Chair: David Olster, University of Kentucky
"' Whatever will We Do With Glycerius?': Troublesome Politicians, Forcible Ordinations, and Escape into Ecclesiastical Orders in the Early Byzantine Empire"
Ralph W. Mathisen, University of South Carolina
A Tetrarchic Bureaucrat at the American Academy in Rome
David Wright, University of California at Berkeley
Reinterpreting Constans II (641-668)
Walter E. Kaegi, University of Chicago
Chair: Glenn Peers, University of Texas-Austin
Material Blessings and Miraculous Economy in Late Antiquity
Daniel F. Caner, University of Connecticut, Storrs
A Re-reading of Some Liturgical Iconographic Themes: The case of the Prothesis in Peribleptos, Mystras
Vasileios Marinis, Yale University
The Two-Zone Icon (The Nativity and the Baptism) of the Byzantine Museum in Athens: A Unique Post-Byzantine Iconographic Evidence of the Preservation of an Ancient Tradition
Gerasimos P. Pagoulatos, Hellenic Open University, Athens, Greece.
10:40-11:00 Coffee
III. Friday, 11:00-12:40 Late Antique and Byzantine Literature
Chair: Maria Georgopoulou, Yale University
Constantine and the Designs of Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius; Picture Poems as Historical Evidence
Linda Jones Hall, St. Mary's College of Maryland
De-sexing the Sexy and Making the Vixen a Violent Femme: The Arming and Othering of Maximou the Amazon in Digenis Akritis
E. Warren Perry, Jr., Catholic University of America
Aristotle’s Acolyte: The Thirteenth-century Greek Translator of De plantis
Elizabeth A. Fisher, George Washington University
IV. Friday, 11:00-12:40 The Monastery Matejic—Foundation, Art, and Architecture
Chair: Ida Sinkevic, Lafayette University.
The Monastery of Matejic and its Times
Dusan Korac, Catholic University of America
The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin at Matejic. Regional Re-interpretation of Middle Byzantine Constantinopolitan Architecture in the Palaeologan Era?
Jelena Bogdanovic, Princeton University
Some Observations on the Frescoes of the Virgin’s Church in the Monastery of Mateic
Ljubica D. Popovich, Vanderbilt University
12:40-2:00 Lunch
V. Friday 2:00-4:15 Byzantium between East and West
Chair: Lynn Jones, Yale University
The Balkan Link of the Byzantine Economy
Elisaveta Todorova, University of Cincinnati
Did Charlemagne Sack Constantinople? Western Charlemagne Legends as Anti-Byzantine Propaganda (c. 1000-1204)
David A. Michelson, Princeton Universit
St. Catherine East and West: Two Icons
Brandie Ratliff, Columbia University
Islamic Influence on Heraldic Symbols in Byzantium
Scott Redford, Georgetown University
VI. Friday, 2:00-4:15 Kariye Camii Reconsidered
Chair: Sharon Gerstel, University of Maryland, College Park
More Cracks in the Dome of Heaven
Robert Ousterhout, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne
Saints and State at the Chora
Rob Nelson, University of Chicago
The Role of the Byzantine Institute in the Conservation of Kariye Camii
Natalia Teteriatnikov, Dumbarton Oaks
Restoring Byzantium: The Rediscovery and Restoration of the Kariye Camii
Holger A. Klein, Columbia University
4:15-4:30 Coffee
4:30-5:30 Outreach Committee Meeting
VII. Friday, 4:30-5:30 Constantinople 1453
Chair: Walter Hanak, Shepherd College
The Naval Operations in the Siege of Constantinople 1453: Sultan Mehmed II Fatih, the New Xerxes
Marios Philippides, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Passio Constantinopolitana: Pleas for Divine Intervention during the 1453 Siege of Constantinople
Srdjan Rajkovic, University of California, Los Angeles
VIII. Saturday, 8:30-10:45 The Cult of the Saints
Chair: Alice-Mary Talbot, Dumbarton Oaks
In Heaven As It Is On Earth: Early Christian Visions of the New Jerusalem
Andrea K. Olsen, Institute of Sacred Music, Yale Divinity School
Ancestors as Icons: The Lives of Hebrew Saints in Eusebius’ Praeparatio Evangelica
Aaron Johnson, University of Colorado – Boulder
The Cult of Saint Stephen the Protomartyr in Late Antiquity
Maribel Dietz, Louisiana State University
IX. Saturday, 8:30-10:45 Pastoral Care and Spiritual Guidance
Chair: Eric Ivison, CUNY-College of Staten Island
Food, Clothing, Shelter, These Three
Martha Vinson, Indiana University
The Art of Arts: Spiritual Direction according to St. Gregory Nazianzen
George E. Demacopoulos, Fordham University
Sinners as Debtors: Intercessory Power and Textuality in Early Byzantium
Claudia Rapp, University of California, Los Angeles
Adultery in the Heart: Sexual Fantasy as a Problem in Late Byzantine Canon Law
Patrick Viscuso, Chantilly, Virginia
10:45-11:00 Coffee
11:00-noon Panel on Professional Development
Saturday, 12:30-2:30 Business Lunch
X. Saturday 2:30-4:15 Ecclesiastical Councils
Chair: John Barker, University of Wisonsin-Madison
A Council that Shook the Whole World’: Conflict and Contest in the Century after Chalcedon
Michael Gaddis, Syracuse University
Missed Opportunity: The Council of Ferrara-Florence and the Use of Maximus the Confessor’s Theology of the Filioque
A. Edward Siecienski, Fordham University
Tradition and Innovation in Conciliar Procedure: The Council of Ferrara-Florence (1438-39)
Constantina Scourtis, University of California, Los Angeles
XI. Saturday 2:30-4:15 Constructing Art
Chair: Timothy Gregory, Ohio State University
The Mosaic Workshop of Byzantine Madaba
Debra Foran, University of Toronto
Epigrams on Icons
Bissera V. Pentcheva, Columbia University
Dividing the Wall: Architectural Aesthetics in Late Byzantium
Jelena Trkulja, Princeton University
4:15-4:30 Coffee
XII. Saturday 4:30-6:15 Texts and Textuality
Chair: Sarolta Takacs, Rutgers University
Re-Presenting the Byzantine Saint: A Reliquary Box in the Cleveland Museum of Art
Kristine M. Hess, Pennsylvania State University
The Text of Aeschylus’s Persae in the Codices Vaticanus Barberinianus gr. 135 (Se), Vaticanus gr. 1360 (Sg), and Vaticanus gr. 912 (Sn)
Charles J. Zabrowski, Gettysburg College
The Late Antique and Byzantine Use of Indo-European Poetic Patterns
Edwin D. Floyd, University of Pittsburgh
XIII. Saturday, 4:30-6:15 Byzantine Law
Chair: John Cotsonis, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology
A Legal Joke in the Historia Augusta
Michael Johnson, Rutgers University
Monarchy and Equity: Themistius’ Theory of Imperial Law
Lawrence J. Daly, Bowling Green State University
The Mutilated Nose: Rhinokopia as a Visual Mark of Sexual Offence
Galina Tirnanic, University of Chicago
XIV. Sunday 8:30-10:15 Theology and Heresy
Chair: Tia Kolbaba, Rutgers University
Doctrines, Bishops, Monks and Friends: A Network Approach to the ‘School of Antioch’
Adam Schor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The Byzantine Bogomil: Dualist Or Strawman?
John F. Shean, College of Staten Island/CUNY
XV. Sunday, 8:30-10:15 Byzantine Women
Chair: Paul Halsall, University of North Florida
The Lure of the East: A New Place and Space for Fourth-Century Female Patrons
D. Kay Woods, University of Kentucky
Ordinary Women and Holy Men: Women in the Miracles of St. Theodore of Sykeon
Carolyn L. Connor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Andromeda, Charicleia, and the Typical Greek Woman in Heliodorus’ Aithiopika
Katherine Panagakos, Furman University
10:15-10:30 Coffee
XVI. Sunday, 10:30-12:30 Monks and Holy Men
Chair: Henry Maguire, Johns Hopkins University
Monastic Companionship: An Early Byzantine Institution?
Derek Krueger, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
David of Garedji: A Georgian Saint in the Syrian Ascetical Tradition
Christopher Haas, Villanova University
Belvedere in the Desert: Monastery Towers and Ascetic Vistas
Asen Kirin, The University of Georgia
Urban Monasteries in Constantinople and Thessalonike: Distribution Patterns in Time and Urban Topography
Gunder Varinlioglu, University of Pennsylvania
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