The monk Theophanes presents his book to the Virgin Hodegetria.  Byzantine Gospel Book, Constantinople, 2nd quarter of the 12th century; an inscription identifies the scribe and illuminator with the donor.  Felton Bequest 1960 710-2; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

GENDER AND CLASS IN BYZANTINE SOCIETY: XVITH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF THE AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION FOR BYZANTINE STUDIES

Call for Papers and Registration

The Australian Association for Byzantine Studies calls for papers for its XVIth Biennial Conference. The conference is being held in honour of Professor John Melville-Jones and the theme will be 'Gender and Class in Byzantine Society'. Contributors are invited to interpret this theme broadly and we welcome submissions from all fields. Both scholars with academic affiliation and working independently, as well as postgraduate students, are encouraged to apply.

Plenary speakers:

Dr Tom Brown, Reader, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, The University of Edinburgh
Professor John Melville-Jones, Classics and Ancient History, University of Western Australia
Dr Shaun Tougher, Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, Cardiff University (to be confirmed)

Call for papers and Registration now open.

The Conference will be held 16-18 April 2010 at the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia.

Please submit abstracts of up to 500 words for 30-minute papers (including 10 minutes of questions) by 1 April to:
Associate Professor Lynda Garland
School of Humanities
University of New England
Armidale
New South Wales 2351
tel +61 2 6773 3236
fax +61 2 6773 3520
headshum@une.edu.au

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Formed in 1977, the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies is a non-profit organisation that aims to foster links between scholars, students and laypersons within Australia and New Zealand who are interested in Byzantium and related fields.

The Australian Association is a member of the Association Internationale des Etudes Byzantines. It also has close working links with Byzantine groups in a number of countries.  The Association supports and promotes three areas of activity:

• A semi-annual Newsletter, Byzantine Studies in Australia, which contains news of events of interest to members, as well as information about scholarly activity within Australia and overseas.
• A biennial conference, which offers the opportunity for members to present papers or to hear discussions of interest from scholars within Australia, as well as from overseas. Participation comes from a wide range of disciplines and covers a broad time span, so that papers, even when devoted to a particular theme, are always diverse.
• The publication of Byzantina Australiensia, an academic series which aims to provide access to texts of the Byzantine period in translation, as well as to relevant scholarship.

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