The fourth graduate workshop on Late Antique and Byzantine Studies will be held on Friday, February 28, 2025 at CEU. Co-organized by students from CEU and the University of Vienna, the workshop gives graduate students from both institutions an opportunity to present their research and get feedback from an informal and receptive audience. It is funded by the Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at CEU and the Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna.
The program for 2025 is as follows.
09:00-10:00: Registration and Welcome
10:00-11:30: Session One
Chair: Olga Vlachou
Arash Khorashadi
The Romans' “Other” Eye: Political History Unraveled according to the Persian Sacred History
Dachi Pachulia
The Notion of the Free Will in Late Antique Christian Literature and its Philosophical Background
Marieke Verbiest
East Influencing West: Byzantine Influences on Cultural, Religious and Political Aspects of Flemish Society from First until the Fourth Crusades
11:30-11:45: Coffee Break
11:45-13:15: Session Two
Chair: Ada Kök
Estera Golian
The Repit Temple in Athribis: Archaeological Insights into the Destruction of Reliefs in Late Antiquity
Andrea Pambuku
Architectural and Historical Investigations into the Dating of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Berat Castle
“Birds that Are Gentle Fly in Flocks:” Emotions, Presence and Nature Representation in Cassiodorus’s Variae
13:15-14:00: Lunch Break
14:15-15:45: Session Three
Chair: Liudmila Eramova
Johann Hillen
Between Roman Traditions and Christian Innovations - The Transformation of the Imperial Image in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Empire (306-711 CE)
Felix Michler
The Titles of the Roman Imperial Elite in Early Late Antiquity. Epigraphic and Papyrological Perspectives
Ada Kök
North Italian Ecclesiastical Schism and Pelagius I during the Three Chapters Controversy (556–561 CE)
15:45-16:00: Coffee Break
16:00-17:30: Session Four
Chair: Marieke Verbiest
Liudmila Eramova
The Origins and Prerequisites for the Cult of the Three Byzantine Hierarchs Gregory the Theologian, Basil the Great, and John Chrysostom (9th–11th Centuries)
Olga Vlachou
Social Networks and Prosopography of 12th-Century Byzantium
Kassandra Cox
Shining in the West: Georgian Royal Brides as Diplomats in Byzantium in the 11th and 13th Centuries
17:30: Closing Remarks and Roundtable
Followed by a Wine Reception