Sunday, October 29th
Coffee/Breakfast
8:00 - 9:30 am
Location: ICBC Concourse
Book Exhibit
8:00 – 11:30 am
Location: ICBC Concourse
Graduate and Early Career Breakfast
Sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture
8:00 – 9:30 am
Location: WCC 420 | Strategy Room
Lead Panelist: Alice Lynn McMichael
- Digital Byzantium: A Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on a Digital Tool | A.L. McMichael, Michigan State University
- Bring your own computer!
Panel 9A | Imagining, Experiencing, and Participating in Governance in Byzantium
9:30 – 11:30 am
Location: WCC 100 | Asia Pacific Hall
Organizers: Dimitris Krallis, Jake Ransohoff, Aleksandar Jovanović | Chair: Leonora Neville, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Personalized Efficiency: Taxation and Dialogue in Byzantine State Finances | Dimitris Krallis, Simon Fraser University
- All Too Human? Political Punishment and the Rhetoric of Imperial Impotence in Byzantium | Jake Ransohoff, Princeton University
- Imperial Bureaucratic Practices in the Provincial Society of Ioannes Apokaukos | Aleksandar Jovanović, University of the Fraser Valley
Panel 9B | Archaeology, Place, and Space
9:30 – 11:30 am
Location: WCC 320
Chair: Nathanael Aschenbrenner, Bard College
- Claiming Antiquity, Claiming Global Empire: the Loulon-Constantinople Optical Telegraph as an Instument of Competition | Lucas McMahon, University of Ottawa
- Objects and People at a Medieval Harbor: An Archaeological Perspective | Georgios Makris, University of British Columbia
- Transforming Commerce into Charity at San Nicola in Carcere, Rome | Gregor Kalas, Univeristy of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Kourion in Crisis and Catastrophe: Byzantine Resilience and Responses to Disaster on the South Coast of Cyprus | Ian Randall, University of British Columbia
