BERTI VITTORIO

Current position
Associate Professor in History of Christianity at the Department of Historical and Geographical Sciences and The Ancient World, University of Padua
Scientific habilitation as full professor in History of Christianity.

2003-2006
PhD Student at the University of Padua

December 1st, 2006 – November 30th, 2010
Post-doc research at the Department of History of the University of Padua.

June 1st, 2011 – September 30, 2012
SNF Researcher at the Theology Faculty, University of Zurich (Switzerland)

June 1st, 2014 – May 30th, 2015
PRIN Researcher at the Department of Humanities, University of Roma Tre (Italy).

August 29, 2015 – November 30, 2016
Researcher at Foundation for Religious Sciences John XXIII, Bologna (Italy)

December 2, 2016-December 1
Researcher (RTDB) at the Department of Historical and Geographical Sciences and The Ancient World, University of Padua.

MAIN SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS
Late Antique Greek and Syriac monasticism and spirituality.
Theology and Medicine in Christian Schools from the Sasanian Empire to the Abbasid Caliphate
Synodical tradition of the Church of the East.
Philosophical and Patristic Translations from Greek to Syriac.
Christian Missions in the East and the interaction between cultures.

Affiliations:

Secretary of Syriaca (Italian Association for Syriac Studies) 2012-2018.
Member of the PRIN 2008 (Forme e strutture comunitarie del cristianesimo (I-IX secolo) fino alle soglie della formazione dell'Europa).
Member of CUSCC (Consulta Universitaria per la Storia del Cristianesimo e delle Chiese).
Member of CISC (Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi Storici sul Cristianesimo – UNIVE).
Member of the Societé des Etudes Syriaques (Paris).
Member of the Research Unit of Roma Tre within the PRIN 2012: Translate Mislead Transmit: The Greek Fathers In The Latin West And The Syriac East.
Member of the International Research Program MISSMO (Missions chrétiennes et sociétés au Moyen-Orient: organisations, identités, patrimonialisation (XIXe-XXIe siècles).
Member of the Excellence Program (2018-2022) Mobility and Humanities (DISSGeA - Unipd).
Member of the International Project "Land of Niniveh - Land of Mosul", University of Udine.
Member of CIRFIM “Carlo Giacon” Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca di Filosofia Medievale

ATTENDED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

16th July 2012, Relator at the XI Symposium Syriacum (19-24 August 2012, La Valletta), with the paper: Ecclesiastical Conflicts and Logical Argomentation: the Synod of Henanisho‘ II
(775) and his Strategy to Smooth Out Differences

31st January 2015, Relator at the International Conference Syriac Intellectual Culture in Late Antiquity. Translation, Transmission and Influence, (30 - 31 January 2015, Ertegun
College of Oxford) with the paper: The Exegetical Activity of Mar Aba I (d. 552): A First Glimpse from East Syrian Commentary Tradition

8th October 2015, Relator at the International Conference “L’évêque de cour, entre mythe et réalité”, at the Université de Paris Ouest, Nanterre La Défense, with the paper Du Jardin au Diwan: les évêques « nestoriens » vis-à-vis des cours des chahs et des califes

20th February 2017, Relator with Carla Noce, Claudia Tavolieri, Marco Pavan, at the International Conference Tradurre Tradire Tramandare. I Padri greci nell’Occidente latino e nell’Oriente siriaco/Translate Mislead Transmit. The Greek Fathers between Latin Western and Syriac Eastern World (20-21 February 2017, Rome), with the paper: Greek Fathers in
the Syriac East (PRIN 2012), Final report.

28th February 2018, Relator at the International Conference Arguing Against: Logical Reasoning and Arguments in Religious Controversies (8th -10th Centuries). University of Vienna, Institute for Byzantine Studies. 28th of February – 2nd of March, 2018, with the paper: Logicising Ecclesiastical Conflicts: The Synod of enansh‘ II (775) as a Key Witness of the Aristotelian vogue among East Syrian Scholars during the Early Abbasid Period.

12th – 15th June 2018, Relation at the international conference at Sankt Ignations Theological Academy, “The Future of Syriac Studies and the Legacy of Sebastian P. Brock”, Sigtuna, Sweden. Title of the relation: “A Nisibene Exegesis on the Books of Sessions in the first half of the 6th Century: Mar Aba’s Explanations on Proverbs and Sirach”

04th October 2018, Relation at the Annual Conference of the “Consulta Universitaria di Letteratura
cristiana antica”: “La traduzione e le opere di traduzione”, Roma – Università Lumsa. Title of the relation: “Traduzioni e pseudo traduzioni dal greco al siriaco nel contesto nisibeno del VI secolo”

05th November 2018, Relation at the international conference: “Le Scienze nel Vicino Oriente”, tenutosi presso la Biblioteca Ambrosiana. V Sessione – Studi siriaci – “Scienze, logica e diritto nella tradizione siriaca”. Title of the relation: “Studio della logica e vita della chiesa nell'Iraq della prima età Abbasside”

16th November 2018, relation at the international conference: “La Philosophie en Syriaque”, Institut Protestant de Théologie, Parigi. Title of the relation: “La fonction des écrits de logique dans l'Église de l'Est après l'Islam”

15th January 2019, relation at the international workshop “Archaeological Landscapes of Mesopotamia between Prehistory and the Islamic Period. Formation, Transformation, Protection and Enhancement”, Università degli Studi di Udine. Title of the relation: “Water, Watermills, and Flour: Material Culture and Religious Practices in the Christian Communities of the Early Islamic Period in the Region between the Jebel Maqloub and Al-Qosh”.

05th March 2019, relation at the European Academy of Religion (Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose), panel “Yawmo Suryoyo Trayono d-Bologna II: Syriac Asceticism and Monasticism”. Title of the relation: “The Rule of John of Dalyatha in the Context of Syriac Monasticism”.

22th March 2019, relation at the seminar “Projects and Perspectives on Sasanian History and Culture”, at the “dipartimento di Beni Culturali” University of Bologna. Title of the relation: “Cristianesimo siro-orientale e civiltà iranica. Riflessioni su fonti sinodali e fonti monastiche (VI-IX secolo).

29th November 2019, Relation at the international conference "Medieval Turfan, an oasis for Christianity? Looking back, looking ahead", Institut für Iranistik, Austian Academy of Sciences, Pro-Oriente, dal titolo: "Some preliminary remarks on the composition criteria of the Christian Sogdian Manuscript E28 in the light of the Syriac ascetic collections of the Church of the East"

01st February 2020, relation at the international conference "Florilegia Syriaca. Mapping a Knowledge-Organizing Practice in the Syriac World", ERC "FLOS", Ca' Foscari-University of Venice. Title of the contribution: The Composition Criteria of the Christian Sogdian Manuscript E28 in the Light of the Syria Ascetic Collections of the Church of the East

12-13th February 2020, discussant in the Workshop on "Mistica e teologia politica", Dipartimento di Storia Antropologia Religioni Arte Spettacolo Sapienza Università di Roma

18th November 2021, relation at the international Table ronde on "Le Droit en Syriaque" (Société d'Etudes Syriaques, Institut de Theologie Protestante, Paris). Title of the contribution: Inheritance and patrimony in East Syriac canon law under Islam.

4th July 2022: relation at the International Symposium Syriacum, Inalco, Paris. Title of the contribution: Barsauma Huzaya, un auteur syro-oriental du VII siècle.

8th July 2022: relation at the workshop "Die zweite Generation (2Gen) Person und Institution, Krise und Narrativ, im Prozess der Entstehung religiöser Orden und Gemeinschaften", Tecnische Universitat Dresden. Title of the contribution: Spreading by breaking: Crises in the second East Syrian monastic generation between Late Antiquity and Early Islamic Times.

31th October 2022, relation at the FAd Limina Orientis: First autumn school of the project EX-Patria, Dissidence and Emigration in Late Antique Rome, Persia, and Neighbouring Lands, Lille, MESHS, Maison Européenne des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société. Title of the contribution: Syriac translations from Greek: building cultural (and spiritual) bridges and erecting theological walls”

ORGANIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

Member of the scientific and organizational committee of the international conference: “Il Synodicon Orientale (V-VII sec.): Modelli ecclesiastici, disciplina canonica, dottrine teologiche e declinazioni politiche della chiesa siro-orientale, 16th September 2015, Pontificium Institutum Orientale, Roma.

Member of the scientific and organizational committee of the International Conference "In partibus fidelium". Missions du Levant et connaissance de l’Orient chrétien (XIXe-XXIe siècles), Rome (November 27-29 2017), Ecole Française de Rome.

Member of the scientific and organizational committee of the International Conference Tradurre Tradire Tramandare. I Padri Greci nell’Occidente Latino e nell’Oriente Siriaco. Translate Mislead Transmit. The Greek Fathers Between Latin Western and Syriac Eastern World, Rome 20-21 February 2017: coeditor of the Proceedings of the Conference, in press for the series Lingua Patrum (Brepols).

Co-organizer of the International Conference “Dall´Iran allo Xinjiang: le comunità siro-orientali tra VI-XI sec.”, Austrian Academy of Sciences - Pontificio Istituto Orientale, Roma 9th June 2018

Co-organizer of the international Table Ronde of the Société d'Etudes Syriaques on Syriac Law: "Le droit en Syriaque" (Friday 19 novembre 2021) Institut protestant de théologie, Paris.