"Generative Authority" | FWF-START Award 2024The GenAut Project hosts a monthly online research seminar with papers from scholars that work on these traditions from other perspectives or on different languages than our project. The 2026 seminar is curated by Maria S. Thomas.
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The Followers of the Apostles in Cultic Contexts
Jakob Engberg | Tuesday, 17 February (10 AM CET)
• The Care for the Remains of Polycarp in the Martyrdom of Polycarp in its Second Century Context
Philipp Pilhofer | Tuesday, 24 March (10 AM CET)
• The Circle of Barnabas. Generative Authority in Cypriot Hagiography
Anna Lampadaridi | Tuesday, 21 April (10 AM CET)
• Some Remarks on Pankratios of Taormina’s Hagiographic Dossier: Exploring Texts and Cult Issues
Grace Stafford | Tuesday, 19 May (10 AM CET)
•Pilgrimage to Saint Thecla: Access and Authority
Margaret Cormack | Tuesday: 23 June (4 PM CET)
• The Cult of Saint Clement in Iceland
Basil Lourié | Tuesday, 14 July (10 AM CET)
• Saint Dionysius the Areopagite and Those with Him: What They Say to Us from the Liturgical Calendar
Rachael Helen Banes | Tuesday, 11 August (10 AM CET)
• Apostolic Successors in Epigraphic Databases: What Does the Data Show?
Kelli Bryant Gibson | Tuesday, 15 September (4 PM CET)
• Addai, Protonike, and the Veneration of the Cross
Claudio Biagetti | Tuesday, 20 October (10 AM CET)
• Between John and Paul: The Hagiography of Hermione of Ephesus in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Jonathon Lookadoo | Tuesday, 10 November (10 AM CET)
• Contextualizing Ignatius of Antioch within John Chrysostom’s Homilies on the Martyrs
Siobhán Jolley | Tuesday, 8 December (10 AM CET)
• Seeing Is Believing: Visual Devotion and the Making of the Magdalene in Early Modern Italy
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The 2025 theme:
The Construction of GenAut Characters in Relation to the Apostles
Marianna Cerno (Udine) | May 28
• Gesta sancti Clementis: An Unknown Fragment of the Pseudo-Clementine Novel
Amber Ivanov (Sofia) | June 3
• The Character of Paul in the Slavic Acts of Thecla
Maria Thomas (Amsterdam) | June 24
• Mary Magdalene in a Twelfth-Century Syriac Fenqitho Manuscripts from Jerusalem
Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski (London) | August 20 (10 am CET)
• Why do Christians suffer? An answer from the Letter of Peter to Philip
Ángel Narro (València) | September 10
• Thecla’s Increasing Authority from Early Christianity to Late Antiquity
Joost Hagen (Leipzig) | September 22
• The sidestory about the little disciples of the apostles in the Coptic Installation of the Archangel Michael
Jonathon Lookadoo (Seoul) | October 16 (10 am CET)
• The Authoritative Potential of Ignatius of Antioch in the Ignatian Martyrdom Tradition
Chance Bonar (Virginia) | October 28 (1 pm CET)
• Onesimus: Apostle and Martyr in Eastern Mediterranean Literature
Rocio Daga-Portillo (Munich) | November 21 (12 pm CET)
• Clement of Rome as authority in the Arabic Nomocanon of the Copts
Janet Spittler (Virginia) | December 16
• Prochorus: Sidekick and Scribe