Byzantium and Renaissances. Dialogue of Cultures, Heritage of Antiquity - Tradition and Modernity
19-21 October 2011

Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw Dobra 72, Warsaw

19 October - 9.30 : 17.00

Opening of the Conference
Welcome and Introduction:
Prof. Jerzy Axer, Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies "Artes Liberales"
Rev. prof. Michał Janocha, University of Warsaw, Project Director

10.00 : 11.30

Prof. Paul Magdalino, Koç University, Istanbul
The Renaissance of Constantinople in the Middle Ages

Dr Adam Izdebski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Is There a Link between a Cultural Renaissance and Economic Revival in the Case of Early Medieval Byzantium?

Dr Sergey Mariev, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich
"Phlorentios" by Nikephoros Gregoras: Towards a Definition of the Term "Humanism" in Byzantium

Discussion
Coffee break (15 min)

11.45 : 13.30

Prof. Hans Buchwald, University of Stuttgart
Design Procedures in the Production of Christian Basilicas: Constantinople:Rome - East:West, a Dichotomy?

Bogna Kosmulska, MA, University of Warsaw
Le concept de l'aisthesis dans la réflexion antique et patristique - quelques remarques sur les fondements de la spiritualité byzantine

Dr Ana Palanciuc, University of Paris IV-Sorbonne
Maximus the Confessor and the Idea of Renaissance in Byzantium

Discussion
Lunch break (60 min)

15.00: 17.00

Andrzej Kompa, MA, University of Łódź
Chronographic Visions of History and the Middle Byzantine Renaissance of Historiography

Rev. prof. Józef Naumowicz, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw
Photius and the First Byzantine Renaissance

Prof. Athanassios Semoglou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Les théophanies et les exercices d'interprétations artistiques durant les 'renaissances' byzantines. Les nouveaux signifiants de (la vision de) Dieu

Łukasz Leonkiewicz, MA, University of Warsaw
Renesans hezychastyczny w Bizancjum w XIII-XIV w. [The Hesychastian Renaissance in Byzantium in the 13th and 14th century]

Discussion
Closing of the first day of the conference

20 October - 9.30 : 17.00

Opening of the session

9.30 : 11.15

Dr Kristina Mitalaite, Paris I, Sorbonne-Tolbiac
Anti-Greek Moods and Their Reasons in the Second Half of the 9th Century

Grigory Vorobyev, MA, Saint-Petersburg State University
Theodore Gaza As Translator
Karolina Wiśniewska, MA, University of Warsaw
Fall of Constantinople as Perceived in Mid-16th Century Nuremberg: The Case of the Preface to Leonard of Chios

Discussion
Coffee break (30 min)

11.45 : 13.15

Dr Alexei Lidov, State University Moscow, Institute for World Culture
The Holy Fire and European Cupolas: A Byzantine Impact into Renaissance Art

Witali Michalczuk, MA, University of Warsaw
Kategoria obrazu w myśli Bizancjum i Odrodzenia [The Category of Image in Byzantine and Renaissance Thought]

Ika Matyjaszkiewicz, MA, University of Warsaw
Absolut-iluzja-obraz. Złote absydy w sztuce bizantyjskiej i w renesansowym malarstwie weneckim [The Absolute - Illusion - Painting. Golden Apses in Byzantine Art and in Renaissance Venetian Painting]

Discussion
Lunch break (90 min)

14.45 : 16.00

Dr Levon Chookaszian, Yerevan State University
Armenian Book Illumination and Its Relationship with the Byzantine World's Mythological and Ornamental Legacy

Prof. Dickran Kouymjian, California State University, Fresno and Paris
Did Byzantine Iconography Influence the Large Cycle of the Life of Alexander the Great in Armenian Manuscripts?

Discussion

16.00 : 17.00

Prof. Sławomira Żerańska-Kominek, University of Warsaw
Music in the Renaissance Reinterpretation of the Venus Myth

Jakub Sypiański, University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne
The Ties between Arabic Humanism and the Macedonian Renaissance in Byzantium (9th-10th Centuries)

Discussion
Closing of the second day of the conference

17.30 Conference dinner for lecturers

21 October - 9.30 : 17.15

Opening of the session

9.30 : 11.00

Dr hab. Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, University of Warsaw
The Artistic Patronage of Ladislaus II Jagiello between Byzantium and the Renaissance

Dr Piotr Chomik, University of Białystok
Wpływy bizantyjskie na kulturę monastyczną Kościoła prawosławnego w Wielkim Księstwie Litewskim [Byzantium and the Monastic Culture of the Orthodox Church in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania]
Prof. Marzanna Kuczyńska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
Wpływ idei renesansu na ruską homiletykę początku XVII stulecia [The Influence of Renaissance Ideas on Ruthenian Homiletic at the Beginning of the 17th Century]

Discussion
Coffee break (15 min)

11.15 : 14.00

Dr Sarah Laporte, Groupe de Recherches en iconographie médiévale, Bruxelles
Diffusion de modeles iconographiques occidentaux en Europe orientale: l'exemple des Pays-Bas méridionaux
Dr Marina Sabados, Institute of Art History of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest
Au carrefour de deux mentalités artistiques: les voies de l'iconostase moldave aux XVIe-XVIIe siecles

Dr Mirosław Kruk, University of Gdańsk, National Museum in Cracow
Three Types of the Reception of the Classical Antiquity in the Old Rus Art

Dr Aleksandra Sulikowska-Gąska, University of Warsaw
Obecność idoli - pamięć antyku w kulturze staroruskiej [The Presence of Idols: Antique Heritage in the Old Rus Culture]

Dr Jan Stradomski, Jagiellonian University
Naśladować czy się wystrzegać? - myśl antycznej filozofii pogańskiej w piśmiennictwie średniowiecznym prawosławnych Słowian [To Imitate or to Avoid? The Philosophical Thought of Pagan Antiquity in Orthodox Slavic Writings of the Medieval Period]

Dr Hieronim Grala, University of Warsaw
"Trzeci Rzym" a Carogród - dyplomacja moskiewska wobec tradycji bizantyńskiej (schyłek XV - pocz. XVII w.) [Der "Dritte Rom" und "Car'grad" - die moscovitische Diplomatie angesichts der byzantinischen Tradition (Ende des 15 Jh. - Anfang des 17. Jh.)]

Discussion
Lunch break (90 min)

15.30 : 17.15

Dr Adriana Sotropa, University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne
The Byzantium Temptation in Modern Romanian Art: A Solution for the National Identity Quest at the Beginning of the 20th Century?

Prof. Jarosław Ławski, University of Białystok
Bizancjum, bizantynizm, bizantyjski: przemiany znaczeń w XIX-wiecznej kulturze polskiej [Byzantium, Byzantinism, Byzantine: Transformations of the Terms' Meanings in Polish Culture in the 19th Century]

Dr Irina Tatarova, University of Warsaw
Odrodzenie obrazu. Pytania o ikonę w XX wieku [Revival of the Image: Asking about the Icon in the 20th Century]

Rev. prof. Michał Janocha, University of Warsaw
Les traditions byzantines dans l'art et liturgie de nouvelles communautés catholiques

Discussion

Closing of the conference