S U M M A R Y

June 3 (Friday)

- 17,30 - Ceremonial Opening (Master of Ceremony, Mrs. Ivana Jocić)

• Welcome Address – dr Miša Rakocija
• Blessing by Bishop of Niš, Mr. Arsenije
• Welcome Address – Mayor of the City of Niš, Mrs. Dragana Sotirovski
• Welcome Address – rector Prof. dr Dragan Antić
•  Official  Symposium Opening - academician prof.dr Miodrag Marković
• Promotion of Proceedings No20 – Prof. dr Branka Vranesević (Belgrade)
• Cocktail at Niš University Hall

Chair: dr Olga Špeher (Belgrade)

1. 18,30-18,45 – dr Dubravka Preradović (Belgrade)
Renewal of the cult of the Holy Martyrs Ermil and Stratonik and their contemporary representationss in Belgrade temples

2. 18,45-19,00 – academician prof.dr Miodrag Marković (Belgrade)
Social standing of  Byzantine painters and of the countries under its cultural influence

3. 19,00-19,15 - dr Andreas Pülz (Vienna)
Тhe episcopal residence in Еphesus

4. 19,15-19,30 – dr Miša Rakocija (Niš)
On the unique early Byzantine Ionian impost capitals from the south of Serbia

5. 19.30-19,45 - Dr Perica Špeher (Belgrade)
Restoration of the Byzantine Danube limes in the light of new archeological excavations of the Egeta sites

6.  19,45-20,00 – dr Olga Špeher, dr Branka Vranesević  (Belgrade)
Toward comprehension of the iconography of the bronze flagon from Pontes with an inscription from the 29th Psalm of David

7.  20,00-20,15 – dr Jasmina S. Ćirić (Kragujevac)
World's heritage in danger: monastery Mateič, twenty years after the armed conflict

8.  20,15-20,30 – Dušan Andrejević (Niš)
Gathering sources of history on Niš Fortress - challenges, methodology and expectations

20,30 - 20,45 discussion

June 4 (Saturday)

Chair: dr Jasmina Šaranac Stamenković (Niš)

1. 09,00 - 09,15 – dr Graham Jones (Oxford)
Helenopolis in the Galilee: empress in the footsteps of Christ?

2. 09,15 - 09,30 – dr Ivica Čairović (Belgrade)
Anglo-Saxon studies within the framework of  Byzantine studies

3. 09,30 - 09,45 – dr Zlatomira Gerdzhikova (Sofia)
Аrians of power – Ursacius of Singidunum and Valens of Mursa

4. 09,45 - 10,00 - Milen Markov (Sofia)
Fourth century Arian episcopal seas in the Balkan

5. 10,00 - 10,15 – Slaviša Tubin, deacon (Bijeljina)
The cult of the Most Holy Mother of God in the Byzantine army of the 10th century

10,15 - 10,30 – discussion

Chair: dr Dragoljub Marjanović (Belgrade)

6. 10,30 - 10,45 – dr Jasmina Šaranac Stamenković (Niš)
Michael Psellos on the beauty of expression

7. 10,45 - 11,00 – Miloš Pavlović (Niš)
The Serbs as the "new Israel" in the political ideology of King Uroš I

8. 11,00 - 11,15 – dr Marco Fasolio (Torino)
In the net of the Palaiologoi: dynastic relationships between Montferrat and Serbia in the shadow of Byzantium, 14th-15th centuries

9. 11,15 - 11,30 – Nebojša Šuletić (Niš)
Bishop Joanikije of Niš and Toplica (1702–1734)

10. 11,30 - 11,45 – dr Dragoljub Marjanović (Belgrade)
Byzantine paradigm regarding anchorites and emperors and their mutual relations and relations – diptych

Chair: dr Ivo Topalilov (Sofia)

11. 11,45 - 12,00 – Vladimir Petkov, Genčo Dimitrov (Nova Zagora)
Конструкция и градеж на епископската базилика в Партикополис -гр.Сандански

12. 12,00 - 12,15 – dr Vania Popova (Sofia)
The influence and role of Constantinople in the development of culture in the central and eastern Balkans

13. 12,15 - 12,30 – Marina Perseng (Sofia)
Тhe floor mosaic decoration from the post-Justinian period to the beginning of the 7th century from the late antique provinces of the Balkans

14. 12,30 - 12,45 – Valeria Kuvatova (Moscow)
Stone veneer imitation in the crypt with anchor origin and connotations

15. 12,45 - 13,00 – dr Ivo Topalilov (Sofia)
The basilicas with poligonal apse in thrace in the second half of 5th century

16. 13,00 - 13,15 – dr Svetla Petrova (Sofia)
The one-aisle early christian churches from the territory of southwestern Bulgaria

13,15 - 13,30 – discussion

Chair: dr Ioannis Sisiou (Kastoria)

17. 13,30 - 13,45 – Ognjen Tutić (Sremska Mitrovica)
Late antiique capital with a scene of hunting from the episcopal basilica at Stobi

18. 13,45 - 14,00 – dr Andrea M. Pülz (Vienna)
Рegional vs. interregional style, illustrated by a special kind of byzantine jewelry

19. 14,00 - 14,15 – dr  Ariadia Voronova (Moscow)
The shape of the tent in Russian architecture of the 16th century and particular questions upon the same shape in Serbian and Romanian architecture

20. 14,15 - 14,30 – dr Branislav J. Cvetković (Jagodina)
Revisiting chronology issues in Ravanica

21. 14,30 - 14, 45 – dr Smiljka Gabelić (Belgrade)
An interdisciplinary approach to the Byzantine and post-Byzantine sites

22. 14,45 - 15,00 – dr Ioannis Sisiou (Kastoria)
Ο κύκλος των Μεγάλων Εορτών στο ναό των Αγίων Αναργύρων Καστοριάς

23. 15,00 - 15,15 – dr Dragana Pavlović (Belgrade)
Representations on the western domed arch of the the Holy Virgin Church at Gradac

15,15 - 15,30 – discussion

Chair: dr Dragan Pavlović (Belgrade)

24. 15,30 - 15,45 – Dimitrios Sisiou (Kastoria)
Ο διάκοσμος του Αγίου Νικολάου Καρύδη στην Καστοριά

25.  15,45 -16,00 – dr Andjela Gavrilović (Belgrade)
"Wonderful and the most artistic" or about a special artistic and literary tradition of describing the way stones are laid on the facades of the Decani Catholicon

26. 13,00 -16,15 – dr Anna Zakharova (Moscow)
Оn the 10th-11th century churches in Kastoria: the problems of attribution and dating

27. 16,15 - 16,30 – Maksim Onufrienko (Moscow)
The subject of the vision of st. Gregory the theologian in the post-byzantine art

28. 16,30 -16,45 – hieromonk Ignjatije / Uroš Djordjević (Niš)
Re-distribution and dating of Longin's throne icons from Decani

29. 16,45 - 17,00 – Danica Komnenović (Belgrade)
Contribution to the study of the miniature of the Four Gospels nbs rs 648

30. 17,00 -17,15 – Goran Janićijević (Istočno Novo Sarajevo)
Motherhood and mourning in the focus of the wall painting of the Holy Virgin Church at Donja Kamenica

31. 17, 15 -17, 30 – dr Lars Ramskold (Stockholm)
The PLVRA NATAL FEL forgeries of Constantine I

32. 17,30 -17,45 - Александра Димитријевић (Косовска Митровица)
Питање постојања куле звоника над спољном припратом манастира Грачанице

33. 17,45 -18,00 – dr Ronald Bude (Michigan/USA)
The Anti-Christian So-Called Civic Coinage of Maximinus II Daia of 312 AD

34. 18,00 – dr Ivo Topalilov (Sofia), dr Zlatomira Gerdzhikova (Sofia)
Presentation of the Laboratory for the Study of Late Antiquity in the Balkans and the Late Antique Encyclopedia: LABEDIA

18,00 - 18,15 – discussion, end of working session

June 5 (Sunday)

- 09,30 - Reception at Niš City Hall

- 10,00 - 14,00 - Tour of cultural monuments: the Cathedral, the Museum of Church Antiquities, the Monastery of St. Jovan (St.John the Baptist), the Latin Church at the village of Gornji Matejevac.