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2018 October 18 Thursday

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

Lecture

2018 October 04 Thursday

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

Tolga Cora

Lecture

2018 September 27 Thursday

Apocalypticism and Knowledge Transfer in Early Modern Greek Orthodoxy

Lecture

2018 September 10 Monday

CEMS Welcome & Info Session

General

2018 June 14 Thursday

The Italian “commercial revolution”: an archaeological reading

Chris Wickham, Oxford

Lecture

2018 June 08 Friday

Early Monasticism and the Transformation of Classical Paideia (Samuel Rubenson, Lund University)

Samuel Rubenson

Lecture

2018 June 01 Friday

The Curve of Confessionalization: Tracking Religious Revival among Early Modern Armenians through the “Serial History” of the Armenian Book (Sebouh Aslanian, UCLA)

Sebouh Aslanian

Lecture

2018 June 01 Friday

OTTOCONFESSION Project Conference:Entangled Confessionalizations? Dialogic Perspectives on Community and Confession-Building Initiatives in the Ottoman Empire, 15th-18th centuries

https://cems.ceu.edu/article/2018-04-26/entangled-confessionalizations-dialogic-…

Conference

2018 May 31 Thursday

IMPERIAL ENTANGLEMENTS AND EXCHANGES IN THE BLACK SEA REGION LECTURE SERIES: Critical reflections on the Patterns and Peculiarities of the Black Sea World (Eyup Ozveren, Middle East Technical University)

Lecture

2018 May 03 Thursday

CEMS COLLOQUIUM: Religion and urbanisation: From "polis" to urban religion (Jörg Rüpke, Erfurt)

Lecture

2018 March 29 Thursday

BUILDING AND CONTESTING ORTHODOXIES: Changes in the Concept of Din in the Late Ottoman Context (Markus Dressler)

Markus Dressler

Lecture

2018 March 22 Thursday

CEMS COLLOQUIUM: Missionaries in Persia. Cultural Diversity and Competing Norms in Early Modern Global Catholicism (Christian Windler)

Christian Windler

Lecture

2018 March 08 Thursday

ANNA CHRISTIDOU MEMORIAL LECTURE: The Circulation of Imperial Effigies in Early Palaiologan Byzantium: In the Footsteps of Anna Christidou’s Research (Niels Gaul)

Niels Gaul

Lecture

2018 February 23 Friday

CEMS COLLOQUIUM: Practical and Theoretical Reasoning in Aristotle (Benjamin Morison, Princeton)

Benjamin Morison

Lecture

2018 February 22 Thursday

IMPERIAL ENTANGLEMENTS AND EXCHANGES IN THE BLACK SEA REGION LECTURE SERIES: Navigating the Russian Legal System on the Black Sea in the Nineteenth Century (Julia Leikin, Exeter)

Lecture

2018 February 08 Thursday

BUILDING AND CONTESTING ORTHODOXIES: NEW APPROACHES TO TRUTH AND POWER CLAIMS IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN LECTURE SERIES: Voice and Testimony: Graffiti in the Prisons of the Inquisition in Palermo (Mercedes Garcia-Arenal Rodriguez)

Mercedes Garcia-Arenal Rodriguez

Lecture

2018 January 18 Thursday

IMPERIAL ENTANGLEMENTS AND EXCHANGES IN THE BLACK SEA REGION LECTURE SERIES (Kelly O'Neill, Harvard)

Lecture

2017 December 07 Thursday

CEMS COLLOQUIUM: The Abgar-Story -- Epigraphic Text in Context (Ida Toth, Oxford)

Ida Toth

Lecture

2017 November 30 Thursday

IMPERIAL ENTANGLEMENTS AND EXCHANGES IN THE BLACK SEA REGION LECTURE SERIES: Towards a Biography of an Office: Peter Tolstoi and the First Russian Diplomatic Residence in Istanbul at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century

Lecture

2017 November 16 Thursday

CEMS COLLOQUIUM: Urban Tanzîmât, Morality, and Corrupting Property in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul

Lecture

2017 November 02 Thursday

Jewish and Christian Co-existence in Byzantine Palestine

Günter Stemberger

Lecture

2017 October 26 Thursday

CEMS COLLOQUIUM: Poetics of Ambivalence in al-Ma‘arri’s Luzumiyyat and Issues of Authority and Reception

Lecture

2017 September 28 Thursday

CEMS Opening Lecture: Kerem Öktem (University of Graz)

Lecture

2017 September 14 Thursday

CEMS Welcome Reception

General

2017 August 03 Thursday

Tradition and Innovation in Historical Perspective: Undergraduate Conference

Conference