2023-04-27 | 2023-04-29

Liminal Spaces in Byzantium and Beyond

Place: Swedish Institute at Athens (hybrid), Mitseon 9, 117 42 Athens. Organizers: Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala University), Myrto Veikou (University of Patras & Uppsala), Buket Kitapçı Bayrı (Independent Researcher)

Thursday 2023-04-27
09:00 09:30 Opening remarks, Jenny Wallensten & Buket Kitapçı Bayrı
09:30 10:30 Session 1: People and Nature I, CHAIR: Jenny Wallensten
09:30 09:50 Milan Vukašinović, Filtering Liminality: Intersectional Reproductions of Mount Athos
09:50 10:10 Guillaume Bidaut, Athonite Transhumance Routes between the 11th–16th Centuries: A Network of Liminal Ecosystems, Spaces and Situations
10:10 10:30 Discussion
10:30 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 11:45 Session 2: People and Nature II, CHAIR: Myrto Veikou
10:45 11:05 Darlene Brooks Hedstrom, Sailing in Crocodile Waters: The Nile as a Liminal Riverscape for Monastic Encounters in Byzantine Egypt
11:05 11:25 Maria Leontsini, Liminal Spaces on Travelling Ships: Vulnerable Passengers on Board (Women, Children, Captives and Sick People)
11:25 11:45 Discussion
11:45 13:15 Lunch Break
13:15 14:15 Session 3: People and Nature III, CHAIR: Maria Leontsini
13:15 13:35 Luca Zavagno, ‘The Sublime Objects of Liminality’: Byzantine Insular Spaces in the Relational Context of the Long Late Antiquity (6th-8th Centuries)
13:35 13:55 Christoph Kilger, Insular Liminalities and Spaces beyond the Byzantine World - Coins and Hoards on Gotland as Itineraries and Repositories of Knowledge
13:55 14:15 Discussion
14:15 14:30 Coffee Break
14:30 15:30 Session 4: Natural and Constructed Environment: The Frontiers, CHAIR: Buket Kitapçı Bayrı
14:30 14:50 Alexander Sarandis, Political Disintegration and Cultural Hybridity in Balkan Liminal Lands in the 7th-8th Centuries
14:50 15:10 Asa Eger, Temporal Borders and Permanent Liminalities: Viewing the First Century of the Islamic-Byzantine Frontier as a Chronological Inflection Point.
15:10 15:30 Discussion
Friday 2023-04-28
09:30 11:00 Session 5: Constructed Environments I, CHAIR: Milan Vukašinović
09:30 09:50 Livia Bevilaqua, Myths Transformed: Perceptions of Ancient Sculpture in Byzantine Liminal Spaces
09:50 10:10 Roland Betancourt, Liminal Form: Queer Approaches to Byzantine Abstraction
10:10 10:30 Dimitris Kyritses, Tracing Boundaries: Byzantine Periorismoi and the Creation of Liminal Space
10:30 11:00 Discussion
11:00 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 12:45 Session 6: Constructed Environments II, CHAIR: Buket Kitapçı Bayrı
11:15 11:35 Peregrine Horden, Stairway to Heaven: The Byzantine Hospital as Liminal Space?
11:35 11:55 Nikolas Bakirtzis, The Liminal Experience of Byzantine Fortifications
11:55 12:15 Christodoulos Papavarnavas, ‘The Dark Prison Was Filled with Light’: Prison as a Threshold Space in Byzantine Martyrdom Accounts
12:15 12:45 Discussion
12:45 13:45 Lunch Break
13:45 15:45 Session 7: Constructed Environments III, CHAIR: Asa Eger
13:45 14:05 Galina Fingarova, Perceptions of Bridges as Liminal Spaces in Byzantium
14:05 14:25 Katerina Ragkou, Exploring Everyday Life through Household Liminal Spaces
14:25 14:45 Maréva U, From Existential to Spatial Liminality in Byzantine Cenobitic Monasteries
14:45 15:05 Vladimir Ivanovici, Thresholds and Liminality in Early Byzantine Churches
15:05 15:45 Discussion
Saturday 2023-04-29
09:30 10:30 Session 8: Constructed Environments IV, CHAIR: Roland Betancourt
09:30 09:50 Veronica della Dora, Marking the limēn: Lighthouses and Beacons as Spiritual Metaphors
09:50 10:10 Henrik Rydell Johnsén, ‘With the Body into Heaven’: On the Ladder as a Liminal Metaphor in Early Byzantium
10:10 10:30 Discussion
10:45 11:45 Session 9: Stories and Liminality, CHAIR: Ingela Nilsson
10:45 11:05 Markéta Kulhánková, Liminal and Heterotopic Functions of the Desert in Byzantine Literature: Some Examples from Hagiography and Fiction
11:05 11:25 Charis Messis, Iles désertes suffisamment boisées et îlots de forêts modérément isolées : aspects de l’imaginaire byzantin sur l’espace liminal
11:25 11:45 Discussion
11:45 12:00 Concluding Remarks, Myrto Veikou
22:30 10:45 Coffee Break
Program
2023-04-27 2023-04-29

Liminal Spaces in Byzantium and Beyond

Place: Swedish Institute at Athens (hybrid), Mitseon 9, 117 42 Athens. Organizers: Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala University), Myrto Veikou (University of Patras & Uppsala), Buket Kitapçı Bayrı (Independent Researcher)

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