21-23 October 2020
Networks of Manuscripts, Networks of Texts
Three-day international conference organised by the âInnovating Knowledgeâ Project
Provisional programme
Wednesday, 21 October
13.15 â 13.30 Welcome
Network Analysis as a Method for the Study of Manuscripts
13.30 â 14.10 Gustavo FernĂĄndez Riva (University of Heidelberg): Networks of Shared Manuscript Transmission for Medieval European Vernacular Languages. Evaluating the Data and the Method
14.20 â 15.00 Andreas Kuczera (Akadmie fĂŒr Wissenschaften und Literatur, Mainz)/Martin Fechner (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities): Aristoteles multimodal – with ediarum to the graph
15.10 â 15.50 Evina SteinovĂĄ (Huygens ING): Travelling Annotations: Network Analysis as a Tool to Study Glossing Networks in Carolingian Europe
16.00 â 17.00 Mix and Match session for speakers
Thursday, 22 October
Networks of People
10.00 â 10.15 Session introduction
10.15 â 10.45 Catherine Emerson (NUI Galway): Textual and personal networks: The Chronique AbrĂ©gĂ©e in fifteenth-century Paris
10.55 â 11.25 Katharina Kaska (Austrian State Library): Scribal and textual networks â collaboration and exchange in manuscripts and scriptoria
11.35 â 12.05 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan (University of Iceland): A saga in a network and a network of a saga
Lunch break
Networks of Influence
13.20 â 13.30 Session introduction
13.30 â 14.10 Dominique Stutzman (IRHT Paris)/Louis Chevalier (IRHT Paris): Books of hours as text compilations in the Low countries
14.20 â 15.00 Shari Boodts (Radboud University Nijmegen)/Iris Denis (Radboud University Nijmegen): A sermon by any other name? The pseudo-Augustinian S. App. 121 and its medieval textual network
15.10 â 15.50 Richard Matthew Pollard (University of Montreal): What do the Church Fathers, Scientific Fathers, and Military Fathers have in common?
16.00 â 16.30 Round Table for conference participants
17.00 â 18.30 Keynote: Matteo Valleriani (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science/Technische UniversitĂ€t Berlin/Tel Aviv University): Early Modern University Textbooks: How to Gain Hegemony
Friday, 23 October
Networks of Reuse and Repurposing
10.00 â 10.15 Session introduction
10.15 â 10.45 Ina Serif (University of Basel): From Networks of Texts to Networks of Genres? On the Classification of Texts in Compilations with a View towards Manuscript Transmission
10.55 â 11.25 Sara Steffen (University of Basel): Audible Networks: Connecting Texts through Music in 16th-Century Swiss Printed Ballads
11.35 â 12.05 Jialong Liu (Leiden University): Text Reuse in the Medieval Chinese Public Inscriptions (618-907)
Lunch break
Networks of Knowledge Transfer
13.20 â 13.30 Session introduction
13.30 â 14.10 Immo Warntjes (Trinity College Dublin): Computistical objects and intellectual networks in the Carolingian age
14.20 â 15.00 Agata Paluch (Freie UniversitĂ€t Berlin): Patterns of Knowledge Circulation in Early Modern East-Central Europe: Tracing Jewish Kabbalistic Textual Units in Multiple-Text Manuscripts
15.10 â 15.50 Elizabeth Archibald (Pittsburgh University): Medieval Library Catalogues and Intellectual Networks
16.00 â 16.30 Round Table for conference participants
17.00 â 17.30 Conference wrap-up
The language of the conference will be English. For more information, please contact Evina SteinovĂĄ (evina.steinova@gmail.com or evina.steinova@huygens.knaw.nl)