4th Annual Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Graduate Workshop

The IV. Graduate Workshop on Late Antique and Byzantine Studies is co-organized by doctoral candidates from the University of Vienna and Central European University. It gives graduate students from both institutions an opportunity to present their research and get feedback from an informal and receptive audience. 

When

February 28, 2025 | 09:00 - 18:30 

Where

Central European University, Quellenstrasse 51, 1100, Vienna | D001

Programm

09:00-10:00 Registration and Welcome

10:00-11:30 Session One

The Romans' “Other” Eye: Political History Unraveled according to the Persian Sacred History | Arash Khorashadi

The Notion of the Free Will in Late Antique Christian Literature and its Philosophical Background | Dachi Pachulia

East Influencing West: Byzantine Influences on Cultural, Religious and Political Aspects of Flemish Society from First until the Fourth Crusades | Marieke Verbiest

Chair: Olga Vlachou

11:30-11:45 Coffee Break

11:45-13:15 Session Two

The Repit Temple in Athribis: Archaeological Insights into the Destruction of Reliefs in Late Antiquity | Estera Golian

Architectural and Historical Investigations into the Dating of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Berat Castle | Andrea Pambuku

“Birds that Are Gentle Fly in Flocks:” Emotions, Presence and Nature Representation in Cassiodorus’s Variae | Anastasiia Morozova

Chair: Ada Kök

13:15-14:00 Lunch Break

14:15-15:45 Session Three

Between Roman Traditions and Christian Innovations - The Transformation of the Imperial Image in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Empire (306-711 CE) | Johann Hillen

The Titles of the Roman Imperial Elite in Early Late Antiquity. Epigraphic and Papyrological Perspectives | Felix Michler

North Italian Ecclesiastical Schism and Pelagius I during the Three Chapters Controversy (556–561 CE) | Ada Kök

Chair: Liudmila Eramova

15:45-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Session Four

The Origins and Prerequisites for the Cult of the Three Byzantine Hierarchs Gregory the Theologian, Basil the Great, and John Chrysostom (9th–11th Centuries) | Liudmila Eramova

Social Networks and Prosopography of 12th-Century Byzantium | Olga Vlachou

Shining in the West: Georgian Royal Brides as Diplomats in Byzantium in the 11th and 13th Centuries | Kassandra Cox

Chair: Marieke Verbiest

17:30 Closing Remarks and Roundtable

Followed by a wine reception


Contact

 

The conference is generously funded by the Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies @CEU, the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies @univienna, and the Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies.