BSC PROGRAM

All formal sessions will be held at the Wisconsin Center, 702 Langdon Street, opposite the north entrance to the University's Memorial Library. Some details of the program may be subject to adjustment or clarification. Conference brochure and registration information available from Pat Gaitan, E-mail gaitan@admin.uwex.edu, phone 608-262-6696, FAX: 608-265-3163. Questions regarding local arrangements may be addressed to Professor John W. Barker, Department of History, Humanities Building, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706; telephone (608) 263-1823; fax (608) 263-5302; E-mail jwbarker@facstaff.wisc.edu. Questions regarding the program should be addressed to Professor Helen Saradi, Department of Languages and Literature, Classics, University of Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada; telephone (519) 824-4120, #2885. Additional registration information is appended.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

9:00- Frank Lloyd Wright Tour
5:00 (By advance subscription only)

6:00- Reception and Registration
9:00 Upper Lounge, Lowell Hall (Wisconsin Center Guest House)

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

8:00- Registration; Coffee and rolls
9:00 Alumni Lounge, The Wisconsin Center

9:00- Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:15 Lakeshore Room

9:15- Session One: Old and New Discoveries and their
11:00 Interpretations Lakeshore Room

Chair: [To be Announced]

Anthony Cutler (Pennsylvania State University): New
Byzantine Ivories, Ancient and Modern

Natalia Teteriatnikov (Dumbarton Oaks): Devotional
Crosses in the Columns and Walls of Hagia Sophia,
Istanbul

Glenn Peers (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada):
Framing the Crucifixion

Eric A. Ivison (College of Staten Island, CUNY):
Looking for Lascarids: The Tomb of the Emperor Theodore
II and the Imperial Monastery of Sosandra at Nymphaeum

9:15- Session Two: Imperial and Aristocratic Images and
11:00 Ideology Room 313

Chair: Ralph W. Mathisen (University of South Carolina)

Claudia Rapp (University of California, Los Angeles):
Imperial Ideology in the Making: Eusebius of Caesarea
on Constantine as "Bishop"

Hugh Elton (Trinity College, Hartford): Illus and the
Imperial Aristocracy under Zeno

Gregor Kalas (Bryn Mawr College): The Virgin Intervenes
as an Empress at S. Maria Antiqua (Rome)

Sharon E. J. Gerstel (University of Maryland):
Constructing a Sainted Empress

11:00- Break, with refreshments
11:15 Alumni Room

ll:15- Session Three: Imperial Images and Symbolism Lakeshore
12:30 Room

Chair: Robert Nelson (University of Chicago)

Elizabeth Gittings (Harvard University): A Re-
evaluation of Imperial Imagery, Icons, and Prayer in
the Miniatures of the Late Eleventh-Century Barbarini
Psalter

Lynn Jones (Jenkintown, PA): Eagles, Griffins, and
Comnenian Imperial Imagery

Irine Nikoleishvili (Tbilisi State University,
Georgia): The Images of Historical Persons on X-XI
Century Georgian Altar Screens

Mark J. Johnson (Brigham Young University): A Lost
Mosaic Portrait of Roger II and Bishop Leontius II of
Gerace

11:15- Session Four: Pilgrimage and Theoretical Approaches in
12:30 the East and West Room 313

Chair: George P. Majeska (University of Maryland)

Dorothea R. French (Santa Clara University):
Domesticating the Charismatic: Architecture and
Pilgrimage to Simeon Stylites

Maribel Dietz (Louisiana State University): Pilgrimage
and Monastic Wandering: Huneberc's Life of Willibald

Alice-Mary Talbot (Dumbarton Oaks): Pilgrimage by
Byzantine Women

12:45- Business Lunch [Room to be announced]
2:15 (by subscription)

2:30- Session Five: Expressions of Ritual and Devotion in
4:45 Byzantium Lakeshore Room

Chair: [To be announced]

B‚atrice Caseau (Universit‚ de Paris IV Sorbonne):
Incense and Perfume in Byzantine Churches

Dora Piguet-Panayotova (Paris, France): Two Hexagonal
Decorated Silver Censers from the Time of Mauricius
(582-602)

Susan A. Boyd (Dumbarton Oaks): Ex-voto Therapy: A
Copper Votive Plaque with Saint Hermolaos

Jacquelyn Tuerk (University of Chicago): How Words and
Images Work: An Early Byzantine Inscribed Amulet
Addresses Uterine Hemorrhage

2:30- Session Six: Navigation, Shipping, and Trade Room 313
4:45
Chair: [To be announced]

R. Scott Moore (Ohio State University): Ceramic
Evidence for Byzantine Trade on the Island of Cyprus

Frederick M. Hocker (Institute of Nautical
Archaeology): A Middle Byzantine Merchant Venture:
Recent Discoveries from the Bozburun Shipwreck

Elisaveta Todorova (University of Cincinnati): Black
Sea Shipping and Navigation in the Byzantine Era

2:30- Session Seven: Texts and Culture Room 311
4:45
Chair: Claudia Rapp (University of California, Los
Angeles)

Jacqueline Long (The University of Texas at Austin):
Julia-Jokes in Macrobius's Saturnalia

Charles F. Pazdernik (Princeton University): Procopius
and Thucydides on the Labors of War: Belisarius and
Brasidas in the Field
Hagith Sivan (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton):
The End of Byzantine Palestine

Maria Mavroudi (Harvard University): Remarks on the
Byzantine Translations from Arabic into Greek

5:00- Exhibition, "Byzantium, from Russia and Wisconsin"
7:00 Rare Book Room, Memorial Library (special hours)

6:00- Reception
8:00 Alumni Lounge (Wisconsin Center)

Dinner (on your own in Madison)

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

8:00- Coffee and rolls
9:00 Alumni Lounge

9:00- Session Eight: Relations between Visual Art and Texts
10:45 Lakeshore Room

Chair: [To be announced]

Elizabeth A. Fisher (George Washington University):
Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople, in Word and
Image

Margaret Kenny (The Queen's University, Belfast): Text
vs. Image: The Relationship between Dream Narratives
and Marginal Illustrations in Middle Byzantine
Illuminated Manuscripts

Kathy Jo Wetter (University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill): The Original Copy of Constantine VII's Narratio
de Imagine Edessena

Kathleen Maxwell (Santa Clara University): Modus
Operandi of Scribes and Artists in Paris, BibliothŠque
National, Codex Grec 54

9:00- Session Nine: Ecclesiastical Literature and Hagiography
10:45 Room 313

Chair: [To be announced]

Leslie Dossey (Harvard University): Recovering the
Popular Ecclesiastical Literature of Byzantine North
Africa

Jennifer L. Hevelone-Harper (Princeton University): St.
Ephrem and the Surrender of Nisibis

Stephen H. Rapp, Jr. (University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor): Sense of Community in Early Georgian
Hagiography

John V. A. Fine (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor):
The Slavic Saint Jerome: An Entertainment

Hieromonk Alexander (Golitzin) (Marquette University):
Ascent to Heaven: Nicetas Stethatos, the Liturgies of
Heaven and of the Heart, and Elements from the Old
Testament Pseudepigrapha

10:45- Break, with refreshments
11:00 Alumni Room

11:00- Session Ten: Early Byzantine Architecture and Patronage
12:45 Lakeshore Room

Chair: Anthony Cutler (Pennsylvania State University)

Bissera V. Pentcheva (Sackler Museum, Harvard): A
Reassessment of the Hippodrome at Constantinople

Gillian Mackie (University of Victoria, Canada): A New
Look at the Patronage of Santa Costanza, Rome

Carolyn L. Connor (University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill): The Epigram on the Church of Hagios
Polyeuktos in Istanbul and its Byzantine Response

11:00- Session Eleven: Aspects of Byzantine Diplomatic Missions
12:45 Room 313

Chair: Ronald J. Weber (University of Texas at El Paso)

Daniel J. Sahas (University of Waterloo, Canada):
Photius' Diplomatic Missions to the Arabs: Religious
and Theological Dimensions and Ramifications

Sophis Mergiali (University of Crete): Relics as
Diplomatic Gifts during the Reign of Manuel II
Palaeologus

Liliana Simeonova (Institute for Balkan Studies,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences): A Diplomat's
Occupational Hazards: Near Eastern Diplomacy in the
1400s through the 1460s

12:45- Lunch (on your own in Madison)
2:00
2:00- Session Twelve: Church, Theology, and Heresy in Early
4:15 Byzantium Room 311

Chair: [To be announced]

Naomi Janowitz (University of California-Davis): Making
Something out of Nothing: Monotheism, Evil, and
Definitions of Gnosticism in Late Antique Society

Patrick T. R. Gray (York University, Canada): Four
Popes and a Council: The Victory of Obfuscation

Michael Redies (Freie Universit„t Berlin): Cyril and
Nestorius: A New Interpretation of the Origins of the
Theotokos-Debate

David B. Evans (St. John's University): Leontios of
Byzantion and the Tradition of Byzantine Christology:
Is the Human Nature of Jesus Christ an Enhypostasized
Nature?

2:00- Session Thirteen: Interpretations of Church
4:15 Decoration Lakeshore Room

Chair: [To be announced]

Linda Safran (The Catholic University of America):
Devotion and Desire: Donors in South Italian Wall
Paintings

Robert S. Nelson (University of Chicago): Socially
Symbolic Narration at the Church of the Chora in
Constantinople

George Striŝeviŝ (University of Cincinnati): The
Pentecost Mosaic in the South Gallery of St. Sophia

2:00- Session Fourteen: Family Sexuality and the Body in
4:15 Byzantium Room 313

Chair: Derek Krueger (The University of North Carolina
at Greensboro)

Nikos Kalogeros (University of Chicago): Byzantine and
Modern Perceptions of Byzantine Childhood: The Evidence
of Early and Middle Byzantine Hagiography

Stephen M. Wagner (University of Delaware): The
Children Will Suffer No More: Images of Protection in
Early Byzantine Thessalonica

John W. Birkenmeier (The Catholic University of
America): Wounds and Wounding in Byzantium: Perception
and Reality

Paul Halsall (Fordham University): Wedded to Christ:
Nuptiality and Gender Reversal in the Lives of
Byzantine Male Saints

Patrick Viscuso (Chantilly, VA): Sexual Intercourse and
Priesthood: Late Byzantine Views on Marriage and
Ordination

4:15- Break, with refreshments
4:30 Alumni Lounge

4:30- Session Fifteen: Archaeology and Urban Settlements
6:15 Room 313

Chair: Helen Saradi (University of Guelph)

Asen Kirin (Princeton University): Serdica of
Constantine the Great

Timothy E. Gregory (Ohio State University):
Archaeological Survey on the Island of Dokos in the
Gulf of Argos, Greece

Susan T. Stevens (Randolph-Macon Woman's College): A
Suburban Christian Complex at Bir Ftouha (Carthage)

Christine Zitrides (Florida State University): The Use
of Opus Sectile in the Church Complex at Bir Ftouha,
Carthage

4:30- Session Sixteen: Byzantine Monasticism Room 311
6:15
Chair: Patrick T. R. Gray (York University, Canada)

Cynthia Villagomez (University of California, Los
Angeles): Positive Attitudes towards Monastic Wealth in
the Church of the East in the Sixth and Seventh
Centuries

Monica J. Blanchard (Institute of Christian Oriental
Research, The Catholic University of America): The
Georgian Heritage of Theodore Abu Qurrah

Michael Gaddis (Princeton University): Patriarchs and
Monks: Politics and Violence in the Fifth-Century
Eastern Chruch

John F. Shean (University of Wisconsin-Madison):
Bogomilism: A Monastic Dualist Development?

4:30- Session Seventeen: Reviving Byzantine Music and Liturgy
6:15 Lakeshore Room

Chair: John W. Barker (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Gregory Myers (Burnaby, British Columbia): The "Melody
of Speech": The Slavonic Transformation of Byzantine
Music and Poetry

Diane Touliatos (University of Missouri, St. Louis):
Revitalization of Byzantine Chant and Liturgy: State of
the Question

Yioryos Bilalis (Philadelphia, PA): Modern Greek
Liturgical Practice and its Application in American
Orthodoxy - with musical illustrations performed by the
ROMEIKO ENSEMBLE

6:30 Reception and Banquet (by advance subscription)
Great Hall, Memorial Union

Concert of Orthodox Liturgical Music
Choir of Assumption Greek Orthodox Church, Madison
George Tzougros, dir.
with the Romeiko Ensemble, Yiorgos Bilalis, dir.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

8:00- Coffee and rolls
9:00 Alumni Lounge

9:00- Session Eighteen: Pioneers of Byzantine Studies in
10:45 America, III Lakeshore Room

Chair: John W. Barker (University of Wisconins-Madison)

Walter K. Hanak (Shepherd College): "Father" Francis
Dvornik: An Indefatigable Scholar

Dale Kinney (Bryn Mawr College): Richard Krautheimer:
Teacher and Scholar

Ellen C. Schwartz (Michigan University): Hugo Buchthal:
Manuscripts and Memories

David H. Wright (Oakland, CA): Wilhelm Koehler and the
Original Plan for Research at Dumbarton Oaks

9:00- Session Nineteen: Early Byzantine Art and Artists:
10:45 Cultural and Social Contexts Room 313

Chair: Frank M. Clover (University of Wisconsin,
Madison)

Sheila McNally (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis):
Spiritual Progress: Alternative Models Shown on Two
Textiles

Elizabeth S. Bolman (Bryn Mawr College): Food for
Salvation: The Coptic Galaktotrophousa

Jennifer L. Russell (Pennsylvania State University):
Confessional Markers or Signs of a Common Culture?
Interpreting Late Antique Pyxides

Linda Jones Hall (The University of Dayton): The Social
Status of Artisans and Merchants in Late Antique
Berytus and Tyre: Wealth and the Opportunity for
Advancement

10:45- Break, with refreshments
11:00 Alumni Lounge

11:00- Session Twenty: Byzantium and the East: Political,
12:45 Economic, and Cultural Relations Room 313

Chair: Walter E. Kaegi, Jr. (University of Chicago)

Jennifer L. Ball (New York University): Manifestations
of Borderland Culture in Hosios Loukas and the Pigeon
House Church: A Re-examination of Provincial

Charles M. Brand (Bryn Mawr College): Adventures of an
Imperial Translator

Nevra Necipoglu (Bogazi‡i University, Istanbul):
Ottoman Conquests and the Byzantine Local Aristocracy:
The Archontes of Thessalonike

11:00- Session Twenty-One: Aspects of Byzantine Economy: Coins,
12:45 Weights, and Trade Lakeshore Room

Chair: [To be announced]

Martin Beckmann (McMaster University, Canada): A
Geographical Study of the Palaeography of Early
Byzantine Coin Inscriptions

Mary Margaret Fulghum, Florent Heintz (Harvard
University): A Hoard of Early Byzantine Glass Weights
from Sardis

Florin Curta (Western Michigan University): Trade or
Tarqans? Early Medieval Hoards of Iron Implements and
Weapoons in Eastern Europe

Rudi Paul Lindner (University of Michigan): Coinage and
Exchange in Thirteenth-Century Anatolia

BYZANTINE STUDIES CONFERENCE

OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES, 1996-97

Officers:
President: Ralph W. Mathisen (University of South Carolina)
Vice-President: Thelma K. Thomas (University of Michigan)
Secretary: Alice Christ (University of Kentucky)
Treasurer: Alice-Mary Talbot (Dumbarton Oaks)

Governing Board:
To serve until the 2000 Conference:
Robert Allison Patrick T. R. Gray
Kathleen Corrigan Helen Saradi

To serve until the 1999 Conference:
Linda Safran Alice-Mary Talbot
Sarolta Tak cs Stephen R. Zwirn

To serve until the 1998 Conference:
Alice Christ Walter E. Kaegi, Jr.
Judith Herrin Thelma K. Thomas

To serve until the 1997 Conference:
Helen C. Evans Ralph W. Mathisen
Elizabeth A. Fisher Daniel J. Sahas

Dumbarton Oaks Liason Committee:
Mary-Lyon Dolezal, Chair
Derek Krueger Thelma K. Thomas
Denis Sullivan Ralph W. Mathisen (ex off.)

Program Committee:
Helen Saradi, Chair George P. Majeska
Annemarie Weyl Carr Ronald J. Weber
Derek Krueger Stephen R. Zwirn

Local Arrangements Committee:
John W. Barker, Chair Frank M. Clover, Co-Chair
Caren Calendine Paul Crawford Greg Paulson

The Byzantine Studies Conference is an annual forum for the
presentation and discussion of papers embodying the current
research on all aspects of Byzantine history and culture.

The 1997 conference is supported by registration fees paid by all
participants, supplemented by generous contribitions from the
following components of the University of Wisconsin, Madison:
Dean Philip Certain, College of Letters & Science; The Anonymous
Fund, L & S College; Lecture Committee, and Robert Reynolds
Memorial Fund, Department of History.


REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Registration Form


Name _________________________________________________

Affiliation___________________________________________

City, State, Zip______________________________________

Phone (____)________ FAX (___)________ EMAIL_________________

Registration:

[ ] Pre-registration (Before August 25) $55.00

[ ] Registration (after Augsut 25) $65.00

[ ] Student Registration $30.00

Options:

[ ] Business Luncheon, Friday, Sep. 26 $12.00

[ ] Banquet & Concert, Saturday, Sep. 27 $25.00

[ ] Vegetarian menu required

[ ] Frank Lloyd Wright Tour, Thurs, Sep.25 $50.00

[ ] Abstracts book only (not attending) $ 9.00

[ ] 1997 BSC Dues have been sent to BSC Treasurer

Total remittance ______

Payment method:

[ ] Check/Money Order (payable to Univ. of Wisconsin Extension)

[ ] Credit card Mastercard _____ VISA _____

Card # _____________________________ Expiration ___________

Signature __________________________

Return this form to:

The Wisconsin Center
Ms. Pat Gaitan Phone: 608-262-5514
Byzantine '97 FAX: 608-265-3163
702 Langdon St. EMAIL: gaitan@admin.uwex.edu
Madison, WI 53706

Registration fees include the Thursday and Friday receptions,
refreshment breaks, a copy of the Abstracts booklet, and all
conference materials.

All North American participants are asked to have paid Annual BSC
dues of $20 ($10 for students).

[ ] I have already paid my 1997 BSC dues.

[ ] 1997 BSC dues enclosed (must be tendered as a *separate*
check, payable to the "Byzantine Studies Conference")

[ ] 1997 BSC dues will be forwarded to Ralph W. Mathisen, BSC
President, Dept. of History, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia,
S.C. 29208.

Accommodations

Accomodations are available at the Wisconsin Center Guest House
($46 single, $52 double), the Ivy Inn ($50 single/double), the
Hampton Inn ($79 single/double), and the Best Western InnTowner
($119 single/double). Please forward accommodations requests and
queries to:

The Wisconsin Center
Ms. Maureen Sundell Phone: 608-262-5514
Byzantine '97 FAX: 608-262-8516
702 Langdon St. EMAIL: sundell@admin.uwex.edu
Madison, WI 53706

Additional queries regarding the Byzantine Studies Conference can
be forwarded to

Ralph W. Mathisen Phone: 803-777-6068
President, BSC FAX: 803-777-4494
Dept. of History EMAIL: ralph.w.mathisen@sc.edu
Univ. of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208