Saturday, February 7, 2015
History Department Conference Room, 005 Keene-Flint
Please note: Papers will be no longer than 20-25 minutes so that there is sufficient time for discussion after each.
8:30 Coffee and Bagels
8:45 Welcome
9:00-9:45 Florin Curta (Department of History, University of Florida), “Of amphorae and seals: the sub-Byzantine’ Avars and the quaestura exercitus”
9:45-10:30 Ralph Patrello (Department of History, University of Florida), “High on pots: Ceramics production and consumption in the early medieval city”
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:30 Nancy Wicker (Department of Art History, University of Mississippi), “Reception and Reinterpretation of the Late Antique in Scandinavia: From Late Roman Medallions to Migration Period Bracteates”
11:30-12:15 Ismail Kugu (School of Art and Art History, University of Florida), “Adoption and Adaptation in the Way of Creating New Artistic Expression: Byzantine Influences on the Umayyad`s Art on Religious and Secular Buildings Throughout the Mediterranean”
12:15-1:00 Catered Lunch on location
1:00-1:45 Michael Decker (Department of History, University of South Florida), “Egypt in the Wine Trade of the Late Antique and Early Medieval Mediterranean”
1:45-2:30 Ashley Jones, (School of Art and Art History, University of Florida), “The Shifting Frontier: Iconographies of Power in a Post-Imperial Age.”
2:30-2:45 Coffee Break
2:45-3:45 Rebecca Devlin (Department of History, University of Florida), “Patronage, Commerce and Conflict in Gallaecia: An Archaeological Case Study of the Trial at the First Council of Toledo”
3:45 – 4:30 Bonnie Effros (Department of History, University of Florida), “Rearranging the Stones:Lambaesis in French Colonial Imagination”
4:30 Closing Remarks
This event is sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (Rothman Endowment).