The program for the Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Graduate Student Colloquium's Fifth Annual Workshop has now been announced. Building on the successes of previous years, it will take place on the afternoon of Friday, February 27 at the University of Vienna. Students from our department will present on their current research to a receptive and engaged audience.
The program will proceed as follows
Registration and Welcome: 13:00 – 13:15
SESSION 1: 13:30 – 15:00
(chair: Olga Vlachou)
Georgi Mitov
Revisiting the Question of Western Influences on the Funeral Rite in the Sinai Slavonic Euchologion (Cod. Sin. slav. 37 + Cod. Sin. slav. NF 1)
Eldad Voremberg
Rabbanical Circles and Transfer of Knowledge in Southern Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean
Naomi Ho
The Reception of the Alexander Romance during the Crusades
Coffee Break (15:00 – 15:15)
SESSION 2: 15:15 – 16:15
(chair: Marieke Verbiest)
Kassandra Cox
Gender and the Path to Power in the Late 11th Century: A Comparative Study of Maria of Alania and Gregory Pakourianos
Jacob Badger
Byzantine, Arab, and their settlements along the Anatolian Frontier between 750-1071
Coffee Break (16:15 – 16:30)
SESSION 3: 16:30 – 18:00
(chair: Ada Kök)
Gunhyuk Lee
Beyond Church and Monastery: Donations to “Venerable Institutions” in Late Antique Egypt”
Mihajlo N. Džamtovski
The Late Antique Church of Saint Demetrius in Sirmium: Problems of Chronology and Location
Öykü Bahar Balcı Güngör
Transition Process of Settlements in Thrace from Byzantine to Ottoman Period: Lower Meriç (Evros) River Basin
Wine Reception: 18:00
