Theoretical Approaches to Byzantine Reception Studies, Stockholm University, November 17–18, 2016

Papers and lectures on ideological, medial and material approaches to the reception of Byzantium.

Our programme is inspired by some recent publications, such as Wanted: Byzantium: The Desire for a Lost Empire (eds. Nilsson & Stephenson, Uppsala University 2014), Byzantium/ Modernism: The Byzantine as Method in Modernity (eds. Betancourt & Taroutina, Brill 2015), and The Reception of Byzantium in European Culture since 1500 (ed.s Marciniak & Smythe, Ashgate 2016), in the light of which we would like to further develop theoretical and methodological aspects on issues of reception where Byzantium has been used (as pattern, template, or content) or abused (in literary, artistic, historiographical contexts) at different times and places.

There will be contributions on aspects of Byzantine reception understood methodologically as part of a narratological, historiographical, intermedial, and cultural discourse. Perspectives within the fields of literary and textual studies, history of ideas, museum studies, popular culture, cultural semiotics and ethnicity are explored.

The workshop aims to encourage discussion among participants in view of potential growth in interest in this area, with future development into a full-scale conference.

Lectures
Byzantium’s Two Pasts and Two Paths
Elena Boeck, Director of Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks

Exotic and Oriental – the Reception of Byzantium and the Postcolonial Discourse
Przemyslaw Marciniak, University of Silesia in Katowice

Space is limited. Advanced registration is required.