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2012 December 06 Thursday

The Mysteries of Mithras in Late Antiquity: New Perspectives, Old Problems of Interpretation

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2012 November 29 Thursday

Sub Specie Aeternitatis: Concepts of Time in Ottoman Historiography

Gottfried Hagen

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2012 November 27 Tuesday

The Role of Byzantium in the Translatio Studii

Peter Schreiner

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2012 November 23 Friday

Philosophical Developments in Armenia during the Middle Ages

Manea Erna Shirinian

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2012 November 20 Tuesday

Re-inventing an Old Tradition: The Academy of Antiochus of Ascalon

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2012 November 15 Thursday

Cultural Politics and the Question of Opposition in Twentieth-Century Turkey

Christine Philliou

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2012 November 12 Monday

Make Up Your Minds: What Exactly Does the Noesis of the Procline Soul Look Like and What Does It Think?

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2012 November 09 Friday

Commemorations Set in Stone: Aspiring Patrons in Byzantine Cappadocia

Anna Christidou (CEU)

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2012 October 25 Thursday

Islamic Magic Bowls and Yezidi Oral History in Iraqi Kurdistan

Eszter Spät (CEU)
Eszter Spät

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2012 September 27 Thursday

Five Hundred Years of “Daughter Trouble”: Jewish Families and Their Daughters in the Ottoman Era

Minna Rozen (University of Haifa)

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2012 May 24 Thursday

The question of mediation and defining cultural difference in diplomatic relations: Islamic embassies in Western Europe in the early modern period

Jocelyne Dakhlia (École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)

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2012 May 24 Thursday

From Dialogue to Doctrine? The anatomy of a literary form

Averil Cameron (University of Oxford)

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2012 May 10 Thursday

Silences, oracles and truth in Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus

György Karsai (University of Pécs)

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2012 March 22 Thursday

From Greek into Syriac and from Syriac into Greek

Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)

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2012 March 08 Thursday

The Anthologies Compiled for Eirene Palaiologina by Markos the Monk (13th century)

Peter van Deun (KU Leuven)

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2012 March 01 Thursday

The Big Picture: writing the history of the Greeks under Ottoman rule

Molly Greene (Princeton University)

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2012 February 23 Thursday

Religious Violence in Late Antiquity: the unedited Life of Barsawmo

Andrew Palmer (Münster University)

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2012 February 16 Thursday

The Creation of a Commemorative Landscape: Rome's Edifices under the Reign of Vespasian and Titus

Stefan Pfeiffer (Technical University of Chemnitz)

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2012 February 14 Tuesday

Ani from Armenia to the Mongols: the changing identities of a medieval city

Antony Eastmond (The Courtauld Institute of Art)

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2012 January 26 Thursday

"...Now the wanderer lifts his right hand to his forehead and makes the sign of the cross when passing this ambrosial place": churches and their builders in the late antique Near East

Rubina Raja (Aarhus University)

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