International Conference – Recovering the Past: Critical Edition and Translation of Ancient Classical Texts

Host: The Centre for Catholic Studies, CUHK
Co-organizer:  The Centre for Christian Studies, CUHK
Sponsor: Faculty of Arts, CUHK

Date : 15 to 16 May 2026 (Fri and Sat)
Time : 9 am to 6: 30 pm
Medium of language: English
Venue: Lecture Theatre 9, 2/F, Yasumoto International Academic Park, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
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15 May 2026 (Friday)
Classical Studies
Dominique BRIQUEL (Université Paris-Sorbonne)
       The Edition of a Classical Latin Text in France: The Example of Livy’s Roman History in the Budé Collection
TIAN Shufeng (Sun Yat-Sen University)
      Aristotle’s Impasse Concerning the Active and Passive Intellect in De Anima.
Muriel DEBIÉ ( École Pratique des Hautes Études )
      Translation and Creative Process in Syriac: The Case of the Alexander Romance
Epigraphical Texts and Codicology
Françoise BRIQUEL CHATONNET (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Editing Epigraphical Texts: Some Reflexions about the Case Study of West Semitic Inscriptions of the First Millenium BCE
Mark DICKENS (University of Alberta)
When There is Only One Fragmentary Source for a Critical Edition: The Challenges and Joys of Working with Textual Fragments from Turfan

16 May 2026 (Saturday)
Biblical and Patristic Studies
Guillaume BADY and Prof. Yasmine ECH CHAEL ( Sources Chrétiennes )
       Ecdotics in Sources Chrétiennes
Leonardo PESSOA (Pontifical Biblical Institute)
      Original Text or Textual History? The Goals of Textual Criticism in the Biblia Hebraica Quinta Project
XIAN Ruobing (Fudan University)
    κλέος ἄφθιτον in Apollinaris of Laodicea’s Metaphrasis Psalmorum and Gregory of Nazianzus’ Schweigegedichten
Colten YAM  (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
     The Meanings of Concupiscence during the Late Pelagian Controversy
Editing or Translating From/ To Chinese
 WU Tianyue (Peking University)
       Will and Freedom in Early Byzantine Philosophy
Adrien DUPUIS (Peking University)
       A First Attempt at Structuring the Stemma Codicum of the Sanchao Beimeng Huibian 三朝北盟會編 Manuscripts: Based on a Complete Recension of Chapter 101 and on Partial Recensions of Chapters 91 to 105

Moderator:
Yu QIU (Peking University), Raphael Yu-sen PENG (Nankai University), LEI Chi-Kin (Tsinghua University), HE Teng  (Fudan University), Thierry MEYNARD (Sun Yat-sen University), Alexis BALMONT (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

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