Libraries and Cultural Memory

Libraries and Cultural Memory

an International Conference of the Doctoral School in HistoryFaculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Pázmány Péter Catholic University

Date: October 17-18, 2012

Venue: Pázmány Péter Catholic University - Faculty of Theology,
Budapest, Veres Pálné street 24. II./227 (2nd floor, room #227)

October 17, Wednesday

10:00-10:10 Opening Szabolcs Szuromi, Rector of the PPCU
10:10-10:40 Szabolcs Szuromi (PPCU), Exemplars of the Ecclesiastical Libraries at the Dawn of the High Middle Ages in Europe – their Goals, Sources and Peculiarities
10:40-11:10 Avriel Bar – Levav (Open University, Raanana),
Library Awareness in Jewish Culture: Models of Comprehending Libraries since the Medieval Period
11:10-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:00 Shaul Shaked (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem),
New Jewish Documents from Medieval Afghanistan: Preliminary Report
12:00-12:30 Florentina Geller (Freie Universität, Berlin),
The Library of the King: Intellectuals and Scriptoria in Medieval Bulgaria (9th-10th cent.)
12:30-13:00 András Róna-Tas (University of Szeged),
Khitan. Deciphering a Writing, a Language and a Culture of the Middle Ages
13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-14:30 Kinga Dévényi (Library of the Academy, Budapest),
Islamic Manuscript Collections in Hungary
14:30-15:00 Mark Geller (Freie Universität, Berlin),
Libraries and Archives in Mesopotamia:  What is the Difference?
15:00-15:30 Dolores Kamrada (PPCU),
Kings and Ancestors: Ugaritic Libraries and Biblical Literature
15:30-16:00 Nóra Dávid (University of Vienna),
The Archaeology of the Qumran Library
16:00-16:30 Philip Alexander (University of Manchester),
Qumran and the Typology of Libraries in the Ancient World
16:30-17:00 Corrado Martone (University of Torino),
From Universal to Sectarian: Qumran and Other Ancient Libraries

October 18, Thursday

10:00-10:30 Balázs Tamási (Library of the Academy, Budapest),
The Place and Status of the Apocryphon of Jeremiah in the Qumran Library
10:30-11:00 Russell Fuller (University of San Diego),
Cultural Memory, the Qumran Library, and Identity
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:00 Devorah Dimant (University of Haifa),
The Library of Qumran: Variety versus Unity
12:00-12:30 Ida Fröhlich (PPCU),
Biblical Tradition and Cultural Memory in the Qumran Scrolls
12:30-13:00 Armin Lange (University of Vienna),
Qumran Library in Context

13:00-14:00 Buffet lunch
15:00-16:00 Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Oriental Collection,
1051 Budapest, Széchenyi István tér 9.
The Oriental Manuscript Collections of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Ágnes Kelecsényi, Balázs Tamási, Kinga Dévényi, Nándor Kovács, Júlia Manchin