BSC PROGRAM

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1998

9.00-9.15 Welcoming Remarks

9.15-11.00
Plenary Session: Showcasing Byzantium
Chair: Robert Nelson (University of Chicago)
Helen C. Evans (Metropolitan Museum), "The Glory of Byzantium"
and Byzantine Studies
Helen Saradi (University of Guelph), The Joey and Toby Tanenbaum
Gallery of Byzantine Art at the Royal Ontario Museum
Sheila Campbell (University of Toronto), The Politics of Byzantin= e
Exhibitions

11.00-11.15 Coffee Break

11.15-13.00
Session I: New Evidence for Byzantine Art and Archaeology
Chair: Ellen Schwartz (Eastern Michigan University)
Ann Terry (Wittenberg University), Henry Maguire (University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), The Wall Mosaics at the Cathedral of
Eufrasius in Porec: Preliminary Findings
Chuck Morss (Berkeley), The Family of the Great Palace Mosaic
Joel Walker (University of Washington, Seattle), The Discovery of
Ancient Sykeon? In Search of St. Theodore in Central Anatolia
Robert Ousterhout (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), New
Evidence for Byzantine Church Decoration in the Early Ninth Centu= ry

Session II: The Private Sphere in Byzantium
Chair: Eunice Dauterman Maguire (Krannert Art Museum)
Stephanie L. Smith (Rutgers University), Gold Glass of the Roman
Empire: Daily Life and Afterlife
Geoffrey Nathan (University of California, Los Angeles), Querolus= and
the Domestic Slave
Michael Milojevic (University of Auckland), Adaptation and
Antiquarianism in the Proto-Byzantine City
Veronica Kalas (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU), Form and Function o= f
Byzantine Settlements in Cappadocia: Some Examples from the
Peristrema Valley

13.00-14.30 Lunch Break

14.30-16.30
Session III: Patronage and Style
Chair: Annmarie Weyl Carr (Southern Methodist University)
Marie Spiro (University of Maryland), An Itinerant Mosaic Worksho= p
in Central Greece and the Peloponnesos
Christina Maranci (Princeton University), Artistic Patronage in
Medieval Armenia and the Case of the Church of Zvart`noc`
Sarah A. Taft (Rutgers University), Pseudo-Kufic Decoration on
Byzantine Sculpture
Laura Hebert (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University),
Architecture and Sculpture in Middle Byzantine Aphrodisias
George Stricevic (University of Cincinnati), Chilandari Katholiko= n in
1198

Session IV: Legitimations of Power
Chair: Thalia Gouma-Peterson (College of Wooster)
Areti Papanastasiou (University of Chicago), "... such a husband.= .."
Sarah T. Brooks (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University),
Nikephoros II Phokas and Theophanou in Cavusin: The Imperial
Family as Model
Kathleen S. Schowalter (Johns Hopkins University), The Absence an= d
Presence of Emperors: Reading the Mosaic of the Southwest Vestibu= le,
Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
Dimiter G. Angelov (Harvard University), Nobility and the Imperia= l
Ideal in the basilikoi logoi of the Nicaean Empire
Robert Hallman (New York University), The Romance of Alexander
and Bold Byzantine Princesses: Coping with Accommodation and
Alliance in Fourteenth-Century Anatolia

16.30-16.45 Coffee Break

16.45-18.45
Session V: Images of Author and Audience
Chair: Nancy Sevcenko (Rutgers University)
Derek Krueger (University of North Carolina at Greensboro), The
Saintly Writer in Early Byzantium: Verbal and Visual Portraits of
Biblical Authors
Joyce Kubiski (Western Michigan University), Early Christian Trad= ition
and Byzantine Evangelist Portraits: A Reappraisal of the Mount At= hos
Gospel Book, Stauronikita MS. 43
Glenn Peers (University of Texas at Austin), Framing the Monk: Th= e
Frontispice of Sinai cod. 339
Alfred B=81chler (Berkeley), Naming the Narrative Image: Traditio= n,
Invention, Theology
Amy Papalexandrou (Penn State University), Byzantine Monuments an= d
Their Inscriptions: Reading, Speaking, and the Participatory Expe= rience

Session VI: Identity and Status in Late Antiquity
Chair: James Francis (University of Kentucky)
Hanna Witte Orr (Burlington, Iowa), Scenes from the Life of
Constantine in the Wallpaintings of Karm Al-Ahbariya (Egypt)
Grace E. Evans (George Washington University), The Program of the
Mausoleum of Constans I: Its Imperial Aesthetic and Hieratic Nece= ssity
Lea Stirling (University of Manitoba), Biography, Ethics, and
Spirituality: Ausonius and the Reading of Late Antique Portraitur= e
Thomas Brauch (Central Michigan University), The Early Career of
Sophronius, Master of Offices: Problems, Solutions and Importance
John R. Martindale (King's College, London), Databases,
Prosopography and Byzantium

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1998

9.00-10.45
Session VII: Byzantine Urbanism: Session in Honor of Alexander
Kazhdan
Chair: Helen Saradi (University of Guelph)
W. Liebeschuetz (University of Nottingham, UK), The Uses and
Abuses of the Concept of 'Decline', with Special Reference to the
Eastern Empire in the Sixth Century
Joseph Patrich (University of Haifa, Israel), The Urban Ruralizat= ion in
Provincia Palaestina: The Demise of the Byzantine Praetorium at
Caesarea
Kenneth G. Holum (University of Maryland), Caesarea Palaestinae: = The
Byzantine-Islamic Transition
Eric A. Ivison (The College of Staten Island, CUNY), Reconstructi= ng
and Deconstructing the Middle Byzantine City: A Reassessment of t= he
Role of the State in the Revival of Urban Life

Session VIII: Ways of Seeing
Chair: Mary Lyon Dolezal (University of Oregon, Eugene)
Georgia Frank (Colgate University), Blindness, Sight, and the One= -
Eyed Man: An Early Byzantine Paradox
Diana Hilvers (Indiana University), The Rossano Gospels: Incarnat= ion
and Communion in the 'Communion of the Apostles'
Jennifer Ball (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University), Icon= oclasm
in Eighth-Century Palestine
Liliana Simeonova (Sofia, Bulgaria), City Talismans in Tenth-Cent= ury
Constantinople

10.45-11.00 Coffee Break

11.00-12.45
Session IX: Economic Centers and the Distribution of Goods
Chair: Daniel Gargola (University of Kentucky, Lexington)
Carol Meyer (University of Chicago), The Gold-Miners of Bir Umm
Fawakhir
R. Scott Moore (Ohio State University), Cyprus and its Role in th= e
Early Byzantine Economy
D. M. Danis (Texas A&M University), Preliminary Analysis of an
Assemblage of Domestic Coarsewares from a Byzantine Shipwreck
Christine A. Powell (Texas A&M University), Preliminary Findings
from a Large Assemblage of Middle Byzantine Transport Amphoras

Session X: Lay Spirituality
Chair: Claudia Rapp (University of California, Los Angeles)
Jaclyn Maxwell (Princeton University), Preaching to the Converted= :
John Chrysostom and the Christianization of Daily Life in Antioch
Wendy Mayer (Auckland, Australia), How Many Women Came to
Hear John's Homilies? Female Participation and the Late Fourth
Century Preacher's Audience
Jennifer L. Hevelone-Harper (Princeton University), Spiritual Dir= ection
and the Lay Christians of Gaza
Kevin Uhalde (Princeton University), Adhibe Medicinale Purgatoriu= m:
Late Antique Oaths and Private Spirituality

12.45-14.30 Business Lunch

14.30-16.15
Session XI: Orientalism and Nationalism in Byzantine Scholarship
Chair: Thelma Thomas (University of Michigan)
Maria Georgopoulou (Yale University), Hunting for Orientals
Walter E. Kaegi (University of Chicago), Remarks on Problems of
Orientalism in the Scholarship on the Muslim Conquest of Byzantin= e
Africa
Petar Milich (St. Louis, Missouri), Was There Nationalism in the
Byzantine Commonwealth? The Question of Slavic Selbstbewusstsein
George P. Majeska (University of Maryland), Racial Stereotyping i= n
Byzantine Sources? The Truth about the Slavs

Session XII: Byzantium and Italy: Interaction and Exchange
Chair: Carolyn Connor (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
F. M. Clover (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Merobaudes,
Ravenna's St. John Evangelist and the Survival of Theodosius' Hou= se
Christine Havice (University of Kentucky), Making the Madrid
Skylitzes: Miniatures for Byzantine History in a Norman Workshop
Fatima Mahdi (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University), The
Mantle of Roger II and as-Sufi's Book of Fixed Stars in the Conte= xt of
Twelfth-Century Mediterranean Talismanic Magic
Cecily Hilsdale (University of Chicago), Weaving Allegiances: The
Exchange of a Pallio in the Thirteenth Century

16.15-16.30 Coffee Break

16.30-18.15
Session XIII: Byzantine Scholars
Chair: John W. Barker (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
John S. Langdon (Los Angeles), Milton V. Anastos, Pioneer of
Byzantine Intellectual History in the United States
John H. Erickson (St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary),
John Meyendorff, Scholar and Churchman
Alice-Mary Talbot (Dumbarton Oaks), Alexander Petrovich Kazhdan:
The American Years
Robert H. Hewsen (Rowan University), Cyril Toumanoff and Byzantin= e
Studies

Session XIV: Popular Religious Sentiments
Chair: Patrick Gray (York University)
B=82atrice Caseau (Sorbonne, France), Eucharistic Practices in th= e
Byzantine World, Sixth to Twelfth Centuries
Patrick Viscuso (Chantilly, VA), Late Byzantine Canonical Views o= n
the Dissolution of Marriage
George Demacopoulos (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill),
Have We Gained the Victory or Have We Sold the Faith? The Popular
Reception of the Council of Florence in Constantinople, 1440-1453
Marios Philippides (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Myth i= nto
History: The Patriarchate and the 'Surrender' of Constantinople i= n 1453

19.00 Banquet

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1998

9.00-10.45
Session XV: The Byzantine Literary Tradition: Session in Honor of
Robert Browning
Chair: Martha Vinson (Bloomington, Indiana)
Edwin D. Floyd (University of Pittsburgh), Homeric and Hesiodic
Allusions in Cometas, On Lazarus (Anth. Pal. 15.40)
John Duffy (Harvard University), The Story of a Tale in George th= e
Monk: The Jewish Boy Legend
Elizabeth A. Fisher (George Washington University), Educating an
Intellectual Warrior in Ignatios the Deacon's Life of the Patriar= ch
Nikephoros
Jane Baun (New York University), Apocryphal Exchange between
Byzantium and Bulgaria: An Offering for Robert Browning

Session XVI: The Byzantine Economy
Chair: Rudi Paul Lindner (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Peter Lampinen (CCE), Byzantine Mint Practice in the Sixth and
Seventh Century: Centralization vs. Autonomy
Leonora Neville (Princeton University), The D=94lger Treatise on
Taxation as a Source for Social History
Charles M. Brand (Bryn Mawr College), Did Byzantium Have a Free
Market?
Camilla MacKay (University of Michigan), The Public Post, Roadsid= e
Settlements, and Byzantine Taxation

Session XVII: Defining Heresy
Chair: Susan Ashbrook Harvey (Brown University)
Christopher Fuhrmann (University of Kentucky), Catholic Consolida= tion
and Donatist Decline, 347 to 361
Michael Gaddis (Princeton University), The Sanctification of
Resistance: The Politics of Martyrdom in the Century after Consta= ntine
Susanna Elm (University of California, Berkeley), Gregory of
Nazianzus' Orations 1-6 and the Image of the Ideal Bishop
Ralph Mathisen (University of South Carolina, Columbia), Eastern
Councils, Papal Decreta and Local Authority: The Development of
Latin Libri canonum in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries

10.45-11.00 Coffee Break

11.00-13.00
Session XVIII: The Alexander Romance: Text and Tradition
Chair: Robin Darling Young (Catholic University of America)
Giusto Traina (Universit=85 di Perugia, Italy), Claudia A. Cianca= glini
(Universit=85 di Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy), Ps.Callisthenes, rec= ensio
vetusta: Essay of Metatextual Analysis
Steven Bowman (University of Cincinnati), Aleksandros HaMukdan
Lucine Barsamian (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Alexand= er
in Armenia: Of God and Man
S. Peter Cowe (University of California, Los Angeles), Christiani= zing
the Alexander Romance: Khachatur Kecharets`i's Early Fourtheenth-
Century Redaction
Dickran Kouymjian (California State University, Fresno), The
Miniature Cycle in the Armenian Version of the History of Alexand= er
the Great

Session XIX: Definitions of Space and Regional Identity in Early
Byzantium
Chair: Michael Maas (Rice University)
Noel Lenski (University of Colorado), The Persian Peace of 363:
Compromise and Continuity on the Eastern Frontier
Linda Jones Hall (St. Mary's College of Maryland), Imperial Liter= ature
and the Construction of Ethnic and Provincial Identity: The Case = of
Late Antique Berytus in Phoenicia
Hugh Elton (Trinity College), Isaurian Identity and the Empire of
Justinian
Timothy E. Gregory (Ohio State University, Columbus), The Landsca= pe
of Procopius

Information on registration and details of local arrangements may be = obtained from Prof.
David Olster, Dept. of History, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.