In association with Oxford Medieval Studies, sponsored by the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research (OCBR) 12:00 Space and 2a. The Body in Space Olyvia Siekmann Chair: Adele Curness (St Hugh’s College, Oxford) Dimension in Late Harriet Mansell Audientia Episcopalis as an expression of (Jesus College, Oxford) imperial authority Antiquity and Space and the idea of male freedom: a contrast between a Saint and a Hero Philip Atkins Byzantium (Oriel College, Oxford) Ravinder Binning Out of this world: space in the religious The Oxford University Byzantine Society’s (Stanford University) legislation of Theodosius I 20th International Graduate Conference rd th Embodied Expulsion: art, architecture, and the 23 – 24 February 2018 16:00 fallen body after Byzantine Iconoclasm History Faculty, Oxford Coffee Break *********************************** Friday 23rd February 2018 Charlotte Munglani 16:30 *********************************** (Exeter College, Oxford) 4a. The Ends of the Earth Entering the male sphere: a study of cross- Chair: Dan Gallaher 09:00 dressing female saints Raymond Ngoh Registration (Linacre College, Oxford) 2b. (Inter)religious Space 09:30 The rhetoric of restoring the Roman world in Chair: James Wakeley Adele Curness Late Antiquity Ana Nunez (OUBS President) (Cambridge University) Opening Remarks Kelly Andino Claiming the Holy Land: On the Christian (University of Chicago) 10:00 appropriation of Jerusalem in Latin Itineraria The Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem as the 1a. Byzantine Travellers and the Gesta Francorum Omphalos of the Earth: accounts of passion Chair: Constanta Burlacu places as the center of the world Cory Johnson David Williams (University College, Oxford) (Royal Holloway, University of London) Samuel Pomeroy Neoplatonism and the distractions of Shared Sacred Space at the Shrine of Saint (KU Leuven) pilgrimage in Ibn Jubayr’s Rihla Sergius, Resafa Sennaar of the soul: Migration and spatial Rivka Hyland division in Late Antique and early Byzantine Marco Cristini (University College, Oxford) exegesis of the Babel narrative (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) Theodore Abū Qurrah’s Treatise on the Diplomacy at the end of the world: the role of Veneration of the Holy Icons: the implications 4b. Space and Text space in Ostrogothic foreign policy of shared religious space Chair: Sydney Taylor Matteo Antoniazzi Mihail Mitrea 13:30 (University of Angers/Ghent University) (University of Edinburgh) Lunch Space and literary culture: Theodosius II and Sacred landscapes in late Byzantium: travel the monastic role of the royal palace in accounts in Philotheos Kokkinos’ vitae of 14:30 Socrates’ Church History? contemporary saints 3a. Private Space Chair: Katerina Vavaliou Mark Huggins 1b. Connected Regions Michael Kiefer (University of Edinburgh) Chair: Mirela Ivanova (University of Heidelberg) The paradox of Nicholas Kavasilas: crossing Andrew Small Space and hierarchy in the late Roman house: boundaries and conquering time and space in (Exeter College, Oxford) the architectural stage for salutatio and the late Byzantine Empire The Brebion of Reggio: what is it and what can convivium it tell us? Jon Cubas Diaz Miriam Steinborn (University of Heidelberg) Maria Vicent (Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Composing text and art. Transforming the late (University of Valencia) Mainz) Byzantine church into a commemorative space ‘...the type [of building] which piles up roofs at Experience of domestic space – household for individual memory. successive levels...’: a re-consideration of the archaeology in early Byzantine Caričin Grad search for Visigothic architecture references. 18:00 Lorenzo Saccon Wine Reception (St Hilda’s College, Oxford) Dan Gallaher Followed by informal dinner (Oriel College, Oxford) Private dimensions of veneration: military The Armenian economy in Late Antiquity: c. saints in Steatite icons 500-750 A.D. 3b. Legislative Space 11:30 Chair: Dr Max Lau Coffee Break David Addison (All Souls College, Oxford) Power over religious space in Visigothic Hispania *********************************** Cultural transmission: a new methodology (University of Edinburgh) applied to the ecclesiastical structures of Buying favour with the Emperor: a look at the Saturday 24th February 2018 Byzantine Lycia financial stratigraphy of roga salaries of the *********************************** tenth-century Byzantine court 09:00 6b. The Politics of Space Registration & Coffee Chair: Andrew Small Blake Lorenz Guy Jackson (Regent’s Park College, Oxford) 10:00 (The Queen’s College, Oxford) Exile in the seventh century 5a. Space and Ritual Experience ‘Gemini Imperatores’? The propaganda and reality Chair: Meric Ozolcer of Imperial co-operation under the Valentinianic Alasdair Grant Sarah Teetor dynasty.” (University of Edinburgh) (University of Vienna) Clergy and captives in Byzantium-beyond- Becoming a witness to the Word: emotionally- Stephanie Forrest Byzantium, c.1280-1450: agents of an Imperial charged space between image and viewer in (St Stephen’s House, Oxford) space? late Byzantine narrative art Late seventh-century peace negotiations between Byzantium and the Umayyad 8b. The Space Beyond Mariia Diatlova Caliphate: a study on the transmission of Chair: Constanta Burlacu (Kellogg College, Oxford) knowledge over time and distance Nat Bramley The ritual of cross-kissing in pre-Mongol Rus (Wolfson College, Oxford) 13:30 ‘No one any more dared to go near the Lord’s Anastasia Sirotenko Lunch Cross, the tree of our salvation’: relics and (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich) 14:30 sacred spaces in Byzantine Christian polemics Damnatio memoriae: the image of the Emperor Heraclius in the Byzantine liturgical tradition 7a. The Sound of Space Joshua Hitt before and after the Sixth Ecumenical Council Chair: Philip Atkins (St Hilda’s College, Oxford) (681) Marie-Emmanuelle Torres Defending the Threshold: Demonic Intrusions (University of Aix-Marseille) in the Life of Theodore of Sykeon 5b. Space: The Byzantine Frontier The soundscape of Byzantine imperial Chair: Stephanie Forrest ceremonies: some reflections Seth Stadel Peter Guevara (St Cross College, Oxford) (Wolfson College, Oxford) Emanuele Zimbardi From equality to the One: spatial Christology Border lines and treaty texts: The Roman- (La Sapienza, Università di Roma) and Mystical Union in The Book of the Holy Sassanid Frontier in AD 562 Greek-Aramaic diglossia: space and spaces of Hierotheos and its development of early sixth- linguistic distribution in the Late Antique century Palestinian Origenism Francisco Lopez Santos Roman Near East (University of Birmingham) 18:00 ‘Standing guard duty by night so that the Victoria Fendel Closing Remarks others could sleep soundly’: the ‘harsh frontier (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford) lands’ as an element of eleventh-century The language of the desert (Kellis) Byzantine political discourse 18:30 7b. Public Space Wine Reception Callan Meynell Chair: Sydney Taylor (Trinity College, Oxford) Fatma Sarikaya (Middle East Technica University, Ankara) An outsider on the inside?: Nikephoros Phokas, 20:30 Byzantine holy war, and the Qasidah al- An experience on spatial perception: the Conference Dinner Arminiyyah Aqueduct of Valens in the skyline of Constantinople 11:30 Coffee Break Ginny Wheeler 12:00 (Lincoln College, Oxford) 6a. An Empire of Churches Changing landscape and redefining space in Chair: Hugh Jeffrey fourth-century Aquileia Maria Harvey (Cambridge University) Anastasia Moskvina Boundless space(s): centring reception in Santa (University of East Anglia) Caterina at Galatina The 5th-century ‘Christian Quarter’ in Djemila, Algeria: space, liturgy and movement Tulay Yesiltas (University of Birmingham) 16:00 Architecture and decoration: spatial analysis of Coffee Break rock-cut inscribed-cross churches in Cappadocia 16:30 8a. Hierarchical Spaces Audrey Scardina Chair: Adele Curness (University of Edinburgh) Aristotelis Nayfa .