In case you missed it, here is the recording of last week's paper! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR3X...

#CfP Conference: "The Materiality of Jewish-Arabic Relations" (BMFTR-project "Beyond Conflict and Coexistence: An Entangled History of Jewish-Arab Relations) - deadline: 15 September 2025.

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Today I almost rode my bike into a soldier who was walking IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CYCLE PATH with only eyes for his phone. I stopped within about 5 centimers. This is a daily occurrence. We need to stop people from using their mobile phones in traffic. NOW.

Thursday! Don't forget to register!

Very much looking forward to this one next week!

In case you missed it, here is the recording of the last paper! www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Al...

Tomorrow!

Bilingual Armenian-Syriac monument commemorating the Seyfo (genocide of Syriac Christians) in 1915. Erected in Yerevan in 2012 in a park on the corner of Nalbandyan and Moskovian St.

The next paper will take place on Friday 18 July at 4PM: Bishara Ebeid (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia) •Transposing Tradition: The West Syriac Reworking of an East Syriac Nicene Commentary• If you're not on the mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link.

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Later this month I will be presenting some thoughts on a field I have been active in for over 15 years now, and I am honoured to present them in the context of the lecture series of the Austrian-Armenian Studies Society! It is possible to attend online via this link: t.co/ifTc9HDPnM

Something Syriac but with wider implications next week!

Already up. I would say that this is one that you don't want to miss. Fascinating stuff!

Asking for a friend of a friend. Anything you can miss helps! chuffed.org/project/1325...

The online seminar of the GenAut Project is now live – open to all. With @dekayra.bsky.social @angelnarro.bsky.social @chancebonar.bsky.social @janetspittler.bsky.social off Bsky, and others. Do get in touch if you'd like to be added to our email list. genaut.univie.ac.at?page_id=671

Join us next Thu 22 May at 10 AM CET for a paper by Angelo Gargiulo (Ghent University) on Meteorology and Culture of the self in John Lydus' De Ostentis! As ever, if you are interested in attending but are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social

Another case of not trusting a "trust center". Please do take this measure to stop AI-scraping of all the hard work that you do in MS Word. www.reddit.com/r/privacy/co...

Also now up on our YouTube channel, the recording of Antonietta Castiello's paper on the inscriptions of the Palmyrene diaspora. Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_o2...

In case you missed it, the recording of Federico Alpi's talk about the Nicene Creed in the Armenian version of the Didascalia CCCXVIII Patrum is now available on our Youtube channel alongside many other papers and all the lectures! www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0cx...

New date: next Thursday 6 May at 10 AM. See you then!

Next week!!!

In case you missed it, here is the recording of yesterday's paper! www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Jm...

On Monday I am giving a lecture on the desert fathers and mothers in the Armenian tradition for my fellow Egyptologists of UniWien who invited me to talk about my research. All our welcome! The lecture is hybrid, a Zoom link is available via this link: egyptology.univie.ac.at/news-events/...

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Thursday!

In case you missed it, here is the recording of today's paper by Georgi Mitov (ÖAW/University of Vienna)! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYLj...

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Bad news, with a bit of good news. See you next week!

An image that is going to go down in history, that's for sure.

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Purple Fabric With Gold Thread Found In Ancient Tomb In France allthatsinteresting.com/autun-france...

This is happening next week! There is still time to register with @andyhilkens.bsky.social

Join us on Thursday 6 February at 10 AM for a conversation with @mateuszkusio.bsky.social on the early Christian Latin poet Commodianus

No problem if you missed last week's paper on Philo of Alexandria by Lea Niccolai (Cambridge). The recording is now up on our YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUcH...

Tomorrow!

For those who missed it, the recording of Ted Erho's paper onthe Ethiopic version of Alexander I of Alexandria's letter is now up on our YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6gU...

Next week! If you are not yet on the mailing list feel free to sign up with me or one of my co-hosts!

A new TeTra year starts next week!

Next week! With a contribution by yours truly on Syriac-Armenian bilingualism

The first lecture of the year will be delivered on Wed 19 Feb 2024, at 4PM CET, by Willy Clarysse (KU Leuven) on Remnants of Christian books (2nd-8th cent. AD). If you are not yet on the mailing list, do not forget to register with @AndyHilkens!

Some Armenian scribes use symbols instead of words to save space. In this case a moon in a calendrical treatise in a manuscript from 1342.