The 49th Spring Symposium INSCRIBING TEXTS TRANSFORMATIONS March 2016 Exeter College

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1 The 49th Spring Symposium of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies INSCRIBING TEXTS IN BYZANTIUM: CONTINUITIES AND TRANSFORMATIONS March 2016 Exeter College Oxford

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3 The 49th Spring Symposium of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies INSCRIBING TEXTS IN BYZANTIUM: CONTINUITIES AND TRANSFORMATIONS March 2016, Exeter College, Oxford Symposiarchs MARC LAUXTERMANN & IDA TOTH Venues Saskatchewan Lecture Theatre - Panels, Communications (Sessions One & Two) The Quarrell Room - Publisher space and book display and Communications (Session Three)

4 FRIDAY, 18 MARCH Saskatchewan Lecture Theatre, Exeter College 10.00: Registration, Tea, & Coffee 11.00: CYRIL MANGO: Opening Address Panel One: COLLECTING AND READING INSCRIPTIONS IN BYZANTIUM (Chair: JAS ELSNER) : MARC LAUXTERMANN: Collecting Inscriptions in Byzantium : FOTEINI SPINGOU: Reading Inscriptions in Byzantium : Discussion : Lunch Panel Two: TRADITIONS AND TRANSITIONS (Chair: DENIS FEISSEL) : SYLVAIN DESTEPHEN: The Process of 'Byzantinization' in Late Antique Anatolian Epigraphy : SEAN LEATHERBURY: Reading, Viewing and Inscribing Faith: Christian Epigraphy in the Early Umayyad Levant : ANNE MCCABE: Byzantine Funerary Graffiti in the Hephaisteion (Church of St. George) in Athens : Discussion : Tea and Coffee Break

5 Panel Three: SEVENTH-CENTURY EPIGRAPHY, THREE WAYS (Chair: MARK WHITTOW) : IDA TOTH: Reflections on a Period of Transformation in Early Byzantine Epigraphic Culture : INE JACOBS: Seventh-century Epigraphy and Material Context : MAREK JANKOWIAK: Displaying Authority in a Changing World: Epigraphy in Seventh-Century Byzantium : Discussion SATURDAY, 19 MARCH Saskatchewan Lecture Theatre, Exeter College COMMUNICATIONS (Session One) (Chair: MARC LAUXTERMANN) : FABIAN STROTH: Space Oddity: The Sts. Sergius and Bacchus Epigram Read Through its Manufacturing Process : PAMELA ARMSTRONG: Dipinto Inscriptions on Architectural Ceramics : JIM CROW, Lost and Found: Two inscriptions from Eastern Thrace from the District of Karacaköy : PASCHALIS ANDROUDIS: Byzantine Inscriptions on the Marble Cornices of the Church of Profitis Ilias in Thessaloniki : Tea and Coffee Break Panel Four: PLACE, PLACEMENT, PARATEXTUALITY (Chair: CHARLOTTE ROUECHE) : ANDREAS RHOBY: Inscriptions and the Byzantine Beholder: The Question of the Perception of Script : NIELS GAUL: Epigraphic Majuscules and Marginalia: Paratextual Inscriptions in Byzantine Manuscripts

6 : BRAD HOSTETLER: Towards a Typology for the Placement of Names on Works of Art : Discussion : Lunch Panel Five: THE (IN)FORMALITY OF THE INSCRIBED WORD (Chair: SCOTT REDFORD) : MARIA XENAKI: The (In)formality of the Inscribed Word at the Parthenon: Script, Content and Legibility : NICHOLAS MELVANI: State, Strategy, and Ideology in Monumental Imperial Inscription : ALEXANDRA VASSILIOU-SEIBT: The Evaluation of the Inscribed Word on Seals : Discussion : Tea and Coffee Break Panel Six: THE MATERIAL TURN (Chair: SOPHIA KALOPISSI-VERTI) : GEORGIOS PALLIS: The House of Inscriptions. The Epigraphic World of the Middle Byzantine Church and its Significance IVAN DRPIC: Short Texts on Small Objects: The Poetics of the Byzantine Enkolpion : Discussion : Reception in Honour of John Smedley : SPBS Executive Meeting 8.00: Dinner

7 SUNDAY, 20 MARCH Saskatchewan Lecture Theatre and the Quarrell Room, Exeter College COMMUNICATIONS (Session Two) (Chair: IDA TOTH) : SUKANYA RAI-SHARMA: Reading Early Texts and Codices as Epigraphical Evidence : ARKADII AVDOKHIN: Inscriptions Imagined and Narrated Textual Evidence for the Perspective of the Viewer on Early Byzantine Epigraphy : ANTONIO FELLE: Some Examples of Funerary Non-exposed Writings (Italy and Byzantium between VI and IX century) : EILEEN RUBERY: Making and Meaning in the Inscriptions Found in the Frescoes in the Church of Santa Maria Antiqua in the Roman Forum ( AD) : MARIA LIDOVA: Word of Image: Textual Frames of Early Byzantine Icons : EMMANUEL MOUTAFOV: Epigraphy and Art: Corpora of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monumental Painting in Bulgaria. Is Epigraphy an Auxiliary Discipline?

8 COMMUNICATIONS (Session Three) (Chair: BRYAN WARD-PERKINS) : GEORGIOS DELIGIANNAKIS: Epigraphy and Early Monasticism : PAWEL NOWAKOWSKI: The Cult of Saints Database as an Instrument of Study for the Cult of Saints in Anatolia : EFTHYMIOS RIZOS: The Emperor and the Great Shrines of the Empire: The Testimony of Inscribed Imperial Pronouncements : MIRELA IVANOVA: Krum s Triumphal Inscriptions and the Community in Early Medieval Bulgaria (c ) : ARCHIE DUNN: Institutions, Socio-economic Groups, and Urban Change in the Sigillographic Inscriptions of Byzantine Corinth : CHRISTOS STAVRAKOS: Epigraphy as a Source for Rare Iconography and the Society of Lakedaimon in the Late Byzantine period : SPBS Annual General Meeting & Tea and Coffee Break ROUND TABLE: SPBS DEBATE ON BYZANTINE EPIGRAPHY (Chair: ELIZABETH JEFFREYS) 11.30: DENNIS FEISSEL, SOPHIA KALOPISSI-VERTI, MARLIA MANGO, SCOTT REDFORD, & CHARLOTTE ROUECHE REPORT ON FORTHCOMING EVENTS AND FUTURE INITIATIVES ANDREAS RHOBY AND IDA TOTH CLOSING and announcement of the 50th Spring Symposium

9 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS & CONTACT DETAILS PASCHALIS ANDROUDIS, UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI PAMELA ARMSTRONG, OXFORD UNIVERSITY ARKADII AVDOKHIN, KING S COLLEGE LONDON (arkadii.avdokhin@kcl.ac.uk) JIM CROW, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (jim.crow@ed.ac.uk) IVAN DRPIĆ, University of Washington (drpic@u.washington.edu) NIELS GAUL, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (N.Gaul@ed.ac.uk) GEORGIOS DELIGIANNAKIS, OPEN UNIVERSITY CYPRUS (g.deligiannakis@ouc.ac.cy) SYLVAIN DESTEPHEN, PARIS UNIVERSITY X Nanterre (sdesteph@uparis10.fr) ARCHIE DUNN, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (A.W.DUNN@bham.ac.uk) JAS ELSNER, OXFORD UNIVERSITY (jas.elsner@ccc.ox.ac.uk) DENIS FEISSEL, L'ÉCOLE PRATIQUE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES (denis.feissel@college-de-france.fr) ANTONIO FELLE, UNIVERSITY OF BARI (antonio.felle@uniba.it) BRAD HOSTETLER, FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY (bah07d@my.fsu.edu) MIRELA IVANOVA, OXFORD UNIVERSITY (mirela.ivanova@balliol.ox.ac.uk) INE JACOBS, OXFORD UNIVERSITY (ine.jacobs@univ.ox.ac.uk) MAREK JANKOWIAK, OXFORD UNIVERSITY (marek.jankowiak@orinst.ox.ac.uk) ELIZABETH JEFFREYS, OXFORD UNIVERSITY (elizabeth.jeffreys@modlangs.ox.ac.uk) SOPHIA KALOPISSI-VERTI, ATHENS UNIVERSITY (skalop@arch.uoa.gr) MARC LAUXTERMANN, OXFORD UNIVERSITY (marc.lauxtermann@exeter.ox.ac.uk) SEAN LEATHERBURY, BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY (sleatherbury@gmail.com)

10 MARIA LIDOVA, OXFORD UNIVERSITY AND THE BRITISH MUSEUM CYRIL MANGO, OXFORD UNIVERSITY MARLIA MANGO, OXFORD UNIVERSITY ANNE MCCABE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY NICHOLAS MELVANI, NATIONAL HELLENIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION EMMANUEL MOUTAFOV, THE BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES PAWEL NOWAKOWSKI, OXFORD UNIVERSITY GEORGIOS PALLIS, ATHENS UNIVERSITY SUKANYA RAI-SHARMA, OXFORD UNIVERSITY SCOTT REDFORD, SOAS UNIVERSITY OF LONDON ANDREAS RHOBY, THE AUSTRIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES CHARLOTTE ROUECHE, KING S COLLEGE LONDON (charlotte.roueche@kcl.ac.uk) EILEEN RUBERY, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY (edr1001@cam.ac.uk) EFTHYMIOS RIZOS, OXFORD UNIVERSITY (efthymios.rizos@history.ox.ac.uk) FOTEINI SPINGOU, Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies (fspigou@hotmail.com) CHRISTOS STAVRAKOS, UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA (chstavra@uoi.gr) FABIAN STROTH, RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITÄT HEIDELBERG (Stroth@uni-heidelberg.de) IDA TOTH, OXFORD UNIVERSITY (ida.toth@history.ox.ac.uk) ALEXANDRA VASSILIOU-SEIBT, AUSTRIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Alexandra.Wassiliou@oeaw.ac.at) BRYAN WARD-PERKINS, OXFORD UNIVERSITY (bryan.wardperkins@history.ox.ac.uk) MARK WHITTOW, OXFORD UNIVERSITY (mark.whittow@ccc.ox.ac.uk) MARIA XENAKI, FRENCH SCHOOL AT ATHENS (maria.xenaki@efa.gr)

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12 The 49th SPBS Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies has been made possible through the generous support of: THE OXFORD CENTRE FOR BYZANTINE RESEARCH THE FACULTY OF HISTORY (SANDERSON FUND), OXFORD UNIVERSITY THE FACULTY OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN LANGUAGES AND THE SUB-FACULTY OF BYZANTINE AND MODERN GREEK, OXFORD UNIVERSITY THE FACULTY OF CLASSICS (CRAVEN COMMITTEE), OXFORD UNIVERSITY THE SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM TRUST With special thanks to ELIZABETH BUCHANAN MATTHEW KINLOCH NICOLAS MATHEOU THEOFILI KAMPIANAKI Photo Credits: BRAD HOSTETLER