3rd International Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Graduate Conference: Receiving Byzantium, Byzantium Receiving, May 16-17, 2025

May 16, 2025
Start Time: 09:45
Location: Central European University, Room D-001, Quellenstraße 51, 1100

May 17, 2025
Start Time: 09:45
Location: Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna, Lecture Hall, Postgasse 9, 1010

DAY 1 – May 16, 2025

09:00–09:45 Arrival and Registration

09:45–10:00 Welcome

10:00–11:00 Keynote Lecture

Marketa Kulhankova | Czech Academy of Sciences
The National Hero: The Image of Digenis Akritis in Modern Greek Literature

11:00–11:30 Coffee Break

11:30–12:30 First Session: Reception of Classical Literary Heritage

– Elena Mencarelli | Reception and Transmission of Attic Drama in the Triclinian Editions

– Giuseppe Mendicino | John Tzetzes and the Heritage of Hephaistion: Transmission, Critique, and Innovation in Byzantine Treatises on Metrics

12:30–13:30 Lunch

13:30–15:00 Second Session: Byzantine for Export I: From Western Europe to Balkans

– Marieke Verbiest | Echoes of Byzantium: Byzantine Influence in Flemish Art between the First and Fourth Crusades

– Marthe Nemegeer | Manuel Kalekas’ Translation of St. Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo in Byzantine Context

– Evelyne Diels | Quaestio 16 in the Greek Soterios and its Slavonic Reception

15:00–15:30 Coffee Break

15:30–16:30 Third Session: Byzantine for Export II: Russia and Italy

– Eldad Voremberg | Reception of Byzantine Law between the 10th and 12th Centuries in Southern Italy

– Georgii Titov | Byzantine Imagery in Russia and Italy: The Monastic Feats from the Heavenly Ladder of John Climacus

16:30–17:00 Coffee Break

17:00–18:00 Fourth Session: “Modern” Receptions

– Pantelis Levakos | Greek National Ideology and Identity through the Byzantine Political and Religious Spectrum

– Mariia Hrynevych | Reception of the Fragments of Toparcha Gothicus by Karl Benedikt Hase (1780–1864)

18:30–20:00 Buffet Dinner

DAY 2 – May 17, 2025

09:00–09:45 Arrival and Registration

09:45–10:00 Welcome

10:00–11:00 First Session: Reception of Classical Philosophy

– Juan Manuel Tabío | Aristotle’s Rhetoric at Byzantium

– Sebastian Skrzypczyk | A Fragment of Plutarch’s Moralia in Theodore Lector’s Church History?

11:00–11:30 Coffee Break

11:30–13:00 Second Session: Reception and Transformation of (Various) Narrative Mediums

– Alejandro Laguna López | Metanarrative Commentary and the Tale of Troy

– Paulina Kaczmarczyk | John Malalas’ Reinterpretation of Ancient History

– Estera Golian | The Repit Temple in Athribis: Transformation of Sacred Spaces

13:00–14:00 Lunch

14:00–15:30 Third Session: The Heritage in Imagery and its Reception

– Elle Jones | Intertextuality in the Miracles of Sts. Kosmas and Damian

– Liudmila Eramova | Aquatic Motifs in the Iconography of the Three Byzantine Hierarchs

– Łukasz Kubicki | Michael I Rangabe in Byzantine Historiography

15:30–16:00 Coffee Break

16:00–17:00 Keynote Lecture

William Barton | University of Innsbruck
Between Ancient and Modern Greek: Karl Benedikt Hase and Byzantine Studies in 19th-century Paris

17:00–20:00 Wine Reception

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

William Barton | University of Innsbruck
Marketa Kulhankova | Masaryk University

PARTICIPANTS

Co-organised by graduate students of the Department of Historical Studies at the Central European University and the Ancient, Byzantine and Medieval Studies Cluster of the Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The organizers of the conference would like to gratefully acknowledge the support and funding provided by the Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna, the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Vienna, and the Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) at CEU.

We would like to especially thank our two keynote speakers William Barton (University of Innsbruck) and Markéta Kulhánková (Czech Academy of Sciences).