The Byzantine Studies Conference is an association for the presentation and discussion of papers embodying current research on all aspects of Byzantine history and culture. The Conference meets in a different city every year. At meetings, over 100 papers are usually presented and discussed in a relaxed but professional atmosphere. Although most of our members are American academics, we have an international membership and many non-academic members. Graduate students play a large role in the conference and are strongly encouraged to present papers and participate in discussions.
For a short history of the BSC, see Alice-Mary Talbot (Dumbarton Oaks): The Byzantine Studies Conference 1975-1999: Looking Back after the First 25 Years
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31st Annual Byzantine Studies Conference Program
Thursday, October 27
6:00-8:00 PM REGISTRATION RECEPTION
Friday, October 28
7:45-8:30 AM REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
8:30-9:00 AM WELCOME
9:05-11:00 AM SESSION I
Chair: John Barker
Historiography
Ingela Nilsson
Uppsala University, Sweden
Discovering Literariness in the Past: Some consideration on history
and narrative in the Synopsis Chronike of Konstantinos Manasses
Dimitrios Krallis
University of Michigan
Michael Attaleiates as a Military Historian
Leonora Neville
Catholic University
A Memoir of Caesar John Doukas in Nikephoros Bryennios’ History?
Ruma Niyogi-Salhi
Saint Xavier University
Classical Models and Byzantine Historiography:
The Case of Psellos, Constantine VIII, and Eleventh Century Decline
9:05-11:00 AM SESSION II
Chair: Thomas Cerbu
Afterlife of Byzantium: Beyond 1453
Angela Volan
Princeton University, Program in Hellenic Studies
Adam, Eve, and the Apocalypse in Fifteenth-Century Crete
Maria Mavroudi
University of California, Berkeley
Greek and Arabic Ptolemy in the Paleologan and Early Ottoman Period
Jeanne-Marie Musto
Bryn Mawr College
Byzantium in Bavaria: The New-Greek Architecture of Post-Napoleonic Germany
Olenka Pevny
University of Richmond
Recreating Byzantine Monuments in Kyiv or Constructing National Identity in Ukraine
11:00-11:15 AM COFFEE
11:15-12:30 AM SESSION III
Chair: Andrew Ladis
Appropriating Byzantium in Medieval Italy I
Celia Chazelle
The College of New Jersey
Vercelli Bibl. Cap. 165:
The Iconography and Ideology of Rulership in Carolingian Italy
Sebastián Salvadó
Stanford University
Byzantine Icons and the Thirteenth-Century Catalan Crusades of James I the Conqueror
George Demacopoulos
Fordham University
The Politics of Plunder: The Movement of the Relics of St. Gregory the
Theologian and St. John Chrysostom from Constantinople to Rome and Back Again
11:15-12:30 AM SESSION IV
Chair: John Duffy
Church Councils I
Craig H. Caldwell
Princeton University
A Conciliar Skirmish: The Council of Serdica within an Age of Civil Wars
Jim Cousins
University of Kentucky
Ecclesiastical Clientism in the Court of Marcian
Adam Schor
Long Island University, C.W. Post
Preaching in Tongues: Multilingual Doctrinal Networks in the Early Christological Conflict
12:30-2:00 PM LUNCH
2:00-3:45 PM SESSION V
Chair: Carolyn Connor
Liturgical and Commemorative Practice
David A. Michelson
Princeton University
“Though He Cannot Be Eaten, We Consume Him”:
Liturgical and Devotional Contexts for Opposition to Chalcedon
at the End of the Fifth Century
Daniel Schwartz
Princeton University
Liturgy and Christian Paideia in Theodore of Mopsuestia’s Catechetical Orations
Sarah Brooks
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Liturgical Planning and Rites of Commemoration:
Church Furnishings at the Tomb in the Middle and Late Byzantine Periods
Katherine Marsengill
Princeton University
Icons and Tombs:
The use of commemorative portraits in Middle and Late Byzantine funerary contexts
2:00-3:45 PM SESSION VI
Chair: Leonora Neville
Authority
Kevin Uhalde
Ohio University
Bishops, Discernment, and the Law
Eric Martin
University of Tennessee
Bishop Athanasius and the Sacrament Mime: The Remnant of an Arian Slur?
Margaret Trenchard-Smith
University of California, Los Angeles
Poisoning in the Basilika: The history of a law
Ian Mladjov
University of Michigan
Byzantium, Bulgaria and the ‘Family of Kings’3:45-4:00 PM COFFEE
4:00-5:30 PM SESSION VII
Open Forum for Graduate Students
4:00-5:30 PM SESSION VIII
Chair: Hayden Maginnis
Appropriating Byzantium in Medieval Italy II
Thomas Dale
University of Wisconsin, Madison
The Appropraition of Byzantine and “Moorish” Culture in San Marco and Venetian Orientalism after the Fourth Crusade
Ludovico Geymonat
Columbia University
The Invention of Maniera Greca
Debra Pincus
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
World Views East & West in the Baptistery of San Marco, Venice
5:40-6:40 PM PLENARY SESSION
Chair: Charles Barber
Collecting Byzantium in the U.S.
Helen C. Evans
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Byzantium at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Robert S. Nelson
Yale University
William Royall Tyler and the Aesthetics that Formed Dumbarton Oaks
6:45-8:00 PM RECEPTION
Saturday, October 29
8:30-10:45 AM SESSION IX
Chair: George Majeska
Medieval Ukraine: Sites and Settlements
Alexander Gertsen
Taurida National University, Simferopol
Periodization of History of Mangup-Theodoro
Adam Rabinowitz
University of Texas at Austin
Everyday Things: Material Evidence for Daily Life in Late Byzantine Chersonesos
Larrisa Sedikova
National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos
‘Dark Ages’ of Chersonesos according to the ceramic materials.
Elisaveta Todorova
University of Cincinnati
Coastal Sites and Settlements of Medieval Ukraine
8:30-10:45 AM SESSION X
Chair: Alice-Mary Talbot
Class, Gender, and Society
Noel Lenski
University of Colorado
John Chrysostom on Slavery
Jaclyn Maxwell
Ohio University
The Imagery of Class Snobbery in Late Antiquity
John Scarborough
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Procopius, Theodora, and Aetius of Amida: Some Connections
Derek Krueger
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Monastic Eroticism: Same-Sex Desire in the Works of Symeon the New Theologian
10:45-11:00 AM COFFEE
11:00-12:45 AM SESSION XI
Chair: Walter Hanak
Jews and Christians
Roly Zylbersztein
Hebrew University
Jewish Polemic against Christianity in Byzantine Midrash
Linda Jones Hall
St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Jewish-Christian Interaction in Byzantine Beirut; Narratio de cruce seu imagine Berytensi
Maureen Reissner O’Brien
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Naked Woman in the Nile: Pharaoh’s Daughter at Dura Europos Reconsidered
Susan Graham
St. Peter’s College, New Jersey
St. Stephen and the Jews in Byzantine Jerusalem
11:00-12:45 AM SESSION XII
Chair: Eric Ivison
Archaeology
Jennifer Ball
Brooklyn College, City University of New York
The ‘Missing Link’: Filling the Gap in the Evolution of Medieval Looms
Alexandr Aibabin
Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Simferopol
Byzantine Fortress on Eski-Kermen Mountain in Crimea
Robert Ousterhout
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Byzantine Churches of Ainos/Enez
Carolyn Snively
Gettysburg College
Recent Archaeological Discoveries at Golemo GradisΉte, Konjuh, Republic of Macedonia
12:45-2:30 PM BUSINESS LUNCH
2:40-4:15 PM SESSION XIII
Chair: Cecil Striker
Realities of Byzantine Landscape
Kostis Kourelis
Clemson University
Sacred Topography and the Byzantine Village
Marica Cassis
University of Toronto
Çadir Höyük: A Byzantine Settlement in Central Anatolia
Günder Varinliogšlu
University of Pennsylvania
Life On The Edge: Ravines, Caves and Depressions in Isaurian Topography and Mentality
2:40-4:15 PM SESSION XIV
Chair: Elizabeth Fisher
Byzantine Literature
Emmanuel Bourbouhakis
Harvard University
‘Navigating the Sea of Rhetoric’: Aural Poetics and the Compass of Byzantine Literature
James F. Patterson
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Neo-Platonism and the Revival of Greek Antiquity in the Fifteenth Century:
Gemistos Plethon’s Monody for Helena DragasΉ Palaiologina
Tatiana Shamgunova
Ural State University, Ekaterinburg, Russia
The Image of the Turks in the Letters of Maximos Planudes
Anthony Kaldellis
Ohio State University
Historicism in Byzantine Literature and Thought
4:15-4:30 COFFEE
4:30-6:30 SESSION XV
Chair: Robert Allison
Theology and Ecclesiology
Tia Kolbaba
Rutgers University
Patriarch Photios and the Filioque or How the Twelfth Century Influenced the Ninth
Christo Dimitrov
Independent Scholar (Washington, D.C.)
The Church Union between Bulgaria and the Papacy as Part of Western Europe’s
Attack on Byzantium in the 13th Century
Hisatsugu Kusabu
University of Chicago
The Dragon’s Head is Off: The Compilation of the Dogmatike Panoplia
and the Chapter Against the Bogomils
Pierre MacKay
University of Washington
The Dominican Province of Greece, 1228--1500
4:30-6:30 SESSION XVI
Chair: Ellen Schwartz
DecΉani Monastery
Svetlana Popovic´
Prince George’s Community College
The Monastery of DecΉani and Its Built Environment
Ljubica Popovic´
Vanderbilt University
The Dispersal of Old Testament Figures Throughout the Architectural Spaces of DecΉani
Michael Milojevic´
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Looking Around Hilandar :
A Documentary QTVR Spherical Panorama Project on Mount Athos
7:00-10:00 BANQUET
Sunday, October 30
8:30-10:30 AM SESSION XVII
Chair: Lynn Jones
Images and Belief
John F. Shean
LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
Byzantine Military Saints: A Diversity of Types
Glenn Peers
University of Texas at Austin
The Polyvalency of a Motif: The Stag and Hunter
in the Twelfth-Century Frescoed Grotto at Kafr Shleiman,
Sayyidat Naya, Lebanon
Galina Tirnanic´
University of Chicago
Superstitious Manipulation of Pagan Statuary in Medieval Constantinople
Georgi R. Parpulov
The J. Paul Getty Museum
New Observations on the Madrid Skylitzes (BN, Vitr. 26-2)
8:30-10:30 AM SESSION XVIII
Chair: Naomi Norman
Byzantium, the East, and North Africa
Claudia Rapp
University of California, Los Angeles
A Christian Saint at the Persian Court:
Hagiography and Plausibility in the Fifth Century
Johannes Pahlitzsch
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Family Foundations in Byzantium and the Islamic World. A Comparative Study
Christopher MacEvitt
Dartmouth College
The Paradoxical World of Ecumenical Negotiations:
Manuel I Komnenos and Syrian Orthodox Christians
Walter Kaegi
University of Chicago
Byzantine Numidia: Another Look
10:30-10:45 AM COFFEE
10:45-12:30 PM SESSION XIX
Chair: Tia Kolbaba
Church Councils II
George Bevan
University of Toronto
Was the Second Council of Ephesus Oecumenical?
Patrick Gray
York University, Toronto
Forged Forgeries: Constantinople III and the Acts of Constantinople II
David Olster
University of Kentucky
Imperial and Papal Claims of Authority at the Sixth Ecumenical Council
10:45-12:30 PM SESSION XX
Chair: John Barker
Late Antiquity: Performance
Robert J. Penella
Fordham University
Himerius and the Praetorian Prefect Secundus Salutius
Béatrice Caseau
Paris IV Sorbonne
Mocking the Gods in Late Antiquity
Andrew Walker White
University of Maryland, College Park
The Humanity of the Byzantine Mime:
Choricius of Gaza and the Sixth Century Theatre
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Georgia Center for Continuing Education--General Information
The Georgia Center for Continuing Education, a unit of the University of Georgia's Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach, provides innovative lifelong learning opportunities that develop intellectual and human potential. A full-service, residential adult-learning facility on UGA's campus, the Georgia Center includes a 200-room hotel, restaurants, banquet areas, conference rooms, auditoriums, a fitness center, and computer labs  all under one roof. For more information, visit www.gactr.uga.edu.
Special Needs:
If you require special services, facilities, or dietary considerations (vegetarian or otherwise), contact Jane Mertens, Meeting Planner, at 706.542.6592 or Jane.Mertens@gactr.uga.edu, at least five working days before your event.
Lodging:
A block of rooms is being held for your conference until 5:00 p.m. ET, September 30, 2005.
Lodging Policies (Georgia Center Hotel & Suites):
(1) Tax Exemption  The State of Georgia only allows tax-exempt charges for a payment by a state-issued credit card or check or by a direct bill to a state agency (with a Georgia State Tax Exemption Certificate). (2) Lodging Cancellation  To avoid being charged one night's room and tax, you must cancel your reservation by 4:00 p.m. the day prior to your scheduled arrival.
Transportation and Directions:
All flights into Athens connect through Charlotte, NC. Regular ground transportation is available from Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to the Georgia Center. For directions, see www.gactr.uga.edu/conferences/about/directions.phtml. A parking deck is located adjacent to the Center (hourly rates; vehicles over seven feet require alternative parking arrangements).
Program Cancellation Policies:
(1) We will gladly issue full refunds for cancellations made by 5:00 p.m. ET, October 20, 2005. No refunds will be issued thereafter. Substitutions will be allowed. (2) If a program is cancelled for any reason, the Georgia Center will not be responsible for any cancellation changes/charges assessed by airlines or travel agencies.
Early Registration deadline is September 30, 2005. A confirmation letter will be mailed to those who register prior to the deadline. Late registrants may not receive conference materials.
NOTE: In order to participate in the BSC, you must submit the membership dues. For membership-related questions, visit www.byzconf.org or e-mail Lynn Jones, BSC Treasurer at ljones915@cs.com.
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Registration
You have several registration options:
1. Register for this event online and request a room at the Georgia Center.
Register for the event online without requesting a hotel room.
A major credit card is required for on-line registration.
2. Call either 1-800-884-1381 or (706) 542-2134 to register by telephone. Please mention you saw this web page.
3. Download a registration form and FAX it to the number on the form or mail it to the address below. You need a copy of the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print this application form.
4. Mail the form to:
Annual Byzantine Studies Conference (#52226)
Attn: Conference Registration, Room 129
Georgia Center for Continuing Education
The University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-3603
Payment of Fees
The Georgia Center for Continuing Education accepts payments for registration by cash (on-site), check (payable to the University of Georgia), and credit card (Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover).
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