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| February 2010 | ||
| 25 Feb | Oxford | GRINFIELD LECTURES ON THE SEPTUAGINT Anneli Aejmelaeus (Professor of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Culture and Literature, University of Helsinki) Hilary Term 2010 |
| March 2010 | ||
| 2 Mar | London | Arietta Papaconstantinou (University of Oxford) Language change in Egypt and the Near East after the Arab conquest. King's College London, Centre for Hellenic Studies: Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar 2009-10 Seminars will be held at 5.30 on alternate Tuesdays at the Waterloo Campus in Room 1.62 of the Franklin-Wilkins Building, on Stamford Street near Waterloo station. |
| 4 Mar | Oxford | GRINFIELD LECTURES ON THE SEPTUAGINT Anneli Aejmelaeus (Professor of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Culture and Literature, University of Helsinki) Hilary Term 2010 |
| 4 Mar | Birmingham | Angeliki Lymberopoulou (The Open University) Centre of Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies |
| 12-13 Mar | London | LATE ANTIQUE ARCHAEOLOGY 2010 LOCAL ECONOMIES? PRODUCTION & EXCHANGE OF INLAND REGIONS IN LATE ANTIQUITY Studies of the late antique economy often stress sea-borne interregional trade as a motor of prosperity. But why were inland regions able to flower at this time? Was wealth generated mainly by local production and exchange? How important was this to the economy as a whole? FRIDAY 12TH MARCH (in the Great Hall) SATURDAY 13TH MARCH (in Safra Lecture Theatre) Prosperity in Inland Regions (forms of production) Regional exchange (forms of consumption) Entrance is free, though places are limited. To reserve a place please email. Held at the Strand Campus, King's College London. Our location details can be found here. Nearest Tube is Temple station. For flights try skyscanner. Cheap UK train tickets can be obtained from trainline. Ask for GroupSave4 tickets: 4 people for the price of 2. Organised by the University of Kent (Centre for Late Antique Generously supported by Museum Selection and Brill Academic Publishers. [Posted on BEDLAM: Byzantine Email Distribution List and Mailings.] |
| 16 Mar | London | Georgi Parpulov (University of Oxford) King's College London, Centre for Hellenic Studies: Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar 2009-10 Seminars will be held at 5.30 on alternate Tuesdays at the Waterloo Campus in Room 1.62 of the Franklin-Wilkins Building, on Stamford Street near Waterloo station. |
| 18 Mar | Birmingham | David Holton (University of Cambridge) 5.15pm in The Museum Centre of Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies |
| 27-9 Mar | Birmingham | Byzantium behind the Scenes: Power and Subversion Byzantium has traditionally been deemed a civilisation which deferred to authority and set special store by orthodoxy, canon and proper order. The Byzantine Spring Symposium in 2010 will bring together historians, art historians, scholars of literature and religion, and philosophers who will discuss shared and discipline-specific approaches to the theme of subversion. ** Call For Papers** closing date 7th Feb 2010 For up to date information, registration, programme, communications and accommodation visit the 43rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies website. |
| 30 Mar | London | Katerina Ierodiakonou (University of Athens) King's College London, Centre for Hellenic Studies: Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar 2009-10 Seminars will be held at 5.30 on alternate Tuesdays at the Waterloo Campus in Room 1.62 of the Franklin-Wilkins Building, on Stamford Street near Waterloo station. |
| April 2010 | ||
| 4 Mar | Birmingham | **CALL FOR PAPERS** Gender and Transgression in the Middle Ages Possible topics for papers might include, but are by no means limited to: All delegates are invited to attend an evening meal after the first day’s sessions. Refreshments will be provided throughout the second day, which will conclude with an informal roundtable discussion and wine reception. Please send abstracts for papers of approximately 300 words to: genderandtransgression@st-andrews.ac.uk. [Posted on BEDLAM: Byzantine Email Distribution List and Mailings.] |
| May 2010 | ||
| 12 May | Reading | joint archaeological research seminar The Centre for Institutional Performance and the Research Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at the University of Reading are pleased to announce a one-day joint archaeological research seminar on: Van Emden lecture theatre, Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HUMSS), Whiteknights campus, University of Reading, Reading. Provisional programme |
| 27-29 May | London | New Light on Old Glass: Byzantine Glass and Mosaics A 3-day conference on Byzantine glass will be held at the British Museum in London 27-29 May 2010. The conference is being organised by Chris Entwistle, Curator of the Late Roman and Byzantine Collections, and Liz James, Director of the Leverhulme International Network for the Composition of Byzantine Glass Mosaic Tesserae (University of Sussex). The three days will cover topics such as glass and mosaics, gold glass, the Lycurgus Cup, techniques of manufacture, new discoveries in Byzantine glass. Confirmed speakers include: Tassos Antonaras (Thessaloniki), Claudia Bolgia (Edinburgh), Cristina Boschetti (Nottingham), Jas' Elsner (Oxford and Chicago), Ian Freestone (Cardiff), Yael Gorin Rosen (Jerusalem), Daniel Howells (Sussex), Judith Mckenzie (Oxford), Martine Newby, Nadine Schibille (Oxford), Marianne Stern (Netherlands), Ann Terry (USA), Marco Verità (Venice), Hanna Witte (Germany), David Whitehouse (Corning), Gary Vikan (Walters Art Gallery). Programme and booking information will be sent out soon. For preliminary interest and questions contact Bente Bjornholt Art History, Unversity of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QQ, UK. [Posted on BEDLAM: Byzantine Email Distribution List and Mailings.] |
| June 2010 | ||
| 10-11 June | Tours, France | international conference Keynote speaker: Maureen Miller (University of California Berkeley) The history of many European cities was shaped by one or more saintly figures whose ties to the city—real or imagined—had both spiritual and tangible consequences. The topography of the city, its economy, its institutions, its liturgy, its reputation, and even its inhabitants’ sense of civic pride, could all be shaped by and were dependent upon an idiosyncratic understanding of the saint’s association with the city. The figure of the bishop-saint, moreover, bestowed with extraordinary spiritual and temporal prerogatives, represents a distinctive type which this conference seeks to address. What was his impact on religious, political, and cultural practices and institutions in a given city? What are some of the privileges associated with promoting his cult? In what ways do local claims on the bishop-saint evince tensions on a regional/national level or between elites and the masses? Possible perspectives on these and other related issues may include, but are not restricted to liturgy, music, hagiography, art history, theology, history, and paleography. The conference is sponsored by the Université François-Rabelais de Tours, and by Le Studium. Program committee: Christine Bousquet (University of Tours), Yossi Maurey (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem/ Le Studium). [Posted on BEDLAM: Byzantine Email Distribution List and Mailings.] |
| July 2010 | ||
| 12-15 July | Leeds | International MEDIEVAL Conference To commemorate the 550th anniversary of the death of Prince Henry 'the Navigator' of Portugal, the International Medieval Congress 2010 has the special thematic focus 'Travel and Exploration'. The voyages undertaken in the name of Henry of Portugal exemplify many of the motives that had long driven people to travel and explore: the prospect of wealth, trade, and territory, knowledge and curiosity, piety and religious zeal, legends and external salvation. The Congress seeks to provide a forum for debates on the motives, processes, and effects of travel and exploration, not only by Latin Christians in the so-called 'Age of Discovery', but across cultures, and throughout the medieval period. What motives prompted travel and exploration in the Middle Ages? Were the factors that drove exploration and travel in and from Europe the same as in other cultures? How do travel and exploration and their effects resonate through written, material, and visual culture? We welcome papers and sessions on all aspects of travel and exploration, broadly understood, including travel as a means of cultural, political, and commercial interaction, ethnography, mental travel, spiritual journeys, the literature of utopia, travel to any place in our world and beyond, journeys 'real' and 'fictitious'. We would particularly encourage submissions with cross-cultural and comparative approaches, and in this context welcome sessions that reach beyond the conventional chronological and geographical borders of the European Middle Ages. Aspects may include: We prefer proposals to be completed online - a quick, easy, and secure method. The online proposal form will be available from 1 May 2009. Hard copies of the proposal forms are available on request. Paper proposals must be submitted by 31 August 2009; session proposals must be submitted by 30 September 2009. Further details: Axel E. W. Müller, International Medieval Congress, Institute for Medieval Studies, Parkinson 1.03, University of Leeds, LEEDS, LS2 9JT, UK [Posted on BEDLAM: Byzantine Email Distribution List and Mailings.] |
| July | Lincoln | International Summer School in The Third Lincoln College International Summer School in Greek Palaeography will take place in the summer of 2010. Further information will appear in the school’s website in the autumn of 2009. The Summer School addresses advanced undergraduate as well as postgraduate students working in subject areas such as classics (Greek language and literature), medieval and early modern Greek philology, patristics, theology, art history and archaeology, and late antique, medieval, and Byzantine literary and cultural history. |
| October 2010 | ||
| 21-24 Oct | Istanbul | **CALL FOR PAPERS** Istanbul Sehir University Symposium Istanbul Sehir University and the World History Association proudly announce a symposium focusing on the world-historical significance of Byzantine and Ottoman civilizations, 330-1922. The symposium will consist of 30 papers plus a keynote address and several other plenary sessions. The official languages of the symposium will be English and Turkish. Panel and paper proposals dealing with either Byzantine or Ottoman civilizations (or both) in the context of world history and across all relevant disciplines are invited and should be submitted electronically no later than 1 October 2009 to the World History Association's dedicated web page, which will be up by 15 July 2009. Delivery time for each paper must not exceed 20 minutes. Panels, each of which is two hours in length, should consist of a chair, four paper presenters, and a discussant. A committee will review all proposals and make its decision regarding acceptances by 15 November 2009. Criteria for acceptance include a proposal's world-historical scope, its originality, and its depth of scholarship. Successful participants must pay their own travel and lodging expenses. However, Istanbul Sehir University will assist conferees in securing accommodations at nearby 4- and 5-star hotels at deeply discounted conference rates. Moreover participants who are presenting will be hosted daily for lunch and dinner throughout the conference and will enjoy a complimentary city tour to major Byzantine and Ottoman sites. There is no registration fee. Persons not presenting a paper may also register for the conference,attend at no fee, and will be eligible for the discounted lodging. On-line registration will be found as early as 15 July 2009 at the WHA website. In order to participate in any capacity, persons must register on-line no later than 15 September 2010. The conference organizers will endeavor to publish selected papers delivered at the symposium. Questions and inquiries should be directed to A. J. Andrea Hayrettin Yucesoy or Nurullah Ardiç Periodic informational updates will appear at http://www.thewha.org beginning September 2009. [Posted on BEDLAM: Byzantine Email Distribution List and Mailings.] |
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