The Thirty-first annual Byzantine Studies Conference will be held
Friday, October 28- Sunday, October 30, 2005
The University of Georgia, Athens
Athens, Georgia
Thursday, October 27
6:00-8:00 PM REGISTRATION RECEPTION
Friday, October 28 trong>7:45-8:30 AM REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
8:30-9:00 AM WELCOME
9:05-11:00 AM SESSION I
Chair: John Barker
Historiography
Ingela Nilsson
Uppsala University, Sweden
Discovering Literariness in the Past: Some consideration on history and narrative in the Synopsis Chronike of Konstantinos Manasses
Dimitrios Krallis
University of Michigan
Michael Attaleiates as a Military Historian
Leonora Neville
Catholic University
A Memoir of Caesar John Doukas in Nikephoros Bryennios’ History?
Ruma Niyogi-Salhi
Saint Xavier University
Classical Models and Byzantine Historiography: The Case of Psellos, Constantine VIII, and Eleventh Century Decline
9:05-11:00 AM SESSION II
Chair: Thomas Cerbu
Afterlife of Byzantium: Beyond 1453
Angela Volan
Princeton University, Program in Hellenic Studies
Adam, Eve, and the Apocalypse in Fifteenth-Century Crete
Maria Mavroudi
University of California, Berkeley
Greek and Arabic Ptolemy in the Paleologan and Early Ottoman Period
Jeanne-Marie Musto
Bryn Mawr College
Byzantium in Bavaria: The New-Greek Architecture of Post-Napoleonic Germany
Olenka Pevny
University of Richmond
Recreating Byzantine Monuments in Kyiv or Constructing National Identity in Ukraine
11:00-11:15 AM COFFEE
11:15-12:30 AM SESSION III
Chair: Andrew Ladis
Appropriating Byzantium in Medieval Italy I
Celia Chazelle
The College of New Jersey
Vercelli Bibl. Cap. 165: The Iconography and Ideology of Rulership in Carolingian Italy
stián Salvadó
Stanford University
Byzantine Icons and the Thirteenth-Century Catalan Crusades of James I the Conqueror
George Demacopoulos
Fordham University
The Politics of Plunder: The Movement of the Relics of St. Gregory the Theologian and St. John Chrysostom from Constantinople to Rome and Back Again
11:15-12:30 AM SESSION IV
Chair: John Duffy
Church Councils I
Craig H. Caldwell
Princeton University
A Conciliar Skirmish: The Council of Serdica within an Age of Civil Wars
Jim Cousins
University of Kentucky
Ecclesiastical Clientism in the Court of Marcian
Adam Schor
Long Island University, C.W. Post
Preaching in Tongues: Multilingual Doctrinal Networks in the Early Christological Conflict
12:30-2:00 PM LUNCH
2:00-3:45 PM SESSION V
Chair: Carolyn Connor
Liturgical and Commemorative Practice
David A. Michelson
Princeton University
“Though He Cannot Be Eaten, We Consume Him”: Liturgical and Devotional Contexts for Opposition to Chalcedon at the End of the Fifth Century
Daniel Schwartz
Princeton University
Liturgy and Christian Paideia in Theodore of Mopsuestia’s Catechetical Orations
Sarah Brooks
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Liturgical Planning and Rites of Commemoration: Church Furnishings at the Tomb in the Middle and Late Byzantine Periods
Katherine Marsengill
Princeton University
Icons and Tombs: The use of commemorative portraits in Middle and Late Byzantine funerary contexts
Authority
Kevin Uhalde
Eric Martin
Margaret Trenchard-Smith
Ian Mladjov 3:45PM
4:00-5:30 PM SESSION VII
Open Forum for Graduate Students 4:00-5:30 PM SESSION VIII
Appropriating Byzantium in Medieval Italy II
Thomas Dale
Ludovico Geymonat
Debra Pincus 5:40-6:40 PM PLENARY SESSION
Collecting Byzantium in the U.S.
Helen C. Evans
Robert S. Nelson 6:45-8:00 PM RECEPTION
Saturday, October 29
8:30-10:45 AM SESSION IX
Medieval Ukraine: Sites and Settlements
Alexander Gertsen
Adam Rabinowitz
Larrisa Sedikova
Elisaveta Todorova
8:30-10:45 AM SESSION X
Class, Gender, and Society
Noel Lenski
Jaclyn Maxwell
John Scarborough
Derek Krueger 10:45-11:00 AM COFFEE 11:00-12:45 AM SESSION XI
Jews and Christians
Roly Zylbersztein
Linda Jones Hall
Maureen Reissner O’Brien
Susan Graham 11:00-12:45 AM SESSION XII
Archaeology
Jennifer Ball
Alexandr Aibabin
Robert Ousterhout
Carolyn Snively 12:45-2:30 PM BUSINESS LUNCH 2:40-4:15 PM SESSION XIII
Realities of Byzantine Landscape
Kostis Kourelis
Marica Cassis
Günder Varinliogšlu
2:40-4:15 PM SESSION XIV
Byzantine Literature
Emmanuel Bourbouhakis
James F. Patterson
Tatiana Shamgunova
Anthony Kaldellis 4:15-4:30 COFFEE
4:30-6:30 SESSION XV
Theology and Ecclesiology
Tia Kolbaba
Christo Dimitrov
Hisatsugu Kusabu
Pierre MacKay
4:30-6:30 SESSION XVI
Dec¹ani Monastery
Svetlana Popovic´
Ljubica Popovic´
Michael Milojevic´
7:00-10:00Sunday, October 30
8:30-10:30 AM SESSION XVII
Images and Belief
John F. Shean
Glenn Peers
Galina Tirnanic´
Georgi R. Parpulov
8:30-10:30 AM SESSION XVIII
Byzantium, the East, and North Africa
Claudia Rapp
Johannes Pahlitzsch
Christopher MacEvitt
Walter Kaegi
10:30-10:45 AM COFFEE
10:45-12:30 PM SESSION XIX
Church Councils II
George Bevan
Patrick Gray
David Olster
10:45-12:30 PM SESSION XX
Late Antiquity: Performance
Robert J. Penella
Béatrice Caseau
Andrew Walker White
Chair: Leonora Neville
Ohio University
Bishops, Discernment, and the Law
University of Tennessee
Bishop Athanasius and the Sacrament Mime: The Remnant of an Arian Slur?
University of California, Los Angeles
Poisoning in the Basilika: The history of a law
University of Michigan
Byzantium, Bulgaria and the ‘Family of Kings’
Chair: Hayden Maginnis
University of Wisconsin, Madison
The Appropraition of Byzantine and “Moorish” Culture in San Marco and Venetian Orientalism after the Fourth Crusade
Columbia University
The Invention of Maniera Greca
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
World Views East & West in the Baptistery of San Marco, Venice
Chair: Charles Barber
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Byzantium at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Yale University
William Royall Tyler and the Aesthetics that Formed Dumbarton Oaks
Chair: George Majeska
Taurida National University, Simferopol
Periodization of History of Mangup-Theodoro
University of Texas at Austin
Everyday Things: Material Evidence for Daily Life in Late Byzantine Chersonesos
National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos
‘Dark Ages’ of Chersonesos according to the ceramic materials.
University of Cincinnati
Coastal Sites and Settlements of Medieval Ukraine
Chair: Alice-Mary Talbot
University of Colorado
John Chrysostom on Slavery
Ohio University
The Imagery of Class Snobbery in Late Antiquity
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Procopius, Theodora, and Aetius of Amida: Some Connections
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Monastic Eroticism: Same-Sex Desire in the Works of Symeon the New Theologian
Chair: Walter Hanak
Hebrew University
Jewish Polemic against Christianity in Byzantine Midrash
St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Jewish-Christian Interaction in Byzantine Beirut; Narratio de cruce seu imagine Berytensi
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Naked Woman in the Nile: Pharaoh’s Daughter at Dura Europos Reconsidered
St. Peter’s College, New Jersey
St. Stephen and the Jews in Byzantine Jerusalem
Chair: Eric Ivison
Brooklyn College, City University of New York
The ‘Missing Link’: Filling the Gap in the Evolution of Medieval Looms
Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Simferopol Byzantine Fortress on Eski-Kermen Mountain in Crimea
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Byzantine Churches of Ainos/Enez
Gettysburg College
Recent Archaeological Discoveries at Golemo Gradis¹te, Konjuh, Republic of Macedonia
Chair: Cecil Striker
Clemson University
Sacred Topography and the Byzantine Village
University of Toronto
Çadir Höyük: A Byzantine Settlement in Central Anatolia
University of Pennsylvania
Life On The Edge: Ravines, Caves and Depressions in Isaurian Topography and Mentality
Chair: Elizabeth Fisher
Harvard University
‘Navigating the Sea of Rhetoric’: Aural Poetics and the Compass of Byzantine Literature
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Neo-Platonism and the Revival of Greek Antiquity in the Fifteenth Century: Gemistos Plethon’s Monody for Helena Dragas1 Palaiologina
Ural State University, Ekaterinburg, Russia
The Image of the Turks in the Letters of Maximos Planudes
Ohio State University
Historicism in Byzantine Literature and Thought
Chair: Robert Allison
Rutgers University
Patriarch Photios and the Filioque or How the Twelfth Century Influenced the Ninth
Independent Scholar (Washington, D.C.)
The Church Union between Bulgaria and the Papacy as Part of Western Europe’s Attack on Byzantium in the 13th Century
University of Chicago
The Dragon’s Head is Off: The Compilation of the Dogmatike Panoplia and the Chapter Against the Bogomils
University of Washington
The Dominican Province of Greece, 1228--1500
Chair: Ellen Schwartz
Prince George’s Community College
The Monastery of Dec¹ani and Its Built Environment
Vanderbilt University
The Dispersal of Old Testament Figures Throughout the Architectural Spaces of Dec¹ani
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Looking Around Hilandar : A Documentary QTVR Spherical Panorama Project on Mount Athos
Chair: Lynn Jones
LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
Byzantine Military Saints: A Diversity of Types
University of Texas at Austin
The Polyvalency of a Motif: The Stag and Hunter in the Twelfth-Century Frescoed Grotto at Kafr Shleiman, Sayyidat Naya, Lebanon
University of Chicago
Superstitious Manipulation of Pagan Statuary in Medieval Constantinople
The J. Paul Getty Museum
New Observations on the Madrid Skylitzes (BN, Vitr. 26-2)
Chair: Naomi Norman
University of California, Los Angeles
A Christian Saint at the Persian Court: Hagiography and Plausibility in the Fifth Century
Js Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Family Foundations in Byzantium and the Islamic World. A Comparative Study
Dartmouth College
The Paradoxical World of Ecumenical Negotiations: Manuel I Komnenos and Syrian Orthodox Christians
University of o
Byzantine Numidia: Another Look
Chair: Tia Kolbaba
University of Toronto
Was the Second Council of Ephesus Oecumenical?
York University, Toronto
Forged Forgeries: Constantinople III and the Acts of Constantinople II
University of Kentucky
Imperial and Papal Claims of Authority at the Sixth Ecumenical Council
Chair: John Barker
Fordham University
Himerius and the Praetorian Prefect Secundus Salutius
Paris IV Sorbonne
Mocking the Gods in Late Antiquity
University of Maryland, College Park
The Humanity of the Byzantine Mime: Choricius of Gaza and the Sixth Century Theatre
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