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).

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
Nov
Budapest Campus events

The Caliph as a Relic of Sovereignty: A View from Inner Asia

Azfar Moin
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15 | Quantum (101)
Sep
The CEU Campus

CEMS WELCOME SESSION

Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Jun
The CEU Campus

“Christian at Heart, Muslim in Guise?” Tracing the Pontic Crypto-Christian Experiences from the Ottoman Empire to Nation States

Zeynep Türkyilmaz
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
May
The CEU Campus

Ambivalent Archives: Record-keeping and the Dynamics of Cultural Hegemony in the early Medieval Mediterranean

Arietta Papaconstantinou
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
May
The CEU Campus

The Capitol and the long religious history of Rome

Nicholas Purcell
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
May

CEMS Graduate Conference 2019

Nicholas Purcell, Arietta Papaconstantinou, Zeynep Türkyilmaz
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
May
The CEU Campus

A ‘German Renaissance Architect’ on the Ottoman-Hungarian Borderlands: Interpretation of Problems, Problems of Interpretation

Sarah Lynch
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Mar

Anna Christidou Memorial Lecture: Gold on the Wall: Matter and Medium in Medieval Serbian Painting

Ivan Drpić
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Feb
The CEU Campus

Dos and Don'ts for Littérateurs: Mediaeval Muslim Jurisprudents' Discussions of Literature

Zoltán Szombathy
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Feb

Imitations, Hypertexts or Translations? On how to understand Byzantine Reception of Ancient Literature

Ingela Nilsson
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Feb

The Contentious Biography of an Institution: Otto Wagner’s Psychiatric Hospital at Steinhof, Vienna 1907-2018

Sabine Wieber
Budapest Site | Oktober 6 u. 7
Feb
The CEU Campus

Arabic History and Historiography in the Digital Age

Maxim Romanov
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Jan
The CEU Campus

The New Ottomanist Frontier: Analyzing Ottoman Turkish Documents Computationally

Tamás Kiss
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Jan

Confronting the Ottoman Baroque in Republican Istanbul

Emily Neumeier
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Jan

A room with a View on the Other Side of the Nile. Nonnus and Coptic Literature

Gianfranco Agosti
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Nov

Religious Facets of Neo-Medievalism in Eastern Europe, Russia and the Levant: Heresy, Sacred Space, Religious Warfare

Yuri Stoyanov
Nov
The CEU Campus

Learning Greek in Byzantium: Poetry in the Classroom of the Grammarian

Baukje van den Berg
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Oct

Exhibiting Imperial Space: Architectural Design and Mobility Structures in Habsburg Bosnia

Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Oct
The CEU Campus

Palimpsests in the Vatican Library and the Discovery of the Preface to Dexippus’ Scythica

Andras Nemeth
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Oct

Violence, Community-Building and Capitalism: Armenian Women Workers and Turkish Carpets (ca. 1890s-1910s)

Tolga Cora
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Sep

Apocalypticism and Knowledge Transfer in Early Modern Greek Orthodoxy

Nikolas Pissis
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building