Friday, October 27th

Registration Tables Open

7:00 am – 3:00 pm | Closed for lunch break 12:00 – 1:00 pm

Location: Belzberg Atrium

 

Coffee/Breakfast

7:00 – 8:00 am

Location: ICBC Concourse

 

Book Exhibit

7:00 – 5:00 pm

Location: ICBC Concourse

 

Panel 1A | Writing and Ideology

8:00 – 10:00 am

Location: WCC 100 | Asia Pacific Hall

Chair: Colin Whiting, Dumbarton Oaks

• The Martyrdom of Pagan Philosophers at Antioch in Ammianus Marcellinus’ Res Gestae 14 and 29 | Sergio Carlos Tamez, Ohio State Univeristy
  
• The Use of Language in Early Byzantine Missions: Instrument and Ideology | Yuliya Minets, University of Alabama
  
• Washing them White: “Ethiopians” in Byzantine Literature | Dane Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  
• The Prosperous, Holy Islandscape of Early Byzantine Cyprus | Young Richard Kim, University of Illinois at Chicago

 

Panel 1B | Byzantine Things

8:00 – 10:00 am

Location: WCC 320

Chair: Hallie Meredith, Washington State University

• Received Materiality and the Kyrenia Girdle: The Weight of Adornment Under The Reign Of Maurice Tiberius | Serena D'Alessandro, Florida State University
  
• Weaving Empire, Exchange, and Identity: The Microhistory of a Late Antique Silk Roundel | Clara Pinchbeck, Case Western Reserve University
  
• Constantine’s Chi-rho: Visual Expression of Power in the Imperial Roman Tradition | Sonia Dixon, Florida State University
• The Greek Gospel Lectionaries in the Libraries of Sultan Mehmed II and Malatesta Novello | Robert S. Nelson, Yale University emeritus

 

Break

10:00 – 10:15 am

Location: ICBC Concourse

 

Panel 2A | Medieval Contact Zones: Literary Encounters around the Greek-Speaking World

10:15 am – 12:15 pm

Location: WCC 100 | Aisa Pacific Hall

Organizer: Ugo Mondini | Chair: Vessela Valiavitcharska, University of Maryland, College Park

• Education as Contact: Causes, Strategies, and Effects of New Teaching Methods, 10th-11th Centuries | Ugo Mondini, University of Oxford
  
• Love in the Contact Zone | Michael Cooperson, UCLA
  
• Power and Legitimacy in Context: John Kantakouzenos’ Rhetoric of Power Addressed to the Pope, the People of Constantinople, and the Mamluk Sultan | Andrea Cuomo, Ghent University
  
• Byzantium in Muscovy: A Global Age of Absolutism | Alexandra Vukovich, King's College London

 

Panel 2B | Studies in Iconography

10:15 am – 12:15 pm

Location: WCC 320

Chair: Georgios Makris, University of British Columbia

• From Monumental to Miniature: Networks of Meaning across Macro and Micro Mosaic Icons of Christ in Late Byzantium | Lindsay Corbett, McGill University
  
• What’s In a Name: An Unlabeled Iconography on a Group of Middle Byzantine Amulets | Caitlin Mims, Florida State University
  
• Flowers in Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Art | Amy Gillette, The Barnes Foundation
  
• Reassessing the Iconographies of Constantine and Helena | Lynn Jones, Florida State University

 

Lunch Break

12:15 – 2:00 pm

Location: ICBC Concourse

 

Graduate and Early Career Lunch | Beyond the Academy: Research, Careers and Public Engagement

Sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Centre for Byzantine Art and Culture

12:15 - 2:00pm

Location: WCC 420 | Strategy Room

Panelists: Tera Hedrick, Young Kim, Colin Whiting

 

Panel 3A | New Approaches to Religion in Byzantium, Part 1

2:00 - 4:00pm

Location: WCC 100 | Asia Pacific Hall

Session Organizers: Derek Krueger and Georgia Frank  | Chair: Georgia Frank, Colgate University

• Icon Theory, Icon Practice:  A Ritual Studies Approach to Middle Byzantine Worship with Images | Derek Krueger, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  
• Idol/Icon | Alicia Walker, Bryn Mawr College
  
• Constructing Monastic Faith: How Archaeologists Misshaped the Material Religion of Monasticism | Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, Brandeis University
• Being is out of Joint: Maximos’ Unstable Ontology and its Significance for Contemporary Essentialisms | Luis Josué Salés, Scripps College

 

Panel 3B: History, Memory, and Prophecy in the Twelfth Century

2:00 – 4:00 pm

Location: WCC 320

Chair: Elias Petrou, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• Prophecy, Apocalypse and Salvation in the Margins of John Zonaras, Niketas Choniates and George Akropolites | Julián Bértola, Princeton University
  
• Ekphrasis, Narrative, and Memory in the Chronike Diegesis of Niketas Choniates | Ethan Schmidt, Simon Fraser University
  
• Seeing in the Mind's Eye: Theories of Consciousness from Aristotle to Bachelard by Way of Byzantium | Christina Christoforatou, Baruch College, City University of New York
  
• An Oath of Fidelity in Cyprus: The 1191 Conquest in Mediterranean Political Cultures | Daniel Berardino, University of California, Berkley

 

Break

4:00 – 4:15 pm

Location: ICBC Concourse

 

Panel 4A | New Approaches to Religion in Byzantium, Part 2

4:15 – 6:15 pm

Location: WCC 100 | Asia Pacific Hall

Session Organizers: Derek Krueger and Georgia Frank  | Chair: Derek Krueger, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

• Rethinking Imperial Religion in Byzantium | George Demacopoulos, Fordham University
  
• “The Young Woman Neither Died nor Delivered”: Reading Difficult Labor as Religious Punishment in Early Byzantine Literature | Candace L. Buckner, Virginia Tech
  
• "Lived Religion" and Palm Sunday in Early Byzantium | Georgia Frank, Colgate University

 

Panel 4B | Technological Approaches

4:15 – 6:15 pm

Location: WCC 320

Chair: Brad Hostetler, Kenyon College

• Byzantine Manuscripts in Illinois: The Photostatic Facsimiles of St. Jerome’s Project at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Elias Petrou, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  
• Does My Computer Read Greek? Recognition Software and its Applications for Byzantine Greek Materials | Hannelore Segers, Beinecka Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  
• Digital Byzantium: Three Case Studies for Teaching the Byzantine World | Joseph Kopta, Temple University