Applohies for any cross-postings
Graham
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Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 12:55:29 +0200
From: Christian Jacob <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Int. Conf. "Alexandria" / Paris, BnF
Dear colleagues,
This international and interdisciplinary Conference in Paris at the
Bibliotheque nationale de France (June 23, 24, 25) could be of some interest
for the members of this list. Most of the papers will be delivered in
French, but simultaneous translation (English) will be available.
This Conference is linked to the future opening of the new Alexandrian
Library in Egypt. Its purpose is a reflection on the function of libraries
in various cultural and historical contexts, on the role they played and
still play in the transmission of texts. This Conference is a contribution
to a comparative history of philological traditions.
A second Conference will be held at the Alexandrian Library in Egypt,
November 27-30. Its title is "Alexandria: the metamorphoses of reading".
My apologies for possible cross-postings.
Christian Jacob
CNRS, Paris
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ALEXANDRIA.
>From Book to Text, the Invention of Philology
International Conference, Paris, Bibliotheque nationale de France (Tolbiac)
23-25 june 1999
June 23
9:00 - 12:15
Opening session: J.P. Angremy, BnF; M. Zahran, Bibliotheca Alexandrina; M.
Aly Maher El Sayed, Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt; C. Jacob, CNRS
J. Sirinelli (Univ. of Paris-Sorbonne). Alexandria: the influence of an
universal library.
M. El Abbadi (Alexandria University). Alexandria: a crossroads of literate
cultures
A. Grafton (Princeton University). Towards an history of the Corrector
14:30-17:00
Pannel: "Places and actors"
discutant: Bruno Blasselle (Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal)
J.-J. Glassner (CNRS). Scribes, scholars and libraries in Mesopotamia
N. Grimal (IFAO). Libraries in ancient Egypt
M.- G. Guesdon (BNF). The bayt al-hikma in Baghdad: copists,translators,
librarians
J.-P. Drege (EPHE). Librarians, scholars, officials in China
17h15-18h45
Pannel: European Libraries and the history of philology
discutant: A. Grafton(Princeton University)
P. Petitmengin (Ecole normale superieure). New Functions of the
collections of manuscripts in European Libraries (1575-1625)
C. Foerstel (BnF). The transmission of Greek manuscripts from Byzantium to
Italy
June 24
9:00-13:00: key-note papers: "Corpus"
G. Dorival (Aix-Marseille University). The fixation of the Biblical canon,
between Jerusalem and Alexandria
C. Malamoud (EPHE). The Vedas in India
G. Nagy (Harvard University). Homer
A. Cheng (INALCO). The Confucean canonical corpus
A.-L. de Premare (Aix-Marseille University). The Koran and the sayings of
the Prophet.
15h-17h00
Pannel: Philological practices and artifacts
Discutant: C. Jacob (CNRS)
T. Dorandi (CNRS). Philological practices in the librari of the "Villa dei
papiri" (Herculanum)
P. Lardet (CNRS/IRHT). Variants, conjectures, apparatus criticus
J.-L. Lebrave (ITEM). Drafts, print-proofs, genesis of the text
17h15-19h15
Pannel: Normality and Pathology in textual transmission
Discutant: L. Giard (CNRS)
B. Vitrac (CNRS). The transmission of Euclid's Elements
G. Colas (CNRS). Transmission and fixation of texts in Classical India
O. Davidson ( Brandeis University) . Public readings of texts in Islamic
mosques
B. Faure (Stanford University) .Tantric Tradition in Japan
June 25
9:30-13:00: key-note papers: Transmission
J. Teixidor (College de France). From Antioch to Baghdad: libraries and
syriac translations
G. Cavallo (Rome University). Monasteries' libraries and the transmission
of texts in the Western world.
L. Canfora ( Bari University). Indirect tradition: Photius' Library, a
case-study.
B. Elman (UCLA, Los Angeles). The Crisis of Classical Learning in
Eighteenth Century China
14h30-16h30
Pannel: Scolarly tradition as a social construction
Discutant: K. Chemla (CNRS)
F. Richard (BNF). Persian philology and its tradition
P. Kornicki (Cambridge University). Nationalism and the making of a
philological tradition in nineteenth-century Japan
J.-M. Chatelain (BNF). Polymathy and antiquarian science in the Renaissance
16h45-18H15
Pannel: New Alexandrias
Discutant: R. Schaer (BnF)
G. Grunberg (Bibliotheca Alexandrina). The project of the Bibliotheca
Alexandrina
J.-P. Sakoun (Bibliopolis). Electronic publishing: new editorial challenges
J.- G. Ganascia (CNRS).Reading electronic texts
D. Renoult (BnF).Electronic Libraries
18h15
Conclusions
R. Chartier (EHESS, R. Debray (College International de Philosophie), B.
Latour (Ecole des Mines, Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation)
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Christian Jacob
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Centre Louis Gernet , 10 rue Monsieur le Prince
75006 Paris / France
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