1 5 BYZANTINE STUDIES ALIVE (NIJMEGEN, 16-17 JUN 16) Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, June 16-17, 2016, Radboud University Byzantine Studies Alive organized by Mariëtte Verhoeven en Daniëlle Slootjes. Both junior and senior scholars from all over the world and from various disciplines such as Byzantine history, art history, literature and archaeology will present their research within the framework of two main themes: - Byzantium as a Key Player in the Relationship Between East and West - The Position and Transformation of Byzantine Heritage Keynote Speaker: Professor Averil Cameron (University of Oxford), author of Byzantine Matters (2014) PROGRAMME Thursday 16 June 2016 Location: Erasmus building, room 2.54 9:00 9:30 Registration and coffee 9:30 9:45 Opening by Prof Margot van Mulken (Dean of the Faculty of Arts) and by the organizers Dr Mariëtte Verhoeven and Dr Daniëlle Slootjes Byzantium as a key player in the relationship between East and West, A.D. 330-1453: Session 1: Influences on Byzantium Chair: Evangelos Chrysos 9:45 10:15 Michael Grünbart (professor at the Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster) The water-dispensing emperor: Reality and motif: Reading Eustathios oration on
the occasion of a draught 2 5 10:15 10:45 Galina Fingarova (research fellow Dumbarton Oaks) Byzantine Stone Bridges: New Insights into Byzantine Architectural Structures 10:45-11:15 11:15 11:45 Isabel Kimmelfield (PhD student Radboud University) Invented Shrines? Constructing the Extramural Religious Landscape of Constantinople 11:45 12:15 Alex Rodriguez Suarez (research fellow, The Koç University - Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Center for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (RCAC, Istanbul) The Sebastokrator Isaac Komnenos: Manuel I s Latinophile uncle? 12:15 13:30 Lunch break Session 2: Cultural Exchange and Identity Formation Chair: Daniëlle Slootjes 13:30 14:00 Daphne Penna (lecturer University of Groningen) Byzantine chrysobulls and Crusader charters on legal issues regarding the Italian maritime republics: Similar legal problems, similar solutions? 14:00 14:30 Marko Petrak (chair of Roman Law, Faculty of law, University of Zagreb) The Byzantine Emperor in the Mediaeval Dalmatian Exultets 14:30 15:00 Session 3: Diplomacy Chair: Bernard Stolte 15:00 15:30 Pietro d Agostino (PhD student Labex RESMED Sorbonne) Zemarchos and Nonnosus' embassies as examples of transcultural encounters in the 6th century: on the role of diplomacy in shaping the perception of foreign countries. 15:30 16:00 Evangelos Chrysos (University of Athens)
Rome and Constantinople: Communication and solidarity against the Canon Law? 3 5 Key note Location: Thomas van Aquinostraat 1, room 1.0.35 17:00 18:00 Keynote lecture Byzantinists and others professor Averil Cameron (University of Oxford) Introduction: Daniëlle Slootjes 19:00 Joint dinner (speakers only) Friday 17 June 2016 Location: Thomas van Aquinostraat 4, room 4.00.05 Session 4: Artistic Interchange and Influence Chair: Sible de Blaauw 9:00 9:30 Penelope Mougoyianni (PhD Candidate at the Department of Archaeology and History of Art at the University of Athens) Confrontation and Interchange between Byzantines and Normans in Southern Italy. The cases of Saint Nicolas of Myra and Saint Nicolas the Pilgrim at the End of the Eleventh Century 9:30 10:00 Frouke Schrijver (independent scholar) The hybrid architecture of royal reception rooms: the Byzantine Blachernai palace triklinos and the Norman Cappella Palatina compared (12th-14th c.) 10:00 10:30 10:30 11:00 Şebnem Dönbekci (graduate student at Koç University Istanbul - M.A. in Archaeology and Art History program) The Fresco Cycle of Saint Francis in Constantinople: A Lost Link in the Chain between the Latin West and the Byzantine East? 11:00 11:30 Hans Bloemsma (Associate Professor of Art History, University College Roosevelt Middelburg) The Meaning of Byzantine Art in the context of fourteenth-century Italian painting The position and transformation of Byzantine Heritage 7th Century Present day Session 5: Appropriation and transformation of Byzantine Heritage
Chair: Mariëtte Verhoeven 4 5 11:30 12:00 Elena Boeck (Associate Professor De Paul University Chicago) New Meanings for an Old Monument: Conceptual Migration of Constantinople s Great Monument to Troy and Rome 12:00 12:30 Sarah Tyler Brooks (Associate Professor of Art History - James Madison University Harrisonburg USA) The Byzantine Legacy and Early Ottoman Istanbul: Sculptural Appropriation at the Kalenderhane Camii and Kariye Camii 12:30 13:30 Lunch break Chair: Emilie van Opstall 13:30 14:00 Matthew Savage (assistant Professor, Louisiana State University) The Lost Identity of Byzantine Churches in Istanbul in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries 14:00 14:30 Mariëtte Verhoeven (researcher Radboud University) Unlocking Byzantine Heritage through Digital Techniques Opportunities and Limitations 14:30 15:00 15:00 15:30 Karen Stock (professor at Winthrop University South Carolina) Maurice Denis Mission: To Reveal the Continuity Between Byzantinism and Modernism 15:30 16:00 Konstantinos Chryssogelos (postdoc University of Athens) The Byzantine Heritage in Greek Cinema: The (Almost) Lone Case of Doxobus (1987) 16:00 17:00 Closure and final discussion Saturday 18 June 2016 Morning: optional excursion to the Castle Hernen Register for the conference REFERENCE:
CONF: Byzantine Studies Alive (Nijmegen, 16-17 Jun 16). In: ArtHist.net, Jun 10, 2016 (accessed Jan 26, 2019), <https://arthist.net/archive/13235>. 5 5