THURSDAY, 26 OCTOBER
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| 8:00 pm. |
Reception |
FRIDAY, 27 OCTOBER
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| 8:30-9:00 am |
Welcome |
| 9:00-10:45 am |
Session One: Byzantine Walls and Fortifications |
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Chair: Clive Foss (University of Massachusetts, Boston) |
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Asen Kirin (The University of Georgia, Athens): The Fortification Walls of the City of Serdica: From Constantine the Great to Murad I |
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Reinhold Schumann (Boston University): Manpower and Fortifications. Regional Defense and Military Expansion in Byzantine Southern Italy in the Time of Basil II (died 1025) |
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Veronica G. Kalas (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU): Building Out: Fortification Walls and the Cappadocian Countryside |
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Walter K. Hanak (Shepherd College): The Gates of Saint Romanos and the Main Breach: Controversy and Disagreement in Modern Scholarship |
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Marios Philippides (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): The Siege of Constantinople in 1453: Fortifications and Defense |
| 9:00-10:45 am |
Session Two: Church Decoration |
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Chair: Ellen C. Schwartz (Eastern Michigan University) |
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Daniel Caraher (Ohio State University): To Whom It May Concern: The Spatial Component of Inscribed Prayers in Fifth and Sixth Century Greek Churches |
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Caroline Downing (SUNY Potsdam): An Ascension from the Episcopal Basilica Narthex at Stobi, Macedonia |
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Rossitza B. Roussanova (University of Maryland): The Image of Christ Emmanuel in the Dome of Karanlik Kilise |
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Sharon E.J. Gerstel (University of Maryland): Ceramic Icons from Medieval Constantinople |
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Irene Nikoleishvili (Tbilisi State University): Early (6th-10th centuries) Examples of the Scenes of Doomsday in the Georgian Relieves |
| 11:00 am-12:00 noon |
Session Three: Proto-Byzantine North Africa |
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Chair: Susan T. Stevens (Randolph-Macon?s Women?s College) |
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Walter E. Kaegi (University of Chicago): Gigthis in the Pseudo-Methodius Apocalypse and Its Significance |
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Joan M. Downs (University of Michigan): Monks, Nuns and Noblemen: Status and Identity in Late Antique Africa, the Case of Tabarka |
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Frank M. Clover (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Royalty, Timekeeping and the Heartbeat of Vandal and Proto-Byzantine Africa |
| 11:00 am-12:00 noon |
Session Four: Late Byzantine/Early Ottoman Topics |
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Chair: Rudi Paul Lindner (University of Michigan) |
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Tom Papademetriou (Princeton University): The Construction of the Patriarchal Tax Farm (14th-16th Century) |
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Nenad Filipovic (Princeton University): Istanbul Tekf|ri and Qayser-i Rum: On the Ottoman Perception of Byzantine Emperors |
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Diana Gilliland Wright (Independent Scholar): When the Serenissima and the Grand Turco Made Love: The Peace Treaty of 1478 |
| 12:00 noon-2:00 pm |
Lunch |
| 2:00-3:30 pm |
Session Five: Precious Objects, Precious Material &nbs p; |
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Chair: Archer St. Clair (Rutgers University) |
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Kriszta Kotsis (University of Washington): The Gold Coinage of Irene from Constantinople (797-802) |
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John Cotsonis (Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology): The Virgin and Justinian on Seals of the Ekdikoi |
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Alicia Walker (Harvard University): Byzantine Marriage Rings Reconsidered |
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Dora Piguet-Panayotova (Paris): A Decorated Silver Censer from the Time of Justinian |
| 2:00-3:30 pm |
Session Six: The Byzantine Polis |
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Chair: Kenneth G. Holum (University of Maryland) |
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Claudia Rapp (University of California, Los Angeles): Bishops as Civic Leaders in Early Byzantium |
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Stephen R. Zwirn (Dumbarton Oaks): The Vienna Ivories: The Consular Status of the Roma and Constantinopolis Diptych |
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Robert Hallman (New York University): Promoting and Protecting: Urban Iconography in Late Byzantine Coins and Seals |
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Thomas Brauch (Central Michigan University): The Fall of Themistus |
| 3:30-4:00 pm |
Coffee |
| 4:00-5:30 pm |
Session Seven: Magic and the Miraculous |
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Chair: Eunice Dauterman Maguire (Johns Hopkins University) |
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Daniel Sarefield (Ohio State University): Incendiary Texts: Burning Magical Books in the Late Roman Period |
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Dayna Kalleres (Brown University): Demonic Possession in the Holy Man?s Bag of Tricks: Magical Practices Employed for Christian Salvation |
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Richard Tada (University of Washington): Alexius I Comnenus and the Sacred Lots |
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Karen C. Britt (Indiana University): The Exhalations of St. John the Evangelist: The Lure of Ephesos for Early Byzantine Pilgrims |
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| 4:00-5:30 pm |
Session Eight: In the Wake of the Crusades |
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Christopher MacEvitt (Princeton University): Armenians and Franks in Edessa, 1098-1118 |
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Lynn M. Snyder (Smithsonian Institution): Frankish Meals in Greece: the Identification and Recognition of an Invader?s Cuisine |
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Jaroslav Folda (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): Loca Sancta Imagery in Crusader Palestine: The Case of the Freiburg Leaf |
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David Mordecai Perry (University of Minnesota): Sacred Theft and Sacred Looting: Correlations between Early Medieval and Fourth Crusade furta sacra Narratives |
SATURDAY, 29 OCTOBER
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| 8:30-10:00 am |
Session Nine: The Byzantine Military |
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John F. Shean (University of Michigan): Assimilation and Christianization in the Early Byzantine Army |
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Michael Kulikowski (Smith College): The Career of Marcellinus of Dalmatia |
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E. Warren Perry, Jr. (The University of Memphis): Sex, Swords and Spirituality: Heroic Motifs in Digenis Akritis |
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Dimiter G. Angelov (Harvard University): The Second Imperial Oration of Theodore Metochites and the Campaigns of Andronikos II in Asia Minor (1290-1293) |
| 8:30-10:00 am |
Session Ten: Byzantine Architecture |
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Chair: Ann Terry (Independent Scholar) |
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Kim Bowes (Princeton University): God?s House in the Private House: Urban House Chapels in the Late Roman East |
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Carolyn S. Snively (Gettysburg College): The Integration of Christianity and Death: Burials at Churches and Churches in Cemeteries |
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Theresa Flanigan (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU): Reevaluating the Principles of Measure at Hagioi Sergius and Bacchus in Constantinople |
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Svetlana Popovic (Greenbelt, MD): The Architectural Transformation of Laura in Middle and Late Byzantium |
| 10:00-10:15 am |
Coffee |
| 10:15-11:45 am |
Session Eleven: The Diffusion of Byzantine Influence |
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Chair: Dorothy Abrahamse (California State University, Long Beach) |
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Daniel Caner (University of Connecticut): Sinai Pilgrimage and Ascetic Romance in Late Antiquity |
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Linda Jones Hall (St. Mary?s College of Maryland): The Letters of Libanius: A Window on the Late Antique Province of Phoenicia |
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Stephen H. Rapp, Jr. (Georgia State University, Atlanta): Looking towards Constantinople: Byzantium in Georgian Historical Literature |
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Maria Mavroudi (Germany): A Greek-Arabic Lexicon of the 14th Century and Greek Learning in Muslim Lands |
| 10:15- 11:45 am |
Session Twelve: Byzantine Law |
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Ralph W. Mathisen (University of South Carolina): Personal Privilege, Imperial Beneficence, and the adnotatio in the Early Byzantine Empire |
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Hassan Khalilieh (University of Haifa and Dumbarton Oaks): The Problem of Jettison in the Islamic and Rhodian Sea Laws |
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Leonora Neville (Catholic University of America): Complete Authority and Perfect Free Will: Formulas of Possession and Volition in Tenth to Twelfth Century Acts of Athos |
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Patrick Viscuso (Chantilly, VA): Menstruation: A Problem in Late Byzantine Canon Law |
| 10:15-11:45 am |
Session Thirteen: Pioneers of Byzantine Studies in America VI |
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Chair: John W. Barker (University of Wisconsin) |
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David H. Wright (University of California, Berkeley): Ernst Kantorowicz in America |
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Kenneth Levy (Princeton University): Oliver Strunk and Byzantine Musicology in America |
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Lawrence A. Tritle (Loyola Marymount University): Stewart Irvin Oost and the ?Chicago School? |
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John V. A. Fine (University of Michigan): Florovsky in America |
| 12:00 noon-2:00 pm |
Business Lunch |
| 2:00-3:30 pm |
Session Fourteen: Late Byzantine Literature |
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Chair: Timothy S. Miller (Salisbury State University) |
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Franz Tinnefeld (Universitdt M|nchen): The Author?s Ego in Late Byzantine Letters |
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Sarah T. Brooks (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU): The Epigrams of Manuel Philes (c. 1270-1330): Patronage and Monumental Forms in the Late Byzantine Funerary Monument |
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George Baloglou (SUNY Oswego) and Nick Nicholas (University of California, Irvine): Humor or Dissent? Two Late Byzantine Animal Epics |
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Alain Touwaide (Independent Scholar): The Xenodocheion tou Kralj in Constantinople and its Medical Activity |
| 2:00-3:30 pm |
Session Fifteen: Byzantium Confronts the West |
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Chair: Charles M. Brand (Bryn Mawr College) |
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Danuta Shanzer (Cornell University): The Burgundians and Byzantium |
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Heather E. Grossman (University of Pennsylvania): Building Identity: The Origins and Diffusion of Architectural Plans and Ornament in Frankish-Period Greece |
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Demetrios Athanasoulis (6th Ephoreia of Byzantine Antiquities, Greece): The Architecture of the Byzantine and Frankish Churches of Elis, Greece |
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Angela Volan (University of Chicago): Last Judgments and Last Emperors: Byzantine Imperial Ideology and Eschatology in the Church of Agios Pavlos, Crete |
| 3:30-5:00 pm |
Session Sixteen: Byzantine Archeology |
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Chair: Cecil L. Striker (University of Pennsylvania) |
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Frank R. Trombley (University of Wales, Cardiff): Slavs and Cultural Symbiosis in Early Medieval Greece: The Results of a Recent Archaeological Survey |
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Kostis Kourelis (University of Pennsylvania): House and Village in the Northwestern Peloponnese: The Archaeology of a Medieval Countryside |
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Timothy E. Gregory (OSU Excavations at Isthmia): Churches, Landscape, and Population in Byzantine Kythera: The Australian Paliochora-Kythera Archaeological Survey 1999-2000 |
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Charles Nicklies (Louisville, KY) and Amy Papalexandrou (University of Michigan): Byzantines and Lusignans in the Hinterland of Cyprus: Recent Excavations of the Princeton-Cyprus Expedition at Polis |
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Camilla MacKay (University of Michigan): Late Medieval Pottery from the Athenian Agora |
| 3:30-5:00 pm |
Session Seventeen: Byzantium and its Slavic Neighbors |
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Ian S.R. Mladov (University of Michigan): Between Byzantium and Rome: Bulgaria in the Aftermath of the Photian Schism |
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George P. Majeska (University of Maryland): Patriarch Photius and the Conversion of the Rus? |
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Andrew Walker White (University of Maryland): Notes Towards a Byzantine Theory of Religious Performance: An Analysis of The Office of the Three Children in the Fiery Furnace |
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Gregory Myers: Byzantine Chant or Znamenny Rospev? Continued Byzantine Hegemony in the Russian Musical Manuscript Tradition of the Late Sixteenth Century |
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Karen Lemiski (Arizona State University): Sending a Letter to Byzantium: The Imperial Russian Mail Service to Mt. Athos |
| 5:00- 5:15 pm |
Coffee |
| 5:15-6:45 pm |
Session Eighteen: Monasticism |
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Chair: Robert W. Allison (Bates College) |
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Mark Moussa (Catholic University of America): Shenoute to Moses of Abydos: Monastic Authority and Social Control in Early Byzantine Egypt |
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Richard Layton (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Literacy and the Practice of Reading in Early Byzantine Monasteries |
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Dusan Korac (University of Maryland): The Empress, the Despoina, the Sultana, and the Black-Robed Monk: Three Serbian Ladies on Mount Athos |
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Carolyn L. Connor (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): A Sense of Family: Monastic Portraits in the Lincoln College Typikon |
| 5:15- 6:45 pm |
Session Nineteen: Manuscript Studies |
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Chair: Susan Pinto Madigan (Michigan State University) |
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Maureen O?Brien (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): The Gynaeceum, the Kindergarten, and the Vienna Genesis: Biblical and Extra-Biblical Imagery in Folio 16r |
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Rima Smine (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU): The Byzantine Origin of the Iconography of the Virgin and Child Enthroned in Syriac Lectionaries Vatican Syr. 559 and London British Library Add. 7170 |
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Mary-Lyon Dolezal (University of Oregon): Lectionary Dissonance: The Palaiologina Group, Again |
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Mark Sosower (North Carolina State University): Phallic Angels in Watermarks of Paper of Some Sixteenth-Century Greek Manuscripts |
| 7:00 pm |
Banquet |
SUNDAY, 27 OCTOBER
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| 8:30- 10:00 am |
Session Twenty: Ecclesiastical Texts |
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Chair: Denis Sullivan (University of Maryland) |
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Susan Wessel (Cornell University): Literary Style and the Council of Ephesus: The Homilies of Cyril of Alexandria and Nestorius |
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Michael Gaddis (Syracuse University): Forging Consensus: Definition and Falsification at the Council of Chalcedon |
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Margaret Trenchard-Smith (University of California, Los Angeles): Maximos the Confessor On the Passions of the Soul and the Irrational |
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Alexander Rentel (Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome): The Origins of the 14th Century Patriarchal Liturgical Diataxis of Demitrios Gemistos |
| 8:30-10:00 am |
Session Twenty-one: Imperial Images and Issues |
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Chair: Rebecca W. Corrie (Bates College) |
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Anne McClanan (Portland State University): A Reassessment of Sophia |
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Diliana Angelova (Harvard University): The Ivories of Ariadne in the Context of Female Imperial Ideology in Early Byzantium |
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Jennifer Ball (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU): The Loros in Image and Text |
