Program Highlights

Thursday, October 24

Italian Academy, Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

4:00 – 6:00 pm
Registration
Italian Academy, Columbia University

6:00 – 7:30 pm
Keynote Address

7:30 – 9:00 pm
Opening Reception
Italian Academy, Columbia University

8:00 – 9:30 pm
BSANA Governing Board Meeting
TBD

8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Registration
TBD

8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Book Exhibit
TBD

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 1B: Sex, Gender, and Power

Session 1C: Digital tools and Projects for Medieval and Byzantine Art: Value,
Impact, and Challenges

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 2B: Winged Words from a Different Time: Homer and Komnenian
Literature

Session 2C: Martial Matters

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

1:30 pm – 3:45 pm
Session 3A: Desperately Seeking Doxapatres: Middle Byzantine Culture and
the Corpus of Hermogenes

Session 3B: Materials in Cross-Cultural Context

Session 3C: Anthony Cutler—A BSC Remembrance

3:45 pm – 4:00 pm
Break

4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Session 4A: Contemplating God in Space, Sound, and Image

Session 4B: Imperial Propaganda and Image

Session 4C: Music and Metamorphosis in Byzantine Religion

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

8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Registration

8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Book Exhibit

8:00 am – 9:00 am
Coffee/Breakfast

8:30 am – 10:30 am
Session 5A: “Misbehaving” Women

Session 5B: Art and Nature in Byzantium

Session 5C: Small Object, Big Picture: New Insights into Middle Byzantine
Matters from Coins, Seals, and Textual Fragments

10:30 am – 10:45 am
Break

10:45 am – 12:45 pm
Session 6A: Graduate Student Session Sponsored by the Byzantine Studies
Program, Dumbarton Oaks

Session 6B: Byzantium Beyond Byzantium

Session 6C: Icons and Iconography

12:45 pm – 2:30 pm
BSANA Business Lunch

2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Session 7A: Relief Art in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Materiality and
Meanings of Making Space (ca. 400–1400)

Session 7B: Byzantium and Africa

Session 7C: Byzantium in Comparative Frameworks

4:30 pm – 4:45 pm
Break

4:45 pm – 6:45 pm
Session 8A: Reconfiguring the Past

Session 8B: Saints and Sensibility in Byzantine Hagiography

Session 8C: Byzantine Political Culture and Practices

8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Guided Tour of St. Nicholas
Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine at the World Trade Center at
Ground Zero with John Cotsonis

8:30 am – 12:00 pm
Book Exhibit

8:30 am – 10:00 am
Coffee/Breakfast

8:30 am – 10:00 am
Graduate and Early Career Breakfast Sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for
Byzantine Art and Culture

10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Session 9A: Expressing the Inexpressible: The Language of Theology.
Semiosis and Meaning-Making in Byzantium

Session 9B: Confronting Byzantine Heritage in Modernity

Session 9C: Late Antique Transitions

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
BSANA Governing Board Meeting | TBD