12 February, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Senatssaal 7th floor
17.00 welcome address and introduction – Marietta Horster / Gunnar Brands
17.15 inside view of on-going textual commentary projects:
1) Procopius’ Buildings project, Mainz – Max Ritter
2) Cassiodorus Variae project, Mainz – Anna-Lena Körfer
3) Procopius’ Anecdota project, Würzburg – Johann M. Thesz
4) Malalas project, Tübingen – Olivier Gengler
18.00 keynote lecture: Catherine Saliou, An Historian in the City: Evagrius Scholasticus and the Urban Space of Antioch on the Orontes
19.00 reception
13 February, Institute for European History (IEG), conference room 1st floor
9.00 panel 1: chair Christoph Begass
Caroline Belanger, Splendid City or Ramparted Town? Constantinople in Late Latin Geographies – respondent: Olivier Gengler
Panagiotis Manafis, Exposition of the Constantinopolitan Statuary and Monuments in Late Antique Literature – respondent: Federico Montinaro
10.30 coffee
11.10 panel 2: chair Gunnar Brands
Bea Leal, Why Depict a City? Architectural Imagery in the Early Medieval Eastern Mediterranean – respondent: Philipp Niewöhner
Julian Richard, The Dawn of Urban Waters? Maintaining and Upgrading Roman nymphaea in Late Antiquity – respondent: Marlena Whiting
12.40 lunch break
14.30 panel 3: chair Johannes Pahlitzsch
Arianna Rotondo, From the City of Indians to Jerusalem: Nonnus of Panopolis' Real and Imagined Cities – respondent: Simon Zuenelli
Gianfranco Agosti, Images of the City in Late Antique Verse Inscriptions – respondent: Jochen Althoff
16.00 coffee
16.40 panel 4: chair Stephan Westphalen
Olivier Gengler, The Emperor as a Builder in Malalas’ “Chronographia” and Procopius’ “Ktismata” – respondent: Hartmut Leppin
Lea Niccolai, From Constantinople to Edessa: Syriac Historiography and the Justinianic City – respondent: Philip M. Forness
18.10 end
19.00 conference dinner
14 February, IEG, conference room
9.00 panel 5: chair Ute Verstegen
Conor Whately, The Beautiful Wall: Militarized Cityscapes in the Age of Justinian – respondent: Alexander Sarantis
Jan R. Stenger, Vision and Words: The Aesthetics of the City in Choricius of Gaza – respondent: Elodie Turquois
10.30 coffee
11.10 panel 6: chair Hendrik W. Dey
Dan-Vladimir Ivanovici, Building with Light: Aesthetic and Power in 6th-c. Byzantium – respondent: Christine Stephan-Kaissis
Delphine Lauritzen, Writing the Decor of Architecture in 6th-c. Byzantine Literature – respondent: Paolo Cesaretti
12.40 conclusion by Dey, Agosti, Saliou
13.30 end