Procopius and his Justinianic World workshop (hybrid event, timings are local to Barcelona)
Tuesday 30th to Wednesday 31st May 2023
University of Barcelona
Tuesday 30th May
9.30 Opening session
10-10.40 Keynote speaker: Juan Signes Codoñer (U. Complutense Madrid)
Invective and panegyric in historiography? The case of Procopius
10.45-11.15 Break
11.15-12 David Kennedy (U. Exeter)
Procopius’ use of Coded Invective at the Start of Book II of Wars
12-12.40 Oriol Febrer (U. Leiden)
Parodies of Imperial Discourse in Sixth-Century AD Greek Epigrams
12.40-13.20 Sergi Grau (U. Barcelona / Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica)
Theodora, a (not so) holy harlot: Procopius’ Secret History and the hagiographical narrative 13.30-15 Break
15-15.40 David Parnell (U. Indiana) (online)
Procopius and Antonina: Competitors for Influence with Belisarius?
15.45-16.30 Christopher Ian Lillington-Martin (U. Barcelona / U. Coventry)
Procopius’ Portrayal of Place 16.30-16.45 Break
16.45-17.30 Marco Cristini, (Istituto Italiano di Storia Antica) (online)
The End of the Gothic War in Procopius and Agathias
Wednesday 31st May
9.30-10.10 Larisa Ficulle Santini (U. St Andrews / U. Sapienza)
After and beyond Procopius: Agathias and the Cave of the Sibyl
10.15-11 Marlena Whiting (U. Oxford)
Expressed by the Mosaics: The Ekphrasis of The Chalke Dome Mosaic in Light of Iconographic Parallels
11-11.30 Break
11.30-12.15 Conor Whately (U. Winnipeg)
Procopius on Arabia and Palestine in the Sixth Century 12.15-13 Montserrat Camps-Gaset (UB) Procopius and Romanos the Melodist: Christian cult innovations in Constantinople
13-13.45 Final discussion and closing session
*If you would like a link to follow the sessions online (or wish to attend), please contact: clillington-martin@ub.edu / mcamps@ub.edu
Facultat de Filologia i Comunicació
(Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585, 08007 Barcelona)
Sala de Professors: Edifici Josep Carner
Organized by:
- Departament de Filologia Clàssica, Romànica i Semítica
- Màster de Cultures i Llengües de l’Antiguitat