Program, 2010 Spring Symposium

Friday, April 30^th–Sunday, May 2^nd, 2010

Symposiarch: John F. Haldon, Princeton University

Friday, April 30^th

• 9.30 Coffee etc.
• 10.00 Welcome
• 10.15 Introduction – John Haldon

Session 1: Background

• 10.30 The Big Picture: China, Byzantium and the shadow of the steppe (David Graff)
• 11.15 The Small Picture: Government by Exception and Exemption. Evidence from the Later Byzantine Military (Mark Bartusis)
• 12.00 Discussion
• 12.30 Lunch

Session 2: Legitimation and ideology

• 14.00 Fighting for peace: the legitimation of warfare (Frank Trombley)
• 14.45 A Conflicted Heritage: The Byzantine Religious Establishment of a War Ethic (John McGuckin)
• 15.30 Discussion and break
• 16.15 Byzantium confronts its neighbours: Islam and the Crusaders (John France)
• 17.00 Discussion
• 17.30–19.00 Cocktails

Saturday, May 1^st

• 08.30 Coffee

Session 3: Literary and visual representations of war

• 09.00 The visual representation of peace (Lioba Theis)
• 09.45 The Art of War (Robert Nelson)
• 10.30 Discussion and break
• 11.15 The paradoxes of heroism in Byzantium: Military saints and secular warriors (Anthony Kaldellis)
• 12.00 Discussion
• 12.30 Lunch

Session 4: The resources of warfare

• 14.00 Resources, warfare and the Manzikert campaign (John Haldon)
• 14.45 The Medieval Logistics Project: warfare on the grid (Vince Gaffney)
• 15.30 Discussion and break
• 16.15 Landscapes, movement and logistics: multi-agent systems and simulating medieval campaigns (Georgios Theodoropoulos)
• 17.00 Discussion
• 19.00 Speakers' dinner

Sunday, May 2^nd

• 09.45 Coffee

Session 5: Legitimation and ideology

• 10.15 War, Social Change and the Politics of Empire: Prisoners of War between Slavery and Freedom (Youval Rotman)
• 11.00 The face of protracted war (Walter Kaegi)
• 11.45 Discussion

Concluding remarks – John Haldon