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SUMMARY:Third Annual Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern Slavonic Studie
 s - The Old Slavonic Digenis Akritis: Its Origin\, ‘Formulaic Style\,’
  and Problems of Its Edition - Assoc. Prof. Robert Romanchuk\, Dept. of Mo
 dern Languages and Linguistics\, Florida State University\; Research Fello
 w\, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
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DESCRIPTION:The workshop will explore the Old Slavonic version of the 12th
 -c. Byzantine “romantic epic” Digenis Akritis — a text of considerab
 le importance to Byzantine\, Slavonic\, and oral-traditional studies. The 
 Slavonic Digenis\, produced in 13th-c. Ukrainian Galicia or 14th-c. Macedo
 nia\, represents the work’s only consistently epic extension and the ear
 liest uncontested witness of Slavonic epic composition. A distant cousin o
 f the long-winded Grottaferrata version\, it expands on the material of th
 eir concise Greek common ancestor by means of oral-traditional formulas an
 d themes found in near-contemporary and later Greek and Slavonic folksong.
  It presents the editor of a critical text with a number of sui generis pr
 oblems.\n\n*Robert Romanchuk* (PhD Slavic\, UCLA 1999) is Pribic Family As
 sociate Professor of Slavic and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies 
 in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State Uni
 versity and a 2018–19 HURI/Ukrainian Studies Fund Research Fellow at the
  Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. His fields are philology and psycho
 analysis.\nIn the first field he has published the monograph _Byzantine He
 rmeneutics and Pedagogy in the Russian North: Monks and Masters at the Kir
 illo-Belozerskii Monastery\, 1397–1501_ (U. Toronto Press\, 2007) and a 
 number of book chapters and journal publications\, most recently chapters 
 on the literature of Mount Athos for David Wallace’s _Europe: A Literary
  History\, 1348–1418_ (Oxford UP\, 2016) and on “lettered education”
  in Kyivan Rus for the English translation of Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s _His
 tory of Ukraine-Rus'_\, vol. 3 (ed. Frank Sysyn: CIUS\, 2016). He is prepa
 ring a critical edition of the Byzantine romantic epic Digenis Akritis in 
 its Old Slavonic translation\, _The Deeds of the Brave Men of Old_.\n\nThe
  workshop\, a collaborative undertaking of Cambridge Ukrainian Studies and
  Byzantine Worlds Seminar\, will be led in English and all interested post
 graduate students and scholars of medieval history and culture are welcome
  to attend.  \nThe event is free but online registration is required. Regi
 ster at "www.CambridgeUkrainianStudies.org":https://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/ukra
 inian by 22 October\, 2018.\nUpon registration you will be sent pdfs of re
 commended readings.\n\nParticipants may apply for reimbursement of costs f
 or domestic economy train/coach travel to and from Cambridge.  To apply fo
 r reimbursement\, please send a brief CV and two to five-sentence statemen
 t of interest to Olga Płócienniczak\, Senior Secretary\, Slavonic Studie
 s\, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages\, at slavonic@mml.cam.ac.uk b
 y 22 October\, 2018. Please retain all your travel receipts.\n\nCoffee\, l
 unch and refreshments will be served during the workshop.\n\nPreliminary S
 chedule:\n* 11.00 – 11.30 Participants arrive\; refreshments served\n* 1
 1.30 – 12.30 Seminar Discussion\n* 12.30 – 13.00 Lunch\n* 13.00 – 14
 .00 Seminar Discussion\n* 14.00 – 14.30 Conclusions\n* 14.30 – 15.00 R
 efreshments served\n\nQueries: Rosie Finlinson\, rf303@cam.ac.uk\; Dr Olen
 ka Pevny\, ozp20@cam.ac.uk \n
LOCATION:The Pitt Building\, Trumpington Street
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