Catastrophes and Memory (500–1500 CE)

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Catastrophes and Memory (500–1500 CE), 4th Annual Edinburgh International Graduate Byzantine Conference Online, November 19–21, 2020

This conference is held online by the Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Society of the University of Edinburgh on November 19-20, 2020. The conference focuses on disasters (natural, manmade or “supernatural”) that shape historical memory and our understanding of the past, concentrating on the problematic relations between catastrophes and memory in Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine societies.

Keynote Speakers
Leslie Brubaker, University of Birmingham
Antoine Borrut, University of Maryland

PROGRAM

Advance registration required.