Workshop: “Church Building in Cyprus (4th to 7th Centuries)

Workshop: “Church Building in Cyprus (4th to 7th Centuries) – a Mirror of Intercultural Contacts in the Eastern Mediterranean”

Location: Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz (Germany); 9–11 June 2016  

Programme
Thursday, 9 June, 3:00 – 7:15
3:00 – 3:30     Introduction:
Marietta Horster, Sabine Rogge, Doria Nicolaou  
Panel “Christian Communities and Church-Building, 4th-7th Centuries”:
3:30 – 4:15 Eleni Prokopiou: “New Evidence for the Early Byzantine Ecclesiastical Architecture in Cyprus” 
4:15 – 5:00 Stefanos Efthymiadis: “The Cult of Saints in Early Byzantine Cyprus as Mirrored in Church Building and Epigraphy”
Coffee Break (15 min.)
5:15 – 6:00 Tomas Lehmann: “Zur Architektur und Ausstattung von spätantiken Bischofskirchen auf Zypern“
6:15 – 7:15 Keynote presentation: Demetrios Michaelidis (University of Cyprus, Nicosia): “Mosaic Decoration in Early Christian Cyprus”
 
Friday, 10 June, 9:00 – 12:15 and 2:15 – 6:30
Panel “Interior Arrangement and Theological Concepts”: 
9:00 – 9:45 Doria Nicolaou: “Liturgical Structures of Early Christian Basilicas of Cyprus: a Spatial Analysis” 
9:45 – 10:30 Ourania Michail: “The Early Christian Baptismal Complexes of Cyprus and Their Liturgical Arrangement”
Coffee Break (15 min.)
10:45 – 11:30 Chrysovalantis Kyriacou: “Spirituality and Hexis: Tracing the Christian Habitus in the basilicas of Early Byzantine Cyprus”
11:30 – 12:15 Phryni Hadjichristofi: “New Evidence on the Interior Decoration of the Early Christian Basilicas of Cyprus: The Case of Mosaics”
Panel “‘International Byzantine Style’? Local Traditions and Adaptations In- and Outside Cyprus”:  
2:15 – 3:00 Cäcilia Fluck: “Churches in Egypt in Late Antiquity: Urban, Rural and Monastic Evidence” 
3:00 – 3:45 Stephan Westphalen: “Church Building in Cilicia”
Coffee Break 4:15 – 5:00 Ute Verstegen: “Early Christian Ecclesiastical Architecture in Palestine and its Impact on Church Building on Cyprus”
5:00 – 5:45 Rainer Warland: “Church Building in Cappadocia. Local Traditions and Crossroads of Workshops”
5:45 – 6:30 Rudolf Haensch: “Kirchenbauinschriften in Zypern im Licht der epigraphischen Überlieferung aus dem spätantiken Kleinasien und Syrien“
 
Saturday, 11 June, 9:00 – 12:00 PM
Panel “Building the Christian City”: 
9:00 – 9:45 Georgios Deligiannakis: “The Last Pagans of Cyprus” 
9:45 – 10:15 Giorgios Papantoniou: “Unlocking Sacred Landscapes – Project Presentation”
Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:15 Athanasios Vionis: “Settled and Sacred Landscapes of Cyprus: The Relationship of Church and Landscape in Byzantine Kofinou”
11:15 – 12:00 Concluding discussion

Organisator: Marietta Horster, Department of History, University of Mainz, Sabine Rogge, Institute for Interdisciplinary Cypriot Studies, University of Münster and Doria Nicolaou, WissenschaftsCampus Mainz.

Cooperation: University of Cyprus, Nicosia; Institute for Interdisciplinary Cypriot Studies, University of Münster; WissenschaftsCampus Mainz
Registration/Anmeldung: Zur Teilnahme und insbesondere zum Abendvortrag von Prof. Demetrios Michaelidis (University of Cyprus, Nicosia): “Mosaic Decoration in Early Christian Cyprus” am Donnerstag, 9. Juni 2016 um 18.15 Uhr sind interessierte Gäste eingeladen. 
Wegen der begrenzten Plätze melden Sie sich bitte für eine Teilnahme an der Veranstaltung bei Frau Anne Schlesingern an: anschles@students.uni-mainz.de. 

Participation is free, but please register for the workshop as the number of places limited. Please email Anne Schlesinger: anschles@students.uni-mainz.de.