BYZANTINE AND POST-BYZANTINE CULTURE AND SPIRITUALITY IN

MOLDAVIA, WALLACHIA AND THE BALKANS

ANNUAL SCHOOL OF BYZANTINE AND POSTBYZANTINE STUDIES 2020 -

ONLINE

THIRD EDITION, 10-17 SEPTEMBER 2020

Program

Day 1:

Thursday, 10 September 2020

18.30 Opening Session

Emil Constantinescu, president of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and
Civilization, President of Romania (1996-2000)
The message of I.P.S. Teodosie, Archibishop of Tomis
Acad. Răzvan Theodorescu, Vice-president of the Romanian Academy – to be confirmed
Prof. univ. dr. Marian Preda, Rector of the University of Bucharest – to be confirmed
Prof. univ. dr. Mădălina Vârtejanu-Joubert (INALCO Paris), the scientific director of the third
edition of the Annual School of Byzantine and Postbyzantine Studies 2020
Prof. univ. dr. Claudia Rapp (University of Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences).

Day 2

Friday, 11 September 2020

10.30-12.00 Conf. univ. dr. Ion Croitoru (University „Valahia” of Târgoviște), Activitatea
tipografică din Târgoviște în limba greacă, la începutul secolului al XVIII-lea (in Romanian)
12.00-12.30 Q&A session

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12.30-13.00 Break
13.00-14.00 Dr. Andreea Ștefan (National History Museum of Romania), Brief Excursus into
the Collections of the National History Museum of Romania from the Late Roman Empire to
the Phanariotes and Beyond – Virtual Guided Tour.

Day 3:

Saturday, 12 September 2020

10.30-11.30 Prof. univ. dr. Athanassios Semoglou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), The
iconographic program of the apse of Bălinești and the impact of the Constantinopolitan art in
Vallachia
11.30-12.00 Q&A session
12.00-13.00 Lect. univ. dr. Gina Scarlat (University Dunărea de Jos, Galați), reserved title

Day 4:
Monday, 14 September 2020
10.30-11.30 Dr. Grigori Simeonov (University of Vienna), Harbours on the Western Black
Sea Coast from the 4th to the 13th century. Politics, economy, and environment in
Southeastern Europe in Late Antiquity and Middle Ages
11.30-12.00 Q&A session
12.00-14.30 Break
14.30-16.30 Stratis Papaioannou (University of Crete), Byzantine Literature, Language and
Book Culture – Question-and-answear-Seminar
16.30-17.00 Dragoș Mârșanu (Department for the Study of Patristics, Metropolitanate of
Moldavia and Bucovina), Publishing Books on Christianity in Byzantium and Beyond: A
Romanian Editor’s Perspective.

Day 5:
Tuesday, 15 September 2020

10.30-11.30 Prof. univ. dr. Mihai Dumitru (University of Mainz), Doxology and Rule. Neagoe
Basarab in Dialogue with Erasmus, Luther and Machiavelli (1513-1523)

11.30-12.00 Q&A session

12.00-12.30 Break

12.30-13.30 PhD candidate Ionuț Badea (University of Bucharest), Monetary Iconography

Talks about the Byzantine Empire history (5-12 centuries).

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13.30-14.00 Q&A session

14.00-15.00 Dr. Andra Jugănaru (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), reserved title.

Day 6:

Wednesday, 16 September 2020

10.30-11.30 Prof. univ. dr. Alexandros Alexakis (University of Ioanina), Byzantine

Hagiography Looking North.
11.30-12.00 Q&A session
12.00-15.30 Break
15.30-16.30 Dr. Adrian Dumitru (University of Bucharest), The Wonders of a Wandering
Book: The Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesareea and its Importance for the Study of the
Chronology of the Antiquity
16.30-17.00 Q&A session
17.00-17.30 Break
17.30-18.30 PhD student Octavian Negoiță (University of Bucharest), reserved topic
18.30-19.00 Q&A session
19.00-20.00 Prof. univ. dr. Claudia Rapp (University of Vienna, Austrian Academy of
Sciences), Daily Life, Religion and Manuscript Studies: Researching Byzantine Prayer Books
(Euchologia)
20.00-20.30 Q&A session

Day 7:

Thursday, 17 September 2020

10.30-11.30 Prof. univ. Dr. Mădălina Vârtejanu Joubert (INALCO, Paris), Le Talmude en
contexte byzantin
11.30-12.00 Q&A session
12.00-13.00 Break
13.00-14.00 Prof. univ. Dr. Zachary Chitwood (University of Mainz), Mount Athos as the
Center of Byzantine World
14.00-14.30 Q&A session
14.30-15.00 Closing remarks

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