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	Byzantine Studies Conference Archives 31st Annual Byzantine Studies Conference Program The Thirty-first annual Byzantine Studies Conference will be held Friday, October 28- Sunday, October 30, 2005 The University of Georgia, Athens Athens, Georgia 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 Gradis¹te, 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 Dragas1 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 Dec¹ani Monastery Svetlana Popovic´ Prince George’s Community College The Monastery of Dec¹ani and Its Built Environment Ljubica Popovic´ Vanderbilt University The Dispersal of Old Testament Figures Throughout the Architectural Spaces of Dec¹ani 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