Book presentation at ANAMED: "Liminal Spaces and Spatial Practices in Byzantium"

This event, a special discussion on Liminal Spaces and Spatial Practices in Byzantium, welcomes Buket Kitapçı Bayrı, the volume's co-editor, alongside Rebecca Darley, the volume's English copy editor and ANAMED's current senior fellow, on May 11 at 17:00 at ANAMED auditorium. Together, they will introduce the book's key themes and discuss the intersections of liminality, space, and spatial practices in Byzantium.

Liminal Spaces and Spatial Practices in Byzantium (Routledge Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies Series, 2026) focuses on conceptions of spatial liminality in the Byzantine world by offering a novel interdisciplinary approach—combining concepts from social anthropology (liminality) and cultural geography (space) as methodological tools for historical investigation—across 11 chapters. The contributors examine how various spaces—from natural landscapes to architectural thresholds—generate liminal situations within their social and historical contexts and facilitate the creation of new and alternative realities.

The discussion will take place in a question-and-answer format, with active audience participation encouraged.

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