09:00 Registration

09:30 Opening Remarks
Mirela Ivanova (OUBS President)

10:00
la. Unstable Materials. Chair: Sydney Taylor

Hugh Jeffery (Lincoln College, Oxford)
Observations on the Procurement, Transformation and Deployment of Ancient, Marble in Medieval Aphrodisias

Aubrey Young (Wolfson College, Oxford)
Churches in Um el-Jimal, Jordan: Public, Domestic or somewhere in-between?

Anita Paolicchi (Universita di Firenze)
Between Venice and Constantinople: Silver Vessels witnessing the Coexistence of Different Visual Models lb. Spaces of Textuality

Ib Chair: Matthew Kinloch

Jovana Andjelkovic (University of Belgrade)
Mauropous’ letter 64 as a reversed arrival speech

Peter Tames Bara (University of Szeged and Westphalische Wilhelms-Universtitat Munster)
Why to circulate family accounts? The testimony of Anna Komnene’s Alexiad

Milan Vukasinovic (University of Belgrade)
On the Road with Adventurers and Pilgrims: Narrativisation of the Byzantine Space in the 13th century

11:30 Coffee Break

12:00
2a. Power: between centre and periphery? Chair: Andrew Small

Benjamin Kybett (Magdalen College, Oxford)
The Transmission of Power in Symmachus Relationes

Jack Roskilly (University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne)
The circulation of bishops between Constantinople and provinces

Milena Repajie (University of Belgrade)
Appropriation of a new power-discourse in Medieval Serbia: Stefan Nemanja and Manuel Komnenos

2b. The Pilgrim’s Travels. Chair: Adele Curness

Katinka Sewing
A new cult for late antique Ephesus. Transportation of religious ideas in western Asia Minor (Heidelberg University/ANAMED, Koc University Istanbul)

Tomasz Pelech (University of Wroclaw and Universite Blaise Pascal Clermont Ferrand II)
Transmission of the Saints’ cult – the case of Saint Mammes

Grace Stafford (Wolfson College, Oxford)
Evidence for Female Pilgrims at Abu Mina

13:30 Lunch

14:30
3a. Moving Things lit, Chair: Hugh Jeffery

Anna Kelley (University of Birmingham)
Life on the Edge: Economics ofa Marginal Trade Network in Egypt

Andrew Small (Exeter College, Oxford)
From the halls of Tadmakka to the shores of Sicily’: Byzantine Italy and sub-Saharan Africa in the eleventh century

Matteo Randazzo (University of Edinburgh)
From the centre to the western periphery: the evidence of Byzantine Sgraffito Glazed Wares in Sicily (11th-12th centuries). A case study into cultural and socio-economic connections?

3b. Circulation and Information. Chair: Roberta Bernardi

Roberta Berardi (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford)
The lexicon Suda and the transmission of lost Hellenistic oratory

Panagiotis Manafis (University of Ghent)
The politics of ethnography in tenth-century compilation literature

Daniele Morrosi (University of Leeds)
Further remarks on the dating of Alexios I’s chrysobull for Venice

16:00
Coffee Break

16:30
4a. Byzantium in the Caucasus. Chair: Nicholas Matheou

Stephanie Forrest (St Stephen’s House, Oxford)
Politics on the Eastern Periphery: Justinian II, the Council of Theodosiopolis, and Byzantine policy in Armenia, 685-695

Kosuke Nakada (University of Tokyo)
The Apostles Peter and Paul in Kogovit: The Role of Relics in Tenth-Century Byzantine-Armenian Relations

Michael Burling (University of Birmingham)
Unravelling the Threads: Armenian Textiles in the High Medieval Period

4b. Religious Missions and Missionaries. Chair: Nicholas Ttofis Bogdan-Gabriel Draghici (University of Leuven) Missions in the Byzantine and East Syriac Churches During the Late 8th and Beginning of the 9th Centuries: Two Different Models?

David Barritt (St Cross College, Oxford)
Cyril, Methodius, and the conversion of the Moravians

Octavian Adrian Negoita (Central European University)
Writing against Islam in the Ottoman Empire: Pachomios Rousanos (1508-1553)

18:00
Wine Reception & Launch of the two new OUBS Volumes
Followed by informal dinner