Liturgy and Hymnody in Byzantium Across Centuries and Spaces - 22-23/11/2018, Moscow (Russia)
On 22–23 November 2018 the Centre for Medieval Studies, School of History, HSE is delighted to be running the international conference 'Liturgy and Hymnody in Byzantium Across Centuries and Spaces. This event brings together scholars from across a spectrum of specializations, affiliations, and academic traditions to look at Byzantine liturgy and hymnography across a consider'able time span. Through talks and exchange of various kinds of academic expertise, we aim to seek new insights into the historical development of Christian liturgical ritual, hymn-writing and singing from the earliest times into late Byzantine epoch.
FECHA / DATE/DATA: 22-23/11/2018
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Higher School of Humanities Main Building (Moscow, Russla)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: The Centre for Medieval Studies, Higher School of Humanities (Moscow)
INFO: web
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: Deadline: 20/11/2018
Se ruega enviar un email a /please contact /sono pregati di inviare una e-mail a Natalia Tarasova at ntarasova@hse.ru De
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
22 November
HSE Main building, 20 Myasnitskaya street, Room 101
11–11.45 Registration & Coffee
11.45–12.00 Opening remarks
Session One. Framing the Prayer: Byzantine Liturgy and Hymnody in Contrasting Academic Perspectives (chair Stig Frøyshov)
12.00–13.00 Harald Buchinger (University of Regensburg) Earliest Christian Liturgy in Recent Scholarship: a Critical Review of the Last Decade
13.00–14.00 Alexander Lingas (City University, London) Hymnody of the Constantinopolitan Cathedral Rite in Musically Notated Source
14.00–15.00 Lunch break
Session Two. Late Antique Backdrop: Hymns, Homilies, and Liturgy in Early Byzantium (chair Arkadiy Avdokhin)
15.00–16.00 Mikhail Zheltov (United Ecclesial Graduate School, Moscow) Alphabetic Acrostic Poems in early Christian Papyri
16.00–17.00 Thomas Arentzen (Dumbarton Oaks Library, Washington) Holy Week in Late Antique Constantinople: Discombobulations
23 November
HSE Main building, 20 Myasnitskaya street, Room 101
Session Three. Liturgy and the Local: Specific Centres and Patterns in Prayer and Hymn-Singing (Chair Alexander Lingas)
9.00–10.00 Alexandra Nikiforova (St Tikhon University, Moscow) Local Features in Sinai Tropologia, 9th–10th centuries
10.00–11.00 Arkadiy Avdokhin (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) Singers Silently Speaking: Psalm-Singers in Coptic Inscriptions from Bawit (Middle Egypt)
11.00–11.20 Coffee break
Session Four. Form in Focus: Literary Aspects of Byzantine Hymnody (chair Harald Buchinger)
11.20–12.20 Roman Krivko (University of Vienna) Byzantine Models of the Earliest Church Slavonic Liturgical Poetry: Aspects of Poetic Form
12.20–13.20 Stig Froyshov (University of Oslo) Kata stichon Hymnography in the Horologion
13.20–14.30 Lunch break
Session Five. Individual Impact: Case-Studies of Prominent Personalities in the Making of Liturgy (chair Mikhail Zheltov)
14.30–15.30 Ksenia Morugina (Russian Academy of Science, Moscow) Patriarch Philotheus Kokkinos: a Comparison of Textual Variants of his Canon to St Nicholas
15.30–16.30 Sergey Kim (Moscow Theological Academy, Moscow & Paris) St George of Athos: Constantinopolitan and Antiochene Greek Originals of his Georgian Translations
16.30–16.50 Coffee break
16.50–17.30 Open floor discussion & concluding remarks
18.30 – Conference dinner