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THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY BYZANTINE SOCIETY
The Byzness, 17^th January 2021
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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

 

International (Online) Conference: 'The Pseudo-Clementine Homilies: a philosophical and rhetorical novel of Late Antiquity - a search for truth'. 25-27 February 2021

Organizing Committee: Benjamin De Vos (Ghent University), Danny Praet (Ghent University), Koen De Temmerman (Ghent University)

Keynote speakers: Prof. Meinolf Vielberg (Jena Universität) and Prof. Dominique Côté (Ottawa University)

Anyone wishing to attend should contact Bmardvo...@Ugent.be (Benjamin De Vos) for links and joining instructions.

Belgium time: GMT +1

 

February 25 - Thursday

14u30-15u00: Welcome and introduction – Benjamin De Vos (UGent): The Pseudo-Clementine Homilies: a philosophical-rhetorical novel in search of truth

 

Session 1: the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies as a rhetorical and novelistic narrative

15u00-15u20: Philippe Therrien (Université de Lausanne) - « Je vais te donner la connaissance de ce qui est » (Hom. I, 17, 5). La règle des syzygies comme cadre de la quête de la connaissance véritable

15u25-15u45: Tobias Nicklas (Regensburg Universität) - The Homilies as a Counter-Narrative to Acts

15u50-16u10: Sergio Basso (Università Roma Tre/Simon Fraser University, Vancouver) – Hom. 12-14: Homilies, Hermogenes and Humour

16u15-16u35: Bill Adler (North Carolina State University) - “Suffering after the manner of young men”: Symptoms of Love-Sickness in  the Pseudo-Clementines

 

16u35-17u00: break

 

17u00-17u45: keynote speaker: Meinolf Vielberg (Universität Jena) – "Zwischen 
Alltagswelt und narrativer Realität. Rhetorik im antiken und 
christlichen Roman"

 

17u45-18u30: discussion keynote/general discussion

 

February 26 - Friday

 

14u30-14u45: Welcome

14u50-15u35: keynote speaker Dominique Côté (Ottawa University) – Simon Magus in the Pseudo-Clementines: Magician or Philosopher?

 

15u35-15u50: discussion

15u50-16u15: break

 

Session 2: the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies as a philosophical work

16u15-16u35: Danny Praet (Ghent University) – The figure of Helen of Troy and the philosophy of truth

16u40-17u00: Judith Hack (Universität Jena) - The Motif of "the Way" in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies

17u05-17u25: Benjamin De Vos (Ghent University) – True Vision, Plato and Ascension in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies

 

17u25-17u45: break

 

17u50-18u10: Joseph Verheyden (KULeuven) - The Complex Relationship between Knowledge, Wisdom and Truth. Illustrated from Peter's Teaching on demonology in Hom. 9

18u15-18u35: Jeffrey Aubin (Ottawa University) – Le mélange du mal dans les Homélies Pseudo-Clémentines: confirmatio ou refutatio de la pensée de Bardesane d'Édesse?

18u35-19u00: General discussion

 

February 27 - Saturday

14u30-14u45: Welcome

 

Session 3: the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies and its intellectual, socio-historical context

14u45-15u05: George Géréby (Central European University) – Theology in public debate. The Sitz im Leben of the Peter-Simon contest

15u10-15u30: Patricia Duncan (TCU) – Faustus at the Boundaries of Christian Community

15u35-15u55: Luise Marion Frenkel - Peter’s dialogical victories: religious leadership in the
Pseudo-Clementines and its Syriac reception

 

15u55-16u25: break

 

16u25-16u45: Jan Bremmer (Groningen University) – Greek Myth and Religion in the Homilies

16u50-17u10: Giovanni Battista Bazzana (Harvard Divinity School) – Magic in the Klementia: Reflections across Ancient Novels, Magic Papyri, and Theurgy

17u15-17u35: Karin Zetterholm (Lund University) – The Intended Audience of the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies

 

17u35-18u00: general discussion and concluding remarks – reflections on new/further research perspectives

 

 

 

East of Byzantium Lectures: 29 January & 2 February 2021

The Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Chair of Armenian Art at Tufts University and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, are pleased to announce upcoming East of Byzantium lectures:

Friday, January 29, 2021 | 3:00 pm (EST) | Zoom
Sideways-Oriented Images of Manichaean and Armenian Liturgical Books
Zsuzsanna Gulácsi, Northern Arizona University

Zsuzsanna Gulácsi explores codicological connections between Manichaean manuscripts and Eastern Christian and Islamic manuscripts from Syro-Mesopotamia and what these similarities suggest about contact between the Manichaean communities in East Central Asia and their Mesopotamian homeland well into the medieval period.

Advance registration required. Registration closes at 10:00 AM (EST) on January 29, 2021. Register: https://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/

Tuesday, February 2, 2021 | 3:00 pm (EST) | Zoom
Back to Byzantium: Translation, Legitimacy, and Worlding on the Byzantine Frontier
Sergio La Porta, California State University, Fresno

Sergio La Porta discusses the translation of the martyrology of St. Step‘anos Ulnec‘i and its place in the larger Mediterranean world.

Advance registration required. Registration closes at 10:00 AM (EST) on February 2, 2021. Register: https://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/

 

 

 

CripAntiquity meetup, 18 January 2021, 3om EST

On January 18, 2021 at 3pm EST / 8pm GMT CripAntiquity will host an informal online meetup for disabled and neurodiverse people in ancient studies. Students, faculty, staff, artists, activists, and writers are all welcome. No school affiliation necessary. 

For more information: https://cripantiquity.com/news

 

 

 

Invitation: Online Workshop “History, Art and Epic in Medieval Manuscripts”. 19, 20, 22 January 2021

History, Art and Epic in Medieval Manuscripts

Tuesday, 19 January 2021, 02:00-04:00 pm CET
Wednesday, 20 January 2021, 02:00-04:00 pm CET
Friday, 22 January  2021, 04:00-06:00 pm CET

Please register via the link below. The updated  workshop programme is attached to this e-mail.

https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/register-workshop/

 

 

 

Jackson Lecture in Byzantine Art – Roland Betancourt: “The Ethiopian Eunuch: Gender and Racialization in Byzantium”. Virtual Lecture via Zoom. Friday, 19 February 2021, 4.30-6pm EST

Betancourt will present research from his recent book, Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages (Princeton University Press, 2020). 

Roland Betancourt is Professor of Art History and Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of California at Irvine. His research focuses on the visual culture of the Byzantine Empire. He is the author of Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium (2018) and Performing the Gospels in Byzantium: Sight, Sound, and Space in the Divine Liturgy (2021).

The talk is virtual via Zoom, and free and open to the public; however, advanced registration is required.

Register now:

https://temple.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AOM2PiEDQXGEmVwVgDI7hg 

 

 

1st Online Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival. 5-7 February 2021

The Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival is the first of its kind as a way to learn about recently published books on any area of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (AD ca.300–ca.1500), including literature, history, archaeology, and material culture. The Festival is an online event, allowing attendees from all over the world to join in. The aim is to hold it every two years in order to promote a wider understanding and awareness of Byzantine scholarship in a spirit of collegiality. It is also intended to encourage future collaborations and networking among the various presenters and attendees, especially in these strange times of the coronavirus pandemic. Hopefully, it will also inspire similar events in other research fields in the future.

The 1st Online Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival includes volumes published in 2019 and 2020, and forthcoming books with an estimated publication date no later than June 2021. It features monographs published in English, French, Georgian, German, Modern Greek, Italian, and Romanian.

The programme is now available online. 

*FREE* WEBINAR VIA Blackboard Collaborate 

Register online now at 

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/136623981005/ 

 

 

 

The Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar, in association with Oxford Medieval Studies 

 

The Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar is a new initiative funded by the Oxford Medieval Studies programme of the Oxford Research Institute in the Humanities (TORCH). It is designed to showcase the breadth of graduate research in modern Late Antique and Byzantine Studies and to foster academic collaboration across institutions and sub-disciplines. 

 

The Seminar will take place weekly via Zoom on Mondays at 12.30-14.00. The speaker will present for 40-45 minutes, followed by audience questions and discussion. 

 

To register and for further information, please contact the organiser at james....@worc.ox.ac.uk. 

 

Schedule 

 

25th January: Chloé Agar (St. Cross College, Oxford) 

Analysing Visions Experienced by Saints and Supplicants in Coptic Sources: What, How, and Why? 

 

1st February: Alberto Ravani (Exeter College, Oxford) 

A Byzantine story of Allegory as told by John Tzetzes 

 

8th February: Flavia Vanni (University of Birmingham) 

Discussing Byzantine stucco decoration (850-1453): people and materials 

 

15th February: Rachael Helen Banes (University of Birmingham) 

Set in Stone: Commemoration in Graffiti in the Late Antique East c. 300-700 CE 

 

22nd February: Stephanie Novasio (University of Birmingham) 

The Byzantine life course (exact title TBC) 

 

1st March: Ewan Short (Cardiff University) 

How can we identify imperial women in Byzantine sources? Some methodological proposals 

 

8th March: Paul Ulishney (Christ Church, Oxford) 

Anti-Jewish Polemic in Anastasius of Sinai’s Hexaemeron 

 

15th March: Giulia Maria Paoletti (Exeter College, Oxford) 

Manasses or not Manasses? Paraenetic poetry in Late Byzantium 

 

 

2.                 CALLS FOR PAPERS

Specialized Labor in Classical Antiquity, 14-15 May 2021 (Zoom Webinar). Keynote Speakers: David Hollander (Iowa State University) and Lynne Kvapil (Butler University). Deadline for submission: 22 January 2021

 

The notion of ‘specialized labor’ informs research on economic growth in antiquity, ancient slavery, urbanism, philosophical discussions of craft and knowledge, and so much more. But what is specialized labor? In what contexts did it exist in classical antiquity, and why? What were its economic consequences, and how did its existence shape discourses concerning work, knowledge, and identity? Who were the people performing this labor, and what impact did it have on their lives?

 

The past decade has seen a surge in interest about the lives of workers both in the ancient Mediterranean and beyond. From in-depth case studies (such as Flohr 2013; Tran 2013) to expansive volumes (Verboven and Laes, eds. 2017; Stewart, Harris, and Lewis, eds. 2020) and dedicated conferences, there is an increasing awareness of and interest in what labor looked like in classical antiquity. This conference will join that conversation. Specialized labor provides an approach to understanding labor that bypasses the valuation of labor as ‘skilled’ or ‘unskilled’ by focusing more closely on the division of labor rather than its social prestige. Charcoal burners and mosaicists alike may be specialists, for all the differences in their professional lives.

 

For our upcoming online conference, “Specialized Labor in Classical Antiquity,” we invite graduate students and other early career scholars from Classics, Archaeology, Ancient History, Anthropology, and related disciplines to join us in investigating the role of specialized labor in Classical antiquity. In addition to discussions of specific professions, possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

Definitions of specialized labor, both in antiquity and developed by modern scholars

Ancient attitudes towards specialized labor or laborers in literary, documentary, epigraphical, and visual sources

Tools and technologies which enable and define specialized labor

Agricultural work and urbanism

Personal and communal identities

Education and training

Specialized labor and religion/magic

Free(d) and enslaved labor

 

While this conference is centered on the Greco-Roman world(s), proposals may also include comparative research and/or research which interrogates the framework of the conference itself. The conference will be conducted as a Zoom webinar. Each session will consist of 3-4 prerecorded papers followed by time for a question/answer session.

 

Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words (excluding bibliography) by January 22, 2021 to specializedl...@gmail.com. Papers should be no more than 20 minutes in length. Please include in the email your name, affiliation, and contact information. The abstract itself should be anonymous. Be sure to include any audio-visual needs in this email. Questions may be sent to the same email. Successful applicants should expect to hear back from conference organizers by February 5th, 2021.

 

 

3.                 JOBS AND SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

 

Universität Hamburg - Research Associate for the Project "ATLAS": Call for Applications. Deadline: 31 January 2021

As a University of Excellence, Universität Hamburg is one of the strongest research universities in Germany. As a flagship university in the greater Hamburg region, it nurtures innovative, cooperative contacts to partners within and outside academia. It also provides and promotes sustainable education, knowledge, and knowledge exchange locally, nationally, and internationally.

The Department of Ancient History invites applications for a

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE for the project “Atlas of Late Antique Cities in the Southern Iberian Peninsula and in North Africa (III-VIII cent.)” (ANR-DFG) - SALARY LEVEL 13TV-L -

The position in accordance with Section 28 subsection 3 of the Hamburg higher education act (Hamburgisches Hochschulgesetz, HmbHG) commences on April 1st, 2021. This is a fixed-term contract in accordance with Section 2 of the academic fixed-term labor contract act (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz, WissZeitVG). The term is fixed until March 31st, 2024. The position calls for 39 hours per week. This position is also suitable for part time employment.

Responsibilities:

Duties include academic services in the project named above. Research associates may also pursue independent research and further academic qualifications.

Specific Duties:

The aim of the ATLAS project is to create an atlas (WebGIS in Open Access) that records cities in the former Roman provinces Baetica (Spain) and Africa Proconsularis (Tunisia). The compilation and analysis of the transmitted records is to serve as the basis of a new narrative of Late Antiquity. This is aided by visualization of the historical developments in form of thematic maps.The successful applicant will concentrate on the written evidence of both regions under study. A strong collaboration with the French and Spanish part of the ANR-DFG funded project in La Rochelle and Madrid is expected. A successful submission of a second book in the field of late antique urban studies is welcome. The position includes the enrollment in the projects activities, i.e. the organization of research colloquia and workshops, the diffusion in social media and print publications.

Requirements:

A university degree in a relevant subject plus doctorate. An excellent PhD in Ancient History. Expertise in Latin Epigraphy and Urban Studies is required. The knowledge of one of the languages relevant for the study of the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa, Spanish and French, is required; the knowledge of English and German are expected.
The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg promotes equal opportunity. As women are currently underrepresented in this job category at Universität Hamburg according to the evaluation conducted under the Hamburg act on gender equality (Hamburgisches Gleichstellungsgesetz, HambGleiG), we encourage women to apply for this position. Equally qualified and suitable female applicants will receive preference.
Qualified disabled candidates or applicants with equivalent status receive preference in the application process.

For further information, please contact Prof. Dr. Sabine Panzram (Sabine....@uni-hamburg.de)or consult our website at www.atlas-cities.com.Applications should include a cover letter, a tabular curriculum vitae, and copies of degree certificate(s).

Please send applications by January 31st, 2021 to: Sabine....@uni-hamburg.de, and add the names of two referees.Please do not submit original documents as we are not able to return them. Any documents submitted will be destroyed after the application process has concluded.

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Lorenzo Saccon

DPhil Candidate, Faculty of History

President, Oxford University Byzantine Society

byzantin...@gmail.com  

http://oxfordbyzantinesociety.wordpress.com

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THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY BYZANTINE SOCIETY

The Byzness, 24 January 2021
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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

The Byzantine Worlds Seminar, University of Cambridge, will present talks on Christian and Muslim insurgencies under the early Islamic caliphate, considerations of identity in Byzantine Anatolia, and the power and patronage of a Rus princess.

 

For more information visit: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/byzantine-worlds

 

 

 

Archaeological Research Unit, University of Cyprus 55^th Public Lecture Series: Celebrating 30 Years of Archaeological Research 

 

Moderator: Dr Athanasios K. Vionis | Director, Archaeological Research Unit (ARU) 

 

This semester’s Public Lectures Series celebrates 30 years of research at the ARU, since its foundation in 1991. All lectures of the 55th Series will be delivered by the members of the academic staff of the ARU to showcase their ongoing research endeavours. The lectures are held virtually via Zoom at 7:30 pm (EET), they are free and open to the public, but registration is required for access before each event starts. For registration, please, click here: https://ucy.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvd-GopjoiHtG0fdJHxFc18F5hm_-CXcf8 

 

PROGRAMME 

 

BLOCK 1: Prehistory and Proto-history  

1 February: Maritime dialogues in the East Aegean Islands and Western Asia Minor during Prehistory 

Dr Ourania Kouka | Associate Professor, Archaeology of the Prehistoric Aegean 

8 February: Cypriot copper production, consumption and trade in the 12th century BC 

Prof. Vasiliki Kassianidou | Professor, Environmental Archaeology and Archaeometry 

15 February: Prices and values of metals in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean markets 

Dr Georgios Papasavvas | Associate Professor, Classical Archaeology 

 

BLOCK 2: Iron Age – Roman 

 

22 February: The tumulus of Laona: Αn ‘un-Cypriot’ monument in the landscape of Palaepaphos 

Prof. Maria Iacovou | Professor, Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology 

1 March: The Mazotos Shipwreck Project, Cyprus: Challenges and perspectives of a holistic approach to shipwreck archaeology in the 21st century 

Dr Stella Demesticha | Associate Professor, Maritime Archaeology 

8 March: Hellenistic and Roman funerary wall painting in Cyprus: An overview 

Prof. Demetrios Michaelides | Professor Emeritus in Classical Archaeology, Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts 

 

BLOCK 3: Medieval – Early Modern 

 

22 March: The Byzantine and Historical Archaeologies of Greece and Cyprus: Artefact and landscape studies 

Dr Athanasios Vionis | Associate Professor, Byzantine Archaeology and Art 

29 March: The challenge of depicting cross-dressing female saints in Byzantine art: The case of St Euphrosyne of Alexandria (BHG 625) 

Dr Maria Parani | Associate Professor, Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Archaeology and History of Art 

5 April: 'Hybrid', 'transcultural', 'eclectic'? Some thoughts on conceptualising the art of the Latin East 

Dr Michalis Olympios | Associate Professor, History of Western Art 

12 April: Το πλοίο στην Κύπρο: Από την ιστορική πραγματικότητα στη λαϊκή τέχνη 

Prof. Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou | Professor Emerita in Folk Art and Architecture, Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts 

 

BLOCK 3: Digital Humanities 

 

19 April: Unfolding the Neolithic landscape of Thessaly: A GeoInformatics perspective 

Prof. Apostolos Sarris | Professor, 'Sylvia Ioannou Foundation' Chair for Digital Humanities 

 

 

 

CLANS talk: Nicola Ernst (Exeter), The Athanasian Emperors: Constructing Constantinian Orthodoxy and Heresy in the 340s. 26 January 2021 (5:15 PM GMT, Zoom)

 

The 340s were a turbulent decade for the emperors of Rome as well as the Christian church. The division of the empire between the last two sons of Constantine – Constantius II (r. 337-361) and Constans (r. 337-350) – also nominally extended to the ecclesiastical situation, if we are to believe the claims of the ‘Nicene’ bishop Athanasius of Alexandria. The failed Council of Serdica in 343 was testament to this, and our understanding of the period as one of filial and religious tensions has been heavily influenced by the Athanasian construction of the events of the 340s. Indeed, the assertion by fifth-century ecclesiastical historians that Constans was willing to resort to civil war in order to restore Athanasius to his episcopate in Constantius’ territory, is generally accepted by modern scholarship. The letter that contained this alleged declaration is found in Socrates’ Ecclesiastical History (II.22) – which draws heavily upon Athanasius’ own narrative of events within his own works – and suggests that Constans was willing to march against his elder brother, if Constantius did not reinstate the exiled orthodox bishops to their Eastern episcopates. I intend to re-evaluate this letter and the way this alleged declaration of civil war was used by Athanasius and his literary successors by contextualising it within the wider ecclesiastical and political discourses of the 340s. This Athanasian construction of the emperors needs to be more carefully considered as this has remained the predominant understanding of both emperors, from the other Nicene ecclesiastical writers, as well as modern scholars. As such, this paper will explore how this construction of Constans and Constantius led to the creation of the typical representations of these emperors as Orthodox Champion and Arian Heretic, respectively. Indeed, I will argue that we should construct a history of the 340s by also considering the non-Nicene discourses, as well as the political and administrative evidence for this period, in order to better understand this complicated period and to move away from the pervasive Athanasian narrative.

 

Zoom Link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/91935932463?pwd=MXpmd1pSaTZoL3A0VHlMSWJTVFJIQT09

Meeting ID: 919 3593 2463

Password: 772840

 

 

 

Canon Law and Christian Societies, between Christianity and Islam. 24-26 February 2021

 

The conference will take place on Zoom. To sign up, please contact: arabic.c...@gmail.com

For more information, please visit: http://www.man.es/man/actividades/congresos-y-reuniones/20210224-derecho-canonico.html

 

 

 

East of Byzantium Lectures. 29 January and 2 February on Zoom

The Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Chair of Armenian Art at Tufts University and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, are pleased to announce upcoming East of Byzantium lectures:

 

Friday, January 29, 2021 | 3:00 pm (EST) | Zoom

Sideways-Oriented Images of Manichaean and Armenian Liturgical Books

Zsuzsanna Gulácsi, Northern Arizona University

Zsuzsanna Gulácsi explores codicological connections between Manichaean manuscripts and Eastern Christian and Islamic manuscripts from Syro-Mesopotamia and what these similarities suggest about contact between the Manichaean communities in East Central Asia and their Mesopotamian homeland well into the medieval period.

Advance registration required. Registration closes at 10:00 AM (EST) on January 29, 2021. Register: https://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/

 

Tuesday, February 2, 2021 | 3:00 pm (EST) | Zoom

Back to Byzantium: Translation, Legitimacy, and Worlding on the Byzantine Frontier

Sergio La Porta, California State University, Fresno

Sergio La Porta discusses the translation of the martyrology of St. Step‘anos Ulnec‘i and its place in the larger Mediterranean world.

Advance registration required. Registration closes at 10:00 AM (EST) on February 2, 2021. Register: https://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/

 

 

 

2.                 CALLS FOR PAPERS

 

Materiality in the Eastern Mediterranean World (CEMS). Deadline: 5 April 2021

 

The Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) at Central European University (Vienna/Budapest) is proud to announce the 7th International Graduate Conference on “Materiality in the Eastern Mediterranean World”, Vienna, 28-29 May 2021. The conference will provide a forum for graduate and advanced undergraduate students working on the Eastern Mediterranean to present their current research, exchange ideas, and develop scholarly networks.

 

Conference Description

 

The aim of this conference is to explore how a turn towards materiality can help us to understand the Eastern Mediterranean world. The conference seeks research that investigates the role of physical “things” in history. How are material culture, technology, and the physical environment entangled in historical processes? How has the physical world shaped and been shaped by forms of social life in the Eastern Mediterranean? How have ideas and emotions been put into practice and how have they been embodied in material objects (e.g. artifacts, relics, and manuscripts)? How could materiality in the Eastern Mediterranean differ from other regions?

We welcome approaches that focus on the relations between humans and their physical surroundings, the way they understand, perceive, and use them. Moreover, in turning towards the material, the conference intends to explore connections and entanglements between human/non-human, spiritual/physical, and phenomenological/epistemological.

We seek innovative proposals by graduate students from all disciplines that relate to the Mediterranean world, including but not limited to Anthropology, Archeology, Art History, Classics, Environmental Science and History, Gender Studies, History, Languages and Literatures, Medieval Studies, Early Modern Studies, Philosophy, Religion, and Theology. 

Possible paper topics might include, but are not limited to:

• Environmental and ecological histories
• History of health and disease 
• Texts as objects; cultures of documentation, archiving, and printing 
• Economic and political practices
• Architecture and urban history 
• Commerce and trading systems
• The physical manifestation and material life of symbols
• Histories of affect and embodied physical experiences, such as pain, pleasure
• The role of material culture in everyday life history 
• Material history of empires. The objects of imperial formations
• Histories of technology and science
• Materiality and mobility in diplomacy; e.g. the role of gifts, travelogues
• Aesthetics and design
• Research employing economic and political approaches
• Craftsmanship culture
• Practices of warfare. Weapons and military technology
• Rethinking units of analysis through materiality
• Comparisons between the Eastern Mediterranean and other regions through materiality

Please submit by April 5, 2021 a short paper proposal (no more than 250 words, together with a brief biography and contact information) to the following address: cemscon...@ceu.edu. Results will be announced by April 20, 2021.

 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Dana Sajdi (Boston Colllege)

Charlie Barber (Princeton University)

 

 

 

International Conference on Etymological Theories and Practice in Ancient & Byzantine Greece

Thessaloniki, Teloglion Foundation, Greece, 18-20 November 2021. Deadline for abstract submission: 30 April 2021

 

Organizers: Maria Chriti (Aristotle Univ., Greece), Claire Le Feuvre (Sorbonne Université, France), Arnaud Zucker (Univ. Côte d’Azur, France).

 

This international conference, to be held in Thessaloniki in November 2021, aims to attract researchers, mainly philologists, linguists and philosophers interested in practices of etymologizing in Ancient Greek and Byzantine literature. It is promoted by the International Association ETYGRAM (http://www.cepam.cnrs.fr/etygram/), devoted to the study of indigenous (or “emic”) ancient Greek etymologies and follows two editions, in 2016 and 2018. The ancient Greek conception of etymology is fundamentally different from our modern one and has a much broader meaning. To start with, it allows a rather exceptional plasticity (see, e.g., Plato’s Cratylus) as far as semantic paronomasia is concerned. As ancient scholars understood it, etymology is chiefly a dynamic process aiming at suggesting semantic correlations between words based on phonetic similarities, with a momentous heuristic power. This intellectual game, a very serious one at that, deserves to be investigated since it is neither scientific in character (as modern linguists would describe it), nor rendered as “folk” etymology. It is rather a cultural construction, being both an art of punning and an attempt to uncover deep semantic motivations.

 

The organizers welcome proposals (in French, English, Greek, German, Spanish or Italian), taking especially into account the following parameters:

1.      The technical aspects of ancient Greek etymology;

2.      etymology and neologisms in scientific contexts;

3.      etymology in pedagogical practices;

4.      etymological practices in the scholia and commentaries of Late Antiquity and Byzantium.

 

Conference papers will be 30 minutes, with 15 minutes for discussion.  Interested scholars from all academic levels are invited to send an abstract of no more than 500 words to zuc...@unice.fr and assoc....@gmail.com by April 30, 2021. Participants will be notified in May 30, 2021. Accepted papers will be presented on an equal footing with invited speakers.

 

 

 

Coexistence in Practice: Politics, Trade and Culture in the Late Medieval Anatolia and Iberia

Istanbul, 1-2 July 2021. Deadline for abstract submission: 28 February 2021

 

Papers are sought for the next Medworlds Workshop “Coexistence in Practice: Politics, Trade and Culture in the Late Medieval Anatolia and Iberia,” to be held at Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University (Valide-i Atik Mh., Eski Toptaşı Cd. No: 91,  Uskudar, Istanbul) on 1 & 2  July 2021.

Stretching along continents, the Mediterranean Sea has played an important role in creating an environment of, voluntary or otherwise, cultural interactions among distinct groups throughout its history. Through the practices of coexistence, peoples of the Mediterranean have built up a common cultural repertoire and tradition. In the late Medieval Mediterranean coexistence was a way of life, as Brian Catlos stated, “encouraging acculturation and communication, but also provoking anxiety and defensiveness” (2014). One can easily find the effects of these interactions in everyday practices of culture, such as in religion, commerce, art, and education. Coexistence sometimes manifested itself as co-dependency and collaboration, a way of coping with the complexities in times of wars, epidemics, and various other crises. Throughout the Middle Ages, the Iberian Peninsula and Anatolia were places of conflict, but also of exchange and collaboration between the Islamic and Christian powers that ruled over those territories. Objects, ideas, scripts and people moved beyond cultural and religious borders as booty of conquest and items of trade.

“Coexistence in Practice: Politics, Trade and Culture in the Late Medieval Anatolia and Iberia” is organized by Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University’s the “Middle East and Africa Studies Application and Research Center (ORDAM)” and “The Society for the Mediterranean World Studies (MEDWORLDS)”, to be held in Istanbul on 01-02 July 2021. The workshop aims to provide a platform for medieval history researchers to discuss topics related to broadly defined practices, experiences and spaces of “living together” in geographically distant but experience- wise similar societies in Anatolia and Iberian Peninsula in the 13th – 15th centuries. More importantly, this workshop enables participants to learn from other approaches and research experiences. We especially seek interdisciplinary contributions to open up discussions and share thoughts on issues about the theme of the workshop.

 

Some of the themes we want to explore include: Modes of coexistence, especially in times of crises and catastrophes, Convivencia; Local and cross-border trade; Transfer of knowledge, texts, music, arts and architecture; and Cross-confessional communities. Contributions will be collected in an edited book.

 

We invite applications for 20-minute presentations. Abstracts (no more than 300 words) and brief résumés should be sent to the organizers at medw...@fsm.edu.tr. Language of the workshop is English. The attendance is free of charge. Accommodation will be provided for the successful applicants. Details of the accommodation will be announced on our website. We will contact successful applicants to make arrangements for travel, accommodation and other logistics.

Among our other sponsors are The Mediterranean Seminar (University of Colorado, Boulder), The Mediterranean Knowledge (Salerno University), and Society for the Medieval Mediterranean (UK). As the Organizing Committee, we are happy to announce that keynote speeches will be delivered by Brian A. Catlos ( University of Colorado, Boulder, Andrew C.S Peacock (University of St. Andrews), and Emrah Safa Gürkan (Istanbul 29 Mayis University).

 

For more information and to send an abstract: https://medworlds.fsm.edu.tr/

For further announcements and news follow us on: https://twitter.com/medibs_society

Important Dates:
Deadline for abstract submissions: 28 February 2021
Announcement of the successful applicants: 15 March 2021
Workshop Dates: 01-02 July 2021

 

3.                 JOBS AND SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

 

Virtual Bliss Symposium Awards. Deadline: 15 February 2021

 

Applications for the Virtual Bliss Symposium Awards for Byzantine Studies is due February 15, 2021. Successful applicants will receive advance registration and online attendance of the symposium program to which they apply. In addition, awardees will receive up to five Dumbarton Oaks publications, of their choosing, including shipment.

 

 

 

2021 Byzantine Coins and Seals Summer Program. Deadline: 15 February 2021

 

The 2021 Coins and Seals Summer Program will be held from June 28 to July 23, 2021. Applicants must send their application electronically by February 15, 2021, and more information about the application process can found here.

 

 

 

Doctoral position, ERC Project "MAMEMS". Deadline: 28 February 2021

 

The position of a doctoral researcher (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter/in) (salary scheme 13 TV-L, 65%) at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz is to be filled by 01.05.2021 (or as soon as possible thereafter) for a period of three years. 

The position is situated within the project “Mount Athos in Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Society:  Contextualizing the History of a Monastic Republic (ca. 850-1550)” (MAMEMS), which is funded by a  Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC). MAMEMS constitutes the first  comprehensive examination of the monastic communities of Mount Athos as independent actors in  medieval Eastern Mediterranean Society. This “monastic republic” was intimately connected with the  Byzantine Empire, the various Orthodox principalities of the Balkans and Caucasus, South Italy, as  well with the Ottoman Empire. By taking advantage of considerable advances in subfields like  prosopography, analyzing and making available a set of sources (lists of commemoration) that are  either poorly studied or unedited, and by bringing together an interdisciplinary team (a Byzantinist,  Slavicist and Kartvelologist) under the direction of the Principal Investigator (Dr. Zachary Chitwood),  MAMEMS will transform the way the Holy Mountain is viewed within scholarship and the general  public via a triad of leitmotifs: wealth, ethnicity and gender (WEG). The exploration of these topics is undergirded by the creation of a prosopographical database, Prosopographica Athonica, built with OpenAtlas and containing entries for every monk to have resided on the Holy Mountain, every Athonite benefactor and every person to have visited there from ca. 850 to 1550, that is from the time of the first surviving documents in the Athonite archives until the founding of the last of the major Athonite houses, Stavronikita. This database will finally allow a concrete analysis of how medieval Mount Athos was embedded within wider networks of economic interests, church leadership, intellectual exchange and patronage. 

Your duties include: 

-          Participating in the creation of a prosopographical database, which is to encompass all documented benefactors, monks and visitors associated with the Holy Mountain.

-          The researching and writing of a dissertation on a list of commemoration from an Athonite monastery under the joint supervision of Dr. Zachary Chitwood (primary advisor) and Prof.  Johannes Pahlitzsch (secondary advisory). 

-          Regular participation in project events, including regular meetings every two weeks and three major international workshops.  

Your profile: 

-          An outstanding master’s thesis in Byzantine Studies, Classics, Medieval Studies or a related field.  

-          Reading knowledge of medieval Greek; knowledge of further project-relevant languages (Modern  Greek, Rumanian, Slavic languages) is advantageous.  

-          Experience in interdisciplinary work.  

-          Oral proficiency in English or German. 

What MAMEMS can offer you: 

-          Intensive interdisciplinary discussion, for example by means of an associate membership, within  one of the thematic research groups in Mainz, including: the Research Training Group 1867  (“Early Concepts of Humans and Nature: Universal, Specific, Interchanged”); the Research Network “40.000 Years of Human Challenges: Perception, Conceptualization and Coping in  Premodern Societies”; or the Leibniz ScienceCampus “Byzantium between Orient and Occident”. 

-          The opportunity for extensive training within the field of Digital Humanities by learning OpenAtlas.

-          The prospect of publishing your dissertation in open-access format with a major scholarly press. 

The Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz is keen on increasing the proportion of women within the sphere of scholarship and therefore especially welcomes applications from female researchers. 

The following application materials are to be submitted electronically in a single .pdf file (in German or English): 

-          A letter of application.  

-          A detailed c.v., including a list of publications and contact information for three scholars willing to provide letters of recommendation. 

-          A writing sample which demonstrates the applicant’s aptitude for scholarship (preferably a master’s thesis). 

Please send these materials with the subject heading: MAMEMS_Name by 28.02.2021 by e-mail to: mam...@uni-mainz.de 

Please direct any queries you might have regarding this position or MAMEMS to Dr. Zachary Chitwood, who can be reached at the e-mail address above. 

Timeline for the review of applications: 

• The review of applications will begin immediately. 

• Finalists will be invited to participate in an interview via Skype. 

For further information regarding the project, please consult:  

https://mamems.uni-mainz.de/.

 

 

 

Universität Hamburg - Research Associate for the Project "ATLAS". Deadline for applications: 31 January 2021

 

The Department of Ancient History of the Universität Hamburg invites applications for a RESEARCH ASSOCIATE for the project “Atlas of Late Antique Cities in the Southern Iberian Peninsula and in North Africa (III-VIII cent.)” (ANR-DFG) - SALARY LEVEL 13TV-L -

The position in accordance with Section 28 subsection 3 of the Hamburg higher education act (Hamburgisches Hochschulgesetz, HmbHG) commences on April 1st, 2021. This is a fixed-term contract in accordance with Section 2 of the academic fixed-term labor contract act (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz, WissZeitVG). The term is fixed until March 31st, 2024. The position calls for 39 hours per week. This position is also suitable for part time employment.

Responsibilities:
Duties include academic services in the project named above. Research associates may also pursue independent research and further academic qualifications.

Specific Duties:
The aim of the ATLAS project is to create an atlas (WebGIS in Open Access) that records cities in the former Roman provinces Baetica (Spain) and Africa Proconsularis (Tunisia). The compilation and analysis of the transmitted records is to serve as the basis of a new narrative of Late Antiquity. This is aided by visualization of the historical developments in form of thematic maps.The successful applicant will concentrate on the written evidence of both regions under study. A strong collaboration with the French and Spanish part of the ANR-DFG funded project in La Rochelle and Madrid is expected. A successful submission of a second book in the field of late antique urban studies is welcome. The position includes the enrollment in the projects activities, i.e. the organization of research colloquia and workshops, the diffusion in social media and print publications.

Requirements:
A university degree in a relevant subject plus doctorate. An excellent PhD in Ancient History. Expertise in Latin Epigraphy and Urban Studies is required. The knowledge of one of the languages relevant for the study of the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa, Spanish and French, is required; the knowledge of English and German are expected.
The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg promotes equal opportunity. As women are currently underrepresented in this job category at Universität Hamburg according to the evaluation conducted under the Hamburg act on gender equality (Hamburgisches Gleichstellungsgesetz, HambGleiG), we encourage women to apply for this position. Equally qualified and suitable female applicants will receive preference.
Qualified disabled candidates or applicants with equivalent status receive preference in the application process.

For further information, please contact Prof. Dr. Sabine Panzram (Sabine.Panzram@uni-hamburg.de)or consult our website at www.atlas-cities.com.Applications should include a cover letter, a tabular curriculum vitae, and copies of degree certificate(s).

Please send applications by January 31st, 2021 to: Sabine.Panzram@uni-hamburg.de, and add the names of two referees. Please do not submit original documents as we are not able to return them. Any documents submitted will be destroyed after the application process has concluded.

For more infos about the project, see here: https://attachment.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/8b856123/ATLAS-nota-de-prensa-trilingu--e.pdf

 

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THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY BYZANTINE SOCIETY

The Byzness, 31^st January 2021
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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

 

New Dates for BSC 2021, December 9-12

 

Elizabeth S. Bolman invites the members and friends of BSANA to the 47th annual Byzantine Studies Conference at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art on Dec 9-12, 2021, in Cleveland, Ohio. 

 

The conference date has been pushed back in order to give us the best chance to meet in person.  The CFP, and further details on the BSC are forthcoming. 

 

 

 

MA in Greek Civilization (Distance Learning Program, U. of Nicosia, Cyprus)

 

The Distance Learning Program in Greek Civilization, entirely offered in English, will be provided by the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. The Program provides an in-depth acquaintance with all major aspects of Greek civilization through space and time (history, literature, visual arts, language, philosophy, theatre, music, dance and cinema). It is taught by recognized scholars in each field, exclusively in English, and through the distance learning platforms of the University of Nicosia, one of the leaders in this domain in the European academic scene.

The program starts February 2021 and further information can be found at: https://www.unic.ac.cy/greek-civilization-ma-1-5-years-or-3-semesters-distance-learning/.

For more information, please contact Acting Program Coordinator, Dr. Avra Xepapadakou, at xepapa...@unic.ac.cy.

 

 

 

The Newberry Premodern Studies Seminar

CRS is pleased to announce the winter and spring meetings of the Premodern Studies Seminar. This seminar provides a forum for new approaches to classical, medieval, and early modern studies, allowing scholars from a range of disciplines to share works-in-progress with the broader community at the Center for Renaissance Studies. Every meeting is free and open to the public, and participants are encouraged to attend as many seminars as they are able. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, all seminar meetings will take place virtually over Zoom.

The theme of the 2020-2021 seminars is "Premodern Crises." We aim to explore the many ways in which ancient, medieval, and early modern people responded to disruptive events of all kinds: epidemic, war, famine, mass migration and displacement, religious schisms, ecological catastrophe, popular revolt, the rise and fall of empires, and crises of political legitimacy. How were these crises experienced by different segments of premodern societies throughout the world? What do the official and private responses to moments of crisis tell us about the structures and workings of premodern institutions? What impact did these crises have on thought, belief, art, and society? What categories other than "crisis" did premodern people use in order to understand such events? Finally, what does it mean to do scholarship on premodern crises in these times of radical uncertainty? How has the present moment forced or invited you to re-examine approaches to engaging with the past through research and teaching?

See below for further information about the upcoming meetings. Individual announcements, including registration information, will be made for each seminar 2-3 weeks in advance. For more information about the Premodern Studies Seminar, visit our website here: https://www.newberry.org/premodern-studies-seminar

 Friday, February 19, 2021

1-3 pm CST
Shannon Gayk, Indiana University
“Everyday Apocalypse: Middle English Literature and Climate Catastrophe"

 Friday, March 26, 2021

1-3 pm CST
Ryan Kashanipour, University of Arizona
"Epidemics and Epistemologies: Experiencing Illness in Colonial Yucatán"

 Friday, June 4, 2021

1-3 pm CST
Joshua Teplitsky, Stony Brook University
“Quarantine in the Prague Ghetto: Plague and Public Health between Jews and Christians in an Early Modern City”

 

A Christian Insurgency in Islamic Syria: The Jarajima (Mardaites) 3 February 2021, 19:00 - 20:30 Online Session (UK Time)

This is an online event hosted via Zoom. To attend please Register Online.
A Christian Insurgency in Islamic Syria: The Jarajima (Mardaites) between Byzantium and the Caliphate

Speaker: Christian Sahner (University of Oxford)

 

 

"The Manuscripts of Sinai" talk next Friday: A lecture by Claudia Rapp (University of Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences)  “The Monastery of Saint Catherine in the Sinai and its Manuscripts: Crossroads of Culture in the Medieval Mediterranean” Friday, 5 February, 1-2:30PM (ECT)

 

A joint event of the Faculty Working Group in Global Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies:

 

This event is free and open to the public. To register to receive the zoom link: 

https://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/claudia-rapp 

 

Claudia Rapp about her lecture:

Founded by the Emperor Justinian in the sixth century in a place where the Burning Bush and the Mountaintop where Moses received the Ten Commandments signal the possibility of human encounters with God, the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine has been a destination for monks, pilgrims and other visitors from many regions of the Christian world. It is not only the oldest Christian monastery in continuous operation, but also a UNESCO World Heritage Site, famous for its extensive collection of icons and its rich library holdings in multiple languages.  

 

After an overview of the history of the Monastery and its association with manuscript production and manuscript ownership, this lecture will explore how the library holdings reflect the presence of Christians from several different language traditions. A special focus will be on the recent work of the Sinai Palimpsests Project (www.sinaipalimpsests.org).  

 

Claudia Rapp took up her current position as Professor of Byzantine Studies at the University of Vienna in 2011, after 17 years in the History Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the Director of the Division of Byzantine Research within the Institute for Medieval Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and Scholarly Director of the Sinai Palimpsests Project.  

Claudia Rapp's research focuses on social and cultural history, often from the angle of religious history and manuscript studies. Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity: Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition, published in 2005, was re-issued in paperback in 2013. Her most recent book, Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Monks, Laymen and Christian Ritual (2016) has led to the formation of the Euchologia Project at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Funding through the Wittgenstein-Award has enabled her to assemble a team of scholars for the joint investigation of Mobility, Microstructures and Personal Agency. 

 

2.                 CALLS FOR PAPERS

 

Call for Chapters: Empresses-in-waiting. Power, Performance, and the ‘Female Court’ of Late Antiquity

Kenneth Holum’s 1982 "Theodosian Empresses" presented the female members of the Late Roman Empire as political agents in their own rights. It opened the way for a number of important recent studies that added to the foundations laid by Holum, including Liz Garland’s "Byzantine Empresses. Women and Power in Byzantium" (1999), Liz James’ "Empresses and Power in Early Byzantium" (2001), and, recently, Anja Busch’s "Die Frauen der theodosianischen Dynastie" (2015). A common thread of these studies has been the prevailing focus on the exercise by imperial women of political and/or religious influence or authority. In a 2013 edited volume ("Matronage. Handlungsstrategien und soziale Netzwerke antiker Herrscherfrauen"), Christiane Kunst has applied the concept of “matronage” to ancient monarchies, meaning specifically female modes and means of expressing and manifesting status, influence, and power in the absence of legal authority. But this must be seen in the specific context of the monarchical court that these women inhabited; the imperial court of late antiquity was the centre of official and administrative live of the late Roman world, but it was also a hub of vast networks of patronage, the arena of fierce political competition, and the background to an extensive ceremonial that included the female members of the imperial family. The role of this court, its specific functions and functioning, has not yet received the attention it deserves; no systematic monographic study of it exists. This is even more true for the ‘female court’. The fundamental assumption of this proposed publication is that this needs to be rectified, that, to truly understand the scope of imperial female agency in the late antique empire, a holistic approach to that subject is needed and one that firmly situates their potential influence and roles within imperial court society. In order to lay groundwork for future studies, the proposed edited volume will include original research on late antique empresses and their courtly contexts, dealing with a range of individual issues and questions, but always keeping an open eye for variations and transformations within late antiquity, understood to last from the early 4th to the late 7th c. We invite contributions on all aspects related to late antique empresses and imperial women, particularly those female family members that have been hitherto less studied, such as the women of the Constantinian dynasty beyond Helena, or imperial spouses such as Verina, Justina, Sophia, Ino Anastasia and Martina.

 

Chapters might address (but are not limited to) points such as:

- What was the role and position of imperial women within court society?

- Was there a ‘female court’ with its own officials?

- How did empresses and imperial women exercise authority or political power?

- What was at the basis (politically, dynastically, religiously, economically, culturally) of their

influence?

- How did imperial women represent themselves and their power vis-à-vis individual

populations or power groups?

- Did their public appearances and involvement in ceremonial differ from that of male

members of the family? Did they adopt (or were given) different titles and, if so, why?

- How can we reconstruct biographies of imperial women that have been (wilfully or

accidently) elided from the historical record?

Confirmed contributors include Marga Vallejo Girvés, Filippo Carlà-Uhink and Julia Hillner. Those interested in contributing are kindly requested to submit a short abstract (500 words maximum) in English, outlining subject and scope of the proposed chapter to both of the editors by 28 February 2021. Authors will be notified of acceptance by mid-March. We particularly encourage Early Career Researchers and PhD candidates to submit proposals. Once the final selection of chapters is complete, the editors will submit a book proposal for the new monograph series “Women in Ancient Cultures”, published by Liverpool University Press, in spring. First drafts of the chapters (no more than 8,000 words, including bibliography) will be expected by late 2021. Inquiries can be directed at any time to either of the editors.

 

Dr. Christian Rollinger

Department of History

University of Trier

rol...@uni-trier.de

 

Dr. Nadine Viermann

DAI Istanbul

nadine....@dainst.de

 

 

 

Call for Papers: Sapiens Ubique Civis VIII – Szeged 2021. PhD Student and Young Scholar Conference on Classics and the Reception of Antiquity Szeged, Hungary, 1-3 September 2021. Deadline: 30 June 2021

 

The Department of Classical Philology and Neo-Latin Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Szeged, Hungary is pleased to announce its International Conference Sapiens Ubique Civis VIII – Szeged 2021, for PhD Students, Young Scholars, as well as M.A. students aspiring to apply to a PhD program.

 

The aim of the conference is to bring together an international group of young scholars working in various places, languages, and fields. Papers on a wide range of subjects, including but not limited to the literature, history, philology, philosophy, linguistics and archaeology of Greece and Rome, Byzantinology, Neo-Latin studies, and reception of the classics, as well as papers dealing with theatre studies, comparative literature, contemporary literature, and fine arts related to the Antiquity are welcome. We are also happy to accept submissions concerning didactic methods in teaching Latin and other classical subjects.

 

Lectures: The language of the conference is English. Thematic sessions and plenary lectures will be scheduled. The time limit for each lecture is 20 minutes, followed by discussion.

 

Due to obvious reasons, we cannot tell now if the conference will be held as a traditional “offline” conference, or it will have to be held as an online one. We are prepared for both options, constantly monitoring the pandemic situation, and aim to hold an “offline” conference, but only if the health concerns and travelling restrictions let us to do so. We will inform all of the applicants regarding the decision on the conference’s method in the middle of June at the latest – before the application deadline –, and you can modify or cancel your application according to the decision.

 

Abstracts: Abstracts of maximum 300 words should be sent by email as a Word attachment to sapi...@gmail.com strictly before June 30, 2021. The abstracts should be proofread by a native speaker. The document should also contain personal information of the author, including name, affiliation and contact email address, and the title of the presentation. Please also inform us in your application whether you intend to participate in either case (traditional “offline” conference / online conference), or only in one or the other case. Acceptance notification will be sent to you until July 7, 2021.

 

Registration: The registration fee for the conference is €60. The participation fee includes conference pack, reception meal, closing event, extra programs, and refreshments during coffee breaks. The participation fee does not include accommodation, but the conference coordinators will assist the conference participants in finding accommodation in the city centre.

 

If the conference will take place as an online one, the registration fee will be reduced to €20.

 

Publication: All papers will be considered for publication in the peer-reviewed journal on Classics entitled Sapiens ubique civis, published in cooperation with the ELTE Eötvös József Collegium.

 

Getting here: Szeged, the largest city of Southern Hungary, can be easily reached by rail from Budapest and the Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport. Those who prefer travelling by car can choose the European route E75, and then should take the Hungarian M5 motorway, a section of E75, passing by the city.

 

For general inquiries about the conference, please contact Dr Gergő Gellérfi: geller...@gmail.com.

 

 

 

Exalted Spirits: The Veneration of the Dead in Egypt through the Ages. Conference and Abstract Submission. Deadline: 19 April 2021

The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) and The American University in Cairo (AUC) are organizing a joint conference in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (MoTA) on the veneration of the dead, entitled Exalted Spirits: The Veneration of the Dead in Egypt through the Ages. This three-day conference will cover the veneration of deceased figures in Egypt from the pharaonic period up to current times, using the diverse evidence available in terms of texts, images, and lived traditions. We invite people to submit papers relating to the following topics: the definition of ancestor veneration; the different types of individuals who were the focus of cults of the dead [ranging from kings, deceased family members, prominent individuals with saintly powers in society—such as Imhotep in ancient Egypt, Saint Anthony in Coptic Egypt and the Ahl al-Bayt (family of the Prophet) in Islamic Egypt—or more informally in local society, such as Heqaib or local saints whose cults are currently celebrated in villages and towns throughout Egypt]; and the rituals, ceremonies and festivals that are associated with venerated deceased figures. 

 The conference will feature academic papers as well as panel discussions focusing on current practices related to the veneration of the dead and their origins, which may be traced back to ancient Egypt, and is aimed at both academic and non-academic participants. The former will present academic papers, while the latter—which may include creatives from different fields—would participate in panel discussions. Academic papers will be published in a peer-reviewed publication.

Conference dates: November 10-12, 2021

Venue: Ewart Hall, American University in Cairo, Egypt (depending on Covid-19)

Abstract deadline: April 19, 2021

Conference email: exalteds...@arce.org

 

 

3.                 JOBS AND SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

 

Call for candidates. Position: post-doctoral researcher in the project Law in social networks of late antique Aphrodito. Deadline for application: 15 February 2021, 10.00 a.m.

Requirements: The applicant must meet all the criteria set by the National Science Centre (NCN) for post-doctoral employment.

The successful candidate is expected to possess:

1.      a doctoral degree in the field of social sciences or humanities and a doctoral dissertation on Greek, Roman, or Byzantine history;

2.      excellent knowledge of Latin and Ancient Greek;

3.      very good command of English;

4.      documented experience in the field of documentary papyrology, among others, papyri editions, or similar discipline;

5.      good knowledge of Roman law;

6.      a strong work ethic.

7.      Good knowledge of Coptic or/and at least one of the following languages – French, German, or Italian – is very welcome.

 

Task description:

1.      collection and analysis of papyri from Aphrodito;

2.      collection and analysis of juridical sources;

3.      entering data into a database;

4.      analysis of assigned legal phenomena and tools;

5.      publication of results achieved.

 

Deadline for application: 15 February 2021, 10.00 a.m.

NCN scheme: OPUS

Method of submission: Documents should be submitted by regular mail or by email.

Conditions of employment: Full-time, fixed-term contract for 2 years. Prolongation for 2 more years is possible, gross salary 7700 PLN.

Date of commencement of work: 15 March 2021 at the earliest.

Additional information: The documents should be submitted to: Sekcja spraw pracowniczych i współpracy z zagranicą, Wydział Prawa i Administracji, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, 00-927 Warsaw, Collegium Iuridicum I, rooms 312-313 or to the email address: i.wisn...@wpia.uw.edu.pl.

 

The application must contain:

1.      a CV including a list of publications

2.      a cover letter

3.      a copy of the doctoral diploma or certificate of awarding the doctoral degree

4.      the declaration: “I agree to the processing of my personal data for the needs of the recruitment process, in accordance with the Act of 29.08.1997 on the protection of personal data (Journal of Laws No. 133 item 883)”.

 

In case of any questions, please email Maria Nowak: m.n...@wpia.uw.edu.pl.

Please, read the information for candidates on personal data processing (word) before applying and submit the signed one with the other application documents.

 

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Lorenzo Saccon

DPhil Candidate, Faculty of History

President, Oxford University Byzantine Society

byzantin...@gmail.com  

http://oxfordbyzantinesociety.wordpress.com

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THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY BYZANTINE SOCIETY

The Byzness, 7^th January 2021
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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

 

Speaking From the Margins. DBBE Online Lectures, Spring 2021 Series

 

The Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, hosted at Ghent University (www.dbbe.ugent.be), is delighted to announce a series of lectures on the topic of book epigrams.

 

Byzantine manuscripts of all periods and kinds regularly contained colophons, scribal prayers, dedicatory pieces, and other “paratexts” in verse. These small (or sometimes long) poems give us a unique insight into the interests, ideologies and emotions of scribe, patron, and/or reader. They are testimonies to a long and often eventful history of reading and interpretation in Byzantine culture, and at the same time, they are fascinating (but sometimes overlooked) works of poetic art.

 

The DBBE has greatly improved access to this corpus. Nevertheless, book epigrams continue to elicit many questions, from palaeography to art history, from metrics to the history of text transmission. In this series of lectures, they invite scholars to share their perspectives on this multifaceted genre.

 

In Spring 2021, they will kick off Speaking From the Margins with a series of six online lectures. The lectures will take place at 4pm (Central European Time) and will be accessible to everyone via Zoom. For more information please contact db...@ugent.be or visit https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/pages/outreach#lectures.

 

Please save these dates in your calendar:

 

Thursday 11 February

Andreas Rhoby, Verse and Image: The Kosmos of Byzantine Metrical Paratexts

 

Tuesday 2 March

Julie Boeten, The Focus in and on Book Epigrams: A Pragmatic Investigation of Object Clitic Pronouns and the Topic-Focus Pair in Byzantine Book Epigrams

 

Tuesday 30 March

Jacopo Marcon, Παῦλος ὁ μύστης τῶν ἀπορρήτων λόγων: On the Use of the Book Epigrams in New Testament Catenae on Paul

 

Tuesday 27 April

Alessandra Palla, Manuscript Tradition and Cultural Perspectives: Investigating the Epigrams AP 2, vv. 372-376 and AP 9, 583

 

Tuesday 25 May

Sien De Groot, Reading and Writing the Areopagite. Book Epigrams as Witnesses to the Transmission of the Corpus Dionysiacum

 

Tuesday 22 June

Georgi Parpulov, A Typology of Metrical Paratexts

 

 

Invitation for New Members, London Society for Medieval Studies

 

The London Society for Medieval Studies (LSMS) is currently seeking new members to join its steering committee for the 2021/22 academic year. Founded in 1970/1, the LSMS is one of the longest running seminar series at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. Organised by postgraduates and early career academics, their fortnightly Tuesday seminars seek to foster knowledge of, and dialogue about, the Middle Ages among both scholars and the wider public in London.

 

They welcome expressions of interest from postgraduates and early career academics (including MA and PhD students) specialising in any area of medieval studies (c.500–c.1500 CE, any part of the world), including (but not limited to) the art, literature, archaeology, economy, and history of the Middle Ages. 

 

This is a fantastic opportunity for those in the early stages of their academic careers to join an established forum for the dissemination and discussion of new research, and to gain experience of organising academic events, working collaboratively as part of a committee, chairing sessions, and networking with senior academics. Committee members are normally expected to serve for at least one academic year. The activity of the LSMS are currently entirely online, however they are hoping to resume in person events as soon as possible, and therefore have a strong preference for recruiting people who can commit to attending fortnightly events in London.

 

If you are interested in joining the LSMS, please send a short biography (of around 150 words), including details of your previous and current education/position and academic interests, to londonsocform...@gmail.com. If you would like any further information, please contact them on the same email address. The LSMS only has a limited number of committee spaces available, so we encourage interested parties to get in touch as soon as possible and before the 30th of March.

 

 

 

‘Living Like Gods: The Late Antique Hall from the Domus outside the Porta Marina, Ostia’, Fabio Barry, Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, Stanford University. 11 February, 4:00 pm EST

 

Department of Art History and Art, Case Western Reserve University

https://cwru.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Cde_TTmAQ7W3qB_SeMxJPQ

 

‘About 394 CE, just as masons were polishing off the intricate inlays in a deluxe Domus at Ostia, the walls fell in like a house of cards. This surprise demise meant that when archaeologists peeled back the humus in the 1940s and 50s they would unearth the most extensive remains of any marbled room from antiquity.

 

This opulent Aula used to be considered a Christian cult room though it was more likely a grand hall for audiences and banqueting. Marble lions prowl the walls; haloed philosophers peer out for them; fictive tapestries bedeck them; one surface simulates a brick wall in porphyry and marble, brick by costly brick.

 

Conspicuous consumption by the super- rich of a declining empire this may all be. However, we will examine the room in the light of the patron’s desire for a palace so brilliant it was envied by the sun, a place where he could dazzle his clients at the dawn salutation and exalt himself above mortals. The same material hyper-reality would be transferred from the Domus to the Ecclesia, the judgment hall of the King of Kings, with a minimum of adaptation.’

 

 

 

Bulletin of British Byzantine Studies submissions. Deadline: 15

 

Dr Fiona Haarer (KCL), the editor of SPBS's Bulletin of British Byzantine Studies, wishes to include details of new and graduating doctoral students at British Universities in the new issue of the BBBS.

 

If this applies to you, please email fiona....@kcl.ac.uk with your name, college, thesis title, supervisor's name, and an abstract.

 

 

 

 

Yale Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture: ‘From Domestic to Divine: The Mosaics of Late Antique Syria’ Sean Leatherbury (University College, Dublin) Friday, February 12, 2021 - 12:00pm (EST)

 

https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gweWES0CSG-27fObvGsFLQ

Respondent: Örgü Dalgıç, Yale University

 

This event is part of a series of Yale Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture. https://ism.yale.edu/news/yale-lectures-late-antique-and-byzantine-art-and-architecture#

 

 

 

2nd International Conference on Byzantine Studies and Eastern Middle Ages (March 23, 24, and 25, 2021)

 

The 2nd International Conference on Byzantine Studies and Eastern Middle Ages will take place online on March 23, 24, and 25, 2021.

 

 

The Conference is an online academic event aiming to bring together researchers of Byzantine and Eastern Medieval Studies. These scholars are encouraged to present their work and discuss new approaches to collaborate in the expansion of these contexts in Brazil. Continuing the successful first edition, this year's event becomes international. In this sense, the Conference will contribute to the dialogue between national and international researchers at different levels, whether they are doctors, masters or undergrads. Papers on different themes addressing East Medieval societies are encouraged, as well as cross-cutting themes that highlight the connections of other geographic regions with the East.

 

Deadline for free communications is March 7 and for only attendance March 15.

For more information, visit: https://en.jornadabizantina.info/

 

 

 

Sidonius Apollinaris website: Newsletter

 

The Sidonius Apollinaris website (https://sidonapol.org) has been further enhanced. It now also provides a newsletter. You are cordially invited to subscribe. The newsletter will keep you abreast of the most recent developments in the field, as a gateway to the website itself.

You can subscribe here: https://sidonapol.org/newsletter/.

 

 

 

2.              CALLS FOR PAPERS

 

Call for Papers, Sacred Spaces in Motion. Deadline for submissions:  May 1, 2021

 

The peer reviewed journal Review of Ecumenical Studies invites papers for a special issue dedicated to the problematics of sacred spaces.

 

You can read here the call for papers:

The papers must be submitted to: r...@ecum.ro

 

Our contemporary world witnesses contrasting approaches to sacred spaces. While in some regions (especially in Western Europe) there is a decrease in the interest for religious buildings as places for worship due to the decline of the number of practicing believers, and they are sometimes reused as public institutions, hotels or restaurants, in other regions one can testify for a revival of an intense attention to religious architecture. This is manifested either through the large-scale construction of national churches (e.g., Church of Saint Sava, Belgrade; People’s Salvation Cathedral, Bucharest), the reconversion of former museums into places of worship (e.g., Chora or Hagia Sophia Museums), or shifts in their religious status (e.g., recent transformation of churches into mosques, as with the former Lutheran Church of Capernaum in Hamburg, Germany or the former church of Santa Maria Valverde in Venice). These contradictory tendencies and dynamics in understanding the role of sacred buildings highlights the exploitation of sacred spaces as areas for the affirmation of religious identity and negotiation of power resorts. Buildings concentrate different values, expectations, and social projections of a religious community, and most times the physical place itself where the building is consecrated bears an importance of its own (e.g., Al-Aqsa Mosque, Dome of the Rock and proposed third Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem, Great Mosque of Mecca). The highly controversial call for a third Temple of Solomon exemplifies just how important the exact geography for worshiping God may be. But when different denominations request the same place (e.g., Temple Mount/Noble Sanctuary of Jerusalem), or the same building (e.g., the Hagia Sophia) neither immediate nor long-lasting solutions are easily found.

This unique and topical issue of RES aims to bring together papers that deal with (but will be not be limited to) questions such as: How do sacred buildings reflect the interferences of the political with the religious? What are the legal and theological bases for the (re)conversion of churches into mosques and of mosques into churches? To what extent and what foreseeable consequences building, decommissioning, repurposing, or converting religious spaces represent a form of domination and exclusion? Can one envision sacred spaces as communion places for different confessions or religions? Can historical sacred buildings become ecumenical edifices, in which different confessions and religions could worship under the same roof? We are also looking for contributions that discuss the complex significance that religious edifices bear in the architectural language of sacred spaces, from architects, archaeologists, art historians, historians of religions, theologians, philosophers or political scientists. Contributions are welcome on the confessional, ethical, political and aesthetical importance of historical sacred spaces in Abrahamic religions, such as the Hagia Sophia and historic Asia Minor, those in Jerusalem and the Holy Land, the Tigris-Euphrates Basin region and the wider Middle East, as well as from the Balkans.

 

 

 

Conference Call for Papers, ‘Exalted Spirits: The Veneration of the Dead in Egypt through the Ages’. Deadline for submission: 19 April 2021

 

The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) and The American University in Cairo (AUC) are organizing a joint conference in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (MoTA) on the veneration of the dead, entitled Exalted Spirits: The Veneration of the Dead in Egypt through the Ages. This three-day conference will cover the veneration of deceased figures in Egypt from the pharaonic period up to current times, using the diverse evidence available in terms of texts, images, and lived traditions. We invite people to submit papers relating to the following topics: the definition of ancestor veneration; the different types of individuals who were the focus of cults of the dead [ranging from kings, deceased family members, prominent individuals with saintly powers in society—such as Imhotep in ancient Egypt, Saint Anthony in Coptic Egypt and the Ahl al-Bayt (family of the Prophet) in Islamic Egypt—or more informally in local society, such as Heqaib or local saints whose cults are currently celebrated in villages and towns throughout Egypt]; and the rituals, ceremonies and festivals that are associated with venerated deceased figures. 

 The conference will feature academic papers as well as panel discussions focusing on current practices related to the veneration of the dead and their origins, which may be traced back to ancient Egypt, and is aimed at both academic and non-academic participants. The former will present academic papers, while the latter—which may include creatives from different fields—would participate in panel discussions. Academic papers will be published in a peer-reviewed publication.

Conference dates: November 10-12, 2021

Venue: Ewart Hall, American University in Cairo, Egypt (depending on Covid-19)

Abstract deadline: April 19, 2021

Conference email: exalteds...@arce.org

 

 

 

The Healing Classica: Medical Humanities and the Graeco-Roman Tradition (London, 9-10 September 2021)

 

“A properly critical medical humanities is also a historically grounded medical humanities.”*

 

‘What potential relevance does the experience of Graeco-Roman antiquity have to the emerging field of the critical medical humanities and their mission to ‘humanise’ today’s medical and healthcare practice, education and research? This two-day conference aims to bring together specialists from around the world (including medical professionals, art therapists, classicists, philosophers, historians and other HSS scholars) to engage in an interdisciplinary dialogue about healthcare and the conceptualization of well-being and illness, with a specific emphasis on what role Graeco-Roman antiquity can play for healthcare providers and users today (professionals, nurses, patients, carers).

 

By turning to, and drawing inspiration from, ancient Greek and Roman sources (medical or otherwise), the conference is intended to yield fresh insights into issues such as the ideology of health, narratives of illness, the confrontation with mortality, the importance of professional ethics, and so on. What does it mean to be a (healthy) human being? What is the value of ‘making sense’ of trauma and loss? What are the role, value and requirements of human qualities in the context of healthcare? What useful strategies do ancient sources propose for living ‘well’ with chronic pain, disability, illness? Central to our endeavour will be to explore (but also debate) the continuing creativity and vitality inherent in the classical tradition, hence our specific interest in the use of classical themes and motifs in/for creative and expressive arts therapy (dance/movement therapy, music therapy, drama therapy, poetry therapy, etc.).

 

Besides looking for fresh, hitherto unexplored perspectives on these and related issues, we aim to take stock of past (and present) achievements situated at the junction of both fields. Apart from accepting individual papers bearing on these topics we will stimulate the use of other creative formats (e.g., performance, initiation, demonstration, recitation). We hope to create an open-minded, yet critical, platform and the space to allow experimental and risk-taking dialogue between classics-oriented scholars and stakeholders in the domain of medicine/health. Given this aim to put past and present into conversation, to discover continuities and contrasts with contemporary perspectives, we warmly welcome proposals for paired presentations and interdisciplinary panels. Selected papers will be edited in a thematic volume, which will be submitted for publication in Peter Lang’s new series Medical Humanities: Criticism and Creativity.

 

Confirmed speakers:

 

- Ellen Adams

- Véronique Boudon-Millot

- Susan Deacy

- Tania Gergel

- Edith Hall

- Brook Holmes

- Daniel King

- Christian Laes

- Robert Marshall

- Mary Margaret McCabe

- Peter Meineck

- Georgia Petridou

- Corinne Saunders

- Chiara Thumiger

 

If you are interested to participate, please submit your abstract (300 words) and short CV (5-10 lines) as one file to healingcl...@gmail.com by 1 April 2021. We are making arrangements for a hybrid event, taking place partly online and partly offline (venue TBD). In your file please mention whether you would consider travelling to London or would prefer to participate online. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.’

 

^* C. Saunders, “Voices and Visions: Mind, Body and Affect in Medieval Writing”, in J. Richards, S. Atkinson, J. Macnaughton, A. Woods & A. Whitehead (eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities, Edinburgh, 2016: 411-427, at 411.

 

 

 

Call for Papers: “Amassing Perspectives: Current Trends in Syriac Iconography”, 17-18 September 2021, Princeton University. Deadline for submission: 15 March 2021

 

The Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University invites paper proposals on late antique and medieval Syriac iconography and visual culture for a virtual conference to be held on September 17–18, 2021.

 

‘Monastery wall paintings in Syria and Egypt, the illuminations of the Rabbula Gospels, and the architecture and decorations of churches in regions as diverse as Turkey and India are just some of the rich visual culture extant from the late antique and medieval Syriac tradition. Though there is a long tradition of studying Syriac visual culture, this is a subject that has not typically been prominent in the broader field of Syriac studies, and there have been few monographs dedicated to the topic in recent decades. The aim of this conference is to gather diverse scholars from across the globe whose research touches on all aspects of Syriac iconography and visual culture in any geographic region from late antiquity throughout the Middle Ages, to roughly 1400 C.E. The conference will sum up the status quaestionis of research into Syriac art and architecture and spell out major desiderata for the field going forward.

 

We seek representation across academic disciplines—from art historians, archaeologists, historians, philologists, and more—and welcome the latest research being conducted on Syriac visual culture in any form. Papers might analyze the presence of varying artistic traditions in a particular monastic site or manuscript; evaluate unifying, transtemporal thematic imagery within any of the Syriac church traditions; propose a theoretical framework for the study of Syriac art; examine how medieval Syriac authors and theologians engaged with iconoclasm; study the migration and employment of artisans through architectural continuities between multiple sites; or consider the role of portable objects in artistic exchanges. This call is open to and aimed at scholars in all stages of their career, from graduate students to senior scholars. All are invited to submit abstracts related to any topic on Syriac iconography and visual culture from the late antique and medieval periods. Abstracts should be between 300–500 words and should be submitted to ac...@princeton.edu by March 15, 2021. Women; Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) scholars; and people traditionally underrepresented in Syriac studies are especially encouraged to apply. Authors will be informed in early April of the results, and accepted papers will be due September 1, 2021.

 

The conference will be held virtually over Zoom due to the uncertain nature of the COVID-19 pandemic. Complete papers will be pre-circulated to registered conference participants in September 2021, and the conference itself will consist of roundtable workshops discussing and developing the material. Given the academic significance of such a conference, it is hoped that the conference proceedings will develop into an edited volume, reflecting state-of-the-art research on Syriac visual culture.

 

The conference is hosted by the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University with support from the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity (CSLA) and the Center for Collaborative History (CCH). Interested persons may contact Alyssa Cady (ac...@princeton.edu) or Emily Chesley (eche...@princeton.edu) with any questions.’

 

 

 

3.                 JOBS AND SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

 

Research Positions in Lisbon

 

The Portuguese R&D Funding Agency (FCT) has announced the opening of the fourth edition of the Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus, which will allow the hiring of 300 PhD holders in all scientific fields to work in Portugal.

 

29 January 2021 – 26 February 2021 (17:00 Lisbon Time).

https://www.fct.pt/apoios/contratacaodoutorados/empregocientifico/ceec_ind_4.phtml.pt

 

The Centre for Classical Studies – University of Lisbon (http://www.tmp.letras.ulisboa.pt/cec) looks forward to hearing from interested candidates and hosting research in the areas of

 

a)         Classical Literature (Greek and Latin Literature; Late Antique Literature);

b)         Epigraphy (Roman, Medieval, Renaissance);

c)         Medieval Latin (critical editions, poetry, historiography, documentation);

d)         Humanism and Neo-Latin (mainly but not restricted to Iberian texts);

e)         History of Science (Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance);

f)         Europe and Asia (Latin and Neo-Latin texts on Asia);

g)         Women Writers and the Classics (mainly but not restricted to Lusophone Literature);

h)         Reception Studies (19th-21st c.; mainly but not restricted to Lusophone Literature);

i)          Information Science (libraries; archives).

 

In addition to these themes, we are also eager to attract new researchers willing to develop in Lisbon new cutting edge research on

 

j) Classics and Gender;

k) Classics and Postcolonialism; or

l) Classics and Education.

 

At the Centre for Classical Studies in Lisbon, we are very proud because we were the only Portuguese research centre in this scientific area (Classical Studies, Classical Tradition) to have been assessed as “Excellent” in 2019 by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.

 

If you are interested in being part of our team, please contact us (rodrigo...@campus.ul.pt) and send us a draft of your project in order to adjust your research interests with the CEC’s own research goals.

 

The English written application will be submitted online at a soon to be available platform. See here: https://www.fct.pt/apoios/contratacaodoutorados/empregocientifico/ceec_ind_4.phtml.pt.

 

The up to 6 years research contracts to be funded under this call consider FOUR LEVELS, corresponding to different career stages:

 

·       Junior researcher: Ph.D. holders with limited post-doctoral experience in the scientific area of application (c. 1.400-1.500€ net wage * 14 months);

 

·       Assistant researcher: Ph.D. holders with more than 5 years of post-doctoral research, with relevant experience in the scientific area of application and limited scientific independence (c. 1.800-1.950€ net wage * 14 months);

 

·       Principal researcher: Ph.D. holders with more than 5 years of post-doctoral research, with relevant experience in the scientific area of application and demonstrating scientific independence for the last 3 years (c. 2.100-2300€ net wage * 14 months);

 

·       Coordinating researcher: Ph.D. holders with more than 5 years of post-doctoral research, holders of a title of agregação or habilitação, with relevant experience and demonstrating scientific independence and recognized leadership in the scientific area of application (c. 2.350-2500€ net wage * 14 months).

 

 

 

Mongolian Cluster Summer Semester Language Workshops 2021. Deadline for application: 21 February 2021

 

2 March – 29 June 2021:

Introduction to Chagatai: Tuesdays 14:00-15.30 (CET)

By Csaba GÖNCÖL (Ottoman Era Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and University of Szeged)

 

Introduction to Classical Mongolian: Tuesdays 18:00-19.30 (CET)

By Dr. Francesca FIASCHETTI (University of Vienna)

 

5 March – 2 July 2021:

Classical Mongolian – Advanced Reading Group: Fridays 15:00-16.30 (CET)

By Dr. Jargaj BADAGAROV (Heidelberg University)

 

The workshops will be held online.

Enrolling is possible until 21^st February 2021 at karin...@univie.ac.at

 

[Oxford University Byzantine Society]

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THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY BYZANTINE SOCIETY

The Byzness, 14^th February 2021
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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

 

Wolfram Hörandner

 

‘Dear colleagues,

 

the Austrian Byzantine Association mourns the death of Wolfram Hörandner, who passed away at the age of 78 on 27 January 2021 after a long illness.

 

Beginning with his 1966 dissertation (Herbert Hunger was his ‘Doktorvater’), Wolfram Hörandner paved the way for the study of Byzantine literature and rhetoric that extends beyond philology and palaeography to literary studies. He has inspired and mentored several generations of younger scholars in this increasingly flourishing field.

 

Wolfram Hörandner was Professor at the University of Vienna; Secretary and Vice-President of the Austrian Association of Byzantine Studies, and General Editor of the Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik.

 

Within the AIEB, he was the head of the Committee for the Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae (2001-2011) and continued to read new submissions even during the last months of his life.

 

A volume of some of his opera minora was published in 2017 (Facettes de la littérature byzantine. Contributions choisies de Wolfram Hörandner, ed. Paolo Odorico, Andreas Rhoby, Elisabeth Schiffer). His last publication came out in 2019 (A Companion to Byzantine Poetry, co-edited with Andreas Rhoby, Nikolaos Zagklas).

 

We mourn the loss of a great scholar and treasured colleague, whose deep humanity will never be forgotten by those who were fortunate to know him.’

 

Prof. Dr. Claudia Rapp, w.M., FBA

President, Austrian Association for Byzantine Studies

 

 

 

53rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, 27-29 March 2021

 

Nature and the environment underpinned Byzantine life but have been little studied. How the Byzantines responded to, interacted with and understood the landscape, however, enables crucial new insights into East Roman perceptions of the world. Modern interest in the environment and eco-history makes this theme pertinent and timely. Current research on climate change and how it affected the East Mediterranean creates new paradigms for our understanding of Byzantine interactions with the environment. The 53rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies draws together Byzantine literary and visual responses to nature and the environment as well as showcasing the most recent scientific research on historical climate change and environmental management in Byzantium.

This symposium was planned by Dr Ruth Macrides (University of Birmingham) and will be dedicated to her memory.

NB: Due to the ongoing disruption caused by the COVID-19 shutdown and related travel restrictions in the UK, we have decided to move Nature and the Environment: the 53rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, online. The Symposium programme will go ahead as planned and will be hosted via the University of Birmingham’s webinar facilities.

 

Symposiarch: Dr Ruth Macrides
Symposium Organisers:
Prof. Leslie Brubaker: l.bru...@bham.ac.uk
Dr Daniel Reynolds: d.k.re...@bham.ac.uk

The Main Programme may be downloaded here. The Communications Programme will be available shortly. 

Registering for the event:

Registration for the online Symposium is now open and can be accessed via EventBrite. In view of the shift to an online format, we have reduced the registration fees and have implemented a small cost to cover administrative expenses (see below).
Tickets will be emailed to participants after they have purchased the tickets with Eventbite. The tickets will contain a Zoom link for the session.
Participants will also receive a conference pack by email a week before the event. This will contain the Zoom link, with further details on how to log-in, as well as the full Symposium programme.

Tickets may be purchased  by clicking on the Eventbrite link here

 

Registration Fees:

 

SPBS member (full): £15.00
SPBS member (student/unwaged): £5.00
Non-SPBS Member (full): £30.00
Non-SPBS Member (student/unwaged): £15.00

 

For any issues or queries, please contact Lauren Wainwright. 

 

 

 

Online seminar series ‘Novel Echoes: Ethiopian and Babylonian Stories in Byzantium and Beyond’

 

See https://www.novelsaints.ugent.be/news/online-seminar-series for more information.

Please email evelien...@ugent.be for the zoom links.

The programme is as follows (all times are CET):

 

Thursday 25 March at 4pm

Ben Kruchió (Universität Regensburg): ‘Greek literature between the poles of late antique reading communities: Heliodorus’s Aethiopica and Musaeus’s Hero and Leander’

 

Thursday 1 April at 5.30pm

Silvia Montiglio (Johns Hopkins): ‘The popularity of Heliodorus among Byzantine critics and readers’

 

Thursday 22 April at 4pm

Ellen Söderblom Saarela (UGent): ‘She must write her self, she did write her self: Hysmine’s voice from within the wrong’

 

Wednesday 12 May at 4pm

Paolo Brusa (Freie Universität Berlin): ‘From wandering to destitution: a shift in Heliodoran peregrinatio in 17th-century Spain’

 

Friday 11 June at 4pm

Nunzio Bianchi (Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro): ‘From Babylon to Byzantium: Iamblichus' novel and its reception’

 

 

 

Mary Jaharis Center Lecture: Ritual and Politics in Early Rus. 4 March 2021 | Zoom | 3:00–4:00 pm (Eastern time)

 

 

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, is pleased to announce its next lecture: "Ritual and Politics in Early Rus." Dr. Alexandra Vukovich, University of Oxford, will discuss the ceremonies and rituals of Rus in the pre-Mongol period.

 

This lecture will take place live on Zoom, followed by a question and answer period. Please register to receive the Zoom link. An email with the relevant Zoom information will be sent 1–2 hours ahead of the lecture. Registration closes at 10:00 AM on March 4, 2021.

 

Register here: https://maryjahariscenter.org/events/ritual-and-politics-in-early-rus

 

 

 

New BSANA Website

 

The new BSANA website is now live and can be visited at: https://bsana.net/

 

 

 

Leverhulme Visiting Professor Valentina Calzolari, Hilary and Trinity Terms 2021:

 

Dr Valentina Calzolari, Full Professor in Armenian Studies at the University of Geneva and corresponding member of the Institut de France (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres) will be in Oxford from February 1 to 31 July of this year as Leverhulme Visiting Professor, working with Theo Maarten van Lint, Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies. Professor Calzolari’s double background in Classics and Armenian Studies informs her expertise in the “Hellenising School” of Armenian literature and in the transmission of Neoplatonism in Armenia, both part of the transmission of the Greek heritage in Armenia.

Text-reading Seminar: Hilary and Trinity Terms 
During the Hilary and Trinity Terms, Prof. Calzolari will offer a text-reading Seminar on the Armenian translation of the commentaries of David, and especially of the Prolegomena, open to all staff and students in Armenian Studies, Classics, History of Philosophy, Linguistics, and others who might profit from them. The text will be translated and commented in English in order to make it accessible also to people without Armenian or Greek, but interested in the content of the works and in the modalities of the transmission of Greek thought. They are all very much welcome. The original texts will be available both in Armenian and in Greek, and commented upon, for people mastering one or both of these languages. 
 
Hilary Term  
Thursdays, 2 pm - 4 pm, Weeks 6-8: February 25, March 4, 11 
 
Trinity Term 
Thursdays, 2 pm - 4 pm, Weeks 1-5: April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 27 
 
In order to get a sense of the size of the online seminar, all interested are kindly requested to write to Prof. Calzolari: 

valentina...@orinst.ox.ac.uk  

or

valentina...@unige.ch  

 

Leverhulme public lectures: Trinity Term 
Four lectures are planned, united around the theme of 

“The Reception of Neoplatonism in Armenia”

and will be delivered in Trinity Term 2021, time tbc –  
Tentative dates and titles: 
Week 2 Tuesday, May 4   
Mapping the paths of the ‘Libraries of the Neoplatonists’ after 529: the Armenian step 
Week 4 Tuesday, May 18  
David the Invincible philosopher in the Armenian tradition 
Week 6 Tuesday, June 1   
David's Prolegomena to Philosophy 
Week 7 Tuesday, June 8  
The Medieval reception of Aristotle and Late Platonism in Armenia(-n) 

For more on Prof Calzolari's Positions, Publications and Research interesets, see: 

https://orinst.web.ox.ac.uk/people/valentina-calzolari

and

https://www.unige.ch/lettres/meslo/unites/armenien/enseignants/calzolari/

 

 

 

2.              CALLS FOR PAPERS

 

Diogenes Journal, Call for Contributions. Deadline: 12 April

 

Since its launch in January 2014, Diogenes is an open-access and peer-review online journal edited by the postgraduate students at the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman, and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham.

 

It aims to bring together postgraduate and early career researchers and provide a forum at which they can further develop their research ideas and communicate them to a general audience.

 

The articles published in Diogenes cover a wide range of research interests, yet they all fall under the umbrella of the often-separate fields of Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies. We look forward to any article that actively engages with any of these fields, from universities in the UK and abroad. It is published twice a year: in April and October.

 

Therefore, indicative topics cover yet are not limited to:

 

Byzantine archaeology, material culture, art history and textual analyses

Ottoman history, archaeology, literature and art

Modern Greek history, literature, film, pop culture, and politics

Book Reviews in BOMGS

Theoretical Reflections and Methodological explorations on BOMGS

Before submitting, please consult the author manuscript guidelines (Diogenes Manuscript Guidelines)

 

If you have any questions regarding getting involved in Diogenes or submitting articles or reviews, please contact the editors: colcal-c...@adf.bham.ac.uk.

 

For more information, please visit: https://gemuob.wordpress.com/diogenes-journal/

 

 

 

The Passions in the Platonic Tradition, Patristics and Late Antiquity. Deadline: 15 March 2021

 

The effects of the pandemic this past year have given rise to a plethora of emotions: fear, anxiety, frustration, despair, pain, surprise, sadness. What are we to make of these intense emotions? What do these emotions make of us as individuals and communities? How are we to deal with them moving forward? Do we ignore them, reject them, accept them, transform them? How do they affect religious life and the experience of God?

 

This interdisciplinary virtual symposium aims to explore how the treatment of the passions in the Platonic Tradition, Patristics and Late Antiquity can help provide answers to these questions. The symposium will be organized around the study of any emotion arising in the corresponding stages of the pandemic: (1) undergoing forceful SEPARATION at the outbreak of the pandemic, (2) experiencing LOSS during the pandemic and (3) embracing CHANGE as we reimagine a life after the pandemic. How do emotions in these stages affect corporeality, community, lived experience, identity, religious practice?

 

Contribute: if you wish to present, please send a 300 word abstract including a title, tentative topic, argument, and your affiliation by 15 March 2021. Decisions will be communicated within a week of submission. Presentations will last 15 mins followed by 10 mins of Q & A. The complete program will be published on 1 April, including keynote speakers.

 

Register: open to everyone; to register free of charge, please email the contact below.

 

Contact: Pablo Irizar (pablo....@mcgill.ca, https://mcgill.academia.edu/PabloIrizar)

 

Organizers: Pablo Irizar (School of Religious Studies, McGill), Anthony Dupont (Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, Leuven), Mateusz Stróżyński (Institute of Classical Philology, UAM)

 

 

 

3.              JOBS AND SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

 

Call for Applications for 3 positions as Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Priscian’s Ars Grammatica in the European Scriptoria

 

The Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità at Sapienza University of Rome has issued a public call for applications for 3 Positions as Postdoctoral Research Fellow within the ERC Project PAGES – Priscian’s Ars Grammatica in European Scriptoria: A Millennium of Latin and Greek Scholarship [Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, Grant agreement No. 882588, PI Prof. Dr. Michela Rosellini].

 

Positions:

1. Postdoctoral Research Fellow with research experience in the field of Latin linguistics and Latin texts of the Late Antiquity. Language skills requested: excellent command of the English language (preferably mother-tongue); German reading and comprehension; French reading and comprehension; Spanish reading and comprehension. Duration of the grant: 3 years.

Research project: Study of the manuscript tradition of the Ars Prisciani; critical and digital edition of 2 books of the Ars Prisciani and English translation of books 1-10.

 

2. Postdoctoral Research Fellow with research experience in Latin palaeography of the Early Middle Ages and particularly of the Carolingian Age. Language skills requested: good command of English; German reading and comprehension; French reading and comprehension; Spanish reading and comprehension. Duration of the grant: 3 years.

Research project: Codicological and palaeographical analysis of the 8th-10th-century manuscripts of the Ars Prisciani.

 

3. Postdoctoral/Postgraduate Research Fellow with research experience in the field of the Greek studies in the Humanistic Age and the circulation of Greek classical texts in Italy 1400-1500. Language skills requested: good command of English; German reading and comprehension; French reading and comprehension; Spanish reading and comprehension. Duration of the grant: 2 years.

Research project: Textual critical study of the 15th-16th-century manuscripts and printed editions of the Ars Priscian, with particular regard to the transmission of the Greek passages of the work.

 

• The gross salary is € 24.400 per year.

 

• Nationality of Applicants: citizens of both EU-states and non-EU states.

 

• For applicants residing abroad it will be possible to take the interview by videoconference.

 

The official calls for applications, including the instructions for the applicants, is available at the websites

- https://web.uniroma1.it/trasparenza/dettaglio_bando_albo/173548 (Position no. 1);

- https://web.uniroma1.it/trasparenza/dettaglio_bando_albo/173556 (Position no. 2);

- https://web.uniroma1.it/trasparenza/dettaglio_bando_albo/173559 (Position no. 3).

 

Further informal enquiries may be directed to the Principal Investigator of the Project, Prof. Dr. Michela Rosellini (michela....@uniroma1.it).

 

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Lorenzo Saccon

DPhil Candidate, Faculty of History

President, Oxford University Byzantine Society

byzantin...@gmail.com  

http://oxfordbyzantinesociety.wordpress.com

https://twitter.com/oxbyz

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THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY BYZANTINE SOCIETY

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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

 

OUBS 23rd International Graduate Conference Timetable and Registration, Online (Zoom), 26-28 February 2021

 

Registration is now open for "Self-Representation in Late Antiquity and Byzantium", the 23rd Oxford University Byzantine Society International Graduate Conference. The conference will take place online (Zoom) on 26th-28th February 2021, and will feature papers by 36 graduate students and keynote addresses by Prof. Cecily Hilsdale (McGill) and Prof. Stratis Papaioannou (Crete).

 

For details, please follow this link: https://oxfordbyzantinesociety.wordpress.com/international-graduate-conference-2021/

 

For registration, please follow this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/self-representation-in-late-antiquity-and-byzantium-tickets-138975612799?aff=ebdssbeac

 

 

 

Erasure: an effective form of censorship? - February 25, 4.00-5.30pm GMT

 

The Postgraduate and Early Career Late Antiquity Network presents a rescheduled second Keynote from its November workshop on 'Erasure in Late Antiquity', hosted (virtually) by the Classics Department at Trinity College Dublin:

 

Prof. dr. Irene van Renswoude

Erasure: an effective form of censorship? Editing contested content in Late Antique and Early Medieval Manuscripts

Thursday, February 25, at 4.00 - 5.30pm GMT

TCD Classics via Zoom

Irene van Renswoude (University of Amsterdam & The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Huygens ING) will be speaking on the late antique editing practices of Rufinus, Jerome and Cassiodorus. She will be exploring these writers' efforts to 'clean up' heretical passages, and the editing of these passages in early medieval manuscripts.

 

Everyone is welcome to register for the keynote by using the Eventbrite link: 

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/irene-van-renswoude-keynote-erasure-an-effective-form-of-censorship-tickets-140314190521?aff=erelexpmlt

 

 

 

Recordings Now Available: 1^st Online Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival

 

The recordings of the 1st Online Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival, 5-7 February 2021
are now available on YouTube.

 

 

 

Andrzej B. Kutiak (Technische Universität München), ‘Marea’/Northern Hawarriya: the planning of a Byzantine town, Warsaw late antique seminar, 3 December, 4:45 (Warsaw time)

On Thursday, 3 December, 4.45 p.m. (Warsaw time), at Ewa Wipszycka's Warsaw late antique seminar, Andrzej B. Kutiak (Technische Universität München), will present a paper 'Marea'/Northern Hawarriya: the planning of a Byzantine town. We are meeting on  Zoom at the usual link: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83501284547?pwd=aWt5a1Jla2ZmbUgzN1lyL0c4N1lsUT09

 

Abstract

This paper will present a general map of the ‘Marea’ archeological site. The process of mapping the whole site has been initiated in 2018. The area subjected to the documentation covers almost 60 ha (150 ac) and is a significant part of the peninsula projecting into Lake Maryut in Northern Hawwariya. The map depicts not only the urban settlement but also the adjacent area of agricultural and manufacturing character. As a result, the map gives a picture of spatial relations in their wider contexts, from architectural, through urban to landscape scale. It makes it possible to study the peculiarities of the site during the Byzantine period, as it has never been disturbed by any later interventions. During the seminar the methodology of the survey will be presented as well as conclusions of preliminary settlement’s analyses will be discussed, with the special focus on the urban planning issues.

 

Forthcoming seminars
10.12: Joanna Wegner (UW), Looking (not only) to heaven: the Aphrodito clergy in the 6th c.
17.12: Marta Szada (Nicolaus Copernicus University), The Gothic language and the Homoian identity in the post-Roman successor kingdoms

7.01: Adam Ziółkowski (UW), The third-Century Crisis of the Roman Empire: why did it occur and why was it forgotten?

 

 

 

Peter Frankopan Selected as Inaugural Speaker for the Thalia Potamianos Annual Lecture Series

 

Dr. Maria Georgopoulou, Director of the Gennadius Library, and Andreas Zombanakis, Chairman of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens’ Board of Overseers, are pleased to announce the selection of Dr. Peter Frankopan as the inaugural speaker for the Thalia Potamianos Annual Lecture Series on the Impact of Greek Culture.

 

Dr. Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University, where he is Stavros Niarchos Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. He is a world-renowned historian and an award-winning author who will present “Global Greece: A History.” This series of lectures examines the role that Greece, Greek culture, literature, and language have played over the course of more than two and a half millennia. Rather than exploring the familiar and limited Mediterranean context, they are looked at from a global perspective, allowing not only a better understanding of world history but of Greece itself.

Dr. Frankopan said, “I am delighted to have been invited to present the first Thalia Potamianos lectures. The American School and the Gennadius Library are famous around the world, so it is an honor and a privilege. I am very excited to give the first talk in Athens in October and then in the United States in the spring of 2022.”

The Thalia Potamianos lectures are being made possible by a generous commitment from Phokion Potamianos, an Overseer of the Gennadius Library. Mr. Potamianos named the series in memory of his grandmother, a distinguished Greek doctor, academic, and philanthropist. Mr. Potamianos remarked, “It is a great pleasure to commence the Thalia Potamianos lectures with a series of presentations in Greece and the United States by Dr. Frankopan. His work, placing Greece's cultural role in a global context, is at the heart of the purpose of the lectures and highly relevant to modern Greece that is, once again, connected to the modern Silk Road.”

Dr. Georgopoulou stated, “I am elated that for the first of our Thalia Potamianos lectures, Dr. Frankopan’s bold thinking will delve into such an intriguing topic: the history of Greece from a global perspective.”

Mr. Zombanakis noted, “A new chapter in the history of the Gennadius Libary begins as we continue to rapidly expand our outreach program of lectures, exhibitions, and webinars beyond the confines of Athens. Dr. Frankopan is a most worthy maiden speaker for our new Thalia Potamianos Annual Lecture Series.”

 

ABOUT THE THALIA POTAMIANOS LECTURE SERIES

 

Established in June 2020, the Thalia Potamianos Annual Lectures Series on the Impact of Greek Culture seeks to create a stimulating environment to draw both the academic community and the general public to the American School and the Gennadius Library.

Every year, a highly distinguished, internationally renowned scholar is selected to conduct research and develop programs on a topic relevant to the Gennadius Library. The research will culminate in a minimum of three annual public keynote lectures, which will be delivered in Athens and the United States. These talks will be accompanied by publications, podcasts, and other appropriate media to maximize exposure and engagement.

 

2021–2022 Schedule

 

Dates, locations, and event links will be forthcoming:

• October 7, 2021, in Athens (at the American School's Cotsen Hall)
• April 2022 in Washington, D.C.
• May 2022 in New York City

Please click here to learn more about this lecture series.

 

 

 

2.              CALLS FOR PAPERS

 

Call for Contributions: Anatolian Research / Jahrbuch für Kleinasiatische Forschung / Anadolu Araştırmaları

 

Established in 1955 as the publication of the Faculty of Letters at Istanbul University, Anatolian Research – Jahrbuch für Kleinasiatische Forschung – Anadolu Araştırmaları is an international and peer-reviewed journal, now publishing open access.

 

The journal invites scholars working on Ancient History, Archaeology, Art History, History of Architecture, Anthropology, Epigraphy, Numismatic, Historical Geography, and Archaeometry in Anatolia and its neighboring regions to submit research articles for the forthcoming issues. The journal aims to integrate scholarly and creative knowledge production from different perspectives that would spatially and temporally widen the impact of current research of Anatolia from prehistoric times to the Late Antiquity.

 

The journal will publish bi-annually starting from 2021. Manuscripts submitted for publication should be in Turkish, English, German, French or Italian. The submission should be made via the following online system: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/iuanadolu

 

Please direct inquiries to the Editor in Chief Professor Mustafa H. Sayar an...@istanbul.edu.tr

 

 

 

SOAS-Getty Seminar Programme ‘Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Cities as Places of Artistic Interchange’ - Call for Participants. Deadline: 17:00 hours GMT on 8 March 2021

 

The School of Arts at SOAS University of London is pleased to announce the launch of a new research seminar programme for young and early career researchers in the art and archaeology of the medieval eastern Mediterranean, supported by the Getty Foundation as part of its Connecting Art Histories initiative.

 

They invite research students at an advanced stage of their studies and early-career academic researchers and tutors working in historical research institutes (such as archaeology centres, museums, and government and non-governmental agencies dealing with history, art or archaeology) to join them in a collaborative online learning programme comprising eight seminar discussions taking place between March and May 2021.

 

The project is open to people from the countries of the eastern Mediterranean region and the Middle East and all the seminars will take place online.

Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Cities as Places of Artistic Interchange is an online seminar programme for emerging academics which focuses on the role played by cities in the medieval eastern Mediterranean, from the 12th to the 14th centuries CE, in the production, consumption, transformation and understanding of works of art and architecture.

 

This seminar pairs cities, scholars and the site-specific questions that arise from them to explore these and other aspects of artistic and cultural interchange in the medieval eastern Mediterranean region, with a particular focus on new research in lesser-known cities to highlight recent archaeological and other scholarly discoveries.

The project is open to early career academic researchers (who have received their doctorates in the last three years) and tutors, research students (PhD students) at an advanced stage of their studies and those working in historical research institutes (such as archaeology centres, museums, government and non-governmental agencies dealing with history, art or archaeology) who are from the countries of the eastern Mediterranean region and the Middle East. 

The target audience for this seminar programme is young professionals with advanced degrees (or equivalent work experience) in art history and/or archaeology of the period from the 12th to the 14th centuries who are from the countries of the eastern Mediterranean or Middle East.

 

Participants selected to take part in the programme will receive £2000 each (British pounds) to be used for research purposes. This includes the purchasing of books or other scholarly resources, upgrading of internet access, purchase of headphones, and the like.

 

The deadline for applications is 17:00 hours GMT on 8 March 2021.

 

For full details and to apply please visit their website at: https://www.soasresearch.org/gettyartisticinterchange

 

 

 

3.              JOBS AND SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

 

Postdoctoral Opportunities at Case Western Reserve University

 

The College of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University seeks applicants for three postdoctoral scholars in the humanities.  Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the scholarships support research in the humanities by scholars in the early stages of their careers and provide them with opportunities to explore leadership in higher education as participants in the Humanities in Leadership Learning Series (HILLS).  Scholars will join a community of postdoctoral researchers, CWRU faculty, and graduate students and be affiliated with one or more of the humanities departments in the College of Arts and Sciences. 

 

We are particularly interested in scholars whose research explores issues related to race and racism, ethnicity, and/or social justice within the humanities and humanities-related fields (including Anthropology and Archaeology, Area/Cultural/Ethnic/Gender Studies, Art History, Classics,  Geography and Population Studies, English, Film, Cinema and Media Studies, Musicology, Ethnomusicology and Music Theory, Foreign Languages and Literatures, History, Linguistics, Literature, Performance Studies, Philosophy, Political Theory, Religious Studies, Sociology, and Theater Studies).

 

HILLS Postdoctoral Scholars will have proximity and access to world-class academic and cultural resources during their year at Case Western Reserve University.  CWRU is located in Cleveland, Ohio, in the heart of University Circle. CWRU’s neighbors and partners include the Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland Institute of Music, and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, to name a few. The University is home to the Baker Nord Center for the Humanities, which supports both faculty and students through funding and programming opportunities.  CWRU also boasts strong relationships across the health sciences and engineering fields.  

 

To support research and leadership development, each scholar will be assigned two CWRU faculty mentors: one in the scholar’s field of specialization and one from the HILLS program. In addition to participating in these mentoring relationships, the scholars will be expected to teach one course related to their speciality and to actively pursue their own research project, such as a scholarly book, in order to develop their future professional career. The scholars will have the opportunity to organize a seminar and/or workshop with faculty as a means to support their research interests and career options. 

 

For information on how to apply, please visit the following website: https://apply.interfolio.com/83795

 

 

 

Call for Applications: RomanIslam Center (University of Hamburg) - Research Associate 2021/2024. Deadline: 15 March 2021

 

The DFG Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe "RomanIslam" (Humanities, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Islamic Studies, University of Hamburg) invites applications for a RESEARCH ASSOCIATE for the project “Romanization and Islamication in Late Antiquity - Transcultural Processes on the Iberian Peninsula and in North Africa”- SALARY LEVEL 13 TV-L.
The position in accordance with Section 28 subsection 3of the Hamburg higher education act (Hamburgisches Hochschulgesetz, HmbHG) commences on June 1st, 2021.This is a fixed-term contract in accordance with Section 2 of the academic fixed-term labor contract act (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz, WissZeitVG). The term is fixed until March 31st, 2024.The position calls for 65% of standard work hours per week.

Responsibilities: Duties include academic services in the project named above. Research associates may also pursue independent research and further academic qualifications.

Specific Duties: RomanIslam, the Center for Advanced Study, convenes the disciplines of comparative empire studies. Our approach aims to compare transcultural assimilation processes in the historical region of the western Mediterranean with focus on the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa during the first millennium CE, or the so-called „Long Late Antiquity“, including the Early Islamic Period. The economically significant Iberian Peninsula and the Maghreb were peripheral regions, both in the pagan, later Christianized Roman, and in the Islamic Empire.The successful applicant will conduct research in the frame of the project “Romanization and Islamication in Late Antiquity” concentrating on one or both regions under study. A successful PhD-thesis is expected in the field of administrative divisions, political structures, imperial religions versus local believes, economy, the transformation of cities, or agricultural landscapes, etc. The applicant will work within an interdisciplinary team, using the similar methodological approaches. The position requires an active participation in the activities of the RomanIslam Center of Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies, i.e. in research colloquia, lecture series and workshops, as well as active engagement in the center's research activities.

Requirements: A university degree in a relevant field. An excellent university degree (MA) in a relevant field of Middle Eastern history and culture. Excellent Arabic skills are essential, experience with Arabic historical primary sources, excellent knowledge of English, and French, are required. The knowledge of further languages relevant for the study of the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa, such as Latin, and Spanish, etc. is advantageous. Experience in working with additional sources, such as archaeological, numismatic, and geographical material is welcome but not a requirement.
The applicant is expected to conduct doctoral studies in a field relevant to the region of early Islamic/Medieval North Africa/ Maghreb (Ifriqiya) and the Iberian Peninsula within the foci of the RomanIslam Center.

Qualified disabled candidates or applicants with equivalent status receive preference in the application process.

For further information, please contact Prof. Stefan Heidemann (stefan.h...@uni-hamburg.de; +49 (40) 42838 3181 or consult our website at https://www.romanislam.uni-hamburg.de.

Applications should include a cover letter, a tabular curriculum vitae, and copies of degree certificate(s). Please send applications by March 15th, 2021 to: kathari...@uni-hamburg.de, please add the names of two referees. Please do not submit original documents as we are not able to return them. Any documents submitted will be destroyed after the application process has concluded.

https://www.romanislam.uni-hamburg.de/documents/66-gw-28-3-research-associate-phd.pdf

 

 

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The Byzness, 28th February 2021
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1. NEWS AND EVENTS

2. JOBS AND SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
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1.              NEWS AND EVENTS

 

Virtual Museum Study Day, Dumbarton Oaks, May 20-21 and May 24, 2021. Deadline for Applications: 28 March 2021

 

Dumbarton Oaks will be hosting a Virtual Museum Study Day on May 20-21 and May 24, 2021. All applications should be submitted to byza...@doaks.org by March 28, 2021.

 

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Virtual Museum Study Day: Individual and Society in Late Antiquity and Byzantium

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection

May 20-21 and 24, 2021

APPLICATION DEADLINE

March 28, 2021

 

How did objects convey information about individuals and society in Late Antiquity and Byzantium? Much like today, people of these periods carefully constructed their public personas through textiles, jewelry, seals, and other artifacts. This workshop will consider how modern-day notions of identity apply to premodern concepts of individuals’ relationships to their broader social, religious, gender, ethnic, and official communities. In addition, we will discuss the pragmatic challenges of displaying objects associated with individuals in museum contexts.

 

This year’s Museum Study Day will go virtual. We can accommodate up to 12 graduate students in art history, archaeology, history, classics, religious studies, and other fields who might benefit from close engagement with our collections and from training in material culture approaches.

 

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE

Thursday, May 20, 2021, 11am – 2pm EST: Methodological introduction and presentations

Friday, May 21, 2021 EST: Individual object handling sessions with curators

Monday, May 24, 2021, 12pm – 3pm EST: Wrap-up discussions

 

APPLICATION AND ELIGIBILITY

Currently enrolled graduate students in good standing are eligible to apply by sending a CV and cover letter with a brief summary of the candidate’s research interests, plans for future research, and an explanation of why attendance is important to the candidate’s intellectual and professional development.

 

Please submit this letter to Byza...@doaks.org by Sunday, March 28, 2021.

 

 

 

Conférences de Beatrice Girotti (Université de Bologne)

 

Dans le cadre du séminaire de spécialisation en histoire ancienne et médiévale,« Espaces publics, espaces sacrés dans les mondes antiques et médiévaux » (Université Paris 8/ArScAn)  : 

Lundi 1er mars, 16h-18h 

Inclusion et exclusion. Espaces publics et privés au féminin : vierges, médecins, veuves (IVe-Ve s. apr. J.-C.)

La séance aura lieu en vidéoconférence. Lien de connexion : https://zoom.us/j/97872601393?pwd=QmJOU2p5dkdGRVhVVWh2T3laR2oyUT09 

 

Dans le cadre du séminaire « Histoire urbaine de l’Orient romain tardif » (EPHE, PSL) : 

Jeudi 4 mars, 14h-16h

Rome, Constantinople, Antioche : capitales, villes, rivales 

La séance aura lieu en vidéoconférence. Pour obtenir le lien, contacter catherin...@ephe.psl.eu 

 

 

 

4 March Philippe Blaudeau (Université d’Angers), A disgruntled/unfortunate Alexandrian: geo-ecclesiological remarks on the Egyptian stages of Patriarch Paul the Black's course (565-566; 575-576)

 

On Thursday, 4 March, 4.45 (Warsaw time) at Ewa Wipszycka's Warsaw Late Antique Seminar, Philippe Blaudeau (Université d’Angers) will present a paper A disgruntled/unfortunate Alexandrian: geo-ecclesiological remarks on the Egyptian stages of Patriarch Paul the Black's course (565-566; 575-576). We are meeting on Zoom at the usual link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83501284547?pwd=aWt5a1Jla2ZmbUgzN1lyL0c4N1lsUT09

 

Abstract

In many ways, Paul the Black, unwittingly become patriarch of Antioch (564) is a well documented and fascinating figure. His very special relationship with Alexandria, from where he originates, is to be investigated. In two occasions indeed (566/575), he seems to be involved in attempts to control the Severan patriarcal see. In vain. Those failures are of great interest, not only because they reveal how difficult it was for him to to be considered as Theodosius’ heir, but also because they are key moments in the reshaping of miaphysite communion. Thus, they implies important geo-ecclesial issues, of which several of our significant witnesses,  as John of Ephesus and Sergius the Hermit for example, are well aware.

 

Forthcoming seminars:

11.03: Maria Nowak (UW), P. Mon. Phoib. Test. 1–4. Once again on the testamentary appointment of monastic superior and the status of St. Phoibammon

18.03: Marco Passarotti & Francesco Mambrini (ERC-CoG project LiLa: Linking Latin / Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan) Interlinking through Lemmas. The LiLa Knowledge Base of Interlinked Linguistic Resources for Latin

25.03: Krystyna Stebnicka (UW), Decius and the historical tradition of Dexippos

The full programme for this semester can be found here.

 

 

 

Virtual Conference: Collecting Orthodoxy in the West, June 11-12, 2021

 

Virtual Conference

Collecting Orthodoxy in the West: A History and a Look Towards the Future

June 11-12, 2021

Museum of Russian Icons, Clinton, Massachusetts

https://www.museumofrussianicons.org/conference/

 

 

 

D. Krallis on "The Impersonal Logic of Governance" - 15 March

 

The PAIXUE team (Edinburgh) cordially invite you to the talk by Prof. Dimitris Krallis (SFU) on "The Impersonal Logic of Governance: Friendship, Cultural Affinity, and Public Service in Byzantium" which will take place on 15 March, 17.00 GMT via Zoom. All welcome, but registration is essential: http://paixue.shca.ed.ac.uk/node/1748

 

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Prof. Dimitris Krallis

The Impersonal Logic of Governance: 

Friendship, Cultural Affinity, and Public Service in Byzantium

15 March 2021

17.00 (Edinburgh)

Zoom

 

Much as the line dividing the modern from the pre-modern bears the imprint of the theoretical work of Gellner and Anderson on the nation, our reading of ancient and medieval bureaucracies is inflected by an often unstated and mostly implicit reliance on Weberian ideal types. This paper engages with Max Weber as it examines ways in which readings of Byzantium may help us think about the aforementioned divide. By addressing the question of impersonal governance, as it may be followed in the letters of this most 'personal' of Byzantine authors, Michael Psellos, it questions assumptions of what is possible when we think about the way the Medieval Romans run their polity.

 

 

 

2.              JOBS AND SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

 

2021-2022 Hellenic studies Library Research Fellowship Program Call for Applications. Deadline: 2 April 2021 **Contingent on resumption of on-campus operations beginning fall 2021**

 

Thanks to generous ongoing funding from the Elios Charitable Foundation and the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Foundation, and new funding from the Tarbell Family Foundation, the University Library is pleased to offer the continuation of the Library Research Fellowship Program (LRFP) to support the use of the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection by fellows for scholarly research in Hellenic studies while in residence in Sacramento, CA.

 

The LRFP provides a limited number of fellowships (5-8 this year) ranging from $1,500 to $5,000 in the form of reimbursement to help offset transportation and living expenses incurred in connection with the awards. Since the Program’s inception in 2012, twenty-four fellows in Hellenic studies from nine countries, including seven independent scholars and 13 women, have benefitted from sustained access to the collection in support of original scholarly research. Thus far these research stays have directly contributed to the fruition of at least 10 conference papers, five journal articles, four book chapters, two completed doctoral dissertations, and one monograph.

 

The Program is open to external researchers anywhere in the world at the graduate through senior scholar levels (including independent scholars) working in fields encompassed by the Collection's strengths who reside outside a 75-mile radius of Sacramento. The term of fellowships can vary between two weeks and three months, depending on the nature of the research, and for the current cycle will be tenable from September 1, 2021-August 31, 2022. Please note that the 2021-2022 LRFP is contingent on the resumption of on-campus operations beginning fall 2021. Should this not be possible due to the pandemic, fellowship offers will be deferred until such time as awardees can opt to accept or decline them.

 

The fellowship application deadline is April 2, 2021. No late applications will be considered.

 

Consisting of the holdings of the former Speros Basil Vryonis Center for the Study of Hellenism, the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection is the premier Hellenic collection in the western United States and one of the largest of its kind in the country, currently numbering approximately 75,000 volumes and over 430 linear feet of archives. It comprises a large circulating book collection, journal holdings, electronic resources, non-print media materials, rare books, archival materials, art and artifacts. With its focus on the Hellenic world, the Collection contains early through contemporary materials across the social sciences and humanities relating to Greece, the Balkans, the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey, and the surrounding region, with particular strengths in Byzantine, post-Byzantine, and Modern Greek studies, including the Greek diaspora worldwide. There is a broad representation of over 20 languages in the Collection, with a rich assortment of primary source materials. For further information about the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection, visit http://library.csus.edu/tsakopoulos-hellenic-collection.

 

For the full Library Research Fellowship Program description and application instructions, see: http://library.csus.edu/tsakopoulos-hellenic-collection/lrfp. Questions about the Program can be directed to George I. Paganelis, Curator, Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection (paga...@csus.edu).

 

 

 

Byzantine Archaeology and History Course

 

This intensive two-week course will provide students with an interdisciplinary masterclass in Byzantine archaeology, art and history. Participants will gain wide-ranging insights into the role of material culture in Byzantine life and belief, together with the role that art, architecture and practice played in shaping experiences and medieval worldviews.

Students will benefit not only from visits to key sites and museums both in and outside Athens but also from unprecedented access to the BSA Archive’s ‘Byzantine Research Fund’ collection. This unique archive of architectural drawings, photographs and notebooks was created from the late 19th century to the middle of the 20th century by a small team of British architects, and records Byzantine monuments in Greece, Turkey, Italy, the Near East, Egypt, and Cyprus. Teaching will be delivered in the form of lectures and seminars both in the classroom or as part of site-visits in museums and sites. Field trips will include a tour of the Byzantine remains of the Acropolis in Athens and the Byzantine and Christian Museum, and also visits to the Monasteries of Dafni, Hosios Loukas, and the Byzantine towns of Mystras and Monemvasia.

The course is limited to 10 places. We welcome applications both from students studying for postgraduate degrees in Byzantine Studies, and from students with no prior background wishing to take this course as an intensive introduction to the subject. Mature students and life-long learners are also very welcome to apply.

The next course in Byzantine Archaeology and History is scheduled to run 13 – 26 June 2021. Please see below for a course programme, flyer, and application form.

The British School at Athens is committed to providing a full and enriching teaching programme for undergraduate and postgraduate students and for lifelong learners. Our aim is to provide on-the-ground and hands-on experiences for students. We remain committed to this goal, despite the challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Our courses this year are being run with a ‘digital contingency’ plan: in the unfortunate event that we are unable to gather safely as a group in Athens, a shorter virtual version of our programmes will be offered to participants. If by April 2021 it becomes clear that it will not be possible to gather safely as a group, we will cancel the Byzantine Archaeology and History in its original form. In its place, we will run a five-day virtual version of the course.

 

For more information visit: https://www.bsa.ac.uk/courses/byzantine-archaeology-and-history-course/

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THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY BYZANTINE SOCIETY

The Byzness, 7^th March 2021
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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

 

Invitation to Nineteenth Annual Hellenic Lecture: “The Greek Revolution of 1821 and its Multiple Legacies” by Prof. Gonda Van Steen - 11 March 2021 at 6pm

 

Since the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence in 1821, the Greek people have celebrated three major anniversaries: the 50th, 100th, and 150th anniversary date of the inception of this revolutionary war that led to sovereign statehood after nearly four centuries of Ottoman rule. These three jubilees, each with their own legacies, have come to represent three different ways of celebrating Greek statehood that have, nonetheless, much in common. They posited a linear progression from Greek antiquity through postclassical, Byzantine, and post-Byzantine (Ottoman) times. The lecture will explore in what ways the celebrations and re-enactments, with their commemorative events and symbolic images, acquired a prescriptive character, which advanced their aim to educate youth in state-promoted nationalism, and to what extent the present 200th anniversary celebrations differ from the three aforementioned ones.

 

Professor Gonda Van Steen is Koraës Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, Director of Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London

 

The Lecture will be hosted by Professor Ken Badcock, Senior Vice-Principal (Academic Strategy, Partnerships and Resources) and Chairman of the Hellenic Institute Steering Group at Royal Holloway, University of London

 

To join the Lecture via Zoom please use the following link: https://zoom.us/j/91908503678?pwd=bmlMTkpHcXcwNDcxczNKOU92WitxZz09

Meeting ID: 919 0850 3678

Passcode: gwZ6wE

The Lecture is part of 21 in 21 programme of events celebrating

the 200th Anniversary of the Greek War of Independence (1821-2021)

All welcome

For further information please contact Dr Achilleas Hadzikyriacou

at the Hellenic Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London

Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, United Kingdom

 

 

 

IIHSA St Patrick's Online Lecture, 18 March: Eric Haywood, “St Patrick to the Rescue! A (Virtual) Journey from Constantinople to Ireland in the 15th Century”

 

The Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens invites you to a St Patrick's Day online lecture by Eric Haywood (University College Dublin). This will take place at 5pm (Irish time)/ 7pm (Greek time) on Thursday 18th March.

 

“St Patrick to the Rescue! A (Virtual) Journey from Constantinople to Ireland in the 15th Century”

Introduced by her Excellency Ambassador of Ireland to Greece, Iseult Fitzgerald

 

In the middle ages ST PATRICK’S PURGATORY — better known today, thanks to Seamus Heaney, as STATION ISLAND — was one of the most famous places of pilgrimage in Europe. Those who went there, and survived the experience, were reputed to be granted visions of the otherworld and to earn a safe-conduct to Paradise in the afterlife. But according to a famous 15th-century Florentine writer, Andrea da Barberino, author of the picaresque novel Poor Little Guerrino [Guerrino il meschino], it also served as a missing persons bureau! Guerrino thought he was a Greek from Constantinople but then discovered he was an Italian from Apulia. He thought he was a free man, but then discovered he was slave, bought at the slave market of Thessaloniki. He thought he knew his parents, but then discovered they’d been missing for 20 years. So he set out to find them, on a 10-year journey across the world, in the footsteps of Alexander the Great, until (almost) all was finally revealed to him at St Patrick’s Purgatory, whereupon he was able to save the Church and Christendom (from the “Turks”).

 

ERIC HAYWOOD is Associate Professor of Italian Studies (emeritus) at University College Dublin, specializing in Italian Renaissance literature. He is the author of Fabulous Ireland, Ibernia Fabulosa. Imagining Ireland in Renaissance Italy (Oxford, Peter Lang, 2014). His illustrated lecture will set Poor Little Guerrino in its historical and cultural context, and tell you things about Ireland and St Patrick you never knew and wouldn’t believe!

 

Please register via Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/e/iihsa-st-patricks-day-online-lecture-tickets-140824819827 where you will find a link to the Zoom Webinar to attend the lecture. Email for any further information: irishins...@gmail.com

 

 

 

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar 11 March: Maria Nowak (UW), “P. Mon. Phoib. Test. 1–4. Once again on the testamentary appointment of monastic superior and the status of St. Phoibammon”

 

On Thursday, 11 March, 4.45 (Warsaw time) at Ewa Wipszycka's Warsaw Late Antique Seminar, Maria Nowak (UW), will present a paper P. Mon. Phoib. Test. 1–4. Once again on the testamentary appointment of monastic superior and the status of St. Phoibammon. We are meeting on Zoom at the usual link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83501284547?pwd=aWt5a1Jla2ZmbUgzN1lyL0c4N1lsUT09

 

Abstract

The problem to be discussed is a legal phenomenon attested in four currently re-edited seventh-century wills made for consecutive superiors of the Monastery of St. Phoibammon, located in Western Thebes, in the relatively short time span of c. 70 years (P. Mon. Phoib. Test. 1–4). In these texts, a superior of the monastery appoints a new superior who is styled as a legal heir of the monastery, which suggests that the monastery might have been transferred through a deed of private law. I will quickly survey existing interpretations of these monastic appointments and then propose my own.

 

Forthcoming seminars:

18.03: Marco Passarotti & Francesco Mambrini (ERC-CoG project LiLa: Linking Latin / Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan) Interlinking through Lemmas. The LiLa Knowledge Base of Interlinked Linguistic Resources for Latin

25.03: Krystyna Stebnicka (UW), Decius and the historical tradition of Dexippos

1.04: No seminar

8.04: Luigi Silvano (Università di Torino), Imagining the other world in Late Antiquity: visions and tales in the Greek and Latin tradition

 

 

 

2.              CALLS FOR PAPERS

 

Jews and Judaism in Middle Byzantine Hagiography. Deadline: 28 March 2021 

XXIV International Conference of Byzantine Studies (Venice/Padua, 22–27 August 2022) 

 

A number of Saints’ Lives that were composed in the eighth to eleventh centuries pay particular attention to Byzantine Jewry: they stage historical or fictional Jewish characters, describe religious debates, reference Jews as a group or use elements typically associated with Judaism. In the Life of Constantine the former Jew, composed during the reign of Leo VI, the Saint himself was a Jew who converted and became a model Christian who proselytized among his former fellow believers. Diverse in content, some of these Lives are centred on debates between Christians and Jews, others have an eschatological focus and are concerned with the ultimate fate of the Jews, or have a more historical perspective. They are also geographically diverse and were written and/or set the story in different parts of the empire: the Constantinople area, but also Southern Italy or Crete and the Greek mainland. 

These Lives constitute a corpus of much value, composed in periods of interest such as the iconoclastic controversy and the forced baptism of Jews decreed by Basil I. As literature with a wide outreach, the Lives are a possible source of information on popular opinion on those forced conversions and on the perception of Judaism, Jews and newly converted Christians in the larger Middle Byzantine society. 

With this workshop, we want to bring together different approaches to the study of this corpus. We invite proposals for presentations of 20' that report on ongoing research on one or several of these Lives and/or the broader religious, historical or cultural context. We also welcome contributions that reflect on past research and on what you believe the field needs. We will look into the possibility of publishing the papers from the workshop. 

Please send a title and short abstract (max. 300 words) of your proposed presentation to the three conveners, together with five key words and your affiliation, by March 28, 2021. We will try to offer financial support to presenters, but cannot yet guarantee it at this point. Please note the following information (from the ICBS website): Conveners and speakers can participate in no more than 2 sessions during the Congress (including round tables, poster/VR sessions, and thematic free communication/free communication sessions, but excluding plenary sessions). Questions may be addressed to any of the undersigned. 

The conveners, 

Niels De Ridder (KU Leuven: niels.d...@kuleuven.be) 

Claudia Sode (Universität zu Köln: claudi...@uni-koeln.de) 

Reinhart Ceulemans (KU Leuven: reinhart....@kuleuven.be)

 

 

 

Call for papers: Aquatic Animals in the Global Middle Ages  “We all come from the sea, but we are not all of the sea.” (DIGITAL WORKSHOP). Deadline: 30 March 2021

 

Aquafauna has recently been the topic of several conferences and publications focusing on zoological knowledge, its transmission, and transformation. This workshop aims to investigate the imagery of aquatic animals in literature, their symbolism, their metaphorical use, and widespread views and misconceptions about such animals. 

 

The organisers would like to propose a global perspective limited chronologically rather than geographically. Therefore, they ask for proposals for papers looking at the period between ca. 500 and 1500 from a broader perspective, trying to understand how aquatic animals made their way into literature, oral traditions, proverbs, idioms, and art. The comparative perspective will be welcome but is not necessary – it is hoped that different papers covering various chronological and geographical areas will provide a comparative outlook. 

The organisers invite abstracts for 20 minutes contributions which should be sent to Przemysław Marciniak (przemyslaw...@us.edu.pl) by March 30. The workshop will take place online (via the ZOOM platform) September 27-28, 2021. 

Organisers: 

Kirsty Stewart (Edinburgh) 

Tristan Schmidt (Istanbul/Katowice) 

Przemysław Marciniak (Katowice) 

Katarzyna Warcaba (Katowice)

 

 

 

 

3.              JOBS AND SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

 

RomanIslam Center (University of Hamburg) - Research Associate (Cartographer) 2021/2024: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

The Center for Advanced Study "RomanIslam - Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and based at the University of Hamburg, invites applications for a RESEARCH ASSOCIATE (Cartographer) for the Project "Romanization and Islamication in Late Antiquity - Transcultural Processes n the Iberian Peninsula and in North Africa" - Salary Level 13 TV-L.

The position in accordance with Section 28 subsection 3 of the Hamburg higher education act (Hamburgisches Hochschulgesetz, HmbHG) commences on May 1, 2021. This is a fixed-term contract in accordance with Section 2 of the academic fixed-term labor contract act (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz, WissZeitVG). The term is fixed until March 31, 2024.
The position calls for 50% of standard work hours per week

Responsibilities:
Duties include academic services in the project named above. Research associates may also pursue independent research and further academic qualifications.

Specific Duties:

RomanIslam, the Center for Advanced Study, convenes the disciplines of comparative empire and transcultural studies. Our approach aims to compare transcultural assimilation processes in the historical region of the western Mediterranean with focus on the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa during the first millennium CE, or the so-called „Long Late Antiquity“, including the Early Islamic Period.
The successful applicant will develop and conceptualize maps for print and online/ digital use in close cooperation with the research team. The maps are to visualize changes occuring during the Roman and Islamic empire in the larger western mediterranean area, including transcultural, socio-political and economic changes. The applicant could conduct research in the frame of the project “Romanization and Islamication in Late Antiquity” concentrating on one or both regions under study.

Requirements:
• A university degree in a relevant field.

• As the project’s working language is English, a good working knowledge of English is absolutely essential.
• A university degree or technical university degree (Fachhochschule) in a relevant subject such as cartography, geoinformatics, geography, geosciences.
• Working experience with GIS programs (ArcGIS, QGIS, and others).
• Working experience in post-producing GIS maps in a vector graphics program(Illustrator, Inkscape, and others).
• Ability to work in an interdisciplinary team.
• Good analytical and visualization skills.

(additional desirable skills and knowledge):
• Previous cooperation with scholars in the Humanities, especially History/Archaeology.

• Knowledge of German, Spanish or French.
• Knowledge of Arabic transcription systems.

The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg promotes equal opportunity. As women are currently underrepresented in this job category at Universität Hamburg according to the evaluation conducted under the Hamburg act on gender equality (Hamburgisches Gleichstellungsgesetz, HambGleiG), we encourage women to apply for this position. Equally qualified and suitable female applicants will receive preference.

Qualified disabled candidates or applicants with equivalent status receive preference in the application process.

For further information, please contact sabine....@uni-hamburg.de and/or stefan.h...@uni-hamburg.de or consult our website at https://www.romanislam.uni-hamburg.de/

Applications should include a cover letter, a tabular curriculum vitae, and copies of degree certificate(s). Please send applications by March 15, 2021 to:
roman...@uni-hamburg.de.

Please do not submit original documents as we are not able to return them. Any documents submitted will be destroyed after the application process has concluded.

https://www.romanislam.uni-hamburg.de/documents/74-gw-28-3-cartographer.pdf

 

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THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY BYZANTINE SOCIETY

The Byzness, 14^th March 2021
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1. NEWS AND EVENTS

2. CALLS FOR PAPERS

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1.              NEWS AND EVENTS

 

Les premiers dialogues byzantins de l'AEMB

 

Le Bureau de l’AEMB est heureux de vous annoncer la création d'une nouvelle série de conférences: Les Dialogues byzantins de l'AEMB. 

 

Les premiers Dialogues aspirent à partager les travaux récents dans diverses disciplines, de la philologie à l’histoire de l’art et l’archéologie, dans le monde byzantin entendu au sens large. Ils visent également à maintenir le contact avec des chercheurs et chercheuses formés en France, que leur parcours a conduits, pour certains, à poursuivre leur carrière dans des institutions étrangères. 

 

Vous trouverez le programme ci-joint, ainsi que les liens Zoom pour assister virtuellement aux quatre Dialogues.

 

- Lundi 22 mars, 10h00, Geoffrey Meyer-Fernandez, Docteur en histoire et l’art et archéologie : « Recherches postdoctorales entre Chypre, la Crète et Rhodes à la fin du Moyen Âge »

 

https://zoom.us/j/94532801311?pwd=bVdJbXJTNGI2YkpjUjAyTVRRMFlwdz09

 

- Lundi 19 avril, 10h00, Pietro d'Agostino, Docteur en philologie : « La littérature chrétienne en terre d'Islam : la figure de Théodore Abū Qurra entre Byzance et les Abbasides »

 

https://zoom.us/j/99325147440?pwd=L1ZrU0lZRHpEZjk3UDRBVzlMUXB6QT09

- Lundi 10 mai, 10h00, Milan Vukašinović, Docteur en histoire : « Moi au pluriel : Autobiographies byzantines du XIIIe siècle »

 

https://zoom.us/j/93322772864?pwd=Uy9mUUMxbER5dFJGLzZXb2szQTJRUT09

 

- Lundi 17 mai, 10h00, Véronique Petiteau, Docteur en histoire de l’art et archéologie : « La sacralisation du pouvoir en Serbie médiévale. Territoire, architecture et image (fin du XIIe siècle - milieu du XIVe siècle) »

 

https://zoom.us/j/99757526807?pwd=TzlreUdNNXF2QlNTRzRTZHB2ZC9BUT09

 

 

 

Mary Jaharis Center Lecture: Ps-Ptolemy’s Ὁ Καρπός and Byzantine Astrological Practice. 1 April 2021, Zoom, 4:00-5:00pm (Eastern Time)

 

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, is pleased to announce its final lecture for 2020–2021: "Ps-Ptolemy’s Ὁ Καρπός and Byzantine Astrological Practice." Dr. Darin Hayton, Haverford College, will explore ps-Ptolemy’s Ὁ Καρπός to elucidate the culture of astrology in the later Byzantine empire.

April 1, 2021 | Zoom | 4:00–5:00 pm (Eastern time)

This lecture will take place live on Zoom, followed by a question and answer period. Please register to receive the Zoom link. An email with the relevant Zoom information will be sent 1–2 hours ahead of the lecture. Registration closes at 11:00 AM on April 1, 2021.

Register here: https://maryjahariscenter.org/events/ps-ptolemys-and-byzantine-astrological-practice

Greek Manuscripts at the University of Michigan - Symposium Registration

 

The organisers of Virtual Encounters on Book History, Pablo Alvarez (University of Michigan) and Benito Rial Costas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), are very pleased to invite all to the fourth session of their series. Their fourth webinar is a celebration of two landmark publications based on the extensive collection of Greek manuscripts at the University of Michigan Library: Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann, Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (or this link for active U-M affiliates). Vol. 1. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2021; and Julia Miller, Tradition and Individuality: Bindings from the University of Michigan Greek Manuscript Collection. Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2021. Our speakers will focus on various aspects of this important collection of manuscripts, presenting case studies that illustrate their historical, textual, and artistic relevance.

Date: 15 March 2021, 1:00 pm EST (Ann Arbor); 7:00 pm CET (Madrid)

 

This link to register . 

Program:

Francis Kelsey and the Collection of Greek Manuscripts at the University of Michigan
Pablo Alvarez (University of Michigan)

Catalogue’s Goal, Structure, and Highlights
Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann (Independent Scholar)
 
A Desert Father in Michigan: Isaac of Nineveh in Mich. Ms. 155
Richard Janko with Lucca Green (University of Michigan)

Mich. Ms. 34 and Athens, Benaki 69 (Vitr. 34/4): Patrons, Scribes, Texts, and the Palaiologina Group
Kathleen Maxwell (Santa Clara University)
 
Selected Bindings from the U-M Greek Manuscript Collection Illustrating Traditional Structure and Decoration
Julia Miller (Independent Scholar)

Chair: Zachary Quint (University of Michigan)

 

 

 

Our Daily Byzantium: Medieval Heritage, Nation-building, and Politics in Serbia

Thursday 25 March 2021, 4-6pm. Online - registration required

 

New Critical Approaches to the Byzantine World Network

Click here to register

 

The scheduled event ‘Our Daily Byzantium: Medieval Heritage, Nation-building, and Politics in Serbia' brings together an international group of historians, art historians, and cultural theorists to discuss cultural heritage and nationalism in Serbia and the wider Balkans. Using the recent elevation of a colossal monument to Stefan Nemanja (a 12th century ruler of the medieval Serbian principality) in the centre of Belgrade as a discussion prompt, the panel will explore the 'national story' taking form in Serbia. By no means the exception in its use of medieval monuments and medieval characters to shape nationalist narratives, the current Serbian government has not only selectively invested in heritage conservation, but has also been actively constructing heritage monuments. There is a clear medievalism (or byzantinism) in the elevation of the church of St Sava or the new statue of Stefan Nemanja, one that seeks a direct link to an imagined medieval past to make new monuments appear ancient and remote. The panel will discuss these developments, as well as how medievalism and byzantinism developed historically and have been deployed as part of a modern political project, both in Serbia and the wider Balkans.

16:00   INTRODUCTION

Dr Alexandra Vukovich (TORCH, University of Oxford), Heritage (Mis)management

Dr Milan Vukašinović (University of Uppsala), Ink, Bronze, and the Blood of the Nation 

16:15 - 17:15   POSITION PAPERS

Prof. Filip Ejdus (Faculty of Political Sciences, Belgrade), Stefan Nemanja and the Cracked Byzantine Helmet 

Dr Milena Repajić (Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade), The (not so) Subtle Messages of Monumental Stefan Nemanja: Medievalism and the Reshaping of Historical Memory in Post-Socialist Serbia

Prof. Marko Šuica (Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade), The Challenges of Teaching Medieval History in Serbia’s New History Curriculum

Prof. Aleksandar Ignjatović (Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade), Byzantium Perfected: Nation-building through Architectural Tropes in 19th- and 20th-century Serbia

Dr Višnja Kisić (Europa Nostra Serbia/UNESCO Chair MA in Cultural Policy and Management), Making Serbia Great Again: The (Un)Expected Embrace of Neoliberalism and Nationalism

Prof. Miloš Jovanović (UCLA), Historicism or the Cultural Logic of Postsocialist Capitalism in Belgrade

17:15 - 17:45   DISCUSSION

Discussants:

Dr Mirela Ivanova (University of Oxford)

Prof. Emir O. Filipović (University of Sarajevo)

17:45 - 18:00   Q&A

 

 

 

Giulia Maria Paoletti (Exeter College, Oxford) Manasses or not Manasses? Paraenetic poetry in Late Byzantium, Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar. Monday 15th March at 12.30-14.00 (GMT) via Zoom

 

The Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar is a new initiative sponsored by Oxford Medieval Studies (TORCH) and Worcester College, Oxford. It is designed to showcase the breadth of graduate research in modern Late Antique and Byzantine Studies and to foster academic collaboration across institutions and sub-disciplines.  

 

Their final speaker for this term will be Giulia Maria Paoletti (Exeter College, Oxford), who will present a paper entitled Manasses or not Manasses? Paraenetic poetry in Late Byzantium.  

 

The Seminar will take place on Monday 15th March at 12.30-14.00 (GMT) via Zoom. 

 

To register and for further information, please contact the organiser at james....@worc.ox.ac.uk. 

 

2.              CALLS FOR PAPERS

 

Call For Papers, 12th AEMB international post-graduate conference. Deadline: 18 April 2021

 

The Association des étudiants du monde byzantin (AEMB) is happy to announce the 12th edition of the AEMB international post-graduate conference. For this edition, the board of the association has opted for a new format: one day will be dedicated to free presentations, and the second day will center around a precise theme. The selected theme, chosen through consultation with members of the association, is Time.

 

Presentation proposals of 250 to 300 words as well as a brief biography including the author’s institution, their level of study (masters, doctoral, post-doctoral), and their research subjects should be sent to aemb....@gmail.com by April 18 at the latest.

The 20-minute talks may be presented in English or French. As evidenced by earlier editions, certain talks could be selected to be included in a future publication.

It is our hope that the Rencontres will take place physically in Paris. Participants’ travel costs may be covered by AEMB if they are unable to receive funding from their institutions. Selected candidates will be asked to adhere to the association.

 

Time:  Usage, Perception, and  Interpretation in the Byzantine  World  

From the life of Basil the First, written to legitimise the Macedonian dynasty, to the use of spolia in religious and  lay architecture, and from the development of a textual and  visual tradition concerning the Last Judgement to typika strictly organising monastic life, the experience of time, which  mobilises the memory of the past, the attention to the present,  and hope in the future, takes multiple forms which can be  applied to the study of numerous aspects of Byzantine  Culture.

 

Intimately linked to experience, time is first perceptible  through the mutations that it operates. Time marked by the  alternation of night and day and by the rhythm of the seasons,  in addition to ecclesiastical time, punctuated by the religious  calendar of Great Feasts, the commemoration of saints, and the  rhythm of the liturgy, is significant to all. It constitutes a  particularly fruitful topic for the understanding of the reality of  women and men in the Byzantine World.

 

It is in considering time at different scales that we may  understand the complexity of this phenomenon. Amongst the  qualities of God, that of anarchos raises the question of  eternity, difficult to grasp by humankind. In society, the  organised succession of events through historical discourse  exhibits the linear nature of time, which, depending on the  period, is understood as progress or decline in contrast to  nature’s cyclical character.  

 

This concept of time, simultaneously cyclical, linear, and eternal, blurs notions of past, present, and future, underlined in literary and artistic expression. The instrumentalization of the past for practical, theoretical, political, and spiritual reasons underpin the long-term continuity and legitimacy of the empire. Polarised by Creation and the Incarnation, the course of time, in Christian thought, is inevitably oriented towards the end of time and the salvation of humankind. The fear produced by this predetermined future contributed to a rise in eschatological preoccupations, and dictated the development of apotropaic practice with the purpose of protecting individual and collective presents in order to guarantee access to eternal life. As such, the question of the virtuous terrestrial life as preparation for salvation is pertinent to all. Additionally, at an individual level, questions concerning the transformation of the body throughout time and the pathway towards death are also relevant.

 

These questions guide us in seeing the nature and the specificity of time as it was envisioned in Byzantium and in its neighbours. Talks may therefore address the following themes, though the list is not exhaustive:

• The scientific conception of time

• The measurement of time

• Historical time and its construction by Historians, la longue durée

• The vision of the past and its instrumentalization in art and history

• Philosophical and theological approaches towards time and eternity

• Lived time and daily rhythms

• The Christianisation of time by the Church and the liturgy

• The future and the hermeneutics of its warning signs

• The transmission of memory

• The treatment of time and its duration in literary and visual narration

• The preparation for the end of time

• The treatment of time in music

• Time and ritual

• Time and nature

http://www.aembyzantin.com/xiie-edition-24-25-septembre-2021-paris/

 

 

 

Call for Papers: Graduate Workshop on Diversity in the Medieval Middle East. Deadline: 26 March 2021

 

The medieval Middle East was the most ethnically, religiously, and linguistically diverse literate society in the premodern world.  For intelligible institutional reasons, graduate study in our field often encourages specialization in one or another ethnic, religious, or linguistic group rather than examining medieval people’s mutuality and distinctions as lived experiences of social history.  Recognition of various forms of diversity is increasingly important in many fields of history, but apart from several important works on the early Islamic period, such recognition is only starting to inform the study of the medieval Middle East after 750 CE.  This workshop invites early graduate students (considering their options for research topics) to discuss the place of various forms of diversity in the region and consider topics which cross the communal and linguistic boundaries imposed on premodern history by most graduate education today.  The goal is to expose graduate students to the region’s diversity early in their academic trajectory to allow them to acquire the skills necessary to pursue wide-ranging research.

 

The workshop will invite graduate students to present a proposed topic for future research, while introducing participants to often overlooked evidence and scholarly resources for exploring diversity in the medieval Middle East.  The workshop will also introduce participants to the Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East (HIMME), an NEH-sponsored digital history project to enable searching across selected primary sources in a wide range of languages.  HIMME is scheduled for publication in late summer 2021, so this workshop provides an exclusive opportunity for graduate students to utilize the collected data for their research.

 

The workshop will take place May 17-21, 2021 via Zoom, and the number of graduate participants is limited, though there is no cost for participation.  Faculty participants include Thomas A. Carlson (Oklahoma State University), Andrew Magnusson (University of Central Oklahoma), Jessica Mutter (Oklahoma State University, post-doctoral researcher), and David Vishanoff (University of Oklahoma).  Masters or early PhD students interested in any part of the Middle East (from Cairo to Samarqand and the Black Sea to Yemen) between the seventh and fifteenth centuries CE are welcome to apply by March 26.  Notifications of successful applications will be made by April 5 or shortly thereafter.

 

Inquiries and applications should be sent to thomas.a...@okstate.edu

 

Applications must include:

- A cover letter explaining the applicant’s interest in medieval Middle Eastern diversity and current state of thinking about future research projects (two double-spaced pages maximum)

- A CV, mentioning language skills (two pages maximum)

- A current graduate transcript (official or unofficial) from the applicant’s current institution

 

 

 

Call for Papers. The Forty-Seventh Annual Byzantine Studies Conference. Deadline: 1 May 2021

The Forty-Seventh Annual Byzantine Studies Conference (BSC) will be held in Cleveland, Ohio, from Thursday, December 9, through Sunday, December 12, 2021. The conference will be hosted by Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Local Arrangements Chair is Elizabeth S. Bolman, Chair, Department of Art History and Art.

Please note that we will be closely following the Covid-19 situation and that there is a possibility that the conference will have to be moved completely online. In the meantime, we are planning an in-person conference with several blended sessions that will allow for some remote participation.

The BSC is the annual forum for the presentation and discussion of papers on every aspect of Byzantine Studies and on related topics relevant to the field. Conference attendance is open to all, regardless of nationality or academic status. However, to deliver your paper at the BSC, you must be a member of BSANA in good standing. To join or renew your membership in BSANA, you can pay your dues according to your current status at: https://bsana.net/members/.

The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines related to Byzantine Studies, broadly construed. While there are no set themes for the BSC, the Program Committee is especially interested in papers that offer larger commentaries on the field, or situate Byzantium/Byzantine developments in a larger historical, regional, and/or global contexts. With the goal of engaging a wider audience, we encourage panels that forge a dialogue between Byzantine studies and cognate fields. 

Paper proposals for the 2021 BSC may be submitted in the form of individual papers or as part of complete panels. All proposed papers must be substantially original and never have been published previously. Each contributor may deliver only one paper. 

The deadline for submissions is May 1, 2021.

For more details and instructions for submitting abstracts via EasyChair platform, please see the PDF attachment. The CFP may also be found on our website: https://bsana.net/annual-conference/.

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Lorenzo Saccon

DPhil Candidate, Faculty of History

President, Oxford University Byzantine Society

byzantin...@gmail.com  

http://oxfordbyzantinesociety.wordpress.com

https://twitter.com/oxbyz

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THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY BYZANTINE SOCIETY

The Byzness, 21st March 2021
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1. NEWS AND EVENTS

2. CALLS FOR PAPERS
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1.              NEWS AND EVENTS

 

Invitation: Online Lecture by Dr. Matthew Kinloch, 25 March 2021, 5 PM (Istanbul time)

 

The Bogazici University Byzantine Studies Research Center cordially invites you to an online lecture by Dr. Matthew Kinloch. The lecture, entitled "Character Systems and Cultural Solipsisms: Comparing the Histories of Doukas and Leonardo Bruni," will be held on Thursday, March 25th, 2021 at 5 PM (Istanbul time). To register, please send an e-mail to byzantin...@boun.edu.tr, and a Zoom link will be provided.

For more information please visit:  http://byzantinestudies.boun.edu.tr/index.php?page=events&id=58

 

 

Politics and Government in Byzantium. The Rise and Fall of the Bureaucrats

Byzantium at Ankara is happy to announce the fifth seminar of the new Spring 2021 Seminar Series: on Thursday 25 March (h. 18.00 Istanbul Time), Jonathan Shea (Dumbarton Oaks/George Washington University) will talk about his recent book entitled: "Politics and Government in Byzantium. The Rise and Fall of the Bureaucrats."

 

For further info and registration go to https://www.byzantiumatankara.net/program-1 or send an email to byzantiu...@hotmail.com.

 

 

 

‘Neourgia: The Restoration of Icons in the Premodern World’, Tuesday, March 23, 2021

1:00 PM EDT (U.S.) / 7:00 PM EET (Greece) Presented by the Gennadius Library

 

The Gennadius Library invites you to join them for another engaging webinar in the "Byzantine Dialogues from the Gennadius Library" series. Professor Ivan Drpić will present "Neourgia: The Restoration of Icons in the Premodern World" on March 23.

 

About the Webinar

 

As paint peels off, pigments discolor, varnishes darken, and wood warps, cracks, and rots, pictures grow old. Careful to draw a distinction between the sacred image as a material object and the likeness it bears, Byzantine iconophile authors argued that, once an icon has decayed—and hence, its formal resemblance to the prototype, the person depicted, has been lost—it is nothing but an inconsequential lump of matter that can be destroyed. In practice, however, old and damaged icons were treated with care. Some were ceremonially buried or set afloat in a river or sea; others underwent various forms of maintenance, including partial or complete repainting, or transfer onto a new support. What do these acts of refurbishment and “rejuvenation” tell us about the icon’s ontology? What do they reveal about the relationship between visual representation, matter, and time? Bringing together material and textual evidence, this lecture seeks to uncover the broader implications of how Byzantines and other premodern Orthodox Christians responded to and dealt with the aging of icons.

 

WATCH ON ZOOM

 

WATCH ON FACEBOOK LIVE

 

About the Speaker

 

Ivan Drpić specializes in the art, architecture, and material culture of Byzantium and its Slavic neighbors in Southeastern Europe, with emphasis on the period from the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries. His areas of research and teaching interest include the interface between the visual and the verbal, medieval aesthetics and theories of the image, the agency of art objects, the history of subjectivity, and the cultural interactions between Byzantium and the Slavic world. Drpić is the author of the award-winning Epigram, Art, and Devotion in Later Byzantium (Cambridge University Press, 2016). He has been the recipient of fellowships and grants from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

 

 

 

25 March: Krystyna Stebnicka (UW), Decius and the historical tradition of Dexippos 

On Thursday, 25 March, 4.45 (Warsaw time) at Ewa Wipszycka's Warsaw Late Antique Seminar, Krystyna Stebnicka (UW), will present a paper Decius and the historical tradition of Dexippos. The meeting will be on Zoom at the usual link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83501284547?pwd=aWt5a1Jla2ZmbUgzN1lyL0c4N1lsUT09

 

Abstract

The publications of the palimpsest pages of the Vienna manuscript Vind. Hist. gr. 73 by Martin and Gruskova shed new light on the Gothic invasions in the middle decades of the third century. The editors have identified the author of this text as the Athenian historian P. Herennios Dexippos and today all scholars agree with this identification. The aim of my presentation is to comment on the main Greek sources on Decius and the barbarian invasions of his time (i.e. “the old” fragments of Dexippos’ Skythika derived from the Excerpta Constantiniana, the “new” Dexippos, fols. 194-195, Zosimos, Synkellos, and Zonaras).

 

Forthcoming seminars:

1.04: No seminar

8.04: Luigi Silvano (Università di Torino), Imagining the other world in Late Antiquity: visions and tales in the Greek and Latin tradition

15.04: Sebastian Richter (Freie Universität, Berlin), Coptic epigraphy at Deir Anba Hadra: New insights and new intricacies

22.04: Juliette Day (University of Helsinki), Investigating lay eucharistic experience in the early medieval period

 

 

 

New Lecture Series Announcement, Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies - Leiden University 

 

The Leiden University Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies is proud to present the Spring 2021 Lecture Series:

All the lectures will take place from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m (online via Zoom. Links for individual lectures will be appear on the Centre's webpage). 

24 March (5.00 pm CET)
Johannes Zachhuber (Oxford University)
The Philosophical Dimension of the Christological Controversy.

15 April (5.00 pm CET) 
Lieke Smits (Leiden University)
Clay Play: Animated Images in the Biblical Apocrypha

6 May (5.00 pm CET)
Jan Opsomer (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Conflicting Argumentative Models? Nicholas of Methone vs Proclus of Lycia

19 May (5.00 pm CET)
Alison Vacca (University of Tennessee)
Arabic-Armenian Exchange: Sources of al-Balādhurī’s Account of the Islamic Conquest of Armenia, Albania, and Georgia

2 June (5.000 CET)
Claire Weeda (Leiden University)
The Making of Ethnicity: Environmental Medicine, Religion and Power in Europe, 950-1250    

16 June (5.00 CET)
Peter Van Nuffelen (University of Gent)
What Difference did Christianity Make?

 

 

 

2.              CALLS FOR PAPERS

 

Call for Papers: ‘Studying Byzantium in the interwar years’, workshop at the XXIV International Conference of Byzantine Studies, Venice/Padua, August 22–27, 2022. Submissions due: 31 March 2021

 

Byzantine studies have not generally tended to be at the cutting edge of theoretical or methodological innovation. Nevertheless, in recent years, new critical studies of the plural entity that is “Byzantium” and its critical reception throughout the centuries have finally emerged, pinpointing the history of Byzantine studies and its relationship with cultural and geopolitical issues.

 

The present workshop aims to explore how Byzantine art history has developed at a key moment in European history, during the 1920s and the 1930s, focusing on the individual stories of Byzantine art historians in that period. Formed by pioneers of the field, scholars working on the art of the Eastern Roman Empire during the interwar period pursued their research in a world radically transformed by the First World War. Socio-political events such as the escalating nationalism in Italy and Germany, the collapse of the Russian Empire and the subsequent formation of the Soviet Union and waves of emigration, or as the end of the Μεγάλη Ιδέα in Greece, to cite only few examples, profoundly impacted their activities. At the same time, the restoration of Hagia Sophia under the direction of Thomas Whittemore, the foundation of new scholarly journals dedicated to the field (Byzantion, Seminarium Kondakovianum, Byzantinoslavica, etc.), the first ever international exhibition of Byzantine art (Paris 1931) as well as the raising of an international network of collectors and dealers changed knowledge and access to Byzantine art. 

 

The workshop intends to explore the theoretical and methodological innovations which emerged in the 1920s and 1930s, and how the latter intertwined with the geopolitical and cultural context of that time. We especially seek short papers deepening the biography of pivotal scholars of Byzantine art and to compare how they approached the discipline in different context, such as in Western and Central Europe, in the United States, and in the USSR. When it comes to émigrés, we are especially interested to understand their impact on the transformation of the field as vectors of different scholarly traditions.

 

We invite proposals for presentations of 20 mins on ongoing research on Byzantine art historiography, with a focus on individual art historians and their contribution to the field during the Interwar period. We will look into the possibility of publishing the papers from the workshop. Please send a title and short abstract (max. 300 words) of your proposed presentation to the conveners, together with five key words and your affiliation, by March 31, 2021. 

 

Questions and proposals may be addressed to Francesco Lovino (frances...@hotmail.com) and Adrien Palladino (palladin...@gmail.com)

 

 

 

Call for Papers: ‘Materiality in the Eastern Mediterranean World’, Vienna, 28-29 May 2021 (Online). Application Deadline: 5 April 2021

 

The Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) at Central European University (Vienna/Budapest) is pleased to announce the 7th International Graduate Conference on “Materiality in the Eastern Mediterranean World”, Vienna, 28-29 May 2021 (ONLINE). The conference provides a forum for graduate and advanced undergraduate students working on the Eastern Mediterranean to present their current research, exchange ideas, and develop scholarly networks.

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Dana Sajdi (Boston College)

Charlie Barber (Princeton University)

 

Application deadline: April 5

 

For the full call for papers, see https://cems.ceu.edu/cems-graduate-conference-2021

 

 

 

Call for papers: ‘Making and Experiencing Graffiti in Ancient and Late Antique Egypt and Sudan’ 2nd Annual Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO) postdoctoral fellow conference, 15–17 December 2021 (ONLINE), University of Leiden, Netherlands. Application Deadline: Monday 12 April 2021

 

Making and Experiencing Graffiti builds on recent graffiti-themed conferences in ancient and Late Antique Egypt and Sudan (e.g., Emberling and Davis 2019; Ragazzoli, Harmanşah, Salvador, Frood 2018), seeking papers to be presented under two major themes: ‘making’ and ‘experience’. In particular, papers that explore the mode, technique, and performance of graffiti-making are of interest, as are those which consider how textual and figural graffiti intersect with related corpora (e.g., mason’s and quarry marks, rock inscriptions, petroglyphs) along these lines, between the 3rd Millennium BCE – 7th century CE. 

 

For this conference, a narrow definition of graffiti is eschewed, and speakers are encouraged to consider the socio-historical and practical circumstances in which marks and inscriptions were made and how they may respond to each other and other media around them. Diagnostic features of inscriptions in one textual or inscriptional culture, or historical period, are not expected to apply universally; however, similarities may exist across other frames of reference, such as the aesthetic response to inscribed (or uninscribed) space, bodily convenience and markers of technical ability, self-thematization and display, for example. Participants are encouraged to engage with materiality and theories of practice (which could be approached from a number of disciplinary angles: e.g., textual criticism, anthropology, art history/visual culture studies), or other complementary frameworks of interpretation (such as theories of landscape, senses and phenomenology, archaeology of movement and mobility). Papers that address the conference theme reflecting on contemporary and historical epigraphic practice and archival research, or the intersection and dialog between ancient and more modern graffiti, are also welcome. 

 

Keynote talks will be delivered by Dr Johannes Auenmüller (Museo Egizio); Prof. Elizabeth Frood (University of Oxford); Dr Ben Haring (Leiden University); Dr Paweł Polkowski (Poznań Archaeological Museum / University of Warsaw); Dr Nico Staring (Leiden University); and Prof. Jacques van der Vliet (NINO / Leiden University / Radboud University).

 

Abstracts should be a maximum of 250 words (bibliography excluded), suitable for a 15–20-minute presentation. The deadline for abstracts is 12th April 2021. Please send your abstract as a Word or PDF e-mail attachment to <NINO-co...@hum.leidenuniv.nl> with ‘Making and experiencing graffiti abstract’ as the subject heading. The language of the conference is English.

 

The conference will be open and free to all to attend. 

Further information is available on the NINO website: https://www.nino-leiden.nl/message/call-for-papers-making-and-experiencing-graffiti-in-ancient-and-late-antique-egypt-and-sudan.

Key details

Abstracts due: Monday 12th April 2021

Conference: Wednesday 15th – Friday 17th December 2021 

Location: Online (via Zoom) hosted by Leiden University

Registration: not yet available; will be free of charge

Organised by Julia C. F. Hamilton (NINO, University of Leiden)

 

 

 

Call for Papers: ‘The Ancient and Byzantine World in the Light of Interdisciplinary Research’, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, 22-24 September 2021 (Online). Application Deadline: 30 March 2021

 

The Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of TSU (Georgia) is pleased to announce the International Online Conference “The Ancient and Byzantine World in the Light of Interdisciplinary Research” to be held online via ZOOM from September 22^nd to 24^th 2021.

The conference is dedicated to the 150^th anniversary of Grigol Tsereteli, the renowned Georgian Classical Philologist, Byzantinist and Papyrologist as well as to the 100^th anniversary of the Department of Classical Philology founded by Grigol Tsereteli  at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (The Conference has been postponed and changed its format due to the Covid 19 Pandemic).

The conference will run the parallel sessions devoted to: (i) The Topical Issues of Ancient and Byzantine Studies; (ii) The Ancient and Byzantine World and the Modern Age; (iii) The Ancient and Byzantine World and Georgia; (iv) The Digital Technologies in Ancient and Byzantine Studies.

The papers will be twenty minutes, to be followed by a ten‐minute discussion, in English, German, French, Modern Greek and Georgian.

Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted by 30 March, 2021. Please submit abstracts as a Word document attached to the following e-mail: g.tsere...@gmail.com. Selection process will be over by 30 April, 2021. No registration fee required.

Along with the abstract the following information about the author should be provided:

·         Personal information (first name, last name):

·         Affiliation and position:

·         Contact data (phone and email):

 

The conference programme will be prepared for publishing  by July 2021.

 

The papers can be submitted for publication. The papers selected through the blind peer review process will be published in the ERIH PLUS indexed journal Phasis. Greek and Roman Studies, Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. The deadline for submitting a paper for publication is 30 December, 2021. 

 

If you need more information, please contact the organizing committee: g.tsere...@gmail.com   

 

 

 

Call for Submissions: ‘New approaches in the study of medieval settlement (V-XV century)’, Online Seminar, 20-21 May 2021 (Zoom). Submission Deadline: 31 March 2021

 

Carlos Álvarez Rico and Leticia Tobalina have organised an online seminar entitled ‘New approaches in the study of medieval settlement (V-XV century)’. The seminar will be held over two days, on 20th and 21th May 2021 (online, Zoom) thanks to a grant from the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean for the organisation of events by young researchers (https://www.societymedievalmediterranean.com/).

 

The call for submissions is open from 2nd march until 31th march 2021.

More information and contact details can be found here: https://medievalsettlementsworkshop.wordpress.com/ 

Master and doctoral students, early career researchers and senior researchers are welcome.

 

The seminar has three objectives:

                 1)      Presentation of work and research that addresses the study of settlements in a diachronic way. Both archaeological prospecting work and interdisciplinary projects or textual studies that take into account a diachronic perspective are welcomed.

                  2)      Presentation of new methodologies for the study of the dynamics of medieval settlements, using either new technologies or new techniques (soil analysis, C14, GIS, interdisciplinary projects, source analysis, etc.)

                  3)      Promoting the exchange of ideas and procedures between generations. This seminar aims to bring together the work of both masters and doctoral students, as well as new and established researchers. It is planned online, in    order to reach a greater number of people, but also to be able to count on the participation of researchers and students from different areas of Europe. The seminar will end with a small online theoretical and practical workshop on databases and GIS applied to the study of the High Middle Ages.

            There will be an open call for papers, to give the opportunity to new researchers to present their work. The seminar will be held online in order to reach a greater number of contributions and countries. The seminar will thus consist of three parts: one devoted to research projects, another to the dissemination of heritage, and a final practical workshop.

 

Communications in English, French and Spanish are welcome.

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THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY BYZANTINE SOCIETY

The Byzness, 28^th March 2021
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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

 

SPBS International Byzantine Studies Congress 2022 Solidarity Fund for Turkish Scholars

 

The International Byzantine Studies Congress is the largest global gathering of scholars researching all aspects of the Byzantine world. The Congress has been organised by the International Association of Byzantine Studies (AIEB) since its inception in 1924 and takes place every five years. The venue is selected by national committees pitching their candidacy. In 2016, for the first time since 1955, and after an arduous campaign, Turkey won the nomination to host the 24th International Byzantine Studies Congress in 2021. However, as a result of the ongoing Covid19 pandemic, the Congress was moved to 2022 and a further change of venue was proposed as a matter of contingency. The Congress will now take place in Venice and Padua, in Italy.

 

Campaigning against Marginalisation

 

The Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (SPBS) is aware that our Turkish colleagues, many of them early career researchers and students, were looking forward both to hosting the Congress and participating in its panels and roundtables. The relocation of the Congress risks marginalising colleagues in Turkey. Soon after the Congress was moved, a group of Turkish students raised legitimate concerns about the future of Byzantine Studies in Turkey, as well as the future presence and participation of Turkish scholars in our field.

 

The Funding Goals

 

It is out of solidarity with our colleagues in Turkey, especially students and early career scholars, that the SPBS hopes to create an accessible source of funding that will cover the costs of attending the 2022 International Congress of Byzantine Studies in Italy. They are painfully aware of the dire economic situation in Turkey, one that has affected funding and opportunities for students and unestablished scholars. Moreover, they recognise the increasingly hostile border regimes adopted by many European countries. This is why they want to make sure that students and early career scholars from Turkey receive economic support to attend the Congress in 2022. They are fundraising to make sure that students and early career colleagues who were scheduled to give papers and participate in research events are able to do so at the 2022 Congress in Italy, and this includes ethnic and religious minority students and scholars resident in Turkey (including non-citizens).

 

The funds raised by this campaign will be used to cover visas, registration fees, travel, and accommodation, which are estimated to cost a minimum of £500 per person. Any leftover funds will spill over into a permanent fund to facilitate participation by students and early career scholars in the annual SPBS Spring Symposium.

 

To donate through PayPal, please follow this link to the SPBS website: Solidarity Fund – SPBS (byzantium.ac.uk)

 

 

 

Lecture on Ps-Ptolemy’s Ὁ Καρπός and Byzantine Astrological Practice. 1 April 2021 | Zoom | 4:00–5:00 pm (Eastern time)

 

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, is pleased to announce its final lecture for 2020–2021: "Ps-Ptolemy’s Ὁ Καρπός and Byzantine Astrological Practice." Dr. Darin Hayton, Haverford College, will explore ps-Ptolemy’s Ὁ Καρπός to elucidate the culture of astrology in the later Byzantine empire.

 

This lecture will take place live on Zoom, followed by a question and answer period. Please register to receive the Zoom link. An email with the relevant Zoom information will be sent 1–2 hours ahead of the lecture. Registration closes at 11:00 AM on April 1, 2021.

Register here: https://maryjahariscenter.org/events/ps-ptolemys-and-byzantine-astrological-practice

 

 

 

Forsyth Lecture Series ‘Fiction and Motivation in Medieval Art’ - Paul Binski. Zoom, 24 March 2021, 2:30pm (ET)

 

The Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan is pleased to announce the inaugural lecture in the Forsyth Lecture Series, to be delivered by Paul Binski, emeritus Professor of the History of Medieval Art at Cambridge University. Please join us on Wednesday, March 24th at 2:30PM (ET) via Zoom (register in advance here). 

 

Fiction and Motivation in Medieval Art

 

Since the Ancient World, engagement with visual art has recognized that perception has tremendous powers to reconfigure ‘stuff’ imaginatively. Aquinas, for example, stated that it is possible to separate representation and configuration. Later aestheticians, informed by analytical philosophy, referred to this capacity as ‘aspectual seeing’: seeing something ‘in’ a configuration, or more radically seeing the configuration ‘as’ something. This lecture returns to ‘aspectual seeing’ in the belief that it illuminates current debates about materiality, illusion, emotion and fiction in medieval art. In particular, it will reflect on (if not solve) the question of what human engagement with fictions consists of, whether that engagement can motivate us to action and, if so, what that engagement tells us about the art-life divide as presently understood by some art historians and critics.

Paul Binski writes widely on general issues of aesthetics, rhetoric and the visual arts in the Middle Ages. He is Emeritus Professor of the History of Medieval Art at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, and was Slade Professor, Oxford University, 2006-7. He delivered the British Academy Aspects of Art Lecture, 2001, and the Paul Mellon Lectures, National Gallery, London and Yale University, 2002-3. His publications include Becket’s Crown. Art and Imagination in Gothic England 1170-1300 (2004), Gothic Wonder: art, artifice and the Decorated Style 1290-1350 (2014) and most recently Gothic Sculpture (2019). Later this year he will be Franklin D. Murphy Lecturer at the University of Kansas.  

 

Please register in advance for this Zoom Webinar using this link.

 

 

 

2.              CALLS FOR PAPERS

 

Call for Papers: Aquatic Animals in the Global Middle Ages. Deadline Extended: 15 April 2021

 

“We all come from the sea, but we are not all of the sea.”

(DIGITAL WORKSHOP)

 

Aquafauna has recently been the topic of several conferences and publications focusing on zoological knowledge, its transmission, and transformation. Our workshop aims to investigate the imagery of aquatic animals in literature, their symbolism, their metaphorical use, and widespread views and misconceptions about such animals.

 

We would like to propose a global perspective limited chronologically rather than geographically. Therefore, we ask for proposals for papers looking at the period between ca. 500 and 1500 from a broader perspective, trying to understand how aquatic animals made their way into literature, oral traditions, proverbs, idioms, and art. The comparative perspective will be welcome but is not necessary - we hope that different papers covering various chronological and geographical areas will provide a comparative outlook.

 

We invite abstracts for 20 minutes contributions which should be sent to Przemysław Marciniak (przemyslaw...@us.edu.pl) by April 15. The workshop will take place online (via the ZOOM platform) September 27-28, 2021.

 

 

 

3.              JOBS AND SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

 

“Global at Venice - Research and Training for Global Challenges” Cofund Fellowship Programme

 

The first call for the “Global at Venice - Research and Training for Global Challenges” Cofund Fellowship Programme is now open!

 

The programme, funded through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND scheme, gives 15 talented researchers from all over the world the opportunity to undertake their research and training activity at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. The programme is supported by the University’s corporate partners, including research centres, non-academic networks of spin-offs, and small and medium enterprises, where Fellows will have the opportunity to complete secondments, bridging the gap between academic and applied research, and between research and market.

 

The “G@V - Research and Training for Global Challenges” Cofund Fellowship Programme will last for 60 months and is jointly funded by the European Commission (Grant Agreement no. 945361). It started on 1 January 2021.

 

The first call for proposals will award a maximum of 8 Fellowships each lasting 24 months.

 

The opening date is 15 March 2021. The deadline to submit applications is 5pm (CET) June 30 2021.

 

Applicants are requested to submit their research proposal in one of the six interdisciplinary Research for Global Challenges Institutes (RGCI) (https://www.unive.it/pag/30766/) that will support them with their individual research and training needs.

 

Applicants are required to choose a potential supervisor whose role is to integrate the research within the Research for Global Challenge Institute.

 

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

Research Fellows of any nationality on the date of the deadline (5 pm CET 30 June 2021) must meet the following criteria to apply:

·  Be in possession of a PhD degree awarded not later than 8 years prior to this call deadline.

·  Have at least one major publication without their PhD supervisor (either accepted, in press or published) at the time of deadline.

·  Have not resided or carried out their main activity in Italy for longer than 12 months during the 3 years prior to the call deadline, in compliance with the MSCA mobility rule.

 

All information about the call is available on the dedicated website: https://www.unive.it/pag/40610/

 

For further information and contact: Email global...@unive.it

Project Manager: Sara Venerus

 

 

 

California State University, Hellenic Studies Library Research Fellowship Program Call for Applications. Deadline: 2 April 2021

 

Thanks to generous ongoing funding from the Elios Charitable Foundation and the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Foundation, and new funding from the Tarbell Family Foundation, the University Library is pleased to offer the continuation of the Library Research Fellowship Program (LRFP) to support the use of the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection by fellows for scholarly research in Hellenic studies while in residence in Sacramento, CA.

 

The LRFP provides a limited number of fellowships (5-8 this year) ranging from $1,500 to $5,000 in the form of reimbursement to help offset transportation and living expenses incurred in connection with the awards. Since the Program’s inception in 2012, twenty-four fellows in Hellenic studies from nine countries, including seven independent scholars and 13 women, have benefitted from sustained access to the collection in support of original scholarly research. Thus far these research stays have directly contributed to the fruition of at least 10 conference papers, five journal articles, four book chapters, two completed doctoral dissertations, and one monograph.

 

The Program is open to external researchers anywhere in the world at the graduate through senior scholar levels (including independent scholars) working in fields encompassed by the Collection's strengths who reside outside a 75-mile radius of Sacramento. The term of fellowships can vary between two weeks and three months, depending on the nature of the research, and for the current cycle will be tenable from September 1, 2021-August 31, 2022. Please note that the 2021-2022 LRFP is contingent on the resumption of on-campus operations beginning fall 2021. Should this not be possible due to the pandemic, fellowship offers will be deferred until such time as awardees can opt to accept or decline them.

 

The fellowship application deadline is April 2, 2021. No late applications will be considered.

 

Consisting of the holdings of the former Speros Basil Vryonis Center for the Study of Hellenism, the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection is the premier Hellenic collection in the western United States and one of the largest of its kind in the country, currently numbering approximately 75,000 volumes and over 430 linear feet of archives. It comprises a large circulating book collection, journal holdings, electronic resources, non-print media materials, rare books, archival materials, art and artifacts. With its focus on the Hellenic world, the Collection contains early through contemporary materials across the social sciences and humanities relating to Greece, the Balkans, the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey, and the surrounding region, with particular strengths in Byzantine, post-Byzantine, and Modern Greek studies, including the Greek diaspora worldwide. There is a broad representation of over 20 languages in the Collection, with a rich assortment of primary source materials. For further information about the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection, visit http://library.csus.edu/tsakopoulos-hellenic-collection.

 

For the full Library Research Fellowship Program description and application instructions, see: http://library.csus.edu/tsakopoulos-hellenic-collection/lrfp. Questions about the Program can be directed to George I. Paganelis, Curator, Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection (paga...@csus.edu)

 

A.G. Leventis Fellowship in Hellenic Studies, British School at Athens

Deadline: 11 May 2018

The British School at Athens is pleased to announce the A.G. Leventis Fellowship in Hellenic Studies. The Fellowship, funded by the A.G. Leventis Foundation, is tenable at post-doctoral level to support research into the anthropology, archaeology, architecture, arts, environment, geography, history, language, literature, religion and topography of Greece and Cyprus, and related areas, from prehistory to the late 19th century/ early 20th century. The Fellowship is tenable for three years from 1 October 2018.

The A.G. Leventis Fellowship represents an important strengthening of the intellectual life of the School and of its relations with Greece and Cyprus. The School is looking for candidates of the highest potential who will make best use of the opportunity for a prolonged period of research in Greece and other Greek lands. If the Fellow is not fluent in Greek, it is essential that s/he become fluent within six months of taking up the Fellowship. Furthermore, any Fellow whose native language is other than English must be or become fluent in English, again within six months of taking up the Fellowship.

The A.G. Leventis Fellow will be expected to take a leading role in the life and work of the School. Teaching and other duties will be agreed with the Director at the beginning of each academic year. The Fellow will be expected to give one seminar per year and one public lecture during the term of the Fellowship. The Fellow may be asked to participate in courses taught by the School, and s/he may undertake a small amount of outside teaching with the approval of the Director. It is expected that the Fellow will take a lively interest in the research of School Students.

The Fellow must spend at least nine months a year in Greek lands, and has a duty to inform the Director of absences from Athens of more than four days between 1 October and 30 June.

Normally the Fellow will be expected to have satisfied all the requirements for his/her doctorate no more than five years and at least three months before taking up the post.

Applicants should submit by e-mail:

• a letter of application (including an explanation of why the proposed research should be undertaken in Greece)

• CV (including the names of two referees)

• a research proposal (1,500 words maximum).

Candidates must ask their referees to send letters of reference directly to the School Administrator by the deadline for applications. Referees may e-mail their letters in PDF format to school.administrator@bsa.ac.uk

Shortlisted candidates may be invited to submit published or unpublished work, and interviews have provisionally been scheduled for Monday, 11 June 2018.

The salary will be €22,000 per annum. In addition, the School offers health insurance and can provide continuity of any pre-existing USS pension scheme. The School will pay for travel to Athens at the commencement of the Fellowship, up to £300 for one return journey home per year thereafter, and for return travel at the end of the Fellowship. The School will also offer research expenses (to include travel, attending conferences, preparation of or obtaining research materials, etc.) of up to £1,500 per year. The Fellow should apply to the Director for any such grants in advance.

The Fellow will be expected to have an affiliation with a UK university. (If necessary, the School will help to negotiate this.) S/he must submit a report each May to the Director for forwarding to the School’s Council and the A.G. Leventis Foundation on the year’s work. In the first year, during which the appointment will be probationary, the Fellow should also submit an interim report in March.

The A.G. Leventis Fellow will acknowledge the School and the Fellowship in all publications resulting from tenure of the post.

Fellows are encouraged to reside in the Hostel in the first instance.

Informal enquiries about the Fellowship may be addressed to the School Director, Professor John Bennet (dire...@bsa.ac.uk). Applications and references should be sent to the School Administrator at school.administrator@bsa.ac.uk

[Oxford University Byzantine Society]

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THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY BYZANTINE SOCIETY

The Byzness, 4^th April 2021
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1. NEWS AND EVENTS

2. CALLS FOR PAPERS

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1.              NEWS AND EVENTS

 

New Journal: Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies (JLAIBS)

 

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new journal, Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies (JLAIBS), https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/jlaibs, published by Edinburgh University Press. The JLAIBS as a hotspot for interdisciplinary dialogue aims to disseminate new approaches and methodologies that intend to transform our understanding of broader Late Antique and Medieval phenomena, such as knowledge transfer and cultural exchanges, by looking beyond single linguistic traditions or political boundaries. It provides a forum for high-quality articles on the interactions and cross-cultural exchange between different traditions and of the so-called Byzantine Empire and the Islamic world. Thematically, the journal also welcomes submissions dealing individually with Late Antique, Byzantine and Islamic literature, history, archaeology, and material culture from the fourth to the fifteenth century. 

 

Articles should be written in English and can be up to 15,000 words in total length (i.e. including all footnotes, bibliography and any appendices). Submissions to Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies should be formatted in accordance with the full JLAIBS style guidelines (https://www.euppublishing.com/pb-assets/Notes_for_Contibutors/JLAIBS_Style_guide-1614190487.pdf), and sent as Word and PDF files to: jla...@ed.ac.uk

 

Editors:

Dr Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (University of Edinburgh)
Dr Marie Legendre (University of Edinburgh) 
Dr Yannis Stouraitis (University of Edinburgh)
 
Editorial board:

Prof. Peter Adamson (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) 
Prof. Gianfranco Agosti (Sapienza Università di Roma) 
Assoc. Prof. Corisande Fenwick (University College London)  
Prof. Robert Hoyland (New York University)  
Prof. Marc Lauxtermann (University of Oxford)  
Prof. Maria Mavroudi (University of California, Berkeley)  
Prof. Annliese Nef (Université Paris 1 Panthéon)  
Prof. Dr Johannes Pahlitzsch (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) 
Assoc. Prof. Arietta Papaconstantinou (University of Reading) 
Assoc. Prof. Maria Parani (University of Cyprus) 
Prof. Samuel Rubenson (Lund University)  
Assoc. Prof. Kostis Smyrlis (National Hellenic Research Foundation/Athens)  
Assoc. Prof. Jack Tannous (Princeton University)  
Assoc. Prof. Alicia Walker (Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania) 

 

 

 

Byzantium at Ankara - "Byzantium and the Silk Roads" Mini Seminar Series

 

Byzantium at Ankara is happy to announce its new and exciting April Mini-Seminar Series entitled: "Byzantium and the Silk Roads" which includes Irene Giviashvili, Qiang Li, and Aniket Chettry as speakers.

 

This scholarly trip will begin on Friday 9 April (17.00 o'clock, Istanbul time) with Irene Giviashvili, who will be talking about the "Intercultural dialogue between Georgia and Byzantium."

 

For further info and registration go to https://www.byzantiumatankara.net/program-1 or send an email to byzantiu...@hotmail.com

 

 

 

‘Constantinople in Late Antiquity: Sacred Space and Urban Topography’. Thursday, 15. April 2021,18:00 (17:00 CET) 

 

Registration: https://dainst-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkdOispz0iHtYBuVkZbS1I_WnKT1Zn4rpL

Current information under: https://de-de.facebook.com/daiistanbul

After Constantinople was inaugurated by the emperor Constantine in 330 CE, the city quickly  earned its reputation as the New Rome. Protected by virtually unbreachable fortifications, it  housed the imperial palace, the famous hippodrome, and a plethora of magnificent churches.  As capital of the Medieval Roman Empire, Constantinople survived various threads and  challenges until it eventually fell to the Ottomans in 1453.  

With this event, we are focusing on Constantinople’s formative period in Late Antiquity, asking  how the city rose from one of several imperial residences in the fourth century to the undisputed  political and religious center of the Eastern Mediterranean. The presentations approach late  antique Constantinople from various perspectives: they investigate the architectural intricacies  of religious buildings and how they expressed their founder’s ambitions; they offer insights into  spaces that stood out due to the lack of monumental architecture, especially in the liminal area  around the city walls; and they trace how Christian believes materialized in the urban fabric  through the collection and dispersion of objects that were considered to be holy relics. In  synthesis, the evening highlights the intersection between religion, social hierarchies, and urban  topography, shedding light on the crucial characteristics of Constantinople’s most dynamic  period.

 "Hagios Polyeuktos: Princess of Early Byzantine Architecture" 

Jun. Prof. Fabian Stroth (Freiburg) 

"The Intangible Topography of Late Antique Constantinople:  

Green and Urban Agricultural Spaces" 

Dr. Alessandra Ricci (Istanbul) 

"Holy Objects on the Move:  

Relics in Constantinople Between City Center and Urban Periphery“  

Dr. Nadine Viermann (Istanbul) 

 

2.              CALLS FOR PAPERS

 

Workshop Announcement & Call for Posters: ‘Narrating Relationships in Holy Lives from the first millennium AD’, Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Exeter via Zoom, 12^th July 2021 

 

We are excited to announce an afternoon workshop on ‘Narrating Relationships in Holy Lives’. Communities wrote about holy figures for many reasons. Our speakers consider the characterisation of various holy figures or ‘the very special dead’ in texts from multiple religious (Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Manichaean) and linguistic (Latin, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew) communities. The workshop will explore the construction of holy and unholy characters, their relationships, and the role of narrative order in texts about holy figures. We are especially interested in how these features change as texts and figures are translated, transmitted, epitomised or received in different contexts across the late-ancient and early-medieval Mediterranean.  

 

Keynotes: Christian Sahner (Oxford) “How to construct a holy life in the early Islamic period”  

& Christa Gray (Reading) TBC 

Speakers: Nic Baker-Brian (Cardiff) “Is there a Narrator Here? The Role of Narrative and Narration in Manichaean Kephalaia”; Stavroula Constantinou (Cyprus) “Narrating Friendship in Byzantine Hagiography” ; Edmund Hayes (Leiden) TBC; Jillian Stinchcomb (Brandeis) “Narrating the visit of the Queen of Sheba to Solomon's Court in Late Antique Sources”; Chontel Syfox (Wisconsin-Madison) “Rewriting Leah: The Feminine Ideal in the Book of Jubilees” 

 

The workshop will be held in English and will comprise a short opening and closing keynote, brief panels, and discussion. This will culminate in a roundtable discussion.  General registration will be opened in late May. 

 

Applications are now open for pre-circulated posters. We invite contributions that consider: 

 

·  Order in which characters and relationships are introduced or developed 

· Choice of narrator(s) and narrative perspectives 

· Types of relationship (e.g. confrontational, supportive, ambiguous) as narrative devices 

· Relationship formation, breakdown and misunderstanding as narrative progression 

· Relationships as constructors of inclusion, exclusion & difference (e.g. status, gender etc.) 

· Reconfiguration of relationships in transmission, translation, paraphrase and epitome 

· Receptions and reinterpretations of characters from other narratives 

· Relationships beyond the human (e.g.  supernatural, environmental, non-human) 

· Characters in context: narratives and audience, performance, relics 

 

Posters will be shared with registered attendees, who will be invited to pose questions to individual poster presenters via email. General themes and questions arising from the posters will also be raised at the roundtable discussion.

 

 We will accept posters in English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish and Modern Standard Arabic. To facilitate wide comprehension, presenters are asked to provide an English synopsis if the poster is not in English; if this is a barrier then please contact us.  We are especially keen to encourage submissions from postgraduates, ECRs and independent scholars who may not have a departmental profile. 

 

Please send one-page poster submissions in PowerPoint or PDF format to narrating...@gmail.com by 1^st July 2021, along with affiliation, year of study and synopsis if applicable. Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Enquiries about poster topics and format are also welcomed (we recommend A1 format, 26pt font minimum) and we can provide a poster guidance sheet.  

 

 

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Lorenzo Saccon

DPhil Candidate, Faculty of History

President, Oxford University Byzantine Society

byzantin...@gmail.com  

http://oxfordbyzantinesociety.wordpress.com

https://twitter.com/oxbyz

[Oxford University Byzantine Society]

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THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY BYZANTINE SOCIETY

The Byzness, 12^th April 2021
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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

 

2021 ELPE Spring Seminars

 

Greek Paleography and Papyrology already have a very dynamic presence in the field of Digital Humanities and extremely interesting prospects. By creating new tools and resources, traditional research methods become, on the one hand, more effective and on the other, capable not only of helping, but also of redefining, the research questions that may be asked.

 

In this spirit, ELPE (Ελληνική Παλαιογραφική Εταιρεία) is inserting a parenthesis into its normally scheduled course of seminars on “The Contents of Manuscripts”. On the occasion of forced use of distancing methods due to the pandemic, but also in the anticipation that next year our Seminars will be able to take place normally, in this year’s Spring Seminars the medium is appropriate to the subject under study: the presentations will illustrate aspects of research in Greek manuscripts in the digital environment.

 

March 16, Tuesday, at 19:00 (=12:00 noon U.S. Eastern DS Time / 11:00 Central): Myrto Malouta, Digital Papyrology: Encoding Texts, Databases and Online Tools

 

April 13, Tuesday at 19:00 (=12:00 noon U.S. Eastern DS Time / 11:00 Central): Efthymios K. Litsas – Ioanna Zaire, Online Tools for Greek Paleography & Codicology

 

May 18, Tuesday, at 19:00 (=12:00 noon U.S. Eastern DS Time / 11:00 Central): Basil Gatos, Digital Analysis and Character Recognition in Codex Manuscripts

 

Seminars will be held online via Zoom, with the support of the Ionian University, and presume basic knowledge of papyrology and/or paleography. To connect, click the link below, which will be the same for all three sessions: https://ionio-gr.zoom.us/j/93206447999

Alternatively, you can copy and paste it into your computer browser.

 

The meeting ID is 932 7999 0644 and the passcode is 606291.

 

If you haven’t used the Zoom platform before, your computer will inform you that it needs to download the relevant software. This lasts a minute or two and occurs automatically. The process is very simple, but if you need additional guidance, please contact mal...@ionio.gr.

 

The Sessions are conducted in Greek. This year no certificates of attendance will be issued.

 

 

 

Virtual Conference: Collecting Orthodoxy in the West, 11-12 June 2021

 

The virtual conference “Collecting Orthodoxy in the West: A History and a Look Towards the Future” (Museum of Russian Icons, Clinton, Massachusetts) will take place on June 11-12, 2021.

 

For more information visit: https://www.museumofrussianicons.org/conference/

 

 

 

Spring Course Medieval Philosophical and Scientific Manuscripts. 9am-4pm, 10 April, 2021. Anna Somfai, Central European University, Budapest and Vienna

The course explores medieval Western philosophical and scientific manuscripts produced over the span of the 9th to 15th centuries. It considers the role manuscripts played in the creation and shaping of the philosophical and scientific discourse. A manuscript is both the object which transmitted ancient and medieval texts and a physical and intellectual surface which facilitated reading, writing, thinking, and the exchange of ideas. The course examines by means of digital images the layers of textual and visual interpretation produced by scribes, readers, and annotators and considers the various interpretative attitudes that developed and interacted over time. We shall look at the relevant aspects of the production of manuscripts then analyse the diverse visual forms in which texts and diagrams appear in manuscripts copied at various times and within different scholarly milieus. We ponder how reading texts in manuscript form brought, and still brings, additional dimensions to the study of philosophical and scientific texts. The course is online using Zoom, and will be fully interactive.

Courses fees are £100 (standard) and £75 (student).

 

For more information visit:  https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/study-training/short-courses/lipss-spring-courses/medieval-philosophical-and-scientific-manuscripts. 

 

For details on all the Spring Courses see https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/study-training/short-courses/lipss-spring-courses. 

 

 

 

Online Lecture: Animals and humour in later Byzantine literature (April 14)

 

"And all its stories are most comical" Animals and humour in later Byzantine literature

Kirsty Stewart

 

https://zoom.us/j/96771740849?pwd=N2xONE9PN3d4dWhYWFRPMVhVU29QQT09

Meeting ID: 967 7174 0849

Passcode: SgJ1k8

 

14 April (Wednesday) 4 PM (Warsaw time)

 

Kirsty Stewart (Edinburgh University) received her PhD from the Oxford University  in 2015. Currently, she is working on animal studies, theological naturalism in  Byzantine texts, and on the presentation of women in Byzantine literature.

 

 

 

Invitation to Guest Lecture Series of RomanIslam Center (Univesity of Hamburg), Wed. Apr. 14, 2021, 5-7 pm, German Time

 

You are cordially invited to the interdisciplinary guest lecture Conversion as Soul Searching and Add-on conversion, organized by the RomanIslam – Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies, University of Hamburg. It will take place on Wed. Apr. 14, 2021, 5 -7 pm (German time) on Zoom and will comprise the lectures "Constantine and conversion to Christianity" by Claire Sotinel (University of Paris-Est Créteil) and "Conversion to Islam in late antique and early medieval North Africa" by Christian C. Sahner (University of Oxford).

Please confirm your participation by Apr. 12, 2021 to roman...@uni-hamburg.de. You will then receive a link enabling you to access the event.
https://attachment.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/8b856123/Invitation---Conversion-as-Soul-Searching-and-Add-on-conversion.pdf

 

“Biography of a Landmark: The Chora Monastery and Kariye Camii in Constantinople/Istanbul from Late Antiquity to the 21st Century”. Online Conference, 27-28 April 2021.

 

The conference will take place over two days, April 27 and 28, 2021. The first day will cover a wide range of examples presented by the graduate students. The subject of “Conversions” will be introduced by two keynote presentations in order to give an methodological input for discussion.

 

The conference will take place via Zoom.

 

Please register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8Huj7rqdRkKu0Wxi1zo89w

For more information visit: https://www.unifr.ch/art/de/forschung/forschungsprojekte/biography-of-a-landmark-the-chora-monastery-and-kariye-camii-in-constantinople/istanbul-from-late-antiquity-to-the-21st-century.html

 

 

 

Jan Willem Drijvers, Roman-Persian Relations: the Example of Emperor Jovian and the Syriac ‘Julian Romance’ – 13 April 17.00 (online)

 

The EX-PATRIA (I-SITE ULNE) and the DANUBIUS (ANR/I-SITE ULNE) projects invite you to join the next online session of the 7th edition of the seminar ‘Constantinople dans l'Antiquité tardive’ (HALMA-UMR 8164 research centre - University of Lille, CNRS, Ministère de la Culture) :
 
Jan Willem Drijvers (University of Groningen) will give a talk: Roman-Persian Relations: the Example of Emperor Jovian and the Syriac ‘Julian Romance’.
The talk will be in English. The event will take place on Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 5 pm (Paris time), via Zoom.

For online registration please visit: https://forms.gle/8hCp4Z4TPjVmpsbGA
or contact Ekaterina Nechaeva (ekaterina...@univ-lille.fr) and Dominic Moreau (dominic...@univ-lille.fr)

 

 

 

Online panel discussion: Women in Sacred Chant: Past and Present. Tuesday, 13 April 2021: 18.00–19.30 BST, 1:00pm-2:30pm Eastern, and 10:00am-11:30am Pacific via Zoom

 

A panel discussion celebrating the vocal ensemble Cappella Romana’s release of Hymns of Kassianí, a recording of newly edited medieval Byzantine chants by the 9th-century composer and poet Kassía.  Moderated by Professor Susan Ashbrook Harvey (Brown) and introduced by Professor Alexander Lingas (City and Cappella Romana).

 

Panelists will explore the role of women — as composers and as performers — in sacred Western and Eastern chant from ancient times to the present day, including music by Kassianí (Kassía) and Hildegard of Bingen. This is a history often marginalized or even disregarded in general histories of Christianity, yet it has been — and continues to be — important to the continuing vitality of sacred music as an art form and as a crucial mode of religious expression.

 

Registration is free at: https://city-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2H1Louz0TqyRrORFMmCHvw 

 

For more information, visit https://cappellaromana.org/women-in-sacred-chant-past-and-present/ 

 

 

 

Henry Loyn Memorial Lecture: Wednesday 21 April 2021

 

The postponed 2020 Henry Loyn Memorial Lecture will take place as an on-line lecture on Wednesday 21 April this year, with the lecture starting at 7.00 p.m.

The speaker and title are as planned for last year: Professor Peter Edbury, on 'The Latin East and the English Crown'. Access to the lecture will be by registration (no cost) through Eventbrite:

Sign up by Eventbrite to get direct access to the Zoom link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/henry-loyn-memorial-lecture-the-latin-east-and-the-english-crown-tickets-149465181381

 

 

 

Ewa Wipszycka's Late Antique Seminar. 15 April: Sebastian Richter (Freie Universität, Berlin),Coptic epigraphy at Deir Anba Hadra: New insights and new intricacies.

 

On Thursday, 15 April, 4.45 (Warsaw time) Sebastian Richter (Freie Universität, Berlin), will present a paper Coptic epigraphy at Deir Anba Hadra: New insights and new intricacies. We are meeting on Zoom at the usual link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83501284547?pwd=aWt5a1Jla2ZmbUgzN1lyL0c4N1lsUT09

 

Abstract

The monastery Deir Anba Hadra on the west bank of Aswan has played some role for Coptic epigraphy in the past. It yields a large, and in several ways important, corpus of Coptic funerary stelae (Munier 1930/1), as well as a large number of the secondary inscriptions left by visitors and inhabitants. Many of them were published by earlier scholars, such as J. Clédat, J. de Morgan, and U. Bouriant, many however have not been edited as yet. Since 2013 the German Archaeological Institute conducted a series of campaigns at Deir Anba Hadra. A major goal of the project was to compile a complete documentation of (Coptic and Arabic) secondary inscriptions. I will present some finds and findings of the recent epigraphic work at Deir Anba Hadra, and discuss some issues arising therefrom.

 

 

 

17^th Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference ‘Memory’. 22-23 April 2021

 

The Organising Committee is pleased to announce that the programme for 'Memory', the 17th Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference, is now available. The conference will take place via Zoom on 22nd and 23rd April 2021 (British Summer Time). To view the programme and to register, please follow this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/memory-17th-oxford-medieval-graduate-conference-tickets-149951710603.

 

 

 

International Conference "Epiphanies of the Saints in Late-antique Literature" - 21 May 2021 - registration now open

 

Registration for the international conference "Epiphanies of the Saints in Late-antique Literature" has been just opened.

 

The conference will be held on 21 May 2021, 10:00-18:15 CET, via Zoom.

 

Participation is free of charge upon registration which closes on 16 May 2021.

 

The conference programme, as well as the registration form and the link to the meeting on Zoom are available at the conference website: 

http://historia.uw.edu.pl/epiphanies/

 

The keynotes include: Danuta Shanzer, Vincent Déroche, Stephanos Efthymiadis, and Bryan Ward-Perkins.

 

 

 

2.              CALLS FOR PAPERS

 

CALL FOR PAPERS for the session of the study group “Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages” (AGSFM) at the joint conference of MOVA and WSVA from 4^th to 5^th October 2021 in Jena on “Early Medieval Archaeology! – But how?”. Submission deadline: 30 April 2021

 

“In response to the digital turn and to scientific and technical innovations, early medieval archaeology is facing a prism of new opportunities and challenges (keywords: databases, GIS, big data, open access, virtual reality…as well as large-scale aDNA and isotope analyses, radiocarbon dating, or material analyses…). Their impact on heritage agencies, on research, and on public discourse is undeniable.

But how is early medieval archaeology dealing with all this?

 

During the onset of research projects, the dominant questions will often concern the management of large volumes of finds and data. This applies equally to the processing of archaeological features and finds and their preservation as well as to the publication of material, data and results. The increase of source material is a related issue which, in the archaeology of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, mainly affects cemeteries.

Further down the line, many projects’ agendas feature the methods and processes to be implemented. Archaeology has recently adapted many scientific procedures, is now working with new technical applications, and makes use of digital and virtual programs and platforms. However, to ask provocatively: When are these being used as a means to an end and where are the ‘means’ an end in themselves? Do we have to fear that early medieval archaeology will subordinate itself to the new technologies, or can we use them to open up new research perspectives for early medieval archaeology – and how?

 

Two preceding sessions, „Quo Vadis, Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie?“ which took place in Berlin in 2014, and „Reihengräber – nutzen wir doch die Quellenfülle!“ (Mannheim, 2015) provided a current assessment of German-speaking early medieval archaeology. In our meeting on the 4^th and 5^th October 2021, in Jena, we intend to follow up on this discussion. Here, we will examine the discipline’s methodological inventory with the aim of taking it to a new level. In particular, we will ask:

 

·  Which techniques and methods offer new research potential to Early History? How can we use scientific methods fruitfully within Early historic Archaeology? Where is the integrative approach indispensable for advances in research?

·  Which research questions do we want to develop? Which stories can we derive from the results?

·  How can we constructively set aside conflict potential between methods/their application and research narratives?

·  How do public impact and public perception reflect these themes?

 

We gladly accept contributions from your work on this topic and welcome contributions in German and English. The length of your presentation should not exceed 20 minutes. Proposals for papers with a half-page written summary are requested by 30.04.2021 to a.flue...@unibas.ch.

 

Please also inform colleagues who may not have been contacted or invited directly by us. It should be noted that the study group does not have its own funding and cannot pay for travel or accommodation costs. Participants are therefore kindly asked to cover their own expenses and to register for the conference.”

 

Dr. des. Anna Flückiger (spokesperson AGSFM), Dr. Orsolya Heinrich-Tamaska,

Dr. Michaela Helmbrecht, Dr. Roland Prien, Dr. Bendeguz Tobias (advisory board AGSFM)

A German version of this call will shortly be uploaded on https://agsfm.hypotheses.org/.

 

 

 

Call for Papers: The Senses, Pleasure, and Self-Discipline in Antiquity and Late Antiquity. To be held online 21 and 22 October 2021. Deadline for submission: 23 April 2021. 

This workshop seeks to explore the attitudes, anxieties and assumptions of ancient thinkers towards the senses. While the organisers specialise in the writers of the Imperial period until Augustine, presentations of earlier and later authors or material evidence are most welcome.

 

One particularly prominent feature of the ancient discourse on the senses is how it blends the investigation of the senses with questions of self-command. This relates to specific practices of self-control, but also to theoretical reflections about the ontological distinctness of the senses vis-à-vis a noetic cosmos, especially in Platonism. The ontological rank which was attributed to the senses was often related to a normative understanding of how one should relate to them. 

 

This normative dimension relates to the fact that the senses were, at least since Empedocles, seen as possible sources of pleasure. For some, the bodily nature of sensory pleasure made it inherently threatening to the soul, while others were concerned that pleasure can derive from and incite vicious behaviour. Thus, the question of legitimate or illegitimate pleasure was a key dimension of late ancient discourse about the senses. 

 

A further aspect that deserves consideration is how authors have attempted to establish a hierarchy among the senses. Whereas many authors followed Plato in considering vision as the most philosophically dignified sense, others did (implicitly or explicitly) question this hierarchy. The relationship between corporeal and spiritual senses has inspired research in the past decades, but also here, many questions remain open. 

 

The purpose of this online workshop is to facilitate exchange especially among early-stage researchers who are working on the senses in antiquity in any academic discipline. We are aiming to create a friendly atmosphere, where work in progress can be discussed. The workshop is organised by Clare Gardom (Oxford) and Carsten Flaig (FU Berlin) and supported by the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of FU Berlin. 

 

Papers will be 20 minutes followed by discussion. Abstracts (not more than one page) should be sent to senses....@gmail.com by Friday, 23 April 2021. 

 

 

 

CFP: 'Ecologies of Healing in the Premodern World (600-1350 CE), University of Edinburgh, 9-10 September 2022. Deadline for submission: 31 August 2021

 

Submissions are invited for this Wellcome Trust funded conference to be held at Edinburgh between 9-10 September 2022, organised by Dr Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Dr Zubin Mistry.

 

https://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-archaeology/news-events/events/cfp-ecologies-of-healing-in-the-premodern-world

 

The history of premodern medicine is in rude health. While the increasingly global history of infectious disease is a vital, if sadly topical, development, the last decade or so has also witnessed innovative advances in our understanding of public health, hospital histories, patienthood and patient experiences, clinical encounters, exchange of medicinal information and substances, and gendered boundaries of medical knowledge and healthcare work. Scholars have progressively discarded older hermeneutic hierarchies that privileged medicine in its canonical and institutionalized forms, and increasingly identified and scrutinised the diverse knowledge communities, practitioners and healing practices out of which healthcare in premodern societies was constituted. The boundaries between medicine and religion or magic, and between science and culture, have been productively redrawn or otherwise blurred. From drug therapies in miracle accounts to the adoption of ritual practice or divinatory devices by learned practitioners, distinct healing practices are no longer sidelined as inferior adjuncts to medicine proper. It is becoming intelligible to conceive of learned medicine as a species of healing. 

 

Yet, how these diverse pieces can be assembled into a cohesive picture of medicine, health and healing within, let alone across, societies before c.1350 remains to be worked out. Ecologies of Healing invites scholars working on premodern Asian, African and European societies to do just that. The conference’s key goal is to piece together how interactions and demarcations between ideas, practices, practitioners, materials and settings of healing ultimately coalesced within the medical ecosystems of premodern societies. Ecologies of Healing also seeks to sharpen our chronologies by paying attention to how and why medical ecosystems have changed or stayed the same over time, and to promote further the global history of premodern medicine by exploring cross-cultural connections and comparisons between the medical ecosystems characteristic of distinct premodern societies.

 

We welcome papers on premodern health, medicine and healing, including in the following areas: 

·  Medical epistemologies and knowledge communities; (re)constructions of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ knowledge and practice 

·  Practical repercussions, and limitations of, learned medicine 

·  Competing, converging and coexisting practices of healing and healthcare work, including through patient as well as practitioner perspectives 

·  Economies of healing and the social settings of medicine, including the significance of environment, urban/rural geographies and domestic healthcare 

·  Roles of cross-cultural interactions and knowledge transfer in shaping practices of medicine 

·  Stratified healing, including the impact of wealth, status, ethnicity, religious affiliation and gender on participation in knowledge communities and access to healing 

·  Interfaces between animal and human healthcare 

 

Keynote speaker: Anthony Cerulli, University of Wisconsin–Madison 

 

Confirmed speakers: 

·  Carmen Caballero Navas, University of Granada 

·  Asaf Goldschmidt, Tel Aviv University 

·  Ahmed Ragab, Williams College 

·  Richard Sowerby, University of Edinburgh 

·  Sethina Watson, University of York 

·  Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, Goldsmiths, University of London 

 

The dates are preliminary and we will be able to confirm the final dates once we know more about the likely picture of the pandemic in 2022. Our aim is to hold a face-to-face event and we would cover the costs of three nights' accommodation in Edinburgh. All papers will be pre-circulated among participants two months in advance of the conference, where each speaker will give a shorter presentation (around 15 minutes) outlining the paper’s key contentions followed by responses and open discussion. We are looking for papers dealing with original and previously unpublished material because our aim is that, ultimately, extended versions of the papers will form a peer-reviewed edited volume, Ecologies of Healing in the Premodern World. The final version of the papers in the volume will not exceed 10,000 words including footnotes. 

 

Scholars are invited to submit abstracts of ca. 300 words to petros.boura...@ed.ac.uk and zubin....@ed.ac.uk by 31 August 2021.

 

 

 

Call for Contributions: Anatolian Research / Jahrbuch für Kleinasiatische Forschung

 

Established in 1955 as the publication of the Faculty of Letters at Istanbul University, Anatolian Research – Jahrbuch für Kleinasiatische Forschung – Anadolu Araştırmaları is an international and peer-reviewed journal, now publishing open access.

 

The journal invites scholars working on Ancient History, Archaeology, Art History, History of Architecture, Anthropology, Epigraphy, Numismatic, Historical Geography, and Archaeometry in Anatolia and its neighboring regions to submit research articles for the forthcoming issues. The journal aims to integrate scholarly and creative knowledge production from different perspectives that would spatially and temporally widen the impact of current research of Anatolia from prehistoric times to the Late Antiquity.

 

The journal will publish bi-annually starting from 2021. Manuscripts submitted for publication should be in Turkish, English, German, French or Italian. The submission should be made via the following online system: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/iuanadolu

 

Please direct inquiries to the Editor in Chief Professor Mustafa H. Sayar an...@istanbul.edu.tr

 

 

 

Call for Papers: International Conference "Motherhood and Breastfeeding in Antiquity and Byzantium" (5-7 November 2021). Deadline for submission: end of April 2021

 

The Cyprus-based interdisciplinary research project “Lactating Breasts: Motherhood and Breastfeeding in Antiquity and Byzantium” (https://ucy.ac.cy/motherbreast/en/), which is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research and Innovation Foundation (project EXCELLENCE/1216/0020), warmly invites proposals for the concluding international conference of the project.

 

The conference aims to further promote research on motherhood and breastfeeding. Papers are expected to focus around the investigation of the various aspects of the strong affinities between woman—as mother and wet nurse—and her lactating breast, as well as the social, ideological and medical meanings and uses of motherhood, childbirth and breastfeeding, and their visual and literary representations from the Hellenistic to Byzantine eras. Suggested topics include, but are not restricted, to the following:

 

> the lactating woman’s social roles and identities in association with her legal and social status, as well as in relation with the network of her familial, kinship and other interpersonal relationships;

> the general ideology that surrounds and outlines the lactating woman’s imposed roles and defines the semantic value of her lactating breasts;

> the performativity of the maternal body and/or the lactating breast and the ways in which the bodily language of breastfeeding and motherhood interact with the ancient and Byzantine politics of womanhood’s embodiment;

> the dynamics between the rhetoric and semiology of the lactating breast and the larger sexual ideology of the given cultures;

> the relationship between the lactating woman and her environmental context;

> the literary, religious or artistic appropriation of the breastfeeding imagery as a metaphor;

> the typology, rhetoric, symbolisms, visual and narrative meanings and function of lactation or motherhood in different literary and artistic genres, as well as their reception;

> general health and medical practices and ideologies related to the lactating breast and/or motherhood;

> the conception and utilization of human milk by different ancient and Byzantine discourses.

 

We are open to various approaches, especially the ones which explore the interconnections between different methods and disciplines, such as Late Antique and Medieval Studies, Philology, Philosophy, Art History, Archaeology, History of Medicine, Sociology, Anthropology, Theology, and Gender and Performance Studies.

 

Presentations are expected to have a duration of 20 minutes and will be given in English. Selected papers will be considered for publication in a peer-reviewed volume co-edited by the organizers.

There is no registration fee, but speakers who are not members of the project’s research team will have to cover their travel and accommodation expenses.

 

Please send your title and abstract (about 300 words), as well as a short CV including your email and affiliation no later than the end of April 2021 to Stavroula Constantinou (kons...@ucy.ac.cy) or Aspasia Skouroumouni Stavrinou (a.skour...@yahoo.gr).

Notifications of acceptance will be sent by June 2021.

 

Confirmed Speakers

Elizabeth Bolman, Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Stavroula Constantinou, Mati Meyer, Maria Parani, Giulia Pedrucci, Aspasia Skouroumouni Stavrinou, Dionysios Stathakopoulos, Laurence Totelin, Niki Tsironi.

 

 

 

Call for Papers: Late Antiquity Network Conference 'Ambiguity and Ambivalence'. Deadline for submission: 17 June 2021

 

Ambiguity and ambivalence are productive notions through which to explore Late Antiquity. They reflect the uncertainties and grey areas that are such a feature of this period, as the classical past slowly gave way to the medieval future, as paganism was overtaken by Christianity. Definitions – of sacred and secular, orthodox and heretical, Roman and non-Roman, to name but a few – were in flux, constantly reassessed and contested. Ambiguity and ambivalence were useful tools for those living in Late Antiquity, allowing them to negotiate these often perilous boundaries, and to find pragmatic nuances in the midst of controversy. To be ambiguous and ambivalent is to be open to more than one interpretation, to allow more than one meaning or definition, to pose a question without providing an answer. It is not (necessarily at least) the same as neutrality; rather, it leaves the delicate question of assigning significance and meaning with the individual. Ambiguity and ambivalence can also be useful to us as students of Late Antiquity as we wrestle with often intractable problems of categorisation and definition. They can help us to understand the complexities and contradictions of the period in all their intricacy and variegation.

 

The Late Antiquity Network Steering Committee invite submissions on any aspect of Late Antiquity, broadly defined, both temporally and geographically. They particularly encourage papers on areas of study outside the Graeco-Roman Mediterannean world. Papers might address (but are by no means limited to) any of the following topics:

 

·         Ambiguity and ambivalence in religious or ethnic identity: pagans and Christians; Roman and non-Roman; Greek and non-Greek; local and pan-imperial.

·         Ambiguity and ambivalence in politics or law: political ideology and propaganda; the limits and boundaries of power; legal definitions and authority; public image and presentations.

·         Theological and philosophical ambiguity and ambivalence: monotheist and polytheist ontologies, definitions of orthodoxy and heresy, the boundaries of the sacred and the secular, apophatic theology and difficulty of describing the divine.

·         Ambiguity and ambivalence in art history, archaeology, and material culture: the use and reception of ambiguous images, symbols and motifs; funerary and burial customs; urban space and architecture.

·         Literary ambiguity and ambivalence: the use of ambiguous terminology, ambiguous allusions and intertexts; the ambiguous presentation of events, actions, and individuals.

 

The conference will be held online on Thursday 9th, Friday 10th, Thursday 16th & Friday 17th September 2021 (due to being online, it was chosen to run sessions for a shorter time over four days in order to avoid Zoom fatigue). Papers will be pre-circulated at the beginning of September, and should be approximately 2500-5000 words in length. Those giving papers will be invited to give a 10-15 minute summary, followed by questions and discussion. The keynote speakers will be Professor Morwenna Ludlow (University of Exeter) and Dr Robin Whelan (University of Liverpool).

 

The Committee welcomes submissions from all postgraduate students and early-career academics (including independent researchers), from anywhere in the world. Abstracts of 200-250 words, accompanied by a short academic biography, should be emailed to lateantiq...@gmail.com by Thursday 17th June. Please feel free to direct any queries about the conference to this address.

 

 

 

Call for Papers: Saint Grigol Perazde 2^nd International Scientific Conference

 

For more information on this event please visit: https://www.tsu.ge/en/faculty/FACULTY%20OF%20HUMANITIES/news/Saint-Grigol-Peradze-2nd-International-Scientific-Conference-dedicated-to-the-900th-Anniversary-of-the-Battle-of-Didgori-

3.              JOBS AND SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

 

Junior Fellowships at the Collegium Helveticum, Zurich. Deadline for application: 30 April 2021

 

Junior fellows are early-career researchers working in academic or artistic disciplines (including all subjects offered at Zurich University of the Arts) at postdoc or equivalent level. Junior fellows spend ten months at the Collegium Helveticum, generally starting on 1 September. They will receive a grant in the form of a full-salaried post at ETH Zurich for the duration of the fellowship.

 

For more information, visit: https://fundit.fr/en/calls/junior-fellowships-100-collegium-helveticum-zurich

 

 

 

International Byzantine Greek Summer School 2021 (online)

 

The 2021 IBGSS, hosted online by Trinity College Dublin, is now open for applications at www.tcd.ie/Classics/byzantine.

 

Course dates:

Level 1 Beginners: 12–23 July 2021

Level 2/2.5 Intermediate: 26 July – 6 August 2021

Level 3 Advanced Reading: 26 July – 6 August 2021

 

To apply:

Download the application form at www.tcd.ie/Classics/byzantine

Deadline: 30 April 2021

Online course fee: €350/two weeks


A limited number of student bursaries are available for this course.

 

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THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY BYZANTINE SOCIETY

The Byzness, 18^th April 2021
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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

 

Deuxième séance des Dialogues byzantins : Pietro d'Agostino. Heure: 19 avr. 2021 10:00 AM Paris

 

La deuxième séance des Dialogues byzantins de l'AEMB aura lieu ce lundi (19 avril) à 10h00 sur Zoom. Pietro d'Agostino présentera, « La littérature chrétienne en terre d'Islam : la figure de Théodore Abū Qurra entre Byzance et les Abbasides ».

Participer à la réunion Zoom
https://zoom.us/j/99325147440?pwd=L1ZrU0lZRHpEZjk3UDRBVzlMUXB6QT09

ID de réunion : 993 2514 7440
Code secret : byzance

 

 

 

Talks @IHAC: Prof Annegret Plontke-Lüning (Univ. Jena) on Caucasia between Byzantium and Iran (Thu, 22 April, 9-11 GMT summer time)

 

The Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations (IHAC), Northeast Normal University, Changchun (China) is pleased to announce the talk of Prof Dr Annegret Plontke-Lüning (Univ. Jena): Caucasia between Byzantium and Iran, 4th–7th c. To register and receive the zoom meeting information, send an email to the organizer Sven Günther (sve...@aol.com / svengu...@nenu.edu.cn).

 

 

 

Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar – Summer 2021. Mondays 12.30-14.00 BST, via Zoom

 

To register, please contact the organiser at james....@worc.ox.ac.uk or follow this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oxford-byzantine-graduate-seminar-summer-2021-tickets-143780482293.

 

Monday 26th April 

Katherine Krauss (Somerville College, Oxford), Rereading the ‘Canon’ in Latin Late Antiquity: Exemplarity and Allusion in Macrobius’ Saturnalia 

Monday 3rd May 

Alessandro Carabia (University of Birmingham), Defining the ‘Byzantine Variable’ in Early Byzantine Italy: The Case of Liguria (500-700 CE) 

 

Monday 10th May 

Cristina Cocola (Universiteit Gent & Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Feeling Repentance in Byzantium: A Study on the Literary Sources of Katanyktic Poetry 

 

Monday 17th May 

Ben Kybett (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge), Themistius and the Muses: Religion, Rhetoric, and Classical Statuary in Fourth-Century Constantinople 

 

Monday 24th May 

Grace Stafford (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz), Between the Living and the Dead: Use, Reuse, and Imitation of Painted Portraits in Late Antiquity 

 

Monday 31st May 

Josh Hitt (St. Hilda’s College, Oxford), Ageing, Rejuvenation and Patronage in Twelfth-Century Byzantium 

 

Monday 7th June 

Constanța Burlacu (Merton College, Oxford), Monastic Presence and Book Circulation in the Lands North of the Danube (15th-16th Centuries) 

 

Monday 14th June 

Kyriakos Fragkoulis (University of Birmingham), (Re)contextualising a Late Antique City through the Ceramic Record: The Case of Dion in Macedonia (Pieria, Greece)

 

 

 

Ewa Wipszycka's Late Antique Seminar. 22 April: Juliette Day (University of Helsinki), Investigating lay eucharistic experience in the early medieval period

 

On Thursday, 22 April, 4.45, at Ewa Wipszycka’s Warsaw Late Antique Seminar (Warsaw time) Juliette Day (University of Helsinki), will present a paper Investigating lay eucharistic experience in the early medieval period. We are meeting on Zoom at the usual link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83501284547?pwd=aWt5a1Jla2ZmbUgzN1lyL0c4N1lsUT09

 

Abstract

By late antiquity the eucharist had ceased to have any direct connection to a meal, being now framed by verbal, spatial, material and institutional aspects of ritualization, by theologies proposed though homilies and mystagogy, and by canonical regulation about eucharistic participation. In the period up to the Carolingian reforms, we lose sight of the laity's eucharistic participation - it is rarely referred to in textual sources and their participation can only be inferred from visual and material sources. The notion of the 'affordances' of material objects is a useful tool when considering lay ritual and sensorial experience of the eucharist; this paper will explore what the material and visual evidence suggests about ritual practice in the early medieval period. 

 

Forthcoming seminars:

29.04: Sara Ann Knutson (UW) & Caitlin Ellis (University of Durham), 'Conversion' to Islam in Early Medieval Europe: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on Northern European Interactions with Islam 

6.05: Alexander Sarantis (UW), Interpreting a Crisis Period: Assessing Military, Political and Environmental Stresses in the Balkans, 565-626

13.05: Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholms Universitet),  The Recknoning of the Soul: The development of the motif of the Demonic Tollhouses in late antique Eastern Christianity

 

The full programme for this semester can be found here.

 

 

 

Ottoman History Reading Group (Meclis) & Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar Book Discussion: ‘Bronze Horseman of Justinian in Constantinople. A Cross-Cultural Biography of a Monument’ with Elena N. Boeck, DePaul University. 18 May (Week 4) 6.00-7.15 pm (UK time) via TEAMS

 

The reading group will discuss the new biography of an amazing monument of Byzantine Constantinople and its Ottoman afterlife. It will begin with a brief introduction by the author and continue with the Q&A. 

 

If you plan to attend, email asli.ni...@orinst.ox.ac.uk by May 11th.

 

 

 

2.              CALLS FOR PAPERS

 

Call for Papers: Affect, Intensity, Antiquity (Online Conference), 20-22 August 2021 (Microsoft Teams). Deadline for submission: 31 May 2021

 

sed cur heu, Ligurine, cur

manat rara meas lacrima per genas? 

Horace, Odes 4.1.33-34 

 

Recent years have seen a collective turn in the study of Greco-Roman antiquity, and in the humanities and social sciences more widely, toward the matter of bodies and embodied experience. As a result, body-oriented themes such as the senses, emotion, and embodied cognition have moved away from the periphery of our disciplines and closer to center stage. And yet we can’t claim to have closed the book on mind-body dualism for good. As Spinoza says in the Ethics, ‘no-one has yet determined what the body can do (quid corpus possit, nemo hucusque determinavit, IIIp2s).’  

Affect theory addresses this bodily unknown. ‘Affect’ names the potentiality of bodies to move and be moved in modes unintelligible to rationalist worldviews. Theorists of affect turn our sights away from familiar paths of enquiry and toward the para-rational zones of lived experience (sensations, disturbances, intensities, epiphenomena). Such reorientations awaken us to the otherwise ineffable dynamics that bind together political and social collectives, forge bonds between human and non-human entities, or galvanize and unite queer, racialized, and subaltern groups. The ‘affective turn’ has also birthed new methodologies, such as post-critique and reparative reading, by centering emotive forms of engagement with texts and media. Whether taken as an object of enquiry or as a catalyst of methodological innovation, affect destabilizes the hierarchies that order foundational narratives (‘Western’, ‘classical’, and otherwise) of the body and its powers. 

The aim of this conference is to explore the potential and futures of affect theory in any field of study relating to Classics and the ancient Mediterranean world. It is our hope and conviction that these are many. The epigraph above offers one of many possible starting points: Horace asking the beautiful Ligurinus why he feels a tear of desire wetting his cheek. Affect theory recognizes such an aporetic ‘why’ as a space of radical uncertainty and potential. We invite your interventions into this space from all corners of Classics.  

 

Potential areas of focus might include: 

·  The affects associated with subaltern populations, such as women, enslaved people, and racialized groups, in ancient art and literature 

·  Affective encounters with the nonhuman and more-than-human world, as expressed in e.g. visual art, travel writing, or scientific texts 

·  Sensation and embodied experience in ancient medicine 

·  Sensory and affective experiences in ancient ritual and religion 

·  Reconsiderations (in light of affect theory) of cognitivist accounts of the emotions 

·  Challenges to concepts of the ancient ‘subject’ as a site of rational agency and control 

·  Interpretations of ancient texts and artefacts influenced by postcritique, reparative reading, or other methodologies generated by the affective turn 

·  The affects generated by antiquity itself, in receptions of Classical art, thought, and literature (or, how antiquity ‘feels’) 

·  The affective dimension of Classics pedagogy, including the experience of online learning in the age of Covid-19 

 

The conference will be conducted entirely online through Microsoft Teams on 20-22 August 2021. Submissions for 30-minute presentations are invited from researchers at any stage of career or education. Please submit an abstract of 300-500 words for consideration to Dr Adrian Gramps at ad...@st-andrews.ac.uk by 31 May 2021.  Any questions you may have can be directed to the organizers, Adrian Gramps <ad...@st-andrews.ac.uk> and Chiara Graf <cf...@st-andrews.ac.uk>.

Call for Sessions: Mary Jaharis Center Sponsored Panel, 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies, 9–14 May 2022. Deadline for submissions: 18 May 2021

 

To encourage the integration of Byzantine studies within the scholarly community and medieval studies in particular, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 9–14, 2022. We invite session proposals on any topic relevant to Byzantine studies.

PLEASE NOTE: The 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies will be virtual.

Session proposals must be submitted through the Mary Jaharis Center website (https://maryjahariscenter.org/sponsored-sessions/57th-international-congress-on-medieval-studies). The deadline for submission is May 18, 2021. Proposals should include:

 

**Title
**Session abstract (300 words)
**A description of the importance and/or timeliness of the proposed session (100 words)
**Proposed list of session participants (presenters and session presider)
**CV

Applicants will be contacted by May 25, 2021, regarding the status of their proposal. The Mary Jaharis Center will submit the session proposal to the Congress and will keep the organizer informed about the status of the proposal.

If the proposed session is approved, the Mary Jaharis Center will reimburse up to 5 session participants (presenters and presider) for the cost of conference registration. Funding is through reimbursement only; advance funding cannot be provided. Receipts are required for reimbursement.

Please contact Brandie Ratliff (mjc...@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture with any questions.

 

Further information about the International Congress on Medieval Studies is available at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress.

 

 

 

3.              JOBS AND SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

 

The Dan Slușanschi School for Classical and Oriental Languages 2021 Online Summer Courses

 

The Dan Slusanschi School for Classical and Oriental Languages is now accepting applications for our 2021 Online Summer Courses.
This summer we are offering Coptic, Biblical Hebrew, Ancient Greek, Latin, and Old Slavonic at various proficiency levels:

Coptic
Beginners – July 12 – August 6

Biblical Hebrew
Intermediate – June 14 – July 9

Old-Slavonic
Intermediate – July 19 – July 30

Latin
Beginners – June 28 – July 9
Lower-intermediate – July 12 – July 23
Upper-Intermediate – June 21 – July 2

Ancient Greek
Beginners – June 21 – July 2   
Lower-Intermediate – July 12 – July 23

Intermediate - June 21 - July 2
Upper-Intermediate – July 5 – July 16
Advanced – June 28 – July 9

Applications consisting of a cover letter and a CV should be sent to cces...@gmail.com by May 16th, 2021. The course fee is 150 Euro. More details on the contents of each course as well as on the instructors for each group are available on the school website, at www.ecum.ro.

Course information can be found on their website: http://ecum.ro/3889-2/. All questions regarding programs and courses can be directed to this email (cces...@gmail.com).  

 

Junior Professor of Christian Archaeology and Byzantine Art History, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Application deadline: 9 May 2021

 

The Institute of Art History and Music Science at the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies invites applications for the position of Junior Professor of Christian Archaeology  

and Byzantine Art History as part of a joint appointment with RGZM beginning at the earliest possible date. Salary grade W 1 LBesG with tenure track to W 2 | Civil servant with a fixed-term contract 

Tasks and expectations:  

We are looking for a candidate with proven outstanding scientific qualification in national and international research contexts and the ability to apply innovative teaching methods. Applicants must hold an outstanding doctorate in the field of Christian Archaeology and Byzantine Art History.  

Applicants are required to have a special focus on material culture of the eastern Mediterranean or to be willing and able to develop such a focus in their work. Proven knowledge of Greek is considered a prerequisite. Competencies in the field of iconography, art history and historical cultural sciences are desired.  

The position is advertised in the context of the Leibniz ScienceCampus (LWZ) “Byzantium between Orient and Occident”. It aims at the sustainable establishment of an interdisciplinary research focus Byzantium in Mainz and the Rhine Main region. The future holder of the position is expected to contribute to the development of the research agenda of the ScienceCampus and to apply for third-party funding for the ScienceCampus main research topics. Furthermore, the junior professor is expected to get involved in the design, development and implementation of an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree on Byzantine Studies. Willingness to teach courses in the faculty’s degree programs, to contribute to their further development and to participate in the university’s aca demic self-administration is required. Applicants must be able to teach courses in German and English. Close cooperation with other relevant disciplines at JGU, the RGZM and the ScienceCampus is considered a prerequisite.  

 

Requirements:  

In addition to the general requirements according to public services law, applicants must meet the recruitment requirements stipulated in Section 54 of the Hochschulgesetz of Rhineland-Palatinate.  

The state of Rhineland-Palatinate and JGU are committed to close personal mentoring of students and therefore expect teaching staff to have a strong presence at the university. The same applies to the research duties at RGZM. A cooperative, team-oriented and proactive work attitude, strong communication skills, and the willingness to assume responsibility – including further professional development in accordance with JGU’s and the RGZM’s leadership guidelines – is also expected.  

Junior professors with tenure track are initially appointed as civil servants for a period of six years. After this period, the position will be converted to a tenured professorship (W 2), provided the holder of the position meets the relevant regulations of higher education law (final evaluation procedure) as well as the general requirements according to public services law. In the fourth year, the junior professor’s performance level will be evaluated in order to provide orientation for the following three years. The conversion to the W 2 professorship is accompanied by a suspension to assume a leading position in the RGZM.  

What we have to offer:  

JGU and RGZM firmly support making family and career compatible and promotes its employees’ further professional development with an extensive human resources development offer.  

JGU and RGZM are diverse and welcome qualified applications from people with varied backgrounds.  

JGU and RGZM aim to increase the number of women in research and teaching and therefore encourages female re searchers to apply.  

Candidates with severe disabilities and appropriate qualifications will be given priority. 

Please submit your application, including CV, references, diplomas and certificates, as well as a list of publications and courses taught, current research projects and eventually third party funds as well as a proposal for future research projects by May 9^th, 2021 electronically as 1 PDF file to the 

Dean of the Faculty Historical and Cultural Studies 

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Kißener  

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 55099 Mainz  

E-Mail: dekanatfb0...@uni-mainz.de 

 

also to the  

 

General Director, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum  

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alexandra Busch  

Ernst-Ludwig-Platz 2, 55116 Mainz  

E-Mail: generald...@rgzm.de 

 

Information on data protection: https://www.verwaltung.personal.uni-mainz.de/files/2020/09/Datenschutz-BewerberInnen.pdf

 

 

 

 

[Oxford University Byzantine Society]

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THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY BYZANTINE SOCIETY

The Byzness, 25^th April 2021
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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

 

London Society for Medieval Studies Seminar

 

Schedule:

- 11/05: Reyhan Durmaz (University of Pennsylvania), "Family, Fame, and Faith: The Making of Christian Communities in Medieval Northern Mesopotamia".

- 18/05: Richard G. Newhauser (Arizona State University), "Sensology and Enargeia”.

- 08/06: Philip Booth (Manchester Metropolitan University), "An Almost Incredible Multitude: Mass Pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the 11th Century".

- 29/06: Alberto Luongo (Università per Stranieri di Siena), "The legend of Saint Francis and the wolf of Gubbio: new perspectives from a forthcoming book”.

 

Zoom links:

https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/london-society-medieval-studies?fbclid=IwAR2uZYdTvj9WucrjFbc_Wbg8Ep4-smtIcHH632iMqzgh5jriZmcSveu0a8Q.

 

 

 

The Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture, ‘Materiality and Politics: How Integrated were Diaspora Jews in the Roman Empire?’

 

Seth Schwartz will deliver three lectures in a series entitled “Materiality and Politics: How Integrated were Diaspora Jews in the Roman Empire?”

 

A dominant trend in ancient Jewish scholarship regards the Jews of the high Roman imperial diaspora as having reached a successful and sustainable balance between friendly integration and the separation necessary for the maintenance of a particular religious identity. The archaeological remains of the Jewish communities of Asia Minor (modern Turkey) provide the bulk of the evidence for this characterization. (Evidence from other provinces, primarily Egypt and Cyrenaica—modern Libya—has drastically more disturbing implications). In the course of three lectures Schwartz will challenge the rosy picture of stable and successful Jewish corporate life under Rome through skeptically minimalistic analysis of Asian Jewish materiality and the ways in which it has been deployed in modern historiography. He will also try to account for what in the final analysis were divergent Jewish experiences in different Roman provincial settings.

Lecture 1, May 4
The Problem of Asian Jewry

Lecture 2, May 11
Politics: Jews, Asian Cities, and the Roman State

Lecture 3, May 19
Materiality and Culture: Did the Asian Jews Attain Stability in the High and Later Roman Empire (250–600 CE)?

 

 

 

Theophylact Simocatta and Leadership at Times of Transition: Approaches and Evidence from the Late Roman and Sasanian Empire, AD 565-602 - a paper by Sean Strong

 

The Lampeter and West Wales Classical Association will be hosting an online research seminar this coming Thursday, delivered by Sean Strong (PhD candidate, Cardiff University) 

 

Paper entitled: Theophylact Simocatta and Leadership at Times of Transition: Approaches and Evidence from the Late Roman and Sasanian Empire, AD 565-602 

 

Time and date: 6pm (Dublin / London / Lisbon time) on the 22^nd of April  

All are welcome to attend. You can join the event through the following link: 

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YjM3OTM4MGUtZjBjNi00YTcyLWI1MTQtY2E5ZDAxN2JhNGQy%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%224e0f11f9-046e-4505-9cb8-db2152311e21%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2212d58a42-c18f-4e27-8545-6a7975bd5f8f%22%7d 

 

 

 

MCA Lecture - Dower in L.Antique Roman Law - 23/04/2021

 

The MCA would like to invite you to its next online public lecture on Friday 23^rd April at 7pm CET. The lecture by Samuel Azzopardi is on The Emergence of Dower in Late Antique Roman Law.

 

Abstract

The Emergence of Dower in Roman law is surprising - it challenges our general notions of what marriage and the gender dynamics that regulated its negotiation looked like in Ancient Rome, and it suggests a regenerative and innovative spirit that contrasts the usual narrative of stagnation and unstoppable imperial decline associated with the 3rd to 5th centuries AD. What did Roman dower look like? How do we trace its development in extant Roman law sources? Why did it develop at all and what does it tell us about Late Antique society? This forthcoming MCA lecture will seek to explore these questions through a critical evaluation of the surviving literature in conjunction with secondary sources and the archaeological record.

Biography

After a brief flirtation with the study of law, Samuel Azzopardi read for a BA with honours in Classics at the University of Malta. He later pursued further studies at the University of Edinburgh from which he graduated - virtually, thanks to the pandemic - with an MSc in Late Antique, Byzantine and Early Islamic Studies. He can now be usually found haunting the Archbishop's Curia where he is currently working as an assistant to the Diocesan Archive. His paper "Crime and Punishment: Achilles in Homer's Iliad" was published in the MCA's own Melita Classica in  2018, of which he is now the Editor.

 

Zoom link

https://universityofmalta.zoom.us/s/98454537804

Meeting ID: 984 5453 7804

Passcode: 409101

 

 

Invitation to the paper ‘Das Pauloskloster (Deir el-Bachît) in Theben-West/Oberägypten (7.-9. Jh. n. Chr.): Die Bauten für das Alltagsleben, die Klosterbibliothek und ihre Schriften‘ by Ina EICHNER, Elisabeth BIELAT, Matthias SCHULZ, Wednesday 21 April

 

The FORVM ANTIKE Team warmly invites you to the next FORVM ANTIKE online lecture, which will take place this Wednesday 21.04.2021 at 17:00 (Vienna time):

 

Ina EICHNER, Elisabeth BIELAT, Matthias SCHULZ (ÖAW / Universität Wien)

Das Pauloskloster (Deir el-Bachît) in Theben-West/Oberägypten (7.-9. Jh. n. Chr.): Die Bauten für das Alltagsleben, die Klosterbibliothek und ihre Schriften

 

You can access the lecture via the following link https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/1034efa1aaa14c3ba26bec0136322b8f

No registration necessary. The paper will be held in German.

 

If you have any questions or experience technical problems, do not hesitate to contact us at foruman...@univie.ac.at

Conférences Michele Bandini EPHE

Michele Bandini,

professeur à l'Università della Basilicata à Potenza, directeur d'études invité par Brigitte Mondrain  donnera quatre conférences

 

Éditer Xénophon au XXIe siècle : acquisitions récentes et perspectives de la recherche

 

1. Mardi 4 mai 2021 de 16h à 18h en Sorbonne, escalier E 1er étage, salle Gaston Paris 

L'histoire du texte de Xénophon : les grands jalons de la tradition manuscrite.

 

2. Mardi 11 mai 2021 de 16h à 18h en Sorbonne, escalier E 1er étage, salle Gaston Paris

Les philologues byzantins et Xénophon.

 

3. Mercredi 19 mai 2021 de 14h à 16h en Sorbonne, escalier E 1er étage, salle d'Histoire 

Enquête sur les manuscrits fondamentaux du Banquet et de l’Économique. 

 

4. Mardi 25 mai 2021 de 16h à 18h en Sorbonne, escalier E 1er étage, salle Gaston Paris  

Prolégomènes à une nouvelle édition du Hiéron.

The Slade Lectures - Trinity Term

 

Please find the information on the Slade Lectures here: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/slade-professor-of-fine-art-annual-lecture-series-2021 (all on Zoom).

The Slade Lectures by Jerrilynn Dodds this term are on Islamic Spain.

 

 

 

Cambridge Byzantine Worlds Easter Term Seminar

 

The Cambridge University Byzantine Worlds Seminar is pleased to announce this term's programme of online events. Please join them for talks on critical race and trans studies in Byzantium, the first Zoroastrian shah of the Sasanian empire, the archaeology of the Umayyad palace-city of ‘Anjar in Lebanon, and intermarriage between Christians and Muslims in the early Islamic period. Full details of our speakers and topics can be found on the attached poster.

 

Their first talk is this coming Wednesday, 28 April, at 7pm. They will be welcoming Roland Betancourt of the University of California, Irvine, who will be speaking on the topic of ‘Byzantine Intersectionality and Beyond: Thinking with Critical Race and Trans Studies in Byzantium’.

 

To sign up to the talk click the link here and to sign up to their regular mailing list click here. Their full programme of seminars and reading groups related to the Byzantine world and its neighbours and inheritors can also be found on their website.

 

 

 

Ewa Wipszycka's Late Antique Seminar. 29 April: Sara Ann Knutson (UW) & Caitlin Ellis (University of Durham), 'Conversion' to Islam in Early Medieval Europe: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on Northern European Interactions with Islam

On Thursday, 29 April, 4.45, at Ewa Wipszycka’s Warsaw Late Antique Seminar (Warsaw time), Sara Ann Knutson (UW) and Caitlin Ellis (University of Durham), will present a paper 'Conversion' to Islam in Early Medieval Europe: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on Northern European Interactions with Islam. We are meeting on Zoom at the usual link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83501284547?pwd=aWt5a1Jla2ZmbUgzN1lyL0c4N1lsUT09

Abstract

Despite increased scholarly attention to the influence of Muslims and Islam on developments in medieval Europe, religious change to Islam remains a challenging subject for medieval research. This paper examines early medieval interactions between Muslim Arabs and Northern Europeans as a case study that opens the possibility that some Europeans ‘converted’ to Islam and considers why this process is often not more visible in source materials. By engaging both historical and archaeological approaches to religious change, we argue that Islamic belief and practices were more part of the Northern European reality than is often acknowledged.

Forthcoming seminars:

6.05: Alexander Sarantis (UW), Interpreting a Crisis Period: Assessing Military, Political and Environmental Stresses in the Balkans, 565-626
13.05: Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholms Universitet),  The Recknoning of the Soul: The development of the motif of the Demonic Tollhouses in late antique Eastern Christianity

20.05: Davide Amendola (Trinity College Dublin), The Eagle and the Owl: Athenian Legacies in Early Ptolemaic Alexandria

 

 

 

Online lecture: Alessandra Palla, Manuscript Tradition and Cultural Perspectives: Investigating the Epigrams AP 2, vv. 372-376 and AP 9, 583

 

You are all very welcome to join next Tuesday for the fourth lecture of the first Speaking From the Margins lecture series, organized by the Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams (Ghent University).

 

Alessandra Palla (University of Hamburg), Manuscript Tradition and Cultural Perspectives: Investigating the Epigrams AP 2, vv. 372-376 and AP 9, 583

 

Date: Tuesday 27 April 2021

Time: 16:00 CET

Location: online via Zoom. No registration required.

 

For the abstract and the link to the meeting, please visit https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/news-events/54.

 

You can find more information about the Spring 2021 Series of the Speaking From the Margins lectures on the DBBE website: https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/pages/outreach#lectures. If you missed their previous talk by Jacopo Marcon, you can watch the recording here: https://youtu.be/1-0SBURrSis.

 

 

 

BSA Virtual Short Course in Byzantine Material Culture and Topography

 

The British School at Athens is delighted to advertise a free short course, offering virtual tours and virtual object handling sessions on the theme of ‘Byzantine Material Culture and Topography’. This course is intended both for those who are new to the study of the Byzantine world, and also for more experienced scholars who would like first-hand (virtual) access to Byzantine material culture.

 

This event is offered in place of the BSA Postgraduate Course in Byzantine Archaeology and History, which sadly we are unable to run this year in-person.

 

Participants will follow a series of four virtual lectures, introducing the material culture and topography of Byzantine Athens, situating both objects and places within a broader historical framework. Teaching will make extensive use of the BSA collections, including the 'Byzantine Research Fund Archival Collection'.

 

‘The Byzantine Research Fund Archival Collection'

Monday 14th June, 2pm–3pm (UK time)

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nyn7DCDGRSqlHRS6Ajlkdw

 

‘Material Culture I: Ceramics'

Thursday 17th June, 2pm–3pm (UK time)

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__3DoDPyeQ4idtSYk-kBslQ

 

‘The Topography of Byzantine Athens'

Tuesday 22nd June, 2pm –3pm (UK time)

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_voQrvpKqSkOf6fs32hV9MQ

 

‘Material Culture II: Coins'

Friday 25th June, 2pm–3pm (UK time)

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LUmlTRkuS0GNf2RHf2-mvA

 

For more information and to register for this course, please visit:

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/courses/byzantine-archaeology-and-history-course/

 

 

 

2.              CALLS FOR PAPERS

 

9th International Symposium on Byzantine and Medieval Studies “Days of Justinian I", Skopje, 12-14 November 2021, Keynote speaker: John Haldon, Special thematic strand: Ideology

 

Keynote speaker: Professor JOHN HALDON

Organized by the Institute of National History, Skopje, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje and University of Bologna, in partnership with Faculty of Theology "St. Clement of Ohrid", Skopje and AHRM, with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture.

The International symposium in Byzantine and Medieval Studies "Days of Justinian I" is an annual interdisciplinary scholarly forum aimed at the presentation of the latest research followed by discussions on various aspects of Byzantine and Medieval Studies before 1500; this includes the treatment and interpretation of cultural, historical and spiritual heritage in contemporary modern Europe. The Symposium is dedicated to Emperor Justinian I with the aim to bring together scholars from around the world to address a broad range of issues related to Byzantium and the European Middle Ages, comprising the exploration of the cultural and historical legacy as an integrative component of the diversities and commonalities of Europe and wider.

This year the special thematic strand Ideology will instigate scholarly debate about the different aspects of ideology in Byzantium and in Medieval Western Europe. Ranging from the general belief of the people about their world, to the particular sets of ideas and notions, the ideology operated at different levels in the Middle Ages, articulating the power and impacting the societies. Various questions will be raised in exploring the ideology as a function of propaganda that legitimized a political order and justified influence. This will encompass an ideological framework of imperial action, competition over status and identity, rival ideological claims to the Roman Empire, relationship with nationalism.

The Symposium will embrace broader geographical areas and chronological scope, addressing wide range of conceptual issues in examining the ways of which ideology functioned in different political, social, economic, cultural, religious conditions in the Eastern Roman Empire and in Medieval Western Europe, generating specific sets of ideas, values and beliefs that changed with time.

Please note that the Organizing Committee will be closely following the Covid-19 situation and will organize blended sessions with physical presence and online presentations for remote participation for those participants who will be prevented from traveling to Skopje due to the pandemic.

Papers are welcomed on various topics that may include, but are not limited to the following areas of discussion:

Ideology and Identity
Imperial ideology and political thought
Ideology and social practices
Religion and Ideology
Ideology and the political order
Ideology and rhetoric
Ideology and propaganda
War Ideology
Iconography and Ideology

Ideology and the Romanness
Ideological claims to the Roman Empire
Ideology and ethnicity
Ideology and assimilation
Historiography and Ideology
Ideology and diplomacy
Ideology and education
Ideological content of law
Ideology and literary practice
Art and architecture as an expression of ideology
Ideology and gender
Ideology and music
Ideology, customs and traditions
Ideology, Heresy and violence
Ideology and Cultural heritage: Interpretation, restoration, protection
Ideological claims and nationalism

First Deadline for submitting the abstract of the papers: 15 August, 2021
Second Deadline for submitting the abstract of the papers: 15 October, 2021
Notification of acceptance for early applicants: 20 August, 2021
Notification of acceptance for other applicants: 20 October, 2021
Deadline for submitting the full papers for publication: 1 March, 2022.
Please send the application form to the following address: days.ju...@gmail.com

Presentation of the papers will be limited to 10 minutes.
Working languages: Macedonian and English.
No participation fee is required.
Travel and accommodation expenses are covered by the participants themselves.

The full papers will be peer-reviewed.
Papers delivered at the Symposium will be published in the Proceedings of the Symposium.

For further inquiries you can contact the Secretary of the Symposium, Prof. Dragan Gjalevski: days.ju...@gmail.com

 

 

 

3.              JOBS AND SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

 

Summer School in Oriental languages (Lausanne) and scholarships

 

The Summer School of Oriental Languages ("Université d'été en Langues de l'Orient") by the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) will take place in Venice (Italy), Island San Servolo, 1-10 July 2021.

(If the health situation does not allow it, the courses will be on Zoom.)

Numerous languages are proposed at different levels as Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, Armenian, Coptic, Hieroglyphic Egyptian, Classical Ethiopic, Classical Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Ougaritic, Persian, Middle-Persian, Old Slavonic, Sumerian, Syriac.

More and registration on https://wp.unil.ch/summerschools/courses/langues-de-lorient/

The registration fees are 280 CHF (Swiss Francs, very close to US$) for students and PhD candidates, 460 CHF for the others.

Accommodation is available.

We open three scholarships for students: 

1. One scholarship in Syriac (advanced level). To be eligible, please add in the part "comments" of the application, "I postulate for" this scholarship and send a scan of your results in Bachelor and Master (if you have got). The best application will receive the scholarship.

2. One scholarship in Classical Greek. To be eligible, please add in the part "comments" of the application, "I postulate for" this scholarship and send a scan of your results in Bachelor and Master (if you have got). The best application will receive the scholarship.

3. One scholarship in Persian. To be eligible, please add in the part "comments" of the application, "I postulate for" this scholarship and send a scan of your results in Bachelor and Master (if you have got). The best application will receive the scholarship.

 

4. Two scholarships in Persian (1 or 2) corresponding to the registration fees. First registered online, first served. (Please add in the part "comments" of the application, you postulate for this scholarship).

 

 

 

Vacancy Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Amsterdam (full time)  

 

The Department of Classics at the University of Amsterdam is pleased to invite applications for an Assistant Professor of Classics whose primary research is focused on Greek and/or Latin literature, especially from an interdisciplinary perspective on its role in the context of the ancient world and its reception. The successful candidate is able to develop and provide modules on Greek and/or Latin language and literature, both for students of Classics and in interdisciplinary modules in Ancient Studies, with a a focus on the contribution of textual and literary sources to our understanding of the ancient world more at large. 

 

The department offers a temporary employment contract for a period of two years with the intention of converting it into a permanent contract after a positive assessment. The ideal starting date of the employment contract is 01 August 2021. 

 

See https://www.uva.nl/shared-content/uva/en/vacancies/2021/04/21-250-assistant-professor-in-classics.html for the full application text

 

 

 

Lille-Polis project, Learning Ancient Greek as a modern language

 

The University of Lille and the Polis Institute of Jerusalem are pleased to announce the first Lille-Polis course in Ancient Greek, from 5 to 23 July 2021.

 

The course offers an introduction to Ancient Greek (Attic and koine) using only active, mainly oral, teaching methods. The instructor is a member of the team of the Polis Institute, which specialises in the teaching of ancient languages by active methods. No in-depth knowledge of French is required to attend the course, as Ancient Greek will be the main language of instruction.

 

The course is organised under the aegis of the AGLAE project (Active Greek and Latin: Activities and Experimentations) run by the UMR 8164 HALMA (resp. Ch. Delattre, S. Clément-Tarantino & Fl. Klein) and UMR 8163 STL (resp. P. Lecaudé & D. Francobandiera) at the University of Lille.

 

Further details, such as the information brochure (« plaquette »), the application procedure (in French) and the course fee, can be found on the University of Lille website:

https://formationpro.univ-lille.fr/formations/formation-thematique/apprendre-le-grec-ancien-comme-une-langue-vivante

 

For information in English, please feel free to contact the organizer directly (charles....@univ-lille.fr).

Please note that due to current circumstances, this first course will take place entirely by distance learning, and not in person as initially planned.