Twenty-Sixth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference
October 26-27, 2000
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
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 |
| Chair: Clive Foss (University of Massachusetts, Boston) | |
| Asen Kirin (The University of Georgia, Athens): The Fortification Walls of the City of Serdica: From Constantine the Great to Murad I | |
| Reinhold Schumann (Boston University): Manpower and Fortifications. Regional Defense and Military Expansion in Byzantine Southern Italy in the Time of Basil II (died 1025) | |
| Veronica G. Kalas (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU): Building Out: Fortification Walls and the Cappadocian Countryside | |
| Walter K. Hanak (Shepherd College): The Gates of Saint Romanos and the Main Breach: Controversy and Disagreement in Modern Scholarship | |
| Marios Philippides (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): The Siege of Constantinople in 1453: Fortifications and Defense | |
| 9:00-10:45 am | Session Two: Church Decoration |
| Chair: Ellen C. Schwartz (Eastern Michigan University) | |
| Daniel Caraher (Ohio State University): To Whom It May Concern: The Spatial Component of Inscribed Prayers in Fifth and Sixth Century Greek Churches | |
| Caroline Downing (SUNY Potsdam): An Ascension from the Episcopal Basilica Narthex at Stobi, Macedonia | |
| Rossitza B. Roussanova (University of Maryland): The Image of Christ Emmanuel in the Dome of Karanlik Kilise | |
| Sharon E.J. Gerstel (University of Maryland): Ceramic Icons from Medieval Constantinople | |
| 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 |
| Chair: Susan T. Stevens (Randolph-Macon?s Women?s College) | |
| Walter E. Kaegi (University of Chicago): Gigthis in the Pseudo-Methodius Apocalypse and Its Significance | |
| Joan M. Downs (University of Michigan): Monks, Nuns and Noblemen: Status and Identity in Late Antique Africa, the Case of Tabarka | |
| 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 |
| Chair: Rudi Paul Lindner (University of Michigan) | |
| Tom Papademetriou (Princeton University): The Construction of the Patriarchal Tax Farm (14th-16th Century) | |
| Nenad Filipovic (Princeton University): Istanbul Tekf|ri and Qayser-i Rum: On the Ottoman Perception of Byzantine Emperors | |
| 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; |
| Chair: Archer St. Clair (Rutgers University) | |
| Kriszta Kotsis (University of Washington): The Gold Coinage of Irene from Constantinople (797-802) | |
| John Cotsonis (Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology): The Virgin and Justinian on Seals of the Ekdikoi | |
| Alicia Walker (Harvard University): Byzantine Marriage Rings Reconsidered | |
| Dora Piguet-Panayotova (Paris): A Decorated Silver Censer from the Time of Justinian | |
| 2:00-3:30 pm | Session Six: The Byzantine Polis |
| Chair: Kenneth G. Holum (University of Maryland) | |
| Claudia Rapp (University of California, Los Angeles): Bishops as Civic Leaders in Early Byzantium | |
| Stephen R. Zwirn (Dumbarton Oaks): The Vienna Ivories: The Consular Status of the Roma and Constantinopolis Diptych | |
| Robert Hallman (New York University): Promoting and Protecting: Urban Iconography in Late Byzantine Coins and Seals | |
| 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 |
| Chair: Eunice Dauterman Maguire (Johns Hopkins University) | |
| Daniel Sarefield (Ohio State University): Incendiary Texts: Burning Magical Books in the Late Roman Period | |
| Dayna Kalleres (Brown University): Demonic Possession in the Holy Man?s Bag of Tricks: Magical Practices Employed for Christian Salvation | |
| Richard Tada (University of Washington): Alexius I Comnenus and the Sacred Lots | |
| Karen C. Britt (Indiana University): The Exhalations of St. John the Evangelist: The Lure of Ephesos for Early Byzantine Pilgrims | |
| 4:00-5:30 pm | Session Eight: In the Wake of the Crusades |
| Christopher MacEvitt (Princeton University): Armenians and Franks in Edessa, 1098-1118 | |
| Lynn M. Snyder (Smithsonian Institution): Frankish Meals in Greece: the Identification and Recognition of an Invader?s Cuisine | |
| Jaroslav Folda (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): Loca Sancta Imagery in Crusader Palestine: The Case of the Freiburg Leaf | |
| 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 |
| John F. Shean (University of Michigan): Assimilation and Christianization in the Early Byzantine Army | |
| Michael Kulikowski (Smith College): The Career of Marcellinus of Dalmatia | |
| E. Warren Perry, Jr. (The University of Memphis): Sex, Swords and Spirituality: Heroic Motifs in Digenis Akritis | |
| 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 |
| Chair: Ann Terry (Independent Scholar) | |
| Kim Bowes (Princeton University): God?s House in the Private House: Urban House Chapels in the Late Roman East | |
| Carolyn S. Snively (Gettysburg College): The Integration of Christianity and Death: Burials at Churches and Churches in Cemeteries | |
| Theresa Flanigan (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU): Reevaluating the Principles of Measure at Hagioi Sergius and Bacchus in Constantinople | |
| 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 |
| Chair: Dorothy Abrahamse (California State University, Long Beach) | |
| Daniel Caner (University of Connecticut): Sinai Pilgrimage and Ascetic Romance in Late Antiquity | |
| Linda Jones Hall (St. Mary?s College of Maryland): The Letters of Libanius: A Window on the Late Antique Province of Phoenicia | |
| Stephen H. Rapp, Jr. (Georgia State University, Atlanta): Looking towards Constantinople: Byzantium in Georgian Historical Literature | |
| 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 |
| Ralph W. Mathisen (University of South Carolina): Personal Privilege, Imperial Beneficence, and the adnotatio in the Early Byzantine Empire | |
| Hassan Khalilieh (University of Haifa and Dumbarton Oaks): The Problem of Jettison in the Islamic and Rhodian Sea Laws | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| Chair: John W. Barker (University of Wisconsin) | |
| David H. Wright (University of California, Berkeley): Ernst Kantorowicz in America | |
| Kenneth Levy (Princeton University): Oliver Strunk and Byzantine Musicology in America | |
| Lawrence A. Tritle (Loyola Marymount University): Stewart Irvin Oost and the ?Chicago School? | |
| 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 |
| Chair: Timothy S. Miller (Salisbury State University) | |
| Franz Tinnefeld (Universitdt M|nchen): The Author?s Ego in Late Byzantine Letters | |
| 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 | |
| George Baloglou (SUNY Oswego) and Nick Nicholas (University of California, Irvine): Humor or Dissent? Two Late Byzantine Animal Epics | |
| 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 |
| Chair: Charles M. Brand (Bryn Mawr College) | |
| Danuta Shanzer (Cornell University): The Burgundians and Byzantium | |
| Heather E. Grossman (University of Pennsylvania): Building Identity: The Origins and Diffusion of Architectural Plans and Ornament in Frankish-Period Greece | |
| Demetrios Athanasoulis (6th Ephoreia of Byzantine Antiquities, Greece): The Architecture of the Byzantine and Frankish Churches of Elis, Greece | |
| 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 |
| Chair: Cecil L. Striker (University of Pennsylvania) | |
| Frank R. Trombley (University of Wales, Cardiff): Slavs and Cultural Symbiosis in Early Medieval Greece: The Results of a Recent Archaeological Survey | |
| Kostis Kourelis (University of Pennsylvania): House and Village in the Northwestern Peloponnese: The Archaeology of a Medieval Countryside | |
| Timothy E. Gregory (OSU Excavations at Isthmia): Churches, Landscape, and Population in Byzantine Kythera: The Australian Paliochora-Kythera Archaeological Survey 1999-2000 | |
| 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 | |
| Camilla MacKay (University of Michigan): Late Medieval Pottery from the Athenian Agora | |
| 3:30-5:00 pm | Session Seventeen: Byzantium and its Slavic Neighbors |
| Ian S.R. Mladov (University of Michigan): Between Byzantium and Rome: Bulgaria in the Aftermath of the Photian Schism | |
| George P. Majeska (University of Maryland): Patriarch Photius and the Conversion of the Rus? | |
| 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 | |
| Gregory Myers: Byzantine Chant or Znamenny Rospev? Continued Byzantine Hegemony in the Russian Musical Manuscript Tradition of the Late Sixteenth Century | |
| 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 |
| Chair: Robert W. Allison (Bates College) | |
| Mark Moussa (Catholic University of America): Shenoute to Moses of Abydos: Monastic Authority and Social Control in Early Byzantine Egypt | |
| Richard Layton (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Literacy and the Practice of Reading in Early Byzantine Monasteries | |
| Dusan Korac (University of Maryland): The Empress, the Despoina, the Sultana, and the Black-Robed Monk: Three Serbian Ladies on Mount Athos | |
| 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 |
| Chair: Susan Pinto Madigan (Michigan State University) | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Mary-Lyon Dolezal (University of Oregon): Lectionary Dissonance: The Palaiologina Group, Again | |
| 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 |
| Chair: Denis Sullivan (University of Maryland) | |
| Susan Wessel (Cornell University): Literary Style and the Council of Ephesus: The Homilies of Cyril of Alexandria and Nestorius | |
| Michael Gaddis (Syracuse University): Forging Consensus: Definition and Falsification at the Council of Chalcedon | |
| Margaret Trenchard-Smith (University of California, Los Angeles): Maximos the Confessor On the Passions of the Soul and the Irrational | |
| 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 |
| Chair: Rebecca W. Corrie (Bates College) | |
| Anne McClanan (Portland State University): A Reassessment of Sophia | |
| Diliana Angelova (Harvard University): The Ivories of Ariadne in the Context of Female Imperial Ideology in Early Byzantium | |
| Jennifer Ball (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU): The Loros in Image and Text | |
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