BSC PROGRAM

This year's Byzantine Studies Conference will meet on the campus of the University of Maryland in College Park,a close-in suburb of Washington D.C.("inside the Beltway").Accommodations have been reserved at two nearby motels,with the College Park Best Western serving as the official conference motel.Both the Thursday evening registration and the Saturday evening banquet will be held at the Best Western.At the beginning and end of each day,special shuttle buses will bring participants from the motels to the conference site in the Art-Sociology Building. As you can see from the enclosed program,the conference will offer many papers of interest to everyone,and also give participants the opportunity to see a staged production of the Byzantine liturgical drama of the "Three Children in the Furnace." You can even check your e-mail conveniently Friday and Saturday! A cash-bar reception in the federal-period Rossborough Inn (beautifully restored and now serving as the University of Maryland Faculty Club) and a banquet featuring Maryland Crab Cakes should ensure social as well as scholarly contacts.

WHERE TO STAY?

The BSC has reserved one hundred rooms at the Best Western Motel in College Park,a half mile from the University,at the special rate of $76 + taxes (single or double);you must mention the Byzantine Studies Conference to get this special rate and make a deposit (preferably by credit card); you may use the toll-free number:(800) 442-1644.If you prefer to reserve by mail,include credit-card information (or a check or money-order in U.S. dollars) and use the address:8601 Baltimore Boulevard,College Park MD 20740

A further sixty rooms have been reserved as "overflow" at the College Park Quality Inn at a conference rate of $75 + taxes (single or double),including a continental breakfast.The conference code for this rate is BYZA.You may make your reservation (with credit card guarantee) at the toll-free number (800) 228-5151.If you prefer to make your reservation by mail,include either credit card information or a check or money order in U.S.dollars,and send your order to:7200 Baltimore Avenue, College Park MD 20740.

Rooms will be held at these prices only until October 1.

HOW DO I GET THERE? -By air

College Park is about equidistant between Baltimore-Washington International Airport and Washington's National Airport.Because the Baltimore airport is served by discount carriers such as Southwest Airlines and America West (which do not always show up on travel agent computers), flights there tend to be cheaper.

If you fly into "BWI," Super Shuttle (call from airport) can take you to the motels in College Park for $19 (with additional passengers to the same place paying $5 -- up to a total of five passengers). A metered taxi to the College Park motels will probably cost $40 (but can be shared by four people).

If you use National Airport,a taxi to the College Park motels should cost between $30 and $40,plus $1.75 for each passenger after the first.Super Shuttle costs $21 for the first passenger to an address,and $8 for each additional passenger.You can also get to the motels by Metro from National Airport.Take a Yellow or a Blue line train to either the Metro Center station or the Gallery Place station.From these stations, take the Red line to Fort Totten,and transfer to the Green line going in the direction of Greenbelt.Exit at the Greenbelt station,where you can find taxis to take you to your motel.NOTE:During morning and evening rush hours (approximately 5:30-9:00 am & 4-7:30 pm;see signs posted in Red line stations for exact times),Green line trains run on Red line tracks in the city and you can get on the Green line directly at Metro Center or Gallery Place.Be sure to do so you because during that time Green line trains do not stop at For Totten .(If you are staying at the Quality Inn,you can also get off the Green line train at the College Park station and walk the half mile to your motel;there is no taxi stand at the station.Turn right as you exit the station and continue walking on Calvert Road,which dead-ends at the Quality Inn.)

HOW DO I GET THERE? -By car

From the North take I-95 south and from the South and Washington take I-495 (the Washington Beltway) and follow signs to College Park (Exit 25-B:U.S.1 south to College Park).Drive 1.5 miles on U.S.1;the Best Western Motel will be on your left.The Quality Inn will be a further 1.3 miles on your right (after the University).

HOW DO I GO DIRECTLY TO THE CONFERENCE?

Get on the Capital Beltway (I-495) and take Exit 27 (New Hampshire Avenue South,toward Takoma Park).Turn left at the second traffic signal -- onto Adelphi Road.Drive 2.3 miles and turn left into Campus Drive (immediately after crossing the majory intersection of Adelphi Road and University Boulevard/Route 193).Turn left after the traffic signal at Presidential Drive into Parking Lot 1.You may park anywhere in that lot on Saturday or Sunday,but on Friday park there only if you have purchased a Lot 1 Parking Permit ($4.00 -- see registration form;those parking there on Friday without the appropriate permit will be issued a State of Maryland parking ticket).The Art-Sociology Building is the non-Georgian building on your right as you enter the parking lot. Sessions will be at the other end of that building,and one floor up. If you do not have a Lot 1 permit on Friday,do not turn left onto Campus drive,but turn left a few yards earlier onto University Boulevard (Route 193);your next possible right will take you into the University College Conference Center Garage ($.50 per hour,$5 all day). The Art-Sociology Building is a quarter of a mile behind the University College Building,across Lot 1.

CAN I DRIVE TO THE CONFERENCE VENUE FROM THE MOTEL?

Yes.(Parking in Lot 1 is free on Saturday and Sunday,but you will need a $4.00 permit to park there on Friday.) Turn left from the Best Western and continue driving south on U.S.1 for 1.3 miles;turn right onto Guilford Drive immediately after the Quality Inn.(From the Quality Inn,turn right onto Guilford Drive).Follow that winding road (which becomes Mowatt Lane) for .8 miles until it dead-ends at Campus Drive.Lot 1 is directly in front of you;the Art-Sociology building will be on your right as you enter the parking lot.On Friday,if you do not have a parking permit, rather than entering Lot 1,turn left onto campus drive and make the last right turn you can before the second traffic signal.Follow the signs to the University College Conference Center Garage ($.50 per hour;$5 all day).

REMINDER

Participation in meetings of the Byzantine Studies Conference is limited to paid-up members of the organization.The hand-written number on each address label indicates the last year for which dues were paid. (0 = never paid.) If 1999 dues have not been paid,they should be enclosed with the registration materials (Regular member $20;students, independent scholars and retired $10.) Paid-up members who are not registering for the conference will receive a copy of the conference abstracts by mail.

NOTE TO STUDENT PARTICIPANTS

Students who are coming from a distance and presenting papers may be eligible for travel support for coming to the conference.Register with the Program Committee Chair,Prof.Kathleen Corrigan,at the Conference. Student participants who are reading papers at the conference can also be considered for a prize awarded for the best student paper delivered at the meeting;the prize is a gold Byzantine coin. Apply to the Program Chair, Prof.Kathleen Corrigan during the conference for details.

In addition,note that the membership and host institution are subsidizing student registration fees,as well as business lunch and banquet costs,to encourage your full participation in the meeting. Please take advantage of these perquisites and join wholeheartedly in the various aspects of the conference.

TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL BYZANTINE STUDIES CONFERENCE NOVEMBER 4-7,1999

REGISTRATION FORM

Please type or print.One registration per form.Duplicate as necessary.

Name____________________________________________________________

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Registration (No refunds after October 1)*

[ ] Conference registration ($40.00)
[ ] Student registration (20.00)
[ ] Late registration fee ($10.00 after October 1)
[ ] University of Maryland faculty,staff & students (no charge)
Options
[ ] Business lunch,Saturday Nov.6 ($13.00;student $10.00) circle
one
[ ] Banquet,Saturday Nov.6 ($26.00;$16.00 student) circle one
Vegetarian option ($16.00;$6.00 student) circle one
[ ] Parking permit for Friday Nov.5 (to be mailed in late
October,$4.00)
[ ] Printed Abstracts for non-member ($9.00,including postage)
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Return this form to:Department of History
Byzantine Studies Conference
University of Maryland
College Park MD 20742-7315
Fax:(301) 314-9399

Questions to George Majeska,Local Arrangements Chair,(301)
405-4307;
e-mail:gm5@umail.umd.edu or Sharon Gerstel,Co-Chair,(301)
405-0032;
e-mail:sg113@umail.umd.edu

*The registration fee covers the costs of the Thursday and
Friday receptions (with cash bar),refreshment breaks,bus transportation
between motels and campus,a single copy of the Abstracts,and all
conference materials.

PLEASE PHOTOCOPY FOR YOUR RECORDS

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TWENTH-FIFTH ANNUAL BYZANTINE STUDIES CONFERENCE
November 4-7, 1999
University of Maryland, College Park

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

THURSDAY, November 4

6:00-9:00 pm Registration and Reception/Cash Bar
Best Western Motel, College Park

FRIDAY, November 5

8:00-8:45 Registration and Continental Breakfast (Atrium)
8:45-9:00 Welcome

9:00-10:45

Session 1 Plenary Session:

Chair: Kathleen Corrigan (Dartmouth College)
Thomas F. Mathews (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU): Panel
Paintings of Late Antiquity: A Preliminary Report on the Project
C. S. Lightfoot (Metropolitan Museum of Art): Excavations at Amorium 1988-1998
Margaret Mullett (Queen's University, Belfast): Twenty-five
Years of Byzantine Literature: the Case of the Letter-collection of Theophylact of Ochrid

10:45-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:15

Session 2: Pioneers of Byzantine Studies in America V

Chair: John Barker (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Nina Garsoian (Columbia University), Sirarpie der Nersessian in
America
Igor Robert Blake (University of California): In Search of Byzantium: The
Life of Robert Pierpont Blake
William L. MacDonald (Washington, D.C.): Thomas Whittemore, 1871-1950

Session 3: Death, Demons, and Deviants

Chair: Henry Maguire (University of Illinois)
Eric A. Ivison (College of Staten Island, CUNY): A "Profit . . .
Extraordinarily Accursed": Grave-robbing in Medieval Byzantium
PatrickViscuso (Chantilly, Va.): Vampires, Not Mothers: The
Living Dead in the Canonical Responses of Ioasaph of Ephesos
Jacquelyn Tuerk (University of Chicago): Magic, Words and
Images: an Early Byzantine Amulet and its Semiotics

12:15-2:00 Lunch Break

2:00-4:00 pm

Session 4: In Honor of Seka Allen

Chair: John J. A. Fine, Jr. (University of Michigan)
Slobodan Curcic (Princeton University): Byzantine or Romanesque?
The Question of Style in Medieval Ecclesiastical Architecture of
Serbia
Ruth E. Kolarik (Colorado College): Questions of Intent and Interpretation in Sixth-Century Balkan Floor Mosaics
Dusan Korac (University of Maryland): All the Emperor's Men: Political Loyalty and Economic Power in Fourteenth-Century Byzantine Macedonia
Eunice Dauterman Maguire (Krannert Art Museum, Univ. of
Illinois): Tame Cheetahs and Woven Luxury in the Early Byzantine Period
Ljubica D. Popovich (Vanderbilt University): A Contribution
Toward Identifying Some of the Figures in the Five Domes of the Virgin
Ljeviska in Prizren

Session 5: Ecclesiastical Politics

Chair: Michael Maas (Rice University)
Stephen Bartlett (St. Louis University): The Sacrificial Lamb:
The Importance of the Byzantine Eucharistic Rite in the Azyma Controversy
Patrick Gray (York University): Misrepresenting an Ecumenical Council: The Short Latin Version of the Acts of Constantinople
II
Michael Gaddis (Syracuse University): High Crimes and
Misdemeanors: Impeaching the Late Antique Bishop
Tia M. Kolbaba (Princeton University): Who Made Michael
Keroularios a Hero (or Villain) in the History of the Schism between Rome
and Constantinople?
Adam Schor (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor): Genuine
Heretics, Genuine Heroes: The Origenist Controversy and the
Historiography of Rufinus of Aquileia

Session 6: Iconography

Chair: Genevra Kornbluth (University of Maryland)
Warren T. Woodfin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign):
Things Terrible to Speak of and to Behold: An Ekphrasis of the
Studios Apse Mosaic and its Significance
Alfred Buchler (Berkeley, Calif.): The Triumph of Orthodoxy,
the Christological Dispute of 1160-1166, and the Titulus of the
Cross in Byzantium
Bissera V. Pentcheva (Harvard University): A New Image of the Virgin in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Constantinople
Alison S. Locke (Yale University): Monte Sant'Angelo or Mont-Saint- Michel? The Bronze Doors of Pantaleon and the
Problem of Site-Specificity
Erica Cruikshank Dodd (University of Victoria): From Jerusalem
to Arles: The Syrian Connection

4:00-4:15 pm Coffee Break

4:15-6:00 pm

Session 7: Architecture

Chair: Cecil Striker (University of Pennsylvania)
Robert Ousterhout (Univ. of Illinois): Recovering the
Pantokrator
Carolyn S. Snively (Gettysburg College): Recent Investigations
in the Rotunda Church at Konjuh
Vasileios Marinis (Univ. of Illinois): St. Nicholas
in-the-Fields and the Question of Imitation in Byzantine Architecture
Christina Maranci (Massachusetts College of Art): A Reconsideration of Methodology in the Study of Armenian Architecture

Session 8: Reading Byzantine Literature

Chair: Sarolta Takacs (Harvard University)
Derek Krueger (Univ. of North Carolina at Greensboro): The Hagiographical Logos: Theology and Literary Composition in the
Early Christian East
Federica Ciccolella De Luigi (Columbia University): John of
Gaza's Anacreontic Poetry: Genres and Audience
Maria Mavroudi (Berkeley, California): Arabic-Greek Herbal Glossaries and the Appearance of Arabic Medical Terms in Greek Manuscripts
Elizabeth A. Fisher (Georgetown University): Planoudes, Ovid,
and the Byzantine Audience for Latin Literature

6:15 pm Play of the Three Children, a Byzantine Liturgical
Drama (Atrium)

7:00-9:00 pm Reception/Cash Bar (Rossborough Inn)

SATURDAY, November 6

8:00-9:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast (Atrium)

9:00-11:00 am

Session 9: Church Treasuries: Session in Honor of Margaret
Frazer

Chair: Susan Boyd (Dumbarton Oaks)
Helen C. Evans (Metropolitan Museum of Art): Margaret Frazer's
Acquisitions for the Metropolitan Museum
David Buckton (British Museum and Courtauld Institute): The
Enamels of the Pala d'Oro
John Osborne (University of Victoria): The Portrait of Doge Ordelaffo Falier on the Pala d'Oro
Holger A. Klein (University of Bonn and Walters Art Gallery):
Lost Treasures: Three Closely Related Byzantine Reliquaries of the
True Cross
Vera von Falkenhausen (Universita di Roma - Tor Vergata): Treasure Inventories from Greek Monasteries in Southern Italy
and Sicily (10th to 12th Century)
Nancy P. Sevcenko (Philadelphia, Pa.): Icons out of the Mainstream: Some Peculiar Icon Types Listed in Byzantine Inventories

Session 10: Late Antiquity

R. Scott Moore (Ohio State University): The Current State of Byzantine Archaeology on Cyprus
Irfan Shahid (Georgetown University): The Reservoirs of Sergiopolis
Jodi Magness (Tufts University): The Decline of Syria-Palestine
in the Mid-Sixth Century: A Reconsideration of the Archaeological
Evidence from Dehes
Hugh Elton (Florida International University): The Economy of Southern Anatolia in Early Byzantine History
Charles Pazdernik (Emory University): A Dangerous Liberty and a
Servitude Free from Care: The Case of Victorinus
Frank M. Clover (University of Wisconsin, Madison): The House
of Aelia Verina

11:00-11:15 am Coffee Break

11:15 am-1:00 pm

Session 11: Crusader Greece and Cyprus

Chair: Sharon Gerstel (University of Maryland)
Glenn Peers (University of Texas at Austin): On the Vita Icon
of St. George in Athens
Monika Hirschbichler (University of Maryland): The Legend of Alexander the Great in the Morea: Two Paintings from the
Gatehouse of Akronauplia, Greece
Lynn M. Snyder (Smithsonian Institution): Frankish Meals in Greece: The Identification and Recognition of an Invader's
Cuisine
John Rosser (Boston College): Saranda Kolones Castle in Paphos,
Cyprus

Session 12: Byzantine Ritual

Chair: George Majeska (University of Maryland)
Beatrice Caseau (College de France/Paris IV Sorbonne):
Emperors and Incense: Towards a Reinterpretation of Imperial Rituals in
the Churches
Bernadette McNary-Zak (Rhodes College): Reassesing the Ritual
for the Remission in the Pachomian Movement
Liliana Simeonova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia):
Emperor Leo the Wise: a Reformer of Byzantine Ceremonial
James C. Skedros (Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology):
Ritual and the Panegyris: A Byzantine Institution Revisited

Session 13: The Medieval Balkans
Chair: Ellen Schwartz (Eastern Michigan University)
Cyril Pavlikianov (University of Sofia "Saint Clement of
Ochrid"): Eusebios: a Descendant of a Serbian Sebastokrator and Athonite
Monk
Svetlana Popovic (Greenbelt, Md.): The Monastery Settlement Revealed: The Case of Mileseva
Srdjan Djuric (University of Toronto): The Painter Manuel Panselinos: Towards a Reconstruction of the Opus (ca.
1295-1312)
George Stricevic (University of Cincinnati): Chronology of Gracanica Frescoes

1:00-2:45 pm Business Lunch

2:45-4:30 pm
Session 14: Viewing the Object
Chair: Maria Georgopoulou (Yale University)
Anthony Cutler (Pennsylvania State University): Out of the Mauss
Trap: Byzantine Gifts and Gift Exchange in the Light of Arab Sources
Leslie Brubaker (University of Birmingham, England): Iconoclasm
and the Trier Ivory
John Hanson (Indiana University of Pennsylvania): The New York Deesis Casket and Middle Byzantine Gospel Frontispieces
Lynn Jones (Philadelphia, Pa.): Byzantine Identity and Relics
of the True Cross
David H. Wright (University of California, Berkeley): The Menil
Paten

Session 15: Byzantium's Borders
Chair: David Olster (University of Kentucky)
Ralph W. Mathisen (University of South Carolina): Sigisvult the
Patrician, Maximinus the Arian, and "Impossible Missions" ca. 425-440
Laura Reynolds Fry (University of South Carolina): The Code of
Euric: Origin, Transmission, and Implications
Walter E. Kaegi (University of Chicago): The Experiences of Heraclius in Africa
Pamela G. Sayre (Henry Ford Community College): Odenathus of Palmyra, Theodoric, and the Ghassanid Phylarchs: Late Roman Client-Kings?
Ian Mladjov (University of Michigan): A New Look at Byzantium's
Northwestern Neighbors in the Tenth Century (Bulgaria, the
Magyars, and the Greeks in Byzantine and Hungarian Sources)

Session 16: Early Byzantine Spirituality
Chair: Sidney Griffith (Catholic University of America)
Monica J. Blanchard (Catholic University of America): The
Syriac Discourses of Bhisho' Kamulaya (floruit 8th c.) On the Monastic
Way of Life
Jennifer L. Hevelone-Harper (Gordon College): The Education of
a Holy Man: The Spiritual Development of John of Gaza
William North (Carleton College): Rethinking a Rigorist:
Eulogius of Alexandria's On Economy in its Sixth-Century Context
Witold Witakowski (Uppsala University): The Eschatological
Program of the Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius

4:30-4:45 Coffee Break

4:45-6:30
Session 17: Byzantine Women
Chair: Alice-Mary Talbot (Dumbarton Oaks)
Ruma Niyogi (University of Chicago): The Exotic Among the
Other: Writing Women in Byzantine Studies
M. P. Vinson (Bloomington, Indiana): Sexual Slander in
Byzantium
Eustratios Papaioannou (University of Vienna/Dumbarton Oaks): Images of Women in Michael Psellos's Literary Work

Session 18: Egyptian Monasticism
Chair: Georgia Frank (Colgate University)
Kirsti Copeland (Princeton University): The Date of the
Apocalypse of Paul: State of the Field and Beyond
Darlene Brooks-Hedstrom (Miami University): Monastic Practice
and the Solitude of the Cell in Christian Egypt
Nicola Aravecchia (University of Minnesota): The Architecture
of Kellia: A comparative study on the use of space
Elizabeth S. Bolman (Temple University): The Discovery of Early
Byzantine Paintings in The Monastery of St. Antony at the Red
Sea (Egypt)

7:00-8:00 pm Cocktail Reception/Cash Bar (Best Western Motel)

8:00 pm Banquet (Best Western Motel)

SUNDAY, November 7

9:00-10:45 am

Session 19: The Classical Tradition
Chair: John Duffy (Harvard University)
Denis F. Sullivan (University of Maryland, College Park): John Doxopatres' on Hermogenes' Peri Staseon: an 11th-Century
Approach to the Pedagogy of Rhetoric
Richard A. Layton (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign):
Biblical Scholarship and Greek Paideia: Philosophical Education and Cultural Competition in Late-Antique Alexandria
Alain Touwaide (Madrid/Dumbarton Oaks): The Tradition of
Classical Medicine in Byzantium: Towards a Reconsideration
Katerina Ierodiakonou (National Technical University of Athens):
The Anti-Logical Movement in Byzantium
Marios Philippides (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst): History Repeats Itself: Constantinople 1453 and the Sack of Troy

Session 20: Medieval Georgia

Chair: Kathleen Maxwell (Santa Clara University)
Ketevan Mikeladze (Chubinashvili Inst. of Georgian Art History,
Tbilisi): The Murals of King Davit Narin Chapel at Gelati
Monastery
Elena Boeck (Yale University): Projecting Mixed Messages: Marketing Monarchs in Medieval Georgia
Irine Nikoleishvili (Tbilisi State Univ.) and Irakli
Iakobashvili (Kekelidze Institute of Manuscripts): Relief from the St.
George Church of Mokvi: "Excommunication" of the Clergyman
Cornelia B. Horn (Catholic University of America): Befriending
the Christian Romans or the Impious Persians? The Via Petri Iberi
on Byzantine-Georgian Relations in the Fifth Century AD

10:45-11:00 am Coffee Break

11:00 am-1:00 pm

Session 21: Manuscript Illumination
Chair: Susan Madigan (Michigan State University)
Georgi Parpulov (University of Chicago): Texts and Miniatures
from Codex Dionysiou 65
Mary-Lyon Dolezal (University of Oregon): Lectionary
Dissonance: The Palaiologina Group, Again
Ferdinanda Florence (University of Maryland): The Sacrifice of
Isaac in Armenian Illumination and Ritual Sacrifice in Medieval
Armenia
Rima E. Smine (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU): The Byzantine Iconographic Sources of Syriac Lectionaries: Vatican Syr. 559
and London British Library Add. 7170

Session 22: Archaeology and Material Culture

Chair: Marcus Rautman (University of Missouri)
Franz Alto Bauer (Deutsches Archeologisches Institut, Rome):
The Constantinian Episcopal Basilica in Ostia: A Preliminary Report
of the Excavation
Timothy E. Gregory (The Ohio State University): Archaeology and
Slavic Settlement in the Byzantine Peloponnesos
John Cotsonis (Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology): Saints and Cult Centers: The Evidence of the Seals
Peter Lampinen (Combined Caesarea Expeditions): Metallurgical Analysis of Coins of Constantine XI: The Last Coinage Issue of
Constantinople

Questions regarding local arrangements may be directed to
George Majeska, Local Arrangements Chair,
(301) 405-4307;
e-mail:gm5@umail.umd.edu
or
Sharon Gerstel, Co-Chair,
(301) 405-0032;
e-mail:sg113@umail.umd.edu

Additional queries regarding the Web Site of the Byzantine Studies
Conference can be forwarded to:
Ralph W. Mathisen
Dept. of History
Univ. of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
EMAIL: ralph.w.mathisen@sc.edu