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
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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
Feb
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Sufism from Empire to Republic

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51
Jan
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Seeing like a Sufi: Vision and Place in Aşçı İbrahim Dede’s Memoirs

Eda Güçlü
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | C322
Nov
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Mediation between architecture, word, and image - the mihrab inscriptions of the Green Complex (1419-1424) for Sultan Mehmed I in Bursa

Veronika Poier
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | B-505
Nov
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Confessionalization in the Ottoman Empire - Book Launch

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D002
Nov
Byzantine Commentaries

Byzantine Commentaries: New Publications

Oct
Scooby Doo Mystery

Looking for Plague in All the Wrong Places: On Using Legislation as Evidence for the Sixth-Century Epidemic

David Rockwell
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001
Sep
Qasr el-Nil Bridge, Cairo

Keynote Speech: Legalism, Iconoclasm, and Anti-colonialism – Other Statue Histories

Finbarr Barry Flood
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001
Sep
Fragment of a wall painting, Qaryat al-Faw

Rethinking Arab History, Society, and Culture - A Conference in Honor of Aziz Al-Azmeh

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-001 Tiered
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
Border wines

Liquid Conflict and Border Wines: A Political Tasting of Terroir and Territory across the Eastern Mediterranean

Daniel Monterescu
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | B-421
Mar
Hamarneh

The Sixth Century in the Levant: Changes and Challenges

Basema Hamarneh
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | QS D-001 Tiered
Mar
Kiprovska lecture

Research Seminar: Ottoman Raiders (akıncı) in Europe: holy Warriors, terrible Turks, Plunderers, auxiliary Troops, opportunist Volunteers, or Slave-hunters? Making Sense of the Ottoman Conquest and Slave Society

Mariya Kiprovska
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | C 323
Feb
Yektan's lecture

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

Yektan Türkyılmaz
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-001 Tiered
Feb
walton

Houses of Worship, Objects of Heritage: On Intersections of Post-Imperial Memory and Religion

Jeremy Walton
Feb
Wilke

Research Seminar: In Search of Hebrew Epitaphs from Medieval Constantinople

Carsten L. Wilke
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
ACML

Anna Christidou Memorial Lecture - Coincidence or Intention: Foundations on Solid Rock

Lioba Theis
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 |