The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, the Center for Ancient Studies, the Center for the Humanities, the Classics Department, and the East Asian Studies Department present
The Scribal Mind: Textual Criticism in Antiquity
Conference organized by Emily Cole (ISAW)
Thursday and Friday, September 21-22, 2017
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
Thursday, September 21, 2017
11:45am-4:30pm
Panel 1: The Practice of Ancient Textual Criticism
Moderator: Roderick Campbell (ISAW)
Respondent: Martin Kern (Princeton University)
Imprimatur before the Printing Press
Theo van den Hout (University of Chicago)
'Old-style writing' vs. ‘The Script of Antiquity’: The Ordinary and Extraordinary Interpretations of the Han-period guwen 古文 Discoveries
Adam Smith (University of Pennsylvania)
Transcribing Authority: Leveraging Texts and Text Production in Galen
Claire Bubb (ISAW)
Monastic Oracles: The Ritualized Function of the Psalms in a Coptic Liturgical Manuscript from the White Monastery
Stephen Davis (Yale University)
6:00pm
Keynote Lecture
The Art of Compilation
Karel van der Toorn (University of Amsterdam)
Please check isaw.nyu.edu for event updates.
Registration is required at isaw.nyu.edu/rsvp Please note that separate registration is required for Day 1 (September 21), Keynote Lecture (September 21), and Day 2 (September 22).