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NEWSLETTER 46: JANUARY 2004
CONTENTS
1.
Call for Papers: AABS Conference 2004: in honour of Roger Scott
2.
New Websites for AABA and AEIB
3.
AABS Committee
4.
Forthcoming Conferences, Seminars, and Events: Australia
5.
Forthcoming Conferences, Seminars, and Events: International
6.
Positions
7.
Research Funding Opportunities
8.
Call for Book Contributions: Byzantine Philosophy
9.
Notices: Recent Books, ARC Funding, Deaths
10.
From the President
11. AABS
News
12,
Subscriptions
13. Next
Newsletter
Appendix
I: AABS Executive
Appendix
II: Web address for previous Newsletters
1. CALL FOR PAPERS: AABS CONFERENCE XIV 2004: IN HONOUR OF ROGER SCOTT
BYZANTINE NARRATIVE
XIVth
Conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies
13-15
August 2004
University
of Melbourne, Australia
In honour of Roger Scott
Organised by the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies in conjunction with the Centre for Classics and Archaeology and the School of Art History, Cinema, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Melbourne.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The conference theme is narrative in Byzantium. How did the Byzantines tell a story in novels, poems, histories, chronicles, architecture, frescoes and mosaics (to mention just some of the media they employed)? How did they put together their narratives? Were similar techniques used in the different media? What is the relationship between originality and tradition? Is there a distinctive Byzantine method of story-telling?
The conference is intended to be inclusive rather than exclusive, so other ways of considering Byzantine literature, art, culture and society are very welcome.
The language of the conference is English. Papers will be 25 minutes in length.
ABSTRACTS of no more than 300 words are invited on any topic related to narrative and Byzantium in the period from the very beginnings of the Byzantine world in the fourth century to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 CE.
It is intended that papers from the conference will be published in the series Byzantina Australiensia subject to review by an international panel of referees.
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 15 May 2004. Email submission is encouraged.
Enquiries
and abstracts to Dr Kathleen Hay, Conference Secretary.
Email:
kmhay@unimelb.edu.au
Fax: +61 3 8344 4161
Postal address:
Dr
Kathleen Hay
The
University of Melbourne
Byzantine
Narrative Conference
Centre
for Classics and Archaeology
Old
Quadrangle
Victoria
3010
AUSTRALIA
The WEBSITE for the conference contains updates and a form for online submission of abstracts:
http://www.cca.unimelb.edu.au/byznarr/home.htm
2. NEW WEBSITES FOR AABS AND AIEB
The
AABS website is now hosted by the University of Western Australia Department
of Classics, at:
http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/classics/aabs
Please
address and communications concerning the web site to the AABS Secretary,
Dr Kathleen Hay, at:
kmhay@unimelb.edu.au.
The
Association Internationale pour les Études Byzantines (AIEB) website
is now at:
http://www.aiebnet.gr
Following the Biennial General Meeting of AABS at the conference in Adelaide in July 2003, Dr Wendy Mayer stepped down as Secretary of AABS, and Dr Kate Hay agreed to take over this role. Warmest thanks to Wendy for her vigorous activity over past years as Secretary and as Newsletter Editor, and to Kate for agreeing to undertake the secretarial role.
4. FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, AND EVENTS (INCLUDING CALLS FOR PAPERS): AUSTRALIA
IMAGES
OF EGYPT: CULTURAL INTERACTION AND IDENTITY IN ANCIENT EGYPT FROM
THE PHARAOHS TO THE ARAB CONQUEST
An
Interdisciplinary Conference Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 14-17
April 2004
In April 2004 Macquarie University will host a conference drawing together historical, linguistic and archaeological approaches to cultural interaction and identity in Egypt from the Pharaonic to early Arab periods. It will feature papers on linguistic, religious and cultural interaction within Egypt, and between Egypt and other nations and peoples in the Mediterranean and Near East. The convenors are Drs Trevor Evans, Malcolm Choat, and Norman Ricklefs.
Further inquiries about the program, and requests for registration forms, can be made to:
Dr
Malcolm Choat
Department
of Ancient History, Macquarie University
Sydney
NSW 2109 Australia
Phone:
+61 2 9850 7561 Fax: +61 2 9850 8240 Email:
mchoat@hmn.mq.edu.au
REVISITING
CULTURAL MEMORY IN THE GREEK WORLD: CALL FOR PAPERS
Modern
Greek Studies Association of Australian and New Zealand 7th Biennial Conference
9 to 11 December, 2004
The
Department of Modern Greek Studies, The University of Sydney
The
Discipline of Modern Greek Studies, Macquarie University
The central theme of the Conference is focused around contemporary approaches to various discourses about Greek cultural memory as they have been established by specific institutions and intellectual movements. Special emphasis is given to intercultural appropriations of different discourses and the methods through which they were acclimatised to mainstream perceptions of Greek tradition. Aspects of memory, identity, subjectivity, artistic production, aesthetic problematization, social and gender status as expressed and elaborated in modern Greek official and unofficial consciousness will be also addressed. Issues of language, ideology, power-structure and minority discourses will be also discussed in their historical context and political function. Languages of the conference are both English and Greek. (Please indicate the language of your paper). Deadline for abstracts: January 30, 2004.
Convernors:
Dr
Anthony Dracopoulos, As/Prof. Vrasidas Karalis, Dr Elizabeth Kefallinos,
Dr Panayiota Nazou.
Department
of Modern Greek
The
University of Sydney
Institute
Building HO3
NSW
2006, AUSTRALIA.
Tel.:
(02) 9351-7252, Fax.: (02) 9351-3543
Department
of European Languages
Discipline
of Greek Studies
Macquarie
University
Tel.:
(02) 9850-7031, Fax: (02) 9850-7054
Email
contacts:
Vras@arts.usyd.edu.au
anthony.dracopoulos@arts.usyd.edu.au
ekefalli@hmn.mq.edu.au
Panayiota.Nazou@arts.usyd.edu.au
INTERNATIONAL
ASSOCIATION FOR BYZANTINE STUDIES (AIEB) AND AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION FOR
BYZANTINE STUDIES (AABS) SESSION
International
Committee of Historical Sciences (Cish) Congress 3-9 July 2005 University
of New South Wales
CISH (International Committee of Historical Sciences/Comité International des Sciences Historiques) has convened an international historical congress every four years since 1926. In 2005, for the first time, the congress will be held in the southern hemisphere, at the University of New South Wales, hosted by the Australian Historical Association.
CISH aims to draw together historians from different regions (geographical and academic) and time periods, to discuss historical topics of shared interest.
In addition to 'Theme' and 'Round Table' sessions, the Congress will host the day sessions of twelve international affiliated organisations and commissions, including the International Association for Byzantine Studies (AIEB), which will be hosted by AABS.
A full list of planned sessions can be seen at: http://www.cish.org/GB/Themes.htm
The Chair of the Organising Committee for the 2005 congress is Professor Martyn Lyons (m.lyons@unsw.edu.au).
The organiser of the AIEB/AABS session is Dr Andrew Gillett (agillett@hmn.mq.edu.au).
Further details of the AIEB/AABS sessions will bemade available.
5. FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, AND EVENTS (INCLUDING CALLS FOR PAPERS): INTERNATIONAL
BEYOND
THE SITTER: THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF MEDIEVAL PORTRAITS, CA. 1200-1500 CE.
Session
at the 2004 College Art Association's Annual Conference, Seattle, WA February
18-21, 2004
A record number of portraits dating to ca. 1200-1500CE survive from across the Mediterranean world, featuring representations of contemporary historical persons. This rich body of visual material offers a unique opportunity to examine what during these centuries constituted an individual's portrait, and how perceptions varied within a single culture and among the neighbouring cultures of Byzantium, Islam and the Medieval West. This session encourages the examination of methodological approaches to the study of Medieval image-making, as well as attention to the ways in which material culture incorporated within a portrait - such as the subject's dress and attributes - define identity. These and like considerations take us beyond a simple identification of the sitter, to consider larger cultural contexts in which a portrait was created and viewed.
Session
sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA);
Co-Chairs:
Jennifer Ball, Princeton University, and Sarah Brooks, Metropolitan Museum
of Art.
For
further information on this session, please contact the co-chairs:
ball@Princeton.edu;
Sarah.Brooks@metmuseum.org;
for
information on the 2004 CAA meeting, see: http://www.collegeart.org
MIDDLE
EASTERN AND ISLAMIC INFLUENCE ON WESTERN ART AND LITURGY: CULTURAL EXCHANGES
IN LATE ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES
University
of Toronto Centre for Medieval Studies Annual Conference, 5-6 March 2004
Trinity College, University of Toronto
For information (speakers, live performances, and registration): http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/medieval
DOCUMENTARY
EVIDENCE AND THE HISTORY OF THE EARLY ISLAMIC MEDITERRANEAN
Granada,
Spain, 24-27 March 2004
Organised
by The International Society for Arabic Papyrology
Hosted
by the Escuela de Estudios Arabes (CSIC, Granada)
The Conference will include 1) text workshops; 2) sessions for the presentation of 20-minute papers; and 3) evening lectures at local research institutes.
Further
information about the conference may be found at:
www.princeton.edu/~petras/isap/Granada.html
or
by contacting a member of the ISAP-Granada 2004 organizing committee:
Petra
Sijpesteijn (petras@princeton.edu)
Lennart
Sundelin (sundelin@princeton.edu)
Sofia
Torallas Tovar (storallas@filol.csic.es)
Amalia
Zomeno (zomeno@cica.es)
BYZANTINE
TRADE (4TH-12TH CENTURIES): RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL WORK
Oxford,
March 27-29. 38th Spring Symposium of the Society for Promotion of Byzantine
Studies
For program, see www.byzantium.ac.uk
BYZANTIUM: FAITH AND POWER (1261-1557) METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, MARCH 23-JULY 4
Symposium:
Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557) Metropolitan Museum of Art, April
16-18
Speakers
include H. Belting, A. Eastmond, D. Jacoby, A. Laiou, T. Mathews,
S. Kalopissi-Verti, V. Kidonopoulos, N. Patterson Sevcenko, Y. Piatnitsky,
R.F. Taft S.J., F.J. Thomson.
RESTORING BYZANTIUM COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, APRIL 16
Speakers include R. Cormack, S. Gerstel, P. Magdalino, R. Ousterhout, C. Wales, H. Klein.
EGYPT
IN THE BYZANTINE WORLD, 450-700
Dumbarton
Oaks Spring Symposium 30 April-2 May 2004
Symposiarch:
Roger Bagnall (Columbia University)
Speakers:
J. Gascou, P. van Minnen, J. Keenan, B. Palme, J. Beaucamp, E. Wipszycka,
T. Hickey, A. Papaconstantinou, F. Dunand, T. Wilfong, A. Cameron,
P. Grossmann, T. Thomas, R. Cribiore, D. Brooks Hedstrom, J. Goehring,
E. Bolman
THE
NINTH ANNUAL UCLA GRADUATE LATE ANTIQUITY CONFERENCE
1
May 2004 - Call for Papers
Abstracts Due: Friday, 13 February, 2003
The UCLA Graduate Student Association for the Study of Late Antiquity announces its Ninth Annual Graduate Student Conference on Saturday, 1 May, 2003 in Royce Hall on the University of California, Los Angeles campus. Graduate student abstracts are now being accepted on topics that fall in the period of Late Antiquity, ranging from the second to the eighth centuries C.E.
This conference is intended to bring together scholars of diverse interests to present and discuss a range of issues surrounding the transformation of the Classical world into the Latin Medieval West, Byzantium and the Islamic world. The conference therefore serves as a wonderful opportunity to gain feedback from peers in a wide variety of fields. Additionally, we hope that it will provide the chance for both new and continuing graduate students to gain experience presenting professional papers. Presenters are invited to expand upon the notion of "Late Antiquity".
Abstracts of no more than 300 words for 15-20 minute papers should be e-mailed (preferred) or mailed to the coordinator of the Late Antiquity Conference, Scott McDonough. In addition to the abstract, please include a brief personal statement or Curriculum Vitae of less than one page, with full contact information and a tentative assessment of any audiovisual needs for your presentation. The deadline for abstract submission is Friday, 13 February, 2003. A graduate student committee will review submissions and respond by email on February 25. Abstracts of accepted papers will be made available on our web site and at the conference.
Through the generous funding of the University of California Multicampus Research Group on the History and Culture of Late Antiquity, we are able to provide airfare and accommodations for presenters from outside Los Angeles and beyond the United States.
E-mail: sjm1@ucla.edu (Scott McDonough)
Mail
Address:
Ninth
Annual Graduate Late Antiquity Conference
c/o
The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Box
951485
Los
Angeles, CA 90095-1485
Website: http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~sjm1/lateantiquity
AFTER
1204: LUXURY OBJECTS AND PERCEPTIONS OF BYZANTIUM, WEST AND EAST
2004
International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 6-9, 2004, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Session
Chair: Lynn Jones, Yale University
Session
Sponsors: International Center for Medieval Art, Byzantine Studies
Conference
After the fall of Constantinople to the Latin armies of the fourth Crusade, many objects previously identified with Byzantine power and orthodoxy passed into western hands. Studies have examined the fate of these prestige goods and sacred treasures, tracing their sale to various royal houses and noble families and their donation to churches and monasteries. Scholars have also investigated the generation of new textual traditions associated with these objects. This session, held during the eight hundredth anniversary of the Crusade, examines a previously neglected aspect of these objects - their function as conveyors of medieval identity. How did the relocation of these objects reinforce or alter perceptions of Byzantium in both the west and the east?
Contact:
Alyce
Jordan (ICMA liason) : alyce.jordan@nau.edu
Lynn
Jones: ljones915@cs.com
THE
THIRTIETH ANNUAL BYZANTINE STUDIES CONFERENCE - CALL FOR PAPERS
The
Walters Art Museum and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, October
28-31 2004
The conference is the annual forum for the presentation and discussion of papers on every aspect of Byzantine studies, and is open to all, regardless of nationality or academic status. It is also the occasion of the annual meeting of the Conference, conducted by the current officers: Ellen Schwartz, President (Eastern Michigan University); Paul Halsall, Vice President (University of North Florida); Glenn Peers, Secretary (University of Texas); David Olster, Treasurer (University of Kentucky).
For more information, see our website: http://www.byzconf.org.
Call
For Papers:
Members
of the Byzantine Studies Conference are invited to submit proposals for
papers for this year's conference. To have your abstract considered,
you must be a member of the BSC in good standing, your dues for the current
year having been paid by May 1 (prior to judging of the abstracts).
The deadline for submission is March 15, 2004.
For inquires contact Lynn Jones, BSC Program Chair by e- mail: LJones915@cs.com
The conference features a new Graduate Student Travel Subsidy, and a new Graduate Student Prize Essay Competition.
21ST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF BYZANTINE STUDIES, LONDON 2006
Papers for the Congress will cluster around seven themes:
(1)
Byzantium, a world empire on display (i.e. as a syncretic culture, pluralistic
society, and international model)
(2)
Displaying the unseen: investigating the material and historical evidence
for everyday life
(3)
From BZ to www.display@byz.com
(i.e. instrumenta studiorum for the 21st century)
(4)
Displaying words (i.e. the social contexts of the literate and literary
elements of Byzantine culture; e.g. Byzantine book culture, Byzantine music,
epigraphy and epigrams)
(5)
Displaying Orthodoxy (in a wide sense, as "acceptable identity,"
e.g., sacramental theology, hierotopy, Jews in Byzantium)
(6)
Byzantium as display (i.e. concrete forms playing a political and religious
role; e.g. monumental art, diplomacy)
(7)
Displaying Byzantium? (i.e.reception in 21st century via museum displays
and special exhibitions; current state, conservation, history and functions
of monuments; how collections of Byzantine materials have been built;
and fakes)
The Congress website is at http://www.byzantium.ac.uk
THE BURKE LECTURESHIP IN ECCLESIATICAL LATIN
Full-Time / Fixed-Term Appointment, Centre For Early Christian Studies, McAuley at Banyo Campus, Brisbane
Australian Catholic University is a public university open to all, with six campuses located in Brisbane, Sydney (2), Canberra, Melbourne and Ballarat. The Burke Lectureship in Ecclesiastical Latin is a full-time fixed term appointment for a period of five years commencing in semester two, 2004. The successful applicant will be based on the Brisbane Campus, but will be expected to teach students on other campuses in a variety of modes. The successful candidate must have a doctorate and publication record in the area of Ecclesiastical Latin, particularly in the Patristic and Mediaeval periods; teaching experience in Ecclesiastical Latin and related fields.
Full details of selection criteria are provided in the position information package obtainable by telephoning (07) 3623 7307 or email recruitment@acu.edu.au. Specific enquiries may be directed Professor Pauline Allen FAHA on (07) 3623 7235 or by email p.allen@mcauley.acu.edu.au.
Total remuneration valued to $64,507-$76,569 pa, including salary component $54,509-$64,730 pa (Academic Classification Level B), employer contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading.
Staff are expected to support the Mission of the University. Applicants must be able to demonstrate an understanding of the nexus between teaching and learning and research and scholarship.
Applicants are expected to address all selection criteria listed in the information package. Applications, including the names and contact details of three referees, should be received by Friday, 12 March 2004. Please quote reference number 9141QMBA.
Senior
Administrative Officer (Personnel)
ACU
National
Locked
Bag 2002 Strathfield NSW
Equal Opportunity and Privacy of personal information is University Policy. For more details visit www.acu.edu.au
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL FUNDED POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP IN MEDIEVAL CISTERCIAN HISTORY
Applications are now open for the above scholarship.
The successful applicant will enrol in either an MA or a PhD in the School of History and Classics at the University of Tasmania, and complete a thesis on women within the Cistercian monastic order in the High and/or Late Middle Ages. A scholarship will be provided which will be equivalent to the Australian Postgraduate Award rate. Relocation expenses will also be paid.
The student's research will focus on both the Cistercian theory of women (as seen in monks' sermons, vitae, letters, legislation) and the monks' practical interactions with women under their care. There will be scope for flexibility in terms of country/countries of focus.
Further details - including application forms - can be found at Research Services University of Tasmania http://www.research.utas.edu.au/rhd/scholarships.htm. There is also a link at JASON http://www.jason.unimelb.edu.au, under the keywords 'medieval' and 'Cistercian'.
Closing date is 13 Feb 2004.
Dr
Elizabeth Freeman
School
of History and Classics
University
of Tasmania
Private
Bag 81
Hobart
Tas 7001
Australia
Tel:
61 3 6226 2294 Fax: 61 3 6226 2392 Email: Elizabeth.Freeman@utas.edu.au
7. RESEARCH FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
ONASSIS FOREIGNERS FELLOWSHIP RESEARCH GRANTS AND EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS
The Onassis Foreigners Fellowship Research Grants and Educational scholarships make funding available to scholars of non-Greek descent for research in Greece. Details of the 10th Onassis Foreigners Fellowship Research Grants and Educational scholarships are available at: http://www.onassis.gr/english/scholars/announcement.html
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI, DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS SUMMER RESIDENCY PROGRAM
The
University of Cincinnati Classics Department is pleased to announce the
Summer Residency Program. Summer Residents, in the fields of philology,
history and archaeology will come to Cincinnati for a minimum of one month
and a maximum of three during the summer (June 15 -
September
15). Apart from residence in Cincinnati during term, the only obligation
of Summer Fellows is to pursue their own research. They will receive
free university housing. They will also receive office space and
enjoy the use of the University of Cincinnati and Hebrew Union College
Libraries.
The University of Cincinnati Burnam Classics Library is one of the world's premier collections in the field of Classical Studies. Comprising 185,000 volumes, the library covers all aspects of the Classics: the languages and literatures, history, civilisation, art, and archaeology. Of special value for scholars is both the richness of the collection and its accessibility - almost any avenue of research in the classics can be pursued deeply and broadly under a single roof. The unusually comprehensive core collection, which is maintained by three professional classicist librarians, is augmented by several special collections such as 15,000 nineteenth-century German Programmschriften, extensive holdings in Palaeography, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. At neighbouring Hebrew Union College, the Klau Library, with holdings in excess of 400,000 volumes, is rich in Judaica and Near Eastern Studies.
Application Deadline: February 15. Applicants must have the Ph.D. in hand at the time of application.
For application forms please write:
Director,
Summer Residency Program
Department
of Classics
University
of Cincinnati
Cincinnati,
OH 45221-0226
E-mail:
secretary@classics.uc.edu
http://classics.uc.edu/tytus
Getzel
M. Cohen
Professor
of Classics and History
Director,
Tytus Visiting Scholars Program
Phone:
513-556-1951; Fax: 513-631-1715
Dept.
of Classics, 410 Blegen Library, University of Cincinnati,
Cincinnati,
Ohio 45221-0226
8. CALL FOR BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS: BYZANTINE PHILOSOPHY
COLLECTED PAPERS ON BYZANTINE PHILOSOPHY
Dr Jozef Matula is seeking the cooperation of scholars who are interested in Byzantine thought to participate in a book about Byzantine philosophy and theology. The main subject is what he terms 'the soul-body' problem in Byzantine thought. The book will be in English and the contributions will contain the period from Dionysios Areopagita to Byzantine exile in Italy. Dr Matula invites proposals from Australian scholars dealing with Byzantine philosophy. His contact details are:
Dr
Jozef Matula
Centre
for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
Department
of Philosophy
Palacky
University
Krizkouskeho
12
Olomouc
77180
Czech
Republic
or via Felicity Harley at: feli7@lycos.com
RECENT BOOKS
An
Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds
Translated
by Nick Nicholas and George Baloglou
Columbia
University Press. New York, 2003
576
pages with 39 illus. ISBN: 0-231-12760-X (cloth), ISBN: 0-231-12761-8
(paper)
An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds is the first English verse translation of the Greek satirical poem Diegesis Paidiophrastos ton Zoon ton Tetrapodon. Written by an anonymous author in fourteenth-century Byzantium, this vernacular allegorical poem has long been recognized as a unique document, one that appears to have originated independently of comparable works in other traditions. A medieval Animal Farm, the story describes a convention of animals in which each beast vaunts its uses to humanity while denigrating others, resulting in a cataclysmic battle. The authors provide extensive textual analysis and notes on the form, style, and context of the poem.
Nick Nicholas is a research fellow in the Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and a contributor to the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae project at the University of California, Irvine. George Baloglou is an associate professor of mathematics at the State University of New York, Oswego.
Further details at: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/02311 2/023112760X.HTM
ARC DISCOVERY PROJECTS 2003
Following is a list of projects funded by the Australian Research Council (for funding in 2004 onwards) for AABS members and some colleagues in cognate fields.
Assoc.
Professor Roger Scott, Dr Paul Tuffin, and Dr John Burke
The
University of Melbourne
Title:
Byzantine Chronicle of Kedrenos, Translation and Commentary
Category:
4201 Language Studies
Dr
Andrew Gillett
Macquarie
University
Title:
Communication and Media in the Development of the Post-Roman/Early Medieval
and Byzantine World
Category:
4301 Historical Studies
Dr
John Moorhead
The
University of Queensland
Title:
The Christian Culture of the Early Middle Ages
Category:
4301 Historical Studies
Dr
Elizabeth Freeman
The
University of Tasmania
Title:
Cistercian Nuns in England c.1150-1550AD: A Gendered History of a Monastic
Institution
Category:
4301 Historical Studies
Dr
M.L. Coloe
Australian
Catholic University
Title:
Dwelling in the Household of God: The Spirituality of the Fourth Gospel
Category:
4402 Religion and Religious Traditions
And if you're having trouble justifying that new 'Techniques of Byzantine Art' course to your Deputy Vice-Chancellor, because she works in Photonics:
Ms
P.H. Dawson
The
University of New South Wales
Title:
Luminous presence: Using early mosaics and gilded aureoles to augment the
interface between holographic images and the beholder
Category:
4103 Cinema, Electronic Arts, and Multimedia
Summary:
This project seeks to develop a new style of representation for holographic
subjects through the modulation effects of 'scintillating' backgrounds.
As the purpose of holographic displays moves away from the replication
of extant objects towards the artistic generation of synthetic/creative
content, holographic images call increasingly upon conventions of pictorial
style as well as the tacit perceptions of beholders for their successful
interpretation. In this study the reflected light of traditional
mosaics is used to modulate projected light articulating the holographic
subject. The augmented image activates cues such as occlusion and
retinal disparity employed by beholders in the perception of holograms.
DEATHS
The deaths of Professor Donald Nicol and of Professor Peter Topping of Dumbarton Oaks are noted with regret.
Visit to Northeastern Normal University, Changchun, China
The President of AABS, John Melville-Jones, visited Northeastern Normal University, Changchun, China, at the end of November at the invitation of Professor Jialing Xu, who offers a course in Byzantine Studies there. He gave six lectures, three on Greek, Roman and Byzantine coins, one on the transmission of ancient texts, one on the relationship between Venice and Constantinople and one on the last fifty years of the Byzantine Empire.
NNU contains an institute known as IHAC (Institute for the History of Ancient Civilisation). There is also a Department of Classics (i.e., the Greek and Roman Classics).
The Institute encourages visits by foreign scholars who can give instruction in English, and teachers of ancient Greek are particularly welcome (ten-month contracts are offered).
Varangian Feast
On Saturday 15 November, I attended a Varangian Feast near Bundoora. Great fun, with very authentic costumes etc., and some interesting happenings (including a bear hunt, with one guy dressed as a bear, with padding), who was hunted with arrows and spears. I was asked to make a speech on behalf of AABS, so I bellowed out the following message from the maistor twn rhetorwn at Constantinople:
'O Varangian men, o men of the frozen north, men upon whom the life-giving sun but rarely shines; now, riding upon the black horses of the King of the Sea, you have come to a land where you bask in the rays of a perpetual sun. Our Most Serene Emperor, o galhnotatos Vasilefs, whose imperial radiance matches that of the sun itself, bestows upon you daily the smiling radiance of his most majestic approval. Basking in the genial warmth of the imperial favour, you have been been splendidly victorious again and yet again in the service of our all-conquering emperor. O Varangians, you have defeated the Bulgarians, and thus played your part in the granting to them of the supreme privilege, that they too should become Romans. The invading Franks who so falsely claimed the protection of the Cross of Christ our Saviour have fallen beneath your weapons of steel. The Norman foe, who sailed across the sea to invade our land, has been turned back. The children of Hagar, numerous as the grains of sand upon the sea shore, who swept over the lands of Asia, have learned to fear the sight of but a single Varangian and his single-headed axe, the sign of a single will and a single purpose, the obedient service of His Imperial Majesty. For all these reasons, it is the will of the Most Serene Emperor, O Varangians, that in recognition of your valiant service and loyalty, that this night you should be released from your duties, and allowed to feast, and do whatever you will ...'
John Melville-Jones
Dr Felicity Harley is currently undertaking research at the Warburg Institute in London, with funding fromn the Australian Academy for the Humanities and AABS, after spending three weeks at the British School in Rome in November. She has been appointed as an Honorary Research Fellow in the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at Birmingham University. Felicity plans to stay in the UK until at least April 2004.
A reminder that subscriptions for membership of AABS for 2004 should be paid to:
Dr
Lynda Garland
School
of Classics and History
University
of New England
Armidale
NSW 2351
Email:
ldillon@metz.une.edu.au
Contributions for the next newsletter are welcome. Please send them to:
Dr
Andrew Gillett
Department
of Ancient History, Division of Humanities
Macquarie
University
NSW
2109 Australia
Email:
agillett@hmn.mq.edu.au
President:
Assoc.
Professor John Melville-Jones
Department
of Classics and Ancient History
University
of Western Australia
35
Stirling Highway
Crawley
WA 6009
Email:
jrmelvil@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Secretary:
Dr
Kathleen Hay
Centre
for Classics and Archaeology
University
of Melbourne
Parkville
VIC 3010
Email:
kmhay@unimelb.edu.au
Treasurer:
Dr
Lynda Garland
School
of Classics and History
University
of New England
Armidale
NSW 2351
Email:
ldillon@metz.une.edu.au
Other members:
Professor
Pauline Allen
Centre
for Early Christian Studies
Australian
Catholic University
PO
Box 456
Virginia
OLD 4014
Email:
P.Allen@mcauley.acu.edu.au
(Byzantina
Australiensia distribution)
Dr
Ann Moffatt
Department
of Classics and Modern European Languages
Australian
National University
Canberra
ACT 0200
Email:
ann.moffatt@anu.edu.au
Assoc.
Professor Alanna Nobbs
Department
of Ancient History, Division of Humanities
Macquarie
University
NSW
2109 Australia
Email:
alanna.nobbs@mq.edu.au
Associate
Professor R.D. Scott
School
of Art History, Cinema, Classics & Archaeology
Old
Quadrangle
The
University of Melbourne
Parkville
VIC 3010
Email:
r.scott@unimelb.edu.au
APPENDIX II: Previous AABS Newsletters
Copies of previous AABS Newsletters numbers 36 (1998) to 45 (2003) can be viewed at the AABS Web site:
http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/classics/aabs