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 |
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09:30 |
09:50 |
Milan Vukašinović, Filtering Liminality: Intersectional Reproductions of Mount Athos |
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09:50 |
10:10 |
Guillaume Bidaut, Athonite Transhumance Routes between the 11th–16th Centuries: A Network of Liminal Ecosystems, Spaces and Situations |
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10:10 |
10:30 |
Discussion |
| 10:30 |
10:45 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:45 |
11:45 |
Session 2: People and Nature II, CHAIR: Myrto Veikou |
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10:45 |
11:05 |
Darlene Brooks Hedstrom, Sailing in Crocodile Waters: The Nile as a Liminal Riverscape for Monastic Encounters in Byzantine Egypt |
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11:05 |
11:25 |
Maria Leontsini, Liminal Spaces on Travelling Ships: Vulnerable Passengers on Board (Women, Children, Captives and Sick People) |
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11:25 |
11:45 |
Discussion |
| 11:45 |
13:15 |
Lunch Break |
| 13:15 |
14:15 |
Session 3: People and Nature III, CHAIR: Maria Leontsini |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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14:30 |
14:50 |
Alexander Sarandis, Political Disintegration and Cultural Hybridity in Balkan Liminal Lands in the 7th-8th Centuries |
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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. |
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15:10 |
15:30 |
Discussion |
| Friday 2023-04-28 |
| 09:30 |
11:00 |
Session 5: Constructed Environments I, CHAIR: Milan Vukašinović |
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09:30 |
09:50 |
Livia Bevilaqua, Myths Transformed: Perceptions of Ancient Sculpture in Byzantine Liminal Spaces |
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09:50 |
10:10 |
Roland Betancourt, Liminal Form: Queer Approaches to Byzantine Abstraction |
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10:10 |
10:30 |
Dimitris Kyritses, Tracing Boundaries: Byzantine Periorismoi and the Creation of Liminal Space |
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10:30 |
11:00 |
Discussion |
| 11:00 |
11:15 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:15 |
12:45 |
Session 6: Constructed Environments II, CHAIR: Buket Kitapçı Bayrı |
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11:15 |
11:35 |
Peregrine Horden, Stairway to Heaven: The Byzantine Hospital as Liminal Space? |
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11:35 |
11:55 |
Nikolas Bakirtzis, The Liminal Experience of Byzantine Fortifications |
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11:55 |
12:15 |
Christodoulos Papavarnavas, ‘The Dark Prison Was Filled with Light’: Prison as a Threshold Space in Byzantine Martyrdom Accounts |
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12:15 |
12:45 |
Discussion |
| 12:45 |
13:45 |
Lunch Break |
| 13:45 |
15:45 |
Session 7: Constructed Environments III, CHAIR: Asa Eger |
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13:45 |
14:05 |
Galina Fingarova, Perceptions of Bridges as Liminal Spaces in Byzantium |
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14:05 |
14:25 |
Katerina Ragkou, Exploring Everyday Life through Household Liminal Spaces |
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14:25 |
14:45 |
Maréva U, From Existential to Spatial Liminality in Byzantine Cenobitic Monasteries |
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14:45 |
15:05 |
Vladimir Ivanovici, Thresholds and Liminality in Early Byzantine Churches |
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15:05 |
15:45 |
Discussion |
| Saturday 2023-04-29 |
| 09:30 |
10:30 |
Session 8: Constructed Environments IV, CHAIR: Roland Betancourt |
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09:30 |
09:50 |
Veronica della Dora, Marking the limēn: Lighthouses and Beacons as Spiritual Metaphors |
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09:50 |
10:10 |
Henrik Rydell Johnsén, ‘With the Body into Heaven’: On the Ladder as a Liminal Metaphor in Early Byzantium |
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10:10 |
10:30 |
Discussion |
| 10:45 |
11:45 |
Session 9: Stories and Liminality, CHAIR: Ingela Nilsson |
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10:45 |
11:05 |
Markéta Kulhánková, Liminal and Heterotopic Functions of the Desert in Byzantine Literature: Some Examples from Hagiography and Fiction |
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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 |
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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)
