2013 Edinburgh University Seventh Century Colloquium
PROGRAMME
27th May
19.00 Informal drinks reception
(location to be announced)
28th May
8.00-9.00 Registration: Teviot
Lecture Theatre, Doorway 5, Old Medical School
9.00-10.00 Opening remarks:
Thomas J. MacMaster, University of Edinburgh
Keynote talk:
Hugh Kennedy, School of
Oriental and African Studies, University of London:
Islamic Late Antiquity
Revisited
10.00-11.15
Session
1 – Maintaining and changing identities
Moderator: Bethan Morris, University of
Edinburgh
Richard Broome, University of Leeds:
Approaches to the Frankish Community in the Chronicle
of Fredegar and Liber Historiae Francorum
Respondent: Roger Collins, University
of Edinburgh
Soléna Cheny, University of Paris 1-Sorbonne:
The Seventh Century in the Maghreb: between
Latin Antiquity and the Islamic Middle Ages
Respondent: Thomas J. MacMaster
11.15-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-13.30 Session 2 – Landscapes and settlements in transition
Moderator: Alessandro Gnasso,
University of Edinburgh
Mehrnoush Soroush, New York University:
Irrigation
in Khuzistan after the Sasanians: Continuity, Decline, or Transformation?
Respondent: Eberhard Sauer, University of Edinburgh
Paolo Forlin,
University of Trento, Universitè de Franche-Comté:
The periphery during the seventh century: the rise of a new landscape within
the core of the Alps (Valsugana, Trentino, Italy; Apsat Project)
Respondent: Helena Carr, University of
Sheffield
Giuseppe Cacciaguerra, University of Catania; Antonino
Facella, Scuola Normale Superiore; Luca Zambito, University of Messina:
Aspects of Settlement in Seventh Century Sicily
Respondent: Denis Sami, University of Leicester
13.30-14.30 Lunch, Jim McMillan
Room, School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, 1st floor
Poster Session, Jim
McMillan Room
Giuseppe Cacciaguerra, University of Catania:
The territory of
Syracuse in the VII Century: a landscape between continuity and transition
Martina Čechová, Institute of Slavonic Studies of the Academy
of Science of the Czech Republic:
Developmentof the 7th Century Cherson (on
the Euxine): Rise and Fall?
José Miguel Rosselló Esteve, Univerity of Granada:
Continuity and Discontinuity in the Balearic
Islands during the Byzantine period (VI-VIII centuries)
Paolo
Spadaro, Sapienza University of Rome
Early medieval lamps from the Civic Museum
of Franco Libero Belgiorno in Modica
Luca Zambito, University of Messina:
Aspects
of
Settlement in Seventh Century Sicily
14.30-16.30 Session 3 – Conceptualizing rulers, real and imagined
Moderator: Thomas J. MacMaster
Heidi Stoner, University of York:
Kings Without Faces: an examination of the
visual evidence for kingship in the seventh century
Respondent: Bethan Morris
Ryan J. Lynch,
University of Oxford:
Sons of the Muhājirūn: Some comments on ‘Abd
Allāh b. al-Zubayr and Legitimizing Power in the Second Fitna
Respondent: Nicola Clarke, University of Newcastle
16.30-16.45 Coffee break
16.45-18.45 Session 4 – Remembering the past in a time of
transformation
Moderator: Emanuele Intagliata,
University of Edinburgh
N. Kıvılcım Yavuz, University of Leeds:
‘Before and After the Chronicle of Fredegar:
The Trojan Narrative and the Franks’
Respondent: Alessandro Gnasso
Jane Freeborn, University of Edinburgh:
Power, Pride and the Environment in Later
Merovingian Gaul
Respondent: Yaniv Fox, University of
Cambridge
Majied Robinson, University of
Edinburgh:
Quantitative approaches to the rise of Islam
Respondent: Sarah Bowen Savant, Aga Khan University
18.45-19.00 Final remarks: Bethan
Morris
19.00 Reception, Jim
McMillan Room, School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, 1st
floor
29th May
9.15-10.45 Session 5 – Urban settlement in an age of change
Moderator: Emanuele Intagliata
Eisa Esfanjary, University of Edinburgh:
Geomorphology of Persian Cities in the early
Islamic period
Respondent: Hugh Kennedy
Ine Jacobs, University of Leuven and Vrije Universiteit Brussel:
From Early Byzantium to the Dark Ages at
Sagalassos
Respondent: James Crow, University of Edinburgh
10.45-11.15 Coffee break
11.15-13.15 Session 6 – Crossing boundaries, bridging cultures
Moderator: Bethan Morris
Alex Woolf, University of Saint
Andrews:
Sutton Hoo and Sweden
Respondent: Brian Wallace, University
of Edinburgh
Jörg Drauschke, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz:
The development of contacts and trade
between the Byzantine Empire and the Frankish Kingdom until the early 8th
century
Respondent: Thomas S. Brown, University of Edinburgh
Julio Miguel Roman Punzon, University of Granada; Miguel Jimenez Puertas, University of Granada; Jose C. Carvajal, University of Sheffield:
When the East came to the West: the seventh century in south-east Spain: living amongst Visigoths, Byzantines and Muslims
Respondent: Javier Martínez Jiménez, University
of Oxford
13.15-14.15 Lunch, Jim McMillan
Room, School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, 1st floor
14.15-16.15 Session 7 – Shifting frontiers and people in motion
Moderator: Thomas J. MacMaster
Helen Lawson, University of Edinburgh:
Abercorn’s abandonment: historiographical
contexts
Respondent: Adrian Maldonado, University of Glasgow
José Miguel Rosselló Esteve, Univerity of Granada; Pau
Marimon Ribas, University of Barcelona; Isabel Busquets Porcel, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia:
Continuity and Discontinuity in the Balearic
Islands during the Byzantine period (VI-VIII centuries)
Respondent: Danielle Donaldson, Radboud University
Marie Legendre, University
of Oxford:
Islamic Conquest, Territorial Reorganization
and Empire Formation: A Study of 7th Century Movements of Population
in the Light of Egyptian Papyri
Respondent: Andrew Marsham, University
of Edinburgh
16.15-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-18.30 Session 8 – Imagining the holy
Moderator: Alessandro Gnasso
Austin Mason, University of Minnesota:
The Early English Cult of Saints in Long-Term
Perspective
Respondent: Jamie Wood, University of
Lincoln
Caterina Franchi, University of Oxford:
Mirror, mirror on the wall: the King, the
Antichrist and the Last Emperor
Respondent: James Palmer, University of
Saint Andrews
18.30-19.00 Concluding remarks: Emanuele Intagliata
20.00 Conference dinner, Howies
Restaurant,
30th May
10.15-12.00 National Museum of Scotland
guided tour
