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From the Fayum Portraits
to Early Byzantine Icon Painting
SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME
At the Symposium there will be simultaneous translation
from English to Greek as well as from Greek to English.
Wednesday 20th May 1998
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20:00 |
OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION AT THE BASILICA OF St. MARK, HERAKLION |
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20:30-21:30 |
MAYOR'S RECEPTION, LOGGIA, TOWN HALL |
Thursday 21st May 1998
(Saint Constantine's and Saint Helen's Feast Day)
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19:30 |
OFFICIAL OPENING CEREMONY OF THE SYMPOSIUM AT THE VIKELAIA MUNICIPAL LIBRARY |
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20:00 |
CONCERT FOR PARTICIPANTS |
Day One, Friday 22nd May 1998
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9:00 |
Introduction - Greeting to Delegates by Euphrosyne C. Doxiadis & Paul Hetherington (Academic Co-ordinator) |
MORNING SESSION, Chair: Judith Herrin
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9:20-9:50 |
Thomas F. Mathews: A Corpus of Late Antique Icons and their Relevance to Christian Icons |
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9:50-10:00 |
Discussion |
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10:00-10:30 |
Willy Clarysse: A New Undertakers’ Archive and the Mummification Business in Late Ptolemaic Egypt |
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10:30-10:40 |
Discussion |
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10:40-11:10 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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11:10-11:40 |
Georgis Giatromanolakis: Images of Death in the Ancient Greek Novel |
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11:40-11:50 |
Discussion |
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11:50-12:20 |
Wiktor A. Daszewski: The Tombs, the Mummies, and the Portraits in the Light of the Marina el Alamein Necropolis |
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12:20-12:30 |
Discussion |
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12:30-14:00 |
LUNCH BREAK |
AFTERNOON SESSION, Chair: Dimitris Kyrtatas
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14:00-14:30 |
Dorothy J. Thompson: The Family in Graeco-Roman Egypt |
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14:30-14:40 |
Discussion |
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14:40-15:10 |
Paul Roberts: Petrie, Constable and British Philistines – Petrie’s own Impressions of the Portraits of Hawara. |
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15:10-15:20 |
Discussion |
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15:20-15:50 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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15:50-16:20 |
Barbara Borg: The Faces of the Elite; Changes in Representational Habits of the Elite in 3rd c. Egypt |
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16:20-16:30 |
Discussion |
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16:30-17:00 |
Joyce Filer: People, not just Portraits: a Study of Roman Egyptian Mummies Using CT Scanning |
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17:00-17:10 |
Discussion |
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17:10-17:40 |
Pavlos Samios: From the Painter’s Point of View: The Encaustic Technique |
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17:40-17:50 |
Discussion |
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17:50 |
END OF SESSION |
Day Two, Saturday 23rd May 1998
MORNING SESSION, Chair: Thomas F. Mathews
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9:20-9:50 |
Judith Herrin: The Private Nature of Icon Veneration in the Early Byzantine Period |
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9:50-10:00 |
Discussion |
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10:00-10:30 |
Vassilios Gondikakis: From the Ancient Greek "Anthropià" to the "Theanthropîa" of the Holy Liturgy |
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10:30-10:40 |
Discussion |
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10:40-11:10 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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11:10-11:40 |
Morris L. Bierbrier: The Problems of the Portraits |
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11:40-11:50 |
Discussion |
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11:50-12:20 |
Alecos Levidis: The Morphological Origins of the Fayum Portraits |
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12:20-12:30 |
Discussion |
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12:30-14:00 |
LUNCH BREAK |
AFTERNOON SESSION, Chair: Susan Walker
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14:00-14:30 |
Eutychia Kourkoutidou-Nicolaidou: The Early Christian Painting of Thessaloniki |
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14:30-14:40 |
Discussion |
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14:40-15:10 |
Marina Heilmeyer: Pharaoh’s Flowers: the Schweinfurth Collection of the Berlin Botanical Museum and Especially the Garlands and Bouquets of the Fayum. |
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15:10-15:20 |
Discussion |
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15:20-15:50 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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15:50-16:20 |
Richard Neave: Reconstructing Faces from the Fayum: the Stylistic Link Between Portraits and Icons |
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16:20-16:30 |
Discussion |
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16:30-17:00 |
John Prag: Portrait, Proportion and Personality |
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17:00-17:10 |
Discussion |
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17:10-17:40 |
Stelios Ramfos: The Immortal Light in the Grave: the Faces and the Roles in the Portraits and the Icons |
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17:40-17:50 |
Discussion |
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18:00 |
END OF SESSION |
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18:30 |
VIEWING OF THE FILM "THE REVOLUTION OF SILENCE", a DOCUMENTARY ABOUT MONASTIC LIFE |
Day Three, Sunday 24th May 1998
MORNING SESSION, Chair: Wiktor A. Daszewski
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9:20-9:50 |
Manolis Borboudakis: The Sinai Icons |
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9:50-10:00 |
Discussion |
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10:00-10:30 |
Susan Walker: The Later Painted Mummy Portraits: Dress and Date. |
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10:30-10:40 |
Discussion |
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10:40-11:10 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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11:10-11:40 |
Wilfred Griggs: The Brigham Young University Excavations at the Coptic Cemetery at Seila, in the Fayum |
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11:40-11:50 |
Discussion |
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11:50-12:20 |
Dimitris Kyrtatas: The Christians of Egypt and the Fayum Portraits |
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12:20-12:30 |
Discussion |
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12:30-14:00 |
LUNCH BREAK |
AFTERNOON SESSION, Chair: Stelios Ramfos
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14:00-14:30 |
Dimitra Kamaraki: Painterly Interpretation of Early Christian Mosaics in Monuments of Thessaloniki |
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14:30-14:40 |
Discussion |
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14:40-15:10 |
Maria Vassilaki: St. Kollouthos; The Cult and the Art. |
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15:10-15:20 |
Discussion |
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15:20-15:50 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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15:50-16:20 |
Paul Hetherington: Panagiotis Doxaras and Dionysios of Fourna: Heirs to a Shared Tradition |
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16:20-16:30 |
Discussion |
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16:30-17:00 |
Spyros Kardamakis: The Technique of Icon Painting – The Testimony of a Contemporary Icon Painter |
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17:00-17:10 |
Discussion |
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17:10-17:40 |
Euphrosyne C. Doxiadis: Mosaics; A Key to the Understanding of the Technique in the Fayum Portraits |
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17:40-17:50 |
Discussion |
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17:50-18:50 |
"SUMMING UP" OF THE PAPERS OF THE SYMPOSIUM |
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18:50 |
END OF THE SYMPOSIUM |