Postgraduate Colloquium, Birmingham, 31st May 2008 [all welcome]

It is that time of year when postgraduates of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies create a display of the magnificent talent and promise that walk these corridors. The Postgraduate Colloquium, an annual event, takes place on Saturday the 31st of May in the Whitting Room (Arts Building 436).

The programme is as follows:

10:00-10:15 REGISTRATION

I. Gender and Family in Byzantium

10:15-10:30 Eve Hancock Byzantine masculinities: birth, life and death

10:30-10:45 Jamie Lloyd The importance of marriage to Byzantine families

10:45-11:00 Helen Wood Imperial grandmothers: a royal pain in the neck?

11:00- 11:15 Discussion

11:15-11:45 COFFEE BREAK

II. Art, Architecture and Ideology in Byzantium

11:45-12:00 Giulia Zulian The Emperor Builder and Triumphator: Developments of an Ideological Theme from Rome to Constantinople

12:00- 12:15 Eirini Panou The pool of Bethesda through the Byzantine eyes

12:15-12:30 Discussion

12:30-12:45 Polyvios Konis The Munich-Ascension Ivory: Late Antique or Carolingian?

12:45-13:00 Ioanna Koukounis Did the Byzantines have coats of arms? The case of Chios

13:00-13:15 Discussion

13:15-14:15 LUNCH BREAK

III. Political, Ideological and Economic Aspects of War

14:15-14:30 Kyle Sinclair John I Tzimiskes and the Political Value of ‘Holy War’

14:30-14:45 Athanasia Stavrou Manuel II Palaeologus’s advisory discourse in Thessalonica (1387): failings and inconsistencies

14:45-15:00 Discussion

15:00-15:15 Naci Yorulmaz The arms trade in the Ottoman market(1871-1908):German style of war business

15:15-15:30 Maria Tsivranidou British foreign policy in three Balkan conflicts:1912,1913,1990-1995. A comparison

15:30-15:45 Discussion

15:45-16:15 COFFEE BREAK

IV. Representations of Women in Modern Greek Literature

16:15-16:30 Katerina Vathrakogianni The representation of women in Kazantzakis’ novels

16:30-16:45 Paschalina Domouxi Women and politics in the fiction of Melpo Axioti and Dido Sotiriou

16:45-17:00 Eleni Mouatsou “Portrait of the artist as a young woman”: Parallels in Irish and Greek contemporary writing

17:00-17:15 Discussion

Closing remarks

17:15-18:00 PARTY AT THE SENIOR COMMON ROOM

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