PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME: some titles to be confirmed

FRIDAY 4TH APRIL

3:30pm Registration and Coffee in G3, The Old High School, Infirmary Street

5:00pm Opening Lecture: Old College Lecture Theatre
DR. ISMAIL KARAMUT (Istanbul Archaeological Museums)
Keynote Speaker – Yeni Kapi Excavations

6:45pm Reception – Room F1, The Old High School

SATURDAY 5TH APRIL

9:00am Session 1: APPROACHES and DISCOVERIES
Chair: TBC
Partcipants:
LUKE LAVAN (Kent University)
- Title TBC
ENGIN AKYÜREK (Istanbul University)
- Two Middle Byzantine Monasteries at Western Pamphylia
CHARALAMBOS PENNAS (Byzantine Ephorate)
- Byzantine Cyclades: New Archaeological Evidence

11:00am Session 2: TECHNOLOGIES
Chair: TBC
Participants:
KATERINA DELLAPORTA (Byzantine Ephorate)
- Underwater Archaeology of Byzantine Greece TBC
MARLIA MANGO (Oxford University)
- The Silvermines of Cappadocia
LIZ JAMES (Sussex University)
- Mosaics

1:15pm Lunch, Room F1 [SPBS Executive Committee Meeting – F2a Old High School TBC]

2:30pm Session 3: MATERIAL CULTURE
Chair: TBC
Participants:
VASSO PENNA (University of the Peloponnese)
- Byzantine Cyclades: Assessing the Numismatic Evidence
NIEWÖHNER PHILLIP (German Archaeological Institute, Istanbul)
- Byzantine Miletus a reassessment TBC
ATHANASSIOS VIONIS (Leuven University)
- Title TBC

4:30pm Session 4: LANDSCAPES
Chair: TBC
Participants:
MARK JACKSON (Newcastle University)
- Landscape and Settlement in Cilicia
SAM TURNER (Newcastle University)
- New Approaches to Landscape Survey
WARREN EASTWOOD (Birmingham University)
- "Cappadocia will be given over to ruin and become a desert”: Environment and landscape change in Cappadocia since Late Antiquity

6.30pm Annual General Meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, Lecture Theatre OHS

7:00pm Reception Old High School

8:00pm Feast – B’est, Drummond Street

SUNDAY 6TH APRIL

9:00am – 10:00am Communications

10:30am Session 5
Chair: TBC
Participants:
ROBERT OUSTERHOUT (University of Pennslyvania)
- ‘I hope it works this time!’
CLAIRE NESBITT (University of Durham)
- 'Space'- Experiential 'Place': Light and the experience of worship in middle Byzantine Churches
ALESSANDRA RICCI (Koç Institute, Istanbul)
- Constantinople’s Heritage TBC

12:30pm Lunch – F1, The Old High School

1:30pm Session 6 & Round Table Discussion
Chair: TBC
Participants:
AUGENTI, ANDREA (Bologna University)
- Byzantine Italy
SCOTT REDFORD (University of Georgetown)
- Seljuk Archaeology TBC

Round Table: National Approaches to Byzantine Archaeology

3:30pm – 4:00pm: Announcement of 2009 Symposium and close of Symposium 2008