booklet of abstracts - Oxford University Byzantine Society

saturday 5 march 20119:45 Session 6From Roman to Byzantine Law: TheChange in Testamentary Deeds from LateAntique EgyptMaria NowakUniversity of WarsawThe imitatio Constantinopolitanae urbisas a means of legitimacy and politicalpropaganda in Late AntiquityCarmen Eguiluz MéndezUniversity of Cantabria, SantanderThe effects of the Slav invasions in theBalkans in the sixth centuryAgata KoziejNicolas Copernicus University, Torun11:30 Session 8The Politics of Memory and Visual Politics:Comparing the Self-representation ofConstantine and AugustusMariana BodnarukCentral European University, BudapestCities of God: Space and Memory in Victorof Vita’s History of the Vandal PersecutionLuke GardinerCorpus Christi College, CambridgeLes inventions de reliques dans l’EmpirebyzantinEstelle CronnierUniversity of Paris I–Panthéon-SorbonneRees Davies Room2:00 Session 10Jerusalem, Jerash, and Caesarea: lateantique urban contexts in the LevantMorgan DirodiSt. Cross College, OxfordAcross the Desert Sands: The ShiftingRoutes of Southern Palestine andTransjordan in Late AntiquityMarlena WhitingLincoln College, OxfordBetween Empires: Early Christianarchitecture in southern Mesopotamia andPersian Gulf regionAgnieszka LicJagiellonian University, KrakówHalabiya Zenobia: boire, manger, stockerau VIIème siècleNairusz Haidar-VelaUniversity of Paris I–Panthéon-Sorbonne4:15 Session 12Signs in the shape of Greek letters onfrescos in Roman catacombs: commentson interpretations of so-called ‘gammadia’Maciej SzymaszekPontifical University of John Paul II, KrakowThe wreathed cross or stephanostaurionon sixth-century marble chancel screens inthe Mediterranean regionBernard MulhollandQueens University, BelfastThe Problematic of Iconoclasm inByzantine Art Historical PeriodisationAdam LevineCorpus Christi College, OxfordThe 2011 International Graduate Conference | 7