Colloque « Monumental Painting in Byzantium and Beyond: New Perspectives » – Dumbarton Oaks (4 novembre 2016)

Byzantine Studies Colloquium

Monumental Painting in Byzantium and Beyond: New Perspectives
November 4, 2016 08:30 AM to 06:00 PM

The Oak Room, Fellowship House, 1700 Wisconsin Avenue NW

Monumental Painting in Byzantium and Beyond: New Perspectives

Contact: | Phone: 202-339-6940

The study of Byzantine monumental painting is ripe for critical assessment. While research into monumental pictorial art in countries such as Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, the Republic of Macedonia, and increasingly Turkey remains a mainstay of art historical inquiry, in the United States this area of study has received less attention in recent years. Yet the monumental painting of the Byzantine world holds great potential for future research, not least because the material is tremendously rich and continues to be expanded with the discovery and publication of new pictorial ensembles.

This colloquium, organized by Ivan Drpić and Tolga Uyar, brings together new voices and well-established scholars to reinvigorate the study of Byzantine monumental painting. It will foster dialogue and pose new questions about reception, materiality, and the interplay of different representational forms and systems of signification. Topics range from how paintings evoked sound, to the role of liturgical practices, visual narrative, and non-figural imagery in decorated sacred spaces, to collaboration and interaction between patrons, architects, painters, and theological advisers. While some papers will focus on specific sacred landscapes such as Naxos and Cappadocia, others draw wide-ranging connections across Byzantium, the Slavic world, and the Mediterranean.

Program

Abstracts

Colloque « Le prince chrétien (IVe-VIIe siècle) » – 5-7 octobre 2016

Colloque

« Le prince chrétien (IVe-VIIe siècle) »
Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (bâtiment B salle des conférences)
5, 6 et 7 octobre 2016

Colloque organisé par
Sylvain Destephen, Bruno Dumézil et Hervé Inglebert
Institut universitaire de France
Équipe ArScAn-THEMAM-École doctorale

La conversion du monde antique au christianisme ne modifie pas la position centrale du Prince au sein de son État. Loin de remettre en cause les fondements traditionnels du pouvoir, la nouvelle religion offre des arguments supplémentaires pour légitimer le souverain dans la mesure où il incarne et applique les valeurs du christianisme dans sa vie personnelle comme dans son action publique. Les élites chrétiennes mettent rapidement au service du pouvoir la rhétorique de la justification divine tant pour exalter le souverain que l’inviter à conformer ses actes à la parole du Christ. Dans la représentation du pouvoir par les contemporains lettrés et dans son autoreprésentation à travers les textes, les monuments et les images, le souverain assume le modèle mis à sa disposition, quitte à en jouer pour servir les besoin de l’heure. Après avoir abordé en 2008 la question de la christianisation du monde antique analysée dans ses aspects documentaires et régionaux, puis en 2013 celle du passage des dieux civiques aux saints patrons qui constitue moins une succession fonctionnelle qu’un hiatus dans la vie communautaire, l’université de Paris Ouest Nanterre propose de mener en octobre 2016 une réflexion collective et transversale sur les relations entre le Prince et le christianisme dans le contexte de l’Empire tardif et des royaumes issus de sa dislocation. Le propos est non seulement de mesurer l’influence de la religion dans l’idéalisation du pouvoir, mais encore d’étendre les perspectives de recherche aux principaux domaines  d’exercice de l’autorité suprême. L’image du Prince se reflète en effet dans ses rapports avec les élites et avec les marges, avec les fidèles chrétiens et non-chrétiens, avec ses adversaires intérieurs et extérieurs. Entre le IVe et le VIIe siècle, la notion de Prince chrétien constitue peut-être moins une donnée du réel qu’un revendication à illustrer et à défendre.

Pour le programme, cliquez ici.

 

Colloque – John Malalas’ World Chronicle and Late Antique Memorial Culture (October 6-7 2016)

John Malalas’ World Chronicle and Late Antique Memorial Culture /
Die Weltchronik des Johannes Malalas im Kontext spätantiker Memorialkultur


The Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Seminar for Ancient History, Tübingen are pleased to announce an international conference on « John Malalas’ World Chronicle and Late Antique Memorial Culture », organised by the Academy’s research group « Philological-Historical Commentary on John Malalas » (situated at Tübingen) and to be held at Evangelisches Stift, Tübingen on October 6th and 7th 2016.

PROGRAMME:

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6th 2016

2:00 pm Welcome Address
Mischa Meier | Tübingen

2:15 – 3:45 pm
Christian Gastgeber | Vienna
Klassisch-paganes Erbe: Was bleibt in der memoria der Weltchronik?
Ralf Behrwald | Bayreuth
Stadt und Reich im Geschichtsbild des Malalas

4:15 – 5:45 pm
Raf Praet | Groningen
Malalas the antiquarian? Malalas and antiquarian memory in sixth century Constantinople
Volker Menze | Budapest
Remembering Dioscorus: Non-Chalcedonian Construction of Orthodoxy in the Sixth Century

6:30 pm Evening Lecture
Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp | Cologne
Mythen, Monumente und andere Medien: Die ‚Corporate Identity‘ der gens Fabia

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7th 2016

9:00 – 10:30 am
Sebastian Watta | Marburg
Materielle Erinnerung. Formen der memoria in den kirchlichen Mosaikpavimenten des Nahen Ostens
Philipp Niewöhner | Berlin/Göttingen
Byzantinische Baudenkmalpflege am Beispiel von Milet und anderen Orten

11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Emanuèle Caire | Aix-en-Provence
Malalas et la mémoire d’Antioche
Laura Mecella | Rom
Antiochia und die historische Erinnerung der Römisch-Parthischen Kriege

2:00 – 3:30 pm
Carlo Scardino | Düsseldorf
Historische und theologische Diskurse in den lateinischen Chroniken des 5. und 6. Jh. n. Chr.
Erika Juhász | Vienna
Die Spuren der christlichen Memoriakultur in der Osterchronik: Die Behandlung der Märtyrer

4:00 – 6:15 pm
Hanns Christof Brennecke | Erlangen
Hagiographie als Kaisermemorie: Kaiser Zenon in der Vita Danielis
Olivier Gengler | Tübingen/Heidelberg
Memoria und Gesetzgebung: Vergangenheit und Gegenwart in den Justinianischen Novellen
Jonas Borsch | Tübingen/Heidelberg
Schriftliche Bildnisse. Personalisierte Erinnerung in Malalas’ Kaiserportraits

6:30 pm Final Discussion

To register (free of charge), please send an email to Jonas Borsch (jonas.borsch@uni-tuebingen.de) by Monday September 26th with your name and university affiliation (if applicable).

For more details about the conference see https://www.academia.edu/27808718/Die_Weltchronik_des_Johannes_Malalas_im_Kontext_sp%C3%A4tantiker_Memorialkultur_Conference_T%C3%BCbingen_2016-10-6_7_

Conférence « Fortune et Réception des textes oraculaires dans l’Antiquité tardive et le monde médiéval » – Université libre de Bruxelles

Conférence « Fortune et Réception des textes oraculaires dans l’Antiquité tardive et le monde médiéval » – Université libre de Bruxelles

 

Two-days conference, sponsored by the U.L.B. (Chancellor and Faculté de Philosophie et Sciences sociales) and the FNRS, to be held on Monday 5 and Tuesday 6 September at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Campus Solbosch, salle AY2 107 (free access). The programme is the following:

MONDAY 5 SEPTEMBER

9.00-9.10
Presentation, Aude Busine (Université libre de Bruxelles)

9.10-9.30
Introduction, Lucia Maddalena Tissi (Université libre de Bruxelles)

Chair: Aude Busine  (Université libre de Bruxelles)

9.30-09.55 Crystal Addey (University of St. Andrews, U.K.), Oracles of the Fire: the   Ritual Formation of the Chaldean Oracles

09.55-10.05 Discussion

10.05-10.30 Helmut Seng (Universität Konstanz), Editorisch-kritische Überlegungen zu den Chaldaeischen Orakeln: Die  Sammlung des Psellos

10.30-10.40 Discussion

10.40-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-11.25 Nicoletta Brocca (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia), Fortuna e ricezione dell’acrostico sibillino in Occidente tra tarda antichità e medioevo

11.25-11.35 Discussion

11.35-12.00 Chiara Ombretta Tommasi Moreschini (Università degli Studi di Pisa), Greek Oracles in Latin world. Three late-antique cases

12.00-12.10 Discussion

12.10-12.35 Angel Ruiz Perez (Universitad Santiago de Compostela), Rebukes in Oracles in Late Antiquity

12.35-12.45 Discussion

12.35-14.15 Lunch

Chair: Alain Delattre (Université libre de Bruxelles)

14.15-14.40 Regina Fichera (Università degli Studi di Firenze), Le θεῖος φιλόσοφος et les oracles dans les Vies de philosophes et de sophistes par Eunape de Sardes

14.40-14.50 Discussion

14.50-15.15 Sara Lanna (Università degli studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”), Alexander the Great and the oracle of Ammon: philological and historical-religious remarks

15.15-15.25 Discussion

15.25-15.50 Claudio Schiano (Università degli Studi di Bari), Oracoli pagani e predizione del futuro: un tema scomodo nell’Alessandria del VI secolo

15.50-16.00 Discussion

16.00-16.20 Coffee break

16.20-16.45 Christine Hecht (Universität Tübingen), Eusebios liest Porphyrios. Fragmentierung und Kontextualisierung der « Orakelphilosophie »

16.45-16.55 Discussion

16.55-17.20 Giovanni Serafini (Università degli Studi di Firenze), Piero della Francesca and the Holy Cross : a patristic reading of the frescoes in Arezzo

17.20-17.30 Discussion

 

TUESDAY 6 SEPTEMBER

Chair: Regina Fichera (Università degli Studi di Firenze)

9.30-09.55  Gianfranco Agosti (Sapienza University of Rome), The Context and Reception of an oracle in Socrates of Constantinople

09.55-10.05 Discussion

10.05-10.30 David Hernández de la Fuente (UNED, Madrid), Greek Poetry in Oracular Style and Politics in Late Antiquity: some case studies

10.30-10.40 Discussion

10.40-11.05 Laura Carrara  (Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften / Karls Eberhard Universität Tübingen), Excerpts from (Christianized) Pagan Wisdom : the Tübingen Theosophy

11.05-11.15 Discussion

11.15-11.35 Coffee break

Chair: Lucia Maddalena Tissi (Université libre de Bruxelles)

11.35-12.00 Enrico Magnelli (Università degli Studi di Firenze), Crooked oracles or naive inquirers? Theodore Prodromus, RD 9.184-240

12.00-12.10 Discussion

12.10-12.35 Giulia Maria Paoletti (University of Oxford), Between Vergil and Metaphrastes: the fate of a collection of oracles

12.35-12.45 Discussion

12.45-14.00 Lunch

14.00-14.25 Georgios Tsiaples (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Oracles and Prophecies connected with the pagan remains of Constantinople

14.25-14.35 Discussion

14.35-15.00 Chiara Garganese (Università degli Studi di Firenze), Sculpting oracles, an initiatory path in Siena Dom

15.00-15.10 Discussion

15.10-15.30 Conclusions et discussion, Aude Busine et Lucia Maddalena Tissi

We invite anyone who is interested to join the conference. Please do not hesitate to contact Lucia Tissi if you have any further questions: luciamaddalenatissi@gmail.com OR  ltissi@ulb.ac.be

 

Workshop – The “Self” and the “Other” – The Construction and Perception of “Otherness” in Late Antiquity, University of Kiel

The “Self” and the “Other” – The Construction and Perception of “Otherness” in Late Antiquity

International Workshop to be held at the University of Kiel in cooperation with the GS Human Development in Landscapes and the Institut für Klassische Altertumskunde

23 – 25 November 2016

All human communities, throughout history, have been in contact with different groups they perceived as “other”. Such contacts generate stereotypes, prejudices and ethnical portraits, which dominate, through the definition of Otherness, the ways identity is constructed. Already in the 18th century, philosophers like Hegel (1770– 1831) reflected about how self-awareness is linked to the construction of Otherness and since then scholars have been investigating how the representation of the others is a crucial and essential component of the perception and description of the Self. This thesis does also apply to Late Antiquity and is a central tenet for the interpretation of the so-called “Migration period”.

Under the recent political challenges, Otherness and the contact of people from different cultural backgrounds are a highly relevant and discussed topic, sometimes even dealt with an explicit reference to Late Antiquity and the Migration Period (e.g.: http://www.faz.net/-gpf-8clow or https://www.rt.com/news/315466-le-pen-migrant-barbarian-invasion/). Nonetheless, in spite of the absolute certainty about the Migration Period shown by some politicians, many questions about the definition of Otherness and its perception in Late Antiquity are still unanswered.

In order to reveal how the “Self” and the “Other” were perceived in Late Antiquity and how these perceptions were intertwined with each other, post-graduate scholars investigating these questions from a historical, archaeological, philological or anthropological point of view are kindly invited to participate to the international Workshop “The ‘Self’ and the ‘Other’ – The construction and perception of “Otherness” in Late Antiquity” at the University of Kiel.  The workshop aims to bring established scholars together with PhD-candidates to question and discuss “Otherness” from a Roman perspective (the Western and Eastern part of the empire) in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (ca. 3rd century CE – 8th century CE) in an open round table atmosphere.

Possible topics and questions that could be addressed among others:

–           Theory of Otherness and Alterity: What is “Otherness” or “Alterity”? What theories and models are available in the fields of social sciences and humanities? With which models can Otherness be investigated? What are the pitfalls? Can new theories, terms or models be introduced for researching or defining Alterity?
–           Barbarians and Outsiders: Who was a “Barbarian”? Which are the criteria in order to define “Barbarians” in Late Antiquity? Can they still be seen as outsiders of the Roman Empire?
–           Who are the “Romans” – The Question of Identity: What were the criteria the Romans used to define themselves in Late Antiquity? Have they changed with time? Was there a process of “Barbarization”? And most of all: Who exactly was a “Roman”?
–           Perception of Otherness in Written Evidences: How was Otherness depicted and represented in the written records of Late Antiquity? Which stereotypes were used? Was there a difference between the Eastern and the Western empire in the way “Others” were perceived? Which methods do we have to apply to analyse written evidences of the time and what are the “problems” one encounters when investigating the written sources?
–           The Barbarians and the Landscape: Since landscape was a tool in literature to create a specific scenery and can therefore be seen as discourses, is it possible to see a link between the depiction of Landscapes and the process of “othering”?
–           Otherness in the Archaeological Record: Is it possible to identify “others” with help of the archaeological material? Are there new methods in the field of Archaeology to investigate otherness and how can they be combined with traditional research? What are the chances and limitations of Archaeology in the investigation of identities?

Abstracts of papers, not longer than 300 words, together with a short CV should be submitted until the 6th of July 2016 (vegetenmeyr@gshdl.uni-kiel.de).
Accepted PhD-students can apply for travel stipends.

Organization:

Veronika Egetenmeyr in cooperation with Dr. Filippo Carlà; Prof. Dr. Annette Haug and Prof. Dr. Josef Wiesehöfer

For further information, please visit our Website: https://othernesskiel.wordpress.com/