Lincoln Center Campus, Fordham University
113 W 60th St, New York, NY
8:30 am – 12:00 pm
Book Exhibit | South Lounge
8:30 am – 10:00 am
Coffee/Breakfast | 12th Floor Lounge
8:30 am – 10:00 am | 12th Floor Lounge
Graduate and Early Career Breakfast Sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for
Byzantine Art and Culture
Applying for Academic Jobs
Moderator: Luke Hester, Case Western Reserve University
Marica Cassis, University of Calgary
Christina Christoforatou, Baruch College, City University of New York
Georgia Frank, Colgate University
Lynn Jones, Florida State University
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Session 9A: Expressing the Inexpressible: The Language of Theology.
Semiosis and Meaning-Making in Byzantium | LL 305
Session Organizer: Andrea Cuomo
Chair: Elias Petrou, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The Virgin Mary as κυβερνήτης in Photios’s Theotokarion: The Semiotic Value of the Metaphor Between Tradition and Innovation
Alessia Rovina, University of Ghent
Translating the Ineffable: Logic and Incarnation in Manuel Kalekas’ Translation of St. Anselm’s Cur Deus homo
Marthe Nemegeer, Royal Holloway, University of London
‘Proper Names’ and Medieval Greek Linguistics: Semiotics and Meaning-Making in Byzantium
Andrea Cuomo, University of Ghent
Session 9B: Confronting Byzantine Heritage in Modernity | LL 524
Chair: Robert Nelson, Emeritus, Yale University
Byzantine Cultural Heritage in Turkey: Ideological and Practical Challenges in Conservation
Ufuk Serin, Middle Eastern Technical University
‘Appropriating’ Syriac Orthodox Heritage Places as World Heritage in Turkey: Controversies, Receptions, and Expectations
Pınar Aykaç, Middle Eastern Technical University
Rival English Byzantiums: Patrick Leigh Fermor and Robert Byron on Mount Athos
Geoffrey Benson, Colgate University
Session 9C: Late Antique Transitions | LL 1124
Chair: Colin Whiting, Dumbarton Oaks
Clerics’ Competitive Edges: Using Bishops’ Known Ego-Networks to Simulate the Social Impact of Trinitarian Partisanship in the 370s and 380s
Adam Schor, University of South Carolina
Building Byzantine Bureaucracy: The Rise of the Magister Officiorum after the Fourth Century CE
Alessandro Giovanni Battaglia, University of Cincinnati
Recovering Justinianic Edessa: Chalcedonian Policies, Literary Production, Urban Elites, and Imperial Patronage
Yulia Minets, University of Alabama
Monastic Transitions from Late Antiquity to Middle Byzantium: A Material Approach
Elizabeth Zanghi, Sorbonne Université
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
BSANA Governing Board Meeting | TBD