Detail of Sea Thiasos. Syria (present day Turkey). 2nd century. The Baltimore Museum of Art

L’Association International
pour l’Étude de la Mosaïque Antique
North American Branch Colloquium

October 6-7, 2017
Baltimore Museum of Art

Tentative Program

Evening of Thursday, October 5

5:00 p.m. – Social Hour at the Walters Art Museum (Cash Bar); more information coming.
The Museum is open until 9:00.

Morning of Friday October 6

9:00 a.m. – Conference Registration

9:45 – Welcome of Colloquium Participants

10:00 – Session I: Antioch Mosaics and a Current Mosaic Exhibition in Malibu

- Angela Elliott, “Changing Views: Antioch Mosaics at the Baltimore Museum of Art”

- Clément Tulet, “Transverse Study of Architectural Elements within the Domestic Spaces of Daphne,

Antioch”

- Alexis Belis, “Ancient Stones in Modern Times: An Exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum”

10:50 – Questions and Comments

11:00 – Session II: Mosaics and Paintings in Roman Campania

- John Dobbins, “Beyond the Alexander Mosaic: The Non-Figural Pavements in the House of the Faun at Pompeii”

- Anne Laidlaw, “The House of Sallust in 1840: The Aschaffenburg Model in the Pompeianum of King

Ludwig I”

- Elaine Gazda and John R. Clarke, “Exhibition of Wall Paintings from Oplontis, Villa A (“of Poppaea”):
Rediscoveries and Reconstructions of the Oplontis Project”

- Shana O’Connell, “Making Things Present: Perspective and the Depiction of Objects in Ancient

Pictorial Art”

12:15 – Questions and Comments

12:30 – Lunch Break

Afternoon of Friday October 6

2:00 – Session III: Mosaics of Sicily, North Africa, and Portugal

- Brigitte Steger, “Décor and Meaning: Understanding the Pavements of the Great Hunt Corridor in

Piazza Armerina’s Villa del Casale”

- Jeremy Rossiter, “The Hunt Mosaic from the Maison des Chevaux at Carthage: A Reconsideration”

- Maria de Jesus Duran Kremer, “From the Roman Mosaic to the Portuguese Sidewalk:
Continuity of an Artistic Expression in Time and Space”

2:50 – Questions and Comments

3:00 – Session IV, Part 1: Mosaics of Late Antiquity in Both the East and West

- Kara Burns, “Orpheus, Neoplatonism, and Romanitas”

- Stephanie Hagan, ”Collaborative Reconstruction: Visualizing the Late Antique Basilica of Junius Bassus”

- David Parrish, “Musical Themes in Late Antique Mosaics”

3:50 – Questions and Comments – Coffee Service

4:05 – Tour of the Antioch Mosaic Collection in the Baltimore Museum of Art

5:00 – Museum Closes for the Day

6:30 – Group Dinner in a Local Baltimore Restaurant

Morning of Saturday October 7

9:00 – Session IV, Part 2: Mosaics of Late Antiquity in Both the East and West

- Marie-Patricia Raynaud-Dubois, “Butrint (Albania), Mosaic Workshops and Lost Mosaics”

- Ivo Topalilov, “Some Notes on Sixth-Century Mosaics from Philippopolis, Thrace”

9:40 – Questions and Comments

9:50 – Session V: Mosaic Conservation

- Katherine Eremin, Elizabeth LaDuc, and Elizabeth Mollacek, “A Tethys Pavement at Harvard:

Art Historical and Scientific Analysis"

- Miguel Angelo Valero, Fernando-Juan Garcia-Diego, and Nuria Huete, “Statistical Tools Applied in the
Characterization and Evaluation of Thermo-Hygrometric Correction Carried Out at the Noheda Archaeological Site”

10:30 – Questions and Comments – Coffee Service

10:50 – Session VI: Mosaics and Painted Decoration of Christian and Jewish Buildings

- Ruth Kolarik, “Earliest Christian Floor Mosaics”

- Rafah Juejati, “The Mosaics of a Baptistery in Northwestern Syria”

- Rebecca Draughton and Jeanne-Marie Sellick, “A New Generation of Religious Studies Scholars
Revisits the Dura-Europos Synagogue”

- Irina Andreescu Treadgold,”Compositional Principles of the Earliest Mosaics of the Basilica of San

Marco, Venice”

12:00 – Questions and Comments – Coffee Service