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 |
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9:45 a.m. |
Welcoming Remarks Introduction |
Morning session: Definitions, Ideals, Representations
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10:30 a.m. |
The Status of Children and Adolescents in Byzantium under Law and in Court Coming of Age in Byzantium: Rites of Passage for Children |
12:00 p.m. |
Discussion |
12:15 p.m. |
Lunch Break |
Afternoon session
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1:45 p.m. |
Ideal Children: The Childhood of Great Men and Women Holy Childhood, Ordinary Childhood: Children in Saints' Lives |
3:15 p.m. |
Discussion and break |
4:00 p.m. |
The Visual Representation of Children in Byzantine Art |
4:45 p.m. |
Discussion |
5:30–7:30 p.m. |
Reception at Refectory, Dumbarton Oaks |
Saturday, April 29 |
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Morning session: Realities of Childhood
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9:15 a.m. |
Working Kids Children in Byzantine Monasteries: Innocent Hearts or Vessels in the Harbor of the Devil? |
10:45 a.m. |
Discussion and break |
11:30 a.m. |
From Foster Care to the Great Orphanotropheion |
12:15 p.m. |
Discussion |
12:30 p.m. |
Lunch break |
Afternoon session: Birth and Death
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1:30 p.m. |
Les variations du désir d'enfant à Byzance The Death and Burial of Children |
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 Breastfeeding and Weaning Patterns: Evidence from Human Remains and Written Sources |
5:00 p.m. |
Discussion |
Sunday, April 30 |
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Morning session: Cultural and Material Environment
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9:15 a.m. |
Childhood Education in Byzantium Constantinople and the Imperial Court as a Classroom: The Shaping of a Social Identity |
10:45 a.m. |
Discussion and break |
11:30 a.m. |
The Material Culture of Childhood |
12:00 p.m. |
Discussion |
12:10 p.m. |
Conclusions and Comparisons with the Western Medieval World |
12:45 p.m. |
Concluding Remarks |