The Byzness, 29th November 2023
Oxford University Byzantine Society
THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY BYZANTINE SOCIETY
The Byzness, 29th November 2023
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1. NEWS AND EVENTS
2. CALLS FOR PAPERS
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1. NEWS AND EVENTS
Conference - The Nicene and Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creeds: Tensions, Rapprochements, Effects
Taking place on the 11th-12th December, 2023 at the Maison Française d’Oxford
Monday, 11 December 2023
Maison Française d’Oxford
9.00–9.30: Institutional Greetings
Chair: Olivier Delouis, CNRS, Maison Française d’Oxford
Address:
H. Em. Nikitas, Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain
H. Em. Angaelos, Coptic Orthodox Archbishop of London
9.30–10.50: Session 1
Chair: Judith Herrin, University of Oxford
Speakers:
Christoph Markschies, Humboldt Universität, Berlin
“Privatbekenntnisse” (private confessions) – Confessions of Church Parties
– Confessions of the Holy Apostolic Church: The Usefulness of a Classical
Model of Reception
Mark Edwards, University of Oxford
The Philosophy of Nicaea
10.50–11.10: Coffee Break
11.10–13.10: Session 2
Chair: Phil Booth, University of Oxford
Speakers:
Richard Price, University of London
The Article on the Holy Spirit in the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed:
Content and Context
Sebastian Brock, University of Oxford
Translating the Unprecedented: Syriac Renderings of Terms for the
Incarnation in the Nicene and Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed
Tessa Canella, Sapienza Università di Roma
Constantine, Helena, and the Council of Nicaea in the Canons of Marutha
of Maïpherkat
13.10-14.30: Lunch
14.30–16.00: Session 3
Chair: Marianna Napolitano, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia/
FSCIRE
Speakers:
Krastu Banev, Durham University
“Prohibitum est sanctis patribus symbolo addere aliquid vel minuere”:
The Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed in the Context of the Ninth-Century
Missions to Moravia and Bulgaria
Dominic Moreau, Université de Lille
The Ancient Latin Translations of the Nicene and Nicene-Constantinopolitan
Creeds: A Short Introductory Study to an Upcoming Reprint of C.H.
Turner’s EOMIA
Olivier Delouis, CNRS, Maison Française d’Oxford
Bishops’ Creeds during Ordination in the Greek Tradition from Late
Antiquity to the Present Day: Between Dogma, Bureaucracy and Liturgy
16.00–16.20: Coffe Break
16.20–17.40: Session 4
Chair: Patrick Goujon SJ, Centre Sèvres
Speakers:
Sonia Isidori, Università degli studi di Foggia
The Jesuit Approach to the Translation of the Creed in the Incas’ Languages
Paolo Aranha, Istituto italiano di Studi Germanici, Roma
The Reception of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed in Early Modern
South Asia
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Maison Française d’Oxford
9.30–10.50: Session 5
Chair: Stan Rosenberg, University of Oxford
Speakers:
Anna Ohanjanyan, Research Institute of Ancient Manuscripts
“Matenadaran”, Yerevan
The Armenian Version of Nicene Anathema as a Polemical Tool in the Age
of Confessions (17th–18th cc.)
Brandon Gallaher, University of Exeter
God With Us: A Contemporary Sophiological Reading of Nicaea
10.50–11.10: Coffee Break
11.10–12.30: Session 6
Chair: Rebecca White, The House of St Gregory & St Macrina,
Regent’s Park College, Oxford
Speakers:
Paul Fiddes, University of Oxford
One Baptism: Interpreting and Applying the Nicene-Constantinopolitan
Creed in Dialogue between Paedobaptists and Believer-Baptists
Andrew Louth, Emeritus Durham University
ὉΜOOΎΣΙΟΣ: The Creation of a Hallmark of Orthodoxy
Clerics at the Hippodrome? Foucault's Heterotopia, Spatial Semantics, and the Construction of Norms in Late Antique Church Communities
On Thursday, 30 November (4.45 Warsaw time), at Ewa Wipszycka Warsaw Late Antique Seminar, Michael Hahn (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), will present Clerics at the hippodrome? Foucault’s heterotopia, spatial semantics, and the construction of norms in late antique church Communities.
We are meeting in Room 203 at the Faculty of Law and Administration (UW main campus), but Zoom participation will be possible at this link.
Abstract
The paper will examine the extent to which social control in terms of spatial regimes was effective in late antique church communities. I propose that some real life boundaries were more virulent for certain Christian core groups (clerics, ascetics, etc.) than for other members of the communities, who, however, were just as vigilant in ensuring compliance with these spatially defined normative systems. The access of late antique clerics to the games in hippodromes, amphitheatres or theatres, which were often demonised by representatives of the church in the surviving sermons and synodal resolutions, provides a very good illustration of such multipolar evaluation systems for the late antique church communities. These are social constructs that can be described as heterotopic systems in the tradition of Michel Foucault. The evidence from Late Antiquity however also highlights the problems of the model postulated by Foucault when contrasted by social realities of the time. Contrary to previous research, these multipolar normative structures and their extension into social space had a strong influence on whether late antique clerics were able to participate in the games.
Conference - 'Stonecutters and Mosaicists at Work'
On November 30 – December 1, 2023, a conference on the methodology of workshop research will be held in the Ballroom of the Tyszkiewicz-Potocki Palace and online (The University of Warsaw Museum, Krakowskie Przedmieście 32 in Warsaw) funded by the ERC Stone masters grant. The conference is titled “Stonecutters and Mosaicists at Work: Identifying Craftspeople and Their Workshops Through the Lens of Epigraphy.”
The aim of the conference is to connect people involved in the broadly understood study of workshops in antiquity, the prosopography of craftsmen (including vase painters, scribes and manuscript illuminators), the provenance of works of art and craft products such as paintings, vases, mosaics, parchments, scrolls papyrus, codices, etc.
We want to share methods, experiences from various research fields, methodologies and research tools. Our event focuses on methods, not just research results.
The conference can be followed online, on Zoom.
It is necessary to register separately for each day of the conference.
Day One: https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqfuGsrjwuHNOPFonSuunzBJcyNbYxN3JV
Day Two: https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYod–oqz8jGtNUiBhj-YvnODr9XNzRCi4H
Workshop on Theodore Prodromos
THEODORE PRODROMOS: MAN OF LETTERS
PRODROMOS LITERATOR
A workshop in Celebration of Michiel Op de Coul (1961-2022) and his Edition of the Epistles and Orations (CC SG 81)
14:00-14:15
Welcome / Welkom – Peter Van Deun
14:15-15:00
Session 1(Eng.)
Τheodore Prodromos: A Superstar Byzantine Author
Nikolaos Zagklas (Vienna/Zürich)
15:00-15:15
Coffee / Koffie
15:15-16:00
Session 2 (Eng.)
Theodore Prodromos’ Letters and Orations: Critical Edition and Critical Thoughts
Marc Lauxtermann (Oxford)
16:00-17:00
Sessie 3 (Ned.)
Hulde Michiel Op de Coul †
- Het goed gekozenwoord.MichielOp de Coul als vertaler
Vincent Hunink (Nijmegen)
- Boekvoorstelling: Theodorus Prodromus, Epistulaeet orationes (CC SG 81)
Lara Sels & Bart Janssens
17:00-18:00
Reception / Receptie (LETT 06.01, Erasmushuis, Agora 6de verdieping)
Plaatsen zijn beperkt. Graag registreren vóór 8 december.
Places are limited. Please register before 8 December.
Online registration: https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/formulieren/studienamiddag
Contact: Lara Sels (lara...@kuleuven.be)
Conference (in French) on Aspects of Medieval Cyprus
Journée d’études annuelle sur Chypre : actualités de la recherche 2023
dans le cadre du LA3M et du séminaire Moyen-Âge du Département d’Histoire de l’Art et d’Archéologie
(HSAAU12 - HSACU10)
Organisateurs : Matthias METZGER et Andreas NICOLAÏDES
lundi 11 décembre 2023, de 10h00 à 17h00
Amphithéâtre de la MMSH et en visio conférence
https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/82732663939?pwd=SDVpZVpNcHlKVExXRDV6ZmtTaFREQT09
10h00 - Anne MAILLOUX et Andreas NICOLAÏDES : Introduction
10h15 - Fryni HADJICHRISTOPHI (Département des Antiquités de Chypre) : La fouille de la « Maison de l’Hippodrome »
à Akaki : état de la recherche
10h45 - Geoffrey MEYER-FERNANDEZ (EFA) : Reflet d’une période de transition : la commande picturale au lendemain
de l’incorporation de Chypre au Dominio da Mar en 1489
11h15 - Margot HOFFELT (Membre associée LA3M et ACTER) : Les fouilles de la Panagia Karmiotissa à Limassol :
les premiers résultats
14h00 - Matthias METZGER (LA3M) : Chypre terre de pèlerinage durant la période protobyzantine (?). Le cas de Nea Paphos :
entre sources écrites et archéologie
14h30 - Claire BALANDIER (Mission archéologique française à Paphos) : La colline de Fabrika (Paphos) de la haute époque
byzantine à l’époque franque : synthèse de quinze ans de découvertes de la Mission archéologique française à Paphos
15h00 - Eustathios RAPTOU (Département des Antiquités de Chypre) : L’apport des fouilles préventives du Département
des Antiquités à la connaissance de la topographie de Paphos médiévale
15h30 - Véronique FRANÇOIS (LA3M) : Histoires de pots à Paphos (XIIIe
-XVIIIe
siècles)
2. CALLS FOR PAPERS
Graduate Student Committee of the Medieval Academy of America Digital Humanities Showcase
The Graduate Student Committee of the Medieval Academy of America is seeking presenters for the second edition of its Digital Humanities Showcase, scheduled to take place over Zoom on 30th January, 2024. We invite scholars in any field or discipline of global medieval studies who use innovative technologies in their study or teaching of the Middle Ages to share their work with a broad audience of medievalists. This virtual gathering will serve as a forum for scholars, both emerging and established, to gather and learn about, as well as celebrate, their achievements and work in the digital humanities, broadly conceived. Above all, the GSC’s Digital Humanities Showcase is meant to be fun and exciting, giving participants and presenters alike the chance to share ideas and connect. Presentations should be no more than ten minutes in length and explain the impact of the applied technologies on medieval studies. The content of the presentations should be accessible to scholars from all disciplines while also maintaining a high quality of research. If possible, we encourage presenters to include a demonstration of their technology, methodology, or approach.
Applications should include a 2-page CV as well as a brief abstract of no more than 200 words. Submissions should be sent to William Beattie at wbea...@nd.edu and g...@themedievalacademy.org by Friday, 15 December 2023. Selected speakers will be notified by the end of December.
Possible topics could include, but are not limited to:
Digital modelling of religious and secular spaces
Virtual reconstructions of manuscripts
New innovations in mapping
Immersive technologies such as mixed- or virtual-reality headsets
Sensory recreations—spaces, sounds, textures, tastes, etc.
Classroom or research applications for technology
X-ray, imaging, and other scientific analyses to research palimpsests, artworks, and manuscripts
Examinations of medieval technologies through modern reconstructions and analyses
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Alexander Sherborne
DPhil Candidate, Faculty of History
President, Oxford University Byzantine Society
http://oxfordbyzantinesociety.wordpress.com