Lectures

Invited Talks

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• Copenhagen – Respondent of Dr. Octavian-Adrian Negoiță – Title: “The Holy Book of the Ishmaelites in the World of Greek Christianity (9th–18th Centuries)”, EuQu Seminar of Work in Progress, University of Copenghagen, Organized by: Prof. Dr. Jan Loop (11/06/2021)

• Athens – “Σημειώσεις για τις σχέσεις Μουσουλμάνων και Χριστιανών στη Μέση Ανατολή κατά τα Βυζαντινά χρόνια. Στιγμιότυπα, πηγές, συγγραφείς” [“Notes on the relations between Muslims and Christians in the Middle East during the Byzantine period. Snapshots, sources, authors”], Seminar Lecture, Faculty of Philology/National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (10/12/2019)

• Athens – “Ο Ιωάννης ο ∆αμασκηνός, το Ισλάμ και η γνώση των Βυζαντινών για το Κοράνι”, [“John of Damascus, Islam, and Byzantine knowledge of the Qur’an”] Seminar Lecture, Center for Asia Minor Studies (04/12/2019)

• Athens – “Χριστιανικές μεταφράσεις του Κορανίου στα ελληνικά, συριακά και λατινικά (8ος–13ος αι. μ.Χ.)” [“Christian translations of the Qur’an in Greek, Syriac and Latin (8th–13th century AD)”], Annual Lecture Series 2018–2019, Association Internationale d’Etudes du Sud-Est Européen (22/02/2019)

• Leipzig – “Zwischen inhaltlicher Argumentation und handschriftlicher Materialität. Betrachtungen zur kodikologisch-paläographischen Überlieferung byzantinischer Islampolemiken” [“Between content argumentation and manuscript materiality. Reflections on the codicological-paleographic tradition of Byzantine Islamic polemics”], Lecture Series: “Material Culture in Byzantinum and the Medieval West”, Leibniz Institute for History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) & Institute of Art History/ University of Leipzig (14/11/2017)

• Potsdam – “Überlegungen zu einem Corpus Coranicum Byzantinum” [“Reflections on a Corpus Coranicum Byzantinum”], in: Collegium Coranicum, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (21/06/2016)

• Jena – “Das Corpus Coranicum Byzantinum – der Koran als Gegenstand interreligiöser Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Byzanz und dem Früh-Islam” [“The Corpus Coranicum Byzantinum – the Qur’an as an object of interreligious conflict between Byzantium and early Islam], Lecture Series: New Researches on the Middle Ages, Friedrich Schiller University Jena (10/12/2015)

• Beirut – “Knowing the Muslims’ Faith – Byzantine Perceptions of Early Islam”, Orient-Institut Beirut (17/11/2015)

• Halle – “De prophetibus et haeresibus – der Koran in einer byzantinischen Übersetzung aus dem 9. Jahrhundert”, [“De prophetibus et haeresibus – the Qur’an in a 9th century Byzantine translation”] Lecture Series: Oriental Christendom and Early Islam, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (22/05/2014)

• Rome – “Ex Oriente Scriptum – Vaticanus Graecus 681 et Translatio Coranensis Byzantina”, [“Ex Oriente Scriptum – Vaticanus Graecus 681 and the Byzantine translation of the Qur’an”] Pontificio Istituto Orientale (25/03/2014)

• Beirut – “القرآن بين الأصل والترجمة: نيكيتاس البيزنطيّ وترجمة القرآن اليونانيّة في سجاله ضدّ الإسلام من القرن ٩ م” [“The Qur’an between origin and translation: Nicetas of Byzantium and the translation of the Greek Qur’an from the 9th century in its argument against Islam”], Institut français du Proche-Orient (09/05/2012)

• Beirut – “The Greek Qurʾān Translation of the Vat. gr. 681: Polemical Interpolation or Christian Interpretation?” [see p. 55], Orient-Institut Beirut (08/05/2012)

• Kūsbā (Lebanon) – “الإسلام – ملّة جديدة تتحدّي البيزنطيّين” [“Islam – a new sect that challenges the Byzantines”] , Monastery of Hamatūra (04/09/2011)

• Damascus – “Translation as transformation: The first translation of the Qurʾān into Greek (8th/9th century A.D.)”, Institut français du Proche-Orient (14/03/2011)