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The GenAut online seminar

• An important place for discussing our results is the monthly seminar of the project with invited papers on GenAut characters in various traditions – including languages that are not covered in our project. The seminar runs continuously for the duration of the project.

Publications

• Giorgia Nicosia and Dan Batovici, “Ignatius of Antioch at Deir al-Surian: New Excerpts from the Lost Syriac Translation,” forthcoming in the Journal of Theological Studies.
• Dan Batovici, Andy Hilkens, Mina Monier, and Marion Pragt, “The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters, and Paratext,” forthcoming in Early Christianity 16.2 (2025).
• Dan Batovici, “Out of Order: Reading the Argument of 1 Clement in the Sequence of the Liturgical Cycle of University Library, Cambridge, Add. 1700,” in First Clement as an Argumentative Text, eds. D. du Toit, J.N. Cerone, and K. Hager (NovTSupp; Leiden: Brill, 2025), in press.
• Dan Batovici, “Layered Authorship in Ignatius of Antioch’s Epistolary Corpora,” Early Christianity 16.1 (2025): 9-26.

Talks

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.
• Dan Batovici, “The West Syriac Context of Clementine Epistles on Chastity” | Invited lecture in the Oxford Interfaith Programme – Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts, Oxford, 8 July 2024.
  
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