Emotions through Time:
From Antiquity to Byzantium
27-29 September 2017
Nicosia, A.G. Leventis Gallery
Conference programme (download as PDF)
27 September
Philosophy and Rhetoric
| 9.00-9.15 | ETT Network Members – Welcome |
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Session 1 chair: Douglas Cairns (Edinburgh) |
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| 9.15-10.10
10.10-11.05 |
Martin Hinterberger (Cyprus) – Arrogance and Shame in Byzantine Historiography
Jan Stenger (Glasgow) – ‘Aren’t you afraid that you will suffer the same?’: Emotive Persuasion in John Chrysostom’s Preaching |
| 11.05-11.25 | Coffee break |
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Session 2 chair: Maria Kantirea (Cyprus) |
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| 11.25-12.20
12.20-13.15 |
Inna Kupreeva (Edinburgh) – Ἔνυλοι λόγοι: Physiology and Metaphysics of Emotions in Early Byzantine Philosophy
Sophia Xenophontos (Glasgow) – Exploring Emotions in Late Byzantium: Theodore Metochites on Affectivity |
| 13.15-14.30 | Lunch |
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Session 3 chair: Antonia Giannouli (Cyprus) |
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| 14.30-15.25
15.25-16.20 |
Divna Manolova (Katowice) – Wondrous Knowledge and the Emotional Responses of Late Byzantine Scholars to its Acquisition
Byron MacDougall (Princeton) – Lend a Sympathetic Ear: Rhetorical Theory and Emotion in Byzantine Homiletic |
| 16.20-16.40 | Coffee break |
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Session 4 chair: Marinos Pourgouris (Cyprus) |
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| 16.40-17.35 | Aglae Pizzone (Odense) – Mind, Soul, and Language: John Sikeliotes on Hermogenes and Passions |
| 17.35-19.00 | Wine reception |
28 September
Literature, Life, and Religion
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Session 5 chair: Antony Tsakmakis (Cyprus) |
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| 9.15-10.10
10.10-11.05 |
Douglas Cairns (Edinburgh) – Eustathius on Mental Conflict
Andrea Capra (Milan) – Philosophy as a Chain of ‘Poetic’ Emotions? Plato and Beyond |
| 11.05-11.25 | Coffee break |
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Session 6 chair: Maria Gerolemou (Cyprus) |
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| 11.25-12.20
12.20-13.15 |
Margaret Mullett (Belfast/Uppsala) – Tragic Emotions? The Christos Paschon
Stavroula Constantinou (Cyprus) – Angry men in the Byzantine War of Troy |
| 13.15-14.30 | Lunch |
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Session 7a chair: Christopher Schabel (Cyprus) |
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| 14.30-15.25
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Petra von Gemünden (Augsburg) – Methodological Issues and Issues of Content, as Exemplified by ὀξυχολία in the Shepherd of Hermas |
| 15.25-15.45 | Coffee break |
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Session 7b chair: Christopher Schabel (Cyprus) |
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| 15.45-16:40 | Ioannis Papadogiannakis (KCL) – The Emotional Ordering of Everyday Life: The View from Late Antique Antioch |
29 September
Visualization and Performance
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Session 8 chair: Sophoklis Sophokleous (Cyprus) |
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| 9.15-10.10
10.10-11.05 |
Floris Bernard (CEU Budapest) – Emotional Communities in the Eleventh Century: Bodily Postures and Facial Expressions
Niels Gaul (Edinburgh) – Voicing Emotions/Performing Emotions with One’s Voice: The Art of Fascinating One’s Audience through Time |
| 11.05-11.25 | Coffee break |
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Session 9 chair: Michalis Olympios (Cyprus) |
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| 11.25-12.20
12.20-13.15 |
Vicky Manolopoulou (Newcastle) – Visualising and Enacting Emotion in Byzantine Constantinople: The Affective Properties of the Lite
Lioba Theis (Vienna) – Space + Light = Emotion? |
| 13.15-14.30 | Lunch |
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Session 10a chair: Lioba Theis (Vienna) |
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| 14.30-15.25
15.25-16.20 |
Sarah Teetor (Vienna) – How (or How Not) to Look for Emotions in Byzantine Images
Galina Fingarova (Vienna) – Evoking Fear through the Last Judgement |
| 16.20-16.40 | Coffee break |
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Session 10b chair: Lioba Theis (Vienna) |
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| 16.40-17.35 | Viktoria Räuchle (Vienna) – The Terrible Power of Giving Birth: Maternal Emotions in Ancient Greek Art and Literature |
| Concluding session
chair: Aglae Pizzone (Odense) |
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| 17.35-18.30 | David Konstan (NYU) – Conclusions |