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Autumn Summer School at AKMED, Antalya: Accessing Byzantine Seals with New Digital Methods
Accessing Byzantine Seals with New Digital Methods, Autumn Summer, Antalya, October 8–17, 2026 Organized in collaboration between the University of Cologne and Anadolu University, and hosted by AKMED, the international training program titled "Access
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Call For Papers: International Symposium Between East and West: Greek Manuscripts in the Palaiologan Era
On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Laboratory of Palaeography and Codicology of the School of Philology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Laboratory of Palaeography and Codicology and the Department of Medieval Greek Studies a
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Online "Classical Syriac I" course at MUYOM (in Turkish)
A seven-session "Classical Syriac I" course is starting at Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University via the MUYOM platform; classes will be held online on Mondays at 19:30. The sessions will be conducted live online, and no Zoom video recordings will be made. I
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Autumn Summer School at AKMED, Antalya: Accessing Byzantine Seals with New Digital Methods
Accessing Byzantine Seals with New Digital Methods, Autumn Summer, Antalya, October 8–17, 2026 Digital methods are profoundly transforming the ways in which historical objects and museum collections can be accessed, analysed, and presented. Using mus
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Panel at Kadir Has University, Istanbul: Light of the Past: A Chronology of Illumination
Rezan Has Museum invites everyone interested in discovering the historical journey of lighting to join our panel, organized as part of the In the Light of the Past: A Chronology of Illumination exhibition. The panel will take place on Thursday, Octob
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Online Lecture by Nicole Berlin: "Antioch as a Center: New Research on a Dispersed Archaeological Legacy"
Date: Oct 2, 2026 Time: 12:00 PM–1:30 PM EDT (19:00-20:30 Turkey time) Location: Zoom Nicole Berlin, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, reconstructs the histories of artifacts excavated during the 1930s Princeton expeditions at Antioch to reveal new pe
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Call For Papers: Multilingualism in the Ancient Greco-Roman and Byzantine Worlds: Between Theory and Practice. Bi-, Multi-, and Translingualism as Language Ecology
We are seeking chapter contributions for an edited volume to be published by Brill. Multilingualism is not a recent phenomenon, yet its full complexity in the ancient and medieval worlds remains underexplored. Scholarship has tended to approach langu
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Workshop at NIT, Istanbul: Water and Heritage Futures: Learning, Conserving, Adapting
We are pleased to announce the Water and Heritage Futures: Learning, Conserving, Adapting workshop, organized by the Netherlands Institute in Türkiye (NIT), Middle East Technical University (METU), Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE), a
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Summer Course for Classical Languages in Muğla, Turkey (in Turkish)
6-25 July 2026 The primary goal in the summer course is to provide participants with a program of three weeks equivalent to a semester-long university course. This approach aims to ensure a strong foundation in these languages, which not only shaped
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Call for Papers: “ Weird Connections: Modernism and Byzantium” at Loughborough, UK
1-4 July 2026 Leaders: Dr. Christos Hadiyiannis (University of Regensburg), Dr. Demet Karabulut Dede (Istanbul Bilgi University) Modernists were drawn to unexpected connections. One such weird connection was with Byzantium, which for many modernists
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Call for Papers: International Symposium on Healing in Anatolian Culture, Cappadocia
We invite researchers and academics working within the framework outlined below to participate with abstract submissions in the symposium entitled “Healing in Anatolian Culture,” to be organized by the Center for Cappadocian and Cultural Studies at t
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Seventh International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium, ANAMED
10-11-12 June 2026 Location: ANAMED Negotiating Spaces: Borders, Neighbours and Exchanges in Byzantine Anatolia The Fourth International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium (2016) examined Byzantium’s encounter with the geographically, ethnically