Come work with the CLAIM team in the new ERC project in Vienna! Apply here: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct... Details CLAIM.univie.ac.at/ @erc.europa.eu | @univie.ac.at | @etf-univienna.bsky.social

Meet our team! Starting today: Rachael Helen Banes. Welcome aboard, Rachael! The GenAut Project: "The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters" genaut.univie.ac.at/ genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=37

Meet our team! Starting in June: Sara Giorgetti. The GenAut Project: "The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters" genaut.univie.ac.at/ genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=37

GenAut recording | Grace Stafford "Pilgrimage to Saint Thecla: Access and Authority." Enjoy! The programme: genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmHv...

Tomorrow, on the cult of Thecla.

GenAut research trip | More photos from our colleague's @dekayra.bsky.social trip to Deir al-Surian for manuscript work.

GenAut seminar | Grace Stafford (Universität Wien), "Pilgrimage to Saint Thecla: Access and Authority" Tuesday, 19 May 2026 at 10am CET. See some of you there! genaut.univie.ac.at

GenAut research trip | Our colleague Maria S. Thomas @dekayra.bsky.social at Deir al-Surian for manuscript work. Here are some photos!

GenAut recording | Anna Lampadaridi "Some Remarks on Pankratios of Taormina’s Hagiographic Dossier: Exploring Texts and Cult Issues." Enjoy! The online seminar: genaut.univie.ac.at?page_id=671

Tomorrow! See some of you there.

GenAut research trip | A few snapshots from these weeks' manuscript work in Oxford and Cambridge.

GenAut seminar | Anna Lampadaridi (CNRS), "Some Remarks on Pankratios of Taormina’s Hagiographic Dossier," Tuesday, 21 April 2026 at (10am CET) genaut.univie.ac.at

GenAut talk | Maria S. Thomas and Christoph Scheerer, “The Hierotheos Dossier in Greek and Syriac” Gesprächskreis zum christlichen Diskurs im Mittelmeerraum bis zum Ausklang der Spätantike, Vienna, 26 March 2026, 5pm CET. genaut.univie.ac.at?page_id=35 etfcg.univie.ac.at/forschung/ge...

GenAut recording | Philipp Pilhofer, "The Circle of Barnabas: Generative Authority in Cypriot Hagiography" The online seminar: genaut.univie.ac.at?page_id=671

Tomorrow ! GenAut online seminar | Philipp Pilhofer (Vienna), "The Circle of Barnabas. Generative Authority in Cypriot Hagiography" Tuesday, 24 March (10 AM CET). See you there! •Followers of the Apostles in Cultic Contexts• genaut.univie.ac.at

The first paper in our 2025 seminar was offered by the author. Congrats! Recording here:

If you're interested in the papers coming out of the project, we're keeping an up to date list at genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=35. Come say hi in Rome, Saint Maurice, Leeds, Leuven, Bucharest, Vienna, and Glasgow, in the following months!

Brief presentation of the project by Dan Batovici for AIEP/IAPS, with a preview of the ERC CoG CLAIM project that will start in September. Many thanks Lavinia Cerioni for the kind invitation! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMCo...

GenAut talks | Andy Hilkens and Lewis Read, “A Constantinopolitan Synaxarion for Armenians: The Tawanac’uyc’ of Yovsep’.” •Christian Liturgy and Memory Practices from Medieval Iberia to Central Asia• Vienna, 5-6 March. @andyhilkens.bsky.social @lewread.bsky.social www.oeaw.ac.at/detail/veran...

Our colleague's yesterday paper recording. Enjoy!

GenAut talks | Maria S. Thomas, "Publishing in a Twelfth-Century Syriac Monastery: Manuscript Production, Authority, and Scribal Practice at the Monastery of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem," Thursday 26 February, online. @dekayra.bsky.social.

GenAut recording | Jakob Engberg "The Care for the Remains of Polycarp in the Martyrdom of Polycarp in its Second Century Context" The first paper of the seminar. Full programme: genaut.univie.ac.at?page_id=671

See some of you tomorrow!

You can find us in Schenkenstraße, on the 5th floor.

GenAut talks | Dan Batovici, "The Migration of Violence in the Martyrdoms of Polycarp," Sat 21 Feb. Paper in the "Patterns of Violence in the Passion Narratives and Their Ancient Context" conference, Vienna 19-21 February, organised by @clarissabreu.bsky.social and @markusoehler.bsky.social.

Congrats to our collaborators @worldlyscribe.bsky.social, Giorgia Nicosia, @madalinatoca.bsky.social, and Adrian Pirtea for their articles in the newly published thematic issue of the Journal of Eastern Christian Studies (co-edited by Marion). Several in Open Access! brill.com/view/journal...

The first talk of this years online seminar: Jakob Engberg, "The Care for the Remains of Polycarp in the Martyrdom of Polycarp in its Second Century Context." Tuesday, 17 February (10 AM CET) •Followers of the Apostles in Cultic Contexts• genaut.univie.ac.at

We're thrilled to share with you the programme for the 2026 online seminar of the project! The series is curated by our colleague Maria S. Thomas (@dekayra.bsky.social). All welcome! Let us know if you'd like to add you to the email list. genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671

The 2025 series GenAut "Characters in relation to the apostles" is now completed, and you can check the recordings on youtube. genaut.univie.ac.at/?p=1635 youtube.com/@receptionmatters genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671

Meet the GenAut team: Christoph Scheerer genaut.univie.ac.at?p=1728

Meet the GenAut team: Maria S. Thomas @dekayra.bsky.social genaut.univie.ac.at?p=1267

Meet the GenAuT team: Andy Hilkens. @andyhilkens.bsky.social genaut.univie.ac.at?p=1164

If you're interested in a fuller overview of the GenAut project, here you are. genaut.univie.ac.at?p=1100

Bit of news here: genaut.univie.ac.at/?p=1595 @erc.europa.eu #ERCCoG