The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham, has announced the new Seminar Series for 2023/24. These will be hybrid events, so please feel free to join via zoom, or on the Birmingham campus.
Time: Wednesdays 1300-1430 (Greenwich Mean Time)
To sign-up for virtual access, please visit our Ticket Source page: http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/centre-for-byzantine…
Semester 1
- 4 October: (Hybrid/Strathcona LT1) Pan-Mediterranean Dialogues of Power and Prestige: Byzantine Architecture in Context (1330-1500).
Jessica Varsallona (Edinburgh) - 18 October CBOMGS (Hybrid/Arts 104) Byzantine Sicily and Sardinia
Luca Zavagno (Bilkent) - 8 November (Hybrid/Strathcona LT1) Seeing Paintings with the Touch: Inclusion and Accessibility in the Church of S. Ambrogio.
Flavia Vanni (Salerno) - 22 November (Hybrid/Arts 104) Dictating and Interpreting of Greek Notarial Documents in Late Medieval Venetian Crete. The Case of Nicolaos Agiostefanitis Ryota Takada (Tokyo)
- 6 December (Hybrid/Arts 104) Nature in Palaiologan Romances
Foivi Georgiadi (Athens)
Semester 2
- 24 January Commerce & Crisis in the Eleventh-Century Empire of New Rome: The View from Ani
Nik Matheou (Edinburgh) - 7 February Keeping Time: Temporal Imagery and Thought in the Calendars of Later Byzantium
Peter Boudreau (Yale) - 28 February The Legacies of Ancient Theatre in Middle Byzantium
Elena Gittleman (Bryn Mawr) - 13 March (NB. This seminar will begin at 1700) The Meaning of Jewellery in Byzantium: An Archaeological Perspective
Georgios Makris (British Columbia) - 24 April Speech Difference and Disability Gain in Byzantium, c. 1000-1200
Maroula Perisanidi (Leeds)
