Session One – Hermeneutics of Preaching
The Homiletic Audience as Embodied Hermeneutic: Scriptural Interpretation as Psychagogy in the Preaching of John Chrysostom
Professor Wendy Mayer
John Damascene’s Homily on the Withered Fig Tree: Exegetical and Panegyrical Preaching in Interaction
Fr Dr Damaskinos Olkinuora
John Damascene on the Transfiguration of the Lord: Mystical Homiletic Performance and Eschatological Hermeneutics
Dr Vassilis Adrahtas
Session Two – Community and Identity in Early Byzantine Homilies and Hymns
The Theotokos as Selective Intercessor for Souls in Early Byzantine Homilies and Hymns
Professor Bronwen Neil
Sophronius of Jerusalem’s Sermons on the Arabs
Dr Ryan Strickler
Modelling the Saints on Biblical Characters: On the Use of Typology in Byzantine Hagiographical Hymns
Dr Kosta Simic
Session Three – Performative Aspects of Byzantine Hymns 
“They are indeed a mighty enchantment”: The Act of Imperial Hymn-Singing in Early Byzantium
Dr Meaghan McEvoy
Individuals and Community: Performing Christian Identity in the Kontakia of Romanos
Dr Sarah Gador-Whyte
The Tears of a Harlot: Kassia’s On the Sinful Woman and the Biblical Mosaic of Salvation
Dr Andrew Mellas
Session Four – From Antiquity to Mt Athos via Egypt and Syria
The Eye of the Soul in Plato and pseudo-Macarius: Alexandrian Theology and the Roots of Hesychasm
A/Professor Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides
Syriac Hymnography before Ephrem
A/Professor Scott Johnson
Homiletic Patristic Tradition in Eleventh-Century Byzantine Hagiography: The Case of the Vita A of St Athanasius the Athonite
John Theodoridis
