NEWS

Gábor Buzási, Assistant Professor at ELTE (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest) and Recurrent Visiting Faculty at CEU (Source Language Teaching Group and Department of Medieval Studies) traveled to Georgia during 21 – 28 September 2013 where he was hosted by Professor Tina Dolidze, Head of the Department for Byzantine Studies (Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies), Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and participant of our CEU HESP project.

Dear all,

I very much regret to inform you that Dr. Anna Christidou, one of CEU’s 20th anniversary post-doctoral fellows, died in a car accident in Athens last Sunday. Anna Christidou joined CEU in September 2011 after finishing her PhD on “Unknown Byzantine Art in the Balkan Area: Art, Power and Patronage in Twelfth to Fourteenth Century Churches in Albania” under the supervision of Dr. Antony Eastmond at the Courtauld Institute of Art/University of London.

Andrea Schmidt, University Professor at the Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium traveled to Tbilisi, Georgia during 28 May – 5 June 2013 where she was hosted by Professor Tina Dolidze, Head of the Department for Byzantine Studies (Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies), Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and participant of our CEU HESP project.

While there she gave a two parts lecture hosted at the Tbilisi State University on:

Dragoş Gh. Năstăsoiu, Medieval Studies PhD Candidate, traveled to Tbilisi in the autumn as the fourth doctoral student to give an intensive class at one of our partner institutions. While there he was hosted by Professor Zaza Skhirtladze, Head of the Institute of the History and Theory of Art, Faculty of Humanities, Tbilisi State University.