Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
NB: This lecture is open to all. It will be preceded by the Society’s Annual General Meeting at 16:30, held via Zoom and open to all members of the Society. If you also wish to attend the AGM, please email the Secretary, Dr Tim Greenwood (twg3@st-andrews.ac.uk) and he will supply the necessary link.
29 October 2020
The Society’s Annual General Meeting, postponed from Sunday 29 March 2020, will be held on Thursday 29 October 2020 at 4.30pm via Zoom. The agenda remains the same as that advertised in the 2020 Bulletin (vol.46) at p.132. All wishing to attend are invited to contact the Secretary, Dr Tim Greenwood, by email (twg3@st-andrews.ac.uk) and he will supply the necessary link.
The Society’s Autumn Lecture will also take place on Thursday 29 October at 5.15pm, again via Zoom. Professor Emeritus Henry Maguire (Johns Hopkins University) will be speaking to the title ‘String theory: order and disruption in Byzantine interlace’.
All welcome – again if you want to attend, please contact the Secretary, Dr Tim Greenwood, by email (twg3@st-andrews.ac.uk) and he will supply the necessary link.
Starts 15 October. Also by Zoom.
Byzantium at Ankara is happy to announce its new Seminar Series scheduled for the Fall Semester 2020/21.
The series will open on Thursday 15 October 2020 (h. 18.00 Istanbul Time) with a talk by Dr. Philipp Niewöhner (Georg August Universität Göttingen) entitled “The grave of Saint Nicholas.”
The full roster of speakers (including Prof. Judith Herrin, Dr. Ioanna Christoforaki and Dr. Tolga B. Uyar among the others) can be found at https://www.byzantiumatankara.net/program.
For registration and info please write to byzantiumatankara@hotmail.com.
Rijeka, 15-16 October 2020
Also via Zoom
Please see attached programme for details.
CISconference-program
UPDATE (12 October): Note that there are currently problems with the provided email address. Instead, please contact Dr Haarer at fiona.haarer@kcl.ac.uk.
Hosted by Dumbarton Oaks
5-6 November 2020, from 9:00am-1:00pm EST
Research on the social and economic history of Byzantium has tended to focus on the upper levels of society, where the evidence is abundant and relatively easily accessible. It has traditionally been dominated by attention to the large structures of church and state, represented through the key figures of patriarch and emperor, and how they implemented their economic and ideological interests. This has resulted in a top-down view of Byzantine society. In recent years, however, greater attention has been paid to the study of group formation, especially with a view to vertical mobility through patronage networks. This colloquium aims to foreground these recent advances in scholarship.
The colloquium brings together eight specialists who investigate the formation of groups based on shared purpose, whether social, economic, or religious. Of particular interest is the interplay between external pressures and internal motivation in the perception and representation of groups, on the one hand, and in the formation of groups and networks, on the other. This often involves searching out previously unknown or underappreciated sources, or subjecting better-known sources to new analytical questions.
By elucidating these phenomena in different periods of Byzantine history and in different geographical and social settings, this colloquium raises important issues of scope regarding the methodology and interpretive models for the study of Byzantine society.
Free and open to the public. Register at: https://www.doaks.org/research/byzantine/scholarly-activities/people-and-power-in-byzantium.
Hosted by Dumbarton Oaks
30 October 2020, at 2:00pm EDT
For the past five decades, Byzantinists have explored gender and sexuality. More recent work has turned to gendered emotions and religious devotion. While much of this research has its origin in women’s history, there has been an increasing interest in men, including monks and eunuchs, and in the articulations and performances of masculinity.
This conversation brings together scholars across the globe who have actively promoted this research to reflect on their work and its evolving academic and non-academic contexts.
Free and open to the public. Register at: https://www.doaks.org/research/byzantine/scholarly-activities/rethinking-byzantine-masculinities-gender-sexuality-emotions-devotion.