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Organization: Zissis Ainalis, Stephanie Novasio and Curtis Lisle<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The program of the workshop:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n New Approaches to Medieval Romance from the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Thursday 5th December, University of Birmingham<\/p>\n 715 Muirhead Tower, Ring Road North, Birmingham B15 2TN<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 10.30-11.00: Registration and coffee<\/p>\n 11.00: Welcome<\/p>\n 11.10: Opening remarks<\/p>\n 11.20-12.40:\u00a0 Panel 1: Perceptions, Reflections and Authority \/ Chair: Laura Clarke<\/p>\n 1.) \u201cThe male gaze in Drosilla and Charikles (c.1150)\u201d \u2013 Ewan Short<\/strong> (University of Cardiff) and Emma Huig<\/strong> (University of Amsterdam)<\/p>\n 2.) \u201cLocating the schism in medieval Greek and Western romances\u201d \u2013 Katherine Kelaidis<\/strong> (Loyola University Chicago\/ National Hellenic Museum)<\/p>\n 3.) \u201cNarrating Medea: The narrator\u2019s judgement on adultery and infanticide in Middle High German and Byzantine adaptations of the Roman de Troie\u201d \u2013 Lilli H\u00f6lzlhammer <\/strong>(Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich)<\/p>\n 4.) \u201cIdentity and inversion in Byzantine romance: a Life Course approach\u201d \u2013 Stephanie Novasio<\/strong> (University of Birmingham)<\/p>\n 12.40-13.40: Lunch<\/p>\n 13.40-14.40: Panel 2: Relationships and Hierarchy \/ Chair: Curtis Lisle<\/p>\n 5.) \u201cThe representation of the Other in the Palaeologan romance: rivals, opponents and competitors\u201d \u2013 Zissis Ainalis<\/strong> (University of the Aegean)<\/p>\n 6.) \u00a0\u201cEthnic identities and political terminology in the Byzantine texts of the 13th century: historiography vs romance?\u201d \u2013 Nafsika Vassilopoulou<\/strong> (University of the Aegean)<\/p>\n 7.) \u201cMarriage in Metochites\u2019 \u03a0\u03b5\u03c1\u1f76 \u03a0\u03b1\u03b9\u03b4\u03b5\u03af\u03b1\u03c2 and in \u0392\u03ad\u03bb\u03b8\u03b1\u03bd\u03b4\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03a7\u03c1\u03c5\u03c3\u03ac\u03bd\u03c4\u03b6\u03b1. A means of social stability or one of social mobility?\u201d \u2013 Konstantinos Karatolios<\/strong> (University of Crete)<\/p>\n 14.40-15.00.: coffee<\/p>\n 15.00-16.00: Panel 3: (De)constructing the \u201cOther\u201d \/ Chair: Stephanie Novasio<\/p>\n 8.) \u201c\u201cIs he alive, the one who was killed by the magic art?\u201d: an episode of magic in Livistros and Rodamni\u201d \u2013 Laura Clarke<\/strong> (University of Birmingham)<\/p>\n 9.) \u201cReimagining East in Byzantine romance\u201d \u2013 Zoi Kokka<\/strong> (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)<\/p>\n 10.) \u201c\u201cHe who makes a beast out of himself gets ride of the pain of being a man\u201d: Environmental agency and identity in Digenes Akritas\u201d \u2013 Curtis Lisle<\/strong> (University of Birmingham)<\/p>\n 16.00: Closing Remarks<\/p>\n Break<\/p>\n 11.) 17.15: Keynote lecture: \u201cApproaches to the Byzantine novel\u201d \u2013 Professor Elizabeth Jeffreys<\/strong> (University of Oxford)<\/p>\n 18.30: Wine reception<\/p>\n 19.30: Conference dinner<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Organization: Zissis Ainalis, Ingela Nilsson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The program of the conference:<\/p>\n The world of the late Byzantine romance in context: Storytelling across Europe (13th\u201315th c.)<\/strong><\/p>\n Aegean University \/ Uppsala University, June 4-5, 2020 (by zoom)<\/p>\n June 4<\/p>\n 14.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Introduction and welcome (Zisis Ainalis and Ingela Nilsson)<\/p>\n Session 1: The War of Troy between East and West<\/strong><\/p>\n 14.15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stavroula Constantinou <\/strong>(Nicosia): Anger in the War of Troy<\/em>: The Physiology and Poetics of a Male Emotion<\/p>\n 14.45\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Adam Goldwyn <\/strong>(Fargo): Translating Beauty: Some Considerations of Ekphrastic Portraiture in the medieval tradition of Trojan War Romances<\/p>\n 15.15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lilli H\u00f6lzlhammer <\/strong>(Munich): The time-magic of female lovesickness: Medea\u2019s monologue in Middle High German and Byzantine adaptations of the Roman de Troie<\/em><\/p>\n 15.45\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Discussion<\/p>\n 16.00 \u00a0\u00a0 Break<\/p>\n Session 2: From Constantinople to France and Wales<\/strong><\/p>\n 16.15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ewen Short <\/strong>(Cardiff) and Emma Huig<\/strong> (Oxford): The writers of the twelfth-century novels and their audiences in the theatra<\/p>\n 16.45\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ellen S\u00f6derblom Saarela<\/strong> (Gent): La Dame Dido and Artemis from the Greek Novel<\/p>\n 17.15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jonas Thungren Lindb\u00e4rg<\/strong> (Stockholm): The Greek \u201dOthers\u201d in Medieval Welsh Tales and Poetry<\/p>\n 17.45\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Discussion<\/p>\n June 5<\/p>\n 13.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ioannis Smarnakis<\/strong> (Aegean): Political Power, Space and identities in the State of Epirus (1205\u20131318)<\/p>\n Session 3: Women characters in the Palaiologan romance<\/strong><\/p>\n 13.30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Zisis Ainalis<\/strong> (HFRI<\/em> \/ Aegean): Damsels in distress? Women\u2019s representations in the Palaiologan romances<\/p>\n 14.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nafsika Vassilopoulou<\/strong> (HFRI <\/em>\/ Aegean): Sovereignty and female authority in the Palaiologan romances: Consistencies and inconsistencies with historiographical texts<\/p>\n 14.30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Zuzana Mitrengov\u00e1<\/strong> (Brno): Analysis of the characters of the romances Livistros and Rodamni<\/em> and Velthandros a<\/strong>nd Chrysantza<\/em> using Greimas\u2019 actantial model<\/p>\n 15.00 \u00a0\u00a0 Discussion<\/p>\n 15.30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Break<\/p>\n 16.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Session 4: The world of the Palaiologan romance<\/strong><\/p>\n 16.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Konstantinos Karatolios<\/strong> (Crete): Velthandros and Chrysantza<\/em> and On the Imperial Office<\/em> on military issues. What do a romance and a rhetorical text have to tell as on the role of the emperor as a military man?<\/p>\n 16.30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Theodora Konstantellou<\/strong> (HFRI<\/em> \/ Aegean): The \u2018World of Object\u2019 in the Palaeologan Romances<\/p>\n 17.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Zoi Kokk<\/strong>a (Thessaloniki), \u2018He roamed over the countries of the East and of Turkey\u2019: The construction of an Exotic Eastern Utopia in the Palaiologan romances<\/p>\n 17.30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Discussion<\/p>\n 18.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Concluding remarks (Zisis Ainalis and Ingela Nilsson)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Organization: Zissis Ainalis, Yannis Smarnakis.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The program of the conference:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Palaiologan Romance in Context. Narrativity, Identities and Gender in the Mediterranean (12th -16th centuries)<\/strong><\/p>\n 24-25 June 2021 (by zoom)<\/p>\n University of the Aegean<\/p>\n Department of Social Anthropology and History<\/p>\n Organization: Ainalis Zissis, Smarnakis Yannis<\/p>\n Thursday, June 24 <\/strong><\/p>\n 10.15<\/strong>: Introduction and welcome [Kantsa Venetia (head of the department), Smarnakis Yannis, Ainalis Zissis]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1st<\/sup> Session: Gender and Narrativity <\/strong><\/p>\n Chair: <\/strong>Smarnakis Yannis<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n 10.30 Priki Eftymia <\/strong>(University of Nicosia): The Liminal Status of Abducted Women and of Witches in the Tale of Livistros and Rodamne and in Kallimachos and Chrysorroe<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 11.00 Karatolios Konstantinos <\/strong>(University of Crete): Fathers, sons and brothers. Family ties in Velthandros and Chrysantza and in Kallimachos and Chrysorrhoe<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 11.30 Plakotos Giorgos <\/strong>(University of the Aegean): Conversion, Gender and \u201cCultural Encounters\u201d in early modern romance and drama<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n 12.00 Tzedopoulos Yorgos <\/strong>(Academy of Athens): The virgin and the soldier, the monk and the whore: Contextualizing stories of gender transgression and martyrdom in the post-Byzantine and early modern world<\/p>\n 12.30 Break<\/strong><\/p>\n 2nd<\/sup> Session: Spatializing Identity and Otherness\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n Chair: <\/strong>Gara Eleni<\/p>\n 13.00<\/strong> Kokka Zoi <\/strong>(Aristotle University of Thessaloniki): East and the Eastern Other in the imaginary of Byzantine Romance<\/p>\n 13.30 Tounta Eleni <\/strong>(Aristotle University of Thessaloniki): An \u201cemperor\u201d under the guise of a Moses: narrative representations of the east in the Songe du Vieux P\u00e8lerin<\/p>\n 14.00<\/strong> Smarnakis Yannis <\/strong>(University of the Aegean): Narrative representations of space in the Tale of Imperios and Margarona: Obliterating otherness in a cross-cultural Mediterranean<\/p>\n Friday, June 25<\/strong><\/p>\n 3rd<\/sup> Session: Storyworlds, Reading Communities and Agency<\/strong><\/p>\n Chair: <\/strong>Plakotos Giorgos<\/p>\n 10.30 Nilsson Ingela <\/strong>(Uppsala University): From temples to castles: diachronic and transcultural storyworlds in the Palaiologan romance<\/p>\n 11.00 Vassilopoulou Nafsika <\/strong>(HFRI \/ University of the Aegean): Worlds together, worlds apart: Palaiologan learned historiography and vernacular romance. Some overall remarks<\/p>\n 11.30 Gara Eleni <\/strong>(University of the Aegean): The Emperor\u2019s Sons and other tales: Advice literature in the form of short stories for an Ottoman audience<\/p>\n 12.00 Ainalis Zissis (<\/strong>HFRI \/ University of the Aegean): The narrator\u2019s voice: Narrative and representation of the self in the Palaiologan romances<\/p>\n 12.30 Break<\/strong><\/p>\n 4th<\/sup> session: Material Culture, Ritual and Identities\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n Chair: <\/strong>Ainalis Zissis<\/p>\n 13.00 Constantinou Stavroula <\/strong>(University of Nicosia): Arts and Rituals in Palaiologan Romances of the Troy Matter<\/p>\n 13.30 Konstantellou Theodora <\/strong>(HFRI): The Small-Scale Objects in the Late Byzantine Romance of Kallimachos and Chrysorrhoe. Raising Questions of Description and Functionality<\/p>\n 14.00 Concluding Remarks<\/strong>: Ainalis Zisis \u2013 Smarnakis Yannis<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1.) ORGANIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP on 5\/12\/2019 entitled \u00abNew Approaches to Medieval Romance from the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond\u00bb at the partnering University of Birmingham. Organization: Zissis Ainalis, Stephanie Novasio and Curtis Lisle. 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3) ORGANIZATION OF TWO DAYS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (by zoom because of the pandemic of covid-19) on 24 and 25 of June of 2021 entitled \u00ab The Palaiologan Romance in Context. Narrativity, Identities and Gender in the Mediterranean (12th -16th centuries)<\/strong>\u00bb at the University of the Aegean .<\/h1>\n