THE ANNUAL SCHOOL OF BYZANTINE STUDIES
Sixth Edition
PEACE AND WAR IN BYZANTIUM
September 14th-20th 2023
Thursday, September, 14
16.30-17.00 - The Opening of the Annual School of Byzantine Studies
Prof. univ. dr. Emil Constantinescu, president of the Scientific Council of the Institute for Advanced
Professor Claudia Rapp, University of Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences - message
Athanassios Semoglou, University „Aristotle” of Thessaloniki, the scientific director of the Annual School of Byzantine Studies
17.00-17.45 - Pablo Argarate, University of Graz
„Love Whoever Hates You and Persecutes You”. The Reception of the Mount Sermon in a Fourth-Century Anonymous Work
17.45-18.00 - Q&A session
18.00-18.15 -Break
18.15-19.00 - Athanassios Semoglou, University „Aristotle” of Thessaloniki
À la recherche d’une iconographie belliqueuse dans l’art postbyzantin
19.00-19.15 - Q&A session
Friday, September, 15
17.00-17.45 - Mariana Bodnaruk, Central-European University, University of Fribourg
Forging War Legacies in Stone: The High-Ranking Military Commanders in the Honorific Statuary and Epigraphic Representation in Late Antiquity (4th-7th Centuries AD)
17.45-18.00 - Q&A session
Saturday, September, 16
16.00-16.45 - David Gabriel Carpen, University of Bucharest
Brotherly War or Peace with the Heretics? The Dispute among the Non-Chalcedonians Regarding Ecclesiological Practice and the Solution of Patriarch Severus of Antioch
16.45-17.00 - Q&A session
17.00-17.15 - Break
17.15-18.00 - Antonio Pio di Cosmo, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia &ISACCL
The Basilissa and The Sacred Palace: Women’s Space and the Public Life in the 10th Century
18.00-18.15 - Q&A session
Sunday, September, 17
17.00-17.45 - Liviu Iancu, ISACCL
Raiders turned into mercenaries: Comparing the Greeks in the Saite Kingdom to the Varangians in the Byzantine Empire
17.45-18.00 - Q&A session
18.00-18.15 - Break
18,15-19.00 - Anca Dan, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Paris
Heraclius like David and Meleager: Mythical Projections of the Basileus, in War and Peace
19.00-19.15 - Q&A session
Monday, September, 18
17.00-17.45 - Manuela Dobre, University of Bucharest
Some Considerations about the Byzantine Army in the 6th Century
17.45-18.00 - Q&A session
18.00-18.15 - Break
18.15-19.15 Ernesto Sergio Mainoldi, University of Salerno
The Theological Background of the Byzantine Attitude of War
Tuesday, September, 19
15.00-15.45 - So Miyagawa, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
Digital Humanities and Coptic Studies: Digital Gateway to Roman and Byzantine Egypt
15.45-16.00 - Q&A session
16.00-16.15 - Break
16.15-17.00 - Alexandros Alexakis, University of Ioanina
Literary aspects of War and Peace in the De Expugnatione Thessalonicae of Ioannes Kaminiates
17.00-17.15 - Q&A session
Wednesday, September, 20
17.00-17.45 - Andra Jugănaru, University of Bucharest
The Inner Fight and Peace in the Thought of Gregory of Nyssa
17.45-18.00 - Q&A session
18.00 - The Closing of the School. The Announcement of the seventh edition of the Annual School of Byzantine Studies’ Topic
