Please see below an invitation and zoom link:
ONLINE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Written to Last: Medieval and Post-Medieval Inscriptions in Mount Athos (10th-16thc.)
16 and 17 February 2024
Zoom link
https://authgr.zoom.us/j/94245434744?pwd=Ly95VmozNDM2b2lIZEh6bFYyVkIyUT09
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Time schedule is Athens, GR (UTC/GMT + 2 hours)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Paschalis ANDROUDIS, Associate Professor of Byzantine and Islamic Art andArchaeology, Department of History and Archaeology, Aristotle Universityof Thessaloniki, pandroudis@hist.auth.gr
Dimitrios LIAKOS, Dr of Byzantine Archaeology, Ephorate of the Antiquities of Halkidiki and Mount Athos, liakos712003@yahoo.gr
DAY 1 Friday, 16 February 2024
17.00- 17.10 The Organizing Committee
Welcoming remarks
17.10- 17.50 KEYNOTE LECTURE
Nektarios ZARRAS
Middle Byzantine Dedicatory Inscriptions: Text, Identity,
Ideology
1st SESSION – Middle Byzantine Inscriptions
Chair: Nektarios ZARRAS
17.50- 18.10 Alexandra-Kyriaki WASSILIOU-SEIBT Imaging political ambitions and expressing social power on seals: The case of Theodoros Branas
18.10- 18.30 Georgios PALLIS, Manos TSIKOURAKIS Middle Byzantine Athos through Epigraphy: the role of inscriptions in shaping athonite monasticism
18.30- 18.50 Brad HOSTETLER Naming Relics: The Inscriptions of Mount Athos
18.50- 19.10 Dimitris LIAKOS Two 11 th century dedicatory inscriptions from the monasteries of Vatopedi and Iviron; a comparative study
19.10- 19.30 Cyril PAVLIKIANOV Οἱ ἀρχαιότερες σλαβικὲς ἐπιγραφὲς τοῦ Ἁγίου Ὄρους
19.30- 20.00 Questions- Discussion
DAY 2 Saturday, 17 February 2024
2nd SESSION – Inscriptions in Athonite Art and architecture Chair: Georgios PALLIS
10.30- 11.00 Dubravka PRERADOVIĆ The Contribution of Gabriel Millet and the role of the School at Athens in the Study of Athonite inscriptions.
11.00- 11.20 Elena KOSTIĆ Palaeographical examination of the accompanying inscriptions of the Palaeologan decoration in the Katholikon of the Vatopedi
monastery
11.20- 11.40 Petros KAPSOUDAS An eleventh c. inscription from the belfry of the katholikon of Megisti Lavra, Mount Athos
11.40- 12.00 Oleg ULYANOV Panagiars from Athos with dedicatory inscriptions (to the historyof the study)
12.00- 12.20 Oleg ULYANOV A Greek Christian Text of Prophecies of the Hellenic Wise MenonAthos frescoes
12.20- 12.50 Questions- Discussion
12.50- 13.00 Coffee Break
3rd SESSION – Byzantine and Post-byzantine inscriptions. Case studies Chair: Dimitris LIAKOS
13.00- 13.20 Paschalis ANDROUDIS
Inscriptions with Psalms from the byzantine church of Prophet
Eliah at Thessaloniki
13.20- 13.40 Miljana MATIĆ
“The stronghold of the Faithful”- Inscriptions and Cryptograms of the Elder Nestor’s Cross at the Serbian Monastery of Dečani: A
Reflection of Postbyzantine Monastic Practices
13.40- 14.00 Darina BOYKINA
The Silver Bowl from Samokov and Its Inscriptions
14.00- 14.30 Questions- Discussion
14.30- 17.00 Lunch Break
4th SESSION – Inscriptions in Athonite art
Chair: Brad HOSTETLER
17.00- 17.20 Paschalis ANDROUDIS Unknown and little-known minor inscriptions on Mount Athos
17.20- 17.40 Arianna D’OTTONE RAMBACH Lā raʾà li-makdhūb – Non est consilium mendacii arguto: Mamluk wisdom on a speaking tray from Mount Athos
17.40- 18.00 Frédéric TIXIER
À propos d’une plaque émaillée des Rois Mages du Mont Athos : iconographie et inscriptions
18.00- 18.20 Ioannis LIAKOS, Savvas PRASTITIS Notes from Cypriot musical manuscripts
on Mount Athos. A first approach.
18.20- 18.40 Eka TCHKOIDZE Georgian ktetor’s inscriptions from Philotheou Monastery 18.40-
19.10 Questions- Discussion
19.10 END OF THE CONFERENCE