Late Antique Mosaics: Current Research and Conservation Strategies in East and West of the Mediterranean University of Vienna 11-12 December 2020 Organisers: Basema Hamarneh and Davide Bianchi Institut für Klassische Archäologie For further information: https://klass-archaeologie.univie.ac.at/ https://de-de.facebook.com/christian.archaeology.vienna/ Institut für Klassische Archäologie Franz Klein-Gasse 1 1190 Wien THE CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD ONLINE! FRIDAY, 11 th DECEMBER 2020 10:30 – 11:00 Informal greetings 11.00 – 11.15 Basema HAMARNEH – Introduction 11.20 – 11.45 Liz JAMES (University of Sussex): Late Antique Mosaics and the Numbers Game 11.50 – 12.15 Fabrizio BISCONTI (Università degli Studi Roma Tre): Mosaici cristiani della Tarda Antichità in Campania. Verifiche cronologiche e puntualizzazioni iconografiche 12.30 – 14.00 BREAK 14.00 – 14.25 Rina TALGAM (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Contacts and Disputes between Jews and Christians in Galilean Synagogue Mosaics 14.30 – 14.55 Marek OLSZEWSKI (University of Warsaw): Mosaics as History. A return to Hellenistic origins in Late Antiquity’s Apamea of Syria 15.00 – 15.15 BREAK 15.15 – 15.40 Davide BIANCHI (Universität Wien): Altar and Mosaic Floor. Displaying the Sacred in the Churches of Jordan 15.45 – 16.20 Franco SCIORILLI (Amman): From the Birth of the Madaba School to the Restorations of the 1990s SATURDAY, 12 th DECEMBER 2020 10.00 – 10.25 Henry MAGUIRE (Johns Hopkins University): Materials and Meaning at Poreč and Ravenna 10.30 – 10.55 Ana SILKATCHEVA (The Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford): The Promising Potential of Patterns: the Distribution of Geometric Motifs across the Mosaics of the Late Antique Levant 11.00 – 11.15 BREAK 11.15 – 11.40 Matteo BRACONI (Università degli Studi Roma Tre): Il monogramma perduto. Papa Adriano I e il mosaico del catino absidale di Santa Pudenziana a Roma 11.45 – 12.15 Lihi HABAS (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): The Motif of the Knife, Sickle and Fruit in the House of God in the Byzantine Art of the Holy Land 12.20 – 12.40 Basema HAMARNEH (Universität Wien): Mosaics as Markers of Change: the Case of the Churches of Rihab (Provincia Arabia) 12.45 – 13.00 Final remarks © SBF Jerusalem