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Hurt and Healing: people, texts, and material culture in the Eastern Mediterranean
The 19th Annual Postgraduate Colloquium of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies
Saturday 2 June 2018
G51, European Research Institute, University of Birmingham
9:00–9:30 Registration & Coffee
9:30–9:45 Opening Remarks
9:45-10:30 Keynote
Byzantine Routes and Frontiers And the Hagiographical Dossier of St Eugenios
Jim Crow (University of Edinburgh)
10:30–12.10 Panel 1- From Collective Trauma to Reconstruction
Chair: Archie Dunn
On how to treat the Traumas of Conquest: The Implementation of Ottoman Rule in mid-15th Century Macedonia, The Case of the vilayet of Kastoria
Dimitrios Lamprakis (University of Birmingham)
Hurting the weaker to appease the mightier: Manuel I, Venice, and the relocation of the Pisan quarter
Daniele Morossi (University of Leeds)
From the Darkness Came Light: The Emergence of a New ‘Working Class’ in 6th and 7th Centuries Byzantium
Aristotelis Nayfa (The University of Edinburgh)
The Gothic trauma? Looking for evidence of the effect of the 5th-century settlement of Goths in the Pieria area (Northern Greece)
Kyriakos Fragkoulis (University of Birmingham)
12:10–12:25 Tea and Coffee
12:25 –13:40 Panel 2- Medical discourses: on Healing and the Psyche
Chair: Ruth Macrides
Re-Reading the portrait of Empress Elisabeth of Vienna: visual arts, psychoanalysis, pre-feminism. A palimpsest via the literary and artistic strategies of the superego
Stella-Alkistis Moysidou (Cambridge)
Masonry, Medicine, and Monotheism: the Conversion of the Volga Bulgars in the Kyssa’i Yusuf, the Risāla of ibn Fadlān and the Tārīkh-i- Bulghār
Alex Feldman (University of Birmingham)
Healing the blind. Description of miracles performed by Saints.
Nikolaidou Evanthia (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
13:40–14:40 Lunch
14:40–16:20 Panel 3: Dealing with Unhealed Wounds
Chair: Dimitris Tziovas
A trauma that was never healed: depicting the 200 of Kaisariani as heroes and/or victims in Rita Boume-Papa’s Οι Διακόσοι (1944)
Anastasia Tantarouda-Papaspyrou (University of Birmingham)
Antonin Artaud and Romos Filiras: Towards a comparative approach of personal trauma as an element of poetic narrative.
Nikoleta Kouti-Spyrantzou (University of Athens)
Healing the Body Politic and Corporal: Revolutionary Doctors in the late Ottoman Empire
Christin Zurbach (University of California, Berkeley)
Synthesis between Byzantine and Coptic Eucharistic rites in the Celtic Church – a starting point for healing the rift.
Melangell Roe-Stevens Smith (University of Birmingham)
16:20–16:35 Tea and Coffee
16:35–18:15 Panel 4: Spaces of Hurting and Healing
Chair: Daniel Reynolds
Sacred spaces, stolen spaces, Saving spaces
Michael Burling (University of Birmingham)
Constructing the ethereal and earthly bond between pilgrimage and the holy spring: A case study of the Hagiasma of Philip the Apostle
Tülay Yeşiltaş (University of Birmingham)
Athens in Late Antiquity: Christianizing pagan buildings
Panagiota Mantouvalou (University of Birmingham)
Art of Healing and Healing Saints in the Art of Byzantine Cappadocia
Şükran Köse Ünser (Hacettepe University)
18:15-18:30 Closing Remarks
19.00 Wine Reception
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