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2006 Program - Spring Symposium

April 28–30, 2006 | Becoming Byzantine: Children And Childhood In Byzantium

The Meyer Auditorium, the Freer Gallery of Art

Dr. Arietta Papaconstantinou, University of Paris, and Dr. Alice-Mary Talbot, Dumbarton Oaks, Symposiarchs

Friday, April 28

9:45 a.m.

Welcoming Remarks
Edward Keenan and Alice-Mary Talbot, Dumbarton Oaks

Introduction
Arietta Papaconstantinou, University of Paris I

Morning session: Definitions, Ideals, Representations
Alice-Mary Talbot, Dumbarton Oaks, Chair

10:30 a.m.

The Status of Children and Adolescents in Byzantium under Law and in Court
Günter Prinzing, University of Mainz

Coming of Age in Byzantium: Rites of Passage for Children
Jane Baun, Oxford University

12:00 p.m.

Discussion

12:15 p.m.

Lunch Break

Afternoon session
Angeliki Laiou, Harvard University, Chair

1:45 p.m.

Ideal Children: The Childhood of Great Men and Women
Dimiter Angelov, University of Birmingham

Holy Childhood, Ordinary Childhood: Children in Saints' Lives
Béatrice Caseau, University of Paris IV

3:15 p.m.

Discussion and break

4:00 p.m.

The Visual Representation of Children in Byzantine Art
Cecily Hennessy, Courtauld Institute

4:45 p.m.

Discussion

5:30–7:30 p.m.

Reception at Refectory, Dumbarton Oaks

Saturday, April 29

Morning session: Realities of Childhood
John Duffy, Harvard University, Chair

9:15 a.m.

Working Kids
Youval Rotman, Yale University

Children in Byzantine Monasteries: Innocent Hearts or Vessels in the Harbor of the Devil?
Richard Greenfield, Queen's University, Kingston

10:45 a.m.

Discussion and break

11:30 a.m.

From Foster Care to the Great Orphanotropheion
Timothy Miller, Salisbury University

12:15 p.m.

Discussion

12:30 p.m.

Lunch break

Afternoon session: Birth and Death
Johannes Koder, University of Vienna, Chair

1:30 p.m.

Les variations du désir d'enfant à Byzance
Marie-Hélène Congourdeau, CNRS, Paris

The Death and Burial of Children
Alice-Mary Talbot, Dumbarton Oaks

3:00 p.m.

Discussion and break

3:45 p.m.

On the Bioarchaeology of Birth and Death: Aspects of Childhood and Subadult Mortality Patterns during the Early and Middle Byzantine Times in Greece
Chryssi Bourbou, University of Crete

Breastfeeding and Weaning Patterns: Evidence from Human Remains and Written Sources
Chryssi Bourbou, University of Crete, and Sandra Garvie-Lok, University of Alberta

5:00 p.m.

Discussion

Sunday, April 30

Morning session: Cultural and Material Environment
Ioli Kalavrezou, Harvard University, Chair

9:15 a.m.

Childhood Education in Byzantium
Nikolaos Kalogeras, University of the Aegean

Constantinople and the Imperial Court as a Classroom: The Shaping of a Social Identity
Claudia Rapp, University of California at Los Angeles

10:45 a.m.

Discussion and break

11:30 a.m.

The Material Culture of Childhood
Brigitte Pitarakis, CNRS, Paris

12:00 p.m.

Discussion

12:10 p.m.

Conclusions and Comparisons with the Western Medieval World
Ronald Finucane, Oakland University

12:45 p.m.

Concluding Remarks
Alice-Mary Talbot, Dumbarton Oaks