The Centre’s General and is open to all interested in the related concerns of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies.
Autumn term 2012
TRAVELLERS’ TALES
Students of the Centre
Followed by CENTRE PARTY
25 Oct
ALEXANDER PANAYOTOV and GETHIN REES (Cambridge)
Putting the Jewish communities of Byzantium on the map: a geographical information systems approach to minority history
15 Nov
IOANNA RAPTI (London and Paris)
John-Baldwin, an Armenian-Frank aristocratic bishop andbookman in the second half of the 13th century
22 Nov
ARTEMIS COOPER (London)
CANCELLED
29 Nov
YANNIS TZORTZIS (Birmingham)
1941: Britain’s Greek Dunkirk
6 Dec
LESLIE BRUBAKER (Birmingham)
The princess and the scroll
Spring Term 2013
10 Jan
IDA TOTH (Oxford)
The Byzantine tradition of the Book of Syntipas
24 Jan
ELENI DIMITRIADOU (London)
Visual hermeneutics in Hagia Sophia, Constantinople: the case of the lunette mosaic in the southwest vestibule
7 Feb
AMANDA PHILLIPS (St Andrews)
Ottoman visual and material culture, 1600-1750
21 Feb
PETER DARBY and DAN REYNOLDS (Birmingham)
The centre of the world from its edge: the view of Jerusalem
from Jarrow in the early eighth century
7 Mar
MARY CUNNINGHAM (Nottingham and Birmingham))
Mary, the Mother of God, in middle Byzantine hagiography:
new narratives in an ancient tradition?
Time and location
Thursdays at 5:15pm
The Whitting Room, room 436 Arts building
Other events
47th Spring Symposium, University of Birmingham
23-25 Mar
Byzantine Greece: microcosm of empire?
Further information
For more information please contact the convenor Ruth Macrides