IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 115: Border-Crossing Stories between East and West

Monday 4 July 2022, 11.15-12.45

Organiser:	Emilie van Opstall, Amsterdam Centre for Ancient Studies & Archaeology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Moderator/Chair:	Ivo Wolsing, Independent Scholar, Amsterdam
Paper 115-a	Gender and Sexuality in the Barlaam and Josaphat Textual Tradition: A Transcultural Exploration (Language: English) Isabel Toral-Niehoff, Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Freie Universität, Berlin Rachel Peled Cuartas, Department of Spanish & Latin American Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Other, Sexuality
Paper 115-b	Confusing Gender in Byzantine Fables: On the (Un)Importance of Gender in Symeon Seth's Stephanites kai Ichnelates (Language: English) Lilli Hölzlhammer, 'Retracing Connections' Project, Uppsala universitet Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Greek
Paper 115-c	Between Misogyny and Agency: The Representation of Women in the Byzantine Syntipas / Latin Dolopathos (Language: English) Emilie van Opstall, Amsterdam Centre for Ancient Studies & Archaeology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Greek, Language and Literature - Latin
Abstract	Recent years witnessed a renewed interest in stories that travelled between East and West, with fresh insights in cross-cultural comparative literature. This session brings together representatives of three different projects on stories that cross borders and that appear in different European and Middle-Eastern languages, i.e. AnonymClassic on Kalila and Dimna and related texts (Berlin), Retracing Connections on Byzantine story worlds (Uppsala) and Travelling Tales on Syntipas/Sindbad the Wise (Amsterdam). A representative from each project will present a paper followed by an exchange of ideas concerning various aspects of the projects represented: codicology, literary theory and history, and digital infrastructure.