48th Spring Byzantine Symposium
Whose Mediterranean is it anyway? Cross-cultural interaction between Byzantium and the West 1204-1669
The Open University, Milton Keynes
28th-30th March 2015
Programme
Saturday 28th March
Registration and Welcome – Berril Building
09.30-10.15: Registration / coffee
10.15-10.30: Angeliki Lymberopoulou (Milton Keynes) – Welcome
Morning Session – Berril Building
Chair: Liz James
10.30-11.00: Angeliki Lymberopoulou (Milton Keynes) – Framing of the 48th Spring Byzantine Symposium
11.00-11.40: Jane Baun (Oxford) – Whose Church is it anyway? Mediterranean Christianities in cross-cultural context
11.40-12.00: Discussion
12.00-13.30: Lunch (Berril Building)
Saturday 28th March
Afternoon Session – Berril Building
Chair: Leslie Brubaker
13.30-14.10: Liz James (Sussex) – Made in Byzantium? Mosaics after 1204
14.10-14.50: Stefania Gerevini (Rome) – Beyond 1204? The Baptistery of San Marco, the chapel of St Isidore, and the meaning of Byzantine visual language in fourteenth-century Venice
14.50-15.30: Michele Bacci (Freiburg) – Enhancing the Authority of Icons: Italian Frames for Byzantine Images
15.30-15.55: Discussion
16.00-16.30: Coffee / Tea (Berrill Building)
16.00-17.30: SPBS Meeting (Hub Theatre)
(Coffee / Tea for those attending this meeting will be served at the Hub Theatre)
Open Lecture – Berrill Building
Chair: Angeliki Lymberopoulou
17.45-19.00: Leslie Brubaker (Birmingham) – Space, place and culture: processions across the Mediterranean
19.45 Symposium Feast – Hilton Hotel
Sunday 29th March
Please note: British Summer time begins on Sunday 29th March – clocks go forward one hour
Morning Session – Berrill Building
Chair: Rembrandt Duits
9.00-09:40 Diana Newall (Kent) – Artistic and Cultural Tradition through Candia in the 15th century
09:40-10.20: Maria Constantoudaki (Athens) – Aspects of Artistic Exchange on Crete. Remarks and Question Marks
10.20-10.50: Coffee / Tea (Berrill Building)
10.50-11.30: Sharon Gerstel (Los Angeles) – Between east and West: Locating Monumental Painting from the Peloponnesos
11.30-11.55: Discussion
12.00-13.30: Lunch (Berrill Building)
12.45-13.30: SPBS AGM (Berrill Building)
13.30-15.30: Communications – Two Parallel Sessions (please see additional programme)
Session A: Berrill Building – Chair: Diana Newall
Session B: Hub Theatre – Chair: Tony Eastmond
15.30-16.00: Coffee / Tea (Berril Building for all)
Sunday 29th March
Afternoon Session – Berrill Building
Chair: Dionysios Stathakopoulos
16.00-16.20: Ioanna Christoforaki (Athens – in absentia) – Crossing Boundaries: Colonial and Local Identities in the Visual Culture of Medieval Cyprus
16.20-17.00: Tassos Papacostas (London) – Where Byzantine, Gothic and Renaissance architecture crossed paths: Cyprus under Latin rule
17.00-17.15: Discussion
Open Lecture – Berrill Building
Chair: Angeliki Lymberopoulou
17.30-18.45: Dionysios Stathakopoulos (London) – ‘Latin basillisses’: transcultural marriages in late medieval Greece
18.45: Reception – Berrill Building: Sponsored by Ashgate
Monday 30th March
Morning Session – Berrill Building
Chair: Tassos Papacostas
09.00-09.40: Tony Eastmond (London) – Contesting Art in the Thirteenth Century
09.40-10.20: Hans Bloemsma (Middelburg) – The changing meaning of Byzantine art in the context of early Italian painting
10.20-11.00: Rembrandt Duits (London) – Byzantine Influences in the Iconography of Last Judgment in Late Medieval Italy
11.00-11.30: Tea / Coffee (Berrill Building)
11.30-12.10: Francesca Marchetti (London) – O insignis Graecia, ecce iam tuum finem. Illustrated medical manuscripts in Late Palaeologan Constantinople and their fortune in Sixteenth Century Italy
12.10-12.45: Discussion and Closure of the 48th Spring Byzantine Symposium
12.45-14.00: Lunch (Berrill Building)
Communications
Sunday 29th March 2014, 13.30 -15.30
**Please Note: The allocated time per communication is 12 minutes plus 3 minutes for questions – a total of 15 minutes per communication. The 20 minute allocation in the programme is provided for those who would like to move between the Berril Building and the Hub Theatre in the Open University campus to attend different communications. Chairs are advised to be ‘Bryer’-ruthless in their time keeping. Thank you for your co-operation.**
Session A: Berril Building – Chair Diana Newall
13.30-13.50: Livia Bevilacqua (Venice) – Venice in Byzantium: Art and Patronage in the Venetian Quarter of Constantinople (13th-15th centuries)
13.50-14.10: Matthew Kinloch (Oxford) – Shared Cultures of Power: Cities and power in Byzantium and Italy
14.10-14.30: Christopher Wright (London) – Prizes or prisons: the Latins and power over islands in the Palaiologan Byzantium
14.30-14.50: Anestis Vasilakeris (Istanbul) – The Drawing Process in Byzantine and Italian Painting around 1300
14.50-15.10: Andrea Mattiello (Birmingham) – The elephant on the page: Ciriaco de’Pizzicolli D’Ancona in Mystras
15.10-15.30: Maria-Vassiliki Farmaki (Athens) – Theatre Arts and Life in Byzantium: the Connection between Byzantine and Latin Theatre
Session B: Hub Theatre – Chair Tony Eastmond
13.30-13.50: Dion Smythe (Belfast) – New Mediterranean Cooking? “Oil and Water in the Same Cup”
13.50-14.10: Leonela Fundic (Brisbane) – Epiros between Byzantium and the West in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries: Visual Evidence
14.10-14.30: Prodromos Papanikolaou (Athens) – A Marble Relief Icon of the Crucifixion; Sculptures and Styles in Hospitaller Rhodes
14.30-14.50: Teodora Konach (Cracow) – The gesture of Dessislava – Byzantine and Western contexts at the Cultural Crossroads
14.50-15.10: Agnes Kriza (Cambridge) – The Royal Deesis: an anti-Latin imagery of Late Byzantine Art
15.10-15.30: Alex Rodriguez Suarez (London) – Bell-ringing in Byzantium during the late Byzantine period: an introduction
All relevant information – invited papers, communications, registration form and general information – can be viewed at: http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/ssbs/index.shtml