19th Annual Coptic Studies Symposium
When and Where
Description
Translations as Continuity and Resilience: Multilingual Practices in Egypt from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages
8:30 – 9:15 AM 17th Annual General Meeting of Members
9:15 – 9:30 REGISTRATION
MORNING SESSION
9:30 –9:45 Welcome address: Dr. Ramez Boutros, President, The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies
10:00 – 10:45 AM Keynote Speaker: Caroline T. Schroeder, Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies. The University of Oklahoma, USA
“Keeping the Human in Coptic Digital Humanities.”
10:45 – 11:00 DISCUSSION
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 11:45 Andreas Winkler, Assistant Professor of Egyptology, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilization
“Translating Astral Science into Coptic.”
11:45 – 12:00 DISCUSSION
12:00 – 12:30 Emile Tadros, PhD Candidate, Institut de théologie orthodoxe Saint-Serge, Paris, France
“Cultural interactions among the Masoretic text, the LXX sociolect and the Sahidic Pierpont M574. Exodus 15:1-21 (Ode I): a case study.”
12:30 – 12:45 DISCUSSION
12:45 – 1:45 PM LUNCH BREAK
AFTERNOON SESSION
1:45 – 2:15 Mark Swanson, Professor of Christian-Muslim Studies and Interfaith Relations, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, USA
“Beyond Translation: Greek sources and Arabic re-imagining in Khabar Babnūdah (The Story of Paphnoute) by Buṭrus al-Sadamantī (fl. 1260 CE).”
2:15 – 2:30 DISCUSSION
2:30 – 3:00 Karim Guirguis, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto School of theology. Trinity College. Orthodox Theology stream
“The Crowning Liturgy: Comparing the Sahidic and Bohairic Texts.”
3:00 – 3:15 DISCUSSION
3:15 – 3:30 Coffee break
3:30 – 4:00 Mena Basta, PhD Candidate, Claremont Graduate University, California, USA
“Translation as a Mode of Liturgical Survival: The Copto-Arabic Synaxarium and Its Compiler’s Theory of Abbreviation.”
4:15 – 4:30 DISCUSSION
4:30 – 4:45 Concluding Remarks
* Sponsored by The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies, and the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
Registration fees: Members $35; Non-Members$45; Students $20
E-transfer: cscopticstudies@gmail.com, or cash on site only