UCLA Workshop in Medival/Early Modern Slavic Studies

[Ron Vroon]

The UCLA Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, in 
cooperation with the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and, 
the Center for European and Eurasian Studies.Department, is pleased to 
announce the ELEVENTH ANNUAL WINTER WORKSHOP IN MEDIEVAL  AND EARLY 
MODERN SLAVIC STUDIES, to be held on Friday, February 16 on the UCLA 
campus, Royce Hall 306.  The program follows:

Friday, February 16, 2007

I. Byzantine, Kievan, Comparative:  Session 1: 9:00-10:30
Gail Lenhoff, UCLA: Welcoming Remarks
Heidi Sherman, U. Wisconsin, Green Bay: "Staking the Novgorodian 
Frontier: Ladoga's Twelfth-Century Churches as Landscape Markers"
Olenka Pevny, U. Richmond:  "Breaking the Barriers of Princely 
Patronage: The Fresco Cycle of St. Cyril of Alexandria and Byzantine 
Religiosity in Medieval Kiev"
David Prestel, Michigan State: "How Sacred the Cross: Could Oaths Be 
Broken in Kievan Rus?"

Session 2: 10:35-12:15
Donald Ostrowski, Harvard:  "Redating the Life of Aleksandr Nevskii"
Julia Verkholantsev, U. Pennsylvania: ""Latin Cyrillic Prayers and the 
Kleparz Glagolite Monks"
Boris Todorov, UCLA: "Bulgarian Saints in the Roman Space according to 
the Fourteenth-Century Prolog(s)"
Robert Romanchuk, Florida State U.:  "The Uses of Study in Elite 
Orthodox Convents (Byzantium and Serbia, 14th-15th Centuries)"

Lunch Break 12:15-2:00

II. Muscovite and Early Modern:  Session 1: 2:00-3:15
David Miller, Roosevelt U.: "Monks of Elite Origin at the Major 
Monasteries.  Did Trinity Have More of Them and, If So, Why?"
David Goldfrank, Georgetown U.: "Devotees of Nil Sorskii among the 
Elders of the Iosifo-Volokolamskii Monastery in the Fifteenth Century"
Janet Martin, U. Miami: "Military Service as a Condition of Pomest'e 
Landholding"

Session 2:  3:30-4:45
Ann Kleimola, U. Nebraska: "The Emergence of a North Russian Artistic 
Center: the Antonievo-Siiskii Monastery"
Daniel Kaiser, Grinnell: "The Testament of a Seventeenth-Century 
Peasant from the Russian North"
Georg Michels, UC Riverside: "The Transformation of Russian Church 
Power under Patriarch Filaret (1619-33)"

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