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GENDER AND CLASS IN BYZANTINE SOCIETY: XVITH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE

16-18 April 2010

University of New England

PROGRAMME

All sessions, registration, refreshment breaks and the conference dinner will be held in Duval College.

FRIDAY 16 APRIL
12:00
REGISTRATION
1:00
LUNCH
2:30-3:30 AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION FOR BYZANTINE STUDIES
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING
4:00-5:30
SESSION ONE

  Dr Robert Mihajlovski - Latrobe University
Studies in Byzantine Sigillography in the Territory of Republic of Macedonia (1999-2000)

Assoc. Prof. Matthew Dillon - University of New England
Psellos on Divination

  Dr Paul Brown - University of New England
Perceptions of Byzantine Virility Among the Lombards and Normans in Pre- and Post-imperial Italy (c. 960s-1080s)

6:00 ITALIAN BUFFET DINNER
7:30

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Dr Tom Brown - University of Edinburgh
The View From the Provinces: Gender and Society in Byzantine Italy from Justinian to Robert Guiscard

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SATURDAY 17 APRIL
9:00-10:30
SESSION TWO

  Dr Andrew Gillett - Macquarie University
Queen to Empress: The Tragic Appeal of Brunhild to Constantina

Dr Bronwen Neil - Australian Catholic University
Regarding Women on the Throne: Representations of Irene, Byzantine Emperor

  Dr Diana Gilliland Wright - Independent Scholar
The Brides of 1420: Men's Views, Women's Lives

10:30-11:00 MORNING TEA
11:00-12:30 SESSION THREE

  Sarah Gador-Whyte - University of Melbourne
Queen of Heaven or Suburban Mum? The Multi-faceted Mary in Romanos the Melode

Prof. Pauline Allen - Australian Catholic University
Into a Class of Her Own: The Early Byzantine Transformation of the New-Testament Mary

  Revd Dr Doru Costache - St Andrew's Greek Orthodox Theological College
Fully Human, Beyond Gender: Insights from St Maximus the Confessor

12:30-2:00 LUNCH
2:00-3:30 SESSION FOUR

  Dr Amelia Brown - University of Queensland
Eunuchs and Angels in Byzantine Art and Culture

Dr Sean Tougher - Cardiff University
Bearding Byzantium: Masculinity and the Byzantine Life Course

 Dr Anna Silvas - University of New England
Kassia: Gender and Class in Ninth-Century Byzantium

3:30-4:00 AFTERNOON TEA
4:00

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Prof. John Melville-Jones - University of Western Australia
The Deplorable Life and Disgusting Death of Andronicus I Comnenus, Emperor of the Romans

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6:00 GREEK CONFERENCE DINNER
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SUNDAY 18 APRIL
9:30-11:00
SESSION FIVE

  Dr Andrew Stone - University of Western Australia
Social Advancement Through the Church in Twelfth-Century Byzantium

Marie Fisher - University of New England
Sophia of Byzantium (6th Century): 'Mistress Manipulator or Strategic Manager?'

Prof. Lynda Garland - University of New England
'Till Death do us Part?': Family Life in the Byzantine Cloister

11:00-11:30
MORNING TEA
11:30-12:30
AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION FOR BYZANTINE STUDIES
BIENNIAL GENERAL MEETING
12:30-1:30
LUNCH AND CLOSING