Programme:

9.00 - 9.10 AM - Welcoming address,
Omar Shweiki (Kenyon Institute, Jerusalem)

9.10 - 9.20 AM - Introduction,
Konstantin M. Klein (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg)

9.20 - 10.30 AM - Keynote Lecture
Constructing the Holy Land: Emperor and Church in Jerusalem from Constantine to Justinian,
Kai Trampedach (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)

10.30 – 10.45 AM - Coffee Break

10.45 AM – 12.30 PM - Session I (Chair: Guy Stroumsa, Oxford University/HUJI)
Two cities, two speeches: Eusebius and the praise of Constantine,
Johannes Wienand (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)

The late antique walls of Jerusalem,
Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah (Israel Antiquities Authority)

12.30-2.00 PM - Lunch Break

2.00 – 3.30 PM - Session II (Chair: N.N.)
National and common: the Georgian community in Byzantine Jerusalem,
Yana Tchekhanovets (Israel Antiquities Authority)

Neighbours of Christ: saints and their martyria in Jerusalem and Constantinople,
Konstantin Klein (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg)

3.30 – 3.45 PM - Coffee Break

3.45 – 5.15 PM - Session III (Chair: N.N.)
Christians and Muslims in Jerusalem in the Umayyad Period,
Robert Schick (Albright Institute, Jerusalem)

Shared memory: the simultaneous and successive use of religious buildings by Christians and Mus¬lims in Jerusalem and Bethlehem, Ute Verstegen (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

5.15 PM - Concluding Remarks & Final Discussion
Johannes Wienand (Düsseldorf) & Konstantin Klein (Bamberg)

Attendance is free but, as places are limited, those wishing to attend please e-mail:
konstantin.klein@classics.ox.ac.uk