23 June 2010, Wednesday

09:15 - 10:00
Henry Maguire
Art, Ceremonial and Spiritual Authority at the Byzantine Court

10:00 - 10:15
Discussion

10:15 - 10:30
Break

10:30 - 10:50
J.Michael Featherstone
Ceremonial in the Great Palace

10:50 - 11:10
Brigitte Pitarakis
Entertainments of the Hippodrome: A Window of the Great Palace on the Exterior World

11:10 - 11:30
Leslie Brubaker
Processions and Public Space

11:30 - 11:50
Ruth Macrides
Ceremonies in the City in the Palaiologan Period

11:50 - 12:05
Discussion

12:05 - 12:20
Break

12:20 - 12:40
Maria G.Parani
Dressed to Kill: Middle Byzantine Military Ceremonial Attire

12:40 - 13:00
Taxiarchis Kolias
The Emperor’s Horses

13:00 - 13:15
Discussion

13:15 - 14:30
Lunch

14:30 - 14:50
Meryem Acara Eser
The Cultural Face of the Byzantine Imperial Power: Court as the Patron of Arts as Represented in Metalwork

14:50 - 15:10
Vera Bulgurlu
The Office of ‘Kanikleios’ at the Imperial Palace as Represented on Byzantine Lead Seals

15:10 - 15:30
Ivana Jevtic
The Antiquarianism and Revivalism in Late Byzantine Court Culture and Visual Arts

15:30 - 15:45
Discussion

15:45 - 16:00
Break

16:00 - 16:20
Athanasios Markopoulos
The School in Byzantium: Structure and Problems

16:20 - 16:40
Apostolos Karpozilos
History Writing as Political Propaganda in Late Byzantium

16:40 - 17:00
Margaret Mulletl
Byzantine Court Literature

17:00 - 17:20
Maria Mavroudi
Byzantine Intellectuals Translating from Greek into Arabic at the Court of Mehmed the Conqueror

17:20 - 17:35
Discussion

17:35 - 17:50
Break

17:50 - 18:30
Closing speech

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