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Lecture by Nurtaç Buluç and Mustafa Ergül at Zeyrek Academy: "Zeyrek'te Katmanlı Hafıza: “Art in Public Space from Byzantium to Modernism”" (In Turkish)
14.30-16.00 One of the oldest residential areas of Istanbul, Zeyrek hosts a multilayered cultural heritage extending from Byzantium to the Ottoman Empire and into the modern period. “Panels of the City” at Zeyrek Academy presents the collaboration be
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Spring Tours 2026: Explore the historic corners of Istanbul by German Archeological Institute
Explore Istanbul’s historic corners on spring tours. Temperatures are rising and the sun is shining – spring has arrived in Istanbul! Perfect conditions to begin spring tours and explore the historic corners of the city together. During these tours,
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Lecture by Derek Krueger at Columbia University: Was Byzantine Christianity Heteronormative?
Time: 11.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. Abstract Medieval East Roman Christianity offered alternatives to imperial society’s rigid gender roles and the sexual expectations that came with them. In monasticism, women and men abandoned marriage and procreation to
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Lecture by Barbara Crostini (Newman): Chapter from PhD thesis on Byzantine Music
The seminar convenes on Wednesdays 4:00-5:30 PM CET (Swedish time) in hybrid format, via Zoom and at The Newman Institute in Uppsala (Hopkinssalen). The Newman Seminar in Late Ancient and Byzantine Cultures aims to create a forum for open discussion
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Lecture by Brigitte Pitarakis at Pera Museum: Damarlarında Hayat Dolaşır! Bizans'ta İstanbul Bir Şifa Kenti miydi? An Evaluation of Health, Healing, and the Urban Ecosystem (in Turkish)
Time: 18.30 This lecture invites us to consider late Byzantine Constantinople as a healing city. In Byzantine literary tradition, the city is metaphorically identified with the human body and conceived as a living organism—one that becomes ill, recov
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Hybrid Lecture by Berke Çetinkaya at Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies: Byzantium, Historical Nostalgia, and Digital Extremism
This talk examines one such overlooked arena: the highly politicized and frequently extremist reinterpretations of Byzantium circulating in the digital world, focusing particularly on the platforms 4chan and TikTok. Drawing on a dataset of more than
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Lecture by Barbara Crostini (Newman): “The Letter of Pope Paschal I to the Iconoclastic Emperor Leo V on Iconoclasm”
The seminar convenes on Wednesdays 4:00-5:30 PM CET (Swedish time) in hybrid format, via Zoom and at The Newman Institute in Uppsala (Hopkinssalen). The Newman Seminar in Late Ancient and Byzantine Cultures aims to create a forum for open discussion
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Call for Papers: 4th International Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Graduate Conference, Vienna
Central European University and University of Vienna are pleased to announce the 4th International Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Graduate Conference, titled “Otherness in Byzantium: Imagining, Encountering, Excluding”. The conference, to be held
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Call for papers: Bilkent History Graduate Symposium 2026 (Bilkent University Ankara.)
The Department of History at Bilkent University and the Bilkent Historical Society invite all graduate students to the Bilkent History Graduate Symposium which will be held in 2nd and 3rd of April, 2026 . Those who would like to participate in the Sy