Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY)
365 5th Ave, New York, NY
8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Registration
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8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Book Exhibit
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8:30 am – 9:30 am
Coffee/Breakfast
TBD
8:30 am – 10:15 am
Session 1A: Visual and Verbal Expressions in the Menologion of Basil II
(Part I)
Session Organizer: Alicia Walker and Charles Kuper
Chair: Alicia Walker, Bryn Mawr College
Discontinuity between Text and Image in the Menologion of Basil II: How
(Mis)communication Can Illuminate Aspects of Production
Charles Kuper, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Idols and Icons in the Menologion of Basil II
Nava Streiter, Bryn Mawr College
Gender Fluidity in Byzantine Painting: Heroic Nudity and Female Holiness in the
Menologion of Basil II
Valentina Cantone, Università degli Studi di Padova
Session 1B: Sex, Gender, and Power
The Sexuality of a Eunuch
Noel Lenski, Yale University
Queer Phenomenology, Liminal Spaces, and the Erotic Cave in the Life of St.
Makarios the Roman
Tiffany Van Winkoop, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Legacies of the Fall of Man: The Surprising Connection between Marriage and Slavery
in Byzantine Thought
Nathan Leidholm, Bilkent University
Session 1C: Digital tools and Projects for Medieval and Byzantine Art: Value,
Impact, and Challenges
Session Organizer: Maria Alessia Rossi and Alice Isabella Sullivan
Chair: Alice Isabella Sullivan, Tufts University
Smarthistory and Byzantine Art: Writing an Accessible Digital Art History
Ariel Fein, Institute for Advance Study
Mapping Eastern Europe: Connecting Students and Scholars
Maria Alessia Rossi, Princeton University
Fifty Ways of Seeing Islamic Art: Khamseen and Islamic Art History Online
Michelle Al-Ferzly, Yale University
10:15 am – 10:30 am
Break
10:30 am – 12:15 pm
Session 2A: Visual and Verbal Expressions in the Menologion of Basil II
(Part II)
Session Organizer: Alicia Walker and Charles Kuper
Chair: Alicia Walker, Bryn Mawr College
Devotional Durations: Liturgical Processions and Timescapes in the Menologion of
Basil II
Peter Boudreau, McGill University
Performative Reenactment in the Martyrdoms of the Menologion of Basil II (Vat. gr.
1613)
Elena Gittleman, Byrn Mawr College
Blood and Empathy: The Military Affect of the Menologion of Basil II
Roland Betancourt, University of California, Irvine
Session 2B: Winged Words from a Different Time: Homer and Komnenian
Literature
Session Organizer: Alberto Ravani
Chair: Vessela Valiavitcharska, University of Maryland
Tzetzes Will Give you a Thousand of Achilles
Alberto Ravani, Princeton University
The Hidden Homer. Form and Sound in Byzantine Learned Poetry
Ugo Mondini, University of Oxford
Myth, Memory, and Resistance in Anna Komnene’s Alexiad
Marina Bazzani, University of Oxford
Session 2C: Martial Matters
From Taurus to Constantinople: Analyzing the Geographic and Spatial Dynamics of
the Byzantine Fire Beacon System in Central Anatolia
Annalise Whalen, University of Central Florida
Know Your Enemy: Climate and Difference in the Taktika of Leo the Wise
Dane Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Reasons for Abandonment of the Byzantine Navy in the 13th Century: A Hypothesis from an Ethnic Identity Perspective
Ziyao Zhu, King’s College, London
12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
Lunch Break
12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
Graduate and Early Career Lunch Sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for
Byzantine Art and Culture
Publishing in Byzantine Studies
Moderator: Christina Christoforatou, Baruch College, City University of New York
Darlene Brooks Hedstrom, Brandeis University
Peter Constantine, University of Connecticut
Michael Sharp, Cambridge University Press
1:30 pm – 3:45 pm
Session 3A: Desperately Seeking Doxapatres: Middle Byzantine Culture and
the Corpus of Hermogenes
Session Organizers: Aglae Pizzone and Byron MacDougall
Chair: Alexander Riehle, Harvard University
Joy of Division: John Doxapatres’ Commentary on Hermogenes’ On Issues and
Porphyry’s Isagoge
Byron MacDougall, University of Southern Denmark
‘Every (Exegetical) Move You Make’: Tzetzes’ References to Doxapatres in the
Commentary on On Forms
Elisabetta Barili, University of Southern Denmark
Counting Down the Line: Doxapatres and Tzetzes in Dialogue over Aphthonios
Aglae Pizzone, University of Southern Denmark
Classic (Better than Hermogenes Has Ever Been): Christian Rhetoric and Logos
Panegyrikos from John of Sardis to John Doxapatres
Daria Resh, University of Southern Denmark
Rhetoric as a Rational Art in Doxapatres’ Prolegomena to Aphthonius
Vessela Valiavitcharska, University of Maryland
Session 3B: Materials in Cross-Cultural Context
Session and Chair: TBD
The Khakhuli Triptych and the Art of Repurposing
Sopio Gagoshidze, Rutgers University
“Qui dicitur Rendlæsham”: A Survey of Eight Byzantine folles from the Rendlesham
Productive Site
Molly Johnson, Cardiff University
The Joseph Textiles Reassessed
Andrea Olsen Lam, Independent Scholar
Colors of the Black Sea: Polychrome Ceramics in Medieval Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi
Madeline Newquist, Case Western Reserve University
Session 3C: Anthony Cutler—A BSC Remembrance
Session Organizers: Glenn Peers and Charles Barber
Chair: Charles Barber, Princeton University
Reflections from:
Merih Danalı, Wake Forest University
Annemarie Carr, Emerita, Southern Methodist University
John Cotsonis, Hellenic College
Robert Nelson, Emeritus, Yale University
3:45 pm – 4:00 pm
Break
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Session 4A: Contemplating God in Space, Sound, and Image
Session Organizers and Chair: TBD
Shimmering at the Margins: Aporia and Anagoge in the Justinianic Mosaics of Hagia Sophia
George Yfantidis, Indiana University
Yearning to See Through the Cloud: The Theophany on Mount Sinai in the Late
Byzantine Palatina Psalter
Andrei Dumitrescu, Stanford University
AudioVision in Byzantium: The Narthex Mosaics at Hosios Loukas and the Liturgy
for Easter
Bissera Pentcheva, Stanford University
Iconic Subject: Looking with the Eyes of Faith in the Byzantine Church
Rossitza Schroeder, St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary
Session 4B: Imperial Propaganda and Image
Theodosius II: From “Little Theodosius” to Legitimated Warrior Emperor
Ralph Mathiesen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Manuel the Great? Alexander the Great and the Shaping of an Imperial Masculinity
Luke Sturm, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Visualizing and Legitimizing Imperial Piety: A Reexamination of the Early Byzantine
Elephant
Quentin Clark, Florida State University
A Triumph to Dishonor: The Interplay between the Triumph and the Parade of
Infamy
Merve Savas, The Ohio State University
Session 4C: Music and Metamorphosis in Byzantine Religion
Session Organizer: Georgia Frank
Chair: Susan Ashbrook Harvey
Worship Among the Flames: The Babylonian Furnace in the Constantinopolitan
Liturgy
Jillian Marcantonio, Duke University
The Charms of Horus in Byzantine Egypt: Incantations to Bind, to Seduce, to Heal
David Frankfurter, Boston University
Songs in the Key of Time: Non-Human Music in Early Byzantine Christianity
Georgia Frank, Colgate University
Apocrypha and Anthems: The Hymnography for the Dormition in Late Ancient
Jerusalem
Stephen Shoemaker, University of Oregon
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Self-Guided Tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Graduate Student and Early Career Mixer