Speakers at the Symposium

"From the Fayum Portraits to Early Byzantine Icon Painting"

Vikelaia Municipal Library of Heraklion, May 1998

	NAME	INSTITUTION	TOPIC
1	Dr. Morris L. Bierbrier	Assistant Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities, British Museum, UK	The problems of the portraits.
2	Dr. Manolis Borboudakis	Director of the 13^th Ephoriate of Byzantine Antiquities of Crete, Greece	The Sinai icons [working title].
3	Dr. Barbara Borg	Archaeology Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany	The faces of the elite - changes in Representational habits of the elite in 3^rd c. Egypt.
4	Prof. Willy Clarysse	Prof. at the Department of Classical Studies, The Catholic University, Louvain, Belgium	A new undertaker's archive and the mummification business in late Ptolemaic Egypt.
5	Prof. Dr. Wiktor A. Daszewski	Prof. at the Archaeology Institute, University of Trier, Germany	The tombs, the mummies and the portraits in the light of the Marina el Alamein necropolis.
6	Euphrosyne Doxiadis	Painter - Author, Greece	Mosaics: a key to the understanding of the technique in the Fayum portraits
7	Ms. Joyce M. Filer	Special Assistant for Human and Animal Remains, Department of Egyptian Antiquities, British Museum, UK	People, not just portraits: a study of Roman Egyptian mummies using CT scanning
8	Prof. Georgis Giatromanolakis	Prof. At the School of Philosophy, University of Athens, Greece	Images of death in the ancient greek novel
9	Rev. Vassilios Gondikakis	Archimandrite, The Iviron Monastery, Mount Athos, Greece	From the ancient Greek "anthropiá" to the "theanthropîa" of the holy liturgy
10	Prof. C. Wilfred Griggs	Prof. At the Department of Ancient Scripture, Brigham Young University, Utah, USA	The Brigham Young University excavations at the Coptic cemetary at Seila, in the Fayum.
11	Dr. Marina Heilmeyer	Berlin Botanical Museum, Germany	Pharaohs' Flowers: the Schweinfurth Collection of the Berlin Botanical Museum and particularly the garlands and bouquets of the Fayum
12	Prof. Judith Herrin	Prof. At the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, King's College, London, UK	The private nature of icon veneration in the early Byzantine period
13	Dr. Paul Hetherington	Byzantinist and Author, UK	Panagiotis Doxaras and Dionysios of Fourna: heirs to a shared tradition
14	Demetra Kamaraki	Painter - Conservator at the Rotonda Church, 9^th Ephoriate of Byzantine Antiquities, Thessaloniki, Greece	Painterly interpretation of early christian mosaics in monuments of Thessaloniki
15	Spiros Kardamakis	Painter, Greece	The technique of Byzantine icon painting - the testimony of a contemporary icon painter
16	Dr. Eutychia Kourkoutidou-Nikolaidou	Director of the Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki, Greece	The early christian painting of Thessaloniki
17	Prof. Dimitris Kyrtatas	Associate Prof. At the School of Philosophy, University of Crete, Greece	The Christians of Egypt and the Fayum portraits
18	Alecos Vl. Levidis	Painter, Greece	The morphological origins of the Fayum portraits
19	Prof. Thomas F. Mathews	Prof. At the Institute of Fine Art, New York University, USA	A corpus of late antique icons and their relevance to christian icons
20	Dr. Richard Neave	Artist in Medicine and Life Sciences at the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing, University of Manchester, UK	Reconstructing faces from the Fayum: the stylistic link between portraits and icons
21	Dr. A.J.N.W. Prag	Keeper of Archaeology at the Manchester Museum, UK	Portrait, proportion and personality
22	Prof. Stelios Ramfos	Author and Prof. At the Panteion University of Athens, Greece	The immortal light in the grave: the faces and the roles in the portraits and the icons
23	Dr. Paul Roberts	Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, UK	Petrie, Constable and British Philistines - Petrie's own impressions of the portraits of Hawara
24	Mr. Pavlos Samios	Painter, Greece	From the Painter's Point of View: The Encaustic Technique
25	Dr. Dorothy J. Thompson	Director of Studies in Classics, Girton College, Cambridge, UK	The family in Graeco-Roman Egypt
26	Dr. Maria Vassilaki	Academic associate of the Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece	St. Kollouthos: the cult and the art
27	Dr. Susan Walker	Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, UK	The later painted mummy portraits: dress and date

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