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”
Thursday, 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
Late Antiquity to the Mongol Period"
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.30 Final remarks: Zachary Chitwood/ Johannes Pahlitzsch
12.30-14.00 Lunch