BSC 2020
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Friday, October 23
Session 1
8 Pacific / 11 Eastern / 15 UCT
1A - Makerspace
Chair - Benjamin Anderson
Shannon Steiner, “‘Behold, Philosophers, and Understand – This is the Accomplishment of Art:’ Art-Making as Knowledge Production in Byzantium”
Hallie Meredith, “Late Roman Process Art: Cross-Media Carving in the 4th– to 8th-Century AD Mediterranean”
Justin Wilson, “The Origin of the Crafts According to Byzantine Rosette Caskets”
Warren Woodfin, “Orthography as Evidence for Mosaic Workshops in the 11th and 12th Centuries”
Chair - Benjamin Anderson
Shannon Steiner, “‘Behold, Philosophers, and Understand – This is the Accomplishment of Art:’ Art-Making as Knowledge Production in Byzantium”
Hallie Meredith, “Late Roman Process Art: Cross-Media Carving in the 4th– to 8th-Century AD Mediterranean”
Justin Wilson, “The Origin of the Crafts According to Byzantine Rosette Caskets”
Warren Woodfin, “Orthography as Evidence for Mosaic Workshops in the 11th and 12th Centuries”
1B - Byzantium South
Chair - Elizabeth Bolman
Mikael Muehlbauer, “Churches built in Monumental Ruins in Medieval Ethiopia”
Felege-Selam Yirga, “Towards a Reconstruction of the Career of Apollinarios, Patriarch of Alexandria (551-571 CE)”
Arsany Paul, “The ‘Dead’ Burying the Dead: Afterlife and Interment in Pachomian Sources”
Mary Farag, “The Church of St. Mary in the Kidron Valley: A Cultural Biography”
Chair - Elizabeth Bolman
Mikael Muehlbauer, “Churches built in Monumental Ruins in Medieval Ethiopia”
Felege-Selam Yirga, “Towards a Reconstruction of the Career of Apollinarios, Patriarch of Alexandria (551-571 CE)”
Arsany Paul, “The ‘Dead’ Burying the Dead: Afterlife and Interment in Pachomian Sources”
Mary Farag, “The Church of St. Mary in the Kidron Valley: A Cultural Biography”
Session 2
10 Pacific / 13 Eastern / 17 UCT
10 Pacific / 13 Eastern / 17 UCT
2A - Byzantine Gender and Sexuality
Chair - Leonora Neville
Derek Krueger, “Repenting Sodomy: From Penitential Canons to the Life of Niphon”
Maria Dell'Isola, “Female Holiness and ‘New’ Temporalities in the Life of Mary the Younger and the Life of Thomaïs of Lesbos”
Luis Salés, “What Is ‘Byzantine’ Andropology?”
Chair - Leonora Neville
Derek Krueger, “Repenting Sodomy: From Penitential Canons to the Life of Niphon”
Maria Dell'Isola, “Female Holiness and ‘New’ Temporalities in the Life of Mary the Younger and the Life of Thomaïs of Lesbos”
Luis Salés, “What Is ‘Byzantine’ Andropology?”
2B - Image and Text(ile)
Chair - Galina Tirnanic
Karin Krause, “What Was Seen on the Textile Called the Mandylion? Interpretations of an “Unpainted” Image in Byzantine Theology”
Anna Carroll, “Anno, ‘A Lion Before Princes’: The Siegburg Lion Silk”
Jennifer Ball, “Byzantine Monumentality: The Case for Textiles”
Chair - Galina Tirnanic
Karin Krause, “What Was Seen on the Textile Called the Mandylion? Interpretations of an “Unpainted” Image in Byzantine Theology”
Anna Carroll, “Anno, ‘A Lion Before Princes’: The Siegburg Lion Silk”
Jennifer Ball, “Byzantine Monumentality: The Case for Textiles”
Session 3
12 Pacific / 15 Eastern / 19 UCT
12 Pacific / 15 Eastern / 19 UCT
3A - Authority and Hierarchy
Chair - Tia Kolbaba
Joe Glynias, “The Bilingual Administration of Byzantine Antioch (969-1084)”
Hannah Ewing, “The Multidimensional Leader: Authoritative Flexibility of Byzantine Abbesses”
Anysia Metrakos, “’Emperors on the Inside: The Bishop as Emperor in the Constantinian Church Basilica”
Edward Trofimov, “Religiosity and Social Control in Local Communities According to the Twelfth-Century Deuterokanonarion”
Chair - Tia Kolbaba
Joe Glynias, “The Bilingual Administration of Byzantine Antioch (969-1084)”
Hannah Ewing, “The Multidimensional Leader: Authoritative Flexibility of Byzantine Abbesses”
Anysia Metrakos, “’Emperors on the Inside: The Bishop as Emperor in the Constantinian Church Basilica”
Edward Trofimov, “Religiosity and Social Control in Local Communities According to the Twelfth-Century Deuterokanonarion”
3B - Image and Meaning
Chair - Fotini Kondyli
Ivan Drpić, “Image as Medicine: Pictorial Therapy in the Oxford Mēnologion”
Samantha Truman, “’Cursed is Everyone Who Hangs on a Tree’: The Execution of Judas Iscariot in Two Byzantine Marginal Psalters”
Megan Boomer, “Shining Symbols for Sectarian Eyes: The Twelfth-Century Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem”
Marina Mandrikova, “Women in Hell: An Exploration of Crime and Punishment in Byzantine, Post-Byzantine, and Slavic Monumental Painting”
Chair - Fotini Kondyli
Ivan Drpić, “Image as Medicine: Pictorial Therapy in the Oxford Mēnologion”
Samantha Truman, “’Cursed is Everyone Who Hangs on a Tree’: The Execution of Judas Iscariot in Two Byzantine Marginal Psalters”
Megan Boomer, “Shining Symbols for Sectarian Eyes: The Twelfth-Century Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem”
Marina Mandrikova, “Women in Hell: An Exploration of Crime and Punishment in Byzantine, Post-Byzantine, and Slavic Monumental Painting”
Saturday, October 24
6 Pacific / 9 Eastern / 13 UCT
MJC Graduate Student Development Panel on Academic Writing
Session 4
8 Pacific / 11 Eastern / 15 UCT
6 Pacific / 9 Eastern / 13 UCT
MJC Graduate Student Development Panel on Academic Writing
Session 4
8 Pacific / 11 Eastern / 15 UCT
4A - Byzantium North
Chair – Christian Raffensperger
Thomas Lecaque, “Between Pope and Emperors: Dalmatia in the Time of the First Crusade”
Ozlem Eren, “Studenica Monastery and St. Demetrios Church in Vladimir – Distant Twins?”
Sarah Luginbill, “Connecting with Constantinople: Byzantine-German Relations and Portable Altars, c. 975-1195 CE”
Georgi Mitov, “Revisiting the Byzantine Archive of Zographou Monastery on Mt Athos: Byzantine Fiscal Terminology in the Slavic Context”
Chair – Christian Raffensperger
Thomas Lecaque, “Between Pope and Emperors: Dalmatia in the Time of the First Crusade”
Ozlem Eren, “Studenica Monastery and St. Demetrios Church in Vladimir – Distant Twins?”
Sarah Luginbill, “Connecting with Constantinople: Byzantine-German Relations and Portable Altars, c. 975-1195 CE”
Georgi Mitov, “Revisiting the Byzantine Archive of Zographou Monastery on Mt Athos: Byzantine Fiscal Terminology in the Slavic Context”
4B - Texts and Readers
Chair – Alexander Riehle
Byron MacDougall, “Prereqs for Aphthonius: An Anonymous Byzantine Commentary on Porphyry’s Isagoge”
Francesco Monticini, “A ‘Nostalgic Gaze’ Towards Antiquity: The Phenomenon of Classicism in Late Byzantium and the Renaissance”
Cahit Mete Oguz, “The Protection and Exploitation of the Peasantry as Literary Topos within Middle Byzantine Historical Sources”
John Kee, “A Hero Named for the Frontier: The Landscape of Digenes Akrites in Comparative Perspective”
Chair – Alexander Riehle
Byron MacDougall, “Prereqs for Aphthonius: An Anonymous Byzantine Commentary on Porphyry’s Isagoge”
Francesco Monticini, “A ‘Nostalgic Gaze’ Towards Antiquity: The Phenomenon of Classicism in Late Byzantium and the Renaissance”
Cahit Mete Oguz, “The Protection and Exploitation of the Peasantry as Literary Topos within Middle Byzantine Historical Sources”
John Kee, “A Hero Named for the Frontier: The Landscape of Digenes Akrites in Comparative Perspective”
4C - Community and Identity through Icons
Chair – Lynn Jones
Peter Boudreau, “Keeping Time in Byzantium: The Case of Sinai’s Calendar Icons”
Lindsay Corbett, “The Icon of the Virgin Pammakaristos in Ottoman Constantinople”
Mateusz Ferens, “Memory Eternal: Dormition of St. Ephrem as Mnemonic Landscape”
Chair – Lynn Jones
Peter Boudreau, “Keeping Time in Byzantium: The Case of Sinai’s Calendar Icons”
Lindsay Corbett, “The Icon of the Virgin Pammakaristos in Ottoman Constantinople”
Mateusz Ferens, “Memory Eternal: Dormition of St. Ephrem as Mnemonic Landscape”
Business Lunch:
10:30 Pacific / 13:30 Eastern / 17:30 UCT
10:30 Pacific / 13:30 Eastern / 17:30 UCT
Plenary Session:
Teaching Byzantium
12:30 Pacific / 15:30 Eastern / 19:30 UCT
Chair - Marica Cassis
Fotini Kondyli, “Digital Humanities Meet Byzantine Studies in the Classroom”
Aurora Camaño, “Missing Material? Teaching Byzantine Material Culture Without Teaching Collections”
Brad Hostetler, “Teaching Byzantine Art Without Art”
Young Kim, “Byzantine History from Scratch: A Recipe for a New Course”
Sunday, October 25
12 Pacific / 15 Eastern / 19 UCT
MJC Graduate Student Development Workshop on Interviewing Skills
Teaching Byzantium
12:30 Pacific / 15:30 Eastern / 19:30 UCT
Chair - Marica Cassis
Fotini Kondyli, “Digital Humanities Meet Byzantine Studies in the Classroom”
Aurora Camaño, “Missing Material? Teaching Byzantine Material Culture Without Teaching Collections”
Brad Hostetler, “Teaching Byzantine Art Without Art”
Young Kim, “Byzantine History from Scratch: A Recipe for a New Course”
Sunday, October 25
12 Pacific / 15 Eastern / 19 UCT
MJC Graduate Student Development Workshop on Interviewing Skills
BYZANTINE STUDIES CONFERENCE 2020
Byzantine Studies Association of North America
Byzantine Studies Association of North America