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The GenAut online seminar

• The main hub for interacting with adjacent projects and outreach is the online research seminar. Started in May 2025 with invited papers on GenAut characters in various traditions, it runs for the duration of the project and is open to all.

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Publications

2025

• Dan Batovici, Andy Hilkens, Mina Monier, and Marion Pragt, “The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters, and Paratext,” Early Christianity 16.2 (2025) 225-239. | An overview for the “New Projects” section of the journal:

• Dan Batovici, “Layered Authorship in Ignatius of Antioch’s Epistolary Corpora,” Early Christianity 16.1 (2025): 24–41.
• Dan Batovici, The Shepherd of Hermas in Late Antiquity (Texts and Studies 32; Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2025). In press.

Talks

2025

• Dan Batovici, “Author and Character: Following Hermas across Manuscript Traditions,” in the Books of Faith: Religious Manuscripts Colloquium, Innsbruck, 2-3 May 2025.
• Dan Batovici, “Crossing the Mediterranean: Notes on the Career of Clement of Rome in the Medieval East,” in the Migration and Religion Workshop, Leuven, 24–25 March 2025.
• Dan Batovici, “Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters around the Eastern Mediterranean Space” | Online talk for the lectures series of the Romanian Society for Byzantine Studies, 28 January 2025.
• Dan Batovici, “The Greek Biblical Pandects of the Fourth and Fifth Century and Their Scriptoria,” in the workshop Spaces of Book Production and Scribal Activity in the Eastern Mediterranean, Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna, 16-17 January 2025.

2024

• Dan Batovici, “The Literary Career of Polycarp of Smyrna as a Character” | Gesprächskreis zum christlichen Diskurs im Mittelmeerraum bis zum Ausklang der Spätantike (hybrid), Vienna, 19 December 2024.
• Dan Batovici, “At One Remove: Building a Literary Network around the Mediterranean” | Guest lecture at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institut – Neulateinische Studien, University of Innsbruck, 5 November 2024.