DUMBARTON OAKS WASHINGTON, DC

Byzantine Studies (202) 339-6940

AESTHETICS AND PRESENTATION IN BYZANTINE LITERATURE, ART, AND MUSIC

DUMBARTON OAKS BYZANTINE SYMPOSIUM

May 3 - 5,1996

The annual Byzantine Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks will be devoted to the theme of AESTHETICS AND PRESENTATION IN BYZANTINE LITERATURE, ART, AND MUSIC. Itwill be directed by Professor John Duffy. In their papers, the seventeen invited speakers will examine a wide range of religious and secular works from the sixth to the fourteenth century, exploring aesthetic issues and questions of form, presentation, and style. Among the topics and subject areas to be discussed are: Devotional Literature and Sacred Music; Epigrams and Art; Aesthetics of Space; Discourse and Narrative in Text and Image; and Secular Aesthetic in Art and Literature.

The Symposium will be held at Dumbarton Oaks from Friday, May 3, to Sunday, May 5,1996. Anyone wishing to attend should fill out and return the enclosed registration card. The fee is $35 ($25 for students), which will cover admission to the sessions and to the cocktail party on-Friday evening. Buffet lunches are offered on a subscription basis for the first two days of the Symposium, at $15 each, payable in advance with the registration fee.

The deadline for registration is April 19, but you are urged to respond immediately, as the maximum number of participants is 200, admitted on a "first come, first served" basis. Your registration will be confirmed.

This notice is being sent to everyone on the mailing list of the Byzantine Studies Conference, but all interested scholars are welcome. Please bring this notice to the attention of appropriate colleagues and students. They may use a duplicate of the enclosed card to register, or they may write for additional sets of these forms.

Please address all correspondence to:

Byzantine Symposium
Dumbarton Oaks
1703 32nd Street, NW
Washington, DC 20007

DUMBARTON OAKS WASHINGTON, DC

Byzantine Studies (202) 339-6940

AESTHETICS AND PRESENTATION IN BYZANTINE LITERATURE, ART, AND MUSIC

DUMBARTON OAKS BYZANTINE SYMPOSIUM

May 3 - 5,1996

Tentative Program

Friday, May 3

• 8:45 Registration (Coffee on the Terrace)
• 9:15 Welcome
• Introduction

Session I: Devotional Literature and Book Illustration

• 9:30 John Duffy (Harvard University)
  Embellishing the Steps: Elements of Presentation and Style in the Heavenly Ladder of John Climax
• Elizabeth Jeffreys (Oxford University): The Letters and Homelies of James of Kokkinobaphos: A Stylistic Oddity?
• Discussion
• Break (15 minutes)
• Jeffrey Anderson (George Washington University): Courtly Art of the Twelfth Century
• Discussion

12:30 Lunch in the Gardens (by subscription only)

Session 11: Sacred Music and Poetry

• 2:15 Alice-Mary Talbot (Dumbarton Oaks): Epigrams in Context: Metrical Inscriptions on Art and Architecture of the Palaiologan Era
• Christian Hannick (University of Wurzburg): "Hymnography"
• Discussion
• Break (15 minutes)
• Ihor Sevcenko (Harvard University): "Epigrams"
• Kenneth Levy (Princeton University): Byzantine Melodes and Musical Styles
• Discussion

6:00 Reception on the Terrace of the Director's House

Saturday, May 4

• 8:30 Coffee on the Terrace

Session III: Reliquaries and Icons

• 9:00 Cynthia Hahn (Florida State University): Saints, Stories, and the Sacred: The Discourse of Relics in the Medieval West
• Nancy Sevcenko (independent scholar): "Modes of Narrative in Text and Image, Byzantium"
• Discussion
• Break (15 minutes)

Session IV: Profane Literature

• 11:00 Margaret Alexiou (Harvard University): Ploys of Performance: Games and Play in the Prodron-dc Poems
• Panagiotis Agapitos (University of Cyprus): "You only live twice": Dreams and the Spatial Aesthetics of Narrative Presentation in Livistros and Rhodamne
• Discussion

12:45 Lunch in the Gardens (by subscription only)

Session V: Histories and Saints' Lives

• 2:30 David-Frendo (University College Cork): Three Authors in Search of a Reader: The Aesthetics of Direct Discourse in Procopius, Agathias, and Theophylact of Simocotta
• Tomas Hagg (University of Bergen): Photius as a Reader of Hagiography: Selection and Criticism
• Discussion
• Break (15 minutes)
• Alexander Kazhdan and Lee Sherry (Dumbarton Oaks): Leo of Catania and Heliodorus
• Discussion <

Sunday, May 5

• 9:00 Coffee on the Terrace

Session VI: Letters, Ecphrasis, Art, and Literature

• 9:15 Antony Littlewood (University of Western Ontario): The Byzantine Letter of Consolation
• Ruth Webb (Princeton University): The Aesthetics of Space in Ekphraseis of Buildings
• Discussion
• Break (15 minutes)
• Henry Maguire (Dumbarton Oaks): The Profane Aesthetic in Byzantine Art and Literature
• Discussion

• Conclusion

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Because only 200 people can be accommodated, the registration fee must be paid in advance and is not refundable. For lunch refund, cancellation must be received no later than April 19. Any payment received after spaces have been filled will be returned. Your registration will be acknowledged.

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Byzantine Symposium
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(c)Paul Halsall Apr 1996
halsall@fordham.edu