Announcements from the Byzantine Studies Conference:
1. A copy of the program for the 21st Annual BSC meeting in New York
Nov. 9-12, 1995, is appended.
2. A copy of the registration form for the Conference follows.
3. For further information, and to be added to the BSC mailing list,
please contact Ralph W. Mathisen, BSC Vice President, Dept. of History,
Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia S.C. 29208.
EMAIL: N330009@UNIVSCVM.CSD.SCAROLINA.EDU
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TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL BYZANTINE STUDIES CONFERENCE
9-l2 NOVEMBER 1995
New York University
and the Metropolitan Museum of Art
PROGRAM OF EVENTS
Sessions will be held on Friday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
and on Saturday and Sunday at New York University, Main Building.
Questions regarding local arrangements may be addressed to
Professors Thomas F. Mathews, Institute of Fine Arts, 1 East 78th
Street, New York, NY 10021, (212) 772-5837, fax (212) 772-5807 or
Carol Herselle Krinsky, Fine Arts Department, 303 Main, New York
University, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY 10003, (212)
998-8180, fax (212) 995-4182. Questions about the program should
be addressed to Professor Mary-Lyon Dolezal, Department of Art
History, 5229 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-5229, (503)
346-2071.
THURSDAY. 9 NOVEMBER
6:00-9:00pm Reception and Registration
Inauguration of the Exhibition "A Mediterranean
Currency: Byzantine Coinage East and West, A.D. 497-
1100" at the Alexander S. Onassis Center for Hellenic
Studies of N.Y.U., 58 West 10th Street (between 5th and
6th Avenues).
FRIDAY, 10 NOVEMBER
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
All Friday sessions at the Uris Conference Center, 5th Avenue at 81st
Street entrance.
9:00 am Welcome
Philippe de Montebello, Director, and William D. Wixom,
Curator of Medieval Art and Director of The Cloisters
9:15-11:15am Session One: Workshop Practices: Artists at Work
Uris Auditorium
Co-Chairs: Carolyn Connor (University of North Carolina)
and Rebecca Corrie (Bates College)
Archer St. Clair (Rutgers University): Evidence for Ivory
and Bone Working in Ancient Rome: The Palatine East Excavation
Christine Kondoleon (Worcester Art Museum): The Case
for a Flexible Approach: Floor Mosaic Workshop Practices
John Lowden (Courtauld Institute. London): The Artist
and Scribe Theodore at Work on his Psalter in 1066
Annemarie Weyl Carr (Southern Methodist University): A
Palaiologan Funerary Icon from Gothic Cyprus
9:15-11:15am Session Two: Orthodoxy. Heterodoxy. and Exegesis
Uris Conference Room
Chair: Elizabeth Clark (Duke University)
Holly Edmisten (University of Kentucky); Authority and
Heresiology in the Early Church
Patrick T.R. Gray (York University): A Star is Born: The
Patrification of Athanasius
Michael Maas (Rice University): Justinian's Quaestor
Discusses Divine and Human Law
Naomi Janowitz (University of California. Davis): The
Transformation of Matter: Jewish Alchemical Arts in
Late Antiquity
9:15-11:15 Session Three: Byzantium and the Steppes
Orientation Theater
Chair: Peter B. Golden (Rutgers University, Newark)
Peter Heather (Urriversity College, London): Huns,
Horses, and Nomadism
Hugh Elton (Trinity College, CT): The Nature of War on
the Steppes, c. 400-650
Mark Whittow (Oxford, UK): Byzantium and the
Khazars: A Special Relationship Reconsidered
John S. Langdon (Marlborough School, Los Angeles):
Byzantium's Initial Encounter with the Chinggisids in
the Thirteenth Century
11:30 am-1:15pm Session Four: Anna Komnena:
Her Alexiad and its Cultural Context
Uris Auditorium
Chair: Thalia Gouma-Peterson (College of Wooster)
Charles M. Brand (Bryn Mawr College): Anna Komnena:
Woman and Historian
Emily Albu (University of California. Davis): The Women
of the Alexiad
Barbara Hill (Toronto): A Vindication of the Rights of
Women to Power by Anna Komnena
Sarolta A. Takacs (Harvard University): Convergence of
Silence and Articulatiom Anna Komnena's Filial
Devotion and Philosophical Zeal
11:30 am-1:15pm Session Five: Venice and the East
Uris Conference Room
Chair: John Osborne (University of Victoria)
Thomas Dale (Columbia Universityj: The Enigma of
Enrico Dandolo's Tomb in Hagia Sophia
Debra Pincus (University of British Columbia):The
Stones of Venice Speak: Evidence from the
Fourteenth Century
Elisaveta Todorova (Northern Kentucky University):
Venice beyond Constantinople
11:30 am-1:15pm Session Six: Coins and Ceramics in their
Archaeological Context
Orientation Theater
Chaic William Metcalf (American Numismatic Society,
New York)
Peter Lampinen (Combined Caesarea Expeditions).
Imitations of Byzantine Coins at Caesarea Maritima:
The Continuation of Civic Tradition
Robert Scott Mobre (Ohio State University): Ceramic
Evidence for East Mediterranean Trade in Late Antiquity
Jodi Magness (Tufts University): Capernaum and the
Ceramic Chronology of Early Islamic Palestine
1:15 pm-3:00pm LUNCH
3:00-5:00 pm Session Seven: Architectural Studies in Honor of
Richard Krautheimer
Chair: Slobodan Curcic (Princeton University)
Slobodan Curcic: Richard Krautheimer
Gillian Mackie (University of Victoria): The Santa Croce
Drawings: A Re-examination
Annie-Christine Daskalakis and Thomas F. Mathews
(Institute of Fine Arts. New York University): The
Adoption of the Islamic Inverted T-Plan in Byzantine
Domestic Architecture in Cappadocia
Robert Ousterhout (University of Illinoisj: The Byzantine
Settlement at Canli Kilise and the Question of
Cappadocian Settlements
Svetlana Popovic: The Chapel in the Late Byzantine
Monastic Context
3:00-5:00 pm Session Eight: Genre and Clich in Byzantine
Literature
Uris Conference Room
Chair: Ihor Sevcenko (Harvard University)
Stephen A. Stertz (Kean College of New Jersey, Dowling
College): Philosophy Wears a Crown: The Image of
the Emperor Julian in the Works of Libanius
Irfan Shahid (Georgetown University/Dumbarton Oaks):
Miles Quondam et Graecus: Ammianus Marcellinus:
Res Gestae, 31.16.9
Derek Krueger (University of North Carolina.
Greensborough: Theories of Religious Narrative in the
Prefaces of Early Byzantine Saints' Lives
Anthony Hirst (King's College, London): Restoring the
Image: A Reappraisal of Romanos' Easter Kontakion
(Maas and Trypanis No. 29, "On the Resurrection V1")
Margaret E. Mullett (The Queen's University of Belfast):
Genre, Cliche, and Reality: Friendship Topoi in and out
of Middle Byzantine Epistolography
3:00-5:00 pm RECEPTION, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Blumenthal Patio
The galleries of the Museum remain open to the public
until 8:45 pm; admission is complimentary for BSC reg-
istrants. The dining facilities remain open until 10 pm.)
SATURDAY 11 NOVEMBER
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY. WASHINGTON SQUARE
All sessions take place at Main Building, 100 Washington Square East
at Waverly Place.
9:00-10:45pm Session Nine: Late Empire
Room 703
Chair and Commentator: Paul Magdalino (Harvard
University)
Demetrios Kyritses (Harvard University): The "Common
Chrysobulls" of Cities and the Pattern of Ownership
in Late Byzantium
Marios Philippides (University of Massachusetts): Some
Artistic Portrayals of the Last Imperial Family, 1400-1470
Walter K. Hanak (Shepherd College): Nestor-lskander's
The Tale of Constantinople, Byzantine, Western, and
Muscovite Sources on the Fall (1453) and its
Conqueror, Mehmet II
9:00-10:45pm Session Ten: New Technology for Byzantine Studies
Chair Judith Herrin (King's College, London)
Peter Ian Kuniholm (Cornell University): New Tree-Ring
Dates for Byzantine Buildings
Don S. Skemer and Ted Stanley (Princeton University):
Photography and Palimpsest (Garrett MS. 24)
Henry Maguire (Dumbarton Oaks/University of Illinois):
"Portraits of Byzantium." A Multi-media Project
Alice-Mary Talbot and Lee F. Sherry (Dumbarton Oaks):
The Dumbarton Oaks Hagiography Database Project
9:00-10:45pm Session Eleven: Georgia
Chair: Helen C. Evans (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Irakli Iakobashvili (K. Kekelidze Institute of Manuscripts,
Tbilisi): Some Specific Aspects of "Byzantine" (Mixed)
Mural Painting Technique Distribution in Middle Age
Georgia
Thamar Otkhmezouri (K.Kekelidze Institute of
Manuscripts, Tbilisi); Some Remarks about the
Georgia Codex S-1276 (Tbilisi)
Dora Piguet-Panayotova (Paris): The Outside Carved
Decoration of the Georgian Churches in Iskhani and
Oski
11:00 am-12:45pm Session Twelve: Byzantine Romances
Room 703
Chair and Commentator: Roderick Beaton (King's
College, London)
Elizabeth Jeffreys (University of Sydney): The Literary
Context of the Novels of Twelfth-Century Constantinople
Ruth Webb (Princeton University/King's College,
London): Eustathios Makrembolites' Hysmini and
Hysminias: Re-writing and Re-reading the Greek Novels
Margaret Alexiou (Harvard University): Eros and the
"constraints of desire" in Eustathios Makrembolites'
Hysmini and Hysminias
Maria Hatjigeorgiou (Hamilton, NY): Literary Uses of
Folktale Motifs in the Palaiologan Romance of
Kallimachos and Chrysorrhoe
11:00 am-12:45pm Session Thirteen: The Legacy of Byzantium
Room 774
Chair: Robert S. Nelson (University of Chicago)
Asen Kirin (Princeton University): The Cult of the
Mother of God Osenovitsa (She Who Overshadows)
Ljubica D. Popovich (Vanderbilt University): An Overall
View of Prophet Images in Post-Byzantine Painting in
Bulgaria from the late 15th to the Late 17th Century
Ellen C. Schwartz (Eastern Michigan University): The
Angel of the Wilderness: Russian Icons and the
Byzantine Legacy
Philip Shashko (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee):
What and Where is Byzantium? The Presence and
Absence of a Civilization in American University Textbooks
1:00-2:30pm Business Lunch
John Ben Snow Dining Room. Bobst Library. 12th floor
Guest Speaker: Professor Peter Schreiner (University of
Cologne/Editor, Byzantinische Zeitschrift): The
Bibliography of the Byzantinische Zeitschrift. Actual
Problems and their Solution in the Future
2:45-4:30pm Session Fourteen: Late Antique and
Byzantine Manuscripts
Room 703
Chair: Jeffrey C. Anderson (George Washington University)
David H. Wright (Oakland. CA): The Last Important
Pagan Art Patron in Rome
Ann Marie Yasin (University of Chicago): On Giving
Churches and Receiving a Book: The Vienna
Dioscurides (Med. Gr. 1) as a document of Exchange
Glenn Peers (Johns Hopkins University): Patriarchal
Politics in the Paris Gregory
Dimitrios G. Katsarelias (Institute of Fine Arts/
Metropolitan Museum of Art): Middle Byzantine
Illuminated Liturgical Manuscripts: Function and
Appreciation of the Miniatures
2:45-4:30pm Session Fifteen: Cultural Literacy and Cultural Ritual
Room 714
Chair: Fred Paxtorr (Connecticut College)
Michele Renee Salzman (University of California,
Riverside): The Education of Aristocratic Children in
the Fourth Century: Whose Responsibility Was It?
Raffaella Cribiore (Columbia University): Greek and
Coptic Education in Byzantine Egypt
Hagith Sivan (University of Kansas): Worldly Time and
Temporal Eternity in Holy Land Pilgrimage in the
Early Byzantine Period
Kathryn M. Ringrose (University of California, San Diego):
Eunuchs as Cultural Mediators in Byzantium
Liliana Simeonova (Albany. NY). Diplomacy of the Stick-
Humiliation of High-Ranking Foreigners in Tenth-
Century Constantinople
2:45-4:30pm Session Sixteen: Urban Landscape
Room 713
Chair: Kenneth Holum (University of Maryiand)
Michael Gaddis (Princeton University): Greece in Late
Antiquity: Urban Decline and Rural Expansion
Timothy E. Gregory (Ohio State University): City and
Territory in Early Byzantine Cyprus: Hypotheses and
Spatial Considerations
Linda Jones Hall (Ohio State University): Artisans of
Berytus in Late Antiquity: Social Evidence from
Inscriptions and Artifacts
Richard M. Rothaus (St. Cloud State University): The
Kenchreai Basilica
4:45-6:30pm Session Seventeen: Pioneers of Byzantine
Studies in America
Room 703
Chair: Walter E. Kaegi. Jr.. (University of Chicago)
John W. Barker (University of Wisconsin): A.A. Vasiliev:
The Madison Years
John Duffy (University of Maryland): Byzantium in
Buffalo: From the Life and Works of L.G. Westerink
Rudi Lindner (University of Michigan): Paul J.
Alexander: "There is No One Whose Loss Would Be a
More Serious Blow"
William Loerke (Dumbarton Oaks): Kurt Weitzmann: The
Earlier Years
4:45-6:30pm Session Eighteen: Palaeography and Codicology
Room 714
Chair: John Sharpe (Duke University)
Kathleen McNamee (Wayne State University): Another
Item in the History of Scholia
Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann (New York City): An
Anonymous Copyist of Six Gospels and Psalters
Mark L. Sosower (North Carolina State University):
Utilizing Computer Technology to Identify the
Handwriting of a Sixteenth-Century Scribe
Robert W. Allison (Bates College): Gabriel of
Kallioupolis, Iznik, and the Gallipolite Style
4:45-6:30pm Session Nineteen: Walls
Room 713
Chair: Joseph D. Alchermes (New York Cityj
James Crow (University of Newcastle upon Tyne): The
Anastasian Wall Project 1994-95
Monica Barran Fullerton (Ohio State University):
Fortification and the Ideology of the City in Late
Antiquity: the Case of Athens
Erkki Sironen (Academy of Finland): Early Byzantine
Restorations of the Outer City Walls of Athens: New
Evidence from a Statue Base Epigram
7:00-10:00pm Cocktails and Banquet
John Ben Snow Dining Room, Bobst Library.
12th floor
Greetings from Dean Matthew Santirocco, College of
Arts and Science. New York University
SUNDAY, 12 NOVEMBER
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY. WASHINGTON SQUARE
(MAIN BUILDING)
9:00-11:30am Session Twenty: Early Christian and Byzantine
Church Decoration
Room 703
Chair: Linda Seidel (University of Chicago)
Marilyn E. Heldman (St. Louis, MO): Fauna of the
Terrestrial World: An Early Byzantine Scheme
Preserved in Ethiopian Church Decoration
Natalia Teteriatnikov (Dumbarton Oaks): The Hidden
Cross-and-Tree Program in the Brickwork of the
Apse of Hagia Sophia
Ann van Dijk (Johns Hopkins University): Domus
Sanctus Dei Genetricis Mariae: Art and Liturgy in the
Oratory of Pope John V11 (705-707)
Ida Sinkevic (Lafayette College): Some Aspects of the
Iconographic Program of the Church of St.
Panteleimon at Nerezi
Sharon E. J. Gerstel (University of Maryland/ Dumbarton
Oaks): Ritual Swimming and the Feast of the Epiphany
Sarah T. Brooks (Institute of Fine Arts, New York
University): The Double Portrait of Kale Kavalasea from Mistra
9:00-11:30am Session Twenty-one: Hagiography
Room 714
Chair: Alexander Alexakis (Columbia University/
Dumbarton Oaks)
Claudia Rapp (University of California. Los Angeles):
Fundraising in Late Antiquity: Purpose and Audience
of the Historia Lausiaca
Helen Saradi (University of Guelph): Constantinople and
its Saints (4th-6th Centuries): The Image of the City
and Social Considerations
Dorothy de F. Abrahamse (California State University,
Long Beach): Hagiographic Models in the Vita of
David, Symeon, and George of Lesbos
Douglas Domingo-Foraste (California State University,
Long Beach): Classicism in the Life of SS. David,
Symeon, and George
Stephanos Efthymiadis (Dumbarton Oaks): Byzantium
Facing the Carolingian West: Literary Convergence
and Divergence in the Aftermath of the Dark Ages
(ca. AD 750-850)
Elizabeth A. Fisher (George Washington University):
Classical Allusions in the Life of the Patriarch
Nikephoros by Ignatios the Deacon
11:45 am-1:30pm Session Twenty-two: Late Antique and
Byzantine Decorative Arts
Room 703
Chair: Stephen Zwirn (Dumbarton Oaks)
Anthony Cutler (Pennsylvania State University):
Disputing the Disputa: The Limits of Late
Antique Art
Areti Papanastasiou (University of Chicago): Forging
Salvation
Eunice Dauterman Maguire (University of Illinois):
Hunting and Falconry on Byzantine Ceramic
Tableware
11:45 am-1:30pm Session Twenty-three: Barbarians and Romans
Room 714
Chair: Alan Cameron (Columbia University)
Frank M. Clover (University of Wisconsin): Roman
Clients from Scipio Africanus to Justinian
Luis A. Garcia Moreno (University of Alcala de Henares):
Alaric's Invasion of Greece in 395: Gothic Policy and
Religious Dispute in Arcadius' Court
Ralph W. Mathisen (University of South Carolina):
Barbarian Intellectuals in the Early Byzantine Empire;
A Contradiction in Terms?
Margarita Vellejo Girves (University of Alcala de
Henares): The Byzantine and Visigothic Perspective of
the Political and Religious Confrontation at the End
of the Sixth Century
11:45 am-1:30pm Session Twenty-four: Syria
Room 713
Chair; Kathleen McVey (Princeton Theological Seminary)
Monica J. Blanchard (Catholic University): Eznik
Kolbatsi in Edessa
Rima E. Smine (Institute of Fine Arts, New York
University): A Workshop cf Syriac Illuminators in
Mosul: The Evidence of Vatican Syr. 559 and British
Library Add. 7170
Victoria Erhart (Dumbarton Oaks): Syriac Christian
Perceptions of Byzantium and the Byzantines in the
Periad of the Crusades
3:30-5:30pm Walking Tour of 20th Century Architecture in Midtown
Carol Herselle Krinsky (New York University)
Please sign up when you register for the Conference, but
you may join the tour without advance notice. Meet at
the information kiosk at Grand Central Terminal (42nd
Street at Park Avenue).
BYZANTINE STUDIES CONFERENCE
OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES. 1994-1995
Officers:
President: Susan T. Stevens
Vice-President: Ralph W. Mathisen
Secretary-Treasurer: Denis Sullivan
Governing Board:
To serve until the 1998 Conference.
Alice Christ
Judith Herrin
Walter E. Kaegi, Jr.
Thelma K. Thomas
To serve until the 1997 Conferencel
Helen C. Evans
Elizabeth A. Fisher
Ralph W. Mathisen
Daniel J. Sahas
To serve until the 1996 Conference:
Mary-Lyon Dolezal
John V.A. Fine, Jr.
Susan T. Stevens
Denis Sullivan
To serve until the 1995 Conferencer
Timothy Miller
John Nesbitt
Lucille Roussin
Nancy Sevcenko
Program Committee:
Mary-Lyon Dolezal, Chair
Joseph D. Alchermes
Charles Brand
David Olster
Thelma K. Thomas
Dumbarton Oaks Liaison Committee:
David Olster, Chair
Helen C. Evans
Linda Safran
Nancy Sevcenko
Susan T. Stevens, ex officio
Local Arrangements Committee:
Thomas F. Mathews. Chair
Helen C. Evans, Co-Chair
Carol Herselle Krinsky, Co-Chair
Phillip Mitsis. Co-Chair
Thomas Dale
William Metcalf
Olenka Z. Pevny
Richard Stapleford
William D. Wixom
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