Redefining the Margins: Seeing the Unseen in the Eastern Mediterranean, 17th Annual Postgraduate Colloquium, University of Birmingham, June 4, 2016
The 17th Annual Postgraduate Colloquium at the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies will focus on the ‘lost’ subjects of Byzantine studies or on subjects that never held the spotlight. It will examine ‘peripheries’ of all sorts, including more traditional forms of marginalisation. The act of ‘marginalisation’ has been perpetuated and experienced in societies throughout the world: to construct the ‘other’, to classify as ‘fringe’ or outside the ‘mainstream’, to define and to diminish borders, populations, cultures, and ideas, both with or without intention.
Registration deadline is May 30, 2016. Attendance is free, but you must register by contacting Anna Kelley.