Strolling through Echoes of the Past, Zoom and Bilkent University, November 11–12, 2021
Byzantium at Ankara announces its brand new Fall-Winter Seminar Series, which opens with a Workshop/Mini-Symposium on Byzantine Music entitled "Strolling through Echoes of the Past." The workshop will take place at Bilkent University on 11th and 12th November 2021. The Workshop/Mini-Symposium stems from a collaborative effort of Bilkent Saygun Center, Koç University-Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Bilkent Department of History, Byzantium at Ankara, Hacettepe University, and Hellenic Mediterranean University.
This Workshop/Mini-Symposium (to be held in a hybrid mode) aims to explore the many facets of Byzantine music and its legacy. It addresses the importance of music in the Byzantine culture but also tracks down its spatio-temporal reflections. It takes a multidisciplinary approach and pursues/initiates discussions by bringing scholars from wide-ranging disciplines.
The event will include two morning sessions (in person) with the participation of students (max 15 due to Covid restrictions) who will be focusing on learning about Medieval and Byzantine music notation and chant under the supervision of Dr. Antonis Botonakis (Hellenic Mediterranean University). We, therefore, invite students who are interested in participating in the workshops (to be held in the mornings of Thursday 10 and Friday 11 November at Bilkent University) to register by emailing Dr. Botonakis. We regret that we could not offer accommodation or any reimbursement for travel expenses to those students who do not live or study in Ankara. Previous knowledge of Byzantine or Western notation is required. Registration for in-person workshop closes November 9, 2021.
These morning sessions will be followed by two afternoon sessions (hybrid) in which eight experts on Byzantine Music and Musicology (including the world-famous composer Dimitri Terzakis, Cenk Güray, Alexander Lingas, and Antonis Botoniakis, among the others) will be delivering papers on Byzantine and Medieval Music Theory as well as on the influence of Ottoman culture on Modern Turkish and Greek music.
The Byzantine Seminar Series “Byzantium at Ankara” is an event organized and hosted in collaboration by the Department of History at Bilkent University and the Department of History of Art at Hacettepe University. It is organized by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sercan Yandim (Hacettepe University) and Asst. Prof. Dr. Luca Zavagno (Bilkent University).