December 1, 2016
| 09.00-18.00 | Registration |
| 09.30-09.45 | Mark Janse & Geert Jacobs, Head of the Department of Linguistics (welcome) |
| 09.45-10.15 | Klaas Bentein (Ghent University) Introduction: Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek |
| 10.15-11.15 | Plenary lecture (Martti Leiwo, University of Helsinki) Chair: Klaas Bentein |
| 11.15-11.45 | Coffee & tea break |
| 11.45-13.15 | Session 1: Linguistic variation in Post-classical and Byzantine Greek Chair: Emilio Crespo |
| 11.45-12.15 | Carla Bruno (Università per Stranieri, Siena) Tense forms in Greek Ptolemaic papyri: epistolary uses and diachronic drifts |
| 12.15-12.45 | Patrick James (University of Cambridge) Greek in the Desert City: terms of address and directives in the Sayings of the Desert Fathers and the Spiritual Meadow of John Moschos |
| 12.45-13.15 | Julie Boeten (Ghent University) Metrical Varieties in the Ὥσπερ ξένοι Book Epigrams |
| 13.15-14.30 | Lunch Break |
| 14.30-15.30 | Session 2: Greek in Egypt (part 1) Chair: Martti Leiwo |
| 14.30-15.00 | Victoria Fendel (University of Oxford) Syntactic variation in Egypt: Bilingual interference or the emergence of a regional variety? |
| 15.00-15.30 | Sofia Torallas Tovar (University of Chicago) Lexicographers and grammarians as sources for the study of Egyptian Greek |
| 15.30-16.00 | Coffee & tea break |
| 16.00-17.00 | Session 3: Greek in Egypt (part 2) Chair: James Aitken |
| 16.00-16.30 | Emilio Crespo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) The letter of Emperor Claudius to Alexandrians and the archive of Nemesion |
| 16.30-17.00 | Marja Vierros (University of Helsinki) Idiolect in focus: brothers in the Memphis Serapeion |
| 17.00- | Reception |
| 19.30 | Conference dinner at Het Pand (Onderbergen 1, 9000 Gent) |
December 2, 2016
| 09.00-10.00 | Plenary Lecture (Geoffrey Horrocks, University of Cambridge) Chair: Mark Janse |
| 10.00-10.30 | Coffee & tea break |
| 10.30-12.30 | Session 4: Analysing variation in later Byzantine Greek Chair: Brian Joseph |
| 10.30-11.00 | Staffan Wahlgren (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Describing, Narrating, Arguing: Text Type and Linguistic Variation in 10th c. Greek |
| 11.00-11.30 | Theodoros Markopoulos (University of Patras) Manuscripts, genre, dialect or something else? Variation in Late Medieval Greek |
| 11.30-12.00 | Martin Hinterberger (University of Cyprus) From highly classicizing to ‘usual prose’: The Metaphrasis of Niketas Choniates’ History |
| 12.00-12.30 | Mark Janse (Ghent University) Orally Transmitted Songs as Evidence of Dialectal Variation in Medieval Greek |
| 12.30-13.30 | Lunch break |
| 13.30-15.30 | Session 5: Registers of Post-classical and Early Byzantine Greek Chair: Geoffrey Horrocks |
| 13.30-14.00 | Jerneja Kavčič (University of Ljubljana) Variation and register in Early Byzantine Greek: expressions of anteriority in non-finite constructions |
| 14.00-14.30 | Klaas Bentein (Ghent University) Extending the Functional Sociolinguistic paradigm? ‘Formal’ and ‘informal’ as varieties of Post-classical and Early Byzantine Greek |
| 14.30-15.00 | Joanne Stolk (Ghent University) Variation at multiple linguistic levels: the co-occurrence of phonological and morphological variants in Greek documentary papyri |
| 15.00-15.30 | Aikaterini Koroli (Austrian Academy of Sciences) Imposing psychological pressure in papyrus request letters |
| 15.30-16.00 | Coffee & tea break |
| 16.00-17.00 | Session 6: The language of religion Chair: Sofia Torallas Tovar |
| 16.00-16.30 | Brian Joseph (The Ohio State University) Jewish Greek of Constantinople as a religiolect |
| 16.30-17.00 | James Aitken (University of Cambridge) Variation between Septuagint books in the context of post-classical Greek |
| 17.00-17.30 | Concluding remarks (Mark Janse) |