CEU Building

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
Ark detail

Formlessness and Potentiality: Reflections on Art and Materiality in Fourteenth-Century Byzantium: Keynote Speech by Charlie Barber for the CEMS Graduate Conference on Materiality in the Eastern Mediterranean World

Charlie Barber
May
Sajdi

Text as a Spatial Performance: Keynote Speech by Dana Sajdi for the CEMS Graduate Conference on Materiality in the Eastern Mediterranean World

Dana Sajdi
May
Materiality

Materiality in the Eastern Mediterranean World: CEMS Graduate Conference 2021

May
Riedl RS

Devils or Allies? Representations of the Ottomans in the Early Reformation (1517-1530)

Matthias Riedl
May
Aydin

Ottoman Intellectuals on the Empire Question During the Long 19th Century|Intellectuals & Empire

Cemil Aydin
Apr
intellectuals

Intellectuals and Political Power in the Būyid Period: Emerging Modes of Knowledge Production|Intellectuals & Empire

Nuha Alshaar
Mar
Istvan Perczel

Exploring the Syrian Christian and the Muslim Archives in South India: What has been done and what should be done?

István Perczel
Mar
Shawcross

An Imperial Language: Alphabet Ceremonies in Constantinople and Rome|Intellectuals & Empire

Teresa Shawcross
Feb
Emese

Global Catholicism and Early Modern Ottoman Europe

Emese Muntan
Feb
van Hoof

Letters as an Instrument for Lobbying: Libanius and the Imperial Court|Intellectuals & Empire

Lieve van Hoof
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51
Feb
Ivanyi

Exhorting the Sultan: Birgivī Meḥmed Efendī’s Dhukhr al-Mulūk in Context|Intellectuals & Empire

Katharina Ivanyi
Jan
Wilson

Subduing the Saints: Sufism, Culture, and Nation in Modern Turkey

Brett Wilson
Dec
Borekci

Challenges of a New Research Project: Mapping out Networks of Power and Patronage Relations among the Ottoman Ruling Elite(1570s-1640s)

Günhan Börekçi
Nov
Origen

Ethics in Origen’s Explanations of the Psalms

Róbert Somos
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51
Nov
Baukje-presentation

Eustathios of Thessalonike on Homer and Excellent Oratory

Baukje van den Berg
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | C419
Oct
Clayer-Sufism

Sufism in Transition: Bektashism in the Late Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Spaces

Nathalie Clayer
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51
Oct
Krstic-Presentation

Was there an Ottoman 'Age of Confessionalization'?: Insights gained from the OTTOCONFESSION project (2015-2020)

Tijana Krstić
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | C419
Feb
Budapest Campus events

Shah-e darvish-dust’: Sufism and Political Theology in Safavid Isfahan under ‘Abbas II

Sajjad Rizvi
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15 | Quantum (101)
Feb
Budapest Campus events

Shiite Propaganda between Iran and the Ottoman Empire: Gharibi of Menteshe

Ferenc Péter Csirkés
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15 | Quantum (101)
Feb
V

Saint Sergius and Resafa: How a Saint turned a Border Fortress into a Late Antique Metropolis. Public lecture by Volker Menze (CEU)

Volker Menze
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Faculty Tower | 509
Jan
Budapest Campus events

The Friends of God Are the True Kings. Sufi Perspectives on Sanctity and Sovereignty in Mamluk Egypt

Giuseppe Cecere
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building | Gellner room
Jan
Agia Sophia

The cult of saints in Constantinople (sixth-twelfth c.): Some questions, by Stephanos Efthymiadis (CEU – Open University of Cyprus)

Stephanos Efthymiadis
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Faculty Tower | 509
Jan
Budapest Campus events

Visible and Invisible Borders Between Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern World

Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building | Gellner room
Dec
Medieval Studies Department

Doctoral defense of Sandro Nikolaishvili

Sandro Nikolaishvili
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building | Senate Room
Nov
Bichitr: Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings (1618); Courtesy by Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution

Imperial Mysticisms: Piety and Power in Early Modern Empires from a Global Perspective

Budapest Site | Nador u. 15 | Auditorium B