With the support of the Hungarian Ministry of Human Resources and with the high patronage of Cardinal Peter Erdo
9:30 Welcome and introduction by Daniel Ziemann and Marianne Sághy (CEU, Budapest)
Session I – Chair: Pál Fodor (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest)
9:45-10:15 Attila Bárány (University of Debrecen) Diplomatic Relations between Hungary and Byzantium in the Eleventh-Twelfth Centuries
10:15 – 10:45 Roman Shlyakhtin (CEU, Budapest) Empress Eirene in the Poems of Nicholas Kallikles
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
Session II – Chair: Gábor Klaniczay (CEU, Budapest)
11:15-12:15 Michael Jeffreys (Oxford University) The Family Poet of Piroska-Eirene’s Children: Manganeios Prodromos and the Hungarians
12:30-14:00 Lunch
Session III – Chair: Volker Menze (CEU, Budapest)
14:00-14:30 Maximilian Lau (Oxford University) Piroska-Eirene, an Empress from the West
14:30-15:00 Roberta Franchi (Pisa/Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest) Imperial Women under the Komneni
15:00-15:30 Sandro Nikolaishvili (CEU, Budapest) Female Power between the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds: The Example of Queen Tamar
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
Session IV – Chair: Niels Gaul (CEU, Budapest)
16:00-16:30 Elif Demirtiken (CEU, Budapest) The Politics of (Female) Monastic Foundations in Komnenian Constantinople
16:30-17:00 Marianne Sághy (CEU, Budapest) Healing and Salvation: the Christ Pantokrator Hospital
17:00-17:30 Etele Kiss (Hungarian National Museum, Budapest) Piroska-Eirene and the Holy Theotokos
17:30-18:00 Coffee Break
Session V – Chair: Daniel Ziemann (CEU, Budapest)
18:00-19:00 keynote lecture
Robert Ousterhout (University of Pennsylvania) Piroska and the Pantokrator
Champagne Reception offered by the Hungarian National Museum
CEU Medieval Radio 