Alter Senatssaal, Hauptgebäude der Universität zu Köln (University of Cologne, main building); Albertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923 Köln, Germany
11.00 Introduction / Welcome
11.10 Panel I
Charles Barber (Princeton University)
Theophanes of Nicaea on the icon of the Transfiguration
Ágnes Kriza (University of Cologne)
The “eleventh-century watershed” in Byzantine art and the beginnings of apse decoration in medieval Rus’
Elena Boeck (DePaul University, Chicago)
From Pillar of Empire to Ghost Rider in the Sky: Russian responses to Justinian’s Bronze Horseman between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
12.40 Lunch Break
14.10 Panel II
Brian Boeck (DePaul University, Chicago)
Crisis of Confidence: Explaining why Ivan the Terrible’s enormous Illuminated Chronicle Compilation was never finished
Ovidiu Olar (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
The Missing Link: Seventeenth-century Moldavian and Wallachian manuscripts between Slavia Orthodoxa and the Greek-speaking Christianity
Aleksandr Lavrov (Université Paris-Sorbonne)
Die Gläubigen der Bistümer Vologda und Velikij Ustjug und der plötzliche Tod (vnezapnaja smert’) im siebzehnten und achtzehnten Jahrhundert
15.40 Coffee Break
16.00 Panel III
Cornelia Soldat (University of Cologne)
Type and Prototype – or: how to become the Chosen People
Justin Willson (Princeton University)
Seeing Nimbi in the fourteenth century in Byzantium
Christoph Witzenrath (University of Bonn)
Sari Saltuk and St. Nicholas between the Ottomans and Muscovy
Nataliia Sinkevych (University of Tübingen)
The cult of saints in early modern Ukrainian society
Conveners: Ágnes Kriza & Cornelia Soldat
Email: agnes.kriza@uni-koeln.de
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