{"id":1273,"date":"2024-03-12T15:16:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T15:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2024-03-12T15:16:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T15:16:49","slug":"justice-in-byzantium-conference-programme-available-and-registration-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/2024\/03\/12\/justice-in-byzantium-conference-programme-available-and-registration-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice in Byzantium: conference programme available and registration open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canterbury will this year be hosting the 55th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies. It will take place on 13th-15th April on the theme of &#8216;Justice in Byzantium&#8217;. The local organiser, MEMS stalwart Dr Anne Alwis, is delighted to be able to share the conference programme. In addition, <a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkx-web.kent.ac.uk%2FKxRegistration%2FRegistration%2FWelcome.aspx%3Fe%3DD016C7487566B5EEE19461B8ABD4B065&amp;data=05%7C02%7CD.G.Rundle%40kent.ac.uk%7Cfb1cc1bdbc7a41f3690e08dc42a49e92%7C51a9fa563f32449aa7213e3f49aa5e9a%7C0%7C0%7C638458522006810369%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=mDO%2Bbt0zC%2Blj3mwIuoE5XIMzLyChybwjML6JsGYe%2BHw%3D&amp;reserved=0\">registration is now open<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>2024 SPRING SYMPOSIUM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>JUSTICE IN BYZANTIUM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>SATURDAY 13<sup>TH<\/sup> \u2013 MONDAY 15<sup>TH<\/sup> APRIL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SATURDAY 13<sup>th<\/sup> APRIL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Registration<\/strong> 8:30-9.45am<\/p>\n<p><strong>Welcome<\/strong>: Anne Alwis and Laura Franco (Kent; Tor Vergata) <strong>and Tributes to Elisabeth Jeffreys and Bob Ousterhout<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Session 1: Social Justice (10:00-11:45 am)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chair:\u00a0 Anne Alwis (Kent)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dionysios Stathakopoulos (Cyprus): \u2018Social Justice and Economic Concerns in the Late-Byzantine World\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Arietta Papaconstantinou (Aix-Marseille): \u2018Petition, Protection and Patronage: Negotiating Social Justice in Village Communities\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Carlos Machado (St Andrews) ONLINE: \u2018Social Justice and Subaltern Experience in Late- Antique Italy\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Communications I (11.45-12.45am)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chair:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elizabeth Buchanan (Findlay): \u2018Justice and Intercession:\u00a0 Religious views on the afterlife of souls as a mirror for popular views of justice in Byzantium\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Romain Goudjil (Sorbonne): \u2018How to take legal action in Byzantium (10th-15th centuries). A practical perspective\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Valerio Massimo Minale (Naples): \u2018The Animals in the Isaurian <em>Ekloge<\/em>\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lunch (12.45-14:00): Meeting of Graduate students<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Session 2: Unwritten Rules (14:00-15.10 pm)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chair: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rosemary Morris (York): \u2018Why Write it Down? The Transition from the Spoken to the Written Word in Monastic Typika\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Anna Kelley (St Andrews): \u2018\u201cAfter God it is your help I look for\u201d: Holy intermediaries and Unwritten Routes towards Women&#8217;s Justice in Byzantine Egypt\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Coffee (15:10-16:00 pm)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Communications II (16:00-17:00) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chair: Liz James (Sussex)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sarah Mathiesen (Florida State): \u2018Eavesdropping: Crime and Punishment in a Cappadocian Rock-Cut Church\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Magdalena Laptas (Warsaw): \u2018Christ as the Sun of Justice with the Archangels and Holy Warriors in Nubian Art\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Francesco Muraca (Bologna): \u2018The \u03b4\u03b9\u03ba\u03b1\u03b9\u03bf\u03b4\u03cc\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2: the Byzantine\u00a0<em>iuridicus<\/em>?\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>KEYNOTE (17:00-17:30 pm)<\/strong>: Daphne Penna (Groningen) \u2018Justice in Byzantium: Blind or Biased?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Drinks Reception sponsored by SPBS (17.30-18.30 pm)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dinner (18.30-20.30)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SUNDAY 14<sup>th<\/sup> APRIL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Coffee: 9.00-9.30 am<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Session 3: Criminal Justice (9:30 am-10:40am)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chair: Ed Roberts (Kent)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lorena Atzeri (Milan): \u2018Criminal Justice in Byzantium (C8<sup>th<\/sup>-11<sup>th<\/sup>): Offences, Punishments, and Deterrence from the <em>Ecloga <\/em>to the <em>Peira<\/em>\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Mike Humphreys (Oxford): \u2018Mutilation in Byzantine Law: The Case of Nose Amputation\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coffee (10:40-11:00am) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Session 4: Revenge (11:00 am-12:10 am)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chair: Laura Franco (Tor Vergata)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Francesca Barone (CNRS): \u2018Forms and Functions of Punishment in early Egyptian Monasticism\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Robert Wi\u015bniewski (Warsaw): \u2018Martyrs Strike Back: Martyrdom and Revenge in Late-Antique Hagiography\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Communications III (12:10-12:45)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chair: Fiona Haarer (KCL)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Marina Detoraki (Crete): \u2018Punishment and Reward in Beneficial Tales (or Divine Justice in Doubt)\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Arkady Avodokhin (Oxford): \u2018Tough Justice from Above: Avenging Saints in Late-Antique Miracle Collections and Inscribed Artefacts\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>LUNCH (12.45-14:00 pm): Meeting of TTB editorial board and Meeting of SPBS Executive Committee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Session 5: Civil Law and Justice (14:00-16:20 pm)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chair: Judith Herrin (KCL)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peter Sarris (Cambridge): \u2018Justinian and the \u201cTemple of Justice\u201d\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Matthijs Wibier (Cincinnati): TBC<\/li>\n<li>Simon Corcoran (Newcastle): \u2018Manumission and Freed-Persons in the Roman Legal tradition from Justinian I to Leo VI and beyond\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Caroline Humfress (St Andrews) ONLINE: \u201cCosmas\u2019 \u2018Contract\u2019: Constituted Living in Late Antiquity.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coffee (16:20-17:00 pm) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Communications IV (17:00-18:00)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chair: Judith Ryder (Oxford)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arie Neuhauser (Chicago): \u2018Standards of Just Conduct in Eleventh-Century Civil Wars\u2019<\/li>\n<li>James Cogbill (Oxford): \u2018The Late Byzantine Aristocracy as Upholders of Justice in Fourteenth-Century Historiography\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Nikolas H\u00e4chler (Zurich): \u2018Ordering the State: Observations on Notions of Justice for the Organization of the Early Byzantine Empire in the <em>Dialogus de Scientia Politica<\/em>\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Drinks\u2019 Reception (18:00-19:00)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Conference Feast (19:00-22:00) [OPTIONAL]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MONDAY 15<sup>th<\/sup> APRIL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Coffee 9:00-9.30 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Communications V (9:30am-10:30am)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chair:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paolo Angelini (Italian Ministero dell\u2019Interno): <strong>\u2018<\/strong><strong>Byzantine Criminal Law<\/strong><strong>: Concepts, Influence and Reception in the Slavic World\u2019<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Ziyao Zhu (King\u2019s College, London): \u2018A Less Successful Endeavour to Define Terminology: The Dispute over the Appropriation of the Church\u2019s Assets under Alexios I Komnenos\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Luke Lavan (Kent): \u2018Reconstructing the Late-Antique Law Court: Evidence Clusters and Evidence Gaps\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Coffee (10:30am-10.45am) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Session 6: Divine Justice (10:45-12:35am)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chair:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maroula Perisanidi (Leeds): \u2018Voices of Divine Justice: Exploring Disability, Speech, and Speechlessness in Byzantium\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Dan Reynolds (Birmingham): \u2018By the Rivers of Babylon: Retribution and Divine Justice in Strategios of Mar Sabas\u2019 Capture of Jerusalem (614)\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Shaun Tougher (Cardiff): \u2018God and the Macedonians: Dynasty and Divine Justice\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Announcement of next Symposium <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>LUNCH (12:45-14:00) SPBS AGM <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Trip to the Archives of Canterbury Cathedral [OPTIONAL]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canterbury will this year be hosting the 55th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies. It will take place on 13th-15th April on the theme of &#8216;Justice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/2024\/03\/12\/justice-in-byzantium-conference-programme-available-and-registration-open\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81001,"featured_media":1267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}