10th International Conference of the International Association of Manichaean Studies
Tenth Conference of the International Association of Manichaean Studies to be held at Aarhus University (Denmark), Monday 8th – Thursday 11th August 2022
Organizers: Nils Arne Pedersen, Aarhus University, President of IAMS & René Falkenberg, Aarhus University Gunner Mikkelsen, Macquarie University, Secretary of IAMS
PROGRAMME (PDF):
– Monday 8 August –
Chair: Majella Franzmann (University of Sydney)
- 10:30-11:30 Johannes van Oort (University of Pretoria): The Story of Manichaeology
- 11:30-12:30 Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University): Is there a Manichaean ‘Christology’? The Dangers of Looking at Manichaeism through the Lens of Church History
Chair: Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University)
- 14:00-14:30 Samuel N.C. Lieu (Robinson College Cambridge): Manichaean Self-Identity Revisited (II)
- 14:30-15:00 Paul Dilley (The University of Iowa): Early Manichaean Literature: A New Assessment
- 15:00-15:30 Iain Gardner (University of Sydney): Did Mani go to Church? Community and Practice in Earliest Manichaeism
Chair: Samuel N.C. Lieu (Robinson College Cambridge)
- 16:00-16:30 Majella Franzmann (University of Sydney): Partners in the Darkness and in the Light: Married Manichaean Auditors at Kellis
- 16:30-17:00 Håkon Teigen (MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Oslo): Mani at the Temple Gates: The Contest for Scriptural Authority in Chapter 326 of the Dublin Kephalaia
- 17:10-18:00 Manichaean Liturgical Texts and Practices from Egypt to China Project (Australian Research Council) Team Meeting
– Tuesday 9 August –
Chair: Nils Arne Pedersen (Aarhus University)
- 9:00-9:30 Timothy Pettipiece (Carleton University): City of God(s): Unity and Plurality in Early Manichaean Theological Discourse
- 9:30-10:00 Eduard Iricinschi (Ruhr University Bochum): “The Enthymēsis of the Eyes”: Stoic and Peripatetic Theories of Perception in the Kephalaia of the Teacher, 56
- 10:00-10:30 Rea Matsangou (University of Thessaly): Indelible Identities: Manichaeans and Other Converts under Justinian and Beyond
Chair: Johannes van Oort (University of Pretoria)
- 11:00-11:30 Evgenïa Moisseeva (Salzburg University): A Jealous God: The Evolution of a Manichaean Anti-Biblical Argument
- 11:30-12:00 Aäron Vanspauwen (Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg / KU Leuven): The Debate of Augustine and the Manichaean Felix: Preview of a New Critical Edition
- 12:00-12:30 Christina Emily Turner (KU Leuven): The Manichaeans at Cassiciacum: A Study of Augustine’s Early Philosophical Inquiry
Chair: Zsuzsanna Gúlacsi (Northern Arizona University)
- 14:00-14:30 Erica Hunter (University of Cambridge): Mani and the Mesopotamian Matrix
- 14:30-15:00 Michael Browder (Virginia Union University): “Wherefore Art Thou, Moses”
- 15:00-15:30 Iris Colditz (Ruhr University Bochum): A Passage on a Manichaean Ethical Principle and Related Texts
Chair: Iain Gardner (University of Sydney)
- 16:00-17:30 Workshop: Biblia Manichaica (Nils Arne Pedersen, René Falkenberg, John M. Larsen, Claudia Leurini)
- 16:00-16:30 Nils Arne Pedersen (Aarhus University): ‘Sheep Bound to the Tree’: A Manichaean Expression derived from Interpretations of Genesis 22
- 16:30-17:00 René Falkenberg (Aarhus University): Statistics of Biblia Manichaica I-III
- 17:00-17:30 John Møller Larsen (Aarhus University): Reception of Manichaeism in the Arabic Sources
– Wednesday 10 August –
Chair: Iris Colditz (Ruhr University Bochum)
- 9:00-10:00 Zsuzsanna Gulácsi (Northern Arizona University) The Codicology of the BBB and its Implications for Turfan Manuscript Studies
- 10:00-10:30 Floriana Marra (Ruhr University Bochum / University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’): Manichaean Cosmogony and Cosmology and its Iranian Background
- 10:30-11:00 Enrico Morano (Turin/Berlin) & Emanuele Seretti (University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’): Two Fragments from a Middle Persian Codex in Manichaean Script with Hymns to the Sun God and to Mani
Chair: Enrico Morano (Turin and Berlin)
- 11:30-12:00 Mohammad Shokri-Foumeshi (University of Religions and Denominations, Qom) & Christiane Reck (Göttingen Academy of Sciences): Praise of the Dawn and Praise of the Bema: Reconstruction of a Middle Persian Bifolio from the Turfan Berlin Collection
- 12:00-12:30 Federico Dragoni (Leiden University): Some Reflections on Tocharian Tune Names and Middle Iranian Manichaean Captions
- 12:30-13:00 Leighton Sebastion Smith (University of California): Feeling Your Way to Salvation in Manichaean Central Asia
Chair: Peter Zieme (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Turfan Studies)
- 14:00-14:30 Abdurishid Yakup (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Turfan Studies): Still Unedited Old Uyghur Manichean Texts in the Berlin Turfan Collection
- 14:30-15:00 Betül Özbay (Istanbul Medeniyet University): Orthographic Features of Old Uyghur Manichean Pothi Book
- 15:00-15:30 Kader Tüngüç Çelik (Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul): A Semantic Approach to Similes in the Manichaean Uyghur Hymns
Chair: Gunner Mikkelsen (Macquarie University)
- 16:00-16:30 Peter Zieme (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Turfan Studies): Manichaean Texts in Runic Script
- 16:30-17:00 Xue Li (Free University Berlin): Recent Studies on the Phonetically Transcribed Texts in the New Discovered Chinese Manichaean Material in Fujian
- 17:00-17:30 Gábor Kósa (Eötvös Loránd University): Revisiting Mānī’s Visit to India: a Buddhist Interpretation of the Chinese Painting ʻHagiography (3)’
– Thursday 11 August –
9:30-15:00 Excursion to Moesgaard Museum (MOMU)