of Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages (4th
to 11th
centuries)Diegesis in Greek Literature
Faculty of Arts | Masaryk University | Arna Nováka 1, Brno, Czech Republic | Small conference room – building C, 2nd
floor
Thursday 20th
November Friday 21st
November
11.00: Introduction
1st
SESSION:	 chair Alena Sarkissian (Prague)
11:15—11:50	Fotis Vasileiou (Paris), “For the sake of Chastity”: The Function of Violence against Women
in Early Christian Narrations
11:50—12:25	Przemysław Marciniak (Katowice), Eating children in Byzantium – the case of the demoness
Gello
12:20—14:30	 Lunch break
2nd
SESSION:	 chair Stephanos Efthymiadis (Nicosia)
14:30—15:05	 Markéta Kulhánková (Brno), Narrator – Hero – Author in the Spiritually Beneficial Tales
15:05—15:40 	Pietro D‘Agostino (Paris), The Narration of Zosimos in the scope of the Byzantine
‘diegesis genre’
15:40—16:10	 Coffee break
3rd
SESSION:	 chair Elisabeth Schiffer (Vienna)
16:10—16:45	 Alena Sarkissian (Prague), Euagrius literary influences on Climacus
16:45—17:20	Stephanos Efthymiadis (Nicosia), Diegeseis on Hagia Sophia from Late Antiquity
to Tenth-Century Byzantium
4th
SESSION:	 chair Stratis Papaioannou (Providence)
9:15—9:50	 Florin Leonte (Cambridge, MA), Space and Mobility in the Life of Lazaros of Mt. Galesion
9:50—10:25	Julia Mantova (Moscow), The Road in the Metaphoric Landscape of the Mid-Byzantine
Hagiography
10:25—11:00	 Coffee break
5th
SESSION:	 chair Petra Melichar (Prague)
11:00—11:35	Lev Lukhovitskiy (Moscow), Recollection, Reevaluation, Distortion: Symeon Metaphrastes’
Narrative Techniques in Retelling the History of Iconoclasm
11:35—12:10	Stratis Papaioannou (Providence), A Performance in the Church of the Virgin
at Chalkoprateia
12:10—12:30	 Concluding discussion
Accompanying events for the participants:
Wednesday 19th
November
	 19:00	Welcome drink (together with the participants of the conference Laetae Segetes IV)
Library of the Department of Classical Studies, Solniční 12, 2nd floor
Thursday 20th
November
	 19:00	Reception (together with the participants of the conference Laetae Segetes IV)
Kabaret Špaček, Kopečná 46
Friday 21st
November
	13:00	Farewell lunch