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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.

Thomas Mathews, The John Langeloth Loeb Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University has traveled to Yerevan during 6 – 16 September 2012 where he was hosted by Professor Levon Chookaszian, Director of the UNESCO Chair of Armenian Art History, Yerevan State University and participant of our CEU HESP project.

While there he gave three lectures on: "Icons in Early Armenia" (12-13 September) and "The Secrets of the Gospel of Gagik-Abas (J2556)" all hosted at the Yerevan State University.

György Geréby, Associate Professor at the Department of Medieval Studies, CEU has traveled to Yerevan during 26 November – 4 December 2011 where he was hosted by Professor Erna Shirinyan, Faculty of Theology, Yerevan State University and participant of our CEU HESP project.

Sara Nur Yıldız, Orient-Institut Istanbul traveled to Tbilisi during November 7-18, 2011 where she was hosted by Professor Rismag Gordeziani, Director of the Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies and Professor Tina Dolidze, likewise of the Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies.