The 28th International OUBS Graduate Conference - Schedule and Links

[Oxford University Byzantine Society]

Dear all, 

It is my great pleasure to share, for those who have not already seen it on our website, the full schedule for the 28th International OUS Graduate Conference Decline and Flourish: New Paradigms of Decline and Renewal in Late Antiquity and Byzantium, taking place this weekend, February 28th and March 1st. 

The committee is also pleased to be able to provide meeting details for the Microsoft Teams meetings for online viewers on Saturday and Sunday. The link for Meeting 1 on both days will be linked to the Theberge room, covering panels 1-3a on Saturday, and panels 4-5a on Sunday. The link for Meeting 2 on both days will be linked to the Davis room, covering panels 1-3b on Saturday, and panels 4-5b on Sunday. 

For ease, I have also included the titles of the papers associated with each link. The abstracts are accessible on the OUBS website. 

For those wishing to join in person, the Conference will take place at St. Peter's College, between the Theberge, Miles, and Davis rooms, starting at 11am on Saturday with the opening remarks. There will be assistance at the Porter's Lodge should you require direction to the rooms. Please note that an entrance fee will need to be paid for all non-speakers, however, having paid for an OUBS membership will get you a discounted rate! 

Saturday 28th February (11.30am-5pm GMT) 

MEETING 1:

https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/33061168317943?p=KRMiFkIgIFkAoYXuYn

Meeting ID: 330 611 683 179 43

Password: Xi2gm6JU

Panel 1a: 'The Emperor in Times of Trouble' (11.30 - 13.00)

Duncan Antich (Independent Scholar): Claudius Mamertinus and the Rebirth of Rome

Bryce O'Connor (University of Cambridge): Narratives of Heresy and Decline in the Reign of Philippicus Bardanes 

James Gilmer (Cardiff University): Perpetuation Breakdown: Medical Metaphor and Kaiserkritik in Psellos' Chronographia 

Panel 2a: 'Aristocrats and the Opportunities of Decline' (14.00 - 15.00) 

Marcus Wells (Independent Scholar): Family Fortunes: The Decline and Renewal of the Kekaumenos Family in the Eleventh Century 

Rebecca Amendola (Sapienza University of Rome): Decline Without Fall: Female Aristocratic Patronage and the Politics of Renewal in Palaiologan Constantinople 

Panel 3a: 'Redefining Renewal in the Urban Environment' (15.30 - 17.00)

Sezin Aydın (Koç University): Rethinking Decline and Renewal: Recentring Late Antique Hierapolis around St. Philip's Cult

Alina Khokhlova (University of Oxford): Beyond 'Squatter Occupation': Narrating Decline of Elite Housing in the Maloutena District of Nea Paphos between the 4th and 7th centuries AD

Grzegorz Pamuła (Jagiellonian University): Between Decline and Continuity: Theatre and Spectacle in Late Antiquity 

MEETING 2: 

https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/3999805340062?p=sZlKdBEczJ9CNwzjDS

Meeting ID: 399 980 534 006 2

Password: 5xr7JN2c

Panel 1b: 'Evolving Sacred Geographies' (11.30 - 13.00)

Ceren Dersch [online] (Philipps University of Marburg): Networks of the Sacred: Mobility and Transformation in Byzantine Patara

Luka Shanidze (University of Oxford): Sacred Topographies in Caucasian Iberia and their References to the Holy Land 

Austin Andrews (Yale Divinity School): Imagining (New) Sacred Landscapes in the Late Antique Aeolian Islands 

Panel 2b: 'Reinventions and Memorialisations of Decline' (14.00 - 15.00) 

Tarah Rosendahl (Independent Scholar): Reclaiming the Past: Renewal through Collective Memory Formation in Late Antique Palermo 

Kevser Gül (Boğaziçi University): The Politics of Decline and Legitimacy: Reinventing Memories of Past in the Early Palaiologan Imagination 

Panel 3b: Decline-o-nomics and the Material Record (15.30 - 17.00)

Andrew McNey (University of Oxford): Less is More: The Archaeology of Degrowth 

Bjarke Christensen (University of Cambridge): Monetary Expansion and Economic Decline: Explaining Abatement in Seventh-Century Byzantine Africa

Samuel Cowell (Universität Wien): The 1246 Nicaean Conquest of Thessalonica and a Curious Series of Triumphalist Hyperpyra 

Sunday 1st March (10.30am-2.30pm GMT) 

MEETING 1: 

https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/38525829424442?p=wCh8yVpWBYlX0rEuBU

Meeting ID:  385 258 294 244 42

Password: 9Vx7BR3w

Panel 4a: 'Tracing Continuity on the Frontier' (10.30 - 12.00)

Alice Mumford (University of Oxford): Looking East and West: Georgian Diplomacy Under Queen Rusudan Between the End of the 'Golden Age' and the Mongol Invasion 

Thomas Alexander (Université Catholique de Louvain): The Invisible Century: Locating Byzantine Settlement in the New Byzantine East 

Giorgia Abbate (Sapienza University of Rome): Continuity, Decline, and Renewal: Architectural Dialogue Between Rock-Cut and Masonry Churches in Middle Byzantine Cappadocia (9th -12th c.)

Panel 5a: 'Emotive History at the End of Empire' (13.00-14.00)

Olympia Nelson [online] (University of Sydney): Fin d'Empire, Full of Feeling: Rethinking Late Byzantine Art 

Petros Fokianos (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, University of Patras): The Fall of (New) Rome as a Point of Reference for the Lamentation of the Teacher’s Death in the Late Byzantine and Post-Byzantine World

MEETING 2: 

https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/38334773422582?p=oeVxbQyVkmjiCsrLTF

Meeting ID: 383 347 734 225 82

Password: g9Et73hU

Panel 4b: 'Penning and Painting Rebirth and Renewal' (10.30 - 12.00)

Katherine Painter (University of Oxford): Giving Voice to Vice: The Personification of Death in Ephrem the Syrian 

Gabriel Clisham (University of Southern California): The Teacher of the Civilised World: Ecclesiastical Renewal in Photios' Mystagogy of the Holy Spirit 

Dragan Van de moortel-Ilić (University of Oxford): Cosmological Elements in the Lesnovo Narthex: Rulership, Death, and the Cycles of Decline and Renewal

Panel 5b: 'The End of the World (As We Know It)  (13.00-14.00)

Sophia Miller (Independent Scholar): murw-ēw āzarm wēš dārēd: Realized and Unrealized Narratives of Decline in Late Antique Zoroastrian Apocalypses

Dido Papikinou (Independent Scholar): Between Worlds: The Poetic Pen of George Amiroutzes

All my very best, and with much excitement for the weekend, 

Madeleine 

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Madeleine Duperouzel

DPhil in History

President, Oxford University Byzantine Society

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