Piroska and the Pantokrator: Dynastic Memory, Healing and Salvation in Komnenian Constantinople, Central European University, June 3, 2015

Papers:

Diplomatic Relations between Hungary and Byzantium in the Eleventh-Twelfth Centuries
Attila Bárány (University of Debrecen)

Empress Eirene in the Poems of Nicholas Kallikles
Roman Shlyakhtin (CEU, Budapest)

The Family Poet of Piroska-Eirene’s Children: Manganeios Prodromos and the Hungarians
Michael Jeffreys (Oxford University)

Piroska-Eirene, an Empress from the West
Maximilian Lau (Oxford University)

Imperial Women under the Komneni
Roberta Franchi (Pisa/Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest)

Female Power between the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds:  The Example  of Queen Tamar
Sandro Nikolaishvili (CEU, Budapest)

The Politics of (Female) Monastic Foundations in Komnenian Constantinople
Elif Demirtiken (CEU, Budapest)

Healing and Salvation: the Christ Pantokrator Hospital
Marianne Sághy (CEU, Budapest)

Piroska-Eirene and the Holy Theotokos
Etele Kiss (Hungarian National Museum, Budapest)

Piroska and the Pantokrator
Robert Ousterhout (University of Pennsylvania)