November 10-12, 2006
University of Missouri, St. Louis
Friday, November 10
7:45-8:30 AM REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
8:30-9:00 AM WELCOME
9:05-11:00 AM SESSION I
Chair: Marios Philippides
Warfare, Law, and Politics
Walter E. Kaegi
University of Chicago
The African Drill in the Strategikon of Maurice
David Parnell
Saint Louis University
A Prosopographical Approach to Justinian’s Army
Ralph W. Mathisen
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“De infirmandis his quae sub tyrannis gesta sunt”:The Fate of the Acta of Failed Emperors during the Early Byzantine Empire
Dimitrios Krallis
University of Michigan
Democratic Praxis and Republican Ideology in the Eleventh Century
9:05-11:00 AM SESSION II
Chair: Sharon Gerstel
Churches
Robert Ousterhout
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Church of St. Spyridon at Silivri/Selymbria
Anastasios Tantsis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Three Churches of Mystra Reconsidered
Linda Safran
University of Toronto
Talking Walls: Graffiti in Southeastern Italy
Nebojöa Stanković
Princeton University
Middle- and Late-Byzantine Monastic Ossuaries: Architecture, Liturgical Function, and Meaning
11:00-11:15 AM COFFEE
11:15-12:30 AM SESSION III
Chair: George Demacopoulos
Intellectual Culture and the Encounter with the Past
Stratis Papaioannou
Brown University and Dumbarton Oaks
Byzantine Perceptions of Late Antiquity
Charles J. Zabrowski
Gettysburg College
Evidence for an Independent Textual Tradition of Aeschylus’s Persae in Manuscripts of Thessalonican Provenance
James F. Patterson
University of Texas at Austin
Omnia Appetunt Esse: A Possible Link Between Plethon and Scholasticism
11:15-12:30 AM SESSION IV
Chair: Ruma Niyogi-Salhi
Cities, Commerce, and Culture
Aslihan Akisik
Harvard University
Praising a City in the Late Byzantine Period: Nicea, Trebizond, and Thessalonica
Dimitri Korobeinikov
University of Oxford
A Byzantine City in the Nomadic Environment: Laodikeia in the Thirteenth Century
Koray Durak
Harvard University\
Arabic Pharmacological Literature: An Alternative Source of Evidence for Byzantine-Arab Commerce in the Early Middle Ages
12:30-2:00 PM LUNCH
2:00-3:45 PM SESSION V
Chair: Robert Ousterhout
The Trade in Illicit Antiquities: The Responsibilities of Scholars, Museum Curators, and Professional Organizations
Panel Discussion
Panelists:
Gary Vikan
Walters Art Gallery
Malcolm Bell III
Archeological Institute of America and University of Virginia
Günder Varinoğlu
University of Pennsylvania
2:00-3:45 PM SESSION VI
Chair: Alice-Mary Talbot
Holy People and Places
Anthony Kaldellis
Ohio State University
Why Did Christian Pilgrims Travel to the Byzantine Parthenon?
Nathanael Andrade
University of Michigan
Pseudo-Martyrius’s Life of John Chrysostom and the Contested Spaces of Constantinople
Robert R. Phenix, Jr.
Saint Louis University
A Syriac Verse Homily on the Translation of the Bones of the Patriarch Joseph to Constantinople in the Fifth Century
Paroma Chatterjee
University of Chicago
Saintly Lives in Sacred Space: A Physical Context for Byzantine “Vita” Icons
3:45-4:00 PM COFFEE
4:00-6:00 PM SESSION VII
Chair: Carolyn Connor
Manuscripts and Sculpture
Steven H. Wander
University of Connecticut, Stamford\
The Joshua Roll: Codex Vaticanus Palatinus Graecus 431, Reconsidered
Travis Lee Clark
Temple University
Behold the Cosmos: The Virgin Frontispieces of Smyrna Evangelical School B.8
Eunice Dauterman Maguire
Johns Hopkins University
A Byzantine Ceramic Nude at Johns Hopkins University
Lisa Mahoney
Johns Hopkins University
Picturing Strength: The Appropriation of Byzantine Imperial Motifs in the Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César (London, MS. Add. 15268)
4:00-6:00 PM SESSION VIII
Chair: Tia Kolbaba
Rethinking Byzantine Theological Controversy
George E. Demacopoulos
Fordham University
What’s in a Title?: Pope Gregory I and the “Ecumenical” Controversy of the Late Sixth Century
Adam Schor
Long Island University, C W Post Campus
Behind the Controversy: Advantages and Limitations of Socio-political Approaches to Theological Disputes
George A. Bevan
University of Toronto
The Deep Politics of Chalcedon
D.Oliver Herbel
Saint Louis University
Ratramnus of Corbie and Photios of Constantinople as Sources for Bonaventure’s Filioque Arguments in the Sentences
6:00-7:00 PM Discussion of the Graduate Student Prize
Chair: Derek Krueger
with libations
Saturday, November 11
8:30-10:30 AM SESSION IX
Chair: Alicia Walker
Excavations at Amorium
Mücahide Lightfoot
Amorium Excavations Project
A Brief Survey of the Metalwork from Amorium
Eric A. Ivison
City University of New York
The Baptistery of the Lower City Church at Amorium and Changing Patterns of Baptism in Byzantium
Johanna Witte-Orr
Farmington, Iowa
Pastimes in Amorium: Games and Gameboards
C.S. Lightfoot
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Shedding Light on Dark Age and Middle Byzantine Amorium
8:30-10:30 AM SESSION X
Chair: Georgia Frank
Panel Discussion of Susan Ashbrook Harvey’s Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination (University of California Press, 2006)
Panelists:
Robin Darling Young
University of Notre Dame
Béatrice Caseau
Université de Paris IV Sorbonne
Deborah Green
University of Oregon
Maria Hatjigeorgiou
Middlebury College
Robert S. Nelson
Yale University
Respondent:
Susan Ashbrook Harvey
Brown University
10:30-10:45 AM COFFEE
10:45-12:30 AM SESSION XI
Chair: Robert Allison
Ascetics and Monastics
Cornelia B. Horn
Saint Louis University
True Repentance: Hesychius of Jerusalem’s Influence on Ascetic Movements in Byzantine Palestine
Matthew Milliner
Princeton University
Theodore of Studios and the Transformation of the Holy Man
Hellen Dayton
Harvard University
Implications of Gregory Sinaites’ Jesus Prayer on Russian Monastic Life As Seen Through the “Ustav” of Nil Sorsky
Robert Romanchuk
Florida State University
The Gorica Miscellany (Belgrade SANU 446) and the Education of a “Bluestocking Nun”
10:45-12:30 AM SESSION XII
Chair: Anne McClanan
Decorating, Defining, and Furnishing Sacred Space
Alev Turker
Hacettepe University, Ankara
A Unique Iconographic Type of Christ in Cappadocia: Christ, The Ancient of Days
Carolyn L. Connor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Lost Mosaics of Constantinople and the Middle-Byzantine Program of Church Decoration
Annie Labatt
Yale University
Crossing Boundaries: Byzantine Processional Crosses and Realms of Uncertainty
Mark J. Johnson
Brigham Young University
The Villa of Centcelles and the Porphyry Alveus at the Monastery of Santes Creus
12:30-2:15 PM BUSINESS LUNCH
2:30-4:15 PM SESSION XIII
Chair: Stratis Papaioannou
Literature and Performance
Thomas Brauch
Central Michigan University
Themistius: The Private Orations
Amy Papalexandrou
University of Texas at Austin
Emelōdei gynaikōdōs: The Ingenious Song of Andronikos Komnenos
Andrew Walker White
University of Maryland, College Park
Theatre and Drama in Byzantium: New Approaches, New Contexts
Kevin Kalish
Princeton University
A Christian Narrative in Homeric Verse: The Melding of Poetic Traditions in the Vision of Dorotheus and the Emergence of Christian Hexameter Poetry
2:30-4:15 PM SESSION XIV
Chair: Kathleen Maxwell
Beyond Byzantine
Suna Cagaptay
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
How Ottoman Is It? Envisioning Early Fourteenth-Century Prousa and Its Byzantine Architectural Setting
Heather Grossman
University of Illinois at Chicago
Historiography and Hybridity: Western Medieval and Byzantine Architectural Canons and the Medieval Mediterranean
Marios Philippides
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The Great King of Persia, Alexander the Great, and Mehmed II Fatih: Cardinal Isidore and his Literary Circle in 1453
Nora Laos
University of Houston
Byzantium in Texas: The Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum in Houston
4:15-4:30 COFFEE
4:30-6:15 SESSION XV
Chairs: Glenn Peers and Charles Barber
Panel Discussion of Marie-José Mondzain’s Image, Icon, Economy and Models for New Approaches to Byzantine Cultural Studies
Panelists:
Charles Barber
University of Notre Dame
Rico Franses
Pratt Institute
Marie-José Mondzain
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris\
Glenn Peers
University of Texas at Austin
4:30-6:15 SESSION XVI
Chair: Cecil L. Striker
Anatolian Archeology
Zeliha Demirel Gökalp
Anadolu University, Eskişehir
Byzantine Æ Coin Finds from Pisidia in a General Evaluation of the Byzantine Numismatic Evidence in Anatolia
Gökçen Kurtuluş Öztaşkın
Anadolu University, Eskişehir
Byzantine Period Buildings in Antalya/Yanartas
Muradiye Bursalı
Anadolu University, Eskişehir
Early Byzantine Period Vessels from Antalya/Olympos
Yelda Olcay Uçkan
Anadolu University, Eskişehir
and
Yalçın Mergen
Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir
New and Different View of the Ancient Lycian City of Olympos: The City of the Hieromartyr Methodios
7:30-10:30 Banquet
Sunday, November 12
8:30-10:30 AM SESSION XVII
Chair: Linda Safran
Byzantium in Italy
Lisa Boutin
University of California, Los Angeles
Jacopo Bellini’s Manifestations of Artistic Synthesis: Veneto-Byzantine Painting and Half-length Madonnas
Rebecca W. Corrie
Bates College
Once Again: Byzantine Painters and Images of St. Francis in Tuscany and Umbria
Anne McClanan
Portland State University
The Virgin’s Belt from Constantinople to Siena: Reinventing a Sacred Relic
Alicia Walker
Washington University, St. Louis
The San Marco Censer in Context: Literary and Artistic Depictions of the Middle Byzantine Garden Pavilion
8:30-10:30 AM SESSION XVIII
Chair: George Majeska
The Black Sea and Armenia
Christina Maranci
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Architecture, Sculpture, and the Measure of Time in Early Medieval Armenia
Alexander Gertsen
Taurida National University, Simferopol, Ukraine
Early Byzantine Doros-Mangup
Aleksandr Aibabin
National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine
The Rural Population of the Northern Border of the Byzantine Empire in the Mountains of Crimea in the 6th to 9th Centuries
10:30-10:45 AM COFFEE
10:45-12:30 PM SESSION XIX
Chair: Asen Kirin
Early Byzantine Arts
David H. Wright
University of California at Berkeley
Large-Scale Christian Painting on Linen from Greek Fifth-Century Egypt
Örgü Dalgıç
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
The Triumph of Dionysus in Constantinople: A Mosaic and Its Context
Linda Moskeland Fuchs
Cornell University
A Textual Variant in Early Christian Art: The “Jonah Sarcophagus” and Origen on Peter’s Journey to Emmaus [Luke 24:34]
10:45-12:30 PM SESSION XX
Chair: Adam Schor
The Sacred and the Profane
Adam Chambers
Miami University of Ohio
Sacred Space and Social Meaning:Churches and Their Benefactors in the Transjordan: 4th-7th c. C.E.
Gregor Kalas
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Icon and Portrait: Image Genres in Rome at the Onset of Iconoclasm
Jacquelyn Tuerk
Kean University
Sacred Space and Magical Amulets
Hélène Bernier
Université de Paris X, Nanterre
Greek Vampires: Pre-Christian, Christian, and Slavic Elements in a Long-lasting Belief
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