Mobility and Migration in Byzantium: Sources and Concepts / 17-18 June 2016
"Mobility and Migration" are concepts that open up broad new vistas on Byzantine history and culture - from social and political issues (e.g. vertical mobility in Byzantine society, non-sedentary peoples within and outside of Byzantium, diplomatic travel and gift exchange), to questions of migration and trade and their cultural impact (e.g. the spread of artistic or literary motifs, the dissemination of religious movements). Two workshop-style conferences during 2016 are intended to lay the groundwork for future study by focusing on different kinds of sources (June: textual sources, November: material culture), the methodological challenges they pose and their potential to contribute to a fuller and more nuanced understanding of social permeability and intercultural contact in the Byzantine Middle Ages.
Friday, 17 June
11:00-11:15
Registration and Coffee
11:15-11:45
Welcoming Remarks: Claudia Rapp, Vienna University
11:45-12:45
Keynote Lecture and Discussion - Moderator: Ewald Kislinger, Vienna University
Dirk Hoerder, Arizona State University
Mobilities and Migrations: Reflections on Empirical and Theoretical Frameworks in a Global Perspective
ABSTRACT / PAPER
12:45-13:00
Break
13:00-14:00
Keynote Lecture and Discussion - Moderator: Claudia Rapp, Vienna University
Yannis Stouraitis
Byzantium and Migration: An Introduction
ABSTRACT / PAPER
14:00-15:30
Lunch
15:30-16:30
Sigillography - Moderator: Lioba Theis, Vienna University
Respondent: Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou-Seibt, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Jean-Claude Cheynet, Université Paris-Sorbonne IV, Paris
Les sceaux, une source majeure pour l'étude de la mobilité sociale au sein de la société byzantine/ ABSTRACT
16:30-16:45
Break
16:45-17:45
Epigraphy - Moderator: Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Respondent: Andreas Rhoby, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Denis Feissel, Collège de France, Paris
Foreigners in Early Byzantine Inscriptions / ABSTRACT
18:00
Dinner for all Conference Participants
Saturday, 18 June
09:00-10:00
Poetry - Moderator: Carolina Cupane, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Respondent: Nikolaos Zagklas, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
Floris Bernard, Central European University, Budapest
Vertical Mobility and its Displacements in Byzantine Poetry / ABSTRACT
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:15
Hagiography - Moderator: Elisabeth Schiffer, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Respondent: Claudia Rapp, Vienna University
Eleonora Kountoura Galaki, Institute of Historical Research, The National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece
Aspects of Migration and Societal Conditions: the Perspective of Late Byzantine Hagiographers / ABSTRACT
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:30
Epistolography - Moderator: Ekaterini Mitsiou, Vienna University
Respondent: Alexander Riehle, Vienna University
Florin Leonte, Villa I Tatti, Harvard University, USA
Mobility and Rhetoric of Friendship in the Byzantine-Italian Scholarly Communities of the Fifteenth Century / ABSTRACT
12:30-12:45
Break
12:45-13:30
Concluding Remarks and Discussion
Forthcoming Vienna Dialogues:
20 - 21 January 2017
Vienna Dialogues Continued - "Mobility and Migration: the Perspective of Material Culture"
For further information and registration, please contact Ms. Paraskevi Sykopetritou, MA (Coordinator, Moving Byzantium Project): paraskevi.sykopetritou@univie.ac.at or s.sykopetritou@gmail.com
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