The Byzness, 24th June 2024
Oxford University Byzantine Society
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THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY BYZANTINE SOCIETY
The Byzness, 24th June 2024
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1. NEWS AND EVENTS
2. CALLS FOR PAPERS
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JOBS AND SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
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1. NEWS AND EVENTS
John of Ephesus: Historian on the Edge
The Frankfurt-Leuven project “Commentary on John of Ephesus’s Ecclesiastical History” will be organizing a series of occasional lectures on John of Ephesus. These will be open to the public via Zoom. The first lecture will be given by Phil Booth (Oxford) on Tuesday, 9 July, at 4.15 pm CEST (3.15 London time). Phil Booth will be talking on “John of Ephesus: Historian on the Edge”.
To receive the Zoom link, please write to Hartmut Leppin in Frankfurt (h.le...@em.uni-frankfurt.de)
July 22-24, 2024, Kapadokya University, Mustafapaşa, Türkiye
Co-organized by Prof. Ivan Drpić (University of Pennsylvania), Prof. Tolga Uyar (Nevşehir University), and Dr. Anna M. Sitz (University of Tübingen)
This conference honors the legacy of Robert (Bob) Ousterhout, beloved professor in the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania and eminent scholar of Byzantine architecture, who passed away in 2023. International researchers will present papers on Cappadocia in the Byzantine period (and beyond) and reflect on Ousterhout's groundbreaking work on Cappadocian rock-cut monuments. The conference will be live-streamed.
For further information and a Zoom link, please contact Dr. Anna M. Sitz: anna-ma...@uni-tuebingen.de
2. CALLS FOR PAPERS
Tabula Congratulatoria for Helen C. Evans Festschrift
Work is underway on a festschrift in honor of Dr. Helen C. Evans, Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator Emerita of Byzantine Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. We, Jennifer Ball, Christina Maranci, Brandie Ratliff, and Thelma Thomas, the editors of Beyond Byzantium: Essays on the Medieval Worlds of Eastern Christianity and their Arts. In honor of Helen C. Evans invite friends, colleagues, students, and scholars who have known Helen in some capacity to sign the tabula congratulatoria and join us in congratulating Helen for her outstanding career, service to our field, personal mentorship, and many publications.
Helen has advanced medieval studies through her teaching, exhibitions, and scholarship. Moreover, Helen’s service to the fields of Byzantine and Armenian studies and to art history and the museum profession more generally has been long and transformational. As president of the International Center of Medieval Art, she helped to broaden the scope of the field to envision a truly global Medieval world, encompassing Afro-Eurasia.
The volume, to be published by De Gruyter next year, is organized around themes that reflect Helen’s contributions to Byzantine studies, the global medieval world, Armenia and the Caucasus region, and curating and exhibitions. Given her extensive career, Helen has touched the lives of so many scholars that it made the task of determining the scope of this festschrift difficult. We invited participation from authors whom she has mentored directly or with whom she has collaborated closely on a project.
Now, we invite all to sign the tabula congratulatoria using this Google form: https://forms.gle/Rcs5hsRyYk9KfEW18. Please note that our tabula is a way to thank and congratulate Helen. We are not asking for any donation for the publication.
We ask that you add your name to the tabula no later than August 15, 2024.
If you have any questions, please reach out to us at hcefes...@gmail.com.
Old World Journal Best Article Prize
All papers submitted by qualifying authors before 20 September 2024 will be considered by the Editorial Committee.
The topic of the article should be aligned with the theme of the competition. It can cover any of the disciplines covered by the journal, including History, Linguistics, Literature, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Art History, and Archaeology. Submissions should conform to the standard requirements of the journal. For submission instructions, see the Publisher's website.
Old World is a Platinum Open Access (no author fees) online journal dedicated to the study of pre-modern Africa and Eurasia before 1500 CE. The journal has been established by the Research Centre for History and Culture, operated jointly by Beijing Normal University (Zhuhai) and BNU-HKBU United International College. With generous financial support from Beijing Normal University and in partnership with Brill, it aims to create a forward-looking platform for the discussion of pre-modern cultures from a non-eurocentric perspective.
3. JOBS AND SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Connecting Histories: The Princeton and Mount Athos Legacy
For further details see: https://athoslegacy.project.princeton.edu/announcements/
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Alexander Sherborne
DPhil Candidate, Faculty of History
President, Oxford University Byzantine Society
http://oxfordbyzantinesociety.wordpress.com