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2016 December 01 Thursday

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

Bernard Heyberger

Lecture

2016 November 17 Thursday

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

Giancarlo Casale

Lecture

2016 November 03 Thursday

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

Lecture

2016 October 27 Thursday

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

Lecture

2016 October 20 Thursday

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

Lecture

2016 October 06 Thursday

Before Empire: Leopold II, Colonialism and the Ottoman Mediterranean

Houssine Alloul

Lecture

2016 September 28 Wednesday

The Saints of Cyprus in Late Antiquity

Young Kim

Lecture

2016 September 27 Tuesday

Justinian and His Chronicler: Interpreting the Reign

Lecture

2016 September 22 Thursday

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

Lecture

2016 September 15 Thursday

CEMS Welcome Reception

General

2016 June 07 Tuesday

Outracing Ignorance: Preserving Manuscripts Threatened by War and Cultural Trafficking

Columba Stewart

Lecture

2016 June 02 Thursday

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

Christoph Neumann

Lecture

2016 May 05 Thursday

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

Lecture

2016 April 28 Thursday

The notions of popular power in the Late Roman Republic

Valentina Arena

Lecture

2016 April 21 Thursday

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

Lecture

2016 April 14 Thursday

No more need for Greek?: The cultural role of Cicero’s philosophical translations

Lecture

2016 March 17 Thursday

Anna Christidou Memorial Lecture: 'For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also': Treasures and Hoards in Late Byzantium, the Chalcis Case

Nikos Kontogiannis

Lecture

2016 March 03 Thursday

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

Ileana Burnichioiu

Lecture

2016 February 11 Thursday

Philo of Alexandria on Religion and Politics in the Roman Empire

Lecture

2016 February 04 Thursday

Themistius’ Paraphrase of Aristotle’s Metaphysics XII - Challenges and Innovations

Yoav Meyrav

Lecture

2016 January 12 Tuesday

What is at stake in the doctrine of creation out of nothing?

Lecture