SCHEDULE

Monday, September 18th

Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 211 (320 York Street)

9-9 30 Breakfast and Introduction

9 30-10 45 Session 1

Catherine Chin (Associate Professor of Classics, UC Davis)
“He is Flightless and Very Tame”
Geoffrey Moseley (Visiting Assistant Professor, Ohio State, PhD candidate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Classics, Yale)
“Ḥunayn ibn-Isḥāq (808-873 C.E.): Between Galenic and Biblical Philology”

11-12 Session 1 (continued)

Hindy Najman (Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture, Oxford)
“Authenticating the Profane”
Respondent: Irene Peirano Garrison (Associate Professor of Classics, Yale)

12-1 Lunch

1 -2 30 Session 2

Frederic Clark (Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University / Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Southern California)
“Conjuring an Age of Gold: Periodization, Authenticity, and the Construction of Classical Latinity in Early Modern Humanism”
Milette Gaifman (Associate Professor of Classics and History of Art)
“Imitation, Authenticity and the Formation of the History of Greek Art”
Respondent: Rachel Love (PhD Candidate in Classics, Yale)

2 45- 4 Session 3

Source and Original in a Digital Context: Problems and Perspectives

Yii-Jan Lin (Assistant Professor of New Testament, Yale Divinity School)
“NT Textual Criticism in the Digital Age”
Kyle Conrau-Lewis (PhD Candidate in Classics, Yale), Rachel Love (PhD Candidate in Classics, Yale), Colin McCaffrey (Classics Librarian, Yale)
“The Digital Propertius Project”
Respondent: Richard Tarrant (Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, Harvard)

4 15-5 45: Session 4

Jennifer Knust (Associate Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins, Associate Professor of Religion, Boston University)
“The Liturgical Annotations to Codex Bezae and the History of Textual Scholarship”
Maria Doerfler (Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Yale)
“Old Law and New Philology: The Lex Dei between Sacred and Profane””
Respondent: Matthew Larsen (Lecturer in Religious Studies, Yale)

6pm Dinner for conference participants and guests (venue TBA)

Tuesday September 19th

Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 211 (320 York Street)

9- 10 30: Session 5

Sam O’Donnell (PhD Candidate in Classics and Comparative Literature, Yale)
“Comparative Linguistics and the Sacred Genealogy of Language”
James Porter (Chancellor’s Professor of Classics and Rhetoric, UC Berkeley)
“Homer: God or Ghost?”
Respondent: Egbert Bakker (Alvan Talcott Professor of Classics, Yale)

10 45- 12 15: Session 6

Paul Franks (Professor of Philosophy, Religious Studies and Judaic Studies, Yale)
“What Can Philology and Philosophy Learn from Each Other? The Unity of Self-Consciousness and the Patchwork of the Text”
John Hamilton (William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Harvard)
“De complacentia”
Respondent: Kirk Wetters (Professor Germanic Languages & Literatures, Yale)

12 30-3 Lunch and final round-table discussion

Whitney Humanities Center, Room 108 (53 Wall Street)

“New Directions in the Study of Textual Traditions: Works in Progress by Graduate Students at Yale”