mailing list, do not forget to register with @AndyHilkens!
January 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
We are thrilled to announce the preliminary TeTra programme for 2025, which is now available on our new website: tetra.univie.ac.at!
Wishing you a very good, hopefully restful Christmas break, and an even better new year,
Your Tetra team – Marion, Giorgia, Andy and Dan
December 20, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Join us on Thu 19 December at 10 AM CET for the last paper of the year by Piril Us MacLennan (UGent) who will speak about Cognitive Mapping and Spatial Hierarchies in Attaleiates’ History!

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December 13, 2024 at 7:50 PM