Twenty-Third Annual Byzantine Studies Conference September 26-28, 1997 University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, Wisconsin
Program of Events
All formal sessions will be held at the Wisconsin Center, 702 Langdon Street, opposite the north entrance to the University's Memorial Library. Some details of the program may be subject to adjustment or clarification. Conference brochure and registration information available from Pat Gaitan, E-mail gaitan@admin.uwex.edu, phone 608-262-6696, FAX: 608-265-3163. Questions regarding local arrangements may be addressed to Professor John W. Barker, Department of History, Humanities Building, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706; telephone (608) 263-1823; fax (608) 263-5302; E-mail jwbarker@facstaff.wisc.edu. Questions regarding the program should be addressed to Professor Helen Saradi, Department of Languages and Literature, Classics, University of Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada; telephone (519) 824-4120, #2885. Additional registration information is appended.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
9:00 - 5:00: Frank Lloyd Wright Tour (By advance subscription only)
6:00 - 9:00: Reception and Registration Upper Lounge, Lowell Hall (Wisconsin Center Guest House)
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
8:00 - 9:00:Registration; Coffee and rolls Alumni Lounge, The Wisconsin Center
9:00- 9:15: Welcome and Opening Remarks Lakeshore Room
9:15- 11:00: Session One: Old and New Discoveries and their Interpretations Lakeshore Room
Chair: [To be Announced]
Anthony Cutler (Pennsylvania State University): New Byzantine Ivories, Ancient and Modern
Natalia Teteriatnikov (Dumbarton Oaks): Devotional Crosses in the Columns and Walls of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
Glenn Peers (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada): Framing the Crucifixion
Eric A. Ivison (College of Staten Island, CUNY): Looking for Lascarids: The Tomb of the Emperor Theodore II and the Imperial Monastery of Sosandra at Nymphaeum
9:15-11:00: Session Two: Imperial and Aristocratic Images and Ideology Room 313
Chair: Ralph W. Mathisen (University of South Carolina)
Claudia Rapp (University of California, Los Angeles): Imperial Ideology in the Making: Eusebius of Caesarea on Constantine as "Bishop"
Hugh Elton (Trinity College, Hartford): Illus and the Imperial Aristocracy under Zeno
Gregor Kalas (Bryn Mawr College): The Virgin Intervenes as an Empress at S. Maria Antiqua (Rome)
Sharon E. J. Gerstel (University of Maryland): Constructing a Sainted Empress
11:00- 11:15: Break, with refreshments Alumni Room
11:15- 12:30Session Three: Imperial Images and Symbolism
Lakeshore Room
Chair: Robert Nelson (University of Chicago)
Elizabeth Gittings (Harvard University): A Re- evaluation of Imperial Imagery, Icons, and Prayer in the Miniatures of the Late Eleventh-Century Barbarini Psalter
Lynn Jones (Jenkintown, PA): Eagles, Griffins, and Comnenian Imperial Imagery
Irine Nikoleishvili (Tbilisi State University, Georgia): The Images of Historical Persons on X-XI Century Georgian Altar Screens
Mark J. Johnson (Brigham Young University): A Lost Mosaic Portrait of Roger II and Bishop Leontius II of Gerace
11:15- 12:30: Session Four: Pilgrimage and Theoretical Approaches in the East and West
Room 313
Chair: George P. Majeska (University of Maryland)
Dorothea R. French (Santa Clara University): Domesticating the Charismatic: Architecture and Pilgrimage to Simeon Stylites
Maribel Dietz (Louisiana State University): Pilgrimage and Monastic Wandering: Huneberc's Life of Willibald
Alice-Mary Talbot (Dumbarton Oaks): Pilgrimage by Byzantine Women
12:45- 2:15: Business Lunch [Room to be announced] (by subscription)
2:30- 4:45: Session Five: Expressions of Ritual and Devotion in Byzantium
Lakeshore Room
Chair: [To be announced]
Béatrice Caseau (Universit de Paris IV Sorbonne): Incense and Perfume in Byzantine Churches
Dora Piguet-Panayotova (Paris, France): Two Hexagonal Decorated Silver Censers from the Time of Mauricius (582-602)
Susan A. Boyd (Dumbarton Oaks): Ex-voto Therapy: A Copper Votive Plaque with Saint Hermolaos
Jacquelyn Tuerk (University of Chicago): How Words and Images Work: An Early Byzantine Inscribed Amulet Addresses Uterine Hemorrhage
2:30 - 4:45: Session Six: Navigation, Shipping, and Trade
Room 313
Chair: [To be announced]
R. Scott Moore (Ohio State University): Ceramic Evidence for Byzantine Trade on the Island of Cyprus
Frederick M. Hocker (Institute of Nautical Archaeology): A Middle Byzantine Merchant Venture: Recent Discoveries from the Bozburun Shipwreck
Elisaveta Todorova (University of Cincinnati): Black Sea Shipping and Navigation in the Byzantine Era
2:30- 4:45 Session Seven: Texts and Culture
Room 311
Chair: Claudia Rapp (University of California, Los Angeles)
Jacqueline Long (The University of Texas at Austin): Julia-Jokes in Macrobius's Saturnalia
Charles F. Pazdernik (Princeton University): Procopius and Thucydides on the Labors of War: Belisarius and Brasidas in the Field Hagith Sivan (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton): The End of Byzantine Palestine
Maria Mavroudi (Harvard University): Remarks on the Byzantine Translations from Arabic into Greek
5:00- 7:00 Exhibition, "Byzantium, from Russia and Wisconsin"
Rare Book Room, Memorial Library (special hours)
6:00- 8:00: Reception
Alumni Lounge (Wisconsin Center)
Dinner (on your own in Madison)
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
8:00- 9:00 Coffee and rolls
Alumni Lounge
9:00- 10:45: Session Eight: Relations between Visual Art and Texts
Lakeshore Room
Chair: [To be announced]
Elizabeth A. Fisher (George Washington University): Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople, in Word and Image
Margaret Kenny (The Queen's University, Belfast): Text vs. Image: The Relationship between Dream Narratives and Marginal Illustrations in Middle Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts
Kathy Jo Wetter (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): The Original Copy of Constantine VII's Narratio de Imagine Edessena
Kathleen Maxwell (Santa Clara University): Modus Operandi of Scribes and Artists in Paris, Biblioth que National, Codex Grec 54
9:00- 10:45: Session Nine: Ecclesiastical Literature and Hagiography
Room 313
Chair: [To be announced]
Leslie Dossey (Harvard University): Recovering the Popular Ecclesiastical Literature of Byzantine North Africa
Jennifer L. Hevelone-Harper (Princeton University): St. Ephrem and the Surrender of Nisibis
Stephen H. Rapp, Jr. (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor): Sense of Community in Early Georgian Hagiography
John V. A. Fine (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor): The Slavic Saint Jerome: An Entertainment
Hieromonk Alexander (Golitzin) (Marquette University): Ascent to Heaven: Nicetas Stethatos, the Liturgies of Heaven and of the Heart, and Elements from the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
10:45- 11:00: Break, with refreshments
Alumni Room
11:00- 12:45: Session Ten: Early Byzantine Architecture and Patronage
Lakeshore Room
Chair: Anthony Cutler (Pennsylvania State University)
Bissera V. Pentcheva (Sackler Museum, Harvard): A Reassessment of the Hippodrome at Constantinople
Gillian Mackie (University of Victoria, Canada): A New Look at the Patronage of Santa Costanza, Rome
Carolyn L. Connor (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): The Epigram on the Church of Hagios Polyeuktos in Istanbul and its Byzantine Response
11:00-12:45: Session Eleven: Aspects of Byzantine Diplomatic Missions
Room 313
Chair: Ronald J. Weber (University of Texas at El Paso)
Daniel J. Sahas (University of Waterloo, Canada): Photius' Diplomatic Missions to the Arabs: Religious and Theological Dimensions and Ramifications
Sophis Mergiali (University of Crete): Relics as Diplomatic Gifts during the Reign of Manuel II Palaeologus
Liliana Simeonova (Institute for Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences): A Diplomat's Occupational Hazards: Near Eastern Diplomacy in the 1400s through the 1460s
12:45- 2:00: Lunch (on your own in Madison)
2:00-4:15: Session Twelve: Church, Theology, and Heresy in Early Byzantium
Room 311
Chair: [To be announced]
Naomi Janowitz (University of California-Davis): Making Something out of Nothing: Monotheism, Evil, and Definitions of Gnosticism in Late Antique Society
Patrick T. R. Gray (York University, Canada): Four Popes and a Council: The Victory of Obfuscation
Michael Redies (Freie Universit t Berlin): Cyril and Nestorius: A New Interpretation of the Origins of the Theotokos-Debate
David B. Evans (St. John's University): Leontios of Byzantion and the Tradition of Byzantine Christology: Is the Human Nature of Jesus Christ an Enhypostasized Nature?
2:00- 4:15: Session Thirteen: Interpretations of Church Decoration
Lakeshore Room
Chair: [To be announced]
Linda Safran (The Catholic University of America): Devotion and Desire: Donors in South Italian Wall Paintings
Robert S. Nelson (University of Chicago): Socially Symbolic Narration at the Church of the Chora in Constantinople
George Stri University of Cincinnati): The Pentecost Mosaic in the South Gallery of St. Sophia
2:00- 4:15: Session Fourteen: Family Sexuality and the Body in Byzantium
Room 313
Chair: Derek Krueger (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
Nikos Kalogeros (University of Chicago): Byzantine and Modern Perceptions of Byzantine Childhood: The Evidence of Early and Middle Byzantine Hagiography
Stephen M. Wagner (University of Delaware): The Children Will Suffer No More: Images of Protection in Early Byzantine Thessalonica
John W. Birkenmeier (The Catholic University of America): Wounds and Wounding in Byzantium: Perception and Reality
Paul Halsall (Fordham University): Wedded to Christ: Nuptiality and Gender Reversal in the Lives of Byzantine Male Saints
Patrick Viscuso (Chantilly, VA): Sexual Intercourse and Priesthood: Late Byzantine Views on Marriage and Ordination
4:15- 4:30: Break, with refreshments
Alumni Lounge
4:30- 6:15 Session Fifteen: Archaeology and Urban Settlements
Room 313
Chair: Helen Saradi (University of Guelph)
Asen Kirin (Princeton University): Serdica of Constantine the Great
Timothy E. Gregory (Ohio State University): Archaeological Survey on the Island of Dokos in the Gulf of Argos, Greece
Susan T. Stevens (Randolph-Macon Woman's College): A Suburban Christian Complex at Bir Ftouha (Carthage)
Christine Zitrides (Florida State University): The Use of Opus Sectile in the Church Complex at Bir Ftouha, Carthage
4:30- 6:15: Session Sixteen: Byzantine Monasticism
Room 311
Chair: Patrick T. R. Gray (York University, Canada)
Cynthia Villagomez (University of California, Los Angeles): Positive Attitudes towards Monastic Wealth in the Church of the East in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries
Monica J. Blanchard (Institute of Christian Oriental Research, The Catholic University of America): The Georgian Heritage of Theodore Abu Qurrah
Michael Gaddis (Princeton University): Patriarchs and Monks: Politics and Violence in the Fifth-Century Eastern Chruch
John F. Shean (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Bogomilism: A Monastic Dualist Development?
4:30- 6:15: Session Seventeen: Reviving Byzantine Music and Liturgy
Lakeshore Room
Chair: John W. Barker (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Gregory Myers (Burnaby, British Columbia): The "Melody of Speech": The Slavonic Transformation of Byzantine Music and Poetry
Diane Touliatos (University of Missouri, St. Louis): Revitalization of Byzantine Chant and Liturgy: State of the Question
Yioryos Bilalis (Philadelphia, PA): Modern Greek Liturgical Practice and its Application in American Orthodoxy - with musical illustrations performed by the ROMEIKO ENSEMBLE
6:30 Reception and Banquet (by advance subscription)
Great Hall, Memorial Union
Concert of Orthodox Liturgical Music Choir of Assumption Greek Orthodox Church, Madison George Tzougros, dir. with the Romeiko Ensemble, Yiorgos Bilalis, dir.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
8:00- Coffee and rolls 9:00 Alumni Lounge
9:00- 10:45: Session Eighteen: Pioneers of Byzantine Studies inAmerica, III
Lakeshore Room
Chair: John W. Barker (University of Wisconins-Madison)
Walter K. Hanak (Shepherd College): "Father" Francis Dvornik: An Indefatigable Scholar
Dale Kinney (Bryn Mawr College): Richard Krautheimer: Teacher and Scholar
Ellen C. Schwartz (Michigan University): Hugo Buchthal: Manuscripts and Memories
David H. Wright (Oakland, CA): Wilhelm Koehler and the Original Plan for Research at Dumbarton Oaks
9:00- 10:45: Session Nineteen: Early Byzantine Art and Artists: Cultural and Social Contexts
Room 313
Chair: Frank M. Clover (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Sheila McNally (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis): Spiritual Progress: Alternative Models Shown on Two Textiles
Elizabeth S. Bolman (Bryn Mawr College): Food for Salvation: The Coptic Galaktotrophousa
Jennifer L. Russell (Pennsylvania State University): Confessional Markers or Signs of a Common Culture? Interpreting Late Antique Pyxides
Linda Jones Hall (The University of Dayton): The Social Status of Artisans and Merchants in Late Antique Berytus and Tyre: Wealth and the Opportunity for Advancement
10:45- 11:00: Break, with refreshments
Alumni Lounge
11:00- 12:45: Session Twenty: Byzantium and the East: Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations
Room 313
Chair: Walter E. Kaegi, Jr. (University of Chicago)
Jennifer L. Ball (New York University): Manifestations of Borderland Culture in Hosios Loukas and the Pigeon House Church: A Re-examination of Provincial
Charles M. Brand (Bryn Mawr College): Adventures of an Imperial Translator
Nevra Necipoglu (Bogazi i University, Istanbul): Ottoman Conquests and the Byzantine Local Aristocracy: The Archontes of Thessalonike
11:00-12:45: Session Twenty-One: Aspects of Byzantine Economy: Coins, Weights, and Trade
Lakeshore Room
Chair: [To be announced]
Martin Beckmann (McMaster University, Canada): A Geographical Study of the Palaeography of Early Byzantine Coin Inscriptions
Mary Margaret Fulghum, Florent Heintz (Harvard University): A Hoard of Early Byzantine Glass Weights from Sardis
Florin Curta (Western Michigan University): Trade or Tarqans? Early Medieval Hoards of Iron Implements and Weapoons in Eastern Europe
Rudi Paul Lindner (University of Michigan): Coinage and Exchange in Thirteenth-Century Anatolia
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