CBOMGS Seminar Series 2023–2024, University of Birmingham and Zoom, Wednesdays 1:00–2:30 pm (GMT)

The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies Seminar will be a hybrid event for the academic year 2023/24. Registration for virtual attendance is through the Centre's Ticket Source page.

Schedule

October 4: Jessica Varsallona (Edinburgh)
Pan-Mediterranean Dialogues of Power and Prestige: Byzantine Architecture in Context (1330-1500)

October 18: Luca Zavagno (Bilkent)
Byzantine Sicily and Sardinia

November 8: Flavia Vanni (Salerno)
Seeing Paintings with the Touch: Inclusion and Accessibility in the Church of S. Ambrogio

November 22: Ryota Takada (Tokyo)
Dictating and Interpreting of Greek Notarial Documents in Late Medieval Venetian Crete. The Case of Nicolaos Agiostefanitis

December 6: Foivi Georgiadi (Athens)
Nature in Palaiologan Romances

January 24: Nik Matheou (Edinburgh)
Commerce & Crisis in the Eleventh-Century Empire of New Rome: The View from Ani

February 7: Peter Boudreau (Yale) 
Keeping Time: Temporal Imagery and Thought in the Calendars of Later Byzantium

February 28: Elena Gittleman (Bryn Mawr)   
The Legacies of Ancient Theatre in Middle Byzantium 

March 13: Georgios Makris (British Columbia) **This seminar will take place at 5:00 pm GMT**
The Meaning of Jewellery in Byzantium: An Archaeological Perspective 

April 24: Maroula Perisanidi (Leeds) 
Speech Difference and Disability Gain in Byzantium, c. 1000-1200