Tenth Enoch Seminar (2019 Florence), conference

The Tenth Enoch Seminar (June 9-14, 2019), is an international conference organized by the Enoch Seminar.

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Tenth Enoch Seminar Overview

Theme: “Enoch and Enochic Traditions in the Early Modern Period: Reception History from the 15th Century to the End of the 19th Century”

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan) and Annette Yoshiko Reed (New York University).

Date: June 9-14, 2019

Place: Florence, Italy

Registration

Registration for invited participants is now online. Please complete your registration here by February 28, 2019.

Attendance at the Enoch Seminar is by invitation only and is limited to university professors and scholars in the field. If you are interested in attending or participating in the Tenth Enoch Seminar, please contact Jason Zurawski.

All participants are expected to pay the registration fee, which will range from $0 - $165, depending on the participant's past involvement in Enoch Seminars or Nangeroni Meetings. Spouses and guests of participants are not required to pay the registration fee.

Lodging

Contribution (including 5 nights lodging and lunches), To be paid in Florence at the Seminar:

• 0: Authors of major papers
• 300 euros: Respondents
• 250 euros: Guests, spouses, etc. (children under 12 years old: free)
• 400 euros: All other participants

Extra nights before or after the meeting should be booked directly with the Villa Stella at booking@florentour.it.

Preliminary Schedule

Sunday, 9 June 2019

Arrivals Dinner

Monday, 10 June 2019

• 9am - 10:30 - Introduction

Annette Reed: The Legacy of Enoch from the Middle Ages

Gabriele Boccaccini: "The Reception History of Enoch From the Middle ages to the Nineteenth Century: Main Stages"

• 11am - 12: 30 - Giulio Busi: Pico della Mirandola, Enoch and Hermetism Respondent: Francis Borchardt

Lunch

• 2pm - 3:30 - Tobias Churton: Enoch in Esoteric Traditions and the Freemasonry Respondent: Lorenzo DiTommaso
• 4 pm- 5:30 - Ariel Hessayon: Knowledge and reception of the 'Book of Enoch' in Western Europe and North America, c.1770 - c.1830 Respondent: Leslie Baynes

Tuesday, 11 June 2019

Morning

Visit to Florence

Afternoon

• Committee Meeting
• Public session: Enoch and the Fallen Angels in the History of Art (Shelley Perlove)

Wednesday, 12 June 2019

Morning

• Shaul Magid: Enoch in Jewish Traditions Respondent: Jacques van Ruiten
• Kameliya Atanasova: Enoch in Islam Respondent: Cecilia Wassén

Afternoon

• Euan Cameron: The Book of Enoch in relation to the pre-modern Christian doctrines of spiritual beings Respondent: Francis Watson
• Florentina Badalanova Gellar: Enoch in the Slavonic Church and Daniel Assefa: The Archangel Uriel in 1 Enoch and other Ethiopian texts Respondent: Elena Dugan

Thursday, 13 June 2019

Morning

• Gabriele Boccaccini: Enoch Commentaries Before Bruce Respondent: James Charlesworth

• Jared Ludlow: Enoch in Mormonism Respondent: Lester Grabbe

Afternoon

• Loren Stuckenbruck and Ted Erho: Enoch in Manuscript Traditions Respondent: Liv Ingeborg Lied

Short paper session:

• Francis Borchardt, "Enoch’s Testaments and Their Representation in the Art of William Blake"

• Ralph Lee, "The Reception and Function of 1 Enoch in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tradition"

• Robert Hall, "Scales of Creation or Scales of Judgment? Variant Readings for Parables of Enoch 41 and 43"

Friday, 14 June 2019

Breakfast and departures

Prospective Participants

• Daniel Assefa (Capuchin Institute of Philosophy Addis Abeba)*
• Kameliya Atanasova (Washington and Lee University)*
• Florentina Badalanova Geller (Free University of Berlin)*
• Leslie Baynes (Missouri State University)*
• Andreas Bedenbender (University of Paderborn)*
• Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan)*
• Francis Borchardt (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong)*
• Giulio Busi (Berlin)
• Euan Cameron (Union Theological Seminary)*
• Calum Carmichael (Cornell University)*
• James H. Charlesworth (Princeton Theological Seminary)*
• Randall Chestnutt (Pepperdine University)*
• Tobias Churton (independent scholar)*
• Kelley Coblentz Bautch (St. Edwards University)
• Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal)*
• Elena Dugan (Princeton University)
• Ted Erho (University of Munich)*
• Gabriella Gelardini (Nord University)*
• Lester Grabbe (University of Hull)*
• Robert Hall (Hampden-Sydney College)*
• Matthias Henze (Rice University)*
• Ariel Hessayon (University of London)*
• Ralph Lee (University of Cambridge)*
• Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology)*
• Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University)*
• Shaul Magid (Indiana University Bloomington)*
• Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana)*
• Rivka Nir (Open University of Israel)*
• Gerbern Oegema (McGill University)
• Shelley Perlove (University of Michigan)*
• Annette Yoshiko Reed (New York University)*
• Jacques van Ruiten (University of Groningen)*
• Carlos Segovia (Saint Louis University Madrid)
• Loren Stuckenbruck (University of Munich)*
• Cecilia Wassen (Uppsala University)*
• Francis Watson (Durham University)*
• Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University)*
• Jason Zurawski (University of Groningen)*

Getting to the Seminar

The Seminar will take place at the lovely Villa La Stella (http://www.villalastella.it/en/)

Villa La Stella

Via Iacopone da Todi, 12

50133 Firenze

+39 055 5088018

Villa La Stella is located just outside of the city center of Florence, on the way up to Fiesole. From Peretola airport, you can take a taxi. It is only around 11 km, and there should be flat fare from the airport to anywhere in the city limits. From the main train station, Santa Maria Novella, you can also take a taxi. Or, you can take the number 7 bus towards Fiesole and get off at the stop "Di San Domenico" (13 stops, around 16 minutes). The bus stop is only 200 meters from the Villa.

External Links

• Enoch Seminar Website