the Medieval Studies Department at Central European University,the Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at CEU,
the Hungarian National Museum,
the Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and
the Lendület Research Group at the University of Debrecen
with the support of the Hungarian Ministry of Human Capacities and
the City Council of Belváros-Lipótváros (Budapest Fifth District)
9:30 Welcome and introduction
Miklós Soltész, Secretary of State, Ministry of Human Capacities
His Eminence Arsenios Kardamakis, Metropolitan of Austria and Exarch of Hungary
His Excellency Dimitri Yannakakis, Ambassador of the Republic of Greece
Daniel Ziemann, head, Medieval Studies Department, Central European University, Budapest
Marianne Sághy, Medieval Studies Department, Central European University, 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 bz the Hungarian National Museum
