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Schedule and Presenters

Schedule and Presenters

SUNDAY, MAY 8, 2016
4:00 pm	Registration Opens McKenna Hall
6:00 pm	Mass Chapel of Saint Charles Borromeo, Alumni Hall H.E. Msgr. Jean-Louis Bruguès, O.P. - Presider Rev. Kevin Grove, C.S.C. - Homilist
7:00 pm	Welcome Reception McKenna Hall
MONDAY, MAY 9, 2016
7:30 am	Mass Chapel of Saint Charles Borromeo, Alumni Hall
9:00 am	Opening Plenary Address “The Mission and History of the Vatican Library” H.E. Msgr. Jean-Louis Bruguès, O.P. Archivist and Librarian of the Holy Roman Church Introduced by Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. - President, University of Notre Dame McKenna Hall Auditorium
10:15 am	Concurrent Sessions Session: Numismatics McKenna Hall Room 202 Chair: Alan Stahl, Princeton University Eleonora Giampiccolo, Vatican Library Mariele Valci, University of Nottingham Paolo Visonà, University of Kentucky Session: Latin Philosophy and Theology McKenna Hall Auditorium Chair: Kent Emery, Jr., University of Notre Dame John Magee, University of Toronto and Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Robert Wielockx, Università della Santa Croce - Commissio Leonina Daniel Williman, Binghamton University - SUNY and Karen Corsano, Cambridge, MA Session: Urban History of Rome *Generously sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies McKenna Hall Room 100 - 104 Chair: Margaret Meserve, University of Notre Dame Kathleen Christian, The Open University Jessica Maier, Mt. Holyoke College Ingrid Rowland, University of Notre Dame
12:15 pm	Lunch - Provided for Registered Participants
1:30 pm	Concurrent Sessions Session: Graphic Arts Generously sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies McKenna Hall Room 100 - 104 Chair: Heather Hyde Minor, University of Notre Dame Barbara Jatta, Vatican Library Sarah McPhee, Emory University Heather Hyde Minor, University of Notre Dame John Pinto, Princeton University Session: Greek and Byzantine Manuscripts* McKenna Hall Auditorium Chair: Alexander Beihammer, University of Notre Dame Giuseppe de Gregorio, University of Salerno Timothy Janz, Vatican Library Donald Mastronarde, University of California, Berkeley John Monfasani, SUNY - Albany Session: History of Science McKenna Hall Room 202 Chair: Robert Goulding, University of Notre Dame Robert Goulding, University of Notre Dame Eileen Reeves, Princeton University Matteo Valleriani, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
4:00 pm	Plenary Address “The Vatican Library and Medieval Studies: The Example of the Liber Pontificalis” Carmela Vircillo Franklin, Columbia University Introduced by John Van Engen, University of Notre Dame McKenna Hall Auditorium
5:30 pm	Gallery Talk Barbara Jatta, Vatican Library Introduced by Heather Hyde Minor, University of Notre Dame Snite Museum of Art Auditorium
6:00 pm	Heavy Hors D'oeuvres Reception - Provided for Registered Participants Snite Museum of Art
TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2016
7:30 am	Mass Chapel of Saint Charles Borromeo, Alumni Hall
9:00 am	Plenary Address "Challenges and Opportunities of Digitization at the Vatican Library" Rev. Msgr. Cesare Pasini, Prefect, Vatican Library "The Vatican Library and International Collaboration: History and New Avenues" Dr. Ambrogio Piazzoni, Vice Prefect, Vatican Library Introduced by John McGreevy - Dean, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame McKenna Hall Auditorium
10:15 am	Concurrent Sessions Session: Christian East McKenna Hall Room 100 - 104 Chair: Joseph Amar, University of Notre Dame Jesse Arlen, University of California, Los Angeles Robin Darling Young, The Catholic University of America Session: Latin Manuscripts McKenna Hall Auditorium Chair: David Ganz, Comité Internationale de Paléographie Latine Johannes Staub, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Theology Faculty, Fulda Michael I. Allen, University of Chicago Ada Palmer, University of Chicago
12:15 pm	Lunch - Provided for Registered Participants
1:30 pm	Concurrent Sessions Session: Music McKenna Hall Auditorium Chair: Peter Jeffery, University of Notre Dame Wendy Heller, Princeton University Peter Jeffery, University of Notre Dame Margaret Murata, University of California, Irvine Richard Sherr, Smith College Session: Renaissance Humanism and Philosophy *Generously sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies McKenna Hall Room 100 - 104 Chair: Denis Robichaud, University of Notre Dame Christopher Celenza, Johns Hopkins University Federica Ciccolella, Texas A&M University John Monfasani, SUNY – Albany
4:00 pm	Sacred Music Concert Lady Chapel, Basilica of the Sacred Heart
5:30 pm	Banquet Dinner - Provided for Registered Participants
7:30 pm	Plenary Address “The Vatican Library and Christian Humanism” James Hankins, Harvard University Introduced by Margaret Meserve, University of Notre Dame *Generously sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies McKenna Hall Auditorium
WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 2016
7:30 am	Mass Chapel of Saint Charles Borromeo, Alumni Hall

TITLES OF PAPERS

Numismatics:

Eleanora Giampiccolo, The coin cabinet of the Vatican Library: history and collections

Mariele Valci, The denari provisini preserved in the Medagliere of the Vatican Library

Paolo Visonà, Greek Illyrian and Carthaginian Coins in the Collection of the Vatican Library

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Latin Philosophy and Theology:

John Magee, The Early Transmission of Boethius' Works: A Glimpse from the Vatican

Robert Wielockx, A Scribe of four Scholars: (BAV Vat. lat. 718 and 9851; Paris Maz. 873; Wien ÖNB 1479)

Daniel Williman and Karen Corsano, The Theological Industry of Pope John XXII

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Urban History of Rome:

Kathleen Christian, The Vatican Library and the artistic patronage of Cardinal Raffaele Riario

Jessica Maier, A Memorable View: Rome from the Janiculum

Ingrid Rowland, The Urban Renewals of Pope Alexander VII (1655-1667)

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Graphic Arts:

Barbara Jatta, Different approaches to the graphic collections of the Vatican Library

Sarah McPhee, Pyramids on Paper: Exploring the Vatican Collections

Heather Hyde Minor, Murder of a Vatican Scriptor

John Pinto, Rome on Paper: Cardinal Franz Ehrle and the City Image

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Greek and Byzantine Manuscripts:

Giuseppe de Gregorio, Palaeologan Manuscripts from the Patriarchate of Constantinople

Timothy Janz, High-Hanging Fruit: Gleaning from the Manuscripts of Classical Greek Authors

John Monfasani, Uniates, Anti-Unionists, and other Greeks

Donald Mastronarde, Byzantine Teachers' Notes and the Scholia on Euripides: The Evidence of Vat. gr. 909 and Other Vatican Manuscripts

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History of Science:

Robert Goulding, Euclid in the Vatican Library

Eileen Reeves, Drawing on Galileo: Art, Astronomy, and Appropriation

Matteo Valleriani, The Role of Cosmology from the Medieval to the Early Modern Scientific Knowledge Systems: Johannes de Sacrobosco's Treatise De sphaera

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Christian East:

Jesse Arlen, Armenian Manuscripts at the Vatican Library: Respectus, Conspectus, Prospectus

Robin Darling Young, Traces of a Monk Proscribed: Evagrius of Pontus in the Manuscripts of the Vatican Library

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Latin Manuscripts:

Michael I. Allen, Autographs of Lupus of Ferrières in the Vatican Library

Ada Palmer, Lucretius at the Vatican

Johannes Staub, Fulda's manuscripts, their fates, and their reassembly as a virtual library: the evidence of the Vatican Library

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Music:

Wendy Heller, Glimpsing Opera at the Vatican

Peter Jeffery, Tracing the Origins of the Roman Rite and Chant in the Archivio del Capitolo di San Pietro

Margaret Murata, Music and Family Archives in the Vatican Library

Richard Sherr, More than Music: The Vatican Library and the History of the Papal Choir

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Renaissance Humanism and Philosophy:

Christopher Celenza, Fifteenth-century Canon-making and Angelo Decembrio's On literary polish

Federica Ciccolella, Guarino Guarini and the others: Greek grammars from Carlo Strozzi's collection preserved at the Vatican Library

John Monfasani, Popes, Cardinals and Humanists

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Plenary Addresses:

H.E. Msgr. Jean-Louis Bruguès, O.P., The Mission and History of the Vatican Library

Carmela Franklin, The Vatican Library and Medieval Studies: The Example of the Liber Pontificalis

James Hankins, The Vatican Library and Christian Humanism

Cesare Pasini, Challenges and Opportunities of Digitization at the Vatican Library

Ambrogio Piazzoni, The Vatican Library and International Collaboration: History and New Avenues

Schedule and Presenters

SUNDAY, MAY 8, 2016

MONDAY, MAY 9, 2016

TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2016

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 2016

TITLES OF PAPERS