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Spatial Paths to Holiness: New Dissertation at Uppsala University!

Posted on September 4, 2020 by nordbyz

Myrto Veikou has handed in her doctoral dissertation for the traditional “spikning” at Uppsala University: “Spatial paths to holiness: Literary ‘lived spaces’ in eleventh-century Byzantine saints’ lives”. The dissertation will be defended on September 26 with Stephanos Efthymiadis as faculty … Continue reading →

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ConstSpace: A New Research Network Hosted by the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul

Posted on April 19, 2019 by nordbyz

The research network ‘Constantinople: the diachronicity of public spaces’ (ConstSpace) wishes to challenge current ideas of a clearly distinguishable European center, located in the west of the continent, surrounded by different peripheries. It focuses on Constantinople/Istanbul – once the capital … Continue reading →

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Interview: Annalinden Weller

Posted on October 3, 2017 by nordbyz

The two-year postdoc in Text and Narrative in Byzantium at Uppsala University is over, and Annalinden Weller is leaving Sweden after two productive years that were concluded with a conference on Reception Histories of the Future in August 2017. As … Continue reading →

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From the Human Body to the Universe… Spatialities of Byzantine Culture

Posted on June 1, 2017 by nordbyz

This international conference was organized by the Department of Linguistics and Philology of Uppsala University, as part of the Research Project “Text and narrative in Byzantium” lead by Professor Ingela Nilsson (http://www.grekiska.net/byzantine-narrative/). It was hosted by the Museum Gustavianum, from … Continue reading →

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Byzantine spaces

Posted on April 29, 2017 by nordbyz

Uppsala University is happy to host the conference “From the Human Body to the Universe: Spatialities of Byzantine Culture” on May 18-21, 2017. More info here. The arranger is Myrto Veikou, whose recent article on the topic was published in the last … Continue reading →

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