Entangled Traditions: Parabiblica about the End of Times

Event: International Conference

Location: NEC conference room & Zoom

19 March 2025, 10.00-18.00 (Bucharest time), at New Europe College
20 March 2025, 9.30-15.30 (Bucharest time), at the “Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy (13 Calea 13 Septembrie)

Conveners: Stephanie HALLINGER, Alexandru IONIȚĂ and Emanuela TIMOTIN

Participants: Vlad BEDROS, Iulia DUMITRAȘCU, Marta FEDAK, Nenad FILIPOVIĆ, Agnieszka GRONEK, Stephanie HALLINGER, Alexandru IONIȚĂ, Daniar MUTALÂP, Tobias NICKLAS, Cristinel SAVA, Stephen SHOEMAKER, Michael SOMMER, Alexey SOMOV, Emanuela TIMOTIN, Taras TYMO, Emanuela VALERIANI

 

PROGRAM

Wednesday, 19 March 2025, at New Europe College

Online (Zoom)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84928827648?pwd=elsS9KUnYcUTftYckFBpfakFnqBDJJ.1

Meeting ID: 849 2882 7648
Passcode: 503221

10.00-10.10: Opening of the conference

[Joint Event: Conference and NEC Seminar]

10.10-10.50:
Tobias NICKLAS (Beyond Canon Centre)
Canon in Dialogue: Biblical and Parabiblical Apocalypses

10.50 – 11.45: Discussions

12.00 – 13.00: Lunch break

13.00 – 15.15:
Stephen SHOEMAKER (Beyond Canon Centre)
Apocalypticism Beyond Canon: Early Medieval Views of the End Times

Stephanie HALLINGER (Beyond Canon Centre)
Michael SOMMER (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main)
The Last Days – Early Christian Hopes and Medieval Imaginations

Vlad BEDROS (National University of Arts, Bucharest)
The Slavonic Enoch between Textual and Visual Evidence in Late Fifteenth-Century Moldavia

15.15 – 15.30: Coffee break

15.30 – 17.45:
Daniar MUTALÂP (Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy)
4 Baruch in Old Romanian Culture. Between Text and Image

Alexandru IONIȚĂ (‘Lucian Blaga’ University of Sibiu)
The Jews in the Last Judgment Iconography: Parabiblical Sources

Marta FEDAK (Andrey Sheptycky National Museum, Lviv)
Artistic and Iconographic Features of Ukrainian Icons of the Last Judgment of the 15th– 16th Centuries

Thursday, 20 March 2025, at the “Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy (13 Calea Septembrie 13)

Online (Google Meet)
meet.google.com/iry-smhk-erz

09.30 – 11.00:
Emanuela VALERIANI (Beyond Canon Centre)
Emanuela TIMOTIN (Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy)
The End of Times in the Apocryphal Apocalypse of John in the Greek and Romanian Traditions

Nenad FILIPOVIĆ (University of Belgrade)
The Ancient of Days in Orthodox Tradition: Iconographic, Exegetical and Liturgical Perspectives on Apocalyptic Imagery

11.00 – 11.30: Coffee-break

11.30 – 13.00:
Alexey SOMOV (Beyond Canon Centre)
Emperor Julian as a Prototype of the Antichrist in Cyril of Jerusalem’s Catechesis 15 and in the Martyrdom of Judas Cyriacus

Cristinel SAVA (Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy)
The 18th-Century Romanian versions of Pseudo-Hippolytus’ De consummatione mundi.

13.00 – 14.00: Lunch

14.00 – 15.30:
Taras TYMO (Ukrainian Catholic University)
‘Christ Enthroned in Glory’: the Convergence of Mystical, Liturgical and Apocalyptic/Eschatological Themes in Byzantine Iconography

Agnieszka GRONEK (Jagiellonian University)
The Tribunal of Apostles in Painting Programmes of Early Modern Iconostases in the Balkans. Development of the Idea

National Museum of Art (Calea Victoriei 49-53)

16.15 – 18.00:
Iulia DUMITRAȘCU
Between Heaven and Earth: Sacred Treasures in the Medieval Art Gallery of the National Museum of Art of Romania (Romanian Medieval Art Gallery, guided visit)

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This event is jointly organized by Beyond Canon Centre of Advanced Studies, University of Regensburg, New Europe College – Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest and the “Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy.