PROGRAM OF EVENTS
All sessions will be held at The William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education in Chapel Hill. Questions regarding local arrangements may be addressed to:
Professors Carolyn Connor,
Department of Classics,
CB #3145,
UNC-Chapel Hill,
Chapel Hill NC
27599-3145,
919-962-7191,
fax 919-962-4036;
Jaroslav Folda,
Department of Art,
CB #3405,
UNC-Chapel Hill,
Chapel Hill NC
27599-3405,
919-962-3036 or 919-962-2015;
or Dorothy Verkerk, D
epartment of Art,
CB #3405,
UNC-Chapel Hill,
Chapel Hill NC
27599-3405,
919-962-0729 or 919-962-2015.
Questions regarding the program should be addressed to:
Professor Elizabeth Fisher,
Department of Classics,
Academic Center T345,
The George Washington University,
Washington DC 20052,
202-994-6184, fax 202- 994-6231.
Thursday, October 24
6:00-9:00: Reception and registration
Sheraton Imperial Hotel
Friday, October 25
9:00- 9:15: Opening remarks
Grumman Auditorium
9:15- 11:00: Session One: Christian Conversion of the Late Antique City
Seminar Room
Chair Peter Kaufmann (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Carolyn S. Snively (Gettysburg College): Burials and City Walls: The Case of Late Antique Athens
Beatrice Caseau (University of Paris IV-Sorbonne): Violence in Late Antiquity: A Bias of our Sources?
Richard M. Rothaus (St. Cloud State University): Mutilation of Sculpture in Late Antiquity: Images and Power
9:15- 11:00: Session Two: Pioneers of Byzantine Studies in America, II
Dogwood Room
Chair. John W. Barker (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Demetrios. Constantelos (Stockton College of New Jersey): Peter Charanis: A Pioneer in Byzantine Studies
Rudi Lindner (University of Michigan): Paul J. Alexander: "There is No One Whose Loss Would Be a More Serious Blow"
Angeliki E. Laiou (Dumbarton Oaks): Robert Lee Wolff (1915-1980)
George P. Majeska (University of Maryland): George Soulis and the Slavic Connection
11:15- 12:30: Session Three: Reconstructing Byzantium From Beyond Its Borders
Seminar Room
Chair. Constantine N. Tsirpanlis (American Institute for Patristic and Byzantine Studies, Inc.)
S. Peter Cowe (University of California at Los Angeles): New Light on the Evolution of the Byzantine Coronation Liturgy
Nicolas Schidlovsky (New York, NY): Byzantine Chant and the Early Slavic Sources
Thalia Gouma-Peterson (The College of Wooster): Autonomy and Control in the Early History of the Convent of the Apostle Andrew in Kephalonia
11:15- 12:30: Session Four: Archaeological Perspectives on Economy and Society
Dogwood Room
Chair.- Sharon Gerstel (University of Maryland)
James Russell (University of British Columbia): The Reign of Zeno I (the Isaurian): The View From Isauria
Frederick M. Hocker (Institute of Nautical Archaeology/ Texas A&M University): A Middle Byzantine Shipwreck Near Bozburun, Turkey: A Preliminary Report
Robert Ousterhout (University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign): The Byzantine Monuments of Imbros
12:45-2:15: Business Lunch
Trillium Room (by subscription only)
2:30- 4:45: Session Five: Identity and Ethnicity
Dogwood Room
Chair Elisaveta Todorova (University of Cincinnati)
Ronald J. Weber (University of Texas at El Paso): Conceptualizing the Frontier in Late Antiquity
David Olster (University of Kentucky): Mixed-Up Natures and Customs? Christians and the "Third Genos"
Stephen H. Rappjr. (University of Michigan): The Impact of Heraclius'lnvasion of Caucasia Upon Medieval "Georgian" Self -Identity
Annetta Ilieva (Sofia, Bulgaria): "Tervel of Bulgaria and Gliavanos the Khazar Took Their Places There on Many Occasions..."
John V. A. Fine (University of Michigan): Did the South Slavs Have Ethnicity in the Middle Ages?
2:30- 4:45: Session Six: Constantinople and Its Ceremonies
Seminar Room
Chair George M*ska (University of Maryland)
Ahmet S. Cakmak (Princeton University), Rabun Taylor (University of Minnesota), Eser Durukal (Bogazi@i University): Hagia Sophia: A Possible Reconstruction of the First Dome
Natalia Teteriatnikov (Dumbarton Oaks): The Patriarchal Quarters in the South Gallery of Hagia Sophia: Where Was the Patriarch's Throne?
Kim Bowes (Princeton University): The Monumental Columns of Constantinople and Their Role in Urban Ceremony
Dean A. Miller (University of Rochester): The Founder's Ghost and Other Puzzles: Parsing Ritual in Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus
loli Kalavrezou (Harvard University): The Rod of Moses in Byzantine Court Ceremonial
5:15- 7:00 Reception
Ackland Art Museum Sponsored by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities
Saturday, October 26
9:00- 10:45: Session Seven: Byzantium and the West Through the Age of Charlemagne
Dogwood Room
Chair. Lawrence Nees (University of Delaware)
Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis (Western Michigan University): Visualizing an Imperial Capital: Charlemagne and Ravenna
Genevra Kornbluth (Youngstown State University): Carolingian and Middle Byzantine Cameos: A Case of Western Influence?
9:00-10:45: Session'Eight: Economic Perspectives on Late Antiquity/Early Byzantium
Seminar Room
Chair Richard J.A. Talbert (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Thomas R. Elliott (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Diocletianic Census Inscriptions of the Aegean Islands and Asia Minor
Timothy E. Gregory (Ohio State University): Realities of the Byzantine Economy: Views From the Cypriot Kitchen
A. L. McClanan (Harvard University): Byzantine Steelyard Weights Depicting Empresses
Peter Lampinen (Combined Caesarea Expeditions): Autonomous Civic Coinage in Seventh-Century Syria, Palestine and the End of Byzantine Rule in the East
11:00- 12:45: Session Nine: Byzantines and Latins: Friends and Foes
Seminar Room
Chair Charles M. Brand (Bryn Mawr College)
Tia M. Kolbaba (Princeton University): Byzantines, Latins, and Holy War: Attitudes Toward Religiously Inspired Violence Before and After 1204
Eric A. Ivison (Clarion State University of Pennsylvania): A Moment of West-East Cultural Exchange: Byzantine Funerary Chalices
Frederick A. Schultz (Ohio State University): The Economy of Fourteenth-Century Corinth: Commercial and Agricultural Administration During the Acciaioli Period
Joan Marguerite Downs (University of Michigan): The Medieval Settlement at the Hexamilion Fortress at Isthmia: A Byzantine Center in the Corinthia
11:00-12:45: Session Ten: Theology in an Eastern Context
Dogwood Room
Chair. Sidney Grif fith (Catholic University of America)
Robin Darling Young (Catholic University of America): Eznik of Kolb on the Nature of the Creator
Patrick T. R. Gray (York University): Theological Discourse in he Seventh Century: The Heritage From the Sixth Century
Daniel J. Sahas (University of Waterloo): Hesychastic and Sufi Experiences in the Confutatio Hagareni of Bartholomeus of Edessa (9thc.?)
2:00-4:15: Session Eleven: Prosopography and History
Dogwood Room
Chair Claudia Rapp (University of California at Los Angeles)
Thomas Brauch (Central Michigan University): Byzantine and Patristic Evidence of an Urban Prefectship f or Themistius Under Valens
Hagith S. Sivan (Institute for Research in the Humanities, Princeton): Forbidden Unions in the Early Byzantine Empire: A Prosopographical Evaluation
Ralph W. Mathisen (University of South Carolina): The Integration of Barbarian and Roman Society in the Early Byzantine Empire: Evidence From the Biographical Database f or Late Antiquity
Hugh Elton (Trinity College): The isaurians and the Early Byzantine Empire, AD 300-700
Dion C. Smythe (King's College, London): Traditional Middle Byzantine Family Values?
2:00- 4:15: Session Twelve: Word and Image as Instruments of the Faith
Seminar Room
Chair Mary-Lyon Dolezal (University of Oregon)
Derek Krueger (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro): Visual Metaphors f or Narrative Representation in Early Byzantine Saints' Lives
Glenn Peers (Waterloo, Ontario): On the Sentience of Images ca.815
Dorothy Abrahamse (California State University, Long Beach): The Vita of David, Symeon, and George: Sources, Structure, and Date
Federica Ciccolella (Universit di Roma I "La Sapienza"): Basil 1 and the Jews: A Laudatory Poem of the Ninth Century
Kathleen Corrigan (Dartmouth College): The Homilies of Gregory Nazianzen, Turin C.I.6, and Its Historiated Initials
4:30- 6:15: Session Thirteen: Historiography and Learning in Antiquity
Dogwood Room
Chair. John F. Mathews (Yale University)
Jacqueline Long (University of Texas at Austin): Memories of Zenobia
Charles Pazdernik (Princeton University): Procopius and Thucydides on Freedom and Slavery
Raffaella Cribiore (Columbia University): Books and Teachers'Models in Byzantine Schools
4:30- 6:15: Session Fourteen: Byzantium Through Eastern Eyes
Seminar Room
Chair. Susan Ashbrook Harvey (Brown University)
Monica J. Blanchard (Catholic University of America): The Zoology of Eznik of Kolb: The Nature of the Creatures
Joel Thomas Walker (Princeton University): Crosses and Fire Altars: Sasanian Seals as Evidence f or Christianity Within the Persian Aristocracy
Antony Eastmond (University of Warwick): Christians and Muslims in Trebizond: The Decoration of the Church of Hagia Sophia
6:30 Reception and Banquet
(traditional North Carolina barbecue with entertainment by "The Blue Grass Experience") Trillium Room
10:00 Buses return to conference hotel from The Friday Center
Sunday, October 27
9:00-10:45: Session Fifteen: The Byzantines at Home
Redbud Room
Chair Alice-Mary Talbot (Dumbarton Oaks)
Helen Saradi (University of Guelph): The Subdivision of Large Houses in the Early Byzantine Period: The Evidence of the Papyri
Douglas O'Roark (Mesa State College): Parenthood in Early Byzantium as Evidenced by Chrysostom
M. P. Vinson (Bloomington, IN): The Empress Theodora and the Cult of Domesticity in Byzantine Hagiography
Patrick D..Viscuso (Chantilly, VA)- The Prohibition of Second Marriage f or Women Married to Priests
9:00-10:45: Session Sixteen: Vision and Revision of Works of Art .
Dogwood Room
Chair Nancy P. Ševčenko (Princeton University)
Dorothy H. Verkerk (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill):Job on a Dung Heap: An Appropriate Funerary Symbol?
Stephen R. Zwirn (Dumbarton Oaks): Leaping Leopards in the Canon of Early Byzantine Art?
Carolyn L. Connor (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Polychromy on Two Ivories of the Forty Martyrs: A Dramatic Reversal
Ljubica D. Popovich (Vanderbilt University): Body Language of the Standing Prophet Figures: A Case of Creative Expression in Palaeologan Monumental Painting,
11:00- 12:45: Session Seventeen: Methods of Warfare and Diplomacy
Redbud Room
Chair George T. Dennis, S.J. (Catholic University of America)
Everett L. Wheeler (Duke University): Magic in Late Antique Warfare and Byzantine Military Theory
Alfred Buchier (Berkeley, CA): Leo the Deacon, Nikephoros II Phokas and Byzantine Martial Music
Denis F. Sullivan (University of Maryland): Sappers in Military Manuals and Historical Sources: The Intersection of Pedagogy and Practice
Liliana Simeonova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences): The Fatal Abuse: Kantakuzenos' Embassies to the Bulgarians and the Serbs
11:00-12:45: Session Eighteen: Churches and the Builders lntention
Dogwood Room
Chair Annabel Wharton (Duke University)
Frank M. Clover (University of Wisconsin, Madison): Count Ricimer and the "Church of the Holy Apostles"
Irfan Shahid (Dumbarton Oaks): The Church of Sts. Sergius and Bacchus in Constantinople: Who Built It and Why?
Svetlana Popovic (Greenbelt, MD): Are Typika Sources for Architecture: The Case of the Monasteries of Theotokos Evergetis, Chilandari and Studenica
1:15- Reception
National Humanities Center
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