the 15th Postgraduate Colloquium of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, will take place on May 24th 2014.
This event is an excellent opportunity for research students in Late Antique, Byzantine or Modern Greek Studies to present their current research to an international academic audience at Birmingham. Our keynote speaker will be Dr Maria Georgopoulou, Director of the Gennadius Library (American School of Classical Studies at Athens).
Appel à contribution disponible en pdf
Pour la septième année consécutive, les Rencontres internationales des doctorants en études byzantines se dérouleront à l’Institut national d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA) les 3 et 4 octobre 2014. Ces rencontres, inscrites depuis 2010 dans le cadre de l’Association des Étudiants du Monde Byzantin (AEMB), connaissent un grand succès et témoignent ainsi de l’importance des études byzantines aux yeux de la communauté scientifique. En effet, outre l’INHA qui accueille gracieusement les Rencontres byzantines depuis six ans, cet événement ne pourrait avoir lieu sans l’aide financière des universités (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris-Sorbonne, Caen Basse-Normandie), des grandes écoles (École pratique des hautes études, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, École des Chartes) et le Comité français des études byzantines.
Organisées sur deux jours, les Rencontres byzantines ont pour objectif de rassembler des doctorants de toutes nationalités consacrant leurs recherches à la civilisation byzantine, quels que soient leurs domaines de spécialisation (art, archéologie, histoire, lettres…). Afin de mettre en valeur la diversité des disciplines, aucune thématique n’est imposée. Chaque intervenant présente son sujet de recherche ou développe une problématique liée à son sujet pendant vingt minutes.
Les échanges méthodologiques sont encouragés par les discussions entre les intervenants et les auditeurs après chaque communication, soulevant des questions sur les outils de recherche et permettant à tous de partager des connaissances ainsi que de donner et recevoir des conseils par des doctorants plus expérimentés ou des professeurs.
Ces Rencontres sont aussi l’occasion pour les jeunes chercheurs de s’entraîner à l’oral afin de présenter leur travail de façon claire et construite, voire de parler, pour certains, dans une autre langue. Les intervenants verront leurs résumés de communication publiés sur le site de l’AEMB. Ils auront également la possibilité de publier l’intégralité de leur communication dans la revue en ligne Porphyra (http://www.porphyra.it) si le texte est accepté par le comité scientifique de la revue.
Les échanges dynamiques et pluridisciplinaires constituent le fondement de la réussite des Rencontres internationales des doctorants en études byzantines : venez nombreux !
Modalités d’inscription
Les doctorants souhaitant intervenir lors des Rencontres internationales byzantines les 3 et 4 octobre 2014 à l’INHA devront envoyer avant le 3 février 2014 à l’adresse suivante (lesbyzantines@gmail.com) un résumé d’une vingtaine de lignes (maximum 2000 caractères, espaces compris) avec un titre, en précisant :
– le type d’intervention (présentation du sujet de thèse ou sujet libre)
– la langue souhaitée pour intervenir (français ou anglais)
– le nom du directeur de recherche, l’institution de rattachement et le sujet de recherche.
Un accusé de réception sera envoyé systématiquement dès réception du résumé.
Le programme définitif des Rencontres sera établi le 10 mars 2014 puis envoyé aux intervenants.
Heaven and Earth: Greece’s Byzantium
May 1-3, 2014
Getty Villa in Malibu & UCLA in the Byzantine-Latino Quarter, Los Angeles
This symposium will bring together an internationally renowned group of scholars who will lecture at the Getty Villa, UCLA, and the Huffington Center at St. Sophia Cathedral. Focusing on Byzantine remains in Greece, this symposium foregrounds the important role of this region throughout late antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Early Modern period. Sessions will focus on Byzantium’s roots in antiquity, issues of daily life, interactions with the Islamic world and with Italy, the meaning of icons, monumental art in Mystras and its periphery, and recent archaeological finds in Greece. The symposium will conclude with a film and discussion about traditional village life in Greece.
Speakers include Robert S. Nelson, Henry Maguire, Jas’ Elsner, Anthony Kaldellis, Elizabeth Marlowe, Ioli Kalavrezou, Maria Parani, Demetra Bakirtzi, Father Maximos Constas, Annemarie Weyl Carr, Alicia Walker, Maria Georgopoulou, Anastasia Drandaki, Michalis Kappas, Sean Roberts, Patricia Fortini Brown, Eugenia Gerousi, Sharon Gerstel and Barbara Drucker.
Registration information will appear shortly on the Getty website. For questions about hotels and logistics, email Sharon Gerstel (gerstel@humnet.ucla.edu)
Istanbul, Turkey
This two-day workshop will be hosted at the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University, in Taksim. The organizers invite the submission of abstracts presenting excavation data relating to identity, territoriality and artistic expression of Anatolian personalities or groups, as well as investigations into the creation and manipulation of identity through material culture. The focus of the first day will be on theoretical and methodological approaches to identity in prehistoric Anatolia, while the second day will be open to papers concerning identity and self at any time period in Anatolian studies.
The main objective of the workshop is to investigate the embodiment of identity markers in literal and representative media; such as mortuary practices, personalization of tools, location of petroglyphs, and changing contexts of settlement planning. The archaeological focus of this workshop will enhance our perspectives on the relations between the self-determination of ancient Anatolians and their material context in Anatolia.
Abstracts of 300 words or fewer should be sent to ehughes@ku.edu.tr no later than midnight on February 10, 2014.
Passages from Antiquity to the Middle Ages VI:
ON THE ROAD
TRAVELS, PILGRIMAGES AND SOCIAL INTERACTION
University of Tampere, Finland
6. – 8. August, 2015
CALL FOR PAPERS (deadline September 15th 2014)
The sixth international Passages from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
conference will focus on social approaches to travelling, mobility,
pilgrimages, and cultural exchange. Interaction between society and
space has been a key interest of scholars after the ‘Spatial Turn’.
Nevertheless, larger comparisons between eras and cultures are mainly
missing.
The archetypal journey of Odysseys served as a metaphor and model for
later narrations of travelling. In both Ancient and medieval worlds,
religious reasons were significant motivations for travelling; these
travels confront the traditional idea of these periods as eras of
immobility. However, the challenges of setting out for a journey, as
well as the dangers of the road, were not dependent on the incentive
but rather on distance and other geographical settings, social status
of the traveller, and political climate.
The conference aims at concentrating on social and cultural
interaction before, during and after travelling. What kinds of
motivations were there for ancient and medieval people to get on the
road and what kind of negotiations and networks were inherent in
travelling? We welcome papers, which have a sensitive approach to
social differences: gender, age, health, and status. Actors,
experiences and various levels of negotiations are of main interest,
and our focus lies on society and the history of everyday life, on the
differences and similarities between elite and popular culture, and on
the expectations linked to gender and life cycle stage, visible in the
practices and policies of travelling. We encourage proposals that
integrate the theme of travelling into wider larger social and
cultural contexts.
We aim at a broad coverage not only chronologically but also
geographically and disciplinarily (all branches of Classical,
Byzantine and Medieval Studies). Most preferable are contributions
that have themselves a comparative and/or interdisciplinary viewpoint
or focusing on a longue durée perspective.
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If interested, please submit an abstract of 300 words (setting out
thesis and conclusions) for a twenty-minute paper together with your
contact details (with academic affiliation, address and e-mail) by
e-mail attachment to the conference secretary, passages@uta.fi. The
deadline for abstracts is September 15th 2014, and the notification of
paper acceptance will be made in November 2014.
Conference papers may also be presented in French, German or Italian,
however, supplied with an English summary (as a hand-out) or
translation if the language of presentation is not English. The
sessions are formed on the basis of thematic coherence of the papers
and comparisons between Antiquity and the Middle Ages, thus session
proposals focusing on one period only will not be accepted.
The registration fee is 100 EUR (doctoral students: 50 EUR). For further
information, please visit http://www.uta.fi/trivium/passages/ or
contact the organizers by sending an e-mail to passages@uta.fi. The
registration opens in November 2014 at
http://www.uta.fi/trivium/passages.
