Saturday March 4
9:00 Welcome | 12th Floor Lounge
Nicholas Paul | Director of the Center for Medieval Studies and Professor of History Fordham University
9:15 Plenary 1 | 12th Floor Lounge
“Who Owned Greek Culture in the Middle Ages? Debates over Appropriation, Patrimony, and Identity.”
Anthony Kaldellis | University of Chicago
Chair: Scott Bruce | Fordham University, History
10:15 Coffee
10:30 – Concurrent Session 1 –
1A: Greek Identity in the Middle Ages | LL1021
Chair: Tia Kolbaba | Rutgers University
“Hellenism in Byzantium: Greek Identity Lost and Found in the Byzantine Middle Ages”
Sviatoslav Dmitriev | Ball State University
“Internal Other: The Term “Greek” in Michael Psellos’ Orations on and Letters to Patriarchs and Monks.”
Aleksandar Andelović | University of Vienna
“What was ‘Greek’ about the ‘Greek’ Migrant Popes? Attitudes and Perspectives of the Liber pontificalis.”
András Handl | KU Leuven
1B: Modes of Reception 1: Philosophy | LL 1022
Chair: Susanna Barsella | Fordham University, Modern Languages and Literatures
“The Aristotelization of Education across Western Afro-Eurasia.”
Erik Hermans | Villanova University
“The Distorting Mirror of Translation: The Cardinal Bessarion’s Defense of Plato’s Community of Women.”
Scott Kennedy | Bilkent University
12:00 Lunch
1:15 Concurrent Session 2
2A: Communicating in Greek | LL 1021
Chair: Matthew McGowan | Fordham University, Classics
“Soter soson imas: Reading and Hearing the Liturgy of John Chrysostom.”
Nikolas Churik | Princeton University
“Learning Greek in Constantinople in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century: Foreign Students and the New Teaching Methods.”
Elias Petrou | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Objects, Language and People in the Transmission of Late Byzantine Culture to Rus.”
Monica White | University of Nottingham
2B: Modes of Reception 2: Hagiography | LL 1022
Chair: Jace Stuckey | Marymount University
“The First Bishop in the Bulgarian Land: Demetrios Chomatenos, The Short Life of Kliment of Ohrid and the Struggle for Power in the Thirteenth-Century Balkans.”
Daniel Berardino | Fordham University
“Lost and Found: Greek Saints Lives Translated.”
Wendy R. Larson | Roanoke College
2:45 Coffee
3:00 Concurrent Session 3
3A: Greek Patristics in the Latin West | LL 1021
Chair: Emanuel Fiano | Fordham University, Theology
“Reading Greek Patristics in Latin in Pre-Conquest England.”
Scott Bruce | Fordham University
“Greek and Syriac Sources and the ‘Innovations’ of Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Monastic Thought.”
Lauren Mancia | Brooklyn College, City University of New York
3B: Modes of Reception 3: Visual Culture | LL 1022
Chair: Richard Teverson | Fordham University, Art History
“The Illustration of the Works of Flavius Josephus: Greek and Latin, East and West.”
Steven H. Wander | Emeritus, University of Connecticut, Stamford
“Filarete’s Greek”
Thomas Martin | Independent scholar
4:45 Plenary 2 | 12th Floor Lounge
“Hellenism as Media from the Byzantine Man in the Moon to Friedrich Kittler’s Sirens.”
Glenn Peers | Syracuse University
Chair: Nina Rowe | Fordham University, Art History
5:45 Reception | Cafeteria Atrium
Sunday March 5
9:00 Welcome
9:15 Plenary 3 | 12th Floor Lounge
“(Re)inventing Greek in the Medieval Slavonic World.”
Mirela Ivanova | University of Sheffield
Chair: Tia Kolbaba | Rutgers University
10:30 Concurrent Session 4
4A: Greek Legacies in Western Vernacular Literature | LL 1021
Chair: Laura Wangerin | Seton Hall University
“Facing Transformation: The Vie de St. Alexis and the Mandylion of Edessa.”
Grace Gibbs DuPree | Emory University
“Alexander the Great and the Amazons in the Middle Ages.”
Suzanne Hagedorn | College of William & Mary
“Weaving Greek Threads into French Romance: Commercial Networks and Technical Language in the Roman de Thèbes and the Roman d’Énéas.”
Mary Maschio | University of Toronto / École Pratique des Hautes Études
4B: Reception History 4: Translation | LL 1022
Chair: Bligh Somma | Fordham University, Philosophy
“’This account of the holy martyrs was translated from Greek letters into Armenian’: Greek Cultural and Intellectual Transmission Amongst Armenian Communities from 1071-1095.”
Lewis Read | University of Vienna
“The Translator at School: Hunayn ibn Ishaq (d. 260/873) and the Arabic Reception of Greek Poetry within the Abbasid Translation Movement.”
Marianna Zarantonello | Università degli Studi di Padova
12:00 Lunch | Cafeteria Atrium