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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).

Mar

Prophecy, Rebellion and Nationalism in Ottoman Europe

Marios Hatzopoulos
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Mar

Curse Tablets, Lead Boxes, and Voodoo Dolls

György Németh
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Feb

Ghostly Spies, Heavenly Records, and the Allure of Empire: Imagining Total Surveillance in Late Antique Rome and China

Tudor Sala
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Feb

The First Christian Emperor? Pitfalls and Aporiae in Recent Research on Constantine

Martin Wallraff
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Jan

The Botany of Death in Ancient Rome

John Bodel
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Dec

Books, Scholarship, and Eastern Christianity (17th-18th C.)

Bernard Heyberger
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Nov

Did Alexander the Great Discover America?: Humanist Debate in Ottoman Istanbul

Giancarlo Casale
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Nov

No New Pleasures Under the Sun: From Lucretius to Montaigne (via Ecclesiastes)

Nathan Gilbert
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Oct

Connecting the Dots: Delphic Oracle and the Cult of Asclepius from the Perspective of Cognitive Historiography

Aleš Chalupa
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Oct

The Politics of the Controversia: Declamation and Mediated Speech in Early Imperial Rome

Matthew Leigh
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Oct

Before Empire: Leopold II, Colonialism and the Ottoman Mediterranean

Houssine Alloul
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Sep

The Saints of Cyprus in Late Antiquity

Young Kim
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Sep

Justinian and His Chronicler: Interpreting the Reign

Roger Scott
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Sep

Tigers, Wolves, and Ghosts: Contemporary Paramilitarism in Historical Context

Ugur Üngör
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Sep

CEMS Welcome Reception

Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Faculty Tower
Jun

Outracing Ignorance: Preserving Manuscripts Threatened by War and Cultural Trafficking

Columba Stewart
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Jun

Rakı Consumption and Production in Istanbul 19th and 21st Centuries

Christoph Neumann
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
May
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Origen's heresy or par excellence Christian philosophy?

Ilaria Ramelli, Istvan Perczel
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
May

The Theory of Apokatastasis: Research Conducted, in Progress, and Planned

Ilaria Ramelli
Budapest Site | Nador u. 11
Apr

The Notions of Popular Power in the Late Roman Republic

Valentina Arena
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Apr

Excavations at Medieval Kinet (Turkey): A Medieval Port Town

Scott Redford
Budapest Site | Oktober 6 u. 7
Apr

No More Need for Greek? The Cultural Role of Cicero’s Philosophical Translations

Georgina White
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Mar

Anna Christidou Memorial Lecture: Treasures and Hoards in Late Byzantium, the Chalcis Case

Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Mar

East-West Interaction in Medieval Art and Architecture: The Case of Bizere Monastery (Romania)

Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Feb

Philo of Alexandria on Religion and Politics in the Roman Empire

Maren Niehoff
Budapest Site | Oktober 6 u. 7