SEMINARS

 

 

A series of seminars is organized to promote Byzantine research. The lectures are addressed to specialists of the field and University students, and it is open to anyone with special interests in Byzantine studies. It is expected to create a forum to present research projects in progress and to offer the opportunity to exchange ideas and scholarly experience with other specialists. In 2009-2010 the seminars will be hosted at the Department of History, Archaeology and Cultural Resources Management of the University of Peloponnese in Kalamata.

 

The series of seminars are organized by Helen Saradi.

 

Seminars (2009-2010):

 

1. N. Tsivikis, Director of the Greek Excavation team at Amorio: Excavations at Amorion. Discovering the Middle Byzantine Capital of a Theme, and a Full Spectrum of Archaeological Issues. (25.11.2009)

 

2. I. Theodorakopoulos: The siege of Amorion in 838. The written Sources and the archaeological evidence. (9.12.2009).

 

3. A. Savvidis,University of Peloponnese: A collective prosopographical contribution: the Encyclopaedic Prosopographical Lexicon of Byzantine History and Civilization/ EPLBHC.(Spring 2010).
 

4. Paraskeuas Matalas, University of Crete: The discovery of Byzantine Mystra. 14.4.2010

5. Eugenia Chalkia, Director, 26th Ephoria of Byzantine Antiquities, and Constantina Gerolymou, archaeologist: Nikopolis: the early Byzantine city and its monuments. New discoveries
, 6.5.2010.

 

6. Ioli Kalavrezou, An Imperial Psalter (Paris Gr. 139): The Classicizing Miniatures and their Interpretations, 26.5.2010.