The 5th Annual Edinburgh Graduate Studies Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies Conference
This conference is free to attend!
Sites of encounter and cultural exchange are crucial to the construction of meaningful narratives concerning the Mediterranean and West Asian past. These sites have at times been excluded from wider historiographical narratives which seek to centre them within the nation-state; such narratives exclude the marginalised and serve to other anything deemed syncretic or alien. Scholarship has, in the last half century, acquired a new-found appreciation for the history of cultural exchange, and the spaces - be they physical, textual, or imagined - where such interpersonal and intercultural contact occurs. Our conference aims to bring together these multifarious 'sites of encounter' in order to gain a more complex understanding of the Mediterranean and West Asia in the period between 500 and 1500 C.E.
Further information and registration can be found here.
