Thursday, June 9th, 14.00
Introduction
Johannes Pahlitzsch

1st Session
The Eastern Roman Empire as Enemy: Legitimations of War against Byzantium

14.30–16.00
Hansjoachim Andres (Düsseldorf)
The Relativity of ‘World Domination’. Approaching Sasanian and Roman Claims to Power

Clemens Gantner (Vienna)
An Alliance Turned into War: Louis II of Italy’s Conflict with Byzantium in 873 and the Development of the Relations During the Great Southern War, 866-874

16.30–18.00
Andrea Riedl (Regensburg)
Christians against Christians. Contemporary Theological Implications in Justifying the Sack of Constantinople (1204)

Bart Peters (RTG 2304 Mainz)
Salerno Facing an Empire: The Battle of Basintello against Byzantium According to the Chronicon Salernitanum.

19.00
Evening Lecture
Diana Mishkova (Sofia)
Byzantium against Byzantium: Narratives of Empire in the Historiographies of Southeastern Europe

Friday, June 10th
2nd Session
How to Wage a War against Byzantium: Infrastructure, Logistics, Fortification

9.30–11.00
Alexander Sarantis (Warsaw)
Differentiating the Impact of Barbarian Raiding and Migration in the Balkans, 565-750

Hugh Kennedy (London)
Was There a Cavalry Revolution in Islamic Armies in the Ninth Century?

11.15–12.30
Dimitri Korobeinikov (Albany)
The War: Aristocratic Families on Both Sides of the Byzantine-Arab and Byzantine Seljuk Border from the 11th to the 13th Century

Philipp Margreiter (RTG 2304 Mainz)
Building and Financing Fortifications in Byzantine North Africa. Reconsidering the Epigraphic and Archaeological Evidence

14.00–15.00
Poster Session
Presentation of the projects of the doctoral students of the RTG

3rd Session
Dealing with the Consequences of War

15.00–16.30
Adam Izdebski (Jena)
Environcide or Side-effect of Societal Collapse? War-associated Environmental Change in Byzantium

Jim Crow (Edinburgh)
Changing Landscapes of Fortification in the Roman East 500-750

16.45–18.15
Laury Sarti (Freiburg)
Experiencing the Fourth Crusade. The Consequences of War from the Perspective of Western Eyewitnesses

Markus Koller (Bochum)
(Post-)War Societies in the Early 15th Century - Effects of Ottoman-Byzantine Struggles in the Sign of the Ottoman ‘Civil War’ (1402-1413)

Saturday, June 11th
4th Session
Reception of Wars against Byzantium

9.00–10.30
Alice Sullivan (Tufts, Medford)
Constructed Memories: The Sieges of Constantinople after 1453

Nicholas Melvani (Mainz)
Landscapes of Victory in 16th-century Istanbul

10.45–12.00
Roman Shliakhtin (RTG 2304 Mainz)
Perception of the Fall of Constantinople in the Moscuvite Rhethoric in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Gwendolyn Döring (RTG Mainz)
Byzantium in the Limelight or Twilight? Images of Rulership and War on the Italian Opera Stage (1650–1750)

13.00–14.30
Round Table
Byzantium and its Enemies – Cultures of War in Transition
Organized by Philipp Margreiter, Regina Molitor, Michael Rapp (RTG Mainz)

With Gergely Csiky (Budapest), Alexander Sarantis (Warsaw), Lauri Sarti (Freiburg), Rustam Shukurov (Dushanbe), Yannis Stouraitis (Edinburgh)

14.30
Final Remarks