Some Friday Varia
I’m traveling today, so the the picks are a bit more spartan than usual, but there are always things worth reading on the so-called internets.
At the end of the page, you’ll find the program for today’s colloquium at Dumbarton Oaks. You can read my paper here.
What I’m listening to: Jaimie Branch, Fly or Die II.
Bargepole at The Beach
Here’s the rest of my day:
The Insular World of ByzantiumProgram
Friday, November 15
8:30am Morning registration and coffee 9:00 Welcome (Anna Stavrakopoulou, Dumbarton Oaks) 9:15 Introduction (Luca Zavagno and Nikolas Bakirtzis)
Chair: Luca Zavagno
9:30-10:00 Salvatore Cosentino (Università di Bologna)Pillars of Empire: The Economic Role of the Big Mediterranean Islands from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages
10:00-10:30 Sarah Davis-Secord (University of New Mexico)Encounters on the Edge of the Empire: Muslims and Christians in Byzantine Sicilian Hagiography
10:30-11:00 Q&A Session11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-11:45 Joanita Vroom (Leiden University)From Euboia to Cyprus: Byzantine Trade in Context
11:45-12:15 Nikolas Bakirtzis (The Cyprus Institute)Islands as Deserts: Monastic Practice, Patronage, and Control
12:15 – 12:45 Q&A Session12:45 – 2:30 Lunch Break
Chair: Nikolas Bakirtzis
2:30 – 3:00 William Caraher (University of North Dakota)An Island Archaeology of Early Byzantine Cyprus
3:00-3:30 Luca Zavagno (Bilkent University)“A Lost World That Never Died”: Urban Landscapes in the Byzantine Tyrrhenian in the Passage from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages
3:30-4:00 Q&A Session4:00-4:15 Coffee Break
4:15-4:45 Jonathan Shea (Dumbarton Oaks)Ruling the Islands of Byzantium: Evidence for Administration and Government in the Sigillographic Material
4:45-5:00 Q&A Session5:00-5:30 Final discussion and concluding remarks
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