47th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies: The Emperor in the Byzantine World

 Cardiff University, 25-27 April 2014

Programme

Friday 25^th April

2.00-3.00 Registration, John Percival Building, Café (Ground Floor)

3.00-3.15: Welcome and Introduction (John Percival Building, Lecture Theatre 2.01)

3.15-5.15 Session 1 (John Percival Building, 2.01)

Dynasty: Imperial Families

3.15-3.45: Mark Humphries (Swansea), Family, Dynasty, and the Construction of Legitimacy: The Roman Background

3.45-4.15: Mike Humphreys (Cambridge), The Heraclians: Family or Dynasty?

4.15-4.45: Mark Masterson (Victoria University of Wellington), Symeon’s Suggestive Evidence? Revisiting the Celibacy of Basil II

4.45-5.15 Discussion

5.15-6.00 Tea and Coffee

6.30-7.30 Public Lecture (National Museum Cardiff): Mark Redknap, Byzantium and Wales

7.30 Reception, National Museum Cardiff

Saturday 26^th April

9.00-11.00 Session 2 (John Percival Building, 2.01)

Imperial Literature: The Emperor as Subject and Author

9.00-9.30: John Vanderspoel (Calgary), Imperial Panegyric as Hortatory (?or Deliberative?) Oratory

9.30-10.00: Prerona Prasad (Oxford), Splendour, Vigour, and Legitimacy: The Prefaces of theDe Cerimoniis and Byzantine Imperial Theory

10.00-10.30: Savvas Kyriakidis (Johannesburg), The Emperor in Historiography – The Historyof John Kantakouzenos

10.30-11.00 Discussion

11.00-11.45 Tea and Coffee (John Percival Building, Café)

11.45-1.00 Communications (John Percival Building, 2.01 and 0.31)

1.00-2.15 Buffet Lunch (John Percival Building, Café)

2.15-4.15 Session 3 (John Percival Building, 2.01)

The Imperial Court: The Emperor’s Men

2.15-2.45 Meaghan McEvoy (Frankfurt), Dangerous Liaisons: Military and Civilian Advisers at the East Roman Court from Theodosius II to Leo I

2.45-3.15 Jonathan Shepard (Oxford), The Emperor’s ‘Significant Others’

3.15-3.45 Jonathan Harris (Royal Holloway), Who was Who at the Court of Constantine XI, 1449-1453

3.45-4.15 Discussion

4.15-5.00 Tea and Coffee (John Percival Building, Café)

(4.15-6.15 SPBS Executive Committee Meeting)

5.00-6.15 Communications (John Percival Building, 2.01 and 0.31)

7.00 Conference Dinner (Aberdare Hall) 

Sunday 27^th April

9.30-11.30 Session 4 (John Percival Building, 2.01)

Imperial Duties: The Emperor as Ruler

9.30-10.00 Bernard Stolte (University of Groningen), ‘Law is King of All Things’?
The Emperor and the Law

10.00-10.30 Michael Grünbart (Münster), The Emperor and the Patriarch

10.30-11.00 Frank Trombley (Cardiff), The Emperor as Military Administrator and War Leader

11.00-11.30 Discussion

11.30-12.00 Tea and Coffee (John Percival Building, Café)

12.00-1.00 AGM (John Percival Building, 2.01).

1.00-2.15 Buffet Lunch (John Percival Building, Café)

2.15-4.15 Session 5 (John Percival Building, 2.01)

The Material Emperor: Imperial Images and Spaces

2.15-2.45 Alicia Walker (Bryn Mawr), Imperial Image and Imperial Presence at Hagia Sophia

2.45-3.15 Eurydice Georganteli (Birmingham), The Omnipresent Emperor: Money and Authority in the Byzantine World

3.15-3.45 Lynn Jones (Florida State University), Taking it on the Road: The Palace on the Move

3.45-4.15 Discussion

 

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