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| July 2010 | ||
| 9 July | London | One-day conference A one-day conference organised by Dr Nikolaos Chrissis and Michael Carr, under the auspices of the SSCLE, with the sponsorship of the Department of History of Royal Holloway, University of London, and with further support and funding by the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (SPHS). The conference will be dedicated in memory of Konstantinos Ikonomopoulos, student of the Hellenic Institute and the History Department of Royal Holloway (1980-2009). The conference will explore new aspects of the interaction between Byzantine Greeks, Latins and Turks in the period between the Fourth Crusade (1204) and the fall of Constantinople in 1453. It will combine the participants' original research on crusading in the Greek East in the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, with the latest advances in Byzantine and Crusade historiography. A broad range of themes will be explored, including the implementation and evolution of the crusade in the area, the religious landscape and political balance of a land shared by Orthodox Greeks, Catholic Latins and Muslim Turks, and the role of trade in fostering closer contact between the three sides. The conference programme brings together both established academics and postdoctoral research students from Britain and beyond. There is no registration fee, but those who wish to attend should register with Michael Carr or Nikolaos Chrissis. |
| 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. |
| August 2010 | ||
| 2-6 Aug | Ankara | 12th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas |
| 7 Aug | Brisbane, Australia | Ancient History Day Dr A.R. Brown will give a paper: Animals as Entertainment in Late Antiquity. |
| September 2010 | ||
| 1-3 Sept | Durham | The Third British Patristics Conference For further details see the website or contact britishpatristics@googlemail.com |
| October 2010 | ||
| 21-24 Oct | Istanbul | 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.] |
| November 2010 | ||
| tbc | London | The annual London University Workshop on Greek Texts, Manuscripts and Scribes will be held at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB in November 2010 (date to be confirmed). Designed for MA and research students who pursue research in Classical and Byzantine texts preserved in manuscripts, the Workshop will present research methods and techniques used in tracing published texts, manuscripts and scribes. Students shall be given the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the Warburg Institute’s collection of printed books and electronic resources, including the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae and Pinakes. For further information please contact Charalambos Dendrinos |
| 18-19 Nov | Poland | Oskar Halecki and his Vision of Europe |
| February 2011 | ||
| 25-27 Feb | Cambridge | The Friends of Mount Athos will hold their next residential conference at Madingley Hall, Cambridge, over the weekend of 25-27 February 2011. The theme will be "The Earthly Heaven": The Mother of God and the Holy Mountain. The conference is open to members and non-members alike. The conference is open to members and non-members alike. |
| March 2011 | ||
| 17-19 Mar | Toronto | Iconoclasm: The Breaking and Making of Images The 22nd annual conference of the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto in March 2011 will focus on the idea of Iconoclasm, the breaking of images and the making of icons. The word 'iconoclasm' is weighted with a long history of religious significance, from the Byzantine war on religious icons of the 8th- and 9th-centuries and the Protestant reformation in the 16th century, to the Taliban's destruction of the Buddhas of Bamyan in the 21st century. But the idea of destroying or defacing images, especially images that convey aspects of cultural dominance or, conversely, pose a threat to that dominance, is as often political as religious: think of the Chinese Cultural Revolution or graffiti moustaches. Political iconoclasm, unlike religious iconoclasm, does not object to representation as such but rather to certain images that have been granted the status of icons. However, any act of desecrating symbols of authority itself often takes on iconic status: take, for example, photos of the pulling down of statues from Romania to Iraq. Please check the website for updates [Posted on BEDLAM: Byzantine Email Distribution List and Mailings.] |
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