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Byzantine News


Issue 10, August 2018

This issue was prepared by Sergei Mariev (Munich),  Alessandra Bucossi (Venice) and Annick Peters-Custot (Nantes)
in collaboration with the Development Commission of the AIEB

Table of Contents

 
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Exhibitions


"BYZANTIUM AND THE OTHERS IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM. AN EMPIRE OF STABILITY IN A TURBULENT ERA"
(Athens, Byzantine and Christian Museum, 18.05-10.10.2018)
The Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports in joint collaboration with the Byzantine and Christian Museum, present the temporary exhibition "Byzantium and the Others in the First Millennium: An Empire of stability in a turbulent era".
Through six thematic sections: "Transition", "Worship", "Intellectual Life", "Warfare in the Western and Eastern Roman Empire","Secular Life" and "Trade", the exhibition highlights the role of the Byzantine Empire as a stability pole during the turbulent era of 300-1000 A.D., both in the European continent and in the broader area of the Mediterranean Sea and the East.
The exhibition is organized within the framework of the EU project "CEMEC - Connecting Early Medieval European Collections", co-funded by the Creative Europe Framework, the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports and the Byzantine and Christian Museum.
ADDRESS: 22 Vas. Sofias Ave., 106 75 Athens
OPENING HOURS: Tuesday-Sunday: 08:00-20:00; Monday: 12:00-20:00
INFO: http://www.byzantinemuseum.gr/en/temporary_exhibitions/?nid=2326
Picturing a Lost Empire: An Italian Lens on Byzantine Art in Anatolia, 1960–2000
VENUE: Istanbul, Turkey
DATES: 1 June–31 December 2018
Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) and Sapienza University of Rome are proud to present the result of their collaborative efforts: ‘Picturing a Lost Empire: An Italian Lens on Byzantine Art in Anatolia, 1960–2000.’ This exhibition focuses on the research on Byzantine art carried out by Italian scholars in the second half of the twentieth century and examines its mutual relationship with the history of Byzantine art historiography in Turkey. Featuring a selection of previously unpublished archival photographs of extraordinary monuments preserved in Anatolia, the exhibition can be visited at ANAMED in Istanbul from 1 June to 31 December 2018.
Between 1966 and 2000, Italian art historians traveled across the historical regions of Turkey in order to explore Byzantine monuments and works of art. These trips resulted in a substantial number of photographs, later collected in the Center for Documentation of Byzantine Art History of Sapienza (CDSAB). Curated by Livia Bevilacqua and Giovanni Gasbarri, the exhibition draws extensively on the photographs and other archival materials of the CDSAB, focusing especially on four historical regions: eastern Turkey; Lycia; Mesopotamia and Tur ‘Abdin; Cilicia and Isauria. Visitors are invited to follow this unique route from Rome to the East, to rediscover the remains of a lost empire and to step into the scenic landscape that surrounds them.
Picturing a Lost Empire: An Italian Lens on Byzantine Art in Anatolia, 1960-2000
1 June–31 December 2018
ANAMED Arched Gallery, Floor -1
Curators: Livia Bevilacqua, Giovanni Gasbarri
ANAMED Gallery Curator: Şeyda Çetin
Exhibition Design: Emrah Çiftçi, BAREK
For further information please click here.
Byzantium and the West. 1000 forgotten Years

DATE: From 17 March to 11 November 2018
VENUE: Schallaburg, Austria
DESCRIPTION: The Römisch Germanisches Zentralmuseum in Mainz with its Director Prof. Falko Daim together with the federal country of Lower Austria will organise a major exhibition devoted to "Byzantium and the West". The Schallaburg (in Lower Austria, to the west of Vienna) will present more than 500 objects on an area of more than 1300 m². Scientific partners of the exhibition are the Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of the University of Vienna and the Division for Byzantine Research at the Austrian Academy.
For further information please click here.

 

Events

(Congresses, Conferences, Seminars, Workshops, Schools, etc.)

BELGIUM

AUTUMN SCHOOL IN MEDIEVAL LANGUAGES AND CULTURE 2018: "INFLUENCERS AND FOLLOWERS: MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY BETWEEN THE LATIN WEST, THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE AND THE ISLAMICATE WORLD" (GHENT, 16-19.10.2018; APPLICATION DEADLINE: 10.09.2018)

HENRI PIRENNE INSTITUTE FOR MEDIEVALSTUDIES AT GHENT UNIVERSITY

This Autumn School is organized for PhD- and MA-students in Medieval Studies (art history, history, philosophy, literature, linguistics, ...) who did not have a training as philosopher during their regular study programme, but nevertheless need some basic knowledge and methodology for their current research.
The course aims to give an overview of the philosophical problems, concepts, and debates that are specific to the Middle Ages. Equal attention will be paid to three cultural areas: the Latin West, Byzantium, and the Islamicate world. Hence, the intercultural exchange of philosophical ideas will be an important focus throughout the course. Also, the course will develop insights into the thorny relationships of philosophy with religion in the Middle Ages, and will discuss relationships between philosophy and literature, science, and art. Moreover, time will be devoted to a specifically medieval problem in philosophy, namely the relationship between commenting texts of ancient authorities and developing independent ideas.
The Autumn School consists of four days during which participants will be able to combine plenary sessions with interactive workshops. All sessions will be taught in English by leading experts in the field of medieval Latin philosophy, Byzantine philosophy and Islamicate philosophy.
- Application deadline is 10 Sept. 2018
- Maximum of 20 participants
- First-come, first-served!
- Registration fee of EUR 150, waived for students from Ghent University and The Dutch Research School for Medieval Studies
- Venue: Campus Book Tower, Blandijn Building, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Ghent
Check our website for full programme and folder: https://www.ugent.be/pirenne/en
Information and registration:
Martine De Reu
Dean's office
Blandijnberg 2
9000 Ghent, Belgium
Contacts: 
Martine.DeReu@UGent.be
@MedievalUGent
+32 9 264 36 92
 

FRANCE

IXe Colloque international de Paléographie grecque "Le livre manuscrit grec : écritures, matériaux, histoire" à la mémoire de Paul Canart

DATES: Lundi 10 septembre – Samedi 15 septembre 2018,
VENUE: Paris (lundi – jeudi en Sorbonne, 17 rue de la Sorbonne Paris 5e arrondissement; vendredi – samedi à l’École normale supérieure, 45 rue d’Ulm Paris 5e arrondissement)

The program (updated on August 20, 2018) can be downloaded here.
CONFERENCE: XIVe colloque international Grégoire de Nysse, 4-7 September 2018, Paris.
The XIVth international conference on Gregory of Nyssa will take place in Paris, Collège des Bernardins, from Tuesday 4th to Friday 7th of September 2018. It will focus on the Homilies on the Lord’s Prayer and their reception in the byzantine world. For all information see here.
Stage d’initiation aux manuscrits grecs pour les étudiants en master et en thèse
DATE: du mardi 16 au jeudi 18 octobre 2018
Comme l’an dernier, la section grecque de l’IRHT organise à nouveau en 2018, avec l'aide et le soutien de collègues de l'EPHE et du CNRS, un stage d’initiation aux manuscrits grecs pour les étudiants en master et en thèse. Il se tiendra  du mardi 16 au jeudi 18 octobre 2018, toujours à Paris et au Quartier latin, dans des locaux répartis entre la Sorbonne et le Collège Sainte-Barbe. Il comportera une ouverture sur les traditions orientales (copte, syriaque, arabe).
Vous trouverez ci-joint le programme, avec le bulletin d’inscription. Nous vous remercions de bien vouloir diffuser l’information auprès de vos étudiants et collègues.
Espérant répondre ainsi à l’attente de vos disciples et contribuer à une meilleure diffusion de nos études, nous vous prions d’agréer l’expression de nos sentiments cordiaux.
For further information please click here.
ATELIER DOCTORAL INTERNATIONAL: "OUTILS ET MÉTHODES POUR L'HISTOIRE DES ÉGLISES ENTRE ORIENT ET OCCIDENT (Ve-XIXe SIÈCLE)" (ROME, 10-15.09.2018)
Organisation: Frédéric Gabriel (CNRS, IHRIM, ENS de Lyon)
Camille Rouxpetel (CRM-Université Paris-Sorbonne / CRHIA-Université de Nantes / Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies)

Comité scientifique:
Dominique Iogna-Prat (CNRS, EHESS, CeSor)
Michel-Yves Perrin (EPHE-LEM)
Pierre Savy (EFR)
Benoit Schmitz (Centre Roland Mousnier, Paris)
Laurent Tatarenko (IESW / CERCEC)
Annick Peters-Custot (Université de Nantes, CRHIA)

L'École francaise de Rome, en partenariat avec l'EHESS, l'ENS de Lyon, trois laboratoires du CNRS (LEM, CéSor, IHRIM) et le labex CoMod (Lyon), organise un atelier doctoral à Rome du 10 au 15 septembre 2018. Cet atelier s'inscrit dans le cadre du programme "Normes et pratiques du religieux en Orient et Occident: une histoire croisée des circulations entre les communautés chrétiennes d'Europe et de Méditerranée" (https://normesrel.hypotheses.org). Dirigé par Camille Rouxpetel et Laurent Tatarenko, ce programme fédère l'École francaise d'Athènes, le Centre de recherche français à Jérusalem et l'EFR, ainsi que le CNRS (CéSor, CERCEC), l'Université catholique de Louvain et l'Université de Nantes (CRHIA).
Les relations entre religion et institutions, longtemps délaissées par des sciences humaines et sociales structurées par la laïcité ou, au contraire, investies à des fins apologétiques, sont aujourd'hui interrogées à nouveaux frais. Dans ce cadre, il est indispensable de revenir de manière critique sur la notion d'Église, dans sa pluralité confessionnelle, occidentale et orientale (Europe centrale et orientale, espace hellénique, Proche-Orient), car bien souvent, l'"histoire religieuse" prend pour acquis ce qu'il s'agit ici d'interroger. À l'inverse, dans cette école thématique internationale, nous mettrons en évidence et nous discuterons les problématiques qui structurent l'institutionnalité ecclesiale, ses normes, ses ramifications, ses jeux d'échelles, et nous proposerons une cartographie des champs relatifs à ce domaine. Classiquement, quand il s'agit de définir l'Église, on reconnaît d'emblée l'ambiguïté du terme, ses sens multiples: c'est cette ambiguïté et sa polyphonie que nous explorerons de manière interdisciplinaire, pour mieux comprendre la dialectique entre religion, institution et normes.
Cet atelier doctoral permettra ainsi de mettre en rapport des historiographies séparées alors même qu'elles partagent un objet central et fort, l'Église, qui n'est souvent traitée que comme une toile de fond de l'histoire. En effet, l'objet "Église" est interdisciplinaire par définition, mais son étude, rare en tant que telle dans le monde francophone, est démembrée entre différentes disciplines (théologie, histoire, mais aussi lettres classiques, sociologie, philosophie, droit). Les participant-e-s qui prendront part à cette ecole auront l'opportunité de voir réunies des approches diverses et complémentaires: sociale, normative, liturgique, politique, orientaliste. Les participant-e-s auront accès aux méthodes, aux problématisations et aux derniers acquis de ces différentes approches interdisciplinaires dans la longue durée. En outre, ils auront également l'occasion de discuter entre eux de leurs sujets, et de la spécificité ou de la convergence de leurs problématiques. Enfin, ils bénéficieront des regards de différents spécialistes sur les problèmes qu'ils rencontrent, puisque tous les conférenciers participeront à l'école dans sa totalité.
Pour plus d'information se reporter à:  https://normesrel.hypotheses.org/284

GERMANY

Conference: Victors and Vanquished in the Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War in the Middle Ages
A Conference of the Leibniz ScienceCampus Mainz: Byzantium between Orient and Occident
DATES: 18-20 October 2018
VENUE: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Organized by: Johannes Pahlitzsch and Jörg Rogge

Conflicts significantly influenced medieval societies. The cultures of war which arose as a result developed not only in opposition to, but also under the influence of other cultures. Cultures of war are here understood as the norms, interpretations, attributions of meaning and reflections on war, as well as the forms and practices of war itself. The goal of this workshop is to analyze Euro-Mediterranean cultures of war and the importance of Byzantium for them in a comparative perspective on the basis of three concrete sets of topics:
1) Remembering Victory and Defeat
2) Practices of Celebrating Victory and Triumphs
3) The Culture of Dealing with the Vanquished
Coping with victory and defeat in war touches upon questions of the legitimation of authority, for instance in historiography, panegyric, pictorial representations and architecture. The celebration of a triumph, by contrast, represents a means of direct communication between rulers, the army and the populace. In this context thanks is expressed to the army, generals, the ruler or another higher authority, and it is here that the embedding of the martial in each individual culture is expressed. The treatment of prisoners of war and the enemy dead likewise belongs to the frame of inquiry, yet is of greater importance for its praxis, as a similar treatment of one’s own captives and possibly exchanges of prisoners would have been expected.
In order to facilitate a fruitful discussion and start a concise transcultural comparison, on the one hand, various regions are to be included, Latin Europe as well as the Slavic world, Byzantium or the Islamic-ruled Middle East. On the other hand, disciplines that principally work with texts as well as those that analyze material culture are to be called upon to produce a scholarly contribution.

The conference is connected to the Research Training Group 2304 “Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Martial Cultures. Exchange, Differentiation and Reception” funded by the DFG. Further information: https://www.byzanz-mainz.de/en/news/news-details/article/victors-and-vanquished-in-the-euro-mediterranean-cultures-of-war-in-the-middle-ages/

Conference program can be downloaded here.

SCHOOL: Summer School in Coptic Literature and Manuscript Tradition, 17 - 21 September 2018, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg

DATES: 17 - 21 September 2018
The school aims at training graduate students and junior scholars in methods used in Coptic manuscript studies. Lectures and seminars in topics ranging from Literature to History to Codicology and Cataloguing shall cover the most central aspects of research and help in developing skills necessary for theoretical and practical tasks in the study of manuscripts.
Particular attention will be devoted to the develpment of Coptic Literature, to its “literary genres” and to the geography of Coptic manuscript production. Practical exercises will include analytical description of Coptic manuscripts.
The school is open to students and scholars of all disciplines, but some degree of knowledge of Christian Orient (not necessarily Coptic) as well as experience of study and/or research dealing with one of the oriental traditions is expected. Basic knowledge of the Coptic language is an appreciated prerequisite.
The class will be taught by internationally acknowledged specialists on the topics of Literature, Bible, Manuscript Tradition, Coptic Church etc.
Further information can be found here

Summer School in Ethiopian and Eritrean Manuscript Studies

https://www.betamasaheft.uni-hamburg.de/en/news/summerschool18.html
From 24 to 29 September  2018, the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies organizes its third Summer School in Ethiopian and Eritrean Manuscript Studies - in Mekelle, Ethiopia.

 
ITALY

XXVI CONVEGNO ECUMENICO INTERNAZIONALE DI SPIRITUALITÀ ORTODOSSA "DISCERNIMENTO E VITA CRISTIANA" (BOSE, 05-08.09.2018)
XXVI Convegno ecumenico internazionale di spiritualità ortodossa "Discernimento e vita cristiana"
Monastero di Bose, 5-8 settembre 2018
in collaborazione con le Chiese ortodosse
PROGRAMMA
Mercoledì 5
ore 9:30
Riconoscere i segni dei tempi. Il discernimento nei vangeli
ENZO BIANCHI, Fondatore di Bose
Discernere l'unità della chiesa. Sant'Ireneo e la tradizione cristiana antica
+ IRENEI (STEENBERG) of Sacramento
Il discernimento nelle lettere di san Paolo
FILOTEJ (ARTJUSIN), Accademia teologica, Mosca
ore 15:30
Il discernimento e il principio teologico dell'"economia"
PATRICIU VLAICU, Università "Babes-Bolyai", Cluj-Napoca
Riconoscere l'altra tradizione. Il dialogo teologico tra Chiesa armena e Costantinopoli nella Cilicia armena del XII secolo
KAREKIN HAMBARDZUMYAN, Etchmiadzin
Discernere insieme la verità. L'accordo cristologico nel dialogo tra ortodossi calcedonesi e chiese orientali
VASSILIKI STATHOKOSTA, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Giovedì 6
ore 9:00
Il discernimento in un tempo di crisi: San Massimo il Confessore
+ MAXIM (VASILIJEVIC) of Western America, Los Angeles
Discernimento del tempo. Storia e memoria
JOHN ERICKSON, St Vladimir's Orth. Theol. Sem., Crestwood NY
Il discernimento comunitario nella regola di san Benedetto
MICHEL VAN PARYS, Monastère de Chevetogne
ore 15:30
Discernere il tempo presente
Il Concilio di Mosca del 1917-1918
ALEKSANDR MRAMORNOV, Mosca
Il metropolita Stefano di Sofia e la Chiesa ortodossa bulgara negli anni 1940-1944
DANIELA KALKANDJIEVA, Univ. "S. Clemente di Ocrida", Sofia
La Chiesa di Antiochia e la guerra civile in Libano (1975-1990)
PORPHYRIOS GIORGI, University of Balamand
Venerdì 7
ore 9:00
Il discernimento e i sensi spirituali in Origene
PAUL GAVRILYUK, University of St Thomas, St Paul MN
I sensi spirituali nella tradizione siriaca
SEBASTIAN BROCK, Oxford University
Il discernimento in san Giovanni Cassiano e la tradizione ascetica nella Gallia del V secolo
ALEXEJ FOKIN, Accademia delle scienze russa, Mosca
ore 15:30
Discernimento e una sana formazione della persona
KYRIAKI FITZGERALD, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline MA
Lo starcestvo e il fenomeno dei "giovani starcy" nella Chiesa ortodossa russa
IRINA PAERT, University of Tartu
Il padre spirituale oggi: forza e limiti del discernimento
THEODOSIOS MARTZOUCHOS, Preveza
Sabato 8
ore 9:00
La via della consapevolezza e dell'autenticità nella chiesa oggi
JOHN CHRYSSAVGIS, Arcidiacono del Trono Ecumenico
Che cos'è un processo sinodale di discernimento?
HERVÉ LEGRAND, Parigi
Imparare a discernere
JOHN BEHR, St Vladimir's Orth. Theol. Sem., Crestwood NY
Comitato scientifico
Enzo Bianchi (Bose - Presidente del Comitato); John Behr (Crestwood, NY); Lino Breda (Bose); Sabino Chialà (Bose); Lisa Cremaschi (Bose); Luigi d'Ayala Valva (Bose); Hervé Legrand (Parigi); Adalberto Mainardi (Bose); Raffaele Ogliari (Bose); Antonio Rigo (Venezia); Michel Van Parys (Chevetogne)
Informazioni e modalità di partecipazione al convegno:
Il Convegno è aperto a tutti.
Tutte le relazioni saranno tradotte in simultanea in italiano, greco, russo, inglese e francese.
L'ospitalità per i partecipanti si apre martedì 4 settembre. Il Convegno si concluderà con il pranzo di festa sabato 8 settembre.
Sabato 8 settembre, ore 7.00 sarà celebrata la Divina Liturgia Ortodossa per la solennità della Natività della Madre di Dio.
L'ospitalità sarà assicurata presso il Monastero e presso alcune strutture nelle vicinanze di Bose; è previsto un servizio giornaliero di trasporto.
Per l'iscrizione al Convegno è necessario prima telefonare alla Segreteria organizzativa e successivamente inviare la scheda di iscrizione allegata entro il 30 agosto 2018 fino ad esaurimento dei posti. La Segreteria è a disposizione per ogni informazione.
Monastero di Bose
Convegno Ecumenico - Segreteria
I-13887 Magnano (BI)
Tel. +39 015.679.185 – Fax +39 015.679.294
convegni@monasterodibose.it
www.monasterodibose.it

ANNO BESSARIONEO 2018: EVENTI ORGANIZZATI DALLA FONDAZIONE LEVI (VENEZIA, 26.04-11.11.2018)
La Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi partecipa all'anno Bessarioneo con conferenze, un convegno e un concerto.
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
Conferenza di Silvia Tessari, "Bessarione e la musica"
Fondazione Levi
10 e 11 novembre 2018
Convegno internazionale "Bessarione e la musica: concezione, fonti teoriche e stili"
10 novembre 2018
Musica bizantina nei manoscritti di Bessarione
"Icone aurali della Pala d'oro di San Marco"
Concerto del Gruppo corale e dell'Università Aristotele di Salonicco
direttore: Maria Alexandru
Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi onlus
San Marco 2893
30124 Venezia
tel. 041 786777
info@fondazionelevi.it
https://marciana.venezia.sbn.it/eventi/anno-bessarioneo-2018-0

International colloquium 'Tzetzes'
DATES AND VENUE: Venice from 6th to 8th September 2018
PROGRAM
Thursday 6th September
9:30 Opening of the colloquium: Giovannella Cresci, Head of the Department of Humanities
9:40 Alessandra Bucossi – Tzetzes and the twelfth century
10:20 Frederick Lauritzen – Allegory in eleventh- and twelfth-century Constantinople (Iliad 4.1)
11:20 Vlada Stankovic – John Tzetzes as an epistolographer and a witness of the creation of Manuel Komnenos’ autocracy
12:00 Giulia Gerbi – Epistulae ad exercitationem accommodatae: notes on some fictitious epistles by John Tzetzes
14:20 Aglae Pizzone – Why a self-commentary? Tzetzes’ Historiai and the emergence of a new genre in twelfth-century Byzantium
15:00 Julián Bértola – Tzetzes’ verse scholia: a particular case of book epigrams
16:00 Tommaso Braccini – A neglected manuscript of Tzetzes’ Allegories from the Verse-chronicle: first remarks
16:40 Jacopo Cavarzeran – “Euripides talks nonsense” (schol. Eur. Hipp. 1013b)
17:20 Thomas Coward – Discerning Tzetzes: Towards a new edition of Tzetzes’ commentary on Lycophron
Friday 7th September
9:00 Valeria Lovato – John Tzetzes’ reception of Orpheus, teacher of truth
9:40 Caterina Franchi – Una, nessuna, centomila: Penthesilea between Tzetzes and Eustathius
10:20 Corinne Jouanno – Tzetzes’ Alexander: between learned and popular culture
11:20 Ettore Cingano – Facing the early and classical authors: Tzetzes’ reliability as a source of rare information
12:00 Anna Novokhatko – παρὰ τῶν τεσσάρων τούτων σοφῶν: John Tzetzes as a critic
14:20 Johanna Michels – Tzetzes mythographus in Vaticanus Gr. 950
15:00 Minerva Alganza Roldán – Le Chiliadi di Tzetze e la tradizione mitografica: il caso di Palefato
16:00 Philip Rance – Tzetzes and the mechanographoi
16:40 Jesús Muñoz Morcillo – John Tzetzes on ekphrasis
17:20 Ugo Mondini – John of all trades: Carmina Iliaca and Tzetzes’ didactic programme
Saturday 8th September
9:00 Marc Lauxtermann – Buffaloes and bastards: Tzetzes on metre
9:40 Baukje van den Berg – Verses for his deceased brother: John Tzetzes’ didactic poetry and his treatise on metres
10:20 Enrico Magnelli – Tzetzes’ hexameter: not so unruly?
11:20 Yulia Mantova – Tzetzes’ legacy as a source on the socio-cultural use of invective in Byzantium
12:00 Tomasz Labuk – Tzetzes on the foul literary cuisine: contemporary Byzantine discourses and ancient literary engagements
The colloquium will take place in Ca’ Foscari, the University’s historical core, in the scenic Aula Baratto, overlooking the Grand Canal. The address is Dorsoduro 3246, 30123 Venice; a map can be found at https://goo.gl/maps/FVV9tLnfg1J2.
There is no registration fee, but space is limited, so participants are kindly requested to register their interest by emailing the organiser at enricoemanuele.prodi@unive.it by 31st July 2018.
The colloquium is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA-IF-EF-2015) grant agreement no. 708556 ASAGIP.

TURKEY

SUMMER PROGRAMME IN BYZANTINE EPIGRAPHY (ISTANBUL, 03-09.09.2018)
3-9 September 2018
Koc University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), Istanbul 
We are delighted to announce that the Summer Programme in Byzantine Epigraphy 2018 will take place between 3 and 9 September, in Istanbul, Turkey. The Programme will be convened by Ida Toth and Andreas Rhoby, and it will include contributions from over twenty leading specialists exploring Istanbul's Byzantine inscriptional heritage, and its significance for the discipline of Byzantine Epigraphy as a whole.
Drawing on a wide range of topics such as display, taxonomy, context, ideology, and performance, the Programme will combine daily seminars, evening lectures, practical sessions in Istanbul's museums, and guided visits to Byzantine monuments and excavation sites. It will provide an interactive platform for exchange of ideas among more experienced scholars of Byzantine epigraphic culture as well as involving younger academics, who require instruction and expert guidance in dealing with Byzantine inscriptional material.
Requirements
Although contribution to the Programme is by invitation only, we welcome expressions of interest from scholars in early and/or middle stages of their academic career, whose research stands to significantly benefit from attending an intensive, week-long exploration of Byzantine epigraphic traditions.
Please, note that the number of available places is limited to the maximum of eight.
Fees
Fees will not be charged. However, full funding will be offered only to three exceptional applicants.
Non-funded participants should expect to cover their own travelling and accommodation costs.
How to Apply
Please, email your short CV and a statement of purpose (in no more than 300 words), in English, describing your interest in Byzantine Epigraphy, and any benefits you expect from attendance.
Applications should be sent to both ida.toth@history.ox.ac.uk and andreas.rhoby@oeaw.ac.at. 
Application Deadline: 15 April 2018
Application Outcome: Mid May 2018
The full programme will be announced in May 2018.

USA
CONFERENCE: 44th Annual BSANA Conference, 4-7 October 2018, San Antonio, Texas
 
Registration for the Byzantine Studies Conference is now open. Early registration fees apply until the 20th of September, two weeks before the conference begins.  The conference will start on the evening of Thursday the 4th of October and conclude midday on Sunday the 7th of October.
For all information and registration see here.

VATICAN

"GIORNATA DI STUDIO IN RICORDO DI MONS. PAUL CANART" (CITTA' DEL VATICANO, 21.09.2018)
(Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Sala Barberini, 21 settembre 2018)
organizzata da:
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV) e Comitato Vaticano di Studi Bizantini (CVSB)
PROGRAMMA:
Venerdiì 21 settembre 2018
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
9.30: saluti
9.45: mons. Cesare PASINI (Prefetto della BAV, Presidente del CVSB): "Sessant'anni alla Biblioteca Vaticana"
10.15: Brigitte MONDRAIN (Président du Comité International de Paléographie Grecque): "Mons. Canart et les manuscrits grecs"
10.45: coffee break
11.15-12.45
PRIMA SESSIONE: "STORIA DELLA SCRITTURA GRECA".
Modera: Ambrogio PIAZZONI (Vice-Prefetto della BAV)
- Francesco D'AIUTO (Segretario del CVSB): "Tra Rodi, Cipro e Cilicia: sullo stile 'a' men distendu'"
- Luca PIERALLI (Componente del CVSB): "Le scritture dei documenti imperiali e patriarcali bizantini del XIII e XIV secolo"
- Domenico SURACE (Collaboratore BAV): "Nuove identificazioni di copisti greci del XVI e XVII secolo"
12.15: discussione
12.45-15.00: pausa
15.00-17.10
SECONDA SESSIONE: "STORIA DEI TESTI E DELLE COLLEZIONI LIBRARIE".
Modera: Paolo VIAN (Direttore del Dipartimento dei Manoscritti della BAV)
- Andras NEMETH (BAV, componente del CVSB): "Un nuovo frammento di Polibio nel palinsesto Vat. gr. 73"
- Sever J. VOICU (Componente del CVSB): "Il florilegio eucaristico dell'Ott. gr. 362"
- Roberto FUSCO (Componente del CVSB): "La presenza dell'agiografia negli studi di mons. Paul Canart"
- Francesca POTENZA (Collaboratrice BAV): "Niccolo' V e i suoi libri greci"
- Giacomo CARDINALI (BAV), "Il profeta e il monsignore: quarantadue nuovi manoscritti (e due stampati) di Angelo Colocci nella Vaticana"
- Carlo FEDERICI (Docente della Scuola Vaticana di Biblioteconomia): "Legature alla greca tra gli stampati vaticani"
16.30: discussione
Per partecipare e' necessario far pervenire in anticipo la propria adesione, scrivendo, entro il 14 settembre 2018, all'indirizzo: rsvp@vatlib.it
INFO: daiuto@vatlib.it

 

Opportunities

Junior Research Fellowships at King's College Cambridge
King's College Cambridge is advertising two Junior Research Fellowships in ‘Representation’ and in ‘Immateriality’. These are intended for those about to complete a PhD or who have completed a PhD since September 2017, and who wish to work on post-doctoral projects concerned with representation or with immateriality. There is no need for PhD work to have concerned those problems.

Further details can be found at http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/research/junior-research-fellowships.html

Doctoral Research Positions at the University of Mainz, Germany
Within the Research Training Group 2304 “Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War. Exchange, Differentiation and Reception”, which is financed by the DFG (German Research Foundation), there are at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz 6 positions for doctoral research associates (TV-L E13, 65%)
to be filled by 1 October 2018 for a contract period of three years.
For further information, please click here.
Residential Scholarships for Byzantinists at  the German Research Institute in Venice (Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani).
Deadline for applications: 31.10.2018
More information (in German) is found here.
1 Residential Post-Doc Fellowship at  the German Research Institute in Venice (Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani) financed by Fritz Thyssen Foundation.
More information (in German) is found here.
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (Wolf Humanities Center / University of Pennsylvania)
DEADLINE: 15 october 2018
The Wolf Humanities Center (formerly Penn Humanities Forum) awards five (5) one-year Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships each academic year to junior scholars in the humanities who are no more than eight years out of their doctorate and who are not yet tenured (may not be tenured during the fellowship year). Scholars are required to spend the year (late August–May) in residence at Penn.
For the 2019-20 academic year, our topic will be KINSHIP. The Fellowship carries a stipend of $56,225 plus single-coverage health insurance (fellows are responsible for coverage for any dependents) and a $3000 research fund. Fellows teach one undergraduate course in either the fall or the spring semester in addition to conducting their research.
The PhD is the only eligible terminal degree, and applicants must be humanists or those in such allied fields as anthropology or history of science. Ineligible categories include an MFA or any other doctorate such as EdD, social scientists, scholars in educational curriculum building, and performing artists (note: scholars of performance are eligible).
The fellowship is open to all scholars, national and international, who meet application terms. Scholars who received or will receive their PhD between December 2010 and December 2018 are eligible to apply. You must have your degree in hand or have passed your defense no later than December 2018 to be eligible. Your application will not be considered unless this condition is met (i.e., you are ineligible to apply if you will defend or otherwise submit your dissertation anytime in 2019).
During their year in residence, Fellows pursue their proposed research, are required to teach one undergraduate seminar during the year, and must also participate in the Center's weekly Mellon Research Seminar (Tuesdays, 12:00–1:50), presenting their research at one of those seminars.
In selecting fellows, the Wolf Humanities Center aims for a balanced mix of recent Ph.D.s and more seasoned tenure-track faculty who do not yet have tenure. Preference will be given to candidates whose proposals are interdisciplinary, who have not previously enjoyed use of the resources of the University of Pennsylvania, and who would particularly benefit from and contribute to Penn's intellectual life.
Further information: https://wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/fellowships/andrew-w-mellon-postdoctoral-fellowship-humanities
Visiting Fellowships 2019-20, All Souls College, Oxford
Closing date: Friday, 24 August 2018, 4pm (UK time).
Applications may now be made for Visiting Fellowships tenable for one or more terms during the academic year 2019-20.
See the Further Particulars and the Online Application Form.
Call for Applications: Fully funded four year PhD Position in Ancient Studies
The Institute of Ancient Studies at the University of Bern invites applications for a four year fully funded PhD position. The position is scheduled to start on November 1, 2018. The PhD candidate will be a member of the project „Plundering, Reusing and Transforming the Past: Grave Robbing and Reuse of Funerary Material in Late Antiquity” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
http://www.hist.unibe.ch/forschung/forschungsprojekte/plundering_reusing_and_transforming_the_past/index_ger.html  
In close exchange with the methods of the project (i.e. digital visualizations, spatial turn theories and field surveys in Italy and Turkey) the successful candidate is expected to write his thesis focusing on the transformation and urban embedding of water features and related buildings (especially nymphaea and fountains) in the late imperial world.
Qualifications:
Applicants for this position must hold a Master’s or equivalent degree within ancient studies (preferably Classical Archaeology, Late Antique or Byzantine Studies or Ancient History). The candidate should have good knowledge of Italian and English and preferably also German and French. Latinum or Graecum or equivalent level in one of the languages is required.
We offer:
-       a four year fully funded (100%) PhD position according to SNF salary requirements
-       the University of Bern/Swiss National Science Foundation sponsors travel expenses
-       strong national and international networking
-       survey participation in Italy and Turkey
-       co-organisation of an international conference and workshop
-       furthermore, a 3 months stay at the University of Oxford and an 8 month stay in Rome is intended
Application:
Please send your application written in English or German as a single PDF file to the following email address: cristina.murer@hist.unibe.ch by June 26, 2018.
The application should include a CV, transcript of records and language certificates (copies), one reference letter, a writing example (max. 20 pages preferably from the MA thesis or a significant seminar paper).
https://firmenwhitelabel.publisherconnect.ch/firmenwhitelabel/addetail/job/index.htm?adId=10393228&locale=de
The Fitzwilliam Museum is pleased to invite expressions of interest from suitably qualified researchers who wish to apply for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship to be held within the Museum focusing on the disciplines of Mediterranean island identity and insularity.
This is a 2-year research project based in the Antiquities Department, Fitzwilliam Museum, supported by international collaborations. The project will culminate with a large exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, planned between October 2021 and January 2022, as well as a programme of public-engaging activities, seminars and workshops centred around the theme of insular cultural identity in the Mediterranean and other European regions (for example, Britain’s own -perceive or not- island identity).
This project will explore how insularity affects and shapes cultural identity in the examples of Cyprus, Crete and Sardinia. In addition, it will provide a platform to debate cultural evolution in the islands as opposed to their surrounding mainland. The cultural history of the large Mediterranean islands, from Antiquity to the present day, is very complex and can narrate – as well as explain – many complex social phenomena. Islands such as Cyprus, Crete and Sardinia demonstrate through their art and material culture production a continuous battle (or influence and assimilation) between indigenous forms and representations with patterns, art techniques and forms travelling from their surrounding mainland regions. These large Mediterranean islands have not just been a place with expansive contacts by sea, but also loci for the transmission of many products and ideas across a variety of people from the Near East and the rest of the Mediterranean.
We are looking for enthusiastic researchers with a specialism in either the fields of Mediterranean/Island Archaeology or Greek and Roman Archaeology (with a diachronic perspective).  Previous Museum experience is desirable, but not necessary, as the Museum considers this post as a training opportunity for young professionals considering a Museum career.  Knowledge of either Greek and/or Italian is desirable as well, as the project entails extensive communication with the Greek, Cypriot and Italian archaeological authorities and relevant research organisations.
To apply, you must have either a doctoral degree or at least 4 years’ full-time equivalent research experience. Fellows may come from any country except the UK, or if the Fellow is already in the UK, have been resident for less than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the submission deadline.
Applicants are expected to have significant research recognition and be able to demonstrate evidence of independence/leadership potential.
To be considered for this opportunity, you will need to submit a CV and 1-2 page summary of your project by  June 20, 2018 to researchfacilitator@fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk We will let you know whether you have been selected by mid-July. Our Research Facilitator will support you to complete your application by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie deadline of 12 September 2018.
If you would like more information, contact researchfacilitator@fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk

Calls for Papers

Call for Papers: Colloquia Ceranea International Conference in Łódź (11-13 April 2019)
Deadline: 30 November 2018

Colloquia Ceranea is intended to become an annual gathering of scholars who study the history and culture of several geographic areas (Byzantium, the Slavic world, the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus) throughout a number of historical periods (ranging from Antiquity through the Middle Ages to the Early Modern period), with a particular focus on:

+ material culture and everyday life,
+ historical and political geography,
+ peace and war studies,
+ medicine,
+ society, mores and social norms,
+ education,
+ literature, manuscript production and circulation,
+ language,
+ art and visual culture,
+ cultural unity and diversity, continuity and innovations,
+ the history of the Church and religious movements,
+ political culture and ideology,
+ historiography and perception of the past from Antiquity to the present,
+ the state and its organization.

The keynote speakers include:
Prof. Béatrice Caseau, Sorbonne University (Paris IV)
Prof. Anna-Maria Totomanova, University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”
Prof. Anna Kotłowska, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

For further information please visit: http://ceraneum.uni.lodz.pl/en/colloquia-2019
MOUNT ATHOS CENTER / THIRD INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOP (THESSALONIKI, 7-8.12.2018): CALL FOR PAPERS (SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 30.08.2018)
During the course of its first fifteen-year existence (2001-2015), the Mount Athos Center has played host to ten scientific conferences, covering a broad range of subjects related to the more than one-thousand-year-old history and spirituality of Athonite monasticism. Additionally, more specialised areas have also been covered, including architecture, travellers' accounts, Athonite scholarship, Dependencies of Athos (Metochia), and so on. More than 300 scientific papers have been presented by Greek and foreign speakers at these conferences, providing valuable new insights into the history and life of the Monastic State.
As an extension of this institution, the Mount Athos Center has introduced the format of annual workshops, having already held two in the last two years (2016-2017).
The main goal of the International Scientific Workshops is to develop a real, inspiring dialogue, which will enrich and broaden the issues raised by the research, thus contributing to a more robust conclusion. It is self-evident that the subject matter of the lectures and/or presentations will directly concern Mount Athos (i.e. history, art, theology, justice, institutions, literature, archaeology, history of art, architecture, the environment, other visual arts, conservation of works of art, etc.).
This way we enable scientific community members to publish the results of their research and to make known the initial stages or projects in progress based on their individual or collective research activities, while at the same time presenting the initial (not necessarily final) research results.
The Third International Scientific Workshop will be held on Friday 7 and Saturday 8 of December 2018 in Thessaloniki.
Each lecture of the Scientific Workshop shall last 20 minutes and immediately following the presentation there will be a 10-minute discussion on what was presented. The total number of lectures to be included in the Programme will not exceed 15.
The titles of the lecture proposed must be accompanied by a 300 to 600-word abstract. During the selection of the lectures to be included in the final programme, the thematic scope of the proposals and the processing and presentation of original material will be taken into account, along with other factors. Individual or group proposals by young scientists will be given special consideration.
In particular, this year's scientific workshop will include, on a pilot basis, up to seven (7) papers in the form of poster presentations by a corresponding number of young scientists (or teams), who will be given specially allotted time for an eight-minute presentation as well as for a separate ad hoc discussion on the subject in question. Participants will undertake the design and production of the posters, which will have dimensions of 70 x 100 cm (vertical format in 10mm thick k-fix material). The posters will be affixed in a specially prepared space by the workshop's organizing committee. The posters should be handed to the organizing committee on the morning before the start of the workshop. Please note that it should be stated on the application form for participation whether or not the paper will be in the poster format.
Regarding the organisation and realisation of the works of the Third International Scientific Workshop, the Board of Directors of Mount Athos Center, in their relevant decision, set up the Scientific-Organising Committee for this Workshop, which is composed of the following members:
Chairman
Kriton Chrysochoidis, Director Emeritus of the Institute of Historical Research of the National Research Foundation, as Chairman
Members
Hieromonk Nicodemos Lavriotis
Archimandrite Methodios, Hegoumen of Chilandari Monastery
Elder Symeon Dionysiates
Symeon Paschalides, Professor at the Faculty of Theology, A.U.Th.
Athanasios Semoglou, Professor of Byzantine Archaeology and Art / Dept. of History and Archaeology, A.U.Th.
Stefanos Diamantes, Forester - Phytopathologist. Regular Researcher of the Forest Research Institute
Ploutarchos Theocharides, Architect
Phaedon Chatziantoniou, Architect - Restorer
Terms and conditions for participation:
1. Applications for participation must be submitted (by post or by email) no later than 30 August 2018 together with an abstract of the paper of 300-600 words. Applications without abstracts will not be considered.
2. Papers may be presented in Greek or in English and should not exceed 20 minutes in length (posters 8 minutes).
3. Participants will undertake the design and production of the posters, which will have dimensions of 70 x 100 cm (vertical format in 10mm thick k-fix material). The posters will be affixed in a specially prepared space by the workshop's organizing committee.
The posters should be handed to the organizing committee on the morning before the start of the workshop. Please note that it should be stated on application form for participation whether or not the paper will be in the poster format.
4. The activities of the Second International Scientific Workshop will commence on the afternoon of Friday 7 December 2018 and will close on the evening of Saturday 8 December 2018.
5. Final drafts of the papers should be submitted by 31 MAY 2019 for publication of the Proceedings.
6. All those participating are responsible for their accommodation and travel. If requested, the Mount Athos Centre can send a list of hotels in central Thessaloniki covering the full range of prices.
If you are interested in participating in the Second International Scientific Workshop, please send the application form to the Mount Athos Centre in one of the following ways:

- By email to info@agioritikiestia.gr
- By fax at +30 2310250648
- By post to: Mount Athos Centre, 109 Egnatia Street, 54635, Thessaloniki.

Application form is  available here.
Call for Papers "Material Narratives of Late Antiquity" for the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 1-4 July 2019
Sponsored by the DFG Center for Advanced Studies, "Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages", Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen

Since its inception, Late Antique Studies has brought material and archaeological evidence into conversation with documentary history. New types of material evidence continue to transform narratives in this field. These include the rise of big data in archaeology, new scientific methodologies like genomics and climate science, and compositional analysis of artifacts. Many such new studies have been published in scientific journals, and Late Antique scholars in the humanities face a field that is increasingly fragmented across disciplines.

Concurrently, advances in interdisciplinary theory have raised new questions about the narratives Late Antique scholars have used material evidence to tell about social collapse and transformation. Theoretical approaches including the Material Turn in cultural studies, Critical Race Theory, postcolonialism, and poststructuralism challenge Late Antique scholars to critically re-examine how new material evidence should shape future narratives in the field.

This session invites participants to investigate how material evidence from Late Antiquity has been used to shape narratives that privilege particular types of people, politics, or evidence; to propose new narratives rooted in new material and theoretical methods; or to offer case studies on the future potential of new advances in archaeological and material studies for our field.

Subjects for discussion might include (but are not limited to):

- The methodological difficulties of integrating material or scientific data alongside documentary evidence into historical narratives
- How material evidence can help scholars reassess narratives of ‘transformation’ or ‘Decline and Fall’
- Applications of critical race theory to established narratives of Late Antique socio-cultural change
- The appropriation of Late Antique history, archaeology, and narrative topoi by far-right political groups
- New approaches to the study of ethnicity, migration, and gender in Late Antique archaeology

The organizers invite papers of 20 minutes length from all disciplinary perspectives addressing these issues in the Late Antique World (broadly conceived, c. 200-700 CE). Please send titles and abstracts of no more than 250 words to James Harland (james.harland@york.ac.uk) and Andrew Welton (awelton@ufl.edu) by the 15th of September 2018. We welcome papers from scholars who do not usually present at the IMC and and aim ensure appropriate gender balance across the panels. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.
CfP: Materiality and the Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages
International Medieval Congress in Leeds, Leeds, 1-4 July 2019

 The forthcoming International Medieval Congress in Leeds has ‘Materialities’ as its special thematic strand. The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity project (though it formally ends in December 2018) will therefore be running a series of sessions on material aspects of the cult of saints. We will focus on objects: holy images, pilgrim tokens, flasks, relics, and reliquaries, and on the close context of the cult, for instance monumental tombs, crypts etc. The sessions aim to address the following questions:

·         In what ways were cults shaped by their physical environment?

·         How important was the presence of holy objects to the establishment and development of a cult and cult site?

·         How did objects help to establish and spread cults beyond the main cult site?

·         In what ways did the material form of cult reflect theological ideas?
Those interested in presenting papers at these sessions, particularly if focused on the period before c. AD 1000, are requested to send a short abstract (up to 200 words) to Robert Wiśniewski (r.wisniewski@uw.edu.pl) and Bryan Ward-Perkins (bryan.ward-perkins@history.ox.ac.uk) by 15 September. Please note that the conveners, sadly, cannot cover the conference fee and travel expenses.
 
Call for Papers: Oxford workshop "Psalter catenae" (19-24 August 2019)
Workshop on "Research on Psalter Catenae: Current Trends and Future Perspectives", to be held in Oxford in the framework of the Oxford Patristics Conference (19-24 August 2019).
 
Deadline for proposals is 15 November 2018. More information can be found following the link below or by contacting
reinhart.ceulemans@kuleuven.be (Reinhart Ceulemans, KU Leuven) or bandt@bbaw.de (Cordula Bandt, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften).

More information can be found here.
Call for Papers: Patristic Sources in the Palamite Controversy (Oxford 2019)
Tikhon Pino, Marquette University

Following the Holy Fathers: Patristic Sources in the Palamite Controversy (Oxford Patristics 2019)
Deadline: 31 August 2018
Opponents on both sides of the Palamite controversy (1338-1368) invoked the writings of the Church Fathers to support their theological claims and positions. Though scholars have long debated the patristic antecedents of the essence-energies distinction, research has tended to focus almost exclusively on the fidelity of St. Gregory Palamas to his patristic sources. This Workshop seeks, instead, to explore the use of the Fathers in the Palamite controversy more generally, from neglected influences on the writings of Palamas himself to the use of patristic authorities by Gregory’s opponents and subsequent defenders. Comprising a philological, historical, and theological exploration, we welcome papers on the following topics:
•    The Fathers in St. Gregory Palamas
•    Patristic sources in anti-Palamite theology (from Barlaam to Manuel Kalekas and beyond)
•    Middle Byzantine and later patristic influences on the Palamite controversy
•    The role of the Liturgy and Hymnography in the Palamite controversy
•    The use of the Fathers by Palamite authors to 1453 (from Dishypatos and Kokkinos to Eugenikos and Scholarios)
Papers may focus on individual Church Fathers or patristic sources and methodology in general—
any aspect of patristic theology that enhances our understanding of Palamite and anti-Palamite theology in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. (Abstracts, of no more than 300 words, to oxfordpalamas@gmail.com.)

More information can be found here.
CFP:  The Other Half of Heaven: Visualizing Female Sanctity in East and West (c. 1200-1500) I-II

An ICMA-sponsored session at the 54th ICMS (International Congress of Medieval Studies)
Kalamazoo, 9-12 May 2019

Organizer - Ioanna Christoforaki, Academy of Athens

The aim of this session is to consider female sanctity in visual terms both in Western Europe and the Byzantine East. By exploring representations of women saints and their changing iconography, it aspires to shed light on their status and experience in late medieval society. It will examine images of holy women as embodiments of cultural models and explore the social and religious environment that shaped their visual constructions. In the highly symbolic world of the Middle Ages, representations of female saints can become a vehicle for multiple interpretations, including social status, gender, identity, ethnicity and collective memory.

Participants in ICMA-sponsored sessions are eligible to receive travel funds, generously provided by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. The Kress funds are allocated for travel and hotel only. Speakers will be refunded only after the conference, against travel receipts.

Please send paper proposals of 300 words to the Chair of the ICMA Programs Committee, Beth Williamson (beth.williamson@bristol.ac.uk) by September 1, 2018

More information can be found here.
Call for Proposals: Encountering Medieval Iconography at Kalamazoo 2019

54th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 9 to 12, 2019

A Roundtable
Encountering Medieval Iconography in the Twenty-First Century: Scholarship, Social Media, and Digital Methods
Organizers: M. Alessia Rossi and Jessica Savage (Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University)
Sponsored by the Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University

Stemming from the launch of the new database and enhancements of search technology and social media at the Index of Medieval Art, this roundtable addresses the many ways we encounter medieval iconography in the twenty-first century. We invite proposals from emerging scholars and a variety of professionals who are teaching with, blogging about, and cataloguing medieval iconography. This discussion will touch on the different ways we consume and create information with our research, shed light on original approaches, and discover common goals.

Participants in this roundtable will give short introductions (5-7 minutes) on issues relevant to their area of specialization and participate in a discussion on how they use online resources, such as image databases, to incorporate the study of medieval iconography into their teaching, research, and public outreach. Possible questions include: What makes an online collection “teaching-friendly” and accessible for student discovery? How does social media, including Twitter, Facebook, and blogging, make medieval image collections more visible? How do these platforms broaden interest in iconography and connect users to works of art? What are the aims and impact of organizations such as, the Index, the Getty, the INHA, the Warburg, and ICONCLASS, who are working with large stores of medieval art and architecture information? How can we envisage a wider network and discussion of professional practice within this specialized area?

Please send a 250-word abstract outlining your contribution to this roundtable and a completed Participant Information Form (available via the Congress Submissions website: https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/submissions) by September 15 to M. Alessia Rossi (marossi@princeton.edu) and Jessica Savage (jlsavage@princeton.edu).

More information about the Congress can be found here and here.
Workshop on Modes of Knowing and the Ordering of Knowledge in Late Antiquity at the Oxford Patristics Conference, 19-24 August 2019, Oxford.
Deadline: 31 August 2018
We call for papers that investigate modes of knowing and attempts at ordering/organizing knowledge in Christian communities in diverse linguistic and cultural traditions (including Latin, Greek, Coptic, Syriac, Armenian, Georgian, and Ethiopic) for the period 100-850 CE in relation to three themes:
  1. contemporary theological, philosophical, medical and rhetorical discourses
  2. institutional structures (of empire, education and catechesis, liturgy, church, holy experts)
  3. the materiality and embodied social practices of early Christianity (relics, sacred texts, asceticism, pilgrimage, liturgies).
We are also interested in papers that ask how this construction of late antique Christian epistemologies might inform modern theological reflection on Christian traditions engaging with modernity. The aim of this call for papers is to build upon and further the recent interest in outlining the lineaments of “late ancient knowing” from a variety of angles. Some of these are well established, such as the anthological and archival impulse evident in the way late ancient texts relate to older texts, but other aspects of this topic remain understudied, particularly those that involve material culture and embodied experience. Papers may be general or specific in scope and may employ any theoretical or methodological approach appropriate to the subject matter.
A team of researchers at Australian Catholic University is currently in the midst of a 5-year research program under the title “Modes of Knowing and the Ordering of Knowledge in Early Christianity” (2017-2021; Chief Investigators: Lewis Ayres, Michael Champion, Matthew Crawford, Andrew Radde-Gallwitz, Jane Heath), and at the annual meeting of the North American Patristics Society in May 2018, a separate initiative, led by Jeremiah Coogan and Philip Michael Forness, resulted in three sessions of papers on the theme “Organizing Knowledge in Late Antiquity.” We have decided to combine our efforts to sponsor one or more workshops at Oxford on this topic and are circulating a call for papers now in order to allow us time to vet the abstracts and submit the workshop(s) prior to the Oxford submission deadline of 31 December 2018. Depending on the size of the response we will consider putting together multiple workshops on various topics that would fit within this overarching theme. To make sure that we have sufficient lead time, we are asking for interested persons to send their abstracts to modesofknowingoxford2019@gmail.com by 31 August 2018. We will make a decision about which papers to include in the workshop(s) by 31 October 2018. Those persons whose papers we do not select would of course then be free to submit their proposals directly to the Oxford call for papers themselves and should have sufficient time to do so.
Late Antiquity I-III (sponsored by the Society for Late Antiquity): ICMS 54, 9-12 May 2019, Kalamazoo, MI.
Deadline: 15 September 2018
The Society for Late Antiquity is pleased to announce the return of its sponsored sessions to the International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 9-12, 2019 at Western Michigan University.  These sessions are intentionally broad in scope, allowing for an extensive range of topics relating to the history, literature, religion, art, archaeology, culture, and society of Late Antiquity, that is, the European, North African, and Western Asian world, c. 250–750.
Inquiries or Abstracts and a completed Participant Information Form (here) should be submitted to Jonathan Arnold (jon-arnold@utulsa.edu) by the congress deadline of September 15.
Call for Papers: Submissions are invited for vol 10 (2019) of the journal Materials in Archaeology and History of Ancient and Medieval Crimea. For further information, please click here. Deadline: 21st December, 2018.
Call for Papers: Symposium: Terracotta Lamps in Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine Anatolia: Production, Use, Typology and Distribution. May 16th-17th, 2019, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey. For further information, please click here. Deadline: January 1st, 2019.
CFP: 4th “Parekbolai” Symposium “Editing Byzantine Learned Texts: Problems and Prospects”
Thessaloniki – December 14, 2018
 The editorial board of the e-journal Parekbolai organizes the journal's fourth Symposium on Byzantine Literature and Philology on Friday, December 14, 2018. The Symposium aims to bring together scholars who work on various aspects of Byzantine texts, in order to exchange research experiences and discuss their projects and results.
Specialists, Ph.D. candidates and postgraduate students are invited to deliver a twenty-minute paper in Greek (or in English) on a relevant topic. Prospective speakers are asked to submit a title and a short abstract to Ioannis Vassis (ivassis@lit.auth.gr) or Sofia Kotzabassi (kotzabas@lit.auth.gr) by 30 September 2018.
Additional information can be found here.
Call for Papers: 6th International Scientific Symposium "Days of Justinian I: State and Empire"
First Deadline for abstracts: 10 August 2018
Second Deadline for abstracts: 20 October 2018
6th International Scientific Symposium "Days of Justinian I", organized by the Institute of National History, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, the University of Bologna, Ravenna Campus, School of Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Italy and University "Euro - Balkan" - Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.
The Symposium will be held on 23-24 November 2018 in Ohrid.
Deadline for Submissions of abstracts is August 10, 2018. Please refer to the PDF document below for additional deadlines.
Additional information can be found here.
CFP: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, ART READINGS 2019
Institute of Art Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
Patterns – Models – Drawings
Main topics of paper proposals could be:
- models as starting point for other images;
- model books;
- transfer patterns (anthivola);
- loose drawings;
- graffiti images and texts;
- woodcut and printing production as a source for artistic and iconographic decisions;
- Roman, Western, Byzantine models in arts from later periods, etc.
Deadline for abstract submissions: 1 September 2018
Notification of applicants on the outcome of their proposals: 15 October 2018
Deadline for finalizing the conference programme: 1 March 2019
More information can be found here.
Graduate Conference: New to Teaching
Workshop for Historians, 11th September, 2018, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, University of London, UK.  For further information, please click here.
Deadline for Applications: 7th September, 2018.
Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity “Communal Responses to Local Disaster: Economic, Environmental, Political, Religious”, 14-17 March 2019, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California
Deadline: 1 October 2018
The Society for Late Antiquity is pleased to announce the thirteenth biennial meeting of Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity, to be held at Claremont McKenna College, in Claremont, California. Specialists in art and archaeology, literature and philology, history and religious studies, working on topics from the 3rd to the 8th century CE, are invited to submit paper proposals. Scholars with any related interest are invited to attend.
The 2019 meeting will examine the impact of disasters on late-antique communities, including their susceptibility to disaster, the means by which they coped, and factors that increased resilience and facilitated recovery from disasters. In order to foster the thematic breadth and interdisciplinary perspective for which Shifting Frontiers is known, we invite papers concerned with the full range of traumatic events, and also long-term processes, that could distress communities: economic, environmental, political and religious. The aim of this conference is to move beyond the descriptive and stimulate analytical and theoretical approaches to understanding how distressed communities behaved in the short and long term. Local communities developed daily and seasonal rhythms to mitigate vulnerabilities and fragility. The dread of disaster shaped the late-antique psyche and, in some ways, the cultural landscape of communities. And disasters of various kinds had a wide range of impacts, depending upon severity and the nature of communal resilience. We encourage papers to consider the extent to which the economic, cultural, political or religious resources of communities (or their lack) determined levels of susceptibility, impact, response or resilience. To what extent do late-antique sources acknowledge vulnerability and fragility? What mechanisms created durability and resilience? What were the emotional and intellectual responses to disaster? Does an awareness of the psychological impact of fragility and disaster alter our interpretation of various forms of evidence in Late Antiquity?
We are also very pleased to announce that the keynote lectures this year will be given by Kyle Harper (University of Oklahoma) and Laura Nasrallah (Harvard University)
Conference details may be found at https://www.cmc.edu/history/shifting-frontiers-in-late-antiquity
Potential topics include:
·         Economic trauma and its impact (fiscal, commercial, etc.)
·         Environmental distress and disaster relief (volcanos, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc.)
·         Attitudes toward the environment owing to fragility and the potential for disaster 
·         Alimentary and agricultural disasters (famine, drought, interrupted shipping)  
·         Urban disasters (fires, rioting, siege)
·         Military disasters on the battlefield
·         Philosophical and ethical notions of mortality, inevitability and causation connected to disaster
·         Rhetorical exploitation and literary responses to, or explorations of disaster
·         Philological footprints in language and idiom related to disaster
·         Representations of, and psychological responses to disaster in art
·         Archaeological and architectural evidence of disasters
·         Religious explanations of disaster and liturgical and cultic responses
·         Differentiation between sudden, cataclysmic and long-term, slow moving disasters
·         The memory of specific events 
Proposals for 20-minute presentations should clearly explain the relationship of the paper to the conference theme, describe the evidence to be examined and offer tentative conclusions. Abstracts of no more than 500 words (not including optional bibliography) should be submitted by October 1, 2018. Please submit abstracts as a Word document attached to an email to both Shane Bjornlie (sbjornlie@cmc.edu) and Michelle Berenfeld (michelle_berenfeld@pitzer.edu). Please do not embed proposals in the text of the email. The conference steering committee will review all proposals, starting October 1, with accepted papers receiving notification by November 15. Due to budgetary constraints, bursaries for expenses will not be available, although conference registration fees will be waived for participants presenting papers and for the chairs of sessions. Registration for all other participants will be $100 US.
Call for Papers and Conference announcement: "Hellenic Political Philosophy and Contemporary Europe", Herceg Novi, Montenegro, 29 Sept - 04 Oct 2019

Center for Hellenic Studies, from Podgorica (Montenegro) is happy to announce the international conference on the topic "Hellenic Political Philosophy and Contemporary Europe", to be held in Herceg Novi (Montenegro), from 29 September to 04 October 2019.

The Conference is of an interdisciplinary character, and aims at addressing different social and political issues from perspectives of history, philosophy, economics, theology, history of ideas, anthropology, political theory and other disciplines. Such conception of the scholarly exchange does not fulfill only the purpose of an historical investigation, but will provide a systematic treatment of the topic, thus clarifying existing ideas and advancing new ones. We welcome papers on topics like

The concept of the polis in antiquity and modernity
Freedom and democracy
Politics and economy
Democracy, liberalism, totalitarianism
The philosophy of the polis: Citizen, polis and cultural ideals
Autonomy and responsibility in politics
The philosophy of the cosmopolis
The polis and happiness
Ethics and politics

and other relevant themes. Please see the full call for papers at: http://ichs.me/call-for-papers/

Abstracts of up to 200 words should be submitted by 1 March 2019, via the registration form, or sent by email to conference@ichs.me

For more information please visit the website: http://ichs.me which will be constantly updated with new information.
 
CFP: “Moving Byzantium III” at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds 2019
DEADLINE: September 3, 2018

We invite scholars at all career stages to submit proposals for fifteen-minute papers connected with the main topics of “Moving Byzantium”, with a particular focus on aspects of geographical, social and cultural mobility within and beyond the Byzantine Empire, and with or without direct focus on the thematic strand of the 2019 IMC “materialities”. We are particularly interested in research based on new material, novel interpretations and innovative methods which also locates Byzantium and its neighbours in a wider comparative framework.

Please send paper proposals (300 words max.), in English, accompanied by a short (300 words max.) CV including affiliation, career stage and research interests, by 3 September 2018 to Ms. Paraskevi Sykopetritou, Project Coordinator: paraskevi.sykopetritou@univie.ac.at. Papers will be selected by 10 September 2018 and successful candidates must confirm their participation by 17 September 2018.

More information can be found here.

New Research Projects

(In collaboration with Johannes Preiser-Kapeller)


New project: The Cult of Saints - A research project on the Cult of Saints from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world

http://cultofsaints.history.ox.ac.uk/?page_id=144
At the centre of the project is a searchable database on which all the early evidence for the cult of the saints is being collected, whether in Armenian, Coptic, Georgian, Greek, Latin or Syriac, with summaries of long texts and full quotation of key passages, both in the original language and in English translation.  Every piece of evidence will be accompanied by a brief discussion, considering issues such as its dating and the details of cult that it reveals.  This database will be fully searchable, making it simple to access all the evidence for the early cult of a single saint, such as Martin of Tours, or to narrow the search down – for instance, to evidence for churches dedicated to Martin in 6th-century Italy.  It will also be possible to narrow searches to specific types of evidence (for instance, images only), or to specific cult practices (such as the creation of contact relics or the practice of incubation, sleeping at a shrine in the hope of a dream-vision).

New Series: Byzantinisches Archiv – Series Philosophica
https://www.degruyter.com/view/serial/466543
Byzantinisches Archiv – Series Philosophica is dedicated to the new and rapidly growing field of research into Byzantine philosophical texts. It considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research on Byzantine philosophy based on solid philological and historical foundations. Its aim is to publish conference volumes, monographs and critical editions. Each volume is written and edited by leading scholars in the field. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Editor in Chief: Sergei Mariev (Munich). Editorial Board: John Demetracopoulos (Patras), Jozef Matula (Olomouc), John Monfasani (Albany), Inmaculada Pérez Martín (Madrid), Brigitte Tambrun-Krasker (Paris)

New project: Digitising Patterns of Power (DPP): Peripherical Mountains in the Medieval World
http://dpp.oeaw.ac.at/
The project “Digitising Patterns of Power (DPP): Peripherical Mountains in the Medieval World” is funded within the programme “Digital Humanities: Langzeitprojekte zum kulturellen Erbe” of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for the duration of four years (PI: Doz. Dr. Mihailo Popović, 2015–2018). It is hosted at the Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO) of the same Academy and unites as a cluster project various experts from the fields of Medieval History, Byzantine Studies, Historical Geography, Archaeology, Geography, Cartography, Geographical Information Science (GISc) and Software Engineering. DPP focuses on the depiction and analysis of space and place in medieval written sources, the interaction between built and natural environment, the appropriation of space and the emergence of new political, religious and economic structures of power. Moreover, DPP is a cutting edge project within Digital Humanities and uses as well as develops digital tools for data-acquisition, data-management, processing as well as for analysis, visualisation, communication and publication. 

BYZART - Byzantine Art and Archaeology Thematic Channel for Europeana
http://www.magazine.unibo.it/archivio/2017/10/05/byzart-l2019era-bizantina-rivive-in-rete-grazie-all2019alma-mater
On 1st October 2017, the "BYZART - Byzantine Art and Archaeology Thematic Channel" project was launched. Coordinated by the University of Bologna (prof. Isabella Baldini), it aims at making about 75.000 cultural and artistic multimedia contents accessible online through the Europeana Platform. The contents that will be made available to Europeana include collections of digitized photos, video and audio contents, as well as 3D surveys and reconstructions about Byzantine history and culture, one of the milestones of European cultural heritage. The digital objects will be available at the best possible quality and according to the Europeana Right Statements. Moreover, the action will enhance Europeana accessibility and visibility, by rationalising and classifying the items already uploaded on the platform. By the end of the action, the number of the digital items related to Byzantine art and archaeology on Europeana platform will reach about 115.500.
Partner institutions of the project are the Ionian University of Kerkyra, the Open University of Cyprus, the Institute of Art Studies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens, the International Mosaic Documentation Centre of the Ravenna's Art Museum.
On 31th October, 2107, the kick-off meeting of the project took place at the Department of History and Cultures of the University of Bologna.
The project is co-financed by the European Union's Connecting Europe Facility with a grant of 425.827 euros.

New Digital Tools and Databases

(in collaboration with Johannes Preiser-Kapeller)
 

The ACOR Photo Archive:  <https://acor.digitalrelab.com/>
The American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) in Amman, Jordan, is proud to share its new web-based photo archive that features close to 10,000 high-resolution digital images of cultural heritage sites from Jordan and the surrounding region. The online archive, being developed with a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, includes spectacular images of hundreds of sites in Jordan, Syria, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia taken by renowned author and photographer Jane Taylor, as well as a growing collection of photographs of Jordan by famed journalist (and archaeological enthusiast) Rami Khouri. Other recently added collections include photographs by Linda K. Jacobs and Charles Wilson.
In coming years, the archive will continue to grow as new collections from ACOR’s rich archival holdings are digitized and made available. To search the ACOR Photo Archive, please visit: https://acor.digitalrelab.com/. You can also follow @acorarchives onInstagram.
All images presented online through our database are intended for open access, and are free to use for research and academic purposes. For image requests and permissions for publication please consult our online guidelines: <https://photoarchive.acorjordan.org/?page_id=431>.
To learn more about the Photo Archive project or how to obtain high-resolution images, please email archives@acorjordan.org.
ACOR is a non‑profit academic institution dedicated to promoting research and publication in the humanities and social sciences, with a particular focus on issues related to Jordan but also encompassing the broader Middle East. ACOR facilitates research by postgraduate researchers and senior scholars and assists in the training of specialists who focus on all phases of Jordan’s past and present. To learn more, please visit www.acorjordan.org or email
acor@acorjordan.org.

The Serres Gospels goes online
In this spectacular portrait, Jacob, bishop of Serres (b. 1300, d. 1365), humbly presents his Gospel-book to Christ. He is shown at the end of a copy of the Four Gospels in Old Church Slavonic, known as the Serres Gospels. This book is now completely digitised, and is available to view online on the British Library’s Digitised Manuscripts site.
See http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2018/06/the-serres-gospels-goes-online.html

Sinai Palimpsests Project
The UCLA Library has released the Sinai Palimpsests Project database.
Additional information can be found here.

BYZANTINISCHE BIBLIOGRAPHIE JETZT AUCH ONLINE VERFUEGBAR
Als einzige existierende Fachbibliographie fuer alle Disziplinen der Byzantinistik ist die Byzantinische Bibliographie ein unabdingbares und konkurrenzloses Hilfsmittel fuer Byzantinisten, Historiker, Mediaevisten, Theologen sowie Graezisten. Der Datenbestand ist nun erstmals auch online verfuegbar.
Die Byzantinische Bibliographie Online enthaelt die bibliographische Abteilung der Byzantinischen Zeitschrift von Band 98 (2005) bis heute. Sie umfasst insgesamt circa 30 000 Eintraege. Etwa 4 000 Eintraege kommen jaehrlich neu hinzu.
Die Benutzeroberflaeche bietet einen bequemen Zugriff auf die bibliographischen Daten und vielseitige Recherchemoeglichkeiten nach verschiedenen Suchkriterien. Die Eintraege sind systematisch nach Sachgruppen erschlossen und durch Kurzreferate und Hinweise auf Rezensionen angereichert.
Die Bayerische Staatsbibliothek hat die Datenbank seit kurzem lizenziert.
Fuer weitere Informationen: https://www.bsb-muenchen.de/article/byzantinische-bibliographie-jetzt-auch-online-verfuegbar-2392/

Electronic Resource: International Network for Byzantine Philosophy. For further information, please click
https://osf.io/u3jhw/
New digital tools: PBW 2016

https://pbw2016.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/

A full account of the sources studied, together with the names of the scholars responsible, will be found here; this also serves as an index of the coverage of the project, which is a prosopographical reading of Byzantine Sources, 1025-1180. In this new edition materials have been added and enhanced, principally for the 12th century; the most significant additions are from further work on William of Tyre and Nicetas Choniates, and substantial new materials from the Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir. Such an undertaking can never be complete, as new discoveries are constantly being made; while PBW should be examined for what it contains, it should never be assumed that what it does not contain does not exist.
This edition is the work of Michael Jeffreys. The redesign and updating of the site are by Elliott Hall and Charlotte Roueché; external links have been added by Roueché.
The full bibliographic description is M. Jeffreys et al., Prosopography of the Byzantine World, 2016 (King's College London, 2017) available at http://pbw2016.kdl.kcl.ac.uk.  ISBN: 978-1-908951-20-5. The standard abbreviation is PBW (2016).
Users are encouraged to publish the permalinks provided for each individual on person pages so:
PBW (2016) Leon 20224, http://pbw2016.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/person/Leon/20224/
The 2011 edition of the Prosopography of the Byzantine World can still be consulted here

Acknowledgements
The project has developed over many years, with the help of scholars cited on the Sources and Seals bibliography pages, and many other friends; the overarching direction and edition, from 2000 to 2016, has been the work of Michael Jeffreys. See further under About.
The work has received generous funding over the years from the AHRC, the Leverhulme Trust and the A.G. Leventis Foundation. The entire project depends on the vision, oversight and support of the British Academy.

New digital tools: The Seshat Global History Databank

http://seshatdatabank.info/

The Seshat Global History Databank is a joint project of historians, archaeologist, social scientists, evolutionary biologists and mathematicians from all over the worlds, hosted mainly at the University of Connecticut and Oxford University. The aim of the project, which was developed under the leadership of Peter Turchin, is the collection of comprehensive data on the scale and complexity of past societies, including aspects of politics, economy, military, religion and literature. Currently, the database contains data on ca. 400 societies from all periods and regions with a total of more than 200,000 data entries. The database also includes data on the Byzantine Empire, which was created in collaboration with the Division of Byzantine Research at the Austrian Academy (J. Preiser-Kapeller). The data will be made freely accessible soon; at the same time, first analytical studies on the basis of the enormous amount of data have been published, integrating also Byzantium in this wide scale comparative enterprise.

Prizes

Le 21 juin 2018, Mme Charlotte ROUECHÉ, Professor Emeritus of Digital Hellenic Studies, King’s College, London,
deviendra Docteur honoris causa de l’École pratique des hautes études.
La veille de cette cérémonie, elle donnera une conférence intitulée

« Le défi Robert : transformation d’une discipline »

Louis Robert reçut sa formation dans les premières décennies du xxe s. En examinant cette formation et à la lumière de quelques considérations personnelles, nous pouvons peut-être en tirer des leçons pour les premières décennies de notre siècle nouveau.

Cette conférence aura lieu le mercredi 20 juin à 17h00 à l’École Pratique des Hautes Études, Sorbonne, Esc. E, 1er étage, salle Gaston Paris
 

 

Extra Opportunities: Some Funding Bodies

(by Dionysios Stathakopoulos)
 

GERDA HENKEL STIFTUNG

The Foundation committees meet twice a year to consider the applications and decide on funding grants. The application deadline for the Foundation committees autumn meeting in 2018 is 13 June, 2018. Applications have to be in the Foundation's office by this day. The Foundation committees are holding their meeting in November 2018. If your application is successful, funding can start at the beginning of December 2018 at the very earliest.

https://www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/grants

ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT-STIFTUNG/FOUNDATION

Become a Humboldtian – Sponsorship Programmes for Postdoctoral Scientists and Scholars
We promote academic cooperation between excellent scientists and scholars from abroad and from Germany. Whether you are a young postdoctoral researcher at the beginning of your academic career, an experienced, established academic, or even a world authority in your discipline - our research fellowships and research awards offer you sponsorship tailored to you and to your career situation.
If you would like to become a member of the Humboldt Family, only one thing counts:
your own excellent performance.

https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/sponsorship.html

FRITZ THYSSEN STIFTUNG

International grants, scholarships and exchange programs
In many cases comparison of experience and cooperation between scholars proves to be helpful in stimulating further development in most fields of research. This goes for the work of experienced university teachers as well as junior scholars.
The Foundation is flexible in applying the financial resources required, can also help include foreign scholars in project cooperation and supports many projects in which German and foreign scholars work together. Targeted support of international exchange between junior scholars also promotes international cooperation in the same manner, helping preserve or intensify close ties between experts.
International grants, scholarships and exchange programs of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation that are ongoing at present are listed in the following. Applications may only be submitted directly to the respective institutions.

http://www.fritz-thyssen-stiftung.de/funding/special-programmes/international-grants-scholarships-and-exchange-programmes/?L=1

DUMBARTON OAKS

Residential fellowships for an academic year, semester, or summer are awarded in all three areas of study to scholars from around the world. In addition, Dumbarton Oaks offers one-month non-residential awards to researchers and short-term predoctoral residencies to advanced graduate students. A program of project grants primarily supports archaeological research, as well as materials analysis and photographic surveys of objects and monuments. Summer schools and workshops bring together students for in-depth study of languages, material culture, and theory.

https://www.doaks.org/research/support-for-research

ONASSIS FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS

24TH ONASSIS FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAM FOR INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS 2018-19  

In 1995 the Foundation established an annual program of grants and scholarships for research, study and artistic endeavour within Greece. The educational program is intended exclusively for non-Greeks: members of national academies, university professors of all levels, PhD holders, post-doctorate researchers and doctoral candidates. Exceptionally and on a case-by-case basis, the program may accept Greeks of the Diaspora, second generation Greeks, and Greeks who permanently reside abroad and have been studying or have been employed in foreign Universities for over 10 or 15 years, depending on the type of scholarship.
The program also includes Cypriot citizens, who have studied and reside outside Greece, and are members of National Academies, University professors of all levels –doctorate holders and post-doctorate researchers– as well as distinguished artists.
Over the two decades of its operation, the Foreigner’s Fellowships program went through successive phases in order to meet the standards of a dynamic and interdisciplinary project.  The Program aims at promoting Greek language, history and culture abroad, thereby creating and encouraging ties of friendship and cooperation between members of the foreign academic community and their Greek counterparts. The selection of scholarships for foreigners or research grant recipients is based on the positive reviews of the Academic Advisors Committees of the Foundation and is validated by the Foundation's Board of Directors.
The said Committees comprise University Professors (some of which are also former scholars of the Foundation), specialized scientists and renowned artists, whose participation and contribution are both honorary and voluntary. Former scholars of the Onassis Foundation, who now occupy academic posts, also offer their voluntary contribution.
The grantees and scholarship recipients of this Program since the beginning of its operation, come from 65 countries: Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Congo, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany,  Ghana, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Latvia,  Lithuania, Mexico, Moldavia, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, S. Korea, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, S. Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, The Netherlands, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uruguay, U.S.A., Uzbekistan, Venezuela.
The number of scholarships awarded by the Foundation to foreigners varies from year to year. On average, 35 scholarships are awarded annually. During the 21 years of the Program's operation (1995 – 2016), 853 research grants and educational scholarships have been awarded, amounting to $11.041.986.
The 24th Onassis Fellowships Program for International Scholars for the academic year 2018-19, with due-date February 28, 2018, will be announced in mid-December 2017, please check here: http://www.onassis.org/en/scholarships-foreigners.php
For further information, contact the Onassis Fellowships Program for International Scholars: +30 210 37 13 018, E-mail: fhadgiantoniou.ffp@onassis.org.

A. G. LEVENTIS FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS

The Foundation’s Educational Grants Scheme is an annual programme of grants intended for postgraduate and doctoral students. Post-doctoral research and distance-learning studies are not included. 
Applications by undergraduates who have not obtained their first university degree by the 31st of March will not be considered.  Grants are not offered retrospectively.
Applications should be completed in English.
The online application system will be open for New applications from 1 until 31 March. Renewal applications must be submitted between 1 and 30 April.
For more information please check here: https://www.leventisscholarships.org/howtoapply.aspx

Opportunities for Scholars at Dumbarton Oaks

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection is an institute in Washington, D.C., administered by the Trustees for Harvard University. It supports research and learning internationally in Byzantine, Garden and Landscape, and Pre-Columbian studies through fellowships, internships, meetings, and exhibitions.

Fellowships
Fellowships are awarded to Byzantine, Garden and Landscape, and Pre-Columbian scholars on the basis of demonstrated scholarly ability and preparation of the candidate, including knowledge of the requisite languages, interest and value of the study or project, and the project’s relevance to the resources of Dumbarton Oaks. We place great value on the collegial engagement of fellows with one another and with the staff.

Application and instructions are available online. The application deadline is November 1.

Fellowships are awarded to scholars who hold a PhD or appropriate final degree, or who have established themselves in their field and wish to pursue their own research.

Junior Fellowships are awarded to degree candidates who at the time of application have fulfilled all preliminary requirements for a PhD or appropriate final degree, and plan to work on a dissertation or final project while at Dumbarton Oaks, under the direction of a faculty member from their own university.

Summer Fellowships in Pre-Columbian and Byzantine studies are awarded to scholars on any level beyond the first year of graduate (postbaccalaureate) study.

Additional Research Opportunities
One-Month Research Awards support scholars with a PhD or other relevant final degree who are working on research projects that require use of Dumbarton Oaks’ books, objects, or other library or museum materials. Application deadlines: October 1 & March 1
 
Project Grants support scholarly projects by applicants holding a PhD or the equivalent. Support is generally for archaeological research, preservation of historic gardens, and the recovery, recording, and analysis of materials that would otherwise be lost. Application deadline: November 1

Short-Term Predoctoral Residencies support advanced graduate students preparing for their PhD general exams, writing doctoral dissertations, or expecting relevant final degrees. Each residency provides up to four weeks of lodging and weekday lunches. Applications must be submitted at least sixty days before the preferred residency dates.

More information is available on the website of Dumbarton Oaks.

***NEW SECTION!***

Looking for Research Partners or Expertise in the Field of Byzantine Studies

 

 

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