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• Argentina
• Armenia
• Austria
• Belgium
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Italy
• Turkey
• United Kingdom

Exhibitions

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.)

 ARGENTINA
Eighth International Colloquium Cartographies of the Self: Strategies of its Textualization in the Ancient World
DATE: 26–29 June 2018
VENUE: Centro De Estudios Helénicos
Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Calle 51 entre 124 y 125
Edificio C, oficina 301
1925 Ensenada, ARGENTINA
Tel. (54) (221) 4230127 Interno 1136
E-mail: viii.coloquio.internacional@gmail.com
MORE DETAILS: The Eighth International Colloquium “Cartographies of the Self: Strategies of its Textualization in the Ancient World", organized by the Centro de Estudios Helénicos, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, will be held from 26th to 29th June 2018.
The VIII International Colloquium of the CEH of the UNLP intends to discuss the different ways in which subjectivity expresses itself, and the strategies of its textualization, in order to draw a map that can give account of the varied territories of the self in the Classical World. The textual emergences of the self/selves are not limited to autobiographical writings, but extend to all forms of subjectivity expression, discursive or material, individual or collective.
For further information please click here.

ARMENIA
Armenian Studies Summer School
DATE: 29 July - 18 August 2018
VENUE: Yerevan, Armenia
For further information please click here.

AUSTRIA
Conference: Byzantine Poetry in the ‘Long’ Twelfth Century (1081-1204): Perceptions, Motivations and Functions
DATE: 13-15 June 2018
VENUE: Vienna - Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Medieval Research, Division of Byzantine Research, 13-15 June 2018, conveners: Baukje van den Berg, Andreas Rhoby, Nikos Zagklas
This conference is organized within the framework of the project “Byzantine Poetry in the ‘Long’ Twelfth Century (1081-1204): Texts and Contexts” (P 28959-G25) funded by FWF.
More information can be found here.

BELGIUM
ROUNDTABLE: ‘Approaches to Greek Compilation Literature from Byzantium (historiographic, spiritual, monastic, gnomologic)’, 29 May 2018, University of Leuven
Please find the full program, all abstracts and all practical information: (http://lectio.ghum.kuleuven.be/lectio/laboratory-for-text-editing).
Participation is free, but please register online via lectio@kuleuven.be before 18 May 2018.

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: "MANUSCRIPT CULTURES IN MEDIEVAL SYRIA. TOWARDS A HISTORY OF THE QUBBAT AL-KHAZNA DEPOSITORY IN DAMASCUS" (BERLIN, 28-29.06.2018)
Manuscript Cultures in Medieval Syria 
Towards a history of the Qubbat al-khazna depository in Damascus 
Berlin, 28 and 29 June 2018 
Organised by Arianna D'Ottone Rambach (Sapienza - Universita' di Roma), Konrad Hirschler (Freie Universitaet Berlin), Ronny Vollandt (LMU Muenchen), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften; Funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation 
Thursday, 28 June 
Venue: Freie Universitaet Berlin, Topoi House, Hittorfstrasse 18, 14195 Berlin 
9:30 Welcome by Klaus Muehlhahn, Vice President of Freie Universitaet Berlin 
9:45 Introduction to Conference 
10:00-11:30 Session 1 The Qubba's history and its academic discovery I 
Chair: Sara Nur Yildiz (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) 
Said Aljoumani (Scholars at Risk/Freie Universitaet Berlin): The pre-Ottoman history of the Qubbat al-Khazna 
Boris Liebrenz (Freie Universitaet Berlin/The Graduate Center, City University of New York): Fire, Consuls, Scholars - Conflicting Views on the Discovery of the Qubbat al-Khazna Documents 
11:30-12:00 Coffee Break 
12:00-1:30 Session 2 The Qubba's history and its academic discovery II 
Chair: Christoph Rauch (Staatsbibliothek Berlin) 
Cordula Bandt/Arnd Rattmann (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften): Bruno Violet and the exploration of the Qubbat al-Khazna around 1900 
Christoph Markschies (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften): Hermann von Soden: Bemerkungen zu einem zu Unrecht vergessenen Berliner Professor 
1:30-2:30  Lunch 
2:30-4:00 Session 3 Looking beyond the Qubba and Syria
Chair: Stefan Weber (Museum fuer Islamische Kunst im Pergamonmuseum Berlin)
Miriam Lindgren-Hjaelm (Stockholm School of Theology, Sankt Ignatios Theological Academy): What has Damascus to do with Sinai? Paleographical similarities in Christian-Arabic texts preserved in the Qubba and in Saint Catherine's Monastery
Ronny Vollandt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen): The Qubbat al-Khazna and the Cairo Genizah: a typological comparison
4:00-4:30 Coffee Break
4:30-6:00 Session 4 Studying scripts
Chair: Verena Lepper (Aegyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin)
Ahmad al-Jallad (Universiteit Leiden): An embryonic Graeco-Arabic script? The transcription system of the Psalm Fragment in light of Greek transcriptions of Arabic from the early Islamic and pre-Islamic periods
Francesco D'Aiuto (Tor Vergata - Universita' di Roma)/Donatella Bucca (Tor Vergata - Universita' di Roma): The Greek hymnographic fragments of Damascus: scripts and texts
7:30 Conference Dinner
Friday, 29 June
Venue: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Unter den Linden 8, 10117 Berlin
9:00-10:30 Session 5 Mapping corpora I: Judaism and Syriac
Chair: Lukas Muehlethaler (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Jewish Studies)
Gideon Bohak (Tel-Aviv University): The Jewish Texts from the Damascus Genizah
Grigory Kessel (Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften): A survey of the fragments from Syriac manuscripts found in Qubbat al-Khazna
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-1:15 Session 6 Mapping corpora II: Coptic and Latin and Old French
Alin Suciu (Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Goettingen): The Coptic Fragments from the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus
Serena Ammirati (University of RomaTre): Again on the Latin Fragments of Damascus: A further Analysis of the oldest items
Laura Minervini (Universita' di Napoli Federico II)/Gabriele Giannini (Universite' de Montreal): The Old French Texts of the Damascus Qubba
1:15-2:30 Lunch
2:30-4:45 Session 7 Mapping corpora III: Arabic
Chair: Beatrice Gruendler (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Arabic Studies)
Eyad al-Tabba' (University of Damascus): A preliminary catalogue of the Koran manuscripts in the Umayyad Mosque: Overview and Analysis
Konrad Hirschler (Freie Universitaet Berlin): Binding fragments from the Qubbat al-Khazna in Syrian manuscripts
Arianna D'Ottone Rambach (Sapienza - Universita' di Roma): Botanical and medical Arabic fragments from the Qubbat al-Khazna
4:45-5:15 Coffee Break
5:15-6:00 Future Initiatives 

VORTRAGSREIHE AM KUNSTHISTORISCHEN INSTITUT DER UNIVERSITAET LEIPZIG: LECTURE SERIES "MATERIAL CULTURE IN BYZANTIUM AND THE MEDIEVAL WEST" (LEIPZIG, 29.05-26.06.2018)
BYZANZ UND DER WESTEN: Kolloquium zur materiellen Kultur im Mittelalter
Lecture Series: Material Culture in Byzantium and the Medieval West 
Die interdisziplinaere Veranstaltungsreihe widmet sich der Erforschung der materiellen Kultur des oestlichen Mittelmeerraums und des mittelalterlichen Westens - im, um und jenseits des Byzantinischen Reichs. Sie ist Plattform fuer den Austausch darueber, wohin sich die europaeische Spaetantike und Byzanz-Forschung derzeit bewegt, welche neuen Wege beschritten werden und wie die unterschiedlichen Disziplinen zusammenarbeiten koennen. Die Reihe geht dafuer ueber die klassischen Grenzen der byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte und der fruehchristlichen Archaeologie hinaus und sucht den Dialog mit den Nachbarfaechern, u.a. der Vor- und Fruehgeschichte, der mittelalterlichen und islamischen Kunstgeschichte, der Byzantinistik, der Archaeologie, der Alten Geschichte und der Mediaevistik.
Die mehr-semestrige Veranstaltung ist eine Kooperation des Instituts fuer Kunstgeschichte der Universitaet Leipzig, des Studiengangs Museologie der HTWK Leipzig, des Leibniz-Instituts fuer Geschichte und Kultur des oestlichen Europa (GWZO) und des Handschriftenzentrums der Universitaetsbibliothek Leipzig. 
Byzanz und der Westen: Kolloquium zur materiellen Kultur im Mittelalter
Lecture Series: Material Culture in Byzantium and the Medieval West
Institut fuer Kunstgeschichte der Universitaet Leipzig in Kooperation mit dem GWZO, der HTWK und dem Handschriftenzentrum
29 Mai, 19 Uhr, Institut fuer Kunstgeschichte, Dittrichring 18–20, Raum 5.15
Branka Vranesevic (Belgrad), Reflections on Late Antique Visual Culture on the Territories of Present-Day Serbia and Macedonia: Continuity and Change
14 Juni, 17 Uhr, Universitaetsbibliothek Albertina, Vortragssaal
Hans Belting (Berlin), Iconic Presence and Real Presence: A Neglected Aspect From the History of Religious Images
26 Juni, 19 Uhr, GWZO, Reichsstr. 4-6, Konferenzraum
Olga Karagiorgou (Athen), The Dumbarton Oaks and the Venice Tondi: Products of a Cultural Osmosis?
Dr. Armin Bergmeier
Institut fuer Kunstgeschichte
Universitaet Leipzig
Dittrichring 18–20 
04109 Leipzig
Raum 5.13 
Telefon 0341 97-35557

DATES: May 28, 2018 – July 4, 2018
The program of the Lecture Series can be found here.
Additional information can be found here.
Dr. Benjamin Fourlas, fourlas@rgzm.de

A Conference on the "Physiologus" and the Oriental traditions around it will be held in Hamburg, at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), on June 28–29, 2018: https://www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/register_physiologus2018.html.
COMSt (Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies) and the CSMC are offering 4 travel grants for junior scholras to attend the conference: https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/en/comst/conferences/comst-csmc2018.html.
Caroline Macé & Jost Gippert

SCHOOL: Summer School in Coptic Literature and Manuscript Tradition, 17 - 21 September 2018, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg
Deadline: 31 May 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 and how to apply here

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.

PROGRAMME (PROVISOIRE)
LES PLAISIRS À BYZANCE
Dimanche 1er juillet 2018 19 h.
Inauguration de l'École d'Été
Prises de parole
PAOLO ODORICO
PRÉSENTATION DE L'ÉCOLE D'ÉTÉ ET DES SUJETS  
Suivie d'une réception 

Lundi 2 juillet
9.00 - 10.30 Pierre-Olivier DITTMAR (EHESS) - Les plaisirs des catholiques 
10.30 - 10.45 Discussion
10.45 - 11.00 Pause
11.00 - 12.30 Tassadit YACINE (EHESS) - Les plaisirs des musulmans
12.30 - 12.45 Discussion
16.00 - 17.30 Flora Karagianni (European Centre for Byzantine and Postbyzantine Monuments) - Les Plaisirs des cinq sens: vue – Public Spaces in Byzantine cities. Pleasant spots in everyday life 
17.30 - 17.45 Discussion
17.45 - 18.00 Pause
18.00 - 19.30 Ch. Gastgeber (Akademie d. Wissenschaften) - Les plaisirs dans la loi
19.30 - 20.00 Discussion

Mardi 3 juillet
9.00 - 10.30 Pierre-Olivier DITTMAR (EHESS) - Les plaisirs des catholiques 
10.30 - 10.45 Discussion
10.45 - 11.00 Pause
11.00 - 12.30 Tassadit YACINE (EHESS) - Les plaisirs des musulmans
12.30 - 12.45 Discussion
16.00 - 17.30 Flora Karagianni (European Centre for Byzantine and Postbyzantine Monuments) - Les Plaisirs des cinq sens: vue - Internal decoration of urban houses in Early Christian era 
17.30 - 17.45 Discussion
17.45 - 18.00 Pause
18.00 - 19.30 Ch. Gastgeber (Akademie d. Wissenschaften) - Les plaisirs dans la loi
19.30 - 20.00 Discussion

Mercredi 4 juillet
9.00 - 10.30 M. Leontsini-I. Anagnostakis (EIE - Athenes) - Les Plaisirs des cinq sens: goût. Les plaisirs de la table
10.30 - 10.45 Discussion
10.45 - 11.00 Pause
11.00 - 12.30 Ch. Messis (Université d'Athenes) - Les Plaisirs des cinq sens: contact permis et contact interdit 
12.30 - 12.45 Discussion
16.00 - 17.30 D. Bianconi (Université de Rome) - Les plaisirs de la lecture
17.30 - 17.45 Discussion
17.45 - 18.00 Pause
18.00 - 19.30 M.-H. Congourdeau (CNRS - Paris) - Les Plaisirs autorisés des Pères
19.30 - 20.00 Discussion

Jeudi 5 juillet 2014
9.00 - 10.30 M. Leontsini-I. Anagnostakis (EIE - Athenes) - Les Plaisirs des cinq sens: goût. Les plaisirs de la table
10.30 - 10.45 Discussion
10.45 - 11.00 Pause
11.00 - 12.30 Ch. Messis (Université d'Athenes) - Les Plaisirs des cinq sens: Les plaisirs d'être ensemble
12.30 - 12.45 Discussion
16.00 - 17.30 D. Bianconi (Université de Rome) - Les plaisirs de la lecture
17.30 - 17.45 Discussion
17.45 - 18.00 Pause
18.00 - 19.30 M.-H. Congourdeau (CNRS - Paris) - Les Plaisirs autorisés des Pères
19.30 - 20.00 Discussion

Vendredi 6 juillet
9.00 - 10.30 R. Macrides (Université de Birmingham) - L'émergence de la sensorialité au XIIe siècle
10.30 - 10.45 Discussion
10.45 - 11.00 Pause
11.00 - 12.30 Ch. Arampatzis (Université Aristote de Thessalonique) - Les Plaisirs des cinq sens: ouïe - Musique et liturgie
12.30 - 12.45 Discussion
16.00 - 17.30 P. Katsoni (Université Aristote de Thessalonique) - Les plaisirs interdits  
17.30 - 17.45 Discussion
17.45 - 18.00 Pause
18.00 - 19.30 R. Macrides (Université de Birmingham) - L'émergence de la sensorialité au XIIe siècle
19.30 - 20.00 Discussion

Samedi 7 juillet
JOURNÉE LIBRE - VISITE DE LA VILLE

Dimanche 8 juillet :
DÉPART POUR KASTORIA - VISITE DE VERRIA

Lundi 9 juillet 2018
9.00 - 10.30 Athanasios Semoglou (Université Aristote de Thessalonique) - Les Plaisirs des cinq sens: vue - Les Modes à travers les représentations médiévales des donateurs. Le triomphe de l'élégance
10.30 - 10.45 Discussion
10.45 - 11.00 Pause
11.00 - 12.30 Nikos Siomkos (Ephorate of Antiquities of Chalkidiki and Mount Athos) - Les Plaisirs des cinq sens: vue – Enjoying power in Byzantium. Visual
Representations of authority
12.30 - 12.45 Discussion
16.00 - 17.30 Michalis Kappas (Ephorate of Antiquities of Messinia) - Les Plaisirs des cinq sens: vue - Heavenly domes: The miracle of Justinian architecture and its impact
17.30 - 17.45 Discussion
17.45 - 18.00 Pause
18.00 - 19.30 Béatrice Caseau (Paris Sorbonne) - Les Plaisirs des cinq sens: odorat. Le plaisir de sentir bon
19.30 - 20.00 Discussion

Mardi 10 juillet 2018
9.00 - 10.30 Athanasios Semoglou (Université Aristote de Thessalonique) - Les Plaisirs des cinq sens: vue - Objets de luxe à Byzance. Remarques sur leur décor
10.30 - 10.45 Discussion
10.45 - 11.00 Pause
11.00 - 12.30 Nikos Siomkos (Ephorate of Antiquities of Chalkidiki and Mount Athos) - Les Plaisirs des cinq sens: vue - A delight to the eyes. Artistic interaction among cultures in Byzantine Art
12.30 - 12.45 Discussion
16.00 - 17.30 Michalis Kappas (Ephorate of Antiquities of Messinia) - Les Plaisirs des cinq sens: vue - Constructing sacred spaces in Middle and Late Byzantium: A pleasure for the eyes, a relief for the soul
17.30 - 17.45 Discussion
17.45 - 18.00 Pause
18.00 - 19.30 Béatrice Caseau (Paris Sorbonne) - Les Plaisirs des cinq sens: odorat. Les plaisirs des jardins
19.30 - 20.00 Discussion

Mercredi 11 juillet 2018: EXCURSION
Jeudi 12 juillet 2018
9.00 - 10.30 Walter Puchner (University of Athens) - Les plaisirs du théâtre: Byzantine Theatre, Dramatic Texts
10.30 - 10.45 Discussion
10.45 - 11.00 Pause
11.00 - 12.30 Georges Arampatzis (Universite' d'Athenes) - Plaisir et bonheur à Byzance
12.30 - 12.45 Discussion
16.00 - 17.30 Walter Puchner (University of Athens) - Les plaisirs du théâtre: Byzantine Theatre. Spectacles and Performativity
17.30 - 17.45 Discussion
17.45 - 18.00 Pause
18.00 - 19.30 Georges Arampatzis (Université d'Athenes) - Plaisir et bonheur à Byzance
19.30 - 20.00 Discussion

Vendredi 13 juillet 2018:
RETOUR THESSALONIQUE et DÉPART DES PARTICIPANTS

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CORFU, 7-22 JULY 2018
The Ionian University has the honor of inviting you to the Summer School of Greek Language, History and Culture (Corfu Summer School), which will take place from 07 to 22 July 2018 in beautiful Corfu!
As a result of a partnership of three Departments of our University (the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting, the Department of History and the Department of Music Studies), the Summer School program includes lessons, guided tours of the island's cultural sights, experiential activities and excursions.
So if you want to combine knowledge and a summer vacation on a wonderful Greek island, you can visit our site https://sites.ionio.gr/css
For more information and clarification and / or contact us at our address el-summerschool@ionio.gr

Summer School: Archaeology and Greek Languages, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki
The Summer School will take place in July 2018 and will include both seminars and fieldwork at the excavation site of Toumba in Thessaloniki.
For further information please click here.

"Translation Activity in Late Byzantium. An International Conference"
Organized by P. Ch. Athanasopoulos (University of Venice Ca' Foscari)
PROGRAM
June 11th-13th, 2018
Monday, June 11th, 2018
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Dorsoduro 3246
2nd floor, aula Mario Baratto
09:00 Registration
10:00 Prof. Giovannella Cresci, Director of DSU (Venice) Prof. Antonio Rigo (Venice) Prof. Brigitte Mondrain (Paris)
Session I: The Context
Chair: Prof. Antonio Rigo (Venice)
10:20 Prof. Emer. Constantinos N. Constantinides (Ioannina), Latin Knowledge, Translations and Politics during the Palaeologan Period
10:40 Dr Andrea Massimo Cuomo (Vienna), The Sociolinguistics of Multilingualism in (late) Byzantium
11:00 Assist. Prof. Christian Gastgeber (Vienna), Latin Texts and Translators in Constantinople during the Palaeologan Period. Evidence from the Imperial and Patriarchal Chanceries
11:20 Discussion
11:40 Coffee break
Session II: The Translations of 13th-15th c.
Session II.1: Theology - Hagiography - Spirituality
Chair: Dr Alessandra Bucossi (Venice)
12:10 Dr Vasilis Pasiourtides (Patras), Demetrios Kydones' Translation of Five Excerpts from Julianus Pomerius' (Ps.-Prosperus') De vita contemplativa (CPL 998), Bk. I: Re-edition and Historical Context
12:30 PhD Cand. Maria Panagia Miola (Rome), Prochoros Kydones' Selective Translation of Thomas Aquinas' IIIa Pars of the Summa Theologiae
12:50 Dr Marie-Helene Blanchet (Paris), Un commentaire byzantin du Symbole et ses modeles latins
13:10 Discussion
13:30 Lunch
Session II.1: Theology - Hagiography - Spirituality (cont.) 
Chair: Dr Marie-Helene Blanchet (Paris)
15:30 Dr Konstantinos Palaiologos (Patras), Manuel Kalekas' Utilization of the Anonymous Greek Translation of Aquinas' Collationes in Symbolum Apostolorum
15:50 Dr Ciro Giacomelli (Padova-Paris), Bessarione traduttore di Pietro Lombardo (Marc. gr. 523): note filologiche, paleografiche e codicologiche
16:10 Dr Eleftherios Despotakis (Athens), Manuali greci per la confessione cattolica. Osservazioni sul codice Athen. gr. 2473
16:30 Discussion
Tuesday, June 12th, 2018
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Dorsoduro 3246
2nd floor, aula Mario Baratto
Session II.1: Theology - Hagiography - Spirituality (cont.) 
Chair: Dist. Prof. Emer. John Monfasani (New York)
09:00 PhD Cand. Ioannis Kassides (Corfu), Demetrios Kydones' Unedited Translation of Gregory the Great's Homiliae XL in Evangelia, XXVI
09:20 Dr Marco Fanelli (Turin), Polemisti bizantini in cerca d'autore: da Riccoldo da Monte di Croce a Giovanni VI Cantacuzeno
09:40 Discussion
Session II.2: Philosophy
Chair: Dr Christiaan W. Kappes (Pittsburgh)
10:00 Assist. Prof. John A. Demetracopoulos (Patras), Anti-Macrobius Christianus, or the Construction of Christian Science: Gregory Palamas' Capita CL 1–14 ("De mundo") (1347-1348) as a Refutation of the Heathen Cosmology in Macrobius' Commentary on the Dream of Scipio
10:20 Dr Michael Konstantinou-Rizos (London), Demetrios Kydones' (1324-1397) Translation of Thomas Aquinas' Quaestio disputata de potentia, q. X, a. 4: Manuscript Tradition and Reception
10:40 PhD Cand. Irini Balcoyiannopoulou (Patras), Scholarios’ Hitherto Unknown Greek Abridgment of the First Four Quaestiones from Radulphus Brito’s Commentary on the De Interpretatione
11:00 Discussion
11:20 Coffee break
Session II.3: Sciences
Chair: Prof. Brigitte Mondrain (Paris)
11:50 Assist. Prof. Caroline Petit (Warwick), Looking for Philaretus. Was the pseudo-Galenic Ad Antonium Translated from Latin?
12:10 PhD Cand. Carole Hofstetter (Paris), Les sources du Grand Calcul selon les Indiens: reception et transformation chez les lecteurs byzantins
12:30 Dr Marie Cronier (Paris), Un recueil de traites medicaux arabes traduits en grec: le Vind. med. gr. 21 (fin 13e - debut 14e s.)
12:50 Discussion
13:10 Lunch
Session II.3: Sciences (cont.) 
Chair: Dr Luigi D'Amelia (Venice)
15:00 Dr Alberto Bardi (Venice), Persian and Arab Terminology in Byzantine Astronomy (13th-15th century)
15:20 PhD Cand. Thibault Miguet (Paris), La traduction grecque du Viatique du voyageur (Zad al-musafir) d'Ibn al-Gazzar et l'un de ses remaniements a' l'epoque paleologue
15:40 Discussion
Session II.4: Literature 
Chair: Prof. Emer. Constantinos N. Constantinides (Ioannina)
16:00 Dr Morgane Cariou (Paris), La traduction planudeenne des Heroides d'Ovide
16:20 PhD Cand. Christos C. Angelopoulos (Ioannina), The Planoudean Translation of the Disticha Catonis Incorporated in the Textbooks of the Palaeologan and the Mathemataria of the Ottoman Periods
16:40 Discussion
Wednesday, June 13th, 2018
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Ca' Dolfin, Dorsoduro 3825/e 
1st floor, aula magna Silvio Trentin
Session III: Instruments and Methods of the Translations 
Chair: Dr Eleftherios Despotakis (Athens)
09:00
Dr Christopher Wright (London), Choices and Changes of Language in Demetrios Kydones's Translation of Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae, Ia
09:20 Dr Panagiotis Ch. Athanasopoulos (Venice), Demetrios Kydones' modus interpretandi in his Translation of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, Ia IIae
09:40 Mr Angelos Zaloumis (Stockholm), Demetrios Kydones' Greek Rendering of Aristotelian Ethical Terms in Thomas Aquinas' Summa theologiae, IIa IIae
10:00 Discussion
10:20 Coffee break
Session III: Instruments and Methods of the Translations (cont.)
Chair: Dr Beatrice Daskas (Venice)
10:50 Dr Christiaan W. Kappes (Pittsburgh), Prochoros Kydones: Damascenus Latinus Retroverted into Greek, Comparative Vocabulary between Demetrios and Prochoros Kydones, and Other Difficulties of ad verbum Translations of Scholastic Texts
11:10 Dist. Prof. Emer. John Monfasani (New York), Cardinal Bessarion as a Translator of Plato, Aristotle, and Other Prose Authors in the In Calumniatorem Platonis
11:30 Discussion
Session IV. Round table: Translation Studies - Problems and Perspectives 
Chair: Prof. Paolo Eleuteri (Venice)
11:50
Dr Panagiotis Ch. Athanasopoulos (Venice)
Assist. Prof. John A. Demetracopoulos (Patras)
Prof. Brigitte Mondrain (Paris)
Dist. Prof. Emer. John Monfasani (New York)
Prof. Antonio Rigo (Venice)
13:00
Epilogue
For a PDF of the program click here

CONVEGNO: "BISANZIO E L'APOCALITTICA. NEL CENTENARIO DELLA NASCITA DI AGOSTINO PERTUSI" (MILANO, 28.05.2018)
Lunedi' 28 maggio 2018, ore 14.30
UNIVERSITA' CATTOLICA
Dipartimento di Scienze Religiose, Aula G.016 Maria Immacolata, Largo A. Gemelli, 1 - Milano
BISANZIO E L'APOCALITTICA. Nel centenario della nascita di Agostino Pertusi
Introduce
Carlo Maria MAZZUCCHI, Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Intervengono
Pablo UBIERNA, CONICET - Universita' di Buenos Aires
Joel Elie SCHNAPP LUHCIE (Grenoble)
Carlo Alessandro BONIFACIO, Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Chiara PERTUSI, Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Informazioni:
Michela Iannone
Dipartimento di Scienze Religiose
Largo A. Gemelli, 1 - 20123 Milano
Tel. 02 7234.2287 - Fax 02 7234.3712
E-mail dip.scienzereligiose@unicatt.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
26 aprile 2018, ore 17.00
Conferenza di Luisa Zanoncelli, "Il ms Gr. Z. 322 (=711), con testi di teoria musicale"
3 maggio 2018, ore 17.00
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'Universita' Aristotele di Salonicco
direttore: Maria Alexandru
Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi onlus
San Marco 2893
30124 Venezia
tel. 041 786777
info@fondazionelevi.it

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.

SCHOOL: Oriental Laguages Summer School, 5-14 July 2018, Venice International University (VIU)
All details can be found here.

INTERNATIONAL ITINERANT PALEOGRAPHIC SCHOOL
DATES AND VENUE: Rome/Naples May 20th – 25th, 2018
DATES AND VENUE: Rome/Florence May 27th – 1st, 2018
PSL (Paris Sciences et Lettres - Research University Paris), the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, the École Française de Rome, the CéSor (Centre d'études en sciences sociales du religieux) and the University Beida of Beijing fund the second edition of the IIPS-International Itinerant Paleographic School. The action (which will be supported by the Collège de France, the École Pratique des Hautes Études, the university of Cassino, the university of Florence, the university of Naples Federico II and the University of Rome Sapienza) will consist in a six-days training session. Trainees will be divided into two groups:

Group 1: Rome/Naples – May 20th to 25th 2018
and
Group 2: Rome/Florence – May 27th to June 1st

The program, open to twenty fellows (two groups of ten each) and six selected auditors, will focus on ancient and medieval books, inscriptions and documents and will consist of seminars, conferences and guided visits of libraries (Angelica, Casanatense, Corsiniana and Vallicelliana of Rome, Vittorio Emanuele III of Naples, Medicea Laurenziana of Florence), research institutes (Istituto papirologico “G. Vitelli” of Florence, Centro Internazionale per lo Studio dei Papiri Ercolanesi “Marcello Gigante” of Naples, Istituto centrale per il restauro e la conservazione del patrimonio archivistico e librario of Rome) and archeological sites (Roman Forum, Pompeii and Herculaneum). The IIPS will be a transdisciplinary and comparative action focused on written materials produced in the Mediterranean area from Antiquity to Middle Ages (Greek, Latin, Arabic and Coptic papyri, ostraca, rolls, codices and inscriptions). It aims at offering (a) a unique and international training opportunity, thanks to the collaboration of researchers gathered from many universities and research institutes from different countries; (b) an exclusive and direct access to original documents and research materials and (c) a chance to share experiences with experts in all the fields related to the study, preservation, restoration and valorization of written heritage. Special emphasis will be given to archiving and cataloguing techniques used in different areas and periods, to the creation and developing of collections and to the general dynamics of loss and preservation of written heritage.    
Follow this link to apply.

Summer School: Greek and Latin Summer School, 18 June - 6 July 2018, University of Bologna
The University of Bologna invites applications for its intensive Greek and Latin Summer School (2018).
The school offers classes in Greek and Latin at two different levels (beginners and intermediate). It is possible to combine two classes (one in Latin and one in Greek) at a special rate.
The courses will take place in Bologna, in the Department of Classics and Italian studies (http://www.ficlit.unibo.it), from 18th June to 6th July 2018 and are open to students (undergraduate and post-graduate) and non-students alike. Participants must be aged 18 or over.
As usual, the teaching will be focused mainly on the linguistic aspects and the syntax of Greek and Latin; additional classes will touch on moments of classical literature, ancient history and history of art, supplemented by visits to museums and archaeological sites (in Bologna and Rome).
All teaching and social activities will be in English.
For further information and to download the application form, please visit: http://www.ficlit.unibo.it/it/dipartimento/summer-school
E-mail: diri_school.latin@unibo.it

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.

The Byzantine Studies Research Center is pleased to announce the organization of its second Byzantine Greek Summer School program to be held at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, from July 9 to July 27, 2018. Students will have the chance to participate in an intensive program in Medieval Greek with Prof. Niels Gaul and Dr. Athanasia Stavrou, while enjoying various attractions of the Bogazici University campus on the Bosphorus and the Byzantine sites of Istanbul.

Format
The program is designed for students who have completed at least two semesters of college-level Classical Greek or its equivalent. Students are expected to have knowledge of basic Greek grammar and to be able to read simple texts from ancient Greek or Byzantine literature. The morning classes, devoted to the reading of Byzantine texts with a focus on Constantinopolitan monuments/sites or events that happened in the city, will be supplemented by tutorial sessions in the afternoons. Classes will be held in two groups, at lower intermediate level and upper intermediate/advanced level. The language of instruction is English. The program will offer weekend excursions to the sites/monuments of Constantinople discussed through original texts in the sessions. Students will receive a certificate of participation upon successful completion of the program.

Instructors
Niels Gaul is the A. G. Leventis Professor of Byzantine Studies and Director of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Edinburgh. His recent work has looked at various types of social performances – be it in the form of rhetorical "theatre" or (staged) miracles –, at the scholarly networks permeating (late) Byzantine society, and at the so-called "classical tradition" in the ninth century. He is currently the Principal Investigator of an ERC-funded project that explores the function of classicising learning in the Byzantine and Tang/Song Chinese empires from a cross-cultural vantage point.

Athanasia Stavrou received a PhD in Byzantine History from the University of Birmingham. She studied Greek Palaeography and worked as a research assistant for the International Greek New Testament Project in the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing (University of Birmingham). She has long experience in teaching Classical, Medieval and Modern Greek in various educational institutions in the United Kingdom, and taught at the International Byzantine Greek Summer School for three years. She is currently the Onassis Visiting Instructor of Ancient and Modern Greek at the Department of History, Bogazici University.

Location
Classes will be held at the Byzantine Studies Research Center, located on the main campus of Bogazici University. Established as Robert College in 1863, Bogazici University is one of the leading institutions of higher education in Turkey. Its Byzantine Studies Research Center, founded in 2015, is the first Turkish institution attached to a state university that is dedicated to academic research on Byzantine civilization. The Center fosters the development of education in Byzantine studies by offering scholarships at the M.A., Ph.D., and post-doctoral levels, "tools of the trade" seminars, and language programs.

For more information, please see:
http://www.boun.edu.tr/en_US
http://byzantinestudies.boun.edu.tr/

SCHOOL: ANAMED summer programmes, 2018
Deadline: 16 April 2018
Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) is delighted to announce that this year three intensive graduate summer programs will be available. While (1) Ottoman Summer Program
and (2)Ancient Languages of Anatolia will take place at the Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), (3) Cappadocia in Context will be organized in Nevşehir, Cappadocia.
Important notes:
· Requirements: It is important to emphasize that every program has its own requirements and Application Forms. Please make sure to check them, before sending your application.
· For the scholarships: We offer a limited number of scholarships based on need and merit. Please indicate your wish to be considered for a scholarship and make sure to submit with your application file.

CONFERENCE: Pantokrator 900: Cultural Memories of a Byzantine Complex, 7-10 August 2018, ANAMED Istanbul
The Christ Pantokrator Complex (Zeyrek Camii, a UNESCO World Heritage Site) that included the mausoleum of the imperial dynasty, a monastery, a hospital, an orphanage, a home of the elderly and a poorhouse was founded in 1118 by Empress Piroska-Eirene and Emperor John II Komnenos. The second largest Byzantine church still standing in Istanbul after the Hagia Sophia, the Pantokrator was the most ambitious project of the Komnenian renaissance and the most impressive construction of twelfth-century Byzantine architecture. To commemorate the nine hundred years of the Pantokrator Complex, the Department of Medieval Studies at CEU Budapest and the Hungarian Hagiography Society organize, in collaboration with LABEX RESMED of Sorbonne-Paris, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, and the Hungarian Institute in Istanbul an international conference that brings together scholars from diverse scholarly traditions to discuss the social, architectural and spiritual meanings of this outstanding monument.

Tuesday, August 7
9- 9:30 Marianne Sághy (CEU and ELTE Budapest), Gábor Fodor, director of the Hungarian Cultural Istitute in Istanbul – welcome and opening of the workshop
9:30-10 Albrecht Berger (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich) – Celebrating foundations: from the Pantokrator to Zeyrek Camii 
10:30-11 coffee break
11-11:30 Béatrice Caseau (Université Paris IV, Sorbonne) -- Spiritual and physical healing at the Pantokrator Monastery
11:30-12:30 Roundtable Discussion: Monuments and New Trends in Byzantine Studies
12:30 -2 pm lunch break
2 pm-2:30 pm Floris Bernard (University of Ghent - CEU Budapest) – Empress Eirene in Komnenian Poetry: Perceptions of Gender, Empire and Space
3-3:30 coffee
3:30-4 Zoltán Szegvári (PhD student, University of Szeged) The Image of the Latins in Late Byzantine Epistolography
4:30-5 Etele Kiss (Hungarian National Museum, Budapest) –  Visual and Spiritual Portraits of Eirene, the Co-Founder of the Pantokrator
5:30-6 Cicek Dereli (PhD student, CEU Budapest) Cultural Heritage in Istanbul -  Monasteries in Focus

Wednesday, August 8
On-the-Spot: Monument and museum visits guided by David Hendrix and Şerif Yenen

Thursday, August 9
10-10:30 Marianne Sághy Greek Culture in Early Árpádian Hungary
11-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12 Béla Zsolt Szakács (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest) – Between Byzantium and Italy: the Art of Twelfth-Century Hungary
12:30-2 pm lunch break
2-2:30 pm Márton Rózsa (PhD student, ELTE University of Budapest) -- The Byzantine Second-Tier Élite in the Komnenian Period
3-3:30 Lioba Theis (University of Vienna) – Light Symbolism in the Pantokrator
4-4:30 coffee break
4:30-5 Hâluk Çetinkaya (Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul) Funeral Spaces in the Pantokrator Monastery
5:30-6 Etele Kiss (Hungarian National Museum, Budapest) Cosmology between Byzantium and the Occident in the Twelfth Century: Piroska-Eirene and the Opus Sectile Floor of the Pantokrator Monastery
6-6:30 Discussion and conclusions

Friday, August 10
On-the-Spot: Byzantine City Walks guided by David Hendrix and Şerif Yenen

UNITED KINGDOM
CONFERENCE: Ekphrasis and Greek Literature: from the Second Century CE to the Byzantine Era, 5-6 July 2018, Grey College, Durham University
THURSDAY 5 JULY
13:30-14:00: REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS
14:00-14:30: OPENING REMARKS 
SESSION 1 - The Imperial Age
14:30-15:00 
Chair: Calum Maciver
Lucia Floridi (Milan) - “Para-ekphrastic elements in Lucian’s Dialogues of the Sea-Gods”
15:00-15:15: Discussion
15:15-15:45  
Chair: Arianna Gullo
Évelyne Prioux (CNRS, Paris Nanterre) - “The visual culture of Philostratus’ readers”
15:45-16:00: Discussion
16:00-16:30: COFFEE BREAK
SESSION 2 - Late Antiquity (I)
16:30-17:00 
Chair: Lucia Floridi
Calum Maciver (Edinburgh): “Ekphrasis for the sake of ekphrasis in Late Antique Greek Epic”
17:00-17:15: Discussion
17:15-17:45 
Chair: Andreas Rhoby
Laura Miguélez Cavero (Oxford): “Ekphrasis as a (non-)fictional mark: the test case of Nonnus’ Dionysiaca and Paraphrase”
17:45-18:00: Discussion    
19:30: DINNER at The Cellar Door in Durham (41-42, Saddler Street)
FRIDAY 6 JULY
8:30-9:00: REFRESHMENTS
SESSION 3 - Late Antiquity (II)
9:00-9:30 
Chair: Beatrice Daskas
Mary Whitby (Oxford): “Christodorus of Coptus on the statues in the baths of Zeuxippus”
9:30-9:45: Discussion
9:45-10:15
Chair: Évelyne Prioux
Arianna Gullo (Durham): “Ekphrastic epigrams from the Cycle of Agathias and the reader’s response”
10:15-10:30: Discussion
10:30-11:00: COFFEE BREAK
SESSION 4 - The Byzantine Era
11:00-11:30
Chair: Laura Miguélez Cavero
Andreas Rhoby (Vienna): “What we saw and marveled at in the fields, my friend …”. Byzantine Descriptions of Hunts: Texts and Contexts
11:30-11:45: Discussion
11:45-12:15
Chair: Mary Whitby
Beatrice Daskas (Venice): “Cosmic metaphors in Byzantine ekphraseis of buildings (6th-12th c.)”
12:15-12:30: Discussion
12:30-13:00: CONCLUSIONS
13:00-14:00: BUFFET LUNCH    
The conference is open to anyone and attendance is free, but online registration (by 20 June 2018) is compulsory. All conference attendants are also welcome to join the speakers for the conference dinner in the evening of 5 July, but this is at their own expense.
To register for the conference (and for the dinner as well), please follow the link to the website:https://www.dur.ac.uk/conference.booking/details/?id=973
For further information or any queries, please send an email to arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk
 

A CELEBRATION OF 100 YEARS OF THE KORAES CHAIR
DATE: Monday 18 June 2018, 18.00, Great Hall
With the award of the Katie Lentakis Prize for 2018 by the Anglo-Hellenic League
To celebrate the centenary of the Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature distinguished experts will speak on relations between Britain and the world of Hellenism in the fields of culture, literature and history, from the time of Adamantios Koraes to the present, and prospects for the future.

WEBINAR: VCLA Research Webinar, 23 April
The VCLA’s equivalent of a terrestrial research seminar, the Research Webinar will host either individual speakers or panels on subjects across the spectrum of the field of Late Antiquity.
Monday 23 April, 4:30pm-6pm (UK time): Procopius
Our first webinar is on the sixth-century historian, Procopius. Our panellists will be:
· Dr Ian Colvin (Cambridge)
· Dr Conor Whately (Winnipeg)
· Dr Miranda Williams (Oxford)
Following the publication of Christopher Lillington-Martin & Elodie Turquois (eds), Procopius of Caesarea: Literary and Historical Interpretations (Routledge, London & New York, 2017) we will be discussing current research problems in the study of Procopius. Topics are expected to include:
· Procopius’ sources and his methods of working with them;
· Procopius’ sincerity and what we can believe, following recent very different approaches to his preface;
· The relevance of his subject matter (should Procopius have focused on other issues that were more representative of his age?) and how useful a source he is;
· The relationship between Procopius’ works;
· His greatness as an historian.
To register your interest in the occasion, and to receive further details, please email Dr Alexander Skinner at director@vcla.org.uk.

INTERNATIONAL MEDIEVAL CONGRESS IN LEEDS (LEEDS, 02-05.07.2018): "MOVING BYZANTIUM II" SESSIONS (04.07.2018)
International Medieval Congress in Leeds 2018 (2-5 July 2018)
"Moving Byzantium II" Sessions
Programme
Papers are allocated 15 minutes, followed by 30-minute discussion for each session.

1. Session 1003 (Wednesday, 4 July 2018, 09:00-10:30)
Moving Byzantium I: Methods, Tools and Concepts across Disciplines
Organizer: Claudia RAPP - University of Vienna / Austrian Academy of Sciences
Introduction and Moderator: Claudia RAPP (Leader, Moving Byzantium Project)
The Wittgenstein-Prize Project "Mobility, Microstructures and Personal Agency"
The project Moving Byzantium highlights the role of Byzantium as a global culture and analyses the internal flexibility of Byzantine society. It aims to
contribute to a re-evaluation of a society and culture that has traditionally been depicted as stiff, rigid, and encumbered by its own tradition. This will be
achieved by the exploration of issues of mobility, microstructures, and personal agency. In this session, new approaches to these questions from the perspectives of digital humanities (including HGIS and network theory), social history, archaeology and art history will be presented and discussed.
Johannes PREISER-KAPELLER (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna), Mapping Byzantine Mobility: Digital Tools and Analytical Concepts
Ekaterini MITSIOU (University of Vienna - Austria), Digital Mobility: Byzantine Prosopography, Networks and Space
Florence LIARD (Fitch Laboratory, British School - Athens / IRAMATCRP2A, Universite' Bordeaux-Montaigne); co-written with Fotini KONDYLI - University of Virginia, USA, Pottery Traditions "Beyond" Byzantium. Production and Supply in Rural and Urban Contexts within the Frankish Duchy of Athens and Thebes
Elizabeth S. BOLMAN (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH - USA), Rethinking Sites of Production for Early Byzantine Visual Culture

2. Session 1103 (Wednesday, 4 July 2018, 11:15-12:45)
Moving Byzantium II: The Movement of Manuscripts
Organizer: Claudia RAPP - University of Vienna / Austrian Academy of Sciences
Moderator: Matthew KINLOCH (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
This session is devoted to the study of manuscripts from Byzantium and beyond (including the Islamic world), both as sources for and as objects of mobility across the Mediterranean and the Middle East.
Giulia ROSSETTO (University of Vienna - Austria), From West to East: Evidence for Southern Italian Manuscript Culture in St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai
Elias P. PETROU (TLG; University of California, Irvine, CA - USA), Moving Byzantium to the West: Greek Manuscripts from Byzantine Constantinople to the Italian Cities in the 15th c.
Giuseppe PASCALE (Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano - Italy), Books Travelling Within and Beyond Byzantine Empire
Bruno DE NICOLA (Goldsmiths - University of London / Institute of Iranian Studies Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna), Between Byzantium and the Mongols: A Rare Description of 13th Century Anatolia

3. Session 1203 (Wednesday, 4 July 2018, 14:15-15:45)
Moving Byzantium III: The Geographic Mobility of People, Objects, and Ideas 
Organizers: Claudia RAPP - University of Vienna / Austrian Academy of Sciences and Dirk HOERDER - Universitaet Bremen / Arizona State University
Moderator: Nicholas J. B. EVANS (Clare College, University of Cambridge)
In this session, channels of and motivations for the mobility of individuals (e.g. pilgrimage, exile), objects (on the basis of archaeological evidence) or ideas
(religious identities) will be presented and compared.
Katinka SEWING (Heidelberg University - Germany), A Network for Pilgrims at Late Antique Ephesus: The Case Study of a Newly Explored Pilgrimage Church at the Harbor Canal
Emilio BONFIGLIO (University of Vienna - Austria), Historical Memory in Medieval Armenia Literature: The Making of the Armenian Church
Samvel GRIGORYAN (Paul-Valery University of Montpellier III - France), The Chalcedonian Armenians: Moving Borders in Isauria and Pamphylia, 1176-1226
Florin LEONTE (Palacky University of Olomouc), Traveling and the Geographies of Disorientation: Exile in Late Byzantium

4. Session 1303 (Wednesday, 4 July 2018, 16:30-18:00)
Moving Byzantium IV: Social Mobility and the Byzantine World
Organizers: Claudia RAPP - University of Vienna / Austrian Academy of Sciences and Paraskevi SYKOPETRITOU - University of Vienna
Moderator: Ioannis STOURAITIS (University of Vienna / Austrian Academy of Sciences)
This session will focus on the social mobility of individuals and groups especially at the upper echelon of Byzantine society, both from within and from beyond the borders of the Empire.
Christos MALATRAS (Academy of Athens - Greece), Towards the Upper Echelon: Agency and Social Ascent in Late Byzantium
Francesco DALL'AGLIO (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Bulgaria), Moving/Transforming Paristrion: From Byzantine Border Province to Heartland of the "Second Bulgarian Kingdom"
Christos G. MAKRYPOULIAS (Institute of Byzantine Research, Athens) and Angeliki PAPAGEORGIOU (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Moving in Exalted Circles: Balkan Elites, Shifting Loyalties, and Social Mobility in Byzantium (Eleventh-Thirteenth Centuries)
Marton ROZSA (Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest - Hungary), Incoming Governor: The Narrative of Visiting Provincial Administrators and its Function in the Byzantine Epistolography in the "Long" Twelfth Century
Concluding Discussion and Remarks
For further information about the project and updates on future events, visit our website: http://rapp.univie.ac.at/

Opportunities

• 2 doctoral positions for Ph.D. projects Pay category E 13 TV-L (65 %) and
• 3 post-doctoral positions for habilitation projects Pay category E 13 TV-L (100 %)

Calls for Papers

• Geographical scope 
• Syria, Mesopotamia, Armenia and Lazica, Sasanian Persia
• Themes concerning migration and mobility across the Roman-Persian frontier
• Individual case studies and longer-term, macro regional patterns
• Movements of armies
• Diplomatic exchanges
• Professional mobility
• Mobility and economic exchange
• Mobility and religious and cultural exchanges
• Forced migration/population movements
• Migration driven by religious or political persecution
• Return (voluntary and forced) of migrants
• Exit and entry policies (mobility and state security)
• Reactions to migration and mobility (state and society)
• Wider contexts/explanatory frameworks (papers dealing with wider contexts could also discuss other, especially borderland, regions in Late Antiquity)
• Settlement patterns, communications and natural landscapes 
• Environmental/climatic conditions 
• Socio-economic context
• State control/administration (centre-periphery relations)
• Cultural/religious life and institutions
• Great power war and diplomacy
• Military mobility
• Legal framework (status of migrants, deserters, refugees, displaced people etc.) 
• Modern anthropological models

CONFERENCE: "UNDERSTANDING HAGIOGRAPHY AND ITS TEXTUAL TRADITION: THE LATE ANTIQUE AND THE EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD (6TH-11TH CENTURIES)" (LISBON, 24-26.10.2018): CALL FOR PAPERS
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 31.05.2018
Understanding Hagiography and its Textual Tradition: the Late Antique and the Early Medieval Period (6th-11th centuries)
University of Lisbon, October 24-26, 2018
Between the sixth and the eleventh centuries, passions, lives of saints, translations of relics, miracles and other hagiographical genres underwent a remarkable process of transmission and rewriting. This conference aims at producing a fresh look at the transmission and the evolution of these crucial pieces of the spiritual and cultural life in the early Middle Ages. It will explore manuscript and textual traditions and literary reshaping, both in the history of the hagiographic genre and in the evolutionary process of the specific texts, without overlooking their function as pieces of a cult or simply of edification.
Call for papers
The papers should focus on hagiographic texts (passions, lives of saints, translations of relics, miracles and other hagiographic pieces) produced between the sixth and the eleventh centuries, as well as on hagiographic books (passionaries, legendaries and other sorts of compilation) composed before the late eleventh century. The papers must present original results arising out of a current research.
Main thematic lines
- Transformation of the hagiographic text, both at the linguistic and at the literary level, generating new versions (by abbreviation, amplification or otherwise).
- Textual history and manuscript tradition.
- Creation, evolution and transmission of passionaries, legendaries and other sorts of compilation.
Keynote speakers: Francois Dolbeau, Guy Philippart, Monique Goullet, Paolo Chiesa, Rosalind Love, Mark Humphries, Paulo Farmhouse Alberto, Patrick Henriet, Rossana Guglielmetti, Rodrigo Furtado.
Organization: Paulo Farmhouse Alberto, Paolo Chiesa, Monique Goullet.
Submitting papers
The papers should be 20 minutes in length and can be presented in English, French, Italian or Spanish. An abstract of ca. 200 words, including the name, institution and email, should be sent before May 31 2018 to: UHTT_Lisbon2018@letras.ulisboa.pt. Acceptance of the papers will be sent before June 30, 2018.
Inscription fees
70 euros for participating with paper.
50 euros for Ph.D. students presenting a paper.
The payment should be done before July 31, 2017. Bank account details will be provided later. The fee includes the coffee breaks and a special dinner on the evening of first day of the conference.
Website: uhttlisbon2018.letras.ulisboa.pt.
You can manage your subscription and view message archives at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/classicists.html

International Workshop  Preliminary Considerations on the Corpus Coranicum Christianum.
Freie Universität Berlin/Germany, December 5th – 7th, 2018 (two/three days, tbc)
Convener: Manolis Ulbricht & Berlin Byzantine Studies (Freie Universität Berlin)
We are delighted to announce the Call for Papers for our workshop ‘Preliminary Considerations on the Corpus Coranicum Christianum. The Quran in Translation – A Survey of the State-of-the-Art’. In this workshop, we aim to lay the groundwork for an interdisciplinary research project, which will focus on comparing the different translations of the Quran made within Christian cultural backgrounds. The project will study the Quran and its reception from the Christian perspective by analyzing all Greek, Syriac, and Latin translations of the Quran from the 7th century CE until the Early Modern period.
The keynote speech will be delivered by Professor Angelika Neuwirth, head of the project Corpus Coranicum (CC) at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The workshop aims to map out the different scholars and research traditions dealing with varied translations of the Quran. In addition, it seeks to connect these experts and to facilitate the scientific exchange between the multitude of studies previously conducted in this field. Finally, the workshop will examine the possibilities of using methods in the Digital Humanities for building an open-access database for systematically collecting and presenting the material for further research.
The structure of the planned project will correspond with the languages that will be analyzed. The Corpus Coranicum Christianum (CCC) shall, in a first step, consist of the three subprojects: Corpus Coranicum Byzantinum (CCB), Corpus Coranicum Syriacum (CCS), and Corpus Coranicum Latinum (CCL). More languages may later be added. The different texts that preserve translations of the Quran will be collected and analyzed individually. Then, they will be compared and commented on under the determined aspects. Therefore, all translations shall be digitalized and linked to each other and to the Arabic Quran texts in order to enable researchers to systematically examine the non-Muslim reception and transmission of the Quran. In this way, the Corpus Coranicum Christianum synopsis will be made accessible in an open-access database, thus ensuring the availability of the results to the scientific and broader public.
Papers for the workshop are welcome in one or more of the following four sections:
Greek translations of the Quran (CCB)
Syriac translations of the Quran (CCS)
Latin translations of the Quran (CCL)
Digital Humanities (DH)
The workshop is focused on interdisciplinary research, which will, the organizers hope, encourage fruitful discussions about the state-of-the-art of the field and highlight potential areas for future research cooperation. As we wish to encourage different approaches in research methodology, your presentation should comprise an introductory presentation no longer than 15 minutes, followed by 30 minutes of work on pre-prepared source material including discussion time.
For this purpose, we welcome abstracts of up to 300 words, to be submitted in English by May 31st, 2018 to: corpus.coranicum.christianum@klassphil.fu-berlin.de. Abstracts should include your name, affiliation, position, the title of the proposed paper, your specific source(s) you want to work on, and a brief curriculum vitae. Please also indicate the preferred section (see above: CCB, CCS, CCL, DH). Notifications will be sent out in June 2018. Full papers should be submitted by 15th November, 2018. Limited funding will be available for accommodation and/or travel. Proposed workshop languages: English, German, Spanish, and French. Papers will be published as edited volume.
The project initiative Corpus Coranicum Christianum is financed by the Presidency of the Freie Universität Berlin. For more information about this project initiative, please visit our website.
Date: 5th – 7th December 2018 (two/three days, tbc)
Deadline: 31st May 2018
Venue: Freie Universität Berlin
Admission: Free and open to all interested specialists and Ph.D. students
Contact: corpus.coranicum.christianum@klassphil.fu-berlin.de
More information can be found here.

Call for Papers
The Byzantine Liturgy and the Jews
International Conference
Sibiu 9-11 July 2019

Anti-Jewish elements have persisted in the Byzantine liturgy for over a thousand years in areas under the influence of the Eastern Christian Empire. These elements have spread through translation from Byzantium to all countries and cultures which worship today according to the Byzantine rite. Despite the profound theological and liturgical changes that have taken place in the second half of the 20th century in Western Christianity, hymns that were composed in the polemical context of the 8th-9th centuries are still used today in Eastern countries and in the Christian Orthodox Communities of the diaspora.
The conference with the topic Byzantine liturgy and the Jews addresses the issue of liturgical anti-Judaism from various perspectives, in order to provide the necessary tools so that we can better understand this reality: 
Historical-criticism – which hymns fall within this discussion? When were these texts included in the liturgy and what were the overall social and political contexts in which they were written? What differences can one identify between original versions and translated ones and what are the aspects that have led to innovation in translating these texts? And how do texts with Byzantine anti-Jewish elements differ from analogous texts from the Syriac, Coptic, Armenian and Georgian traditions? 
Patristic and liturgical approach – which is the role of hymns within the liturgical structure? What is the relationship between hymnography and homilies and other patristic writings? To what extent can one identify a patristic origin of certain anti-Jewish topoi and how did this very fact assure their transmission in worship? And what can be said about the image of the Jews in Byzantine iconography and their possible relation with hymnographic texts?
Theological approach – what kind of relationship is there between biblical statements regarding Israel and antiJewish hymnography? What is truly anti-Jewish in the Byzantine rite? Which are the criteria that would guide us today in evaluating liturgical texts from this perspective?
Socio-cultural impact – to what extent can one follow how these hymns reflect, consolidate and modify the
mentalities of given religious communities?

Presentation abstracts of no more than 200 words should be sent to: cces@ecum.ro
Deadline: July 1, 2018. Papers may be presented in English and German.
Conference proceedings will be published in the PeterLang's Edition Israelogie series.
Financial support may be available upon consultation with the organisers.
The conference is financed within project PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0699, funded by the Executive Agency for Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding.

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)

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/

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

Extra Opportunities: Some Funding Bodies

(by Dionysios Stathakopoulos)
 

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

24^TH 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 

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