Program

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Arrival

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

9.00-10.30          Introductory remarks: Johannes Pahlitzsch

                           Nathanael Aschenbrenner: “Roman, Christians, Greeks: Paradigms for Byzantium beyond

                           Early Modern Europe”

10.30-11.00        Coffee break

11.00-12.00        Nikolas Jaspert: “The Distant Threat: The Crown of Aragon in the Eastern Mediterranean in

                           the Late Middle Ages”

12.00-13.30        Lunch

13.30-15.30        Martina Ambu / Joe  Glynias: “Translations from Greek into Arabic and Arabic into Ethiopic:

                           A Case Study on Nikon of the Black Mountain’s Pandektes”

                           Verena Krebs: “Of Miraculous Byzantines and Mass-Produced Cretan Icons: The Many

                           Afterlives of ‘Rome’ in Late Medieval Ethiopian Art”

15.30-16.00        Coffee break

16.00-17.00        Sierra Lomuto: “Imperial Fantasies of the Global Middle Ages: Prester John Across Asia and

                           Africa”

Tuesday, June 26, 2025

9.00-11.00         Johannes Preiser-Kapeller: “Under the same sky. Rhythms of climate and epidemic history

                          across Byzantium and medieval AfroEurAsia”

                          Rebecca Darley: “A Tale of Two Seas: Byzantium and the Mediterranean or Byzantium and

                          the Indian Ocean?”

11.00-11.30       Coffee break

11.30- 12.30      Richard Payne:  “Diplomacy and Eurasian Commerce: Iran, Rome, and Nomadic Regimes,

                          226-636 CE”

12.30-14.00       Lunch

14.00-15.00       Niels Gaul: “How to Write (Comparative) History: Thoughts on Byzantium and Middle-Period

                          China.”

15.00-16.30       Afternoon Tea in Fuld Hall

16.30-18.30       Thomas Conlan: “Two Distant and Enduring Empires: Comparing Byzantium and Japan.”

Friday, June 27, 2025

9.00-11.00        Don Wyatt: “Enslaved Persons in the Byzantine and Chinese Empires: Commonalities and

                         Divergences”

                         Nicola Di Cosmo: "Byzantium and the Steppes: Reassessing the Central Asian frontier from

11.00-11.30      Coffee break

11.30-12.30      Final remarks: Zachary Chitwood/ Johannes Pahlitzsch

12.30-14.00      Lunch