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

Morning

• Annette Reed: "The Legacy of Enoch from the Middle Ages"
• Giulio Busi: Pico della Mirandola, Enoch and Hermetism + Anders Klostergaard Petersen

Afternoon

• Tobias Churton: Enoch in Esoteric Traditions and the Freemasonry + Lorenzo DiTommaso
• Ariel Hessayon: Knowledge and reception of the 'Book of Enoch' in Western Europe and North America, c.1770 - c.1830 + Baynes

Tuesday, 11 June 2019

Morning

Visit to Florence

Afternoon

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

Wednesday, 12 June 2019

Morning

• Enoch in Jewish Traditions (Shaul Magid + Rebecca Wollenberg)
• Enoch in Islam (Kameliya Atanosova) + TBA

Afternoon

• Enoch in Christian Traditions (Euan Cameron), Watson responding
• Enoch in Slavonic Church and Ethiopic Church (Badalova, Assefa, Stone)

Thursday, 13 June 2019

Morning

• Enoch commentaries (Boccaccini, Charlesworth)

• Enoch in Mormonism (Jared Ludlow), Grabbe responding

Afternoon

• Manuscript traditions (Stuckenbruck, Ehro, Piovanelli, Hall)

Friday, 14 June 2019

Breakfast and departures

Prospective Participants

• Luca Arcari (University of Naples)
• Daniel Assefa (Capuchin Institute of Philosophy Addis Abeba)
• 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)
• Jim Davila (University of St. Andrews)
• Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University Montreal)*
• 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)*
• Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• Liv Ingeborg Lied (Norwegian School of Theology)*
• Jared Ludlow (Brigham Young University)*
• Shaul Magid (Indiana University Bloomington)
• Luca Mazzinghi (Pontificia Università Gregoriana)*
• Gavin McDowell (Université Laval)*
• Rivka Nir (Open University of Israel)*
• Gerbern Oegema (McGill University)
• Shelley Perlove (University of Michigan)*
• Pierluigi Piovanelli (University of Paris La Sorbonne)
• 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)*
• Archie Wright (Regent University)*
• Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University)*
• Rebecca Wollenberg (University of Michigan)
• 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