Online International Conference: Mobility and Materiality in Byzantine-Islamic Relations (7th -12th Centuries)

By its very nature, the examination of Byzantine-Islamic relations entails a heightened awareness of
the global character of interactions in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East in the early and
high Middle Ages. This online conference, organized by the Byzantine Studies Research Center of
Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, brings together scholars who are interested in exploring mobility as
well as the question of how mobility manifests itself in materiality between Byzantine and Islamic
communities from the seventh century to 1204. Seventeen papers to be presented at the conference
address political, economic, and religious/cultural networks facilitating the movement of people and
objects, the role of mobility in the organization and sustenance of groups and individuals, the nature
of the contacts on the land and sea frontiers, and the impact of materiality on the processes of
transfer, use/consumption, appropriation, and identity building in the context of Byzantine-Islamic
relations.

The conference will be held online on 12-13 November 2021.

Click here for the conference program and abstracts.

Organizers: Koray Durak and Nevra Necipoğlu

Please send an email message to byzantinestudies@bogazici.edu.tr for registration.

Note: The times given in the program are based on GMT+3 (Istanbul time).