Review of Averil Cameron’s Byzantine Matters (Princeton & Oxford, 2014), in Small, A., Stewart, K., & Wakeley, J.M., (eds.), The Byzantinist: The Newsletter of the Oxford University Byzantine Society, 2015, p.14-15 (original) (raw)
Matteo G Randazzo, Katherine Taronas, Niels Gaul, Bilal Adıgüzel, Barbara (Varvára) Astafurova, Abby-Eléonore Thouvenin, Mark Huggins, Margherita Riso, Callan Meynell, Victoria Beatrix Fendel, Cosimo Paravano, Aristotelis Nayfa, Nikolaos Vryzidis, Alex M Feldman, Obatnin Georgi, MARIA CHRONOPOULOU, Ioannis Siopis, Danai Thomaidis, Ester Cristaldi, Klimis Aslanidis
It is our great pleasure to publish this booklet of abstracts of the 2nd Annual Edinburgh International Graduate Byzantine Conference entitled “Reception, Appropriation and Innovation: Byzantium between the Christian and Islamic Worlds”, taking place at the University of Edinburgh from 30 November-1 December 2018. We publish here the 28 abstracts submitted by all of our speakers, including our invited, keynote speakers, all of whom we thank for their commitment to making this conference a success – and their contribution towards this end shines through on each of the following pages. From the beginning this conference has been the fruit of collaborative efforts amongst individual scholars and institutions, as well, from many different countries. First, within the University of Edinburgh itself, the conference marks an important development in interdisciplinary collaboration amongst schools and colleges, as it is co-organized by students from the School of History, Classics and Archaeology together with the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. Moreover, we are very happy to have welcomed here scholars from all over the world to present their research from 20 different institutions in several countries: France, Greece, Turkey, Finland, UK, USA, Austria, Egypt, Italy, Denmark and Israel. Finally, this fruitful and multi-faceted collaboration would not have been possible without the generous support of the Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Research Group of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology together with the Alwaleed Centre of the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, both of the University of Edinburgh, as well as generous support from the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies. This booklet of abstracts has a twofold aim: 1) to situate this conference within the wider research context of the University of Edinburgh, highlighting the interdisciplinary work being conducted here with the hope of establishing these interdepartmental relations on solid ground for years to come, and 2) to make the fruits of these joint efforts readily available to a wider, global audience, both within academia and beyond, by means of various media and open-access publishing.