Dr. Manolis Ulbricht

Academic Position

• May – October 2022: Feodor Lynen Return Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) at the Institute for Byzantine Studies, Byzantine Art History and Modern Greek Studies, LMU Munich

Projects during the Feodor Lynen Return Fellowship

• E-Learning Project “Methods for Digital Indexing and Compiling Digital Editions in the Philology of the Christian Orient: from Digitizations of Handwritten Text to a Digital Edition)”, FU Berlin (2019–2022)

Teaching during the Feodor Lynen Return Fellowship

• „Von der Spätantike bis zum frühen Islam (LAESSI): Die Entdeckung einer neuen Epoche“ [“From Late Antiquity to Early Islam (LAESSI): The Discovery of a New Epoch”], Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies I), Summer Term 2022 (block seminar, 10–12/06/2022), together with Prof. Dr. Jens Scheiner

Presentations during the Feodor Lynen Return Fellowship

• International Workshop “The Holy Book of the Ishmaelites in the World of Eastern Christianity” of the ERC Synergy Project „The European Qur’an. Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion (1150-1850)“ (EuQu), Title of Presentation: “The codex ms. Athos, Lavra Ω 44. The missing link between early and late Byzantine anti-Islamic literature?” (Copenhagen/Denmark, 11–12/05/2022)
• International Workshop “Sung, Written and Painted. The Akathistos Hymnos and Intermedial Compositional Processes in Later Byzantium”, Title of Presentation: “The Akathistos Hymn in Byzantine Hymnography and Psalmody: Intermedial Compositional Aspects within the canon «Ἀνοίξω τὸ στόμα μου» and the Liturgical Rite of the Ἀκολουθία τοῦ Ἀκαθίστου Ὕμνου” (Göttingen/Germany, 02–03/06/2022)
• Nantes Université/Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Ange Guépin, Session Chair at the Summer School “The Qur’an in inter-Christian polemic” (Nantes/France, 14–17/06/2022)
• 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Session: “Byzantium and Its Neighbours: Religious Self and Otherness in Dialogue”, Title of Presentation (with Dr. Marco Fanelli): “A diachronic evaluation of the Islamic rites in Byzantine anti-Islamic literature from 7th to 15th century” (Venice & Padua/Italy, 22–27/08/2022)
• Hengstberger Symposium held at the International Academic Forum Heidelberg (IWH) “Religious Traditions, Traditionalism, and Modernity”, Title of Presentation: “Kulturelles Erbe in religiös-musikalischen Traditionen des Ostmittelmeerraumes: das Verhältnis zwischen byzantinischem ēchos und arabischem maqām” [“Cultural Heritage in Religious Musical Traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean: the Relation between the Byzantine ēchos and Arabic maqām”] (Heidelberg/Germany 13–15/10/2022)