THURSDAY, 12 NOVEMBER 2009
Venue: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest V., Roosevelt tér 9
15:30
Registration, coffee & tea
16:30
Csanád Bálint (Budapest)
Welcome on behalf of HAS
16:45
Howard Robinson (Budapest)
Welcome on behalf of CEU
17:00
Terézia Olajos (Szeged)
A tribute to the life and work of Professor Gyula Moravcsik
17:20
Niels Gaul (Budapest)
A ‘theory’ of circulation: centre, province, and periphery in tenth-century Byzantium
18:00 EVENING LECTURE
Peter Schreiner (Cologne/Munich)
Konstantinos VII. Porphyrogennetos: Person und Werk im Wandel der
Jahrhunderte
19:15
Opening reception
FRIDAY, 13 NOVEMBER 2009
Venue: Central European University, Budapest V., Nádor utca 9
1. At court
Chair: András Németh
9:15
Günter Prinzing (Mainz)
Konstantinos VII. und Berengar II. unter Mordverdacht. Indizien für ein Komplott zur Beseitigung der Kinder König Hugos, Bertha-Eudokia und Lothar
9:45
Ádám Bollók (Budapest)
The Carolingian and middle Byzantine artistic ‘revivals’: mutual exchange or parallel universes?
10:15
Etele Kiss (Budapest)
The imperial renewal of ornament under Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos
10:45
Coffee & tea
2. Ideology and writing
Chair: György Geréby (Budapest)
11:15
Claudia Sode (Cologne)
Vom Umgang mit der Geschichte. Historisch-antiquarische Texte im Zeremonienbuch Konstantinos’ VII.
11:45
András Németh (Budapest)
A database for reconceiving imperial ideology?
Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos and his excerpts
12:15
Michael Grünbart (Münster)
Die Briefe Konstantinos’ VII. Porpyhrogennetos
12:45
Lunch
3. Performing liturgy and the law
Chair: Gábor Klaniczay (Budapest)
14:00
Theodora Antonopoulou (Athens)
Homiletic literature in the Macedonian era: orators, Greek myths and the Byzantine Renaissance
14:30
Karin Krause (Basle)
Relics at the court of Constantine VII and their fate after 1204
15:00
Leonora Neville (Washington, DC)
Legal performance and ordering provincial society
15:30
Coffee & tea
4. Capital city, provincial cities
Chair: Ádám Bollók
16:00
Alessandra Ricci (Istanbul)
The paradox of archaeological absences: the city of Constantinople and its suburbs during the the age of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos
16:30
Christopher S. Lightfoot (New York)
Amorium: a thematic capital at the time of Constantine VII Porpyhrogennetos
17:00
Archibald Dunn (Birmingham)
Administrative structures on the Greek mainland: Constantine VII, archives, and archaeology
18:00 EVENING LECTURE
Paul Magdalino (St Andrews)
Life at the centre: the material, social and cultural
environment of tenth-century Constantinople
19:15
Reception
SATURDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2009
Venue: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest I., Országház utca 30
5. Looking east
Chair: Aziz Al-Azmeh (Budapest)
9:15
James Howard-Johnston (Oxford)
Tenth-century Byzantium: facing the Islamic world
9:45
Koray Durak (Istanbul)
The question of trade with the Islamic world during the Byzantine expansion toward the east in the tenth century
10:15
Paul Stephenson (Durham)
Central and peripheral views on the martyrdom of Byzantine soldiers in the tenth century
10:45
Coffee & tea
6. Around the Black Sea
Chair: Miklós Takács
11:15
Bejan Javakhia (Tbilisi)
Byzanz und Georgien zur Zeit Konstantinos’ VII. Porphyrogennetos
11:45
Péter Langó & András Patay-Horváth (Budapest)
Byzantinizing minor objects in the tenth-century Carpathian Basin
12:15
Daniel Ziemann (Budapest)
‘How to appear more formidable’: Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos and the Bulgarians
12:45
Lunch
7. The Balkan peninsula and beyond
Chair: Tijana Krstić (Budapest)
14:00
Miklós Takács (Budapest)
Die Zeit Konstantinos’ VII. und die Balkanhalbinsel aus Sicht der Archäologie
14:30
Ljubomir Maksimović (Belgrade)
Constantine VII and the past of the Serbs: on the genesis of De administrando imperio, chapter 32
15:00
Neven Budak (Zagreb)
Byzantium and Croatia in the tenth century
15:30
Coffee & tea
8. On campaign
Chair: István Perczel (Jerusalem)
16:00
Ádám Biró (Budapest)
The face of Byzantine battle in the tenth century: the case of the northern frontier
16:30
Florin Leonte (Washington, DC)
Politics of deliberation: Constantine VII addressing his soldiers
17:00
Volker Menze (Münster)
‘Blessed be who crushes the children of Persia with stones’: Byzantine sacralization of war, seventh to tenth centuries
18:00 EVENING LECTURE
Athanasios Markopoulos (Athens)
Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos and the Macedonian dynasty in contemporary and modern historiography
19:15
Symposium dinner