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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> SYSOP [mailto:SYSOP@ku.edu.tr]
<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, May 07, 2007 2:37 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
SYSOP<BR><B>Subject:</B> Byzantine Studies Colloquium at Koc
University<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><BR>Byzantine Studies Colloquium at Koc
University<BR>**************************************</DIV>
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<DIV>Niketas Choniates. A Byzantine Historian and Writer</DIV>
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<DIV>A one day colloquium at Koç University, Istanbul<BR>Hosted by the
Department of History at Koç University in association with the Department of
Philology at the University of Ioannina</DIV>
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<DIV>Co-sponsors: The Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation and Koç
University<BR>Venue: ENG 208 (Engineering building, next to the Dean’s
office)<BR>Date: 18 May 2007, 10am-5pm</DIV>
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<DIV>Programme</DIV>
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<DIV>10:00: Introduction: Niketas Choniates, One of Us Moderns (Alicia
Simpson-Stephanos Efthymiadis)</DIV>
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<DIV>Morning Session<BR>Chair: Alicia Simpson</DIV>
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<DIV>10:15: Paul Magdalino (St. Andrews/Koç University), Prophecy and Divination
in the Historia<BR>10:45: Stephanos Efthymiadis (Ioannina University), Greek
Mythology and Biblical Metaphor in the Service of an Artful Writer </DIV>
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<DIV>Coffee break</DIV>
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<DIV>11:45: Luciano Bossina (Akademie der Wisssenschaften zu Goettingen),
Theology in the Context of the Fourth Crusade: the Historia and the Dogmatike
Panoplia<BR>12:15: John Davis (Independent scholar), The Historia metaphrased:
Virtues and Vices</DIV>
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<DIV>Lunch break</DIV>
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<DIV>Afternoon Session<BR>Chair: Stephanos Efthymiadis</DIV>
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<DIV>2:00: Niels Gaul (Oxford University), Chains and Gems, Tears and Smiles:
The Performance of Empire<BR>2:30: Anthony Kaldellis (Ohio State University),
Paradox, Reversal and the Meaning of History</DIV>
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<DIV>Coffee break</DIV>
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<DIV>3:30: Titos Papamastorakis (Aegean University), Interpreting the “De
Signis” of Niketas Choniates<BR>4:00: Alicia Simpson (Koç University), Narrative
Images of Medieval Constantinople</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>For further information please contact:</DIV>
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<DIV>Dr. Alicia Simpson, Department of History<BR><A
href="mailto:asimpson@ku.edu.tr">asimpson@ku.edu.tr</A> <BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>