The Byzness, 3 March 2026
Oxford University Byzantine Society
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THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY BYZANTINE SOCIETY
The Byzness, 8th February 2026
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1. NEWS AND EVENTS
2. CALLS FOR PAPERS
3. JOBS AND SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
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THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY BYZANTINE SOCIETY
The Byzness, 8th February 2026
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1. NEWS AND EVENTS
2. CALLS FOR PAPERS
3. JOBS AND SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
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1. NEWS AND EVENTS
Dear all,
Welcome to week 7, and apologies for the delay in getting this edition of The Byzness out! This past weekend the OUBS hosted our conference, Decline & Flourish, which was a great success! Thank you to our speakers for their fantastic and engaging papers, to our chairs for their poignant questions, and to all the attendees who decided to spend their weekend at St Peter’s instead of outside in the sun. The OUBS committee had such a wonderful time, and we’re so proud of how it all turned out.
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Best,
Nidanu
For those wishing to submit an event, call for papers, job or scholarship opportunity to the Byzness please send details to the committee at byzantin...@gmail.com indicating the relevant list for The Byzness our external to Oxford and year-round newsletter or The Byzantine Lists our Oxford-centered events and circulated only in term-time. Please keep listing brief and include all relevant information in the body of the notice. Outside of exceptional circumstances, we only share events once.
Passing of Prof. Eleni Glykatzi-Ahrweiler
It is with sadness that we share the news of the death of Prof. Eleni (Hélène) Glykatzi-Ahrweiler, who passed away in Athens on February 16 at the age of 99. More information about her extraordinary career and lasting contributions to Byzantine studies can be found on her Wikipedia page.
"Who Wrote Your Bible?" with Candida Moss - March 18, 2026, Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus, 140 West 62nd St.
Candida Moss will present a lecture on Who Wrote Your Bible? Enslaved Scribes and the Material History of Scripture. A reception will follow.
There will also be a livestream link available on our events page. All are welcome to RSVP here. We hope to see many of you there!
International workshop On the Trail of the Bible of Niketas: A Transverse Approach to Catenae will take place at Brussels and KU Leuven, on March 30-31, 2026.
The event will comprise two sessions:
30 March (Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels): an introductory seminar on Greek palaeography and exegetical catenae;
31 March (KU Leuven): a research day bringing together international specialists to present recent work on the catenae of the Bible of Niketas, examining their editorial logic, sources, and intellectual context from a transverse perspective.
More information and full programme: https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/grieks/nieuws/niketas
Yale University’s graduate student-led Late Antique Reading Group, Thursday, March 5, 2026 at 16:00 (EST) (UTC-5)
Yale University’s graduate student-led Late Antique Reading Group invites you to a discussion of Maria Doerfler’s recent Death & the Afterlife in Syriac Christianity: Creating Social Identity & Emotional Communities. Please read the Introduction, Chapter 2, and Chapter 7, linked here, in advance of our discussion. Professor Doerfler will be in attendance. Contact the co-organizers with any questions.
Zoom: https://yale.zoom.us/j/95113529535
Second edition of the series I pomeriggi di Syriaca
During the new edition, entitled Traduzioni e traduttori: Scuole, testi, generi, stili, we will continue to investigate the topic of Syriac translations and translators, with a specific focus on the following aspects:
4 March (17.00 CET) Philological and translational considerations pt 2. Marco Pavan: Una traduzione senza padre n? madre: Le lettere ad Virgines dello Pseudo-Clemente di Roma. Resp: Guido Venturini
22 April (17.00 CET) Church Fathers pt 2. Alessandro De Blasi: Syro-Naziazena. Lettori e traduttori siriaci di Gregorio di Nazianzo. Respondent: Emiliano Fiori
20 May (17.00 CET) Epigraphy. Marco Morigi: Traduzione o trasformazione? Un testo magico siriaco e la sua Vorlage mandaica. Respondent: Flavia Ruani
17 June (17.00 CET): Lexicography. Mara Nicosia: Traduzioni, stratificazioni e innovazioni: un sguardo sulla lessicografia siriaca. Respondent: Margherita Farina
1 July (17.00 CET): Medicine. Matteo Martelli: TBD. Respondent: Vittorio Berti
23 September (17.00 CET): Mystic. Valentina Duca: Di persuasioni e di silenzi: sulle radici greche del vocabolario contemplativo dei mistici siriaci. Respondent: Sabino Chial?
21 October (17.00 CET): Relationship between historiography and hagiography. Claudia Tavolieri: Agiografia e storiografia: la narrazione devota e le ragioni della storia. Respondent: Giorgia Nicosia
11 November (17.00 CET): Syriac or Greek? Problems with identifying the original.Gianmarco Tondello: Dal greco al siriaco o dal siriaco al greco? Il caso dei Dormienti di Efeso. Respondent: Annunziata Di Rienzo
9 December (17.00 CET): Multiple translations. Giovanni Gomiero: Traduzioni o tradizioni? Il problema storico e testuale degli Apophtegmata Patrum in siriaco. Respondent: Chiara Faraggiana Di Sarzana
To receive the Zoom link to attend or for more info, please send an email to mara.n...@unipd.it or giorgia...@ugent.be.
"Are the Dogs Running Today?" Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture with Bathsheba Demuth, Dumbarton Oaks, Thursday, March 5
This talk blends history, ecology, and personal experience to explore the long relationship between people, sled dogs, and salmon in the Yukon River watershed. In the Yukon basin, in northwestern Canada into Alaska, dogsledding and fishing have long been deeply intertwined parts of living close to the land for Indigenous peoples and rural communities. This talk looks at the stakes of a changing environment and climate—changes that could alter where we live and the animals we live with, from domestic dogs to wild salmon. Learn more and register on our website.
Dumbarton Oaks, April 24 and 25 | Byzantine Studies Symposium
"Book Biographies: Towards a Cultural History of Byzantine Manuscripts" explores aspects of the lifecycle of Byzantine manuscripts from inception to the present day, including work in paleography, codicological analysis, art historical interpretation, and descriptive cataloguing.
Dumbarton Oaks, May 8 and 9 | Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium
"Migration and Place Histories: What Does Migration Mean for Places?" seeks new frameworks for understanding and witnessing the relationship between migration and place to give full attention to the complexity and richness of how people who move shape place, and in so doing, define belonging on their own terms.
Hybrid Workshop ‘Voicing Enclosure in Byzantine Historical Writing: Spaces, Characters, and Authors’, 24 April 2026
We cordially invite you to the upcoming international workshop on the topic ‘Voicing Enclosure in Byzantine Historical Writing: Spaces, Characters, and Authors’, which will take place on 24 April 2026 at the Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame (Main Reading Room, 715 Hesburgh Library), and online via Zoom.
The workshop program and abstracts are available on our website: https://medieval.nd.edu/news-events/events/2026/04/24/seventh-annual-byzantine-fellowship-workshop/. The registration link can be found at the webpage above. For further information, please contact the convener at: cpap...@nd.edu
Warsaw Late Antique Seminar
12.03 Aaron Butts (University of Hamburg), The Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac Christians
19.03 Korshi Dosoo (CNRS, UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée, Paris), Magic by the Psalms in the Coptic Tradition
26.03 Haggai Olshanetsky & Lev Cosijns (University of Oxford), Cluedo in the Eastern Desert: Who, or What, Killed Berenice and Myos Hormos? Plague, Climate, War or Competing Trade Routes
The full programme can be consulted at the seminar website.
Conference: Studying Non-Elites in the Medieval Caucasus (13 & 14 March: Brussels)
Studying Non-Elites in the Medieval Caucasus. First International Conference of the Medieval Caucasus Network, Brussels, 13th-14th March 2026.
Registration: https://www.vub.be/en/event/studying-non-elites-in-medieval-caucasus
Location: Green Room, U-Residence, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2 Boulevard de la Plaine, 1050 Etterbeek, Belgium.
Hellenic Society event - Pots, Gods and Gold: new research at the British Museum, Tuesday 7 March 2026
What was served and stored in Greek finely-decorated pots? What would small copper-alloy (bronze) statuettes of deities have looked like in the Roman period, and why do they look the way they do now? And what was happening in the jewellery workshops of the Eastern Mediterranean in the 7th-6th centuries BC, at the time of the proverbially rich King Croesus? Join us for an evening where researchers from the Departments of Greece and Rome and Scientific Research at the British Museum will present exciting new results from three current projects addressing these themes.
6- 6.15 Tom Harrison: Introduction
6.15 - 6.45 Nelly von Aderkas: Containing Commodities: Determining Organic Residues in Greek Decorated Pottery
6.45 - 7.15 Katie Manby: Roman gods through time: the decoration, display and later restoration of ‘bronze’ statuettes in the British Museum's collection
7.15 - 8.00 Aurélia Masson-Berghoff, Frederik Rademakers and Aude Mongiatti: Gold jewellery in the time of Croesus.
8.00 – 8.30 Reception
No booking is required. Guests are welcome. This is an in-person event (Room G22/26, Senate House, London, UK) and will not be live-streamed, but a recording will be available afterwards.
NEW EXHIBITION | ALL PHANAR IS HERE: HOUSEHOLD, NEIGHBORHOOD, COURT, AND THE CITY
Date: 11.03.2026—24.01.2027
Curators: Namık Günay Erkal, Firuzan Melike Sümertaş, Haris Theodorelis-Rigas
Location: ANAMED Gallery
ANAMED's research project on Phanariot Materialities in the Ottoman Empire sees light on 11 March with the exhibition All Phanar Is Here: Household, Neighborhood, Court, and the City. Curated by Namık Günay Erkal, Firuzan Melike Sümertaş, and Haris Theodorelis-Rigas, the exhibition aims to reassemble the fragments of the Phanariots' once-shared rich cultural heritage spreading across the Golden Horn, Wallachia-Moldavia, and the shores of the Bosphorus. Supported by Koç Holding and Vehbi Koç Foundation, and enriched by TED University Department of Architecture and Koç University KARMA XR Lab, the exhibition retraces the Phanariots' footsteps via unexpected routes, rare books, and 3-D immersive reconstructions. The exhibition presents original paintings and books from the Ömer M. Koç Collection, the IMM Atatürk Library, DAI, the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Orientalist Painting Collection, İAE, Sismanoglio Megaro, and the Koç University Suna Kıraç Library. Through documents, photographs, and drawings compiled from numerous national and international institutions and collections, the eighteenth-century lives of the Phanariots are made visible to the audience. An exhibition catalog presenting nine articles by the experts in the field accompanies the exhibition.
OPENING PANEL
Date: 12.03.2026, Thursday, 17:00
Speakers: Maria Georgopoulou, Johann Strauss, Namık Günay Erkal, Firuzan Melike Sümertaş, Haris Theodorelis-Rigas
Location: ANAMED Auditorium.
On the occasion of the launch of ANAMED's new exhibition, curators share the floor with Maria Georgopoulou (Gennadius Library) and Johann Strauss (Emeritus, University of Strasbourg).
Byzantine Greek Summer School, Universität Wien, 13-24 July 2026
Submissions to be sent before 22 March 2026. Information: https://www.byzneo.univie.ac.at/aktivitaeten/byzantine-greek-summer-school/2026-byzantine-greek-summer-school/
Summer School. Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources, Institut français du Proche-Orient (Amman), 13-17 September 2026
Submissions to be sent before 15 March 2026. Information: https://cetobac.ehess.fr/appel/summer-school-reading-and-analysing-ottoman-manuscript-sources
Collège de France, 18 février-15 avril 2026
Jean-Luc Fournet, Le calame et la croix : la christianisation de l’écrit et le sort de la culture classique dans l’Antiquité tardive (7). Les écoles (4) : l’enseignement professionnel dans le domaine de l’écrit. Programme et calendrier: https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/cours/le-calame-et-la-croix-la-christianisation-de-ecrit-et-le-sort-de-la-culture-classique-dans-antiquite-24
Seminar: Collège de France, 19 février-16 avril 2026
Jean-Luc Fournet, Papyrus inédits ou nouveautés papyrologiques. Programme et calendrier : https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/seminaire/papyrus-inedits-ou-nouveautes-papyrologiques
Exhibition Musée de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, 11 février-14 juin 2026
Chypre à la BNF. Collections de la BNF et de la Fondation culturelle de la Banque de Chypre. Informations : https://www.bnf.fr/fr/agenda/chypre-la-bnf
Ancient language course offerings from Catholic University of America for summer 2026.
There is a full menu of live, online, intensive courses in ancient languages, from the elementary through the advanced levels. We will be offering Syriac, Coptic, Classical Armenian, Old Georgian, Intensive Biblical Hebrew, Ancient Greek, and Latin.
Tuition is $580/credit hour, and sections are purposely kept small to guarantee close interaction and support. Each course carries either 3 or 6 credit hours and is charged accordingly ($1740 or $3480). 6 credit hour courses are the equivalent of one academic year of study.
Additional information is available on our Summer Program website (https://ancient-medieval.catholic.edu/academics/summer/index.html) and in the attached flyer, which includes the full schedule with dates. Please feel free to circulate it widely. A text-only version of the flyer's contents can also be found below. For those with questions, feel free to reach out to me (til...@cua.edu) or to cua-ancien...@cua.edu.
Ancient Languages of Anatolia Summer Program (ALA), 20 July – 14 August 2026
Organized by Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), this four-week intensive summer program aims to develop the skills necessary for exploring the earliest historical records of Anatolia.
The program will include:
- Hittite and Akkadian classes for two weeks,
- One-week introductory workshops on Sumerian, Hurrian, Luwian, and Lycian,
- A Cuneiform Epigraphy Workshop, and a Materiality of Cuneiform Writing Workshop.
The program's language is English. Applications are due 21 March 2026. You can visit our website for details.
Ottoman Turkish Summer Program (OTSP), 29 June – 31 July 2026
Organized by Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), this five-week intensive in-person summer program aims to develop students' reading and comprehension skills and earn them expertise in a variety of Ottoman sources, including archival documents, manuscripts, and epigraphic material. The material will present a wide array of content and narrative types. The program is designed to accommodate the needs of participants entering with different levels of Ottoman literacy. Persian, Arabic, and modern Turkish classes complement Ottoman classes.
Applications are due 21 March 2026. You can visit our website for details.
Autumn School “Accessing Byzantine Seals with New Digital Methods”, Antalya, 8–17 October 2026
The Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Cologne is organizing the Autumn School “Accessing Byzantine Seals with New Digital Methods” (Antalya, 8–17 October 2026). The call for applications can be found in the attached document.
The application deadline is 31 March, and applicants will be informed of the outcome by the end of April. Five scholarships of € 500, sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation, are available. For further information, please visit https://uni.koeln/SF6RJ.
2. CALL FOR PAPERS
CfP: The Emergence of Mo nasticism in Late Antiquity, January 7–10, 2027
Organized by Young Richard Kim (University of Illinois Chicago) and Mark Letteney (University of Washington). At the meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in Boston, Massachusetts (January 7–10, 2027) the Society for Late Antiquity will sponsor a session on the emergence of monasticism in Late Antiquity.
We welcome abstracts on any topic addressing monastic movements in western Eurasia during the period from roughly 200 CE — 800 CE. The purpose of this panel is to invite substantive interaction across a range of methodologies, including archaeological and material approaches as well as investigations of the literary corpus arising from and about monks. Possible topics include: reports on new archaeological work in monastic settlements or reevaluations of previously published material sources; analysis of the rich papyrological evidence for monks and monasteries, including evaluating how they appear in and interact with broader Egyptian society; connective and comparative analyses of regional monastic movements, for instance between Greece and Asia Minor, Syria, and Egypt; studies of individual persons or literary traditions like the Apophthegmata Patrum or the tradition of late ancient monastic Lives; and any other topic which enlightens the formative period of monasticism in western Eurasia, including precursors to the tradition.
Papers may last no longer than twenty minutes, and will be followed by five minutes for questions. The session will conclude with an extended period of discussion between panelists and audience members. Please send abstracts that follow the guidelines for individual abstracts (see the SCS Guidelines for Authors of Abstracts) by email to Mark Letteney (University of Washington) at lett...@uw.edu by March 6, 2026. Please ensure that the abstracts are anonymous.
CfP: PARATEXTES POLYGRAPHES ET PLURILINGUES DE L’ANTIQUITÉ À L’ÉPOQUE MODERNE, 30 juin 2026
La journée d’études Paratextes polygraphes et plurilingues vise à offrir un espace de discussion scientifique en appréhendant la catégorie de paratexte sous l’angle des dispositifs graphiques et linguistiques qui accompagnent un texte, en orientent la compréhension et en reconfigurent la réception. Dans une telle poétique du seuil, ces dispositifs engagent une véritable grammaire visuelle susceptible de guider l’usage du texte jusqu’à construire des parcours de lecture. Les organisateurs entendent ainsi accorder une attention particulière à cette vivacité des appareils paratextuels qui, au sein de la production tant manuscrite qu’imprimée, peuvent se manifester dans une variété considérable de langues anciennes classiques (latin, grec) et de langues orientales (syriaque, copte, ge’ez, arménien, géorgien, arabe, vieux slave), ainsi que dans de nombreuses langues modernes. Par ailleurs, le choix d’embrasser aussi bien les manuscrits que les imprimés veut également encourager certaines contributions à s’attarder sur les continuités, les transferts et les reconfigurations entre cultures scripturaires et typographiques.
L’étude de ces paratextes plurilingues, quelles que soient les traditions textuelles concernées, permettra d’interroger les pratiques d’écriture, les modalités de lecture et les transmissions textuelles au sein d’aires culturelles tout aussi multiples que connectées. Parallèlement, l’intérêt porté aux pratiques polygraphes – entendues ici comme l’ensembledes manifestations graphiques qui accompagnent, transforment ou enrichissent les textes – vise à éclairer la diversité des gestes et des outils qui construisent le paratexte et conditionnent l’interprétation des textes (cela inclut donc annotations, marginalia, corrections et commentaires manuscrits, mais aussi préfaces, postfaces, tables des matières et d’autres sections imprimées).
La journée se tiendra le 30 juin 2026 à l’Institut des civilisations du Collège de France (52, rue Cardinal Lemoine, salle Françoise-Héritier). Les propositions pour des interventions de 25 minutes (en français ou en anglais) sont à envoyer à l’adresse paratex...@proton.me et doivent comporter un titre, un abstract (300 à 400 mots) et une courte biographie scientifique.
La date limite pour l’envoi des propositions est fixée au 9 avril 2026. À l’issue de cette journée, une publication des actes est prévue dans la collection « In margine : Exploring Premodern Paratexts » (Brepols).
CfP: XVIIe Rencontres internationales des jeunes byzantinistes (Paris, 2-3 octobre 2026)
L’appel à candidatures pour les XVIIe Rencontres internationales des jeunes byzantinistes (Paris, 2-3 octobre 2026), sur le thème “Innover dans la Nouvelle Rome. Pensées, pratiques et réponses à la nouveauté dans les mondes byzantins”, reste ouvert jusqu’au 22 mars 2026!
Les communications, d’une durée de vingt minutes, peuvent être données en français ou en anglais. Les propositions de communication (250 à 300 mots), accompagnées d’une brève biographie incluant l’institution de rattachement, le niveau d’études actuel (master, doctorat, post-doctorat) et le sujet de recherche, sont à envoyer à l’adresse aemb....@gmail.com. Pour plus de renseignements : https://www.aembyzantin.com/xviie-edition-2-3-octobre-2026/
CfP: “Anthologies, Canons, Catalogues: Preserving and Ordering the Ancient World.” 10-11 June 2026
PhD candidates, postgraduate specialization students, and early-career researchers who have obtained their degree no more than two years ago are invited to submit an original abstract for either an oral presentation or a poster (maximum 400 words in both cases, excluding title and bibliography), specifying the preferred format.
Submissions, accompanied by a short academic profile (maximum 100 words), must be sent by 28 February 2026 to the email address: conv.antcla...@gmail.com, indicating in the subject line “Doctoral Conference Proposal” and specifying the relevant section (Archaeology; Philology; Epigraphy and History). For possible – though not exclusive – approaches to the theme, follow the following link: https://bsana.net/announcements/category/call-for-papers/
The body of the email should include the title of the contribution, the name(s) of the candidate(s) - if it is a group proposal- , the institutional affiliation(s), and an email address for correspondence. Submissions may be in Italian or English and should be provided in both anonymized .doc(x) and .pdf formats. The outcome of the evaluation will be communicated by 31 March 2026.
Each presentation will have a maximum duration of 20 minutes, while posters will be displayed in a dedicated session. Selected speakers are invited to present their contributions in person. Individual panels, featuring keynote speakers, will be organised according to the relevant section and thematic or methodological affinity. The Conference Proceedings will be published under the supervision of the Scientific Committee. The Conference will take place on 10-11 June 2026 at the Department of Humanities and Philosophy, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Via Columbia 1, 00133 Rome, Italy. There is no registration fee. Information regarding registration, the conference venue, accepted proposals, and the detailed programme will be communicated via email. For further information, please contact: conv.antcla...@gmail.com.
CfP: CLANS Workshop 'The Trade in Religious Imagination in Late Antiquity' (24 April)
The Cambridge Late Antique Network Seminar (CLANS) invites abstracts for a one-day workshop on religion, space, trade, and their interaction in the late-antique Mediterranean and beyond. This workshop, entitled ‘The Trade in Religious Imagination in Late Antiquity’, seeks to explore how people across the expanses of the Roman and Sasanian Empires, and those at their borders, engaged with religion. We are especially interested in moving beyond current narratives of coexistence or simplified contestation, inviting participants to think of theoretical approaches to the problems of understanding religion and identity in this period. The workshop will take place on Friday 24 April.
We would like to reflect on how the networks associated with religious activity might change how we view our case studies in different regions. How did different areas and communities learn about, consume, and interpret religious material from elsewhere? We are interested in the formation of religious identities that jar against or were dominated by hegemonic ideas and practices – thus, in turn, how dominant cultures absorb and contain antagonistic identities beyond oppression or acceptance. The idea of ‘trade’ is of central importance to this workshop. We are interested in religious ideas contextualised in space and through movement – how premodern societies responded to and accessed mobile spiritual offerings that were not just available but sold and consumed. We want to link space to power, asking how established trade routes – Roman or otherwise – allowed some religious communities to form while precluding others from flourishing.
We welcome contributions of 20 to 30 minutes. We give participants the opportunity to discuss a set of primary sources and critically engage with one or two pieces of recent scholarship rather than delivering a traditional argumentative paper. We hope that this will create an open and interdisciplinary discussion challenging current narratives of religion in the first millennium. We also strongly encourage early-career researchers to send in proposals in order to generate stronger discussions across a range of expertise. The workshop will be held at the University of Cambridge.
Interested applicants are invited to submit a short proposal of around 300 words outlining how their current research interacts with the themes of this workshop, and indicating which materials and topics they would contribute to the workshop. Please send proposals to cl...@classics.cam.ac.uk by Friday 13 March 2026. Participation in the one-day workshop will be free, but we will unfortunately not be able to provide or refund accommodation.
CfP: Spatial History Workshop: Spaces and Identity, University of Oxford, 22 May 2026
Submissions to be sent before 15 March 2026. Information: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/call-for-papers-spatial-history-workshop-spaces-and-identity
CfP: Symposium. Illuminating the Dark! Night History from Byzantion to Istanbul, Pera Museum, Istanbul, 4-5 June 2027
Submissions to be sent before 13 June 2026. Information: https://en.iae.org.tr/Event-Detail/Call-for-Papers-Illuminating-the-Dark-Night-Histories-from-Byzantion-to-Istanbul/1296
CfP: ‘Late Antique Encounters’ Conference, Ghent Centre for Late Antiquity, 3-5 February 2027
Submissions to be sent before 15 May 2026. Information: https://www.gcla.ugent.be/laec-2027/
CfP: Conférence. Mysticism(s) beyond the West, University of Oxford, 29 June-1 July 2026
Submissions to be sent before 1 March 2026. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20140011/call-abstracts-mysticisms-beyond-west
CfP: Atelier doctoral : Les mondes méditerranéens et l’Italie méridionale au Moyen Âge “Jean-Marie Martin” 2026. Sources pour l’histoire du genre (Ve-XVe s.), École française de Rome, 29 June-2 July 2026
Submissions to be sent before 17 April 2026. Information: https://www.efrome.it/en/la-recherche/actualite-et-appels/news/atelier-doctoral-les-mondes-mediterraneens-et-litalie-meridionale-au-moyen-age-jean-marie-martin-2026
3. JOBS AND SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Applications Open | Bliss Symposium Awards
Dumbarton Oaks is delighted to announce the Bliss Symposium Awards, designed to engage graduate and advanced undergraduate students in our three areas of specialization through supported participation in annual symposia. Up to six awards will be offered for each Dumbarton Oaks symposium. Up to three awards will be available to students at Harvard University, with which Dumbarton Oaks is affiliated, and up to three will be offered to students from other US and international institutions. Awardees will be expected to assist with light conference logistics, such as the facilitation of discussion, and will be asked immediately following the symposia to write and submit a short feature on a defined topic related to the scholarship presented.
Apply by Sunday, March 15 for Byzantine Studies (to be held April 24 and 25, 2026) and Garden and Landscape Studies (to be held May 8 and 9, 2026).
Dumbarton Oaks One-Month Research Awards, Dumbarton Oaks, for the period July-December 2026
Submissions to be sent before 15 March 2026. Information: https://www.doaks.org/research/fellowships-and-awards/one-month-research-awards
Paris-Rome Fellowship in Digital Art History 2026/27, Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA), Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History
Submissions to be sent before 15 March 2026. Information: https://www.inha.fr/en/recherche/appels/on-going/paris-rome-fellowship-in-digital-art-history-2026-27/
Chercheurs associés de la Bibliothèque nationale de France 2026-2027
Submissions to be sent before 4 May 2026. Information: https://www.bnf.fr/fr/actualites/appel-chercheurs-et-chercheuses-2026-2027