Byzantine Conferences

Byzantine Conferences Byzantine Conferences

August 2007

--- DE AMICITIA - SOCIAL NETWORKS AND RELATIONSHIPS PASSAGES FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MIDDLE AGES III 17-19 August 2007
Department of History 33014 University of Tampere, Finland

Abstract DEADLINE: 1.8.2006

E-mail: [email protected]

In different cultures people experience the bond between them and the other people differently. They re-create their self image and their identities according to the family background, social group, gender and religion. The experience of the unity and the bond between the people is a strong cultural and social factor. As a continuation to the already well established tradition of Passages from Antiquity to the Middle Ages -conferences (I, Family, Marriage and Death, in 2003, and II, Aging, Old Age and Death in 2005) the third conference focuses on the networks and relationships in society, relations between individuals, families and different social groups. The aim is to bring together scholars from various fields of study to discuss the continuities and changes in experiencing and constructing networks and relationships. We warmly welcome contributions with a comparative and/or interdisciplinary perspective. We invite submissions on the following topics: - friendship relationships - relations and networks based on gender - kinship as a social and cultural construction - intellectual/religious brother- and sisterhoods - patron-client relations - relationships and networks of different social- and ethnic groups Please submit your abstract (300 words) as an email attachment with your name, academic affiliation, mailing and email address to [email protected]. The deadline for abstracts is August 1, 2006. The Registration fee for all those attending or participating is 50 euros, with a post-graduate student rate of 30 euros (includes conference material).

Christian Kr�tzl, Professor Katariina Mustakallio, Assistant Professor Jussi Hanska, Senior Researcher Department of History, 33014 University of Tampere, Finland
http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/historia/sivut/english/medieval.htm Papers of the Passages I-II-conferences: Hoping for Continuity. Childhood Education and Death in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Katariina Mustakallio et al. (eds.), ACTA IRF 33, Rome 2005, www.irfrome.org -- Katariina Mustakallio Department of History FIN-33014 University of Tampere, Finland email:[email protected]

August 2006

--- BRITISH MUSEUM BYZANTINE SEMINAR

� Late Antique and Early Byzantine Ivories�

A one-day seminar to be held in the Sackler B Seminar Room, the Great Court,

British Museum on Thursday August 17th, 2006

Programme

9.30-10.10 Title to be announced

Professor Alan Cameron (University of Columbia)

10.10-10.50 �Representing consulship: motif repertory and compositional structure in the consular diptychs�

Dr Cecilia Olovsdotter (Swedish Institute of Classical Studies, Rome)

10.50-11.15 Coffee

11.15-11.55 �The man with a crab on the end of his nose: solemnity and spectacle on consular diptychs�

Dr Tony Eastmond (Courtauld Institute, London)

11.55-12.25 �The Art of Healing: the Asklepios/Hygiea Diptych�

Dr Ralph Jackson (British Museum)

12.25-13.05 �The Problem of Colour�

Professor Robin Cormack (Emeritus Professor, Courtauld Institute, London)

13.05-14.10 Lunch

14.10-15.00 �Late Roman and Early Byzantine Ivories: some material and physical considerations� (Handling/Lecture)

Professor Tony Cutler (University of Penn State)

15.00-17.00 Handling Session/Open Discussion
This one-day seminar offers a unique opportunity to study side-by-side the ivory diptychs from three of the UKs leading collections: the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Liverpool Museum. For logistical reasons the seminar will be restricted to the first thirty-five applicants.

--- The Mother of God in Byzantium: Relics, Icons, and Texts�. 16th- 18th August, 2006 Conference to be held at St Edmund Hall, Oxford

This conference will consider the development and transformation of the cult of the Theotokos in Byzantium. We will emphasise the 8th and 9th centuries as the critical period when Christian attitudes toward the Virgin and her veneration were transformed. This entails a reexamination of the relationship between the cults of icons, relics and the Virgin, currently the focus of a research project at the University of Birmingham which is funded by the Academic Higher Research Council (AHRC) of the United Kingdom. In the conference we will begin by looking at the 5th- and 6th-century antecedents for the cult of the Theotokos in the Holy Land and in Constantinople, then turn to its acceleration and diffusion, with particular emphasis on the development of feast-days, epithets, relics, and icons. Speakers will also consider the implications of the Theotokos for the study of popular attitudes and gender in the middle Byzantine period.

Opening Remarks: Dame Professor Averil Cameron

I. The Virgin Mary in the Near East and Holy Land
� Dr Rina Avner: �The initial tradition of the Theotokos at the site of the Kathisma: earliest celebrations and the calendar�
� Archimandrite Ephrem Lash: title to be confirmed.
� Dr Natalia Smelova: �Syriac hymns on the Mother of God: imagery and theology� Respondent: Dr Marlia Mango

II. Veneration of the Theotokos in early and middle Byzantium
� Dr Kate Cooper: �What difference did Ephesos make?�
� Prof Henry Maguire: �Body, clothing, and metaphor: the Virgin in early Byzantine art�
� Dr Jane Baun: �Apocalyptic Panagia: some theological undersides of Marian devotion�
Respondent: Dr Annemarie Weyl Carr

III. Texts and theology
� Dr Stephen Shoemaker: �A Mother�s Passion: The Maximos Life of the Virgin as Source of George of Nikomedia�s Passion homilies�
� Revd Prof Andrew Louth: �John of Damascus on the Mother of God as a link between humanity and God�
� Dr Niki Tsironis: �Emotion and the senses in Middle Byzantine homilies on the Mother of God�
Respondent: Professor Elizabeth Jeffreys

IV. Acceleration of the cult in Constantinople
� Dr Bissera Pentcheva: �The role of icons of the Theotokos in post-iconoclast Constantinople�
� Dr Dirk Krausm�ller: �Making the most of Mary: the Chalkoprateia in the tenth century�
� Dr Nancy Sevcenko: �The Canon of the lamenting Virgin revisited�
Respondent: Dr Maria Vassilaki

V. Types and metaphors for the Mother of God in literature and art
� Dr Margaret Barker: �Temple Imagery and the Mother of God�
� Dr Leena-Mari Peltomaa: �Epithets in the Akathistos Hymn�
� Dr Kallirhoe Linardou: �Depicting the Salvation: Typological images of Mary in the Kokkinobaphos�
Respondent: Dr Matthew Steenberg

VI. Gender implications of the cult of the Theotokos
� Dr Derek Krueger: �Mary, the saints, and gender�
� Dr Elizabeth Bolman: �Relics of the Galaktotrophousa: the Milk Grotto and middle Byzantine depictions of the nursing Virgin Mary�
� Dr Conrad Leyser: �Mary and masculinity in the Latin West�
Respondent: Dr Liz James

� Prof Leslie Brubaker and Dr Mary Cunningham: �Relics, Icons and the Mother of God: some conclusions�
General Conclusions: Professor Margaret Mullett

Please send all enquiries to Dr Mary Cunningham at: [email protected]
44 Church Street, Littleover, Derby DE23 6GD, U.K.

12th may 2006 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Program in Hellenic Studies

COLLOQUIUM
When Culture Dreams Empire:
�Byzantium� as Usable Past

May 12, 2006
9:30a.m. - 5:00p.m.
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103

Chair: Dimitri Gondicas (Princeton University)
Introduction: Petre Guran (Princeton University)
�Third Rome� and �Crypto-empire�: From history to historiography

George Majeska (University of Maryland)
Doesn�t it lose something in the translation? Some Remarks on the Appropriation of Byzantine Culture in Russia

Nikos Chrissidis (Southern Connecticut State University)
Was there Byzantium after Byzantium? The Evidence from Russia in the Seventeenth Century

Molly Greene (Princeton University)
Greek Merchants and the Catholic Reformation

Petre Guran (Princeton University)
God explains to Patriarch Athanasios the fall of Constantinople: I.S.Peresvetov and the impasse of political theology

Chair : Slobodan �ur�i� (Princeton University)

Nikos Panou (Harvard University)
Emperor without empire: Rhetoric, power, ideology in late seventeenth-century Wallachia

Christine Philliou (Yale University)
Janus-faced or synthesis? Anatomy of a Phanariot-Ottoman ceremony

Jack Fairey (Princeton University)
Failed Nations and Usable Pasts: The Case of the Byzantine Union, 1844-1860s

Concluding Remarks: Paul Bushkovitch (Yale University)

--- 4th May 2006

The Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation and the Scholarships Association of the Onassis Foundation, in cooperation with the Institute of Byzantine Research of the National Research Centre are organizing a lecture entitled "The power of speech in the Chronography of Michail Psellos". The lecture will be given in Greek by Diether Roderich Reinsch at the Amphitheatre Leonidas Zervas of the National Research Centre at 20:00 on May 4, 2006.

Diether Roderich Reinsch, a top Byzantinologist in Europe was born in Breslau, Germany in 1940 and studied Classical and German Literature at the Universities of Cologne, T�bingen and Berlin. Then he studied Byzantinology at the Free University of Berlin from which he got his PhD on Byzantinology in 1974.

He taught at Bochum University as a professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine Literature from 1986 to 1993 and from then on he has been teaching Byzantinology at the Free University of Berlin. He served as President of the German Byzantinologists' Association and since 2001 he has been serving as Vice President.

Mr Reinsch has published 'Kritovoulos' and in cooperation with distinguished scientists he published Aristotle's' codes, Anna Komnini's 'Alexiada' etc. Additionally, he has published many studies and reviews in scientific magazines on Byzantine and early Modern Hellenic literature. Mr Reinsch's stay in Hellas has been sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation.

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