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The Connected Past

Religious Networks in Antiquity

07 June 2022 to 08 June 2022
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Byzantine Missions: Meaning, Nature, and Extent

29 April 2022 to 30 April 2022
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Hesychasm in Context: Theology and Society in the Fourteenth Century

17 March 2022 to 18 March 2022
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The Virgin Beyond Borders

09 March 2022 to 12 March 2022
M'daourouch (Madauros)		Miranda Williams/Manar al-Athar

He restored all the dismantled fortresses in Libya" (Aed. vi.5.7): Reassessing the Justinianic fortification programme in North Africa

09 March 2022
Constantine and Justinian with the Theotokos and Christ Child at Hagia Sophia		David Hendrix/Byzantine Legacy

Archaeological evidence on the construction activities under Justinian in Constantinople and its neighbourhoods

02 March 2022
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Eloquent Things

01 March 2022
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OUBS 24th International Graduate Conference

25 February 2022 to 26 February 2022
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The History and Significance of the Byzantine Prothesis Ritual

17 February 2022
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Papyrology for non-specialists: ENCODE Winter School

14 February 2022 to 17 February 2022
University of Wurzburg

ENCODE Project Conference: Papyri and Crowdsourcing

17 February 2022
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Not the Conquerors' Religion: Local Beliefs vs. Imperial Religion

10 February 2022 to 11 February 2022
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Procopius, De Aedificiis and Eastern Thrace: Is absence the highest form of presence?

09 February 2022
Salona 		David Hendrix/Byzantine Legacy

Long Walls and Linear Barriers in the South Balkan Provinces

02 February 2022
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Decline and Fall or Crisis and Resilience: A New Approach

02 February 2022
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Reworking the Buildings: The shorter recension as a later epitome

26 January 2022
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New Critical Approaches to the Byzantine World Network

21 January 2022
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The Many Byzantine Chrysostoms: A Look at Competing Sanctification Narratives at the Heart of Byzantine Spirituality

13 December 2021
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The Case Romane del Celio: Living in Rome in Late Antiquity

06 December 2021
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Heavenly Brides: Female Sanctity in Late Antique and Byzantine Art

02 December 2021
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Glass in transition (4th-12th c.). Production, trade and networks in southern Italy

01 December 2021
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Searching lost colours on sculptures from Roman Empire to Late Antiquity: A technical approach for a cultural history

30 November 2021
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Byzantine Catholics

29 November 2021
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International Conference on Short Tales from Byzantium

26 November 2021 to 27 November 2021
Cyril Mango

Everyday life beyond Symeon the Fool & From Constantinople and its hinterland to Theophanes and Procopius

24 November 2021
Church of Christ Pantokrator in Mesembria

Ascending to the Divine Scriptorium (The Concept of Heavenly Writings in the Slavonic Apocalypse of Enoch)

23 November 2021
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The landscape of Graeco-Roman Egypt: When Greek papyri provide new insights on Egyptian trees

23 November 2021
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Roman? Greek? Byzantine? Some thoughts on the trial of Maximus the Confessor and Roman identity

22 November 2021
Church 32, Binbirkilise

The Church of Stoudios in Istanbul from Cyril Mango to Urs Peschlow: Archaeology, Archives, and Modern Times

18 November 2021
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Writing and reading anti-Islamic polemics in Byzantium: the 'Conversation of the monk Euthymios with a Saracen philosopher' (12th c.)

17 November 2021
Eternal Silk Road

Eternal 'Silk Road'? The Rise of Sogdiana during the 3rd-4th Centuries A.D.

15 November 2021
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The Athanasian Emperors: Reconsidering Orthodox and Heretical Emperors in the 340s

15 November 2021
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Into The Labyrinth: a Journey into Stoudite "Cancel Culture'

10 November 2021
Cyril Mango

Preaching in the Second Iconoclasm. The homilies of Joseph of Thessalonica & People and Power in Hagia Sophia (532-1204)

10 November 2021
Church of Christ Pantokrator in Mesembria

"Let Your Brother be to you like a Heathen and a Tax Collector": Fashioning an Orthodox Dynastic Identity during the Reign of Ivan III of Moscow

09 November 2021
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Michael VIII Palaiologos and the southern shore of Constantinople

08 November 2021
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The 5th Annual Edinburgh Graduate Studies Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies Conference

04 November 2021 to 06 November 2021
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The Greek language after Antiquity: recent research and future directions in historical linguistics

05 November 2021 to 06 November 2021
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'Matronage' of Late Antique Churches: women's honorifics in donor inscriptions in Late Antique Palaestina and Arabia

04 November 2021
Church of Christ Pantokrator in Mesembria

The Black Death and its consequences for the Jochi ulus and the successor states (The Tatar Khanates, Moscow and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania)

02 November 2021
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Julian, Constantinople, and the Role of Civic Patriotism in the Fourth Century

01 November 2021
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6th Egypt Exploration Society Congress

29 October 2021
Cyril Mango

Byzantine poetry and the urban development of medieval Constantinople (and its hinterland)

27 October 2021
Church of Christ Pantokrator in Mesembria

Identity and Identification in Late Medieval Western Balkans

26 October 2021
Church of Christ Pantokrator in Mesembria

The image of an Arab woman in medieval Rus literature (11th-16th century)

26 October 2021
Church of Christ Pantokrator in Mesembria

17:00 - Reinterpreting Russian Orthodox Canons Against Homosexuality

26 October 2021
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Holy Fools in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Rus'

25 October 2021
Church 32, Binbirkilise

From masons' marks to building sites. Archaeology of construction in the Early Byzantine Mediterranean.

21 October 2021
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Catena Manuscripts of the Greek New Testament

20 October 2021
Church of Christ Pantokrator in Mesembria

How to deal with Steppe Fauna? Remarks on the Byzantine perception of the nomads and on the Byzantine policy towards them (10th-12th centuries)

19 October 2021