BetweenThe Oxford Constantines Byzantine Society presents representations and manifestations of an empire

Friday 4 March 2011 Provisional Schedule

10:00 Session 1 2:15 Session 3 Representing the Self: Understanding Late Roman The imperial cult of saints in the Macedonian Dynasty Mausolea in Pannonia and Dalmatia Miroslav Popovic Zsolt R. Magyar University of Central European University, Budapest Labelling the Local: The Archangel Michael of Chonai The Architecture of The Episcopal Church in Doclea Alex Rodriguez Suarez (Montenegro) University of London – King’s College Tatjana Koprivica History Institute of Montenegro, Podgorica ‘The Land of the Beautiful Horses’: The archaeology of medieval stables in Cappadocia Byzantine Fortifications in the Iberian Peninsula Filiz Tütüncü Çağlar Danielle Donaldson University of Victoria, Canada Trinity College, Cambridge 4:30 Session 4 11:45 Session 2 Mantzikert reversed? The last campaign of Alexios I Journey to the East: Beyond Space and Time (The Life of in the of St. Macarius the Roman) Roman Shlyakhtin Z. D. Ainalis Central European University, Budapest University of Paris I–Panthéon-Sorbonne A tale of two castles: Katsamon, Ras and the grand Singing Your Praises: Depictions of Emperors and strategy of John II Komnenos Imperial Rule in the Hymnic Collection of James of Maximilian C G Lau Edessa Oriel College, Oxford Simon Ford Exeter College, Oxford ‘In the world but not of it’: the contribution of the monastic economy to the functioning of trading Rural existences of early medieval Byzantium in networks in the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries Niketas’s Life of St Philaretos Gary Pitts Adam Izdebski University of London – Royal Holloway University of Warsaw BetweenThe Oxford Constantines Byzantine Society presents representations and manifestations of an empire Saturday 5 March 2011 – Morning Provisional Schedule

Lecture Theatre Colin Matthew Room 9:30 Session 5 9:30 Session 6 The movements of manuscripts between Byzantium and From Roman to Byzantine Law: The Change in the Arabic world and the hypothesis of the role of the Testamentary Deeds from Late-Antique Egypt Graeco-Arabic translation movement in the revival of Maria Nowak literary production in Byzantium University of Warsaw Jakub Sypiański University of Paris I–Panthéon-Sorbonne The imitatio Constantinopolitanae urbis as a means of legitimacy and political propaganda in Late Antiquity Psaltika and Asmatika in the liturgical history of the Carmen Eguiluz Méndez University of Cantabria, Santander Olga Grinchenko Brasenose College, Oxford The effects of the Slav invasions in the in the sixth-century Eustathios of Thessaloniki: The Parekbolai on the Iliad. Agata Koziej The Christian modifications made by Eustathios to pagan Nicolas Copernicus University, Torun elements and polytheistic expressions in the Homeric text Georgia Kolovou University of Paris IV–Sorbonne 11:15 Session 8 The Politics of Memory and Visual Politics: Comparing 11:15 Session 7 the Self-representation of Constantine and Mariana Bodnaruk Byzance et l’Égypte: influence ou confrontation, Central European University, Budapest l’exemple des icônes médiévales de l’église Saint- Mercure du Vieux-Caire Cities of God: Space and Memory in of Vita’s Julien Auber de Lapierre History of the Vandal Persecution École pratique des Hautes Études, Paris Luke Gardiner Corpus Christi College, Cambridge ‘You who once were far away have been brought near’: The ministry cycle in the Church of the Theotokos in Les inventions de reliques dans l’Empire byzantin Ohrid Estelle Cronnier Ivona Pandzak University of Paris I–Panthéon-Sorbonne European University – Republic of Macedonia, Skopje The Adoption and Propagation of Ancient Civilizations’ The painted decoration in the Church of Holy Anargyroi Cultural and Architectural Heritage in the Byzantine at Sangri, Naxos: Observations on the monumental art Empire: Influences from Egyptian Culture of Naxos during the middle and late Byzantine periods Vera Dubrovina Theodora Konstantellou Stroganov Moscow State University of Industrial and Applied University of Athens Arts, Moscow The Representation of Stefan Dušan as New Constantine in the Church of St. George at Pološko in Macedonia Ana Ristovska École pratique des Hautes Études, Paris BetweenThe Oxford Constantines Byzantine Society presents representations and manifestations of an empire Saturday 5 March 2011 – Afternoon Provisional Schedule Lecture Theatre Colin Matthew Room 2:00 Session 9 2:00 Session 10 Magical Remedies in Late Antique Medical Handbooks Jerusalem, Jerash, and Caesarea: late antique urban Petros Bouras-Vallianatos contexts in the Levant Kellogg College, Oxford Morgan Dirodi St. Cross College, Oxford The Dream of Bardas Jonas J.H. Christensen Across the Desert Sands: The Shifting Routes of University of Copenhagen Southern Palestine and Transjordan in Late Antiquity Marlena Whiting Between Aries and Orion: Stars, planets and signs in the Lincoln College, Oxford Alexander Romance Caterina Franchi Between Empires: Early Christian architecture in Exeter College, Oxford southern Mesopotamia and Persian Gulf region Agnieszka Lic The Prophecy of the Last : Jagiellonian University, Kraków Transformation and Influence of an anti-Muslim topos Andras Kraft Halabiya : boire, mangér, stockér au VIIème Central European University. Budapest siècle Nairusz Haidar-Vela University of Paris I–Panthéon-Sorbonne 4:15 Session 11 de Flor’s Campaign of 1304 in Western : A Reinterpretation 4:15 Session 12 Wiktor Ostasz Signs in the shape of Greek letters on frescos in Roman St. Peter’s College, Oxford catacombs: comments on interpretations of so-called ‘gammadia’ No Triumphs, Just Words: Competing Political Maciej Szymaszek Discourses in Early Fifteenth Century Byzantium Pontifical University of John Paul II, Krakow Florin Leonte Central European University, Budapest The wreathed cross or stephanostaurion on sixth-century marble chancel screens in the Mediterranean region The end is nearing – omens of the Fall of Bernard Mulholland Annika Asp Queens University, Belfast Exeter College, Oxford The Problematic of Iconoclasm in Byzantine Art Historical Periodisation Adam Levine Corpus Christi College, Oxford