Meeting description
The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and The Program in Judaic Studies at Yale University, in cooperation with Beth Mardutho's Dorushe graduate student association, will host the 2009 Dorushe Graduate Student Syriac Studies Conference. Date: Sunday, March 29, 2009
Location: Room 401, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Fees: The participation in the conference is free. If possible please RSVP in advance to elitzur.bar-asher@yale.edu.
If you are not actively participating in the conference, a ticket for the formal dinner would cost $35 per person, please RSVP in advance to elitzur.bar-asher@yale.edu
Program
9:45-10:00 Registration
10:00-10:15 Opening remarks, Elitzur Avraham Bar-Asher, Yale University
10:15-11:00 Opening lecture, Professor Dimitri Gutas, Yale University - “Syriac Studies: Secular Literature and Social History”
11:00-11:50 – First Session
Mark W. Scarlata, University of Cambridge – “Destined to sin? The independence of the Peshitta translation of Gen. 4.1-8”
Yonatan Moss, Yale University – “Moses bar Kepha's On Paradise: Presenting its Syriac Original”
11:50-12:15 Lunch
12:15-1:30 – Second Session
Aaron Michael Butts, University of Chicago – “Diachronic Development and Language Contact: The Case of the Syriac Verbless Clause”
Elitzur Avraham Bar-Asher, Harvard University/Yale University – “The particle den – a diachronic and a synchronic analysis”
Brandon J. Simonson, Vanderbilt University – “Overcoming Hellenophilia: Thoroughgoing Eclecticism in Textual Criticism and the Curetonian Syriac Manuscript”
1:35-2:45 – Third Session
Emran El-Badawi, University of Chicago – “The Language of Condemnation in the Qur’an and Syriac Gospel of Matthew”
Sheila McCarthy, University of Notre Dame – “Following Isaiah: An Inquiry into the Syriac Liturgical Origins of the Qur’an”
Krisztina Szilágyi, Princeton University – “The Incorruptible and Fragrant Corpse: Muhammad’s Body and Christian Hagiography”
2:45-3:10 Coffee break
3:10-4:25 – Fourth Session
Zachary Ugolnik, Harvard Divinity School – “The Mandylion and its Twins: A Lens into the Syriac Way of Seeing”
Jesse Rainbow, Harvard University – “The Land of Shir as the Home of Matthew's Magi"
David L. Eastman, Yale University – “A Defense of Paul’s Roman Citizenship by ‘Epiphanius’”
4:30-5:30 – Fifth Session
Emanuel Fiano, Duke University – “Undoing Heresy. Strategies of ‘Nicenization’ in the Syriac Version of The ‘Eunomian Interpolation’ in Pseudo-Clementine Recognitiones”
Dylan Burns, Yale University – “The Hymn of the Pearl: An Edessan Okhēma?”
6:30-8:30 Dinner at the Graduate Club, with the keynote speaker Prof. John Healey, University of Manchester, who will be speaking on “Early Syriac Legal Documents in Context: epigraphic, linguistic and literary”
Tour at the Beinecke Library
On Monday morning, March 30, there will be a guided tour of the Syriac
collection at the Beinecke Library, Yale's beautiful Rare Book and Manuscript
library. The tour is scheduled to begin at 9am.
Accommodations
We have reserved rooms at the Hotel Duncan at the special rates of $60 for
singles and $80 for doubles. The hotel is located at 1151 Chapel Street, New
Haven CT, 06511. To book your reservation call: 203-787-1273. Make sure to say that you are with the "Dorushe Conference."
Organizing committee
Faculty advisor: Elitzur Bar-Asher, (Yale University)
Michal Bar-Asher Siegal (Yale University), Aaron Butts (University of Chicago), Yonatan Moss (Yale university), Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent (Brown University), Vitalis Permajokovs (University of Notre Dame) and Jeffrey Wickes (University of Notre Dame)
Sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and The Program in Judaic Studies at Yale University, Beinecke Library and Dean of the Graduate School of Art and Science |
