Reading and Understanding ΛΟΓΟΙ in Byzantium: An Experimental Workshop, University of Silesia, Katowice, October 19, 2018

This is an experimental workshop in reading and analysing Byzantine textual culture (literature broadly understood) whose aim is to display and receive feedback on current work in progress. The workshop engages with the concept of λόγοι in Byzantium, that is, with literature and discourse in a very broad sense. The ambiguity and versatility of λόγος, when applied to any Byzantine literary product, raises issues of rhetorical and generic articulation, of narrative, style and modes of discourse, thus provoking us to continuously question and revise the methodological and theoretical toolkits we apply in our reading and interpreting of Byzantine texts and their place within frameworks of education, patronage, communities of reading and writing, book production, organisation, and transmission of knowledge.

The workshop presents current work in progress by both early career and advanced scholars and through its ‘working group’ setting, it offers a platform for providing and receiving feedback and for testing of existing hypotheses, thus helping individual projects to move one step further towards completion.

Participants
Baukje van den Berg (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Floris Bernard (Ghent University)
Niels Gaul (University of Edinburgh)
Matthew Kinloch (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Tomasz Labuk (University of Silesia in Katowice)
Florin Leonte (Palacký University Olomouc)
Divna Manolova (University of Silesia in Katowice)
Stratis Papaioannou (University of Crete)
Larisa Vilimonović (University of Belgrade)