[Bilimsel Haber] FW: Byzantine Studies Colloquium at Koc University

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Byzantine Studies Colloquium at Koc University
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Niketas Choniates. A Byzantine Historian and Writer
 
A one day colloquium at Koç University, Istanbul
Hosted by the Department of History at Koç University in association
with the Department of Philology at the University of Ioannina
 
Co-sponsors: The Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation and Koç
University
Venue: ENG 208 (Engineering building, next to the Dean’s office)
Date: 18 May 2007, 10am-5pm
 
Programme
 
10:00: Introduction: Niketas Choniates, One of Us Moderns (Alicia
Simpson-Stephanos Efthymiadis)
 
Morning Session
Chair: Alicia Simpson
 
10:15: Paul Magdalino (St. Andrews/Koç University), Prophecy and
Divination in the Historia
10:45: Stephanos Efthymiadis (Ioannina University), Greek Mythology and
Biblical Metaphor in the Service of an Artful Writer  
 
Coffee break
 
11:45: Luciano Bossina (Akademie der Wisssenschaften zu Goettingen),
Theology in the Context of the Fourth Crusade: the Historia and the
Dogmatike Panoplia
12:15: John Davis (Independent scholar), The Historia metaphrased:
Virtues and Vices
 
Lunch break
 
Afternoon Session
Chair: Stephanos Efthymiadis
 
2:00: Niels Gaul (Oxford University), Chains and Gems, Tears and Smiles:
The Performance of Empire
2:30: Anthony Kaldellis (Ohio State University), Paradox, Reversal and
the Meaning of History
 
Coffee break
 
3:30: Titos Papamastorakis (Aegean University), Interpreting the “De
Signis” of Niketas Choniates
4:00: Alicia Simpson (Koç University), Narrative Images of Medieval
Constantinople
 

For further information please contact:
 
Dr. Alicia Simpson, Department of History
asimpson at ku.edu.tr 

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