Language in Motion:
Editing, Translating and Adapting Theoretical Writing on Language
University of Toronto, 18-19 November 2016, Victoria College Room 215
Workshop Program
Friday, 18 November 2016
1:30-2:00
Fred Unwalla (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies): Welcoming Remarks
Jill Ross (University of Toronto): Language in Motion. Introductory Remarks
2:00-3:00
(Chair: Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies)
Rita Copeland (University of Pennsylvania): Retrospective Editing
3:00-3:15 Coffee break
3:15-4:15
(Chair: Suzanne Akbari, Director, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto)
Simon Gaunt (King’s College London): Locating the Text in Motion: Why Edit Manuscripts Rather than Texts?
4:15-5:15
(Chair: Bogdan Smarandache, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto)
Jeannie Miller (University of Toronto): Al-Jahiz’s Two Aristotles
5:30-7:00 Reception: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Common Room
Saturday, 19 November 2016
9:00-9:30 Coffee and Muffins
9:30-10:30
(Chair: Pushpa Raj Acharya, Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto)
Arthur Dudney (University of Cambridge): Multilingualism and the Translatio studii from Persian to Urdu
10:30-11:30
(Chair: Chris Piuma, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto)
Jill Ross (University of Toronto): The Conversion of Poetry: Poetics and Cultural Identity in a Late Medieval Hebrew Rhyming Dictionary from the Crown of Aragon
11:30-12:30
(Chair: Atsuko Sakaki, Department of East Asian Studies and Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto)
David Lurie (Columbia University): Poetry Commentary and the Vernacularization of Chinese Philology in Early Medieval Japan”
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00
(Chair: Michael Fatigati, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto)
Alexander Key (Stanford University): Small Sets of (Very Important) Interrelated Terms in Eleventh-Century Arabic
3:00-3:30 Coffee break
3:30-4:30
(Chair: Dorothea Kullmann, Department of French and Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto)
Simone Ventura (King’s College London): The Scribe as Linguist in the Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César’s Textual Tradition
4:30-5:30
(Chair: Morris Tichenor, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto)
Martin Camargo (University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana): The Critical Edition as Procrustean Bed? Two Case Histories from the Fourteenth-Century Oxford Renaissance of Rhetoric
