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Saturday 18 March 2023
09:00-11:00 Free communications Session 1, All Souls College
Barbara Crostini – The Dura Synagogue as Performative Space
Verena Fugger – The Holy Rider from the Artemision: New Considerations on the Cult of Saints in Early Byzantine Ephesus
Alexis Gorby – Sensing Death: Late Antique Sarcophagi in their Ritual Context
Paweł Nowakowski – “At the mines they built places of worship.” Material Evidence for Religious Activities at Quarries and Mines in late antique Asia Minor
María J. S. Vicent – Worship in the Stones of Santa María de Quintanilla de las Viñas. The Stonework and Carved Motifs Used for Liturgy in Late-Antiquity Hispania
Nadine Viermann – Relics in Translation: Holy Objects in Constantinople Between City Centre and Urban Periphery
Joaquin Serrano del Pozo – Processions with Holy Relics in the sieges of Constantinople (AD 626–1204)
Nila Namsechi – The Religious Built Environment of Byzantine Naples (ca. 650-1000)
11:00-11:30 Tea and Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Session 3: Religious landscapes
Myrto Veikou – Cavernous Landscapes in the Byzantine Aegean: a Discussion of Materialities of Cult and Sensorial Topologies
Troels M. Kristensen – Alahan: Religious Landscapes and the Scales of Mobility
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Session 4: Things without context
Regula Schorta – Eastern Silks in Western Treasuries
Béatrice Caseau – Sensoriality and Materiality in Byzantine Religious Rituals
15:30-16:00 Tea and Coffee break
16:.00-17:30 Session 5: Things and their context
Brigitte Pitarakis – Contextualizing the Bronze Object: The Performative Power of Decoration and the Ritual Experience
Sean Leatherbury – Materialising Motion in the Early Byzantine Church
18:00 SPBS Executive Meeting, All Souls College
19:30 Dinner at All Souls College