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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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