Monday, March 27th 6:00 pm Public lecture by Dr. Adolfo Roitman “From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Nano Bible”
Tuesday, March 28th Inauguration: 8:00 am to 12:00 pm 8:00 am: Conference Registration 9:00 am: Inaugural Addresses 10:30 am: Keynote Speech Mons. Cesare Pasini (Prefecto Biblioteca Apostólica del Vaticano) “The Patristic Vocation of the Vatican Library” 12:30 pm: Refreshments
Specialist Roundtable: 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm "The Discovery of the Qumran Manuscripts and Apocryphal Literature: Their Impact on Patristic Studies" Coordinator: Dr. Magdalena Díaz Araujo
(Universidad Nacional de Cuyo – CONICET – Argentina) -Dr. Adolfo Roitman (Director of the Shrine of the Book and Curator of the Dead Sea Scrolls - The Israel Museum – Jerusalem) “El misterio de Melquisedec a la luz de los rollos del mar Muerto y la literatura pseudoepigráfica” -Dr. Alberto D’Anna (l Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici – Università Roma Tre – Italy) Manoscritti di apocrifi: i testi e la loro fruizione. -Dr.Juan Carlos Alby (Universidad Católica de Santa Fé – Argentina) Salud y enfermedad en textos de qumrán y en la literatura apócrifa judía
Specialist Roundtable: 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm “Patristic Studies in Ibero-America: Research Projects, Translations and Critical Editions” Coordinator: Father Pedro Fernández (Director of the Patristic Studies Institute – Universidad Católica de Cuyo – Argentina) -Dr. Oscar Velásquez (Ex Vice President of AIEP – Chile) “Los Estudios Patrísticos en Chile: proyectos de investigación, traducciones y ediciones críticas” -Dr. João Lupi (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina – Brazil) “Estudos Patrísticos na Ibero américa: Brasil” -Dr. Rubén Peretó Rivas (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo – CONICET – Argentina) “Los Estudios Patrísticos en Argentina: proyectos de investigación, traducciones y ediciones críticas” -Prof. José Fernando Rubia Navarro (Universidad Externado de Colombia) “Los Estudios Patrísticos en Colombia” -Dr. María Alejandra Valdés García (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras UNAM – Mexico) “Presentación del “Seminario de Patrología” de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México” -Prof. Giancarlo Bellina (Universidad Católica Sedes Sapientiae – Peru) “Los Estudios Patrísticos en Perú desde el siglo XX: publicaciones y perspectivas”
Wednesday, March 29th Specialist Roundtable: 8:30 am to 10:30 am "The Discovery of the Nag Hammadi Gnostic Library: Its Impact on Patristic Studies" Coordinator: Dr. Mariano Troiano (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo – CONICET – Argentina) -Dr. David Brakke (Ohio State University – USA – President-elect of the International Association for Coptic Studies) “What Difference Does the Gospel of Judas Make?” -Dr. Francisco García Bazán (Principal Researcher – CONICET – Argentina) “Corpus gnosticum. noticias y fuentes sobre los gnósticos incluida la NHB y otros hallazgos anteriores menos conocidos” -Dr. Uwe-Karsten Plisch (Nag Hammadi Specialist – Berlin Coptic-Gnostic Study Group) “The platonizing Sethian tractates from Nag Hammadi (especially Zostrianus) and the Greek “Prayer of Seth” in the Berlin Papyrus Collection (P.Berol. 17207)”
Specialist Roundtable: 11:00 am to 1:00 pm "The Discovery of Origen's Manuscripts and those of the Alexandrian Tradition: Their Impact on Patristic Studies" Coordinator: Dr. Anders-Christian Jacobsen (Aarhus Universitet – Denmark – Treasurer AIEP) -Dr. Lorenzo Perrone (Università di Bologna - Italy) “Origen lost and found: the rediscovery of his writings from Tura to Munich” - Dr. Rubén Peretó Rivas (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo – CONICET – Argentina) “Revisiting Evagrius Ponticus’ Orthodoxy in the Kephalaia Gnostika” -Father Dr. Samuel Fernández (Pontificia Católica Universidad de Chile – Chile) “The reception of De Principiis as witnessed by copyists,readers and editors”
1:30 pm Recess
4:00 pm to 8:00 pm Papers and Workshops at the Catholic University of Cuyo campus
Thursday, March 30th Specialist Roundtable: 8:30 am to 10:30 am "The Discovery of Coptic, Syriac and Georgian Manuscripts: Their Impact on Patristic Studies" Coordinator: Dr. Pablo Ubierna (CONICET – Argentina) -Dr. Alberto Camplani (Sapienza – Università di Roma – Italy) "Discovery, identification, and reconstruction of dismembered Coptic codices since the time of Georg Zoëga (1755-1809): their impact on the conceptualization and articulation of Coptic literature and their contribution to Patristic studies" -Dr. Luise Marion Frenkel (Universidad de São Paulo – Brazil) “Recovering late-antique Christian identities: the ongoing discovery and rediscovery of Syriac manuscripts, their diversity and limitations” -Dr. Tamar Pataridze (Université Catholique de Louvain – Belgium) “Literary centers producing Georgian manuscripts with content of patristic writings”
Specialist Roundtable: 11:00 am to 1:00 pm "The Discovery of Augustine's Manuscripts, Manichaeism Manuscripts and Letters from the Patristic Era” Coordinator: Dr. Oscar Velásquez (Ex Vice President of AIEP – Chile)
-Dr. Carol Harrison (Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity – University of Oxford – England) “Sound and Silence in Augustine’s Christological Exegesis (Dolbeau 22)” -Prof. Diego Santos (CONICET – Argentina) -Dr. Bronwen Neil (Centre for Early Christian Studies Brisbane – Australia) “Pope Leo I's Letter on ‘the Manichean Perversity’”
1:30 pm Recess
4:00 pm to 8:00 pm Papers and Workshops at the Catholic University of Cuyo campus
Friday, March 31st Specialist Roundtable: 8:30 am to 10:30 am "Manuscripts from Late Antiquity: Their Discovery, Conservation and Digital Publication" Coordinator: Dr. Mariano Troiano (CONICET – Universidad Nacional de Cuyo – Argentina) -Dr. Ira Rabin (Researcher at the Division of Analysis of Objects of Cultural Heritage at the BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (Berlin) and the Centre for the Studies of Manuscript Cultures (Hamburg) – Germany). “Unveiling secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls” -Dr. Emanuela Colombi (Project editor: “Tradizione dei testi patristici nell' Occidente medioevale: progetto del «corpus» di Brepols – Italy) “Why should we come back to manuscripts? From textual criticism to the history of texts transmission” -Dr. Lautaro Roig Lanzillota (University of Groningen – Netherlands – Founding Joint Editor of Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies)
“Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies y la Nag Hammadi Bibliography Online: Dos nuevos proyectos digitales para la difusión de los manuscritos de Nag Hammadi”
Specialist Roundtable: 11:00 am to 1:30 pm "The Discovery of Manuscripts from Late Antiquity and Its Impact on the Contemporary World" Coordinator: Prof. Susana Villalonga (Universidad Nacional de San Juan – Universidad Católica de Cuyo – Argentina) -Dr. Theodore de Bruyn (Department of Classics and Religious Studies – University of Ottawa – Canada – President of AIEP) “The Impact of Papyri, Parchments, and Ostraca on the Study of Late Antiquity in the Contemporary World” -Dr. Marco Rizzi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano – Italy – Secretary of AIEP) “The impact of the rediscovery of manuscripts on the theology and the religious culture after the Second World War” -Dr. Bernando Nante (Universidad del Salvador – Argentina) “Jung y la recepción de los textos gnósticos” -Dr. Andrea De Vita (National Director of the National Registry of Creeds – Argentina) “Los textos sagrados como fuente de construcción de ciudadanía”
2:00 pm Recess
5:30 pm to 6:30 pm In Memoriam
7:00 pm to 8:00 pm Closing Speaker:
Presentation: Father Dr. José Juan García (Vice-Rector of Religious Education – Universidad Católica de Cuyo – Argentina) Father Dr. Angelo di Bernardino (Institutum Patristicum Augustiniamum – Rome – Italy) “Discoveries from the last decades and orientations of Patristic Studies”