2006 Program - Spring Symposium

April 28–30, 2006

 

• Venue: The Meyer Auditorium, the Freer Gallery of Art
• Symposiarchs: Dr. Arietta Papaconstantinou, University of Paris, and Dr. Alice-Mary Talbot, Dumbarton Oaks

Friday, April 28

• • Morning session: Chair, Alice-Mary Talbot, Dumbarton Oaks

    • 9:45 am
      Edward Keenan and Alice-Mary Talbot, Dumbarton Oaks
      Welcoming Remarks
    • Arietta Papaconstantinou, University of Paris I
      Introduction

    • Definitions, Ideals, Representations

    • 10:30 am
      Günter Prinzing, University of Mainz
      The Status of Children and Adolescents in Byzantium under Law and in Court
    • Jane Baun, Oxford University
      Coming of Age in Byzantium: Rites of Passage for Children
    • 12:00 pm
      Discussion
  • 12:15 pm Lunch break

  • Afternoon session: Chair, Angeliki Laiou, Harvard University

    • 1:45 pm
      Dimiter Angelov, University of Birmingham
      Ideal Children: The Childhood of Great Men and Women
    • Béatrice Caseau, University of Paris IV
      Holy Childhood, Ordinary Childhood: Children in Saints' Lives
    • 3:15 pm
      Discussion and break
    • 4:00 pm
      Cecily Hennessy, Courtauld Institute
      The Visual Representation of Children in Byzantine Art
    • 4:45 pm
      Discussion
  • 5:30–7:30 pm Reception at Refectory, Dumbarton Oaks

• Saturday, April 29

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

    • 9:15 am
      Youval Rotman, Yale University
      Working Kids
    • Richard Greenfield, Queen's University, Kingston
      Children in Byzantine Monasteries: Innocent Hearts or Vessels in the Harbor of the Devil?
    • 10:45 am
      Discussion and break
    • 11:30 am
      Timothy Miller, Salisbury University
      From Foster Care to the Great Orphanotropheion
    • 12:15 pm
      Discussion
  • 12:30 pm Lunch break

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

    • 1:30 pm
      Marie-Hélène Congourdeau, CNRS, Paris
      Les variations du désir d'enfant à Byzance
    • Alice-Mary Talbot, Dumbarton Oaks
      The Death and Burial of Children
    • 3:00 pm
      Discussion and break
    • 3:45 pm
      Chryssi Bourbou, University of Crete
      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, and Sandra Garvie-Lok, University of Alberta
      Breastfeeding and Weaning Patterns: Evidence from Human Remains and Written Sources
    • 5:00 pm
      Discussion

• Sunday, April 30

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

    • 9:15 am
      Nikolaos Kalogeras, University of the Aegean
      Childhood Education in Byzantium
    • Claudia Rapp, University of California at Los Angeles
      Constantinople and the Imperial Court as a Classroom: The Shaping of a Social Identity
    • 10:45 am
      Discussion and break
    • 11:20 am
      Brigitte Pitarakis, CNRS, Paris
      The Material Culture of Childhood
    • 12:00 pm
      Discussion
    • 12:10 pm
      Ronald Finucane, Oakland University
      Conclusions and Comparisons with the Western Medieval World
    • 12:45 pm
      Alice-Mary Talbot, Dumbarton Oaks
      Concluding Remarks