Third International Conference on the Science of Computus

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Third International Conference on the Science of Computus

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Foundations of Irish Culture Project, based in the Moore Institute for the Humanities at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
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Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Ort
Galway, Ireland
Land
Ireland
Vom - Bis
16.07.2010 - 18.07.2010
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Immo Warntjes

To mark the mid-point of an NUI Galway (PRTLI-funded) research project aimed at producing a Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Irish Scientific Texts in Latin, we hosted in Galway, in mid-July 2006, an International Conference on the Science of Computus for scholars from Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, and the USA. ‘Since in the 7th century the leading experts on the computus were the Irish’ (the verdict of Leofranc Holford-Strevens, The History of Time, a very short introduction [Oxford 2005] 56) it was entirely appropriate that this landmark conference should have taken place in Galway, which has become the centre for computistical studies in Western Europe. That 2006 conference brought together, for the first time, the leading scholars of computistics and related subjects from all over the world, and the resulting conference Proceedings (to be launched at our July meeting) will provide a panorama of Early Medieval scientific knowledge both in Ireland and in the rest of Western Europe during the period of the so-called ‘Dark Ages’.

That 1st Conference was such a success that a 2nd Computistics Conference was immediately agreed — to convene again, ‘by popular demand’, in Galway — bringing together the same group of international scholars and the many more who would have liked to attend the 2006 event but who, for whatever reason, could not do so. The 2008 Galway Conference provided a second opportunity to bring together again both the established authorities and the next generation of young scholars in this field. It in turn was such a success that we were asked to host a follow-up event, and that 3rd International Conference on the Science of Computus is what will be taking place here 16-18 July, 2010.

Programm

Friday, 16 July

19:00-20:30 CONFERENCE OPENING & launch of two new books:

Computus and its Cultural Context in the Latin West, AD 300‒1200. Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Science of Computus in Ireland and Europe, Galway 14‒16 July, 2006 (eds. Immo Warntjes & Dáibhí Ó Cróinín; Turnhout, 2010).

Immo Warntjes, The Munich Computus: Text & Translation. Irish computistics between Isidore of Seville and the Venerable Bede and its reception in Carolingian times (Stuttgart, 2010).

Saturday, 17 July

9:30-11:00 — Session 1 (Chair: To be announced)
Immo WARNTJES (GREIFSWALD): Irish computistics between Isidore & Bede
Leofranc HOLFORD-STREVENS (OXFORD): The Disputatio Cori et Praetextati, or, the Roman calendar for beginners
Dan Mc CARTHY (DUBLIN): The Paschal cycles of Cummian & St Patrick

11:00-11:30 — Tea/Coffee

11:30-13:00 — Session 2 (Chair: To be announced)
David HOWLETT (OXFORD): Annus solis continetur: a seventh-century Hiberno-Latin computistical poem
Brigitte ENGLISCH (PADERBORN): Osterfest und Weltchronistik in den westgotischen Reichen
Dáibhí Ó CRÓINÍN (GALWAY): Archbishop James Ussher and the sources for the history of the Early Paschal Controversy

13:00-15:30 — Lunch-break & walk-about in Galway

15:30-17:00 — Session 3 (Chair: To be announced)
Alden MOSSHAMMER (SAN DIEGO): The Computus of 243
Ulrich VOIGT (HAMBURG): The 95-year Easter table of Ravenna
Jan ZUIDHOEK (ZWOLLE): The initial year of De ratione paschali and the relevance of its Paschal dates

17:00-17:30 — Tea/Coffee

17:30-19:00 — Session 4 (Chair: To be announced)
Marina SMYTH (NOTRE DAME): Once in four: Early medieval thoughts on the leap-year
Lisa LYNN CHEN (TORONTO): What a difference a day makes: The eighth day of the week in Hrabanus Maurus, De rerum naturis, Lib. X.
Bruce EASTWOOD (KENTUCKY): What is an epicycle? Carolingian queries & conceptualizations

21:00 — CONFERENCE DINNER

Sunday, 18 July

9:30-11:00 — Session 5 (Chair: To be announced)
Faith WALLIS (DUBLIN): ‘Fleeting times’ & ‘the everlasting day’: Reassessing Bede’s On Times
Masako OHASHI (NAGOYA): Bede’s use of Victor of Capua’s computistical writings
Luciana CUPPO-CSAKI (TRIESTE): Felix of Squillace & the Dionysiac computus

11:00-11:30 — Tea/Coffee

11:30-13:00 — Session 6 (Chair: To be announced)
Stephen McCLUSKEY (WEST VIRGINIA): Easter cycles using the Vague Year
James PALMER (ST ANDREWS): Computus after the Paschal Controversy of 740
Philipp NOTHAFT (MÜNCHEN): Claudius of Turin & the date of Christ’s Passion

13:00 — CLOSE OF CONFERENCE

Kontakt

Dáibhí Ó Cróinín

Department of History, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

daibhi.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie