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2017 March 08 Wednesday

Prophecy, Rebellion and Nationalism in Ottoman Europe

Marios Hatzopoulos

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2017 March 02 Thursday

Curse Tablets, Lead Boxes, and Voodoo Dolls

György Németh

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2017 February 16 Thursday

Ghostly Spies, Heavenly Records, and the Allure of Empire: Imagining Total Surveillance in Late Antique Rome and China

Tudor Sala

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2017 February 02 Thursday

The First Christian Emperor? Pitfalls and Aporiae in Recent Research on Constantine

Martin Wallraff

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2017 January 19 Thursday

The Botany of Death in Ancient Rome

John Bodel

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2016 December 01 Thursday

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

Bernard Heyberger

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2016 November 17 Thursday

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

Giancarlo Casale

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2016 November 03 Thursday

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

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2016 October 27 Thursday

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

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2016 October 20 Thursday

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

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2016 October 06 Thursday

Before Empire: Leopold II, Colonialism and the Ottoman Mediterranean

Houssine Alloul

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2016 September 28 Wednesday

The Saints of Cyprus in Late Antiquity

Young Kim

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2016 September 27 Tuesday

Justinian and His Chronicler: Interpreting the Reign

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2016 September 22 Thursday

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

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2016 June 07 Tuesday

Outracing Ignorance: Preserving Manuscripts Threatened by War and Cultural Trafficking

Columba Stewart

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2016 June 02 Thursday

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

Christoph Neumann

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2016 May 05 Thursday

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

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2016 April 28 Thursday

The notions of popular power in the Late Roman Republic

Valentina Arena

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2016 April 21 Thursday

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

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2016 April 14 Thursday

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

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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

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2016 March 03 Thursday

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

Ileana Burnichioiu

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2016 February 11 Thursday

Philo of Alexandria on Religion and Politics in the Roman Empire

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2016 February 04 Thursday

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

Yoav Meyrav

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2016 January 12 Tuesday

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

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