Graduate Conference-Shifting Fortunes in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Centre for Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies, University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh's 6th International Graduate Conference in Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies (LAIBS)

Meadows Lecture Theatre (Doorway 4), School of History, Classics and Archaeology

Programme:­Day One (22/04/25) Registration (8:45) Welcome (9:15) Panel 1 (9:30-11:30) (Shifting fortunes of Roman authors) Chair: Professor Niels Gaul Ethan Chilcott, (University of Oxford), Forced conversio?: Re-thinking Cassiodorus’ Career Change Daiki Sano (University of Edinburgh), Tyche, Dike, and Telchines: Shifting Fortunes in George Pachymeres’ History Rupert Rainer (University of Graz), The Megaira’s Grace. Panegyrical Re-Reading of Misfortunes in the Ekphrasis of Hagia Sophia by Paulus Silentiarius Daniil Pleshak (University of Tübingen, delivered online), Others Envy Your Crowns: Alliances at the Universal Council of 869-870 Coffee Break (11:30-12:00) Panel 2 (12:00-13:00) (Churches and community patronage) Chair: Professor Charles West Paul Aste (Brown University), Infidels and Pagans: Changing rhetorical fortunes in the high Pyrenees? Nicolette Vollero Levy (The Cyprus Institute), Communal Salvation? A Case Study of Community Patronage in Latin Cyprus Lunch (13:00-14:00) Panel 3 (14:00-15:30) (Politics and the Byzantine court) Chair: Dr Anais Lamesa Ruisen Zheng (King’s College London), Political Fortune, Providence, and Imperial Destiny in Macedonian Official Historiographical Project Biography Lucas Butler (University of Edinburgh), Symbols of imperial fortune: recontextualising the Strategoi at the 10th century Constantinopolitan court Marcus Wells (University of Oxford), Shifting Fortunes at the Court of Michael VII: the Testimony of Kekaumenos’ Consilia et Narrationes Coffee Break (15:30-16:00) Panel 4 (15:45-16:45) (Literature in the Islamicate world) Chair: Professor Andrew Newman Mathew Madain (Princeton University), De Anima in Arabic: Qusṭā b. Lūqā and the beginnings of the Aristotelian Philosophical Tradition in Arabic Liam Walk (Harvard University), Nāṣir’s Doggerel: Reappraising the Fortunes of the Early Mamluk Jewry through Popular Verse Break (16:45-17:15) Keynote Lecture (17:30-18:15) Dr Krystina Kubina (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Political Turmoil and Creative Freedom: Managing Personal Experiences in Late Medieval Greek Poetry Reception, McMillan room (18:30-19.15) Dinner (19:30) at <a href="https://pizzaposto.co.uk/" title="https://pizzaposto.co.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Pizza Posto</a>, 5 min walk from the University. Day Two (23/04/25) Panel 1 (9:00-10:30) (Climate and the Economy) Chair: Dr Nik Matheou Ian Ferreira Bonze (University of St Andrews), Roman plebs and indebtedness: the “crisis of entitlement” of 384 Rocío Suárez Vallejo (University of Málaga, delivered online), Looking for fortune in post-Roman Iberian countryside (s. VII) Andrew McNey (University of Oxford, delivered online), Shifting Fortunes in the Desert: The Resilient Farmers of the Late Antique Levant Coffee Break (10:30-11:15) Panel 2 (11:15-12:15) (Reactions to conquest) Chair: Dr Marie Legendre Sofia Thatharopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, delivered online), Shifting fortunes- shifting priorities. Non-elite Christians in the early Islamic caliphates Camila Palaio Martorelli (Federal University of São Paulo), Faith and Power: the role of Pisan spolia in the republic's maritime ascension Lunch (12:30-13:30) Panel 3 (13:30-14:30) (Fortunes of elites in Late Antiquity) Chair: Professor Lucy Grig Silvia Lucchesi (University of Padua), Zenobia of Palmyra: power and downfall in the Historia Augusta Arttu Alaranta (University of Helsinki), Humble Aristocrats and Elite Nonconformists: Contrasting Models of Upper-Class Asceticism in Late Antiquity Coffee Break (14:30-15:15) Panel 4 (15:15-16:45) (Byzantine literary discourse) Chair: Dr Yannis Stouraitis Antonio Pio Di Cosmo (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Fortune and Fate of Andronikos I Komnenos in Light of the Visual Program of the Liber ad honorem Augusti Dido Papikinou (University of Oxford), Politics of Survival: The Representation of Roman-Mongol Interactions in the Historia of George Pachymeres Ada Kök (Central European University), Competing Christian Eschatological Discourses in the Fourth-Century Mediterranean Closing statements (16.45-17.00) Optional Seminar (17:15) Dr Krisztina Ilko (University of Cambridge), Beyond the Lewis Chessmen: Chess and Race in the Global Middle Ages (Scottish History Seminar and Edinburgh Centre for Global History) Optional Pub and Food

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