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• Australia
• Austria
• France
• Greece
• Ireland
• Italy
• Russia
• Turkey
• UK
• USA

We welcome submissions from National Committees of the AIEB, Commissions of the AIEB, universities, scholarly and research institutions, museums, libraries, galleries, as well as individual scholars at any stages of their careers as well as members of the general public interested in scholarly research on Byzantium and its heritage. 

Exhibitions

“THE WORLD BETWEEN EMPIRES: ART AND IDENTITY IN THE ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST” (NEW YORK, 18.03.-23.06.2019)

 Events

(Congresses, Conferences, Seminars, Workshops, Schools, etc.)

FRANCE

Atelier du projet :
The Making of Angels in Late Antiquity, Theology and Aesthetics
L’invention des anges dans l’Antiquité tardive, théologie et esthétique
Projet ALATA Marie Słodowska-Curie IF 2017 n°793760

Inscription obligatoire avant le 18/03/2019 (places limitées, cf. infra pour contacter l’organisatrice)

10h-11h Le projet européen ALATA dans le cadre du Labex RESMED
Présidente : Béatrice CASEAU (Sorbonne-RESMED)
Intervenante :
Delphine LAURITZEN (Sorbonne-RESMED)
— Présentation du projet ALATA
— Présentation de l’atelier

11h-12h30 Thème 1 : Réflexion sur les Humanités Numériques dans la perspective de la constitution de la base de données textes/images ALATA
Intervenants :
— Virginie FROMAGEOT-LANIÈPCE (CNRS-ArScAn)
— Julien CURIE (Sorbonne-RESMED)
Pause déjeuner

14h-15h30 Thème 2 : Préparation du colloque international ALATA prévu au printemps 2020
« Ré-inventer les anges dans l’Antiquité tardive : conception, représentation, perception »
Intervenants :
— Delphine LAURITZEN (Sorbonne-RESMED) Ligne directrice et organisation du colloque
— Madeleine SCOPELLO (CNRS-EPHE) Anges et Gnose
— Luc BRISSON (CNRS-Centre Jean Pépin) Anges et Néoplatonisme
Pause

16h-17h Thème 2 (suite et fin)
Présidente : Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet (CNRS-RESMED)
Intervenants :
— Anne BOUD’HORS (CNRS-IRHT) Les anges en Copte
— Komait ABDALLAH (Paris I) L’archéologie des anges

17h-17h30 Discussion finale et conclusions

Date: 22 mars 2019 

Heure: 10 h 00 min-17 h 30 min

Organisateur:
Delphine Lauritzen
E-mail: delphine.lauritzen@sorbonne-universite.fr

21 mars 2019 à 17 h 00 min-19 h 00 min

De l’Université de Munich
Séminaire « Histoire de la période paléologue (1261-1453) »
 

Date: 21 mars 2019 

Heure: 17 h 00 min-19 h 00 min
 

Organisateurs:
Marie-Hélène Blanchet
Raúl Estangüi Gómez

https://www.cfeb.org/event/sergei-mariev/

For further Information: https://www.dhi-paris.fr/veranstaltungen/sommeruniversitaet.html 
https://dfmfa.hypotheses.org/2697

Ve SEMINAIRE SUR CONSTANTINOPLE DANS L’ANTIQUITÉ TARDIVE: “CHRISTIANISME ET PAGANISME À CONSTANTINOPLE ET À ROME (IVe-VIe S. AP. J.-C.)” (LILLE, 03.10.2018-03.04.2019)
Atelier dirigé par Javier Arce, professeur émérite, Archéologie romaine
Dominic Moreau, maître de conférences, Antiquité tardive
du 3 octobre 2018 au 3 avril 2019, de 17h à 18h30 salle E1.01 (sauf indication contraire)
PROGRAMME
(il est à noter que certains thèmes pourraient changer en fonction de l’avancement des travaux)
2019
27 février – Conférencier invité (à déterminer)
6 mars – Parallélismes: Constantinople chrétienne et Rome chrétienne (1ère partie) – D. Moreau
13 mars – Parallélismes: Constantinople chrétienne et Rome chrétienne (2e partie) – D. Moreau
20 mars– L’ambiguïté de l’iconographie chrétienne – J. Arce et D. Moreau
27 mars – Conférencier invité (à déterminer)
3 avril – Conclusions: l’Antiquité tardive fut-elle un monde avant tout chrétien? – J. Arce et D. Moreau

For further information: halma.univ-lille3.fr

Cours et séminaire de Jean-Luc Fournet (chaire “Culture écrite de l’Antiquité tardive et papyrologie byzantine”, Collège de France)

– Cours “Le calame et la croix : la christianisation de l’écrit et le sort de la culture classique dans l’Antiquité tardive”
(tous les mercredis de 11h à 12h du 6 février au 17 avril 2019 sauf le mercredi 27 février, Amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé – Marcelin Berthelot)
https://www.college-de-france.fr/site/jean-luc-fournet/course-2018-2019.htm

– Séminaire (tous les jeudis de 15h30 à 17h du 7 février au 18 avril 2019 sauf le jeudi 28 février, Salle 1 – Marcelin Berthelot)
https://www.college-de-france.fr/site/jean-luc-fournet/seminar-2018-2019.htm

Séance du 21 février: conference d’Alberto Camplani (Université La Sapienza), “Lettres épicopales en grec et en copte (IIIe-VIIe siècles)”
Seance du 7 mars: conference de Korshi Dosoo (Universite’ de Wurtzbourg), “Christianisme et papyrus magiques”
Séance du 11 avril: conférence de Manfred Kraus, “La christianisation des progymnasmata byzantins”
Les autres séances seront consacrées à l’étude de papyrus (notamment un poème inédit du VIe s.)
Lieu: Paris, Collège de France, 11 Place Marcelin Berthelot, 75231

Additional information about scholarly events in France in the field of Byzantine Studies can be found under this link: https://www.cfeb.org/events/

GREECE

Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Seminar: Constantinople and the Provinces (7th to 12th centuries).

Postgraduate Program “The world of Byzantium: History and Archaeology” of the the Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in collaboration with the Section of Byzantine Research of the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation organize for spring semester the Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Seminar «Nikos Oikonomides».

Organizers: Katerina Nikolaou, Anastasia Drandaki and Maria Leontsini

For further information click here.

Late Antique Textualities, January 2–5, 2020, Society for Classical Studies, Sponsored by the Society for Late Antiquity, Organizer: Colin Whiting, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
In Latin, textus can mean a piece of weaving. Late antiquity is well thought of as a text or a collocation of texts in which many strands are woven together— strands of the old (the Classical past, old genres, persisting aspects of material culture) and strands of the new (Christianity, new or hybridized written genres, new or hybridized elements in material culture or the built environment). At the meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in Washington, D.C., January 2–5, 2020, the Society for Late Antiquity will sponsor a session on the various textualities in late antiquity.
We are looking for papers on textuality in either written texts or material culture. Papers can consider issues of textuality in late-ancient written texts, e.g., language, intertextuality with prior written texts (pagan or Christian), or even genre. Potential panelists could also propose papers that consider textuality in material culture or the built environment, e.g., aesthetics, building styles, or methods that weave together old and new. We also encourage prospective panelists to construe the term textuality broadly and propose papers that transcend and/or question the options enumerated here.
Abstracts for papers requiring a maximum of 20 minutes to deliver should be sent no later than February 23, 2019 by email attachment to Colin Whiting at cwhiting@ascsa.org. All submissions will be judged anonymously by two referees. Prospective panelists must be members in good standing of the SCS at the time of submission and must include their membership number in the cover letter accompanying their abstract. Please follow the SCS’s instructions for the format of individual abstracts: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/guidelines-authors-abstracts. The submission of an abstract represents a commitment to attend the 2020 meeting should the abstract be accepted. No papers will be read in absentia and the SLA is unable to provide funding for travel to Washington, D.C.

IRELAND
International Byzantine Greek Summer School, Trinity College Dublin, 14 July – 10 August 2019
The Department of Classics at Trinity College Dublin is delighted to welcome back the International Byzantine Greek Summer School (IBGSS) in July–August 2019. This well-established course, directed by Dr Anthony Hirst in Belfast, Birmingham and Dublin since 2002, teaches Byzantine Greek at Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced level and allows early learners to engage with original medieval and late antique Greek texts from the start.
Course dates:
Level 1 Beginners: 14–27 July 2019
Level 2/2.5 Intermediate: 28 July – 10 August 2019
Level 3 Advanced Reading: 28 July – 10 August 2019
 Further information: www.tcd.ie/Classics/byzantine/
 Applications:
Please complete and return the form at www.tcd.ie/Classics/byzantine

• Deadline: 12 April 2019
• Course fee: €450/two weeks
• Accommodation: can be booked on application to the course at €400/two weeks
• A limited number of student bursaries are available for this course

ITALY

SEMINARIO DI FILOLOGIA UMANISTICA GRECA (ROMA, 05.04.2019)

Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”
Dipartimento di Studi letterari, filosofici e di storia dell’arte

DOTTORATO DI RICERCA IN ANTICHITÀ CLASSICHE E LORO FORTUNA

Venerdì 5 aprile 2019
SEMINARIO DI FILOLOGIA UMANISTICA GRECA

h. 11,00 Antonio ROLLO (Universita’ degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”)
I Graeca di Svetonio fra tradizione manoscritta ed edizioni a stampa

h. 12,00 Chiara GAZZINI (dottoranda, XXXII ciclo) Tra retorica e politica: l’Antica e la Nuova Roma nella lettera di Manuele Crisolora al nipote Giovanni

Macroarea di Lettere e Filosofia – Edif. B, Sala Riunioni del I piano
Via Columbia 1, 00133 Roma

LXVII SETTIMANA DI STUDIO CISAM : “LA CONOSCENZA SCIENTIFICA NELL’ALTO MEDIOEVO”: PROGRAMMA (SPOLETO, 25.04-01.05.2019)

PROGRAMMA

GIOVEDÌ 25 APRILE

Teatro Caio Melisso – Spazio Carla Fendi
Ore 10,30 – Discorso inaugurale: AGOSTINO PARAVICINI BAGLIANI, Ritmi e dinamiche del sapere scientifico nell’Alto Medioevo

Nella sede dell’Albornoz Palace Hotel, Viale G.Matteotti, 16, Spoleto
Le cosmologie tra antichita’ tarda e alto medioevo
Ore 15,30 – Lezione LETTIERI, Cosmologie protocristiane e patristiche dagli gnostici valentiniani ad Agostino
Ore 16,15 – Lezione OBRIST, Portee et limites de la cosmologie du Haut Moyen Age
Ore 17,15 – Lezione STEVENS, Descriptive Models of Earth and Sky
Ore 18,00 – Discussione sulle lezioni PARAVICINI BAGLIANI, LETTIERI, OBRIST, STEVENS

VENERDÌ 26 APRILE

Il lascito scientifico del passato 
Ore 9,00 – Lezione ZITO, Mirabilia e medicina nella letteratura neoplatonica 
Ore 9,45 – Lezione FARINELLI, La concezione dell’Universo da Macrobio a Marziano Capella 
Ore 10,45 – Lezione GUILLAUMIN, Quelques marques de l’influence de l’Institution Arithmetique de Boèce au Moyen Âge (IXe-XIIIe siècles) 
Ore 11,30 – Discussione sulle lezioni ZITO, FARINELLI, GUILLAUMIN 
Ore 15,30 – Lezione GANDOLFO, Scienza e tecnica del costruire: dall’eredità di Vitruvio agli apporti interculturali 
Ore 16,15 – Lezione PALMIERI, Il galenismo alessandrino in Italia tra antichità tarda e alto medioevo 
Ore 17,15 – Lezione WARNTJES, Computus – The Mechanics of Lunar Calendars and the Modes of Calculating Easter, AD 400-1100 
Ore 18,00 – Discussione sulle lezioni GANDOLFO, PALMIERI, WARNTJES

SABATO 27 APRILE

Saperi e strumenti: Occidente, Bisanzio, Mondo arabo 
Ore 9,00 – Lezione JUSTE, Astrology in Western Europe, 500-1150 A.D 
Ore 9,45 – Lezione GAUTIER DALCHÉ, Cartes et représentations géographiques 
Ore 10,45 – Lezione DUFOSSÉ, Théories optiques dans les mondes latin et byzantin: convergences et divergences (IVe-XIIe siècles) 
Ore 11,30 – Discussione sulle lezioni JUSTE, GAUTIER DALCHÉ, DUFOSSÉ
Ore 15,30 – Lezione FISCHER, Sulle orme di Augusto Beccaria. Sorano, Galeno, Oribasio e l’anonimo di Cassiodoro 
Ore 16,15 – Lezione NUTTON, Galen and Galenism in Byzantium 
Ore 17,15 – Lezione VENTURA, Farmacologia e farmacoterapia nell’alto medioevo: trasmissione di testi, trasmissione di contenuti 
Ore 18,00 – Discussione sulle lezioni FISCHER, NUTTON, VENTURA

DOMENICA 28 APRILE

Ore 9,30 – Lezione MOUREAU, L’alchimie dans l’Andalus, de Maslama b. Qasim al-Qurtubi aux traductions arabo-latines (Xe-XIIIe siècles) 
Ore 10,15 – Lezione ACERBI, Interazioni tra testo, diagrammi e tavole nei manoscritti matematici e astronomici 
Ore 11,15 – Lezione PUIG AGUILAR, Astrolabios e instrumentos afines arabes en la Alta Edad Media 
Ore 12,00 – Discussione sulle lezioni MOUREAU, ACERBI, PUIG AGUILAR 

Le grandi figure della cultura scientifica altomedievale 
Ore 15,30 – Lezione WALLIS, Bede’s Eye: Number and Experience as a Grammar of Science in the Early Middle Ages 
Ore 16,15 – Lezione LOHRMANN, Alcuin, Charlemagne et la réception de Lucrece vers l’an 800 
Ore 17,15 – Lezione DEPREUX, Neues aus Altem schaffen? Hrabanus Maurus als Gelehrter, Vermittler und Autor 
Ore 18,00 – Discussione sulle lezioni WALLIS, LOHRMANN, DEPREUX

LUNEDÌ 29 APRILE

Ore 9,00 – Lezione KORTUM, Gerberto d’Aurillac: uomo universale avant la lettre in saeculo obscuro 

I luoghi, i crocevia di culture, le traduzioni 
Ore 9,45 – Lezione GLAZE, Constantine the African, Salerno, and Beyond: the Beginnings of Medieval Medical Studies 
Ore 10,45 – Lezione DEGNI, I testi scientifici nell’Italia meridionale bizantina: forme, modelli, circolazione 
Ore 11,30 – Discussione sulle lezioni KORTUM, GLAZE, DEGNI, 
Ore 15,30 – Lezione BERGGREN, “Who, What, When, Where ,Why and How?” of Mathematical Knowledge Between Medieval Western and Arabic Worlds 
Ore 16,15 – Lezione BAFFIONI, La sezione ginecologica del Kitab al-Hawi di Muhammad ibn Zakariyya’al-Razi 
Ore 17,15 – Lezione HUGONNARD-ROCHE, La logique comme instrument de la connaissance scientifique dans la culture syriaque et arabe du Haut Moyen Âge oriental 
Ore 18,00 – Discussione sulle lezioni BERGGREN, BAFFIONI, HUGONNARD-ROCHE

MARTEDÌ 30 APRILE

Scienza e tecnica 
Ore 9,00 – Lezione PANTI, La scienza musicale nell’alto medioevo: dalla boeziana mathematica disciplina all’ars musica 
Ore 9,45 – Lezione MORRISSON, Alchimie, métallurgie et économie: frappe et politique monetaires à Byzance (IVe-XIIe siècles) 
Ore 10,45 – Lezione ARSLAN-BARELLO, Dalla scienza delle finanze all’emissione tra Longobardi e Franchi 
Ore 11,30 – Discussione sulle lezioni PANTI, MORRISSON, ARSLAN-BARELLO

Linguaggi, simboli ed espressioni artistiche 
Ore 15,30 – Lezione ROELLI, What Kind of Latin Was Used in Scientific Communication in the Early Middle Ages? 
Ore 16,15 – Lezione CAIAZZO, Filosofia della natura e fisica elementare 
Ore 17,15 – Lezione LAZARIS, Donner à voir les savoirs médicaux, scientifiques et techniques dans les mondes latin et byzantin (IVe-XIIe siècles) 
Ore 18,00 – Discussione sulle lezioni ROELLI, CAIAZZO, LAZARIS

MERCOLEDÌ 1 MAGGIO

Ore 9,00 – Lezione WALKER, The Symbols of the Apocalypse: the Subversion of Nature and Cosmic Upheaval in Illuminated Manuscripts 

Scienza e fede 
Ore 9,45 – Lezione JACQUART, Science et foi de Bède le Vénérable à Hugues de Saint-Victor: les motivations d’une ouverture aux savoirs profanes 
Ore 10,45 – Discussione sulle lezioni WALKER, JACQUART 


La partecipazione è aperta a tutti gli studiosi; coloro che intendessero iscriversi dovranno versare la quota di euro 20,00 presso la Segreteria della Fondazione. Agli iscritti sarà concesso uno sconto speciale del 30 per cento sul prezzo di copertina delle pubblicazioni della Fondazione C.I.S.A.M., sconto valido soltanto durante la Settimana stessa. 
Si comunica che il MIUR con lettera prot. n. AOODGPER 45229 del 15.10.2018 inviata ai Direttori degli Uffici scolastici regionali e ai Centri servizi amministrativi, ha concesso al personale docente che ne faccia richiesta l’autorizzazione a partecipare alla LXVII Settimana di studio della Fondazione C.I.S.A.M. 
Per informazioni e prenotazioni alloggio rivolgersi all’agenzia Jazz Viaggi, piazza della Vittoria, 29 – 06049 Spoleto (PG) Tel. +39 – 0743 221818; Fax 0743 221250; travel@jazzitaly.com Fondazione C.I.S.A.M. Palazzo Arroni, via dell’Arringo – 06049 Spoleto (PG) Tel. +39 – 0743 225630; Fax 0743 49902 – cisam@cisam.org – www.cisam.org
 

RUSSIA

22th All-Russian Scientific Session of Byzantine Studies

DATES: September 23-28, 2019

VENUE: Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg

APPLICATION SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 15, 2019

The National Committee of the Byzantine Studies of the Russian Federation will hold the next 22th All-Russian scientific session of the Byzantine Studies under the motto «Byzantine “Commonwealth”: traditions and paradigm changes». The Ural School of Byzantine Studies will accommodate the Session in Yekaterinburg.

Thematically the conference embraces the study of Byzantium and its related regions with an emphasis on traditions and visible changes in their existence.

All-Russian Scientific Sessions, conducted by the National Committee, are an authoritative review of Byzantine studies schools and an open platform for the communication of scientists and the demonstration of relevant research results. Traditionally, Sessions are united by a common theme or are dedicated to anniversary dates. Currently, Sessions are held regularly twice in five years.

For further information: http://vremennik.biz/content/ncom/session/22

TURKEY

International Workshop on Late Byzantine Cities
Venue: Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, 15-18 August 2019
Co-Convenors Suna Çağaptay and Aslıhan Akışık
For further Information: https://latebyzantinecities.com/

Lecture at the German Archaeological Institute in Istanbul: 
“Der Kaiser und seine Stadt – Kaiserhof und Zeremoniell im byzantinischen Konstantinopel” by Albrecht Berger
Date: 2019 March 21st, 6:00 p.m.

For further information:

https://www.dainst.org/termin/-/event-display/ogNX4Gtxkd87/4255549
https://new.dainst.org/termin/-/event-display/ogNX4Gtxkd87/4255560

UK

The 52nd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies ‘Blood in Byzantium’
Churchill College and Trinity College, Cambridge 30 March – 1 April, 2019

In 2019, the Symposium will be returning to Cambridge for the first time since 1990. The theme which has been chosen is ‘Blood in Byzantium’. This theme will facilitate inter-disciplinary discussion of research and ideas embracing Byzantine religion, art history, military history, social history, and law, as well Byzantine medicine and philosophy, drawing upon the extensive theoretical and historical literature that has emerged on the body, blood, and medicine in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, but which has yet to be systematically applied to Byzantium and its neighbours. Sessions will be arranged around the themes of ‘The Blood of Christ’; ‘The Blood of the Martyrs’; ‘Blood, Dynasty and Kinship’; ‘Bloodshed’; and ‘Blood in Medicine, Philosophy and Art’.
The main sessions of the conference will be held at Churchill College, with a reception and dinner at Trinity College.
Confirmed speakers include Claudia Rapp, Jane Baun, Phil Booth, Ioannis Pappadogiannakis, Stavroula Constantinou, Anne Alwis, Elena Draghici-Vasilescu, Caroline Goodson, Philip Wood, Nick Evans, Ruth Macrides, Andrew Marsham, Peter Frankopan, Alexandra Vukovich, Teresa Shawcross, Theodora Antonopoulou, Mike Humphreys, Maroula Perisnadi, Yannis Stouraitis, Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Rebecca Flemming and Barbara Zipser.
Communications
The 52nd Spring Symposium invites Communications (of 10 minutes in duration) on current research and warmly invites abstracts (of not more than 500 words) from scholars within and
without the UK and in fields linked to Byzantine studies. Abstracts should be sent to Peter Sarris (pavs2@cam.ac.uk) by 20 December 2018.
Practical Information
Symposium Website
Link to the Symposium website from: https://www.byzantium.ac.uk/spring-symposium/
A dedicated site will be available soon:
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/research/conferences/blood-in-byzantium
Please keep checking the website periodically: further information will be added in due course, and continuously updated. The complete programme will be available in January 2019.
Contact
If you have any queries, please contact Peter Sarris (pavs2@cam.ac.uk)
Registration
A link to register for the 52nd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies will be available on the website.
Venue
The conference sessions will take place in the designated conference centre at Churchill College (https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/) which has excellent transport connections and parking for cars, and is within walking distance of the city centre.
Travel
Train tickets can be purchased online and collected at any UK train station from https://www.thetrainline.com/. Cambridge is connected to London via fast trains that run via King’s Cross/St. Pancras and a slower train that runs via Liverpool Street. The closest airport is London Stansted (https://www.thetrainline.com/) but there are also good transport connections via London to Heathrow, Gatwick, and London Luton Airports. Within Cambridge, Churchill College is served via the X5 and Citi4 Bus (see www.chu.cam.ac.uk/about/visit-us/find-us). A highly reliable taxi service is provided 

Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford.
Sat 27 April 2019
A conference, co-hosted by Drs Susan Walker (Oxford University) and Ine Jacobs (Ioannou Centre), in commemoration of the life and work of the late Dr Daniel Howells. Speakers, many of whom knew or worked with Dr Howells, will present papers on the art of ancient gold glass, its historical contexts and influence on later art.
Speakers:

For online registration, visit the conference’s Eventbrite page here.

USA

BYZANTINE STUDIES WORKSHOP: “RESOURCING ARCHIVES: NEW RESEARCH ON OLD DATA – RECEPTION AND FORMATION IN LATE ANTIQUE SYRIA-PALESTINE” (WASHINGTON, D.C., 29.03.2019)

Dumbarton Oaks (press@doaks.org)

Resourcing Archives: New Research on Old Data – Reception and Formation in Late Antique Syria-Palestine

WHERE
The Oak Room, Fellowship House
 
WHEN
March 29, 2019
08:30 AM to 05:00 PM

Byzantine Studies Workshop / Konstantina Karterouli, Gideon Avni, and Alan Walmsley, Organizers

Academic and national institutions are the holders of extensive inventories documenting cultural assets and historical landscapes. Recent global initiatives have invested efforts in the preservation of this body of material and raised awareness on the major significance of archives in understanding the past. The rise of the internet has facilitated the systematic display, searchability, and easy accessibility of archives – a process still in its infancy – while new geospatial and other digital technologies have provided a wealth of additional data points. Dumbarton Oaks has recently acquired a large collection of photographs that offer a comprehensive record of Syrian late antique heritage in the 1990s. This collection forms part of a global network of archival resources stored in a number of institutions in the US, Europe, and the Middle East that document the late antique Syria-Palestine. Collectively, these archives present invaluable scholarly evidence that has hardly been used in a systematic manner in Middle Eastern studies. This essential data should be incorporated with the evidence of field research conducted in more recent decades, as well as with data resulting from new technologies and systems of recording, to advance research in the face of the abrupt stop of fieldwork in Syria and the destruction of documentation.

The workshop will be divided into three sessions, each focusing on a distinct research theme, and demonstrating different modes of engaging archival and digital data. The first session (“Settings”) will lay down the broad metrics of the discussion, focusing on urban and regional settings. Specifically, participants will be asked to contemplate questions such as adaptive responses to social change as reflected in the urban landscape, and the interaction across urban and rural areas via networks of agricultural and pastoral societies. A crucial variable to engage is the question of time and diachronic processes. The second session (“Sites”) will deal with sites as case studies that combine fieldwork research with archival material. One of the goals of this session is to advance the interpretation of the archaeological record through close attention to indicators of late antique processes of reception and new development seen in the areas of architecture and the study of material remains. The third session (“Sacred landscapes”) will explore the making, and long histories, of sacred landscapes as seen in art and epigraphy, addressing questions such as the shifting social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of religious sites and continuities and discontinuities in the production of material culture. The goal of the workshop is to further develop the current understanding of processes of transformation in late antique Syria-Palestine by focusing on the dynamic relation between reception and formation, which ties into contemporary research on adaptive and agile societies more generally.

Speakers
Gideon Avni (Israel Antiquities Authority and Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “Landscapes as Palimpsest: The ‘Ancient Lands’ Myth and the Evolution of Agricultural Landscapes in Syria-Palestine in Late Antiquity and Medieval Times”
Jesse Casana (Dartmouth College), “Lost Landscapes of Late Antiquity: Regional-scale Archaeological Documentation using Historical Satellite Imagery in the Northern Fertile Crescent”
Michael Decker (University of South Florida), “Archaeology and the Demography of Northern Syria in Late Antiquity”
Asa Eger (University of North Carolina at Greensboro), “Antioch: Transformation and Memory of a Medieval City”
Pierre-Louis Gatier (Universite’ Lyon), “The Christianization of the City of Heliopolis (Phoenicia Libanensis): New Thoughts on Old Documents”
Konstantina Karterouli (Dumbarton Oaks), “Reception and Formation in Late Antique Syria-Palestine: Research on Sacred Landscapes and the Discourse of Big Data”
Anna Leone (University of Durham), “The Middle Euphrates and its Transformation from Late Antiquity to the Early Arab Period: The Case of Dibsi Faraj”
Katharina Meinecke (German Archaeological Institute, Rome Department), “‘Syntactic Innovation’ in Late Antique Architectural Sculpture in Syria and Beyond”
Alan Walmsley (Macquarie University), “Thoughts on Thought: Archaeological Sites, their Interpretation, and Archives”
Ann Marie Yasin (University of Southern California), “Ruins as Raw Material: Architectural Adaptation and Lived Experience in and of Byzantine Syria”

GENERAL DISCUSSION MODERATORS
Antoine Borrut (University of Maryland)
Robin Darling Young (Catholic University of America)

 

Processions: Urban Ritual in Byzantium and Neighboring Lands

Byzantine Studies Symposium, Leslie Brubaker and Nancy Ševčenko, Symposiarchs

Military, civic, and religious processions were hallmarks of the ancient and medieval world; they continued into the Renaissance and, indeed, continue to this day. The Byzantine procession has not yet been subjected to any synthetic, historicizing, contextualizing, or comparative examination.

Understanding processions is critical for our appreciation of how urban space worked and was manipulated in the Middle Ages. For the 2019 Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposium, speakers will examine texts, artifacts, and images to develop a new understanding of medieval urban life across multiple social registers. For example, records of processions show us what kinds of public behavior were acceptable, and when, and where. Studying processions introduces us to new protagonists as well, for processions involve audiences as well as participants, and groups hitherto virtually invisible, such as the team of people who prepared for the event by decorating the streets, will be brought to light. The Byzantine commitment to processions is striking in terms of the resources and time allocated: there were as many as two processions a week in Constantinople, many involving the patriarch and the emperor. In the Latin West, the Crusader States, and in the Fatimid, Ottoman, and Muscovite worlds, by comparison, processions occurred far less frequently: the procession was significantly more important to the Byzantines than to their neighbors and successors. The comparative study of Byzantine processions to be offered by the speakers at the symposium will reveal how the Byzantines operated in a complex global network defined by local contexts, how the Byzantines positioned themselves within this network, and the nature of the Byzantine legacy to the Islamic, Catholic, and Orthodox inheritors of their culture.

https://www.doaks.org/research/byzantine/scholarly-activities/processions

Eclecticism at the Edges: Medieval Art and Architecture at the Crossroads of the Latin, Greek, and Slavic Cultural Spheres (c.1300-c.1550)

April 5-6, 2019 Princeton University
Organizers: M. Alessia Rossi, The Index of Medieval Art
Alice Isabella Sullivan, University of Michigan
eclecticism.symposium@gmail.com.
This event is free, but registration is required to guarantee seating.

PROGRAM
Friday, April 5, 2019
5:00-5:15 M. Alessia Rossi, The Index of Medieval Art Alice Isabella Sullivan, University of Michigan Welcome
5:15-6:30 Keynote Lecture Jelena Erdeljan, University of Belgrade Cross-Cultural Entanglement and Visual Culture in Eastern Europe c. 1300-1550
6:30-7:30 Film Screening and Exhibition Introduction by Julia Gearhart, Princeton University “No Woman’s Land”: A 1929 Expedition to Mount Athos and Meteora
7:30-9:00 Reception McCormick Hall
Saturday, April 6, 2019
9:00-10:40 Session 1 – New Constructs of Identity
Chair: Charlie Barber, Princeton University Elena Boeck, DePaul University
A Timeless Ideal: Constantinople in the Slavonic Imagination of the 14th -16th Centuries
Gianvito Campobasso, University of Fribourg
Eclecticism Among Multiple Identities: The Visual Culture of Albania in the Late Middle Ages
Ida Sinkević, Lafayette College Serbian Royal Mausolea: A Reflection of Cultural Identity?
10:40-11:00 Coffee / Tea Break
11:00-12:40 Session 2 – Shifting Iconographies
Chair: Pamela Patton, The Index of Medieval Art
Vlad Bedros, National University of Arts, Bucharest: A Hybrid Iconography: The Lamb of God in Moldavian Wall-Paintings
Krisztina Ilko: The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Dormition of the Virgin: Artistic Exchange and Innovation in Medieval Wall Paintings from Slovakia
Ovidiu Olar, Austrian Academy of Sciences: A Murderer among the Seraphim: Prince Lăpușneanu’s Transfiguration Embroideries for Slatina Monastery
12:40-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-3:40 Session 3 – Patronage and Agents of Exchange
Chair: Cristina Stancioiu, College of William and Mary Dragoş Gh. Năstăsoiu, Centre for Medieval Studies, National Research University “Higher School of Economics,” Moscow:  Appropriation, Adaptation, and Transformation: Painters of Byzantine Tradition Working for Catholic Patrons in 14th – and 15th -century Transylvania
Christos Stavrakos, University of Ioannina/Greece:  Donors, Patrons, and Benefactors in Mediaeval Epirus between the Great Empires: A Society in Change or a Continuity?
Nazar Kozak, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine:  Post-Byzantine Art as a Network: Mobility Trajectories of the Akathistos Cycle in the Balkans, the Carpathians, and Beyond
3:40-4:00 Coffee / Tea Break
4:00-5:15 Keynote Lecture Michalis Olympios, University of Cyprus “Eclecticism,” “Hybridity,” and “Transculturality” in Late Medieval Art: A View from the Eastern Mediterranean
5:15-6:00 Roundtable Discussion, Questions, and Closing
6:00-9:00 Final Reception Chancellor Green Rotunda

Processions: Urban Ritual in Byzantium and Neighboring Land.
Date: April 12-13, 2019

The Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Studies Program will be holding its annual symposium on April 12-13, 2019,

For more information, please visit this website:
https://www.doaks.org/research/byzantine/scholarly-activities/processions

Any questions may be sent to byzantine@doaks.org.

Opportunities

• a letter of application with current contact information, the title of the project, length of the proposed residency at HMML and its projected dates, and the amount requested (up to $2,000)
• a description of the project to be pursued, with an explanation of how HMML’s resources are essential to its successful completion of the project; applicants are advised to be as specific as possible about which resources will be needed (maximum length: 1,000 words)
• an updated curriculum vitae
• a confidential letter of recommendation to be sent directly to HMML by an advisor, thesis director, mentor, or, in the case of postdoctoral candidates, a colleague who is a good judge of the applicant’s work

Calls for Papers

5^th International Scientific Conference “Byzantine Studies in Georgia”

We are pleased to announce  that based on the joint decision of the Georgian National Committee of Byzantine Studies, Department of Byzantine Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of Ilia State University, Institute of Classical Philology, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of Ivane Javakhishvili State University and Faculty of Humanities of the Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, the 5^th International Scientific Conference “Byzantine Studies in Georgia” will be held on the 11-14^th of  October 2019 in  Batumi. The main theme of the Conference is defined as follows: “The Black Sea and the Black Sea Region Countries – the Crossroads of Cultures and Civilizations in the 4^th –15^th Centuries” 

Topics within the theme of Byzantine Studies are not limited. Sessions will be held at Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University on the 11-13^th of October 2019.

Participants of the conference will enjoy the opportunity to visit Batumi’s museums and exhibitions, such as Archeological and Art Museums, get introduced to the architectural monuments of the Antique, Byzantine and Post-Byzantine periods in Batumi and its vicinity (Petra-Tsikhisdziri and Gonio-Apsarosi Museum-Reserves). The excursion to Trabzon and Sumela Monastery Complex is scheduled on October 14^th, 2019.   

In order to ensure proper organization of the conference, including funding, we kindly ask you to send the filled application form and theses in English (max. 300 words, font- Sylfaen, size- 12) by 5 April 2019 at humanities@bsu.edu.ge.

Detailed information about registration and other costs will be provided later upon acceptance of your theses and application forms.   

For further details please contact: 

Doctor of History Erekle Jordania 

President of the Georgian National Committee of the AIEB, Associated Professor of the Department of History of Middle Ages of the Faculty of History at Lomonosov Moscow State University;

E-mail: ereklejordania@yahoo.com; byzantinology@gmail.com;

Doctor of Philology Neli Makharadze

Head of the Department of Byzantine Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of Ilia State University; 

E-mail: byzantinology@gmail.com;

Professor Tina Dolidze

Director of the Institute of Classical Philology, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of Ivane Javakhishvili State University; 

E-mail: greekstudies@tsu.ge;

Professor Marine Giorgadze

Dean of the Faculty of Humanities of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University;

E-mail: humanities@bsu.edu.ge.

Conference Organizing Committee 

  New Research Projects

History of the Russian Saint Panteleimon Monastery on Mount Athos

This long-term project is developing by the Institute of the Athos History (Moscow) researchers, who have devoted many years to the study of historical ties between Russia and Athos. The basis of the study is research of the unique documents of Athos monasteries, Russian and foreign archives. At present, the first stage of the study is completed: «A History of the Russian St. Panteleimon Monastery on Mount Athos from ancient times to 1735». Current results of this stage were published in four parts:

I. Chronological representation of the history of Rossikon (2015) – ISBN 978-5-9906769-6-1

II. Rossikon’s prayer life and the world (2019) – ISBN 978-5-6041972-8-8

III. Thousand-year experience of Rossikon’s monastic life (2019) – ISBN 978-5-6041972-9-5

IV. Corpus of the epistolary heritage of Rossikon (2018) – ISBN 978-5-9906769-7-8

New stage “The History of St. Panteleimon Monastery on Athos from 1735 to 1912” begin now.

For further information: http://instathos.ru/

Acts of notaries, drawn up in the cities of the Black Sea region 

International research project developing in productive cooperation between scientific team from the Lomonosov Moscow State University, headed by academician Sergey Karpov, and Italian colleagues, professors from the universities of Genoa and Turin: Alfonso Assini, Enrico Basso, M.G. Alvaro and Laura Balletto. The project explored unique sources that allow to highlighting different aspects of the history of the cities of Crimea and adjacent areas in this era.

Within the project scope, the following monograph was published: The acts of the Genoese notaries, drawn up in Kaffa and in other cities of the Black Sea region in the XIV-XV centuries. / edited by S.P. Karpov; compiled by M.G. Alvaro, A. Assini, L. Balletto, E. Basso. St. Petersburg: Aletheia, 2018. 760 p. [Black Sea in the Middle Ages. Vol. X] ISBN: 978-5-907030-13-8

This book includes notaries’ acts in Latin, with detailed registers and comments in Russian and Italian. Many documents from the State Archive of Genoa are published for the first time.

(In collaboration with Johannes Preiser-Kapeller)

At the centre of the project is a searchable database on which all the early evidence for the cult of the saints is being collected, whether in Armenian, Coptic, Georgian, Greek, Latin or Syriac, with summaries of long texts and full quotation of key passages, both in the original language and in English translation.  Every piece of evidence will be accompanied by a brief discussion, considering issues such as its dating and the details of cult that it reveals.  This database will be fully searchable, making it simple to access all the evidence for the early cult of a single saint, such as Martin of Tours, or to narrow the search down – for instance, to evidence for churches dedicated to Martin in 6th-century Italy.  It will also be possible to narrow searches to specific types of evidence (for instance, images only), or to specific cult practices (such as the creation of contact relics or the practice of incubation, sleeping at a shrine in the hope of a dream-vision).

New project: Digitising Patterns of Power (DPP): Peripherical Mountains in the Medieval World
http://dpp.oeaw.ac.at/
The project “Digitising Patterns of Power (DPP): Peripherical Mountains in the Medieval World” is funded within the programme “Digital Humanities: Langzeitprojekte zum kulturellen Erbe” of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for the duration of four years (PI: Doz. Dr. Mihailo Popović, 2015–2018). It is hosted at the Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO) of the same Academy and unites as a cluster project various experts from the fields of Medieval History, Byzantine Studies, Historical Geography, Archaeology, Geography, Cartography, Geographical Information Science (GISc) and Software Engineering. DPP focuses on the depiction and analysis of space and place in medieval written sources, the interaction between built and natural environment, the appropriation of space and the emergence of new political, religious and economic structures of power. Moreover, DPP is a cutting edge project within Digital Humanities and uses as well as develops digital tools for data-acquisition, data-management, processing as well as for analysis, visualisation, communication and publication. 

BYZART – Byzantine Art and Archaeology Thematic Channel for Europeana
http://www.magazine.unibo.it/archivio/2017/10/05/byzart-l2019era-bizantina-rivive-in-rete-grazie-all2019alma-mater
On 1st October 2017, the “BYZART – Byzantine Art and Archaeology Thematic Channel” project was launched. Coordinated by the University of Bologna (prof. Isabella Baldini), it aims at making about 75.000 cultural and artistic multimedia contents accessible online through the Europeana Platform. The contents that will be made available to Europeana include collections of digitized photos, video and audio contents, as well as 3D surveys and reconstructions about Byzantine history and culture, one of the milestones of European cultural heritage. The digital objects will be available at the best possible quality and according to the Europeana Right Statements. Moreover, the action will enhance Europeana accessibility and visibility, by rationalising and classifying the items already uploaded on the platform. By the end of the action, the number of the digital items related to Byzantine art and archaeology on Europeana platform will reach about 115.500.
Partner institutions of the project are the Ionian University of Kerkyra, the Open University of Cyprus, the Institute of Art Studies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens, the International Mosaic Documentation Centre of the Ravenna’s Art Museum.
On 31th October, 2107, the kick-off meeting of the project took place at the Department of History and Cultures of the University of Bologna.
The project is co-financed by the European Union’s Connecting Europe Facility with a grant of 425.827 euros.

For further information:
https://acadimia.org/nea-anakoinoseis/deltia-typou/605-epeteiako-symposio-iovilaiou-patriarxikoy-idrymatos-paterikon-meleton

New Digital Tools and Databases

(in collaboration with Johannes Preiser-Kapeller)

The ACOR Photo Archive:  <https://acor.digitalrelab.com/>
The American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) in Amman, Jordan, is proud to share its new web-based photo archive that features close to 10,000 high-resolution digital images of cultural heritage sites from Jordan and the surrounding region. The online archive, being developed with a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, includes spectacular images of hundreds of sites in Jordan, Syria, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia taken by renowned author and photographer Jane Taylor, as well as a growing collection of photographs of Jordan by famed journalist (and archaeological enthusiast) Rami Khouri. Other recently added collections include photographs by Linda K. Jacobs and Charles Wilson.
In coming years, the archive will continue to grow as new collections from ACOR’s rich archival holdings are digitized and made available. To search the ACOR Photo Archive, please visit: https://acor.digitalrelab.com/. You can also follow @acorarchives onInstagram.
All images presented online through our database are intended for open access, and are free to use for research and academic purposes. For image requests and permissions for publication please consult our online guidelines: <https://photoarchive.acorjordan.org/?page_id=431>.
To learn more about the Photo Archive project or how to obtain high-resolution images, please email archives@acorjordan.org.
ACOR is a non‑profit academic institution dedicated to promoting research and publication in the humanities and social sciences, with a particular focus on issues related to Jordan but also encompassing the broader Middle East. ACOR facilitates research by postgraduate researchers and senior scholars and assists in the training of specialists who focus on all phases of Jordan’s past and present. To learn more, please visit www.acorjordan.org or email
acor@acorjordan.org.

The Serres Gospels goes online
In this spectacular portrait, Jacob, bishop of Serres (b. 1300, d. 1365), humbly presents his Gospel-book to Christ. He is shown at the end of a copy of the Four Gospels in Old Church Slavonic, known as the Serres Gospels. This book is now completely digitised, and is available to view online on the British Library’s Digitised Manuscripts site.
See http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2018/06/the-serres-gospels-goes-online.html

Sinai Palimpsests Project
The UCLA Library has released the Sinai Palimpsests Project database.
Additional information can be found here.

BYZANTINISCHE BIBLIOGRAPHIE JETZT AUCH ONLINE VERFUEGBAR
Als einzige existierende Fachbibliographie fuer alle Disziplinen der Byzantinistik ist die Byzantinische Bibliographie ein unabdingbares und konkurrenzloses Hilfsmittel fuer Byzantinisten, Historiker, Mediaevisten, Theologen sowie Graezisten. Der Datenbestand ist nun erstmals auch online verfuegbar.
Die Byzantinische Bibliographie Online enthaelt die bibliographische Abteilung der Byzantinischen Zeitschrift von Band 98 (2005) bis heute. Sie umfasst insgesamt circa 30 000 Eintraege. Etwa 4 000 Eintraege kommen jaehrlich neu hinzu.
Die Benutzeroberflaeche bietet einen bequemen Zugriff auf die bibliographischen Daten und vielseitige Recherchemoeglichkeiten nach verschiedenen Suchkriterien. Die Eintraege sind systematisch nach Sachgruppen erschlossen und durch Kurzreferate und Hinweise auf Rezensionen angereichert.
Die Bayerische Staatsbibliothek hat die Datenbank seit kurzem lizenziert.
Fuer weitere Informationen: https://www.bsb-muenchen.de/article/byzantinische-bibliographie-jetzt-auch-online-verfuegbar-2392/

https://pbw2016.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/

A full account of the sources studied, together with the names of the scholars responsible, will be found here; this also serves as an index of the coverage of the project, which is a prosopographical reading of Byzantine Sources, 1025-1180. In this new edition materials have been added and enhanced, principally for the 12th century; the most significant additions are from further work on William of Tyre and Nicetas Choniates, and substantial new materials from the Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir. Such an undertaking can never be complete, as new discoveries are constantly being made; while PBW should be examined for what it contains, it should never be assumed that what it does not contain does not exist.
This edition is the work of Michael Jeffreys. The redesign and updating of the site are by Elliott Hall and Charlotte Roueché; external links have been added by Roueché.
The full bibliographic description is M. Jeffreys et al., Prosopography of the Byzantine World, 2016 (King’s College London, 2017) available at http://pbw2016.kdl.kcl.ac.uk.  ISBN: 978-1-908951-20-5. The standard abbreviation is PBW (2016).
Users are encouraged to publish the permalinks provided for each individual on person pages so:
PBW (2016) Leon 20224, http://pbw2016.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/person/Leon/20224/
The 2011 edition of the Prosopography of the Byzantine World can still be consulted here

Acknowledgements
The project has developed over many years, with the help of scholars cited on the Sources and Seals bibliography pages, and many other friends; the overarching direction and edition, from 2000 to 2016, has been the work of Michael Jeffreys. See further under About.
The work has received generous funding over the years from the AHRC, the Leverhulme Trust and the A.G. Leventis Foundation. The entire project depends on the vision, oversight and support of the British Academy.

New digital tools: The Seshat Global History Databank

http://seshatdatabank.info/

The Seshat Global History Databank is a joint project of historians, archaeologist, social scientists, evolutionary biologists and mathematicians from all over the worlds, hosted mainly at the University of Connecticut and Oxford University. The aim of the project, which was developed under the leadership of Peter Turchin, is the collection of comprehensive data on the scale and complexity of past societies, including aspects of politics, economy, military, religion and literature. Currently, the database contains data on ca. 400 societies from all periods and regions with a total of more than 200,000 data entries. The database also includes data on the Byzantine Empire, which was created in collaboration with the Division of Byzantine Research at the Austrian Academy (J. Preiser-Kapeller). The data will be made freely accessible soon; at the same time, first analytical studies on the basis of the enormous amount of data have been published, integrating also Byzantium in this wide scale comparative enterprise.

After years of development the Medieval Academy of America’s Database of Medieval Digital Resources has been launched., It is a curated WordPress database of peer-reviewed online resources for the study of the Middle Ages. More information here:
http://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-database-of-medieval-digital-resources/

Extra Opportunities: Some Funding Bodies

(by Dionysios Stathakopoulos)
 

The Foundation committees meet twice a year to consider the applications and decide on funding grants. The application deadline for the Foundation committees autumn meeting in 2018 is 13 June, 2018. Applications have to be in the Foundation’s office by this day. The Foundation committees are holding their meeting in November 2018. If your application is successful, funding can start at the beginning of December 2018 at the very earliest.

https://www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/grants

ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT-STIFTUNG/FOUNDATION

Become a Humboldtian – Sponsorship Programmes for Postdoctoral Scientists and Scholars
We promote academic cooperation between excellent scientists and scholars from abroad and from Germany. Whether you are a young postdoctoral researcher at the beginning of your academic career, an experienced, established academic, or even a world authority in your discipline – our research fellowships and research awards offer you sponsorship tailored to you and to your career situation.
If you would like to become a member of the Humboldt Family, only one thing counts:
your own excellent performance.

https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/sponsorship.html

FRITZ THYSSEN STIFTUNG

International grants, scholarships and exchange programs
In many cases comparison of experience and cooperation between scholars proves to be helpful in stimulating further development in most fields of research. This goes for the work of experienced university teachers as well as junior scholars.
The Foundation is flexible in applying the financial resources required, can also help include foreign scholars in project cooperation and supports many projects in which German and foreign scholars work together. Targeted support of international exchange between junior scholars also promotes international cooperation in the same manner, helping preserve or intensify close ties between experts.
International grants, scholarships and exchange programs of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation that are ongoing at present are listed in the following. Applications may only be submitted directly to the respective institutions.

http://www.fritz-thyssen-stiftung.de/funding/special-programmes/international-grants-scholarships-and-exchange-programmes/?L=1

DUMBARTON OAKS

Residential fellowships for an academic year, semester, or summer are awarded in all three areas of study to scholars from around the world. In addition, Dumbarton Oaks offers one-month non-residential awards to researchers and short-term predoctoral residencies to advanced graduate students. A program of project grants primarily supports archaeological research, as well as materials analysis and photographic surveys of objects and monuments. Summer schools and workshops bring together students for in-depth study of languages, material culture, and theory.

https://www.doaks.org/research/support-for-research

ONASSIS FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS

24^TH ONASSIS FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAM FOR INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS 2018-19  

In 1995 the Foundation established an annual program of grants and scholarships for research, study and artistic endeavour within Greece. The educational program is intended exclusively for non-Greeks: members of national academies, university professors of all levels, PhD holders, post-doctorate researchers and doctoral candidates. Exceptionally and on a case-by-case basis, the program may accept Greeks of the Diaspora, second generation Greeks, and Greeks who permanently reside abroad and have been studying or have been employed in foreign Universities for over 10 or 15 years, depending on the type of scholarship.
The program also includes Cypriot citizens, who have studied and reside outside Greece, and are members of National Academies, University professors of all levels –doctorate holders and post-doctorate researchers– as well as distinguished artists.
Over the two decades of its operation, the Foreigner’s Fellowships program went through successive phases in order to meet the standards of a dynamic and interdisciplinary project.  The Program aims at promoting Greek language, history and culture abroad, thereby creating and encouraging ties of friendship and cooperation between members of the foreign academic community and their Greek counterparts. The selection of scholarships for foreigners or research grant recipients is based on the positive reviews of the Academic Advisors Committees of the Foundation and is validated by the Foundation’s Board of Directors.
The said Committees comprise University Professors (some of which are also former scholars of the Foundation), specialized scientists and renowned artists, whose participation and contribution are both honorary and voluntary. Former scholars of the Onassis Foundation, who now occupy academic posts, also offer their voluntary contribution.
The grantees and scholarship recipients of this Program since the beginning of its operation, come from 65 countries: Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Congo, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany,  Ghana, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Latvia,  Lithuania, Mexico, Moldavia, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, S. Korea, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, S. Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, The Netherlands, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uruguay, U.S.A., Uzbekistan, Venezuela.
The number of scholarships awarded by the Foundation to foreigners varies from year to year. On average, 35 scholarships are awarded annually. During the 21 years of the Program’s operation (1995 – 2016), 853 research grants and educational scholarships have been awarded, amounting to $11.041.986.
The 24th Onassis Fellowships Program for International Scholars for the academic year 2018-19, with due-date February 28, 2018, will be announced in mid-December 2017, please check here: http://www.onassis.org/en/scholarships-foreigners.php
For further information, contact the Onassis Fellowships Program for International Scholars: +30 210 37 13 018, E-mail: fhadgiantoniou.ffp@onassis.org.

A. G. LEVENTIS FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS

The Foundation’s Educational Grants Scheme is an annual programme of grants intended for postgraduate and doctoral students. Post-doctoral research and distance-learning studies are not included. 
Applications by undergraduates who have not obtained their first university degree by the 31st of March will not be considered.  Grants are not offered retrospectively.
Applications should be completed in English.
The online application system will be open for New applications from 1 until 31 March. Renewal applications must be submitted between 1 and 30 April.
For more information please check here: https://www.leventisscholarships.org/howtoapply.aspx

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