Byzantine Colloquium, November 9-11, 2007, Colloquiarchs: John Duffy and Stratis Papaioannou
Friday, November 9
- 3:30 pm
- Welcome
- Introductory Remarks
- 4:00 pm
- Replotting the Axis: Byzantine Literature and the Three Levels of Style
- Historiography and handbooks in political context, ca. 900–1150
- Discussion
- 5:30 pm–6:45 pm
- Reception
- 7:00 pm
- Speakers' Dinner, Refectory
Saturday, November 10
- 10:00 am
- Coffee
- 10:30 am
- Grotesque Bodies in Edifying Tales: The Monstrous and the Uncanny in Byzantine Miracle Stories
- 11:00 am
- Digenes and the Dragon: Indo-European Comparisons
- 11:30 am
- Discussion and Coffee break
- 11:45 am
- Discussion
- 12:00 pm–1:30 pm
- Lunch, Refectory
- 1:30 pm
- The Poet as Guide
- 2:00 pm
- The Poetry of Theodore Metochites
- 2:30 pm
- Discussion and break
- 3:15 pm
- Byzantine Mirrors: Fiction and Desire in Medieval Greek Writing
- 3:45 pm
- Discussion
- 4:00 pm
- Concluding remarks
- 4:15 pm–5:00 pm
- Closing Tea