Preliminary programme

14. July 2022 · Categories: Programme

Preliminary programme (PDF)

DАY 0 – TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25th

Arrival of the participants

17:00 Registration

18:00 Guided tour of the centre of Belgrade (details TBA)

DАY 1 – WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26th

08:30 Registration

09:00 Formal conference opening:

  • Prof. Dr Zoran Mirković, Dean of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, professor of Serbian Legal History
  • Emeritus Prof. Dr Sima Avramović, professor of Comparative Legal Tradition at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, head of the Organising Committee
  • Prof. Dr Milena Polojac, professor of Roman Law at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, Head of the Department of Legal History

9:30 First keynote lecture: Contesting a “divine” king’s status: a perspective from ancient Egypt
Emeritus Prof. Dr John Baines

  • Discussion

10:45 Short break

11:00 FIRST SESSION – QUALITIES OF A RULER / WHAT MAKES A GOOD RULER

  • Philostrati on the values of good governance  
    Dr Zoja Bojić
  • Greek Paideia as a prerequisite for a good ruler: the image of Constantius Chlorus and Julian the Apostate through early Christian panegyrics 
    Petar Nurkić, MA  
  • «Caesar is more ours than yours». Analyzing the depiction of Roman emperors in Tertullian’s Apologeticum
    Dr Álex Corona Encinas
  • Too Wise to Be an Emperor? Self-Image and Otherness in the Emperor Julian’s Misopogon
    Prof. Dr Dragana Dimitrijević
  • Discussion
  • Short break

12:45 SECOND SESSION – RELIGION

  • King of the Mountain? Medieval Hagiorite Perspectives on Ideal Rulership
    Dr Zachary Chitwood
  • “Sinners” Who Were Fit to Rule – the Throne Succession in 15th Century Wallachia:  from Diplomatics to History
    Dr Liviu Marius Ilie
  • No longer fit to rule: the conversion of prince Iliaș Rareș of Moldavia to Islam
    Dr Elena Firea
  • The Carbou Affair Revisited: Christianity, Gender, and Colonial Authority in Interwar Haute Côte d’Ivoire
    Wallace Teska
  • Wallensten´s Disposition about the Succession in the Duchy of Frýdlant
    Assist. Prof. Dr Marek Stary
  • Discussion

14:15 Lunch break

15:15 Second keynote lecture: Eupatridae vs. Kakopatridae in Alcaeus’ poetry: pedigree and bodily (im)perfection in the power struggle in archaic Lesbos
Assoc. Prof. Athina A. Dimopoulou

  • Discussion

16:30 Short break

16:45 THIRD SESSION – (LEGAL AND) POLITICAL CULTURE

  • How to dethrone an Ottoman sultan: the evolution of legal discourse in fetva between 17th and 20th century
    Assist. Prof. Dr Fatma Gül Karagöz
  • The influence of legal culture on authoritarian rule in post-socialist countries with an emphasis on the Republic of North Macedonia
    Prof. Dr Jasna Bachovska Nediḱ
    Assist. Prof. Dr Ognen Vangelov
  • Trials on Stage: The German Documentary Theatre of the 1960s
    Dr Zafiris Nikitas
  • (Un)fit to Rule: Public Speaking Skills of a Candidate
    Prof. Dr Daniela Blazhevska
  • Discussion

20:00 Conference Dinner – Restaurant “Madera” (details TBC)

DAY 2 – THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27th

9:30 Third keynote lecture: How Woman Became Fit to Rule
Emeritus Prof. Dr William E. Monter

  • Discussion

10:45 Short break

11:00 FOURTH SESSION – WOMEN IN POWER

  • Sobekneferu (c.1760–c.1755 BCE), first female ruler in Ancient Egypt – an overview of the legitimacy of her reign
    Prof. Dr Danijela Stefanović
  • Agrippina the Younger: empress that never ruled, mother of Nero
    Assist. Prof. Dr Mirjana Miškić (Bogunović)
  • The “Queen Manquant” and “le Roi”: Margaret Beaufort (1441/3-1509) and Anne of France (1461-1522)
    Dr Melina Rokai
  • Paradox Of Deborah In The Protestant Opposition To Gynecocracy In The Sixteenth-Century France
    Dr Ki-Won Hong
  • Alexander the Great, Ivan the Terrible and the Gynarchy: Towards the Sources of the First Letter of Tsar Ivan IV to Andrei Kurbskii
    Assist. Prof. Dr Fedor Veselov
  • Discussion
  • Short break

12:45 FIFTH SESSION – GENDER EQUALITY IN GOVERNING

  • A Shift Toward Equality In Royal Succession In European Monarchies
    Prof. Dr Igor Milinković
  • Women fit to govern in Aristophanes’ “Lysistrata”
    Pantelis Chalkias, MA
  • When Women Rule. Female Parliamentarians In The Weimar Republic (1918-1933)
    Prof. Dr Marion Röwekamp
  • Electoral Representation Of Women On National And Local Level: Are Women Fit To Govern In Republic Of North Macedonia?
    Assoc. Prof. Dr Hristina Runcheva Tasev
    Assoc. Prof. Dr Katerina Shapkova Kocevska
  • Discussion

14:15 Lunch break

15:15 Fourth keynote lecture: Medicine in the service of political calculation in Byzance
Prof. Dr Peter Schreiner
Prof. Dr Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann

  • Discussion

16:30 Short break

16:45 SIXTH SESSION – DISABILITIES AND WEAKNESSES

  • Philip III Arrhidaios, king of Macedonia. A puppet king?
    Αssoc. Prof. Dr Ioannis Xydopoulos
  • Baldwin IV The Leper – Fit To Rule, But Unfit To Live Enough
    Assoc. Prof. Dr Miloš P. Stanković
  • “Deformity as a qualification: the case of Byzantine court eunuchs”
    Konstantinos Diados, MA
  • The Weakling and the Outsider: Disability and Discrimination in the Reign of King Ferdinand IV and Queen Maria Carolina of Naples-Sicily
    Dr Jonathan Singerton
  • ‘Unfit to rule’ Modern Japan – The debate leading to the replacement of Emperor Taisho by a regent in 1921
    Prof. Dr Christian Oberländer
  • Discussion

DAY 3 – FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28th

9:30 Fifth keynote speaker: Crimen laesae majestatis: fit or unfit to rule?
Prof. Dr Kalliopi Bourdara

  • Discussion

10:45 Short break

11:00 SEVENTH SESSION – POLITICS AND POWER

  • Athenian tyrants in the Hellenistic and Roman periods: Challenges to power
    Aleksandar Simić, MA
  • “The legal system of Classical Athens as a catalyst for political persecution: The impeachment of Alcibiades”
    Thomas A. Kompos, MA
  • Didius Julianus, The Roman Emperor Who Assumed The Purple By Giving The Best Offer On The Auction For The Throne
    Dr Milan S. Dimitrijević
  • The “Unfit” Royal Heirs in Ancient and Medieval Georgia
    Prof. Dr Mariam Chkhartishvili
  • Discussion
  • Short break

12:30 EIGHTH SESSION – LEGITIMACY AND CLAIMS

  • Prince Demetre (Demna) in Georgian Historiography
    Sopio Kadagishvili, MA
  • Ruler and Power: Question of Legitimacy
    Dr Nasser Michaëlene-Gabryel
  • Acceptance and Rejection of Emperors in the Byzantine Civil War of 1341-1354
    Prof. Dr Srđan Pirivatrić
  • Foreign armed intervention to remove an unfit ruler in the law of nations
    Prof. Dr Marco Roscini
  • “Knight-King”: King Alexander I Karadjordjević on the protection of the Russian emigration in the 1920s and 1930s
    Dr Natalia Turygina
  • Discussion

14:15 Lunch break

15:15 Sixth keynote lecture: Biblical hermeneutics of disruption: The dissonance between political power and divine grace in the order of succession as a moral warning to rulers
Assoc. Prof. Dr Ioannis Papadopoulos

  • Discussion

16:30 Short break

16:45 NINTH SESSION – SUCCESSION

  • Controversy in the Georgian Royal Family in 11th-12th Centuries and the falsed Testament of David the Builder
    Dr Zurab Targamadze
  • Adoption And The Fitness To Rule: Legal And Linguistic Perspectives In Mediaeval Bulgaria
    Prof. Dr Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova
    Prof. Dr Ivan Biliarsky
  • Succession and the political context of the “unfit to rule” concept in Serbian medieval history
    Prof. Dr Smilja Marjanović-Dušanić
  • Fit for a Regent? Princess Milica as a Ruler during her Son’s Minority
    Assist. Prof. Dr Nina Kršljanin
  • The Succession Crisis in the Serbian Despotate (1458-1459) and the Prerequisites of a Ruler: None Fit to Rule!
    Đorđe Stepić
  • Discussion

18:30 TENTH SESSION – STUDENT SESSION

TBA

Closing of the conference

DAY 4 – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29th

Road trip by bus – visits to monasteries, lunch

(details TBA)

Departure of the participants