Twenty-Sevnth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference
Thursday, November 8 - Sunday, November 11, 2001
Notre Dame University
FRIDAY
8:00 - 8:45 a.m.: Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:45 - 9:00 a.m.: Opening Ceremonies
9:00 - 11:00 a.m.: Session 1: Byzantine Music
Andrew W. White (University of Maryland,College Park)
From Athens to Athos: An Investigation into Greek Drama's Enduring Musical Legacy
Diane Touliatos-Miles (University of Missouri, St. Louis)
Medieval Byzantine Music Performance, Practice, Realization: Monophony or Polyphony?
Diane Touliatos-Miles (University of Missouri, St. Louis)
The Role of Women in Music in Byzantium
Katherine Panagakos (Ohio State University)
The Theotokos as Protectress: The Akathistos Hymn and the Siege of Constantinople
Nicholas Giannoukakis (Independent Scholar)
Elements of Ancient Hellenic Poetry in Byzantine Hymnology
9:00 - 11:00 a.m.: Session 2:George of Amastris
Andrea Sterk(University of Notre Dame)
George of Amastris as Bishop: Anomaly or Paradigm?
David Bachrach (University of Notre Dame)
George of Amastris at War
Jonathan Couser (University of Notre Dame)
The Russians are Coming! Defense and Cnversion in the Life of George of Amastris
Sarah Davis (University of Notre Dame)
George of Amastris and the Arab Invasions of Asia Minor
Stefanos Alexopoulos (University of Notre Dame)
The Life of George of Amastris as a Source of Liturgical Information: "Private" Liturgy and Eucharistic Doctrine
11:00 - 11:15 a.m. - Coffee and Schmooze
11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.: Session 3: Re-Forming the Roman Empire
Frank M. Clover (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
The Accession of Emperor Majorian
Linda Jones Hall (St. Mary's College of Maryland)
Governing Late Roman Phoenicia: Justinian and the Re-organization of power
Ralph W. Mathisen (University of South Carolina)
"Volusianus praefectus urbis edixit": "Non-Imperial" Edicts in the Early Byzantine Empire
11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.: Session 4: Liturgical Texts and Manuscripts
Aleksei Pentkovski (Theological Academy of Russian Orthodox Church, Moscow)
Byzantine Liturgical Typika from Southern Italy (X-XIV sec.)
Alexander Rentel (Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome, Italy)
A Taxonomy of the Recensions of the Patriarchal Liturgical Diatasix of Dimitrios Gemistos
Rima E. Smine (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU)
Singularities in the Arrangement of Images in the Syriac Lectionaries Vatican Syr. 559 and British Library Add. 7170
11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.: Session 5: Byzantine Science, Magic and Medicine
Alain Touwaide (Independent Scholar)
"The Most Curious Activity of Byzantine Scholars in the Field of Botany". A New Inquiry into Byzantine Botanical Lexicography
Catherine Burris (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
The Iconography of the Seal of Solomon
Margaret Trenchard-Smith (University of California, Los Angeles)
Status strictus: Hysteria, Virginity and the Byzantine Medical Encyclopedistsof the Sixth and Seventh Centuries
12:30 - 2:15 p.m.: Lunch (Gov. Board lunch meeting; Grad student Lunch-Seminar on Abstract Writing)
2:15 - 4:00 p.m.: Session 6: Spiritual Direction in Egypt
Bernadette McNary-Zak (Rhodes College)
Transforming Monastic Authority in Fourth-Century Egypt
Despina D. Prassas (Catholic University of America)
Monastic Reform in the Seventh Century: Use of Literary Forms
Elizabeth S. Bolman (Temple University)
A Genealogy of Coptic Monasticism: the Painted Nave Program in the Monastery of St. Antony, Egypt
George Demacopoulos (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Spiritual Direction in the Early Byzantine Church: Ammonas, Athanasius and Chrysostom on Ascetic Authority
2:15 - 4:00 p.m.: Session 7: Imperial Representation
Areti Papanastasiou (University of Chicago)
Saint Eudokia the Empress
Kriszta Kotsis (University of Washington)
Images of Theodora, Guardian of the Faith
Nicolette S. Trahoulia (Deree College)
The ruler elevated: Alexander the Great,??s Ascent in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Art
Paul A. Stephenson (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
A Lost Image of the Bulgar Slayer
4:15 - 6:00 p.m.: Session 8: Late Byzantine Intellectual Life
David Jenkins (University of Notre Dame)
The diastasis tou theou in Psellos' Praise of Italos
Elizabeth A. Fisher (George Washington University)
Planoudes and the Intellectual Context of Translation
Frederick Lauritzen (Columbia University)
Psellus' Neoplatonic Orthodoxy
John D. Beetham (Catholic University of America)
Paternal Imagery in Eustathios of Thessaloniki's On the Title Papas
4:15 - 6:00 p.m.: Session 9: Imperial Power, Imperial Weakness
Dean A. Miller (University of Rochester)
Imitator, Partner or Covalent: Christ and the Emperor in Ritual
Elena N. Boeck (Yale University)
Representing Murderous Reality: Imperial Demise in the Madrid Skylitzes
Galina Tirnanic (University of Chicago)
The Emperor's Manipulation of Punishment Spectacles in Constantinople
Ruma Niyogi (University of Chicago)
Gender, Politics, and Imperial Legitimation in Byzantium 1028-1057
SATURDAY
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.: Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 11:00 a.m.: Session 10: Plenary Session: Round Table on Byzantine Studies at the Beginning of the 21st Century
11:00 - 11:15 a.m.: Coffee and Schmooze
11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.: Session 11: Archaeology
Asen Kirin (University of Georgia)
A Roman Bath as ,̳̼Heaven on Earth,̳�� ,˛˛ The Re-use and Perception of Roman Buildings in Byzantium
Engin Aky?rek (Istanbul University)
A Middle Byzantine Monastery near Doyran Village (Antalya, Turkey)
Timothy E. Gregory, William Caraher and David K. Pettegrew (Ohio State University)
Archaeological "Signatures" of Byzantine Churches: Survey Archaeology and the Creation of a Byzantine Landscape
11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.: Session 12: Reading Liturgical and Ritual Symbolism
Ann Marie Yasin (University of Chicago)
Buried Relics and Invisible Inscriptions in Byzantine North Africa
Holger A. Klein (Columbia University, New York)
Niketas and the True Cross. Some Critical Observations on the Chronicon Paschale ad annum 614
Patrick Viscuso (Independent Scholar)
Cleanliness, Not a Condition for Godliness: Alousia as a Canonical Requirement in Late Byzantium
2:15 - 4:00 p.m.: Session 13: Iconography in Context
George Contis (Independent Scholar)
The Russian Brass Icon: Its Byzantine Origins and Evolution
Monika Hirschbichler (University of Maryland)
The Wallpaintings in the Tower Chapel of St. George at Chilandar Monastery. Instruments of Salvation
Rossitza B. Roussanova (University of Maryland)
An Interpretation of the Images in the South Bay of the Chora Esonarthex
Warren T. Woodfin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Clothing the Icon: The Podea and Analogous Liturgical Textiles
2:15 - 4:00 p.m.: Session 14: Issues in Patristic Literature
Jaclyn Maxwell (Western Michigan University)
Public Speaking in Early Byzantine Cities: Philosophers, Orators and Preachers
Lisa R. Holliday (University of Kentucky)
The Pseudo-Clementine Homilies: Rufinus' Translation of the Recognitions
Noel Lenski (University of Colorado)
Slavery and Social Status in the Cappadocian Fathers
Oleh Kindiy (Catholic University of America)
An Excursus in the Byzantine Theological terminology of Maximus the Confessor: Hypostasis, Ousia, and Physis
4:00 - 4:15 p.m.: Coffee and Schmooze
4:15 - 5:30 p.m.: Session 15: Jerusalem Was the Goal
Bernard S. Bachrach (University of Minnesota)
The Byzantine Navy and the Success of the First Crusade
Karen C. Britt (Indiana University)
Holy Men in the Holy Land: Armenian Monasteries in Byzantine Jerusalem
Leon Stratikis (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
The Fourth Crusade in Light of a Century of Western Hostilities
4:15 - 5:30 p.m.: Session 16: New Approaches to Byzantine manuscripts
Cecily Hennessy (Courtauld Institute of Art)
A Child Bride and her Representation in Vatican Gr. 1851
Justine M. Andrews (University of California, Los Angeles)
Patronage & Ethnicity in the Fourteenth-Century Manuscript Paris B.N. Grec. 135
Maureen Anne Reissner-Reissner-O'Brien (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
The Repainting of the Vienna Genesis in Renaissance Italy
4:15 - 5:30 p.m.: Session 17: Economy and Trade in the Byzantine Empire
Jeffrey G. Royal (Texas A&M University and Archaeological Foundation for Maritime Sciences)
Reassessing the Magnitude of Late Antiquity/Early Byzantine Trade: Changing Morphologies of Merchantmen & Amphorae
Leonora Neville (Catholic University of America)
Transient Reality and Eternal Bureaucracy: Change in Byzantine Fiscal Practice
R. Scott Moore (University of Dayton)
Harbors and Trade in Late Antiquity: A Case Study from Cyprus
Evening: BSC Banquet and Evening Event
SUNDAY
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.: Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:45 a.m.: Session 18: Art and Architecture Between East and West
Anthony Cutler (Penn State University)
Diverse Answers: On the Variety of Responses to Byzantine Ivory Carving in the Medieval West
Jelena Trkulja (Princeton University)
Decoration of "Morava School" Churches in the Context of Late Byzantine Architecture
Matthew P. Canepa (University of Chicago)
The Impact of Mongol Investiture Rituals on the Visual Culture of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
Scott N. Redford (Georgetown University)
1992-2001 Excavations at Medieval Kinet, Turkey. A Crusader-Armenian Port Town
9:00 - 10:45 a.m.: Session 19: Gender and Kinship Relationships
Claudia Rapp (University of California, Los Angeles)
All in the Family,˛˛The "New Regime" of 610: Heraclius, Nicetas and John the Almsgiver
D. Kay Woods (University of Kentucky)
Autonomy, Patronage, Intellectualism: Essential Components of the Spiritual Dynasties of Fourth-Century Ascetic Women
Eustratios N. Papaioannou (Catholic University of America)
Eros, Gender, and the Construction of Self in Michael Psellos
Greg Peters (University of St. Michael's College, Toronto)
Familial Relationships in the Writings of Theoleptos of Philadelphia to Irene-Eulogia Choumnaina Palaiologina
10:45 - 11:00 a.m.: Coffee and Schmooze
11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.: Session 20: Archaeology and Topography
Nikolas Bakirtzis (Princeton University)
The Environs of Saint John Prodromos near Serres. A Topography of Monastic Life
Robert Ousterhout (University of Illinoisat Urbana - Champaign)
Cappadocia Revisited
Travis Clark (Temple University)
"A Pillar in the Temple of God": Simeon Stylites & Qal√?at Sim√?an
11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.: Session 21: The End of the Empire
Constantina Scourtis (University of California, Los Angeles)
Orthodoxy and ,??Latinism,??? at the Council of Ferrara-Florence (1438-39)
Diana Gilliland Wright (New School University)
"Better off than before": The 1454 Moreote Submission to Mehmet II
Marios Philippides (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
A Military Assessment of the Ottoman Strategy against the Land Walls in the Siege of Constantinople (1453)
11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.: Session 22: Ammianus Marcellinus
Alex Mozner (Loyola University, Chicago)
Ammianus and the Ciceronian Gloria of Murdering Silvanus
D. Scott VanHorn (Loyola University, Chicago)
Was Ammianus Marcellinus an agens in rebus?
Jacqueline Long (Loyola University, Chicago)
Great Stable of Empire: the Forum of Trajan in Late Antique Memory
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