21-23 June 2022

Centre de Recherche Français à Jérusalem (On-site & Online)

Organiser: Estelle INGRAND-VARENNE (estelle.ingrand.varenne@univ-poitiers.fr) Co-organiser: Clément DUSSART (clement.dussart@univ-poitiers.fr)

Location: Centre de Recherche Français à Jérusalem (Shimshon street 3)

Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89620986239?pwd=bR3nLn6khmskqFDAZK4qIduSmnuAUs.1
ID meeting: 896 2098 6239
Passcode: 987835

Les horaires sont ceux de Jérusalem (CET +1).

Programme :

Tuesday June 21st

9:00 Coffee

9:30 Welcome: Vincent LEMIRE (Head of the CRFJ)

10:00 Introduction: Estelle INGRAND-VARENNE (CNRS CRFJ-CESCM) and Clément DUSSART (CESCM, University of Poitiers)

10:30-12:30 1st session, moderator: Maria VILLANO (ERC GRAPH-EAST, CESCM)

“Towards a Periodisation of Gra iti between Antiquity and the Middle Ages” – Carlo TEDESCHI (Università degli Studi « G. d’Annunzio » Chieti Pescara)
“The Tree of Abraham in the Nativity Church and its Epigraphic Exegesis” – Estelle INGRAND-VARENNE (CNRS CRFJ-CESCM) Lunch at the CRFJ

14:30-18:00 2nd session, moderator: Sercan SAGLAM (ERC GRAPH-EAST, CESCM)

“Scratch, Incise, Engrave: Technical Study of the Lapidary Gra iti of the Nativity” – Thierry GRÉGOR (CESCM, University of Poitiers)
“The discovery and the conservation of Gra iti on the columns of the Church of the Nativity” – Marcello PIACENTI (Piacenti SpA Centro Restauri) [visio]

Coffee Break

“Apposer son emblème. La mise en signe des espaces sacrés au Moyen Âge. L’exemple de l’église de la Nativité de Bethléem en perspective” –Laurent HABLOT (EPHE, SAPRAT) [visio]
Dinner

Wednesday June 22nd

Coffee

3rd session, moderator: Gil FISHHOF (University of Haifa)

“Portraits, gra iti, and ta oos: pilgrims and the appropriation of Bethlehem’s sanctity” – Michele BACCI (Freiburg University)
“Quotation and Glori cation: Bethlehem’s Conciliar Texts in Local Context” – Megan BOOMER (Columbia University)
Lunch at the CRFJ

Departure to the Nativity Church, Bethlehem
Epigraphic tour of the basilica, the cave of St. Jerome and the chapel of St. Joseph Dinner

Thursday June 23rd

Coffee

4th session, moderator: Yana TCHEKHANOVETS (Ben-Gurion University of the Neguev)

“The Armenian Inscriptions and Graffiti of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem” – Khachik A. HARUTYUNYAN (Scienti c Research Center of the Historical and Cultural Heritage, Matenadaran)

“The Arabic inscriptions of the Basilica of the Nativity: inventory and research perspectives” – Anna LAGARON-KHALIFA (ERC Horn-East, Iremam Aix-Marseille Université) [visio]
“Recent discoveries of Latin gra iti and signs in the Nativity Church: new contributions to the history of a holy place and to pilgrimage practices (9th-16th c.)” – Clément DUSSART (CESCM, CRFJ, University of Poitiers)
Lunch at the CRFJ

Departure to the Custody (Saint Saviour, Jerusalem)
Visit of the Treasure of Bethlehem at the Custody of the Holy Land,with fr. Stéphane MILOVITCH (ofm, Director of the Cultural Heritage Office)

Public Conference of Michele BACCI at the École biblique et archéologique française: “The Nativity Church in Bethlehem: New Approaches and Discoveries”

Closing Dinner

6pm in the Lecture Room of the École biblique

Programme au format PDF : ici