21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies

London 21-26 August 2006

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Byzantium defined and displayed as Empire through developing theory and practice, self-perception and mission. The mutual reflections of Byzantium with related states are explored.

Co-chairs: Gilbert Dagron, Judith Herrin
Plenary speakers:

Jonathan Shepard Byzantium's overlapping circles
Vera von Falkenhausen The Display of Byzantium in Italy. Wie stellte sich Byzanz, seinen Untertanen in Italien, deren Nachbarn und den Eroberern dar?
Nevra Necipoğlu The empire challenged: tradition, transformation and adaptation in late Byzantine politics and society
Commentator: Henry Maguire

Panels and co-ordinators:

I.1 Rival empires Ljubomir Maksimovic
I.2 Theories of empire Christine Angelidi
I.3 Occidentalism and Orientalism Athina Kolia-Dermitzaki, Rustam Shukurov
I.4 Institutions of empire Eleftheria Papagianni
I.5 Greek communities after 1204 Michael Angold
I.6 Art of empire Maria Georgopoulou
I.7 Evangelisation Sergei Ivanov, Vladimir Vavrinek
I.8 Being Byzantine/ Being not Byzantine Dion Smythe, Hiroshi Wada