Thursday March 7, 2013

 

 

CEU Budapest, Nádor utca 9, Popper Room

 

10:00-10:30 am  Marianne Sághy (Budapest) Welcome and Introductory Remarks: What’s new pagans and Christians? 

 

10:30-12:30 pm Cities, Sophists, Bishops
Chair:  Rita Lizzi Testa (Perugia)

 

Josef Rist (Bochum): Conversion in a late antique city: The Life of Bishop Porphyry of Gaza by Mark the Deacon
Raffaella Cribiore (New York): The sophist Libanius as a grey pagan
Wolf Liebeschuetz (Nottingham) A view from Cyrrhus: Theodoret’s ‘Affectionum graecarum curatio’
Samuel Provost (Nancy): Living side by side in a changing urban landscape: Christians, Pagans and Jews in Philippi (4th-6th centuries)

 

12:30-1:30 lunch break

 

1:30-3:00 pm  Religion and Philosophy
Chair: Marianne Sághy (Budapest)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete (Paris) Relations between philosophical and religious traditions at the beginning of the Christian era : two new digital research tools
Róbert Somos (Pécs): Sentences as elements of philosophia moralis: Adaptations of a pagan literary form in the Works of Rufinus of Aquileia
Maël Goarzin (Lausanne): Pagan and Christian biography in late antiquity: On the importance of practical life for pagan and Christian philosophers

 

 

 

 

3-3:30 Coffee break

 

3:30-5:00 pm Cohabitation and/or Conversion
Chair: Michele R. Salzman (Riverside)

 

Zsófia Buzádi-Sallai (Budapest): A pagan who converted and became bishop
Margarita Vallejo-Girvés (Alcalá): Empress Verina among the pagans
Miriam Adan Jones (Amsterdam): Conversion as c

onvergence: Understanding Gregory the Great’s attitude toward pagan and Jewish influences in Anglo-Saxon Christianity

 

5:30-6:30 pm keynote lecture
CEU,  Budapest, Nádor utca 9, Auditorium
Chair: Wolf Liebeschuetz

 

Alan Cameron (New York): Were pagans afraid to speak their mind?

 

7:00 pm Buffet dinner

 

 

 

Friday March 8 CEU Budapest

 

10:00 -12:00 a.m Parallel sessions

 

 

Historical Perceptions
Popper Room
Chair: Hartwin Brandt (Bamberg)

 

Mar Marcos (Cantabria): Eusebius and Maximinus Daia
Anna Tóth (Budapest):  John Lydus as pagan and Christian
Juana Torres (Cantabria): Rhetoric and historical deformation: Marcus of Arethusa, heretic and martyr
Ecaterina Lung (Bucharest): Religious identity as seen by 6^th-century historians and chroniclers

 

Pagan and Christian Burials
Gellner Room
Chair: Dino Milinovic (Zagreb)

 

Ivan Basic (Split): From Sepulcrum divi Diocletiani to Ecclesia gloriosae Virginis: New propositions on the Christianisation of Diocletian’s mausoleum in Spalato
Monica Hellström (Providence): Circiform funerary basilicas in Rome in the context of previous burial places
Olivér Gábor (Pécs): Pagan and Christian burial customs in Sopianae
Elizabeth O’Brien (Dublin): Impact beyond the Empire: Burial practices in Ireland (4^th – 8^th centuries)

 

Posters:

 

Claudia-Maria Behling (Vienna): Pagan garden to Christian paradise: Early Christianity in the eastern Transdanubian Region
Stefanie Hofbauer (Vienna): Finger rings from Antiquity to Christianity

 

 

12:00-1:00 pm lunch break

 

1:00 pm-3:00 pm: Religious Profiling
Popper Room
Chair: Maijastina Kahlos (Helsinki)

 

Jerome Lagouanère (Paris) The figure of ‘Paganus’ in the Works of Augustine of Hippo
Linda Honey (Calgary) Religious profiling in the Miracles of St. Thekla
Monika Pesthy Simon (Budapest) Martyres versus Pharmakoi
Volker Menze (Budapest) The dark side of holiness: Fear, punishmen

t, death and Barsaumo ‘the Roasted’

 

3:00 pm-3:30 pm Coffee break

 

3:30-5:30 Social and Economic Relations – Civic Life
Popper Room
Chair: Josef Rist (Bochum)

 

Joseph Grzywaczewski (Paris): Sidonius Apollinaris’s pagan vision of Roma bellatrix in Christian Rome
Lucy Grig (Edinburgh): Late antique popular culture and the creation of “paganism”: the Case of the Kalends of January
Sofie Remijsen (Leuven): Christianizing the rhythm of life? Sundays in late antique papyri
Jaclyn Maxwell (Ohio): Social relations and status anxiety across religious divides in late antiquity

 

5:30 pm-6:00 pm Coffee break

 

 

6:00-8:00 pm Pagans, Christians and Material Culture:  Artistic Crossovers
Popper Room
Chair: Lucy Grig (Edinburgh)

 

Rita Lizzi Testa (Perugia): The Economy of pagan temples and Christian churches
Edward M. Schoolman (Nevada): Religious images and contexts: “Christian” and “pagan” terracotta lamps
Dino Milinović (Zagreb): Pagan, Christian, or “secular”? The problem of the silver plate
Steven D. Smith (New York): Pagan literary mimésis in Christian Constantinople: The devotional epigrams of Agathias’ s Cycle

 

 

 

Saturday March 9, 2013

 

Pécs/Sopianae, Late Antique Cemetery
Cella Septichora Visitor Center (Pécs, Szent István tér)

 

1:00-3:00 pm The Archaeology of Christianisation
Chair: Zsolt Visy (Pécs)

 

Mustafa Şahin (Bursa): Myndos Rabbit Island (Tavşan Adası): from pagan sanctuary to Christian monastery
Branka Migotti (Zagreb): The cult of Sol Invictus and early Christianity in Southern Pannonia
Hristo Preshlenov (Sofia): Pagans and Christianisation along the South-West Black Sea Coast in the provinces of Scythia, Moesia Secunda and Haemimontos
Roy Flechner (Dublin): Economic change and conversion to Christianity in early medieval Britain and Ireland: consequence or coincidence?

 

3:00-4:00 pm Coffee break and poster exhibition

 

Zsolt Visy (Pécs): Sopianae and Valeria in the late Roman period
Levente Nagy (Pécs): Christian objects from Pannonia
István Lovász (Pécs): The northern cemetery of Sopianae in 3D
Marijana Vuković (Budapest/Oslo): Saint Irenaeus of Sirmium
Ferenc Fazekas (Pécs) – Antal Szabó (Paks): “Pagan” and Christian culture in Lussonium
Réka Neményi (Pécs): Early Christian cross-bow brooches
Francesca Diosono (Perugia) Pagani and peasants: the rural site of Villa San Silvestro di Cascia
Alessandra Bravi – Silvia Margutti (Perugia): Transformation of sacred spaces:  Constanti

nople and the Eastern Empire
Roy Flechner (Dublin): Converting the Isles

 

4:00-5:00 pm Concluding remarks
Chair: Danielle Slootjes (Nijmegen)
Michele R. Salzman (Riverside)

 

5:00-6:30 pm The Late Antique Cemetery of Sopianae
with guides Zsolt Visy, Levente Nagy and Olivér Gábor

 

6:30-7:30 pm closing lecture
Chair: Alan Cameron (New York)

 

Hartwin Brandt (Bamberg):Constantine and Rome – between pagans and Christians

 

46^TH SPRING SYMPOSIUM OF BYZANTINE STUDIES

University of Birmingham (March 23 -25, 2013)

Byzantine Greece: microcosm of empire?

Venue: the Arts Building, Edgbaston Campus

PROGRAMME

Saturday, March 23^rd

9.15 Registration

10.15 Introduction

Archie Dunn (University of Birmingham): Provincial communities and empire-wide institutions

10.45 – 12.30 Session I: Late Antique Greece

Discussant: Andrew Poulter (University of Nottingham): Balkan perspectives

Georgios Deligiannakis (Open University of Cyprus): From paganism to Christianity in Late Antique Greece: new approaches and new material

Aristotelis Mentzos (Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki), Dion: case study in the transformation of a city (iii – viii cc.)

John Bintliff (University of Leiden), Surveys and the transformation of the Late Antique Greek countryside

12.30 Discussion

 

13.00 – 14.15 Lunch

 

14.15 – 16.00 Session II: Greece in transition

Discussant: Michael Whitby (University of Birmingham), The challenge of the Miracula of St Demetrius

Florin Curta (University of Florida), Coins and burials in Dark-Age Greece (archaeological remarks on the “Byzantine Reconquista”)

Enrico Zanini (University of Siena), The ‘Byzantine District’ of Gortyn (Crete) and the end of a/the Mediterranean city

Natalia Poulou-Papadimitriou (Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki), The material culture of the Aegean (economy and culture)

16.00 Discussion

 

16.30 – 17.00 Coffee and Tea

 

17.00 – 18.15 Communications (parallel sessions):

I.History [5 papers]

 II.Approaches to regional archaeology [5 papers]

 (Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies’ Executive Committee Meeting)

 

18.30 Open Lecture

Olga Karagiorgou (The Academy of Athens), State officials in Hellas between the 7^th and the 13^th centuries

 

Reception sponsored by Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies

 

Sunday, March 24^th

9.15 – 10.15 Communications (Parallel Sessions):

III.History of Art and Architecture

IV.Archaeology (Case Studies: Aegean Greece)

 

10.15 – 10.45 Coffee and Tea

 

10.45 – 12.30 Session III: Urban and rural revival

Discussant: Pamela Armstrong (Oxford University), Pottery and markets (texts and archaeology)

Guy Sanders (American School of Classical Studies at Athens), The when, where, why, and who, of urban and rural revival at Corinth

Joanita Vroom (University of Leiden), Dark-Age and Middle Byzantine Athens vis-à-vis Anatolian cities

Nikos Kontogiannis (23^rd Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities, Greece)/Michael Heslop (Royal Holloway College), The defences of Byzantium in Greece: the flight to safety in town, countryside and islands

12.30 – 13.00 Discussion

 

13.00 – 14.15 Lunch

(AGM of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies)

 

14.15 – 16.00 Session IV: Patronage and sacred space (Middle Byzantine)

Discussant: Leslie Brubaker (University of Birmingham)

Sharon Gerstel (University of Californian at Los Angeles), “Entering in faith and fear”: emotions and the liturgical arts in Byzantine Greece

Georgios Velenis (Aristotelian  University of Thessaloniki), Architectural trends in the Middle Byzantine period and the ways of applying them in the Helladic space

Sophia Kalopisi- Verti (University of Athens), Patronage of religious foundations in Middle Byzantine Greece (ca.850-1200): the evidence of church inscriptions and donor portraits

16.00  Discussion

 

16.30 – 17.00 Coffee and Tea

 

17.15 – 18.30 Open Lectures

Eugenia Gerousi-Bendermacher (Greek Ministry of Culture and Tourism), Byzantine Greece in the light of recent archaeological finds from large-scale infrastructural and development projects

Amalia Kakisis (British School at Athens) / Demetra Kotoula (British School at Athens), The Byzantine Research Fund’s archives at the British School at Athens: a modern view on the British heritage in Greece

 

Reception sponsored by Ashgate Publishing

 

Monday, March 25^th

9.15 – 10.15 Communications (parallel sessions):

V.Archaeology (Case Studies: Macedonia)

VI.Anatolian Comparanda

 

10.15 – 10.30 Coffee and Tea

 

10.30 – 12.15 Session V: The bishop, the farmer, and the merchant

Discussant: Michael Angold (University of Edinburgh)

Teresa Shawcross (Amherst College, Massachusetts), “The fortunate metropolis”: episcopal wealth and power in the Middle Byzantine empire

Alan Harvey (Northumbria University), Economic decision-making in Greece during the eleventh and twelfth centuries

Maria Gerolymatou (The Greek National Research Foundation), The merchant

12.15 Discussion

 

Concluding lecture

12.45 – 13.15 John Haldon (Princeton University): An Anatolian perspective

13.15 Conclusion

 

13.30 Lunch

 

COMMUNICATIONS SESSIONS 1 – 6

17.00 – 18.15 SATURDAY:

I.HISTORY

Chrestos Malatras, “The society of Serres in the fourteenth century: a microcosm  of the  empire?”

Georgios Panagopoulos, “The Helladic bishops in the aftermath of Chalcedon according to the Codex Encyclius (457)”

Alexander Panayotov, “Putting the Jewish communities of Byzantine Greece on the map: the sources”

Gethin Rees, “Mapping the Jewish communities of Byzantine Greece: a Geographical Information Systems approach”

Frank Trombley, “Athonite documents and the impact of war on mainland Greece, 10^th – 14^th c.”

 

II.APPROACHES TO REGIONAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Adam Izdebski / Marta Tycner / Tymon Sloczynski, “Trends in agricultural production in the longue durée: palynological data as a source for economic history”

Maria Papadaki, “Church-building activity in the Peloponnese: reflections on social and economic trends in the countryside in the Early and Middle Byzantine periods”

Efthymios Rizos, “New cities of the Tetrarchic period in the Balkans”

Elisavet Tzavella, “Urban and rural settlement in Early Byzantine and ‘Dark-Age’ Attica (4^th – 9^th c.)”

Eirini Zisimou, “The institutional Church in Early Christian Greece”

 

9.15 – 10.15 SUNDAY:

III.ARCHAEOLOGY (CASE STUDIES: AEGEAN GREECE)

Alkiviadis Ginalis, “The economy and coastal life of Skiathos: the question of Microcosm or Macrocosm in central  Greece”

Ioanna Koukounis, “ Toponymy and landownership on medieval Chios”

Stavroula Sdrolia / Sophia Didioumi, “The castle of Velika: research excavations at the coast of Kissavos”

Maria Sigala, “Hermits, monks and nuns on Chalke, a small island of the Dodecanese”

IV.HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Sabine Berghoff, “Compromise versus appreciation – architectural remains during the Dark Ages”

Andriani Georgiou, “Images of Saints Constantine and Helena in Greek churches: a set of conventions or reflections of the world in which they were made?”

George Makris, “Unknown or unseen? Thoughts on the monastic image of a Byzantine Holy Mountain”

Anastasios Tantsis, “The ‘Greek School’  in Byzantine architecture revisited”

 

9.15 – 10.15 MONDAY:

V.ARCHAEOLOGY (CASE STUDIES: MACEDONIA )

Nikolaos Karydis, “Basilica B at Philippi and the development of vaulted architecture in Early Byzantine Greece”

Samuel Provost, “The Byzantine topography of Philippi (6^th c. – 14^th c.): the decline and re-emergence of a Byzantine city”

Konstantinos Raptis, “The 7^th – 8^th-c. restoration of Acheiropoietos Basilica  and its significance for the urban continuity of Thessaloniki during the ‘Dark Age’”

Aikaterini  Tsanana, “Middle-Byzantine Hierissos: archaeological research at the entrance of Mount Athos”

 

VI.ANATOLIAN COMPARANDA

Anneka Asp-Talwar, “Who was Anna Anachoutlou?”

James Crow / Sam Turner, “Characterizing the historic landscapes of Byzantine Greece

Yaman Dalanay, “Trade and communications in Western Asia Minor during the Middle and Late Byzantine periods”

Remzi Yağcı, “The end of the Early Byzantine Period in Cilicia: the case of Soli Pompeiopolis”