Committed to fostering inclusive, exciting conversations, CeMAR’s research programme NetMAR runs a reading group open to all researchers and scholars interested in some of the different aspects covered by the project. The reading groups run under the broad theme of Arts & Rituals in the Medieval Period and Beyond.

CeMAR, UCY is organizing Reading Group 3 | Spring 2023 – Fall 2023

For the NetMAR Reading Group 3 Poster, click here.
Location: Online via zoom
Preregistration Required. For Registration and info, please send email to Andria Andreou at [email protected]

Meeting 1 – 27 April 2023
Ronald R. Grimes, The Craft of Ritual Studies (Oxford, 2014)
Introduced by Stavroula Constantinou (UCY)
TIME: Thursdays, 4 – 6pm CET

Meeting 2 – 25 May 2023
Simon Coleman, Powers of Pilgrimage: Religion in a World of Movement (New York, 2022)
Introduced by Simon Coleman and Aspasia Skouroumouni-Stavrinou (UCY)
TIME: Thursdays, 4 – 6pm CET

Meeting 3 – 21 September 2023
Pentcheva P. Bissera, Hagia Sophia: Sound, Space, and Spirit in Byzantium (Pennsylvania, 2017)
Introduced by Andria Andreou (UCY)
TIME: Thursdays, 4 – 6pm CET

Meeting 4 – 12 October 2023
The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity (3rd c.) and Sharon Olds, Satan Says (1980)
Introduced by Stavroula Constantinou and Christos Hadjiyiannis (UCY)
TIME: Thursdays, 4 – 6pm CET