E-mail addresses:
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Whoever is interested in reading my publications is welcome to contact me and request pdfs and/or hard copies.
Active Role(s) in Scholarly Associations:
Committee member and Treasurer, Association internationale des études arméniennes (AIEA)
Previous Positions:
-February 2021-January 2023: Post-doc at the Department of Civilisations and Forms of Knowledge, University of Pisa (Progetto di Eccellenza: I tempi delle strutture. Resilienze, accelerazioni e percezioni del cambiamento nello spazio euro-mediterraneo)
-February 2021-June 2021: Chargée de cours suppléante en Langue et littérature arméniennes anciennes et médiévales, Unité d'arménien, MESLO Department, University of Geneva
-October 2019-September 2020: Cook Crone Research Bye Fellow in Classics and Armenian Studies, Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge
-September 2016–August 2019: Collaboratrice scientifique within the Unitè d'arménien, MESLO Department, University of Geneva; Recipient of an Ambizione grant (2016–2019) from the Swiss National Science Foundation.
-September 2015–August 2016: Postdoc in Armenian Studies at the MESLO Department, University of Geneva
-January 2013–October 2014: Associate of the Sub-Faculty of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford
-Academic years 2012–2013 and 2013–2014: Recipient of a Calouste Gulbenkian Fellowship in Armenian Studies, with a research project called "Grecisms in the Ancient Armenian Timaeus", carried out at the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
-September–December 2012: Research Fellow at the Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (in the framework of the project “The Southern Caucasus and its Neighbours, c.300–1600”), Central European University, Budapest
-September–December 2012: Affiliated Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, CEU, Budapest
Education:
-Ph. D. in Linguistics
University of Pisa, Italy, 13th December 2011
Supervisors: Dr. Alessandro Orengo; Prof. Pierangiolo Berrettoni
Thesis: “Essere” e “divenire” nel Timeo greco e armeno: studio terminologico e indagine traduttologica [“Being” and “Becoming” within the Greek Timaeus and its Armenian Version: a Study on Terminology and Translation Technique]
-M.A. in Classics (summa cum laude)
University of Milan, Italy, 21st June 2007
Supervisors: Prof. Maria Patrizia Bologna; Dr. Andrea Scala
Thesis: Il lessico astronomico del cielo nella Settanta e nel Nuovo Testamento greco, con alcune esplorazioni nella traduzione armena [The Astronomical Vocabulary Pertaining to the Sky in the Septuagint and the Greek New Testament, with Some Inquiries into the Armenian Translation]
-B.A. in Classics (summa cum laude)
University of Milan, Italy, 16th February 2005
Supervisors: Prof. Maria Patrizia Bologna; Dr. Laura Biondi
Thesis: Il latino dialettale come lingua di frammentaria attestazione: l’esempio di Praeneste [Latin Dialects as Trümmersprachen: the Case of Praeneste]
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Seminari del giovedì di SOE (Corso di laurea magistrale in Studi Orientali ed Egittologici),
16 ottobre 2025
Department of Armenian Studies, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary, 8 May 2025 (held online)
di studi armeni
University of Rome La Sapienza, 19-20 December 2024
Matenadaran, Erevan, 13-14 June 2024
ArmEn focuses on a vast region stretching from the southern Caucasus to Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia, a polycentric space of moving people(s) and cultural entanglements that was at the same time at the crossroads of expanding Eurasian empires and removed from major hubs of power.
Within this fluid and complex environment, the papers included in the session assess different reactions and responses to individual and/or collective crises through the lens of material and textual sources.
From pilgrimage sites in the far west of Europe to the Persian court; from mystic visions to a gruesome contemporary “dance”; from a mundane poem on wine to staggering religious art: thus far in space and time extends the world of the Armenians.
A glimpse of the vast and still largely unexplored threads that connect it to the wider world is offered by the papers assembled here in homage to one of the most versatile contemporary armenologists, Theo Maarten van Lint.
This collection offers original insights through a multifaceted lens, showing how much Armenology can offer to Art History, History, Linguistics, Philology, Literature, and Religious Studies. Scholars will find new inspirations and connections, while the general reader will open a window to a world that is just as wide as it is often unseen.
Five Platonic or pseudo-Platonic dialogues survive in ancient Armenian translations (Timaeus, Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, Laws, and Minos). They are anonymous and undated, as well as critically unedited. At the present state of knowledge, they are attested only in one complete and comparatively late manuscript of uncertain date (V 1123: 17th century?). However, earlier partial witnesses, as well as direct quotations or references in dated Armenian works, could contribute to narrowing down their original timeframe.
Tinti focuses on the traces of textual circulation and indirect tradition that have been so far identified for one of the dialogues, including some that are presented here for the first time. The sum of the data proves that the Armenian Timaeus at least did not exist in a void; on the contrary, it seems to have had a certain amount of textual circulation in different areas of the Armenian-speaking world. The minor witnesses also provide reassuring indications as to the reliability of V 1123, which, despite being quite recent, seems to preserve in many cases a more conservative state of the text. Finally, the analysis confirms that this line of research can provide meaningful clues towards establishing the versions’ date and authorship.
ALPI, F. ‒ MEYER, R. ‒ TINTI, I. ‒ ZAKARIAN, D. (eds., in press), Armenia through the Lens of Time. Multidisciplinary Studies in Honour of Theo Marteen van Lint, Brill (Armenian Texts and Studies), Leiden – Boston.
https://sites.google.com/view/armlingphil2020/recordings?authuser=0
You can find the names of the speakers and the abstracts of their talks on our conference website: http://bit.ly/ArmLingPhil2020
If you would like to participate or just listen to the talks, please register for free here: http://bit.ly/AttALaPP-reg
International Workshop to mark the end of the research project "Plato in Ancient Armenian: Who Translated the Extant Dialogues, and When?" (SNSF Ambizione, 2016-2019).
12th Celtic Conference in Classics;
Panel 10: Transition and Transformation: the Early Reception of the Greek and Roman Inheritance (3th-8th c. CE).