Some Friday Varia

I’m traveling today, so the the picks are a bit more spartan than usual, but there are always things worth reading on the so-called internets.

At the end of the page, you’ll find the program for today’s colloquium at Dumbarton Oaks. You can read my paper here.

• Modern Greek Studies and Archaeology.
• Humans are not beetles.
• Women’s Golf and the Transformation of College Sports.
• An oddly fascinating history of F1 onscreen graphics.
• A cool watch story.
• Free poetry for the season.
• What I’m reading.
• What I’m listening to: Jaimie Branch, Fly or Die II.

Bargepole at The Beach

 

Here’s the rest of my day:

The Insular World of Byzantium
Program

Friday, November 15

8:30am                        Morning registration and coffee
9:00                Welcome (Anna Stavrakopoulou, Dumbarton Oaks)
9:15                 Introduction (Luca Zavagno and Nikolas Bakirtzis) 

Chair: Luca Zavagno

9:30-10:00       Salvatore Cosentino (Università di Bologna)
Pillars of Empire: The Economic Role of the Big Mediterranean Islands from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages

10:00-10:30     Sarah Davis-Secord (University of New Mexico)
Encounters on the Edge of the Empire: Muslims and Christians in Byzantine Sicilian Hagiography 

10:30-11:00     Q&A Session
11:00-11:15     Coffee Break 

11:15-11:45     Joanita Vroom (Leiden University)
From Euboia to Cyprus: Byzantine Trade in Context

11:45-12:15     Nikolas Bakirtzis (The Cyprus Institute)
Islands as Deserts: Monastic Practice, Patronage, and Control

12:15 – 12:45  Q&A Session
12:45 – 2:30     Lunch Break 

Chair: Nikolas Bakirtzis

2:30 – 3:00       William Caraher (University of North Dakota)
An Island Archaeology of Early Byzantine Cyprus

3:00-3:30         Luca Zavagno (Bilkent University)
“A Lost World That Never Died”: Urban Landscapes in the Byzantine Tyrrhenian in the Passage from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages

3:30-4:00         Q&A Session
4:00-4:15         Coffee Break 

4:15-4:45         Jonathan Shea (Dumbarton Oaks)
Ruling the Islands of Byzantium: Evidence for Administration and Government in the Sigillographic Material

4:45-5:00         Q&A Session 
5:00-5:30         Final discussion and concluding remarks