I graduate students forum, 26-27 June 2020
Program
Friday 26 June
h. 17.30- Welcome Speech
h. 17.40-18.20
Key Note Address: Nevra Necipoglu (Boğazici University)
Followed by a Q&A session
h. 18.30-19.30
I Panel “Archaeology of the Byzantine World”
Respondent: Fotini Kondyli (University of Virginia)
Panelists:
Setting Ships Afire: Timber Politics of Byzantium
“Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains”: for an environmental history of Byzantine Anatolia
Seclusion on the Thracian Mountains: Kuzulu Rock-cut Hermitage near Kırklareli
Saturday 27 June
h. 17.30 –18.30
II Panel “Byzantine Greece and Constantinople: Then and Now ”
Respondent: Nikos Kontogiannis (Koç University)
Panelists:
“The Sea Is Beautiful in The Eyes of God Because It Surrounds the Islands”: Christianizing the Seascape of Cyprus, Balearics, Chios and Naxos in the Early Byzantine Era
Two Symbolic Images in the Catholicon of Panagia Peribleptos Monastery, Mystras: Heavenly Liturgy and Christ “Anapeson”
The Revival of the Hellenic Identity in Late Byzantine Period and Its Reflections in the Byzantine Religious Iconography.
Discourse on Greed in the Patriarchal Register: An Analysis of Disputes over Credit Transactions in 14th -Century Constantinople
h. 18.40 –19.40
III Panel “Stories of Byzantium”
Respondent: Nevra Necipoğlu (Boğaziçi University)
Panelists:
“And to Every Beast of the Earth and to Every Bird of the Heaven and to Everything
That Creeps on the Earth’: Worms and Insects in the path to Byzantine sanctity.”
An island on the border: "Aegina" under the Catalan family of Fadrique (1318-1380)
Syriac Iconography of Forty Martyrs of Sebaste with the story of Mor Behnam and Sarah
h. 19.50 –20.50
IV Panel “The Arts of Byzantium”
Respondent: Sercan Yandim (Hacettepe University)
Panelists:
Paving Ideas, Laying Down Relations in Anatolia: Abstract Personifications in Early Byzantine Mosaic Floors
Reinventing the Byzantine Image: The Reception of Byzantine Art in the Late Ottoman Popular Publications
Material Culture in Byzantine Archaeology at the End of the 19th Century: The Imperial Russian Archaeological Society Excavations at Ani
Concluding Remarks: Ivana Jevtic (Koç University), Sercan Yandım (Hacettepe University), Luca Zavagno (Bilkent University)
