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Venue
The conference will take place at Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne.
Registration will be at the Law Chambers on Friday 24 from 4:00.
Plenary lectures will be held in the Main Auditorium (Auditoriums 1 and 2 combined).
Strand A of short papers (20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions) will be held in Seminar Room 1.
Strand B of short papers will be held in Seminar Room 2.
Friday 24 February
4:00 Registration Opens
4:00 AABS Executive Committee Meeting
5:00 Choir Performance – Full Programme
Divine Fantasy and the Erotic Imagination in Symeon the New Theologian
Professor Derek Krueger, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Chair: Ken Parry, President of AABS
7:00-8:00 Reception
Saturday 25 February
9:00-10:30 Parallel Sessions 1
1A Imaginative Reconstructions of the Empire
Chair: Amelia Brown
The Balkans at the End of Antiquity: Imagined Empire and Regional Realities
Amy Wood, Macquarie University
‘The dream that was Rome’: Memory of Empire during the Komnenian Restoration
Maximilian Lau, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo
1B Memory and Imagination: The Christian/Neo-Platonist Tradition
Chair: Michael Champion
Locating Memory and Imagination: From Nemesius of Emesa to John of Damascus
Ken Parry, Macquarie University
Daydreaming and Lusting after the Divine: Clement of Alexandria and the Neoplatonic Tradition
Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, Monash University
The Inner Source of Dreams: Synesius of Cyrene and His Byzantine Commentators
Francesco Monticini, University of Rome (via Skype)
10:30-11:00 Morning Tea
11:00-12:30 Parallel Sessions 2
Chair: Derek Krueger
A Dreamless Night? Reflections on Hymnography and Dreaming in Byzantium
Andrew Mellas, University of Sydney
Memory, Imagination and Visuality in Armenian Commentaries on the Eusebian Canon Tables
Matthew Crawford, Australian Catholic University
Chair: Caillan Davenport
Dynastic Dreams and Visions of Early Byzantine Emperors
Meaghan McEvoy, Macquarie University
War by Other Means: The Memory of Sesostris in Early Byzantine Historiography
Jonathan Tracy, Massey University
Dreaming of Treason: Portentous Dreams and Imperial Coups in Seventh-century Byzantine Apocalyptic Discourse
Ryan W. Strickler, Australian Catholic University/Macquarie University
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Parallel Sessions 3
3A Michael Psellos on Dreams and Memory
Chair: Bronwen Neil
The Absence of Dreams and Visions in Psellos’ Chronographia and Their Importance in his Encomium for his Mother
Penelope Buckley, University of Melbourne
Grief, Memory and Dreams in Psellos’ Funeral Oration for His Daughter
Michael Champion, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
Political Motives in Memory and Imagination in Psellos’ Chronographia 5.22
Viktoria Krausz, Victoria University of Wellington
3B Churches, Shrines and Memory
Chair: Alan Cadwallader
Inscribing Memory in Constantinian Churches
Caillan Davenport, University of Queensland
Memories of Byzantium as Reflected in the Churches and Monasteries of Egypt
Jenny Ferber, Macquarie University
Architectural Imagination in the Early Byzantine Dalmatian Hinterland: The Excavations of a Multiapsed Church on Bribirska glavica 2014-2016
Danijel Dzino, Macquarie University
3:30-4:00 Afternoon Tea
4:00 AABS Biennial General Meeting (all welcome)
5:00-7:00 Free Time
7:00 Conference Dinner (for ticketholders)
Sunday 26 February
9:30-10:30 Parallel Sessions 4
Chair: Mark Masterson
Dream Interpretation in the Early Byzantine and Early Islamic Traditions of Hagiography and Historiography
Bronwen Neil, Macquarie University
Some Dreams and Imaginative Memory in Select Byzantine Chronicles
Roger Scott, University of Melbourne
Chair: Wendy Mayer
Dreams and Visions referred to in Life A and Life B of St Athanasios the Athonite
John Theodoridis, Macquarie University
‘As if in a vision of the night …’: Authorising the Healing Spring of Chonai
Alan Cadwallader, Australian Catholic University, Canberra
10:30-11:00 Morning Tea
11:00-12:30 Parallel Sessions 5
Chair: Roger Scott
Julian’s Funeral Law and the Debate Surrounding the Memory of St Babylas
Nicola Holm, University of Queensland
Loyalty and Betrayal: Villains, Imagination and Memory in the Reception of the Johannite Schism
Wendy Mayer, Australian Lutheran College, University of Divinity
5B Imagining the Sea and Trade
Chair: Danijel Dzino
O indomitable Thalassa: The Translation of Classical Maritime Symbolism into Byzantine Cultural Identity
Janet Wade, Macquarie University
Procopius’ Account of Justinian’s Dream of Silk
Alex Kujanpaa, University of Queensland
Aphrodite, Venus and Maria: Seafaring Religion, Astronomy and Imagination in Late Antiquity
Amelia Brown, University of Queensland
Chair: Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides
Dreams, Visions and Desire in the Letters of Emperor Konstantinos VII Porphyrogennetos and Theodoros of Kyzikos
Mark Masterson, Victoria University of Wellington
1:15-2:30 Lunch and Departure