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Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies

The Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (CEMS), heir to the Center for Hellenic Traditions (2004/5–2009/10), promotes the study of the eastern Mediterranean and its hinterlands from antiquity, especially the Hellenistic oikoumene (323–30 BCE), to the end of the Ottoman period (1923 CE).

May
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Anna Christidou Memorial Lecture: Empires of Learning: Comparative Approaches to Byzantium and Song China in the Long Eleventh Century

Niels Gaul
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | B505
Mar
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Book talk: Nur Baba: A Sufi Novel of Late Ottoman Istanbul

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D002
Mar
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Book talk: In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | C419
Feb
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3rd Annual Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Graduate Workshop

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-001
Feb
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Sailing Beyond the Epic: The Wanderings of Odysseus as Paradigm of Spiritual Virtue in the Writings of Manuel Gabalas

Juan Bautista Juan-López
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001
Feb
Performance of the Epic of King Gesar in Tibet (from: https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/gesar-epic-tradition-00204)

New Romans, Greeks or Byzantines? Perceptions of the medieval Roman Empire of the East from within and from afar across Afro-Eurasia

Johannes Preiser-Kapeller
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | A-211
Feb
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From Dubrovnik to Istanbul: The Evolution of a Catholic Diplomatic Family in the Ottoman Empire

Vjeran Kursar (University of Zagreb)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | C419
Feb
Soul, Body, and Gender

Book Launch: Soul, Body, and Gender in Late Antiquity Essays on Embodiment and Disembodiment

Istvan Perczel, Susan Visvanathan, Jasmina Lukic, Gyorgy Laszlo Gereby, Ecaterina Lung
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | A-211
Jan
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Bestseller hadith commentaries in the early modern Ottoman Empire: The reception of the works of Mullā ‘Alī al-Qārī (d. 1014/1605) in the Balkans and Anatolia

János Galamb
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001
Jan
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Administrative multilingualism and multiscriptualism in the Venetian-Ottoman borderlands of late medieval Dalmatia

Lena Sadovski
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | A-211
Dec
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Exegesis, Exempla and Invective: The Use of Scripture in Facundus’ In Defense of the Three Chapters

Eric Fournier
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001
Nov
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The brief rise and fall of the late Ottoman Islamists and their legacy

Andrew Hammond
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001
Nov
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Open Class: Literature and Learning at the End of the Byzantine Empire

Baukje van den Berg
Nov
Volker Menze

Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Reading Group: Reading Session I: Volker Menze, Patriarch Dioscorus of Alexandria

Volker L. Menze
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-001
Oct
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Imagining Muslim Difference: Najm al-Dīn al-Ghazzī (d. 1651) on Mimesis and Alterity in Islam

Youshaa Patel
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001
Oct
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Keynote lecture: The Lateran Synod of 649 and the Council of Constantinople of 680-81: Concord and Divergence

Richard Price
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001
Oct
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From Ctesiphon to Toledo: A Comparative View on Early Church Councils in East and West

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001
Oct
Volker Menze

Patriarch Dioscorus of Alexandria: The Last Pharaoh and Ecclesiastical Politics in the Later Roman Empire

Volker L. Menze, Richard Price
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | C-419
Jun
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Translating Byzantium and Byzantium Translating

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | C-322
May
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Keynote lecture: Ecological Transformations in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Humans and the Environment

Nükhet Varlık (Rutgers University-Newark)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001
May
Byzantine agriculture

CEMS Graduate Conference: Humans and Nature in the Mediterranean Landscape

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001
May
Art and power in medieval societies

Art and Power in Medieval Societies: Censorship, Propaganda and Public Service in the Eastern Mediterranean from Late Antiquity to the Ottoman Era

Budapest Site | Nador u. 15 | 203
Apr
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The Apocryphal Day of the Lord: Advertising Sunday Rest with Extra-Canonical Texts

Uta Heil (University of Vienna)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001
Mar
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Between Europe and the Middle East: The Convergence of Christian Traditions in the Syro-Catholic Literature from Malabar at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | C322
Mar
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Anna Christidou Memorial Lecture: Breaks in the narrative: The continuity of the Byzantine past in Muslim Anatolia

Armin Bergmeier
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001