Tuesday 3 July Afternoon

Fundamental Perspectives

Holger Villadsen, Liturgical Year and Readings in Constantinople according to Severian of Gabala
Harald Buchinger, Mimetische und amimetische Aspekte bei Severian von Gabala
Wendy Mayer, Reappraising the homily as a liturgical source: how far can we push the boundaries?

Tuesday 3 July 6 pm: Opening and Public Keynote

Derek Krueger, The ninth-century kontakarion as evidence for the late antique calendar and festive practice in Constantinople

Wednesday 4 July Morning

Christmas Cycle
Stefanos Alexopoulos, Was there an Organized Catechumenate in Constantinople at the Time of Gregory the Theologian? Looking at Orations 38-40 for Evidence
Thomas Karmann, Zu den „Weihnachts“-Predigten Gregors von Nazianz
Nicholas Russo, St. Gregory Nazianzus’ Oration 40 (On baptism)
Annette von Stockhausen, Das Epiphanias-Fest bei Severian von Gabala – (Methodologische) Überlegungen zum Sitz im Leben einiger seiner Homilien

Easter Cycle I
Sever J. Voicu, The Ancient Byzantine Lent
Stefano Parenti & Elena Velkovska, La prequaresima e la quaresima prebizantina: la testimo-nianza dei Vangeli liturgici
Sergey Kim, Preaching on Palm Sunday in Constantinople and in Antioch: Severian of Gabala and Meletius of Antioch

Wednesday 4 July Afternoon

Easter Cycle II
Matthieu Cassin, De la Grande Semaine à la Pentecôte dans les Homélies de Léonce, prêtre de Constantinople
Radu Garbacea, Liturgy and Preaching on Maundy Thursday in Late Antique Constantinople According to Severian of Gabala and Proclus of Constantinople
Alexandru Liviu Ionita, Θεοκτόνοι ἰουδαῖοι: Patristic Homilies for the Holy Week, Anti-Judaism and the Making of the Byzantine Lectionary
Richard Bishop, The Pentecost Sermon (CPG 5815) Attributed to Proclus of Constantinople
Eirini Artemi, The theological and doxological reference to the Resurrection and the Pentecost according to the orations of Gregory Nazianzen XLI and XLV

Thursday 5 July Morning

Marian feasts

Stephen J. Shoemaker, The Cult of the Virgin in the Liturgy of Late Ancient Constantinople
Christiaan Kappes, Proclus of Constantinople (or Ps-Basil of Seleucia) Homily 39: Liturgical and Patristic Sources, Lections, and Relation to the Council of Ephesus
Mary Cunningham, Fifth- and Sixth-Century Byzantine Homilies on the Annunciation: Wit-nesses to an Early Phase of Marian Celebration and Doctrine
Spyros P. Panagopoulos, The Feast of the Entrance of the Holy Virgin into the Byzantine Li-turgical Calendar: Homiletics and Hymnography in Interaction
Marco Benini, Hypapante: Vom Christusfest in Jerusalem zum Marienfest in Konstantinopel?
Innocent Smith, Kosmas Vestitor and the Development of Marian Liturgical Devotion in East and West

Thursday 5 Afternoon

Sanctorale and other celebrations

Katharina Reihl, Die Heiligen Stephanus, Euphemia und Phokas in Konstantinopel zur Zeit des Johannes Chrysostomus
Teodoro De Giorgio, L’encomio di Gregorio di Nissa in onore del soldato martire Teodoro d’Amasea e il suo influsso sulla tradizione liturgico-iconografica costantinopolitana pre-iconoclasta
Daniel Galadza, Sanctorale of Gospel Manuscripts
Gary Philip Raczka, The Introduction of the Reading of the Gospel of Luke into the Byzantine Lectionary
Mark Roosien, The readings and processions of early earthquake commemorations in Con-stantinople: homiletic and historical precursors
Gregory Tucker, Towards the Pre-history of the Conciliar Feasts
Vitaly Permiakov, Homily of Ps.-Severian of Gabala “On the Dedication of the precious and life-giving Cross” and the Early History of the Feast of Exaltation in Constantinople

Friday 6 July Morning

Hymnography

Alexander Lingas, Singing Feasts in the Liturgy of Late Antique Constantinople
Georgia Frank, Singing in the Dark: The Night Vigil as Incubator of Emotions
Andrew Mellas, “Let us lift up our hearts”: Transforming theology into sacred song in Romanos the Melodist's On Pentecost
Damaskinos Olkinuora, Contextualizing Romanos: the problems of his sources and influence on festal homilies
Mark Morozowich, Patristic Holy Thursday Homilies on the Transgression of Judas: Precursors to Hymnographic Elements?
Mark Bilby, Festal Breadcrumbs of the Byzantine Eucharist: Patristic Antecedents of the Tro-parion τοῦ δείπνου
Stig Ragnvald Frøyshov and Thomas Arentzen, The kata stichon hymnography as a source for early Constantinopolitan festal celebrations?

Friday 6 July Afternoon

Complementary Questions

Byron MacDougall, Theoria in Constantinopolitan Homiletic and the Legacy of Gregory of Nazianzus
Mikhail Zheltov, Eucharistic miracle stories and annual structures
Stéphane Verhelst, L’énumération des fêtes du Seigneur dans les homélies byzantines, spécialement à Jérusalem
Vasileios Marinis, Architecture and Liturgy in the Early Churches of Constantinople: A Re-appraisal
Maria Xenaki, Commemorating the Dead in Late Antique Constantinople: Epigraphical Sources
Alexander Rentel, At the crossroads of canonical process and liturgical rites: the election and ordination of bishop in the canonical corpus

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