Novel Saints: Ancient Fiction and Hagiography Research Centre

Events

Upcoming events

Wed
20
Nov
2024

TALK: Carlos Amado Román: "What words would the hero say in the face of danger? Ethopoeia in Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon"
4:00 pmFaculteitszaal, first floor Blandijnberg 2
Talk
Thu
16
Jan
2025
Fri
17
Jan
2025

Workshop: Narrative approaches to the 'Lives' of ancient Greek poets
Sint-Baafshuis
Call for papers
Fri
14
Mar
2025

Symposium on Ancient Narrative and its Reception: a Tribute to Prof. Saiichiro Nakatani (1972-2023)
10am-4pmFaculty Room, first floor, Blandijnberg 2, 900 Ghent

Past events

Thu
18
Apr
2024
Thu
25
Apr
2024

LEZING: Julie Van Pelt: 'Van martelaar tot 'mulier virilis': Religie, gender en vrouwelijke heiligheid in de Late Oudheid
20uBrugge - Kortrijk
Talk
Mon
25
Mar
2024

TALK: Rafael Semedo: 'Live fast, die young: Penthesileia's aresteia in Quintus' Posthomerica 1
4:00 pmCamelot, third floor of Blandijnberg
Talk
Wed
06
Sep
2023

Second International Conference on Early Christian Literature, Late Antique and Byzantine Hagiography - Novel Saints presence
Talk
Tue
11
Jul
2023
Fri
14
Jul
2023

Novel Saints at the Celtic Conference in Classics
Coimbra
Conference
Tue
31
Jan
2023

Workshop: The Reuse of Ancient and Late Antique Narratives in the Medieval Middle East and Beyond
Het Pand, Onderbergen 1, Gent
Conference
Fri
09
Dec
2022

Workshop: The Politics of Style in Ancient Rhetoric and Oratory
12.30-5.30pm
Conference
Fri
18
Nov
2022

Workshop: Ancient concepts of fiction and narrative in the imperial period and late antiquity
3:45 amHet Pand
Conference
Wed
21
Sep
2022
Sat
24
Sep
2022

Conference: The 6th International Conference on the Ancient Novel
4:00 pmGhent/online
Conference
Mon
04
Jul
2022
Sat
09
Jul
2022

Workshop: Lexicologie et lexicographie syriaque
Paris
Talk
Thu
31
Mar
2022

TALK: Mara Nicosia: The Hellenistic enkyklios paideia ('circular education') in the Syriac world
5:00 pmzoom
Talk
Fri
04
Feb
2022

WORKSHOP: Ancient concepts of fiction and narrative in the imperial period and late antiquity
Conference
Thu
27
Jan
2022

TALK: Mara Nicosia on 'Syriac monastic schools and the teaching of rhetoric'
Fri
11
Jun
2021

Guest seminar by Nunzio Bianchi on 'From Babylon to Byzantium: Iamblichus' novel and its reception’
4:00 pmzoom
Thu
03
Jun
2021
Fri
04
Jun
2021

Conference: Enchanted reception: Religion and the supernatural in medieval Troy narratives 
1:30 pmOnline
Conference
Wed
12
May
2021

Guest seminar by Paolo Brusa on 'From wandering to destitution: a shift in Heliodoran peregrinatio in 17th-century Spain’
4:00 pmzoom
Thu
22
Apr
2021

Guest seminar by Ellen Söderblom Saarela on ‘She must write her self, she did write her self: Hysmine’s voice from within the wrong’
4:00 pmzoom
Thu
01
Apr
2021

Guest seminar by Silvia Montiglio on ‘The popularity of Heliodorus among Byzantine critics and readers’
5:30 pmzoom
Thu
25
Mar
2021

Guest seminar by Benedek Kruchio on ‘Heliodorus’s Aethiopica and early Christian hermeneutics: a “historically informed” approach’
4:00 pmZoom
Thu
25
Feb
2021
Sat
27
Feb
2021

The Pseudo-Clementine Homilies: a philosophical and rhetorical novel from Late Antiquity (International conference)
2:30 pmGhent University
Thu
17
Dec
2020

Talk for the Department of Literature: Claire Jackson en Koen De Temmerman: “Novel Echoes: Receptions of the Ancient Novel in Postclassical Traditions”
12:00 pmzoom
Talk
Thu
12
Dec
2019

‘Retoriek in de politieke arena’: Gastcollege door Herman Van Rompuy
2:30 pmAcademieraadzaal, Campus Aula, Voldersstraat 9, 9000 Gent
Tue
03
Dec
2019

Reading Group on Gellius meeting 3
11:30 amRoom 2.1 Rozier
Tue
19
Nov
2019
Fri
29
Nov
2019

Reading group on Gellius (meeting 2)
11:30 amRoom 110.022 Blandijn
Tue
29
Oct
2019

Reading group on Gellius
5:15 pmCamelot lokaal
Thu
10
Oct
2019

Olivier Demerre speaks at RICAN conference
5:30 pmUniversity of Crete, Department of Philosophy
Wed
02
Oct
2019
Fri
20
Dec
2019

Permanente vorming: Christendom en Kunst
8:00 pmAuditorium 3, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent
Wed
26
Jun
2019

Owen Hodkinson (University of Leeds): "The reception of Philostratus’ Letters in Oxford 'Uranian' circles"
6:00 pmBlandijn, lok. 110.028, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent.
Talk
Thu
13
Jun
2019

Work-in-progress workshop: Speeches. Oikos (Ancient Rhetoric & Aesthetics)
1:00 pmBlandijn, Faculteitsraadzaal, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent
Conference
Tue
11
Jun
2019

Margaret Mullett (Queen's University Belfast) Performability, Lament, and the Christos Paschon'. (Lezing "Meet the PhD Jury")
1:00 pmBlandijn, lok. 110.031, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent.
Talk
Fri
15
Feb
2019
Sun
17
Feb
2019

Narrating Power and Authority in Late Antique and Medieval Hagiographies from East to West
9:00 amAcademia Belgica, Via Omero 8, Roma
Wed
19
Dec
2018

Rhetoric and Morality. OIKOS (Ancient Rhetoric & Aesthetics) and ISHR Benelux colloquium. Co-organization with Bé Breij and Casper de Jonge.
1:00 pmRadboud University Nijmegen.
Conference
Thu
22
Nov
2018
Sat
24
Nov
2018

Novel Saints. Novel, Hagiography and Romance from the 4th to the 12th Century
1:00 pm
Conference
Thu
03
May
2018

Charis Messis on "Les rapports entre roman ancien et hagiographie byzantine (IVe-XIIe s.) : une reconsidération"
1:30 pmKANTL (Koningstraat 18, Gent)
Talk
Thu
15
Feb
2018
Sat
17
Feb
2018

Narrating Power and Authority in Late Antique and Medieval Hagiographies from East to West
1:00 pmAcademia Belgica, Via Omero 8, Roma
Conference
Fri
08
Dec
2017

Stephen Trzaskoma, "The Christian Reception of Novelistic Lamentation"
11:00 amleslokaal 120.015, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent
Talk
Tue
17
Oct
2017

Panagiotis Roilos (Harvard University) : “Byzantines at play: Aristophanes in 12th-century Constantinople”
12:00 pmJosef Plateauzaal, 9000 Gent
Talk
Wed
16
Aug
2017

Uffe Holmsgaard Eriksen (Uppsala University, Sweden) : “Spatializing Biblical Narratives in Byzantium”
5:00 pmBlandijn, room 120.043, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent
Talk
Thu
15
Jun
2017
Sat
17
Jun
2017

Fictionality in Late Antique Hagiography
2:00 pmAcademia Belgica, Via Omero 8, Roma
Conference
Tue
13
Jun
2017

Journées d’études religio : Penser le divin : méthode et discours dans l’histoire et la littérature.
2:00 pmUniversité Lille-3
Conference
Wed
31
May
2017

Journées d’études religio : Penser le divin : méthode et discours dans l’histoire et la littérature.
2:00 pmBlandijnberg 2 – Room 100.072
Conference
Tue
16
May
2017

Steven Smith : “Troy, Rome, and Constantinople in the Cycle of Agathias (AP 9.152-155)"
6:30 pmBlandijn, Faculteitzaal, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent
Talk
Thu
16
Mar
2017

GIKS : Jan Bremmer : “From Heroes to Saints and from Martyrological to Hagiographical Discourse”
11:00 amGIKS : Jan Bremmer : “From Heroes to Saints and from Martyrological to Hagiographical Discourse”
Talk
Fri
21
Oct
2016

GIKS : Charis Messis (EHESS – Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) : “A la recherche des “romans” hagiographiques : certains récits des Passions et leur réécriture métaphrastique (Xe siècle)”
2:00 pm
Talk
Thu
12
May
2016
Fri
13
May
2016

Greek and Byzantine Storytelling – at the crossroad of two research projects.
2:00 pmParis, Sorbonne & Collège de France
Conference
Thu
18
Feb
2016
Sat
20
Feb
2016

Holy Hero(in)es. Literary Constructions of Heroism in Late Antique and Early Medieval Hagiography
1:00 pm
Conference
Wed
17
Feb
2016

Stephanos Efthymiadis (Open University of Cyprus) : The disabled in the Byzantine Empire (MSS Lunch Lecture)
2:00 pmBlandijn, room 100.024, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent
Talk
Wed
25
Nov
2015

GIKS: Michael Williams: “Arian Insinuations in Ambrose’s sermon Contra Auxentium”
5:00 pmBlandijn, room 100.072, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent
Talk
Fri
13
Nov
2015

Table ronde de la Société d’études syriaques
9:45 amInstitut protestant de théologie, Paris.
Conference
Tue
16
Jun
2015

Virginia Burrus (Syracuse University, NY), “Late Ancient Hagiography and the Dialogical Imagination: The Life of St Helia“
9:45 am
Talk
Mon
30
Mar
2015

Guy Philippart (Université de Namur), “L’hagiographie en question(s)”.
9:45 am
Talk