[CFP] Reminder: Holy Hero(in)es. Literary Constructions of Heroism in Late Antique and Early Medieval Hagiography, 18-20.2.2016

Call for Papers (reminder)

Holy Hero(in)es. Literary Constructions of Heroism in Late Antique and Early Medieval Hagiography

International conference at Ghent University (Belgium), Thursday 18th to Saturday 20th February 2016

Confirmed keynote speaker: Prof. dr. Stephanos Efthymiadis (Open University of Cyprus)

The ERC research group Novel Saints (Ghent University) builds on and contributes to a recent trend in scholarship of studying late antique and early medieval hagiography (4th-12th cent.) as literature. We welcome paper proposals for our first, international conference, which will deal with literary constructions of characters as hero(in)es in different types of late antique and early medieval hagiographical narrative (Lives, Martyr Acts, hagiographical romances, etc.). We envisage contributions on hagiography from different linguistic traditions (Latin, Greek, Syriac, Georgian, Coptic, Armenian, Persian and Arabic). The conference aims to explore definitions of and aspects/concepts relevant to heroism in Christian narrative. What does it mean to be a hero(ine) in these narratives? Are there different types of hero(in)es (and of heroism)? To what extent can narratological concepts provide useful tools for evaluating hagiographical constructions of heroism? The other central question is how saints (and/or, possibly, other characters) are characterized, shaped, imagined and/or constructed as hero(in)es.

This last, broad question comprises a number of important sub-questions:

•  Which literary and/or rhetorical techniques underlie such constructions? To what extent and how do these narratives employ techniques rooted in ancient rhetoric (e.g. ecphrasis, syncrisis, ethopoeia, etc.), and to what purpose?
• Does the notion of heroism imply specific behavioural patterns and/or speech acts?
• What is the relevance of other literary traditions, such as biblical narrative, Acts of the Apostles (both canonical and apocryphal), ancient biography, historiography and fiction (pagan and/or Jewish novels)? To what extent do these traditions offer models of heroism that are adopted/adapted in hagiographical narratives? To what extent and how, for example, do ancient fictional strands of heroism persist in hagiographical constructions of martyrs and saints, as they are well known to do, for example, in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles (e.g. Paul & Thecla) and other early Christian narrative such as the Ps.-Clementines and a few pre-Nicean Martyr Acts?
• How do hagiographical narratives adopt/rework authentication strategies common in biography or historiography in order to construct its hero(in)es?
• To what extent and how do constructions of heroism in saints/martyrs in different cultures develop over time and cross-fertilize other such constructs throughout late antiquity and the middle ages?

In relation to this, the conference also aims to explore issues like the following:

• heroism and definitions of sainthood and holiness;
• heroism and explorations of moral/ethical dimensions of character;
• heroism and development (is one a hero(ine) or does one become one?);
• saints, self-presentation and performance: constructions of heroism and/or reenactments of earlier models by saints themselves (rather than by the narrators of their narratives);
• heroism and ego-narration;
• heroic constructions in collective v. individual life-writing;
• impact of depictions of hero(in)es/heroic behaviour on audiences;
• heroism and meta-literary approaches: ?heroic? qualities of both saints and texts;
• types of saints (e.g. desert saints, military saints, converted prostitutes, holy fools, etc.) v. character individuation.

Abstracts (in English or French) should contain 300-350 words and should be sent to novelsaints@ugent.be before 20 September 2015. Notifications about acceptance (or not) will be sent out by 20 October 2015. Not only senior scholars but also PhD students are welcome to submit abstracts.

For further queries, please contact klazina.staat@ugent.be or julie.vanpelt@ugent.be.

Prof. dr. Koen De Temmerman
Klazina Staat
Julie Van Pelt

Events & Conferences

Mediaevalia at the Lilly Library

Lectures and Workshops given by Falk Eisermann, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

Monday, April 26, 2010 at 9:30 A.M. & 2:30 P.M.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 5:00 P.M.
The Lilly Library (1200 East 7th Street)

The speaker for this year's Mediaevalia at the Lilly (April 26–27) will be Dr. Falk Eisermann, director of the Union Catalogue of Incunabula (Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke) at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.
On Monday, April 26th, Dr. Eisermann will conduct two mini-workshops on how to describe incunables in the Internet Age and on how to work with scholarly research facilities for 15th-century printing available on the internet. The workshops also will present opportunities to work with both original source materials as well as electronic resources. The workshops will be in held in English from 9:30 A.M. to 12:30 P.M., and in German from 2:30 P.M. to 5:30 P.M. The number of participants is limited. Enroll by sending an e-mail to the organizers: Cherry Williams and Hildegard E. Keller.
On Tuesday, April 27th at 5:00 P.M., Dr. Eisermann will give a public lecture, to be held at the Lilly Library. His topic will be: "Secrets of Success: Printers, Patrons, and Audiences in 15th Century Leipzig." A reception will follow the lecture.
The series Mediaevalia at the Lilly Library (directed by Cherry Williams, curator of manuscripts at the Lilly, and Professor Hildegard E. Keller, Department for Germanic Studies) aims to both better exploit and publicize the collection by bringing in established scholars and experts for a lecture and a workshop with hands-on-approach for students and faculty. The series is sponsored by the Medieval Studies Institute and the Lilly Library. In seeking to combine lectures with workshops, our goal is to make abstract ideas, as presented in the classroom, concrete by confronting students with the intractable nature of sources and giving them some sense of just how much can be gleaned from handwriting, type, parchment, paper, watermarks, title pages, musical notation, format, decoration, in short, all material aspects of the book over the course of the period stretching from Late Antiquity to the Reformation, i.e., comprehending at the outset the transition from roll to codex and, at the end, the shift from manuscript to print.
Flyer for the Event

Directions to the Lilly Library

Urban Allegories: Walter Benjamin and Medieval Temporalities

A lecture by Ethan Knapp, Associate Professor of English at the Ohio State University

Friday, January 29, 2010 at 4:30 P.M.
State Room East, Indiana Memorial Union (900 East 7th Street)

This talk revisits the often disembodied history of medieval allegory by returning to Walter Benjamin's famous analysis of the particular modernity of Baudelaire's urban lyricism. Rather than privileging Benjamin's late essay, "On Some Motifs in Baudelaire," which presents a stark sense of the alterity of the modern, we might instead consider his earlier, and richer, treatment in the Arcades project, a treatment that draws on a persistent parallel between Baudelaire and Dante in order to construct a modernity that cannot be read as a simple chron- ological proposition. The talk will then turn to specific examples of late medieval English allegory in Hoccleve, Langland, and Gower.
Flyer for the Event

Directions to the Indiana Memorial Union

The Man with the Pale Face, the Relic, and Du Fay's Missa Se la face ay pale

A lecture by Anne Walters Robertson, Claire Dux Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities, University of Chicago

Monday, October 19, 2009 at 4:15 P.M.
Ford-Crawford Hall (Simon Building, 200 S. Jordan Ave.)

Professor Anne Walters Robertson writes on subjects ranging from the plainchant of the early church to the Latin and vernacular polyphony of the late middle ages. In her work, liturgical and secular music, and often the interactions of the two, mirror theological and courtly ideas and shape the development of medieval spirituality and personal devotion, architecture, institutional identity, and politics. Her research on fourteenth-century polyphony points to the fundamental roles of local musical dialect in understanding Philippe de Vitry's life and music, and of mystical theology in illuminating the compositions of Guillaume de Machaut. More recently, she has studied the symbolic and folkloric aspects of the seminal masses and motets of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
Flyer for the Event
Directions to Ford-Crawford Hall

Little Nothings: "The Squire's Tale" and the Ambition of Gadgets

A lecture by Prof. Patricia Clare Ingham, Indiana University

Monday, September 21, 2009 at 4:00 P.M.
Indiana Memorial Union, State Room West

Despite advancements in architecture, optics, philosophy, literature, music, and mechanics, the Middle Ages remains more often associated with conservation than it is with innovation. This paper, part of a larger book-length study of the meaning and reach of medieval accounts of novelty, analyzes one telling example of the altogether ambivalent discourse of the medieval "newfangled." Geoffrey Chaucer's "Squire's Tale," I argue, cross-cuts a fascination with novel technological gadgetry with the fascinations of impossible love, raising for us the promise and problem prompted by wonder in the new and unusual.
Flyer for the Event
Directions to the Indiana Memorial Union

2010 Byzantine Studies Conference Details for Call of papers

2010 Byzantine Studies Conference

The thirty-sixth annual Byzantine Studies Conference will be held at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Call for papers (Deadline for abstracts: Friday, April 16, 2010)

Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium 16th - 18th July 2010

In association with Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, The Faculty of History, The Faculty of English, and the University of Cambridge

Chronicles are a fertile area of academic research focusing on a genre of historical literature written mainly in a time before departments of English and History had yet come into existence. The Cambridge International Chronicle Symposium (CICS) is a biennial interdisciplinary conference organized to promote research and to strengthen the network of chronicle studies worldwide. The aim of the CICS is to allow scholars from various departments of learning and critical approaches to meet, present new research, demonstrate new critical approaches and discuss prospects for ongoing, collective research between scholars and academic institutions.
The inaugural symposium took place on 11 - 13 July 2008 at the English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge, and attracted over 60 delegates. Selected papers will be published in The Medieval Chronicle,vols VI and VII, by Rodopi in 2009 and 2010.
Forth-coming conference details and Call For Papers
The theme for CICS 2010 is Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles, which will be debated over the three days during open sessions of three twenty-five minute papers, alternating with longer keynote addresses. Selected papers will be published in a volume bearing the same title within two years of the conference. The 2008 inaugural proceedings appeared in the Medieval Chronicle, vols. VI (2009) and VII (2010, forthcoming).

• Call for papers (pdf)
  [deadline: 15 December 2009]

The organisers welcome paper or article proposals on the following subjects:
            - Kingship and Queenship, Earls and Ealdormen;
            - Abbots and abbesses, monks and nuns;
            - Ecclesiastical and secular authorities;
            - Institutional authority;
            - National authority and identity;
            - Masculine, feminine, and neuter: linguistic authority;
            - Auctors and Auctoritas;
            - Textual authority, witnesses, traditions, and scribes;
            - Kinglists and genealogies;
            - Nuns in the scriptorium;
            - Female voices, male scribes – authority and authorship;
            - Gender and legal practices;
            - Moral authority;
            - Ritual and authority;
            - Establishment of authority: feuds, force, and warfare;
            - The construction of gender in chronicles.

More information will be available on this website soon; meanwhile, if you have any queries, do not hesitate to contact the organisers at CambridgeICS@gmail.com

Conference Programme (July 2008)

Friday 11 July 2008

3:00pm – 4:00pm	Welcome registration Foyer, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge (map)
4:00pm – 5:00pm	Private viewing of chronicle manuscripts exhibition Dr Christopher de Hamel, Corpus Christi College
5:15pm – 6:00pm	CICS 2008 Inaugural Lecture Large Seminar Room, Ground Floor, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge: Professor Alan Deyermond, Written by the Victors: Technique and Ideology in Official Historiography in Verse in Late-Medieval Spain (Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London). Chair: Dr Juliana Dresvina (University of Cambridge)
6:30pm – 7:30pm	Dinner in town

Saturday July 12 2008

8:30am – 9:00am	Welcome Reception (continued) Coffee and Tea for speakers and guests, Foyer, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge
9:00am – 10:45am	Early Chronicles and Their Traditions Large Seminar Room (GR06/07), Ground Floor, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge: Chair: Dr Elizabeth Van Houts (University of Cambridge) Dr Maria Kouroumali, Creating the History of the World: Chronicles and Chroniclers in Sixth Century Byzantium (University of Oxford) Prof. Emerita Julia Bolton Holloway, Romancing the Chronicle (Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei, Florence; olim University of Colorado) Dr Richard Corridini, Chronicle-annals in the context of the scriptorium of Fulda in the Carolingian period (University of Vienna)
10:45am – 11:00am	Morning Tea Foyer, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge
11:00am – 12:00pm	Keynote address Large Seminar Room, Ground Floor, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge: Professor Bernard Muir, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Paleographer's View (University of Melbourne). Chair: Nicholas Sparks (University of Cambridge)
12:15am – 1:15pm	Buffet Lunch Newnham College, Sidgewick Hall (map)
1:15pm – 3:15pm	The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Large Seminar Room, Ground Floor, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge: Chair: Dr Peter Stokes (University of Cambridge) Dr Tatiana V. Bochkareva, Orthography of the Peterborough Chronicle (Moscow State University) Nicholas Sparks, The Parker Chronicle: chronology gone awry (University of Cambridge) Veronica Wieser, Calculations towards an End: the Chronicle of Sulpicius Severus (University of Vienna) Dr Scott T. Smith, Culmination and Dissolution: the Edgar Poems in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Pennsylvania State University)
3:15pm – 3:45pm	Afternoon Tea Foyer, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge
3:45pm – 5:45pm	Local Chronicles and Universal Chronicles Large Seminar Room, Ground Floor, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge: Chair: Abigail Queen (University of Cambridge) Tara Andrews, Post-Apocalyptic Armenian History and the Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa (University of Oxford) Alison Alexander, Sticks, stones and ancient bones: ecclesiastical politics and the development of annalistic writing in eleventh-century Rouen (University of Cambridge) Dr Alan Cooper Walter Map on Henry I: the Creation of a Useful Myth (Colgate University, NY) Kathryn Dutton, Fulk IV and the Fragmentum historiae Andegavensis: the production, dissemination and intentions of an eleventh-century lay chronicle (The University of Glasgow)
5:45pm – 6:30pm	Wine Reception Foyer, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge
7:30	Formal Dinner St Catharine’s College, The Senior Common Room

Sunday July 13 2008

8:30am – 9:00am	Coffee and Tea for the delegates Foyer, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge
9:00am – 10:55am	Historiography, Narrative, and Comparative Traditions-I Large Seminar Room, Ground Floor, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge: Chair: Dr Natasha Romanova (University of Liverpool) Sally Lamb, Evidence from absence – omission and inclusion in early medieval annals (University of Cambridge) Dr Erik Kooper, ‘Other days, other ways’, or why differences matter (University of Utrecht) Kathryn Green, Narrative Strategies in the Westminster Chronicle(University of Manchester) Dr Bernadette Williams Annalists Compared: The Dublin Dominican and The Kilkenny Franciscan (Independent Scholar)
10:55am – 11:10am	Morning tea Foyer, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge
11:10am – 12:30pm	Historiography, Narrative, and Comparative Traditions-II Large Seminar Room, Ground Floor, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge: Chair: Abby Robinson (Univeristy of Melbourne) Professor Andrew Jotischky, Mendicant Strategies for Incomplete Histories: the Carmelites and the Holy Land (University of Lancaster) Matthew Phillpott, The compliation of a Sixteenth-century Ecclesiastical History: the use of Matthew Paris in John Foxe's Acts and Monuments (University of Sheffield). Dr Anna Seregina, Religious controversies and history writing in the 16th century England (Russian Academy of Sciences).
12:30pm – 1:30pm	Buffet Lunch Newnham College, Sidgewick Hall
1:30pm – 3:30pm	Holinshed Panel Large Seminar Room, Ground Floor, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge: Chair: Professor Helen Cooper (University of Cambridge) Dr Olga Dmitrieva, English ‘Pantheon of Fame’: intellectuals in Holinshed’s Chronicles, (Moscow State University) Dr Ian Archer, A parallel-text electronic edition of the 1577 and 1587 editions of Holinshed’s Chronicle (University of Oxford) Dr Felicity Heal, Confessional identities of the contributors to the 1587 edition of Holinshed’s Chronicle (University of Oxford) Dr Paulina Kewes, Narrative Historiography and the Rules of Succession (University of Oxford)
3:30pm – 4:00pm	Afternoon tea; departures

Source: http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/diary/cics/index.html

 

The 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies May 13-16, 2010

Congress

The 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies takes place May 13-16, 2010.

The schedule of sessions and online registration will be available in February.

The Congress is an annual gathering of over 3,000 scholars interested in Medieval Studies. It features over 600 sessions of papers, panel discussions, roundtables, workshops, and performances. There are also some 90 business meetings and receptions sponsored by learned societies, associations, and institutions. The exhibits hall boasts nearly 70 exhibitors, including publishers, used book dealers, and purveyors of medieval sundries. The Congress lasts three and a half days, extending from Thursday morning until Sunday at noon.
Special Events

* Plenary Lectures
* Concert
* Film Screenings
* Dance
* Worship Services

Plenary Lectures
Why Were Latin Qur’ans Produced in Christian Spain but Never Read There?
Reflections on Spanish-Christian Culture during the Long Twelfth Century

Thomas E. Burman
Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville
sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America
Friday, May 14, 8:30 a.m.
East Ballroom, Bernhard Center
The "Clerical Proletariat" and the Rise of English
A New Look at Fourteenth-Century Book Production

Kathryn Kerby-Fulton
Univ. of Notre Dame
sponsored by Boydell & Brewer, Ltd.
Saturday, May 15, 8:30 a.m.
East Ballroom, Bernhard Center

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Concert



Image of Anne AzemaImage of Shira Kammen

Chanterai pour mon courage: Spiritual Renewal in the Time of the Crusades
Anne Azéma and Shira Kammen

Friday, May 14, 8:00 p.m.
St. Luke's Episcopal Church
247 W. Lovell Street
in downtown Kalamazoo
(shuttle transportation provided from Congress registration)

general admission: $20.00

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Film Screenings
The Last Legion

directed by Doug Lefler and starring Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, Aishwarya Rai, and Peter Mullan (2007)
Thursday, May 13, 7:30 p.m.
Fetzer 1005
Ladyhawke

directed by Richard Donner and starring Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Leo McKern (1985)
Friday, May 14, 7:30 p.m.
Fetzer 1005

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Dance

Image of the Saturday night dancePlease join us at the 45th Congress for the traditional Saturday Night Dance

Saturday, May 15
East Ballroom, Bernhard Center
10:00 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.

As with other Congress activities, the Institute must observe Michigan law and campus regulations. In Michigan you must be 21 years of age to purchase alcohol or beer. You should be ready to prove that you are 21 or over before you approach the cash bar. You must have a photo ID with you. You may not bring your own drinks to the dance. All other beverages and snacks are free. Please note that there will be a smoking area outside the building.

The Dance is a social occasion for registered attendees of the Congress only. Please bring your registration badge to the Bernhard Center: it is your ticket of entry.

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Worship Services



Mass of the Ascension (Catholic)
Thursday, 7:00 a.m.
Fetzer 1040

Ascension Day Eucharist (Anglican-Lutheran)
Thursday, 8:30 a.m.
Fetzer 1040

Daily Vespers
Thursday–Saturday, 5:20 p.m.
Fetzer 1040

Daily Mass
Friday–Saturday, 7:00 a.m.
Fetzer 1040

Sunday Roman Catholic Mass
Saturday, 7:00 p.m.
Fetzer 1040
Sunday, 7:00 a.m.
Fetzer 1005

Anglican/Lutheran Eucharist
Sunday, 7:00 a.m.
Fetzer 1040

Source: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/

The 43rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies Byzantium Behind the Scenes: Power and Subversion University of Birmingham 27-29 March 2010

The 43rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies

Byzantium Behind the Scenes: Power and Subversion

University of Birmingham

27-29 March 2010

The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, of the University of Birmingham is pleased to be welcoming back the Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies under the auspices of The Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies.
The 43rd Spring Symposium explores the multiple ways in which Byzantine artists, rhetoricians, philosophers, theologians, satirists and political actors subverted and manipulated established rules and traditions. Through interdisciplinary dialogue the symposium aims to either qualify or challenge common held perceptions of Byzantium and the Byzantines. The symposium will consist of eighteen main papers as well as more numerous communications which are wide open to any theme in Byzantine studies. The call for communications expires on 7 February 2010.
Prospective participants and guests are kindly invited to register from now until the opening of the symposium on Saturday, March 27, 2010. You can also register online.

Symposiarch: Dimiter Angelov

Symposium Assistants: Eve Davies, Michael Saxby

Director of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies
Rhoads Murphey

With:

Anthony Bryer, Leslie Brubaker, Archie Dunn, Eurydice Georganteli,
Ruth Macrides, Joseph Munitiz

Introduction

The 43rd Byzantine Spring Symposium addresses a theme of special significance for the field of Byzantine studies. Byzantium has traditionally been deemed a civilisation which deferred to authority and set special store by orthodoxy, canon and proper order. Since 1982 when the distinguished Russian Byzantinist Alexander Kazhdan wrote that 'the history of Byzantine intellectual opposition has yet to be written', scholars have increasingly highlighted cases of opposition to and subversion of 'correct practice' and 'correct belief' in Byzantium. The innovative scholarly effort has produced important results, although has been somewhat disjointed and has been hampered by the lack of dialogue across the disciplines of Byzantine studies. The Byzantine Spring Symposium in 2010 addresses this situation by drawing together historians, art historians, scholars of literature and religion, and philosophers who will discuss shared and discipline-specific approaches to the theme of subversion.
The main papers of the symposium are organised in the form of five sessions devoted to:
1) History
2) Art history
3) Religious and popular belief
4) Philosophy and intellectual life
5) Literature
The dialectical relationship between authority and subversion, and the distinction between dissidence and subversion, are among the theoretical questions to be addressed. The conference comes at a timely junction of the development of Byzantine studies, as interest in subversion and generally in nonconformist attitudes has been rising steadily in various disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

SATURDAY  MARCH 27

Session I: The politics of subversion

• Dimitris Kyritses (Crete)
  Decision-making, consensus-building and autocracy held in check: the imperial council in Byzantium
  
• Kostis Smyrlis (New York)
  The Byzantine state and the subversive power of fiscally privileged groups (13th-14th c.)
  
• Michael Angold (Edinburgh)
  The art of subversion at the late Palaiologan court
  
• Cécile Morrisson (Dumbarton Oaks) and Vasso Penna (University of Peloponnese)
  Usurpers and rebels in Byzantium: image and message through coins
  
  

Session II: The art of subversion

• Leslie Brubaker (Birmingham)
  Seeing is believing, but words tell many lies: image, text and subversion in Byzantium
  
• Bissera Pentcheva (Stanford)
  Subverting the Byzantine world: Sinai, crusader art, and the rise of optical visuality
  
•  Liz James (Sussex)
  The world turned upside down': art and subversion in Byzantium
  

SUNDAY MARCH 28
Session III: Subversion in religious and popular belief

• Neil McLynn (Oxford)
  Playing to lose? The politics of heresy in Theodosian Constantinople
  
• Paul Magdalino (St Andrews)
  Generic subversion? The political message of apocalyptic prophecy and urban myth
  
• Dirk Krausmüller (Cardiff)
  Hiding in plain sight: heterodox readings of Byzantine theological texts
  
• Béatrice Caseau (Paris)
  The limits of religion: derision and disrespect
  
  

Session IV: Subversion in philosophy and intellectual life

• Börje Bydén (Stockholm)
  'No prince of perfection': Byzantine anti-Aristotelianism from Philoponus to Plethon
  
• Katerina Ierodiakonu (Athens)
  Really, why was John Italos anathematised?
  
• Maria Mavroudi (Berkeley)
  George Gemistos Plethon in the Islamic world
  

MONDAY  MARCH 29

Session V: The literature of subversion

• Margaret Mullett (Dumbarton Oaks)
  How to criticise the laudandus
  
• Dimitris Krallis (Simon Fraser University)
  Harmless satire, stinging critique: a new reading the Timarion
  
• Przemysław Marciniak (University of Silesia)
  Of mice and people: Katomyomachia and Dramation as satirical texts
  
  

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Margaret Alexiou (Harvard)
Of broth, brawls and balls: power, pain and poverty in Ptochoprodromos

Source and more: http://www.iaa.bham.ac.uk/news/conferences/index.shtml