21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies

London 21-26 August 2006

Patron : HRH The Prince of Wales

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Communications and Posters in alphabetic order of authors.

Monday, 21 August
9.00  REGISTRATION    
11.00 - 12.30  OPENING SESSION    Logan Hall

Evangelos Chrysos, Judith Herrin

12.30 - 2.00  LUNCH    
2.00 - 4.00  PLENARY I: Empire    Logan Hall

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
4.00 - 4.30  BREAK    
4.30 - 6.30  PANELS i    

Panel I.1 Empire Rival empires
Panel II.1 Works and Days Landscape, Archaelogy and Society
Panel III.1 Infrastructures Instrumenta Studiorum
Panel IV.1 Words Words on the page
Panel V.1 Texts Historiography and Chronography
Panel VI.1 Orthodoxy Control of belief
Panel VII.1 Byzantium as Display Orthodoxy on display
Panel III.2 Infrastructures Technology

Tuesday, 22 August
9.00 - 10.30  PLENARY II: Works and Days    

Co-chairs: James Crow, Jean-Pierre Sodini
Plenary speakers:

Marlia Mango Action in the trenches: a call for a more dynamic archaeology of early Byzantium
Marko Popovic Les funérailles du ktitor - aspect archéologique
Riccardo Santageli Valenzani Paesaggio urbano e strutture economiche a Roma nell'alto medioevo: il contributo delle indagini archeologiche
Commentator: Christopher Wickham
10.30 - 11.00  BREAK    
11.00 - 12.30  PLENARY III: Infrastructures    

Co-chairs: Michael Jeffreys, Wolfram Brandes
Plenary speakers:

Claudia Sode New Byzantinists Francesco D'Aiuto, Vujadin Ivanisevic, Maria Parani, Brigitte Pitarakis, Maria Tziatzi-Papagianni, Claudia Sode, Andre Vinogradov , News
Ihor Ševčenko Old Byzantinists and the place of Byzantine Studies today
12.30 - 2.00  LUNCH    
2.00 - 4.00  PANELS ii    

Panel I.2 Empire Theories of empire
Panel II.2 Works and Days Logistics and transport
Panel IV.2 Words Words inscribed
Panel V.2 Texts Writing 'True Stories'
Panel VI.2 Orthodoxy The autonomy of philosophy
Panel VII.2 Byzantium as Display In the palace
Panel VIII.2 The Future of the Past Managing the Heritage
Panel III.4 Infrastructures Teaching Byzantium with Computer and Internet
4.00 - 4.30  BREAK    
4.30 - 6.30  PANELS iii    

Panel I.3 Empire Occidentalism and Orientalism
Panel II.3 Works and Days Vessels
Panel III.3 Infrastructures From BZ to Byzantium@display
Panel IV.3 Words Words in ritual
Panel V.3 Texts Emotions
Panel VII.3 Byzantium as Display In the city
Panel VIII.3 The Future of the Past Collections

Wednesday, 23 August
9.00 - 10.30  COMMUNICATIONS 1    
10.30 - 11.00  BREAK    
11.00 - 12.30  COMMUNICATIONS 2    
12.30 - 2.00  LUNCH    
2.00 - 4.00  PANELS iv    

Panel I.4 Empire Institutions of empire
Panel II.4 Works and Days Burial
Panel V.4 Texts Ceremony
Panel VI.4 Orthodoxy Difference
Panel VII.4 Byzantium as Display In the village
Panel VIII.4 The Future of the Past Fakes
Panel I.7 Empire Evangelisation
Panel VIII.1 The Future of the Past Display through exhibitions
4.00 - 4.30  BREAK    
4.30 - 6.30  PANELS v    

Panel I.5 Empire Greek communities after 1204
Panel II.5 Works and Days Secular Space
Panel III.5 Infrastructures Sigillography
Panel IV.5 Words Words for retrieval
Panel V.5 Texts Translation and interpretation
Panel VII.5 Byzantium as Display On the move - portable objects
Panel VIII.5 The Future of the Past Restoring monuments
Panel II.7 Works and Days Economy

Thursday, 24 August
9.00 - 10.30  PLENARY IV: Words    

Co-chairs: Christina Angelidi, Margaret Mullett
Plenary speakers:

Derek Krueger Romanos the Melodist and the Christian self in early Byzantium
Paolo Odorico Displaying la litterature byzantine
Charlotte Roueché Written display in the late Antique and Byzantine city
Commentator: Robert Nelson
10.30 - 11.00  BREAK    
11.00 - 12.30  PLENARY V: Texts    

Co-chairs: Martin Hinterberger, Ruth Macrides
Plenary speakers:

Athanasios Markopoulos Roman antiquarianism: aspects of the Roman past in the middle Byzantine period (9th-11th cent.)
Dieter Reinsch Zum Edieren von Texten: über Zitate
Commentator: Antony Littlewood
12.30 - 2.00  LUNCH    
2.00 - 4.00  PANELS vi    

Panel I.6 Empire Art of empire
Panel II.6 Works and Days Natural world
Panel III.6 Infrastructures Numismatics
Panel III.7 Infrastructures Prosopography
Panel VI.6 Orthodoxy Monastic mountains and deserts
Panel IV.4 Words Words of display
Panel IV.7 Words Words in publication - Medieval
letter collections, modern editions
Panel VI.5 Orthodoxy Sacred space
4.00 - 4.30  BREAK    
4.30 - 6.30  PANELS vii    

Panel V.6 Texts Documents as literature
Panel V.7 Texts Displaying knowledge
Panel VI.7 Orthodoxy Cult sites and pilgrimage
Panel VII.7 Byzantium as Display Abroad
Panel VIII.7 The Future of the Past Eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus
Panel IV.6 Words Treasured words
Panel VI.3 Orthodoxy Theology, texts, orthodoxy
Panel VIII.6 The Future of the Past Working monasteries on Mounts Sinai and Athos

Friday, 25 August
9.00 - 10.30  COMMUNICATIONS 3    
10.30 - 11.00  BREAK    
11.00 - 12.30  PLENARY VI: Orthodoxy    

Co-chairs: Marie-France Auzépy, Averil Cameron
Plenary speakers:

Paul Magdalino The making of Byzantine Orthodoxy: definition and display, inclusion and exclusion
Evelyne Patlagean L'autorité orthodoxe. Le conflit entre le patriarcat replié à Nicée et l'Eglise d'Epire au commencement du XIIIe siècle
Silvia Ronchey Orthodoxy on sale: the last Byzantine and the lost Crusade
Commentator: Joseph Munitiz
12.30 - 2.00  LUNCH    
2.00 - 4.00  PANELS viii    

Panel I.8 Empire Being Byzantine/ Being not Byzantine
Panel II.8 Works and Days Medicine
Panel III.8 Infrastructures Science
Panel IV.8 Words Words historicised
Panel V.8 Texts Fantasy
Panel VI.8 Orthodoxy Art and Orthodoxy
Panel VII.8 Byzantium as Display On the catwalk - dress and fashion
Panel VIII.8 The Future of the Past Egypt and the Levant
4.00 - 4.30  BREAK    
4.30 - 6.30  COMMUNICATIONS 4    

Saturday, 26 August
9.00 - 10.30  COMMUNICATIONS 5    
10.30 - 11.00  BREAK    
11.00 - 12.30  PLENARY VII: Byzantium as Display    

Co-chairs: Leslie Brubaker and Bissera Pentcheva
Plenary speakers:

Guglielmo Cavallo Libri in scena
Axinia Djurova L'image et la parole: à propos de la visualisation du dogme
Henry Maguire The Empress and the Virgin on display in sixth-century art
Commentator: Ioli Kalavrezou
12.30 - 2.00  LUNCH    
2.00 - 4.00  PLENARY VIII: The Future of the Past    

Co-chairs: Robin Cormack, Maria Vassilaki
Plenary speakers:

Isidoros Kakouris
Angelos Delivorrias
Norman Rosenthal
Commentator: Gary Vikan
4.00  CLOSING    

Vasil Gyuzelev, Peter Schreiner

The International Congress has traditionally had an overall theme to link the various discussions. The theme for 2006 is Display. This will be explored under eight headings which highlight different aspects of the theme and different disciplines within Byzantine Studies. In the process many of the possible responses to Byzantium will be examined. The most direct response is to ask whether there was a real Byzantium or only an imaginary modern construct. But the aim is to make this simple dichotomy more complex, and assess first what strategies the people of Byzantium used to express their thoughts, ideals, fears and beliefs, and then how these have been interpreted through various modern discourses.