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
cem kara

The Amalgamation of Two Religious Cultures: The Conceptual and Social History of Alevi-Bektashism

Cem Kara
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-001 Tiered
May
Diaz

Research Seminar: The Andalusians of Tunisia, Cultural pride and Privilege longing; Cultural Revivalism at the Crossroads of Identity and Class, Past and Present

Marta Dominguez Diaz
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | C419
Mar
Hamarneh

The Sixth Century in the Levant: Changes and Challenges

Basema Hamarneh
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | QS D-001 Tiered
Feb
Yektan's lecture

Reassessing the Route to the Armenian Genocide (June 1913-April 1915)

Yektan Türkyılmaz
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-001 Tiered
Jan
Praiser-Kapeller Lecture

Signs of the End of Times? The Turn of the First Millennium AD, the Oort Minimum and Natural Disasters in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond

Johannes Preiser-Kapeller
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | Tiered D-001
Dec
Menze seminar

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

Volker L. Menze
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 |
Oct
Turkyilmaz

Research Seminar: Sounds of Empire: Music, Technology and Heritage across the late Ottoman World (1900-1929)

Yektan TÜRKYILMAZ
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | C 323
Oct
Azneh seminar

Research Seminar: Ex Oriente Lux

Aziz Al-Azmeh
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | A 415
Oct
cems

CEMS Opening Info Session

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | Auditorium
Feb
van Hoof

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

Lieve van Hoof
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51
Nov
Origen

Ethics in Origen’s Explanations of the Psalms

Róbert Somos
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51
Oct
Clayer-Sufism

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

Nathalie Clayer
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51