Press Release MSCA-DN “StoryPharm” Kick-off The new EU-funded programme “Storytelling as Pharmakon in Premodernity and Beyond: Training the New Generation of Researchers in Health Humanities” (StoryPharm) […]

In the framework of the European MSCA-DN project entitled ‘Storytelling as Pharmakon in Premodernity and Beyond’ (StoryPharm), the director of CeMAR organizes with Ingrid Bennewitz from the Centre for Medieval Studies (ZeMas, Univ. of Bamberg) an international symposium. The symposium, which will take place on the 17 of May 2024 at the University of Bamberg, turns to ancient and medieval healing stories to establish premodern Health Humanities as an important field with a long history and as a basic attitude to human care throughout time.

The Director of CeMAR presents the book titled "Letters in times of writing and engravings" by g. A. Constantinou

Following the successful evaluation of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie – DN project with a budget of 4.1 million euros, the Centre for Medieval Arts & Rituals of the University of Cyprus has secured the largest funding for Humanities in Cyprus. The proposal entitled "Storytelling as Pharmakon in Premodernity and Beyond: Training the New Generation of Researchers in Health Humanities" (StoryPharm) was submitted within the framework of the competitive action "Marie Skłodowska-Curie: Doctoral Networks" (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01) which is part of the Horizon Europe 2021-2027 programme.

Call for Submissions: Special Issue of the Diamond Open Access Journal Eventum: A Journal of Medieval Arts & Rituals “The Arts and Rituals of Medieval Mothering” Deadline for Submission: 31 December 2024. Contact: Stavroula Constantinou ([email protected])

Η διευθύντρια της ΕΜοΜεΤ παρουσιάζει στη ραδιοφωνική εκπομπή του ΡΙΚ «Οι Λατίνοι της Κύπρου» το ευρωπαϊκό πρόγραμμα NetMAR

Webinar Translating Worlds Exhibition: Retracing Connections between Medieval Literature and Contemporary Art by Milan Vukašinović (Uppsala University) Organised by the Centre for Medieval Arts & Rituals, […]

Maulbronn Monastery Complex Digital Anniversary Roundtable On the occasion of the anniversary “30 Years of UNESCO World Heritage Maulbronn Monastery Complex” the State Palaces and Gardens […]

The Research Training Group on “Early Concepts of Humans and Nature: Universal, Specific, Interchanged” at the University of Mainz (Germany) organises an open lecture by the Director of CeMAR, Stavroula Constantinou, who will talk on “Bodily Suffering and Divine Healing in Byzantine Hagiography”

The Concluding Conference of the “Network for Medieval Arts & Rituals” (NetMAR) took place in a hybrid mode, at the Ceremonial Hall of the University of Cyprus and online on the 4th of December 2023. The conference featured welcomes from several dignitaries; the launch of the network’s journal; a round table presenting the experiences of NetMAR Early Stage Researchers (ESRs); a musical performance; presentations by the EU partners’ Team Leaders; and two keynote lectures.

The Concluding Conference of the Network for Medieval Arts & Rituals (NetMAR) will take place on Monday, the 4th of December 2023 at the Ceremonial Hall of the University of Cyprus.

The second call for the ONISILOS - Co-funding International, Interdisciplinary and Intersectoral research excellence at the University of Cyprus, is now open! The call closes on the 25th of January 2024 (17:00 EEST) We look forward to receiving your application!

The Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies invites you to the lecture that the Associate Professor Stavroula Constantinou will present as part of her promotion process, with the title:  Of Woman Nursed Wet Nursing as Mothering in Ancient and Early Byzantine Cultures

The Centre for Medieval Arts and Rituals (CeMAR) of the University of Cyprus is delighted to announce the publication of the inaugural issue of its annual international interdisciplinary diamond open access journal, Eventum: A Journal of Medieval Arts and Rituals.

Reading Group 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 Network for Medieval Arts & Rituals (H2020 project, grant agreement no.951875) cordially invites all IMC delegates for a glass of wine or non-alcoholic drink. Hosted by the Centre for Medieval Arts & Rituals (https://www.ucy.ac.cy/cemar/), University Of Cyprus

CeMAR Director, Assoc. Prof. Stavroula Constantinou, will give a lecture entitled "Maternal Saints and Lay Mothers in Byzantine Hagiography" in the framework of a research project on female holiness (Divino Al Femminile) which is coordinated by the Department of Culture and Forms of Knowledge of the University of Pisa.

The Centre for Medieval Arts and Rituals of the University of Cyprus, is organizing the 3rd NetMAR webinar, titled ‘European Funding Proposal Writing’, as part of the activities of the NetMAR project

NetMAR is pleased to invite medievalists to attend the presentations of the network's researchers at the International Medieval Congress (IMC), the Europe’s largest forum for sharing ideas in medieval studies, hosted by the University of Leeds. IMC 2023 will take place from Monday 03 July to Thursday 06 July 2023.

Ypsonas Municipality and the Kolossi's community Cultural Committee are organizing the event «Medieval Evening for Music and more…..», with Presentations, Panel Discussions, Medieval Music and Commandaria Tasting.

The Network for Medieval Arts & Rituals is celebrating its second year of NetMAR Blog! The NetMAR Blog, which has published twenty four texts so far, is committed to finding exciting and interesting ways of communicating expert and original research into medieval arts and rituals to wider audiences.

The Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation (IHR/NHRF), the Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University in Greece, the Laboratory for the Study of Human Relations, the Marie Blanche Library and the AINOS Cultural Society, are organizing on Saturday, March 11, 10:00-18:00 CEST, a hybrid interdisciplinary conference entitled: "Emotion in History and Psychology". The colloquium investigates aspects of emotions in psychology, but also in history, with special emphasis on Byzantium. They focus on time, gender, and society and to the ways in which emotions influence and are themselves influenced by them. In particular, we explore the endurance of emotions, their relevance and dependance to historical circumstances, their relation to ideological, religious, societal, family and personal frameworks.

This is a workshop concentrating on the ways in which the future of individuals, their families and communities were negotiated in ancient, Byzantine and Western medieval Europe, with special focus on the practices and practicalities of everyday life. If you wish to join as a listener, please contact the organisers before 1st April 2023.

NetMAR partner the Centre for Medieval Studies (ZeMas) at the University of Bamberg celebrates its 25 years. See here the programme of the celebration day. Welcome […]

at the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations (IHAC), Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China, in cooperation with the Department of Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies, University of Cologne and the Department of Historical and Classical Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NUST)

The 2nd NetMAR Stakeholder Workshop with the title ‘Cyprus Cultural Heritage as a Path to Sustainable Development’ took place on Wednesday 09 November 2022 at the Learning Resource Centre – Library ‘Stelios Ioannou’ of the University of Cyprus. The workshop brought together researchers with experts in tourism and cultural industry, policy makers, and key actors of local and governmental agencies who had the opportunity to exchange knowledge and ideas in an informal and friendly environment.

The religious practice of pilgrimage constitutes the predominant ritual of the Middle Ages. This NetMAR international conference, which will be held at the premises of the University of Cyprus between the 01 and 02 December 2022, sets out to explore the multifarious facets of the interaction of arts and rituals in the complex and transformative experience of pilgrimage, both in the Middle Ages and beyond.

Members of the NetMAR consortium have planned workshops and meetings with interested stakeholders (industry, policy makers and public agencies) to define targets, limitations and prospects of collaboration. The 2nd NetMAR Stakeholders Workshop will be held between 9:00 am and 12:30 pm in the morning of 9th November 2022 at the at the ‘Stelios Ioannou’ Learning Resource Centre – Library of the University of Cyprus. This workshop will focus on mobilizing the living heritage of medieval arts and rituals. The keynote speaker will be Ms Patricia Alberth, Director of the Bamberg World Heritage Office. Ms Alberth will share her views on cultural heritage management and will suggest actions for using living heritage for sustainable development.

New NetMAR Fall 2022-Spring 2023 Reading Group meetings Organized by our partner ZEMAS of the University of Bamberg. Committed to fostering inclusive, exciting conversations, NetMAR reading group […]

#NetMAR expresses its gratitude for the warm hospitality of its partner, the Centre for Medieval Literature at Syddansk Universitet, on hosting the 4th Exchange Coordinated Support Action (CSA) visit!

The NetMAR summer school is dedicated to medieval arts and rituals through the prism of education and will be led by world-renowned scholars working in the broad field of medieval studies. Students attending the summer school will interrogate the proliferation and function of rituals (religious, profane, occupational, gender-specific, and magical) in the context of education and knowledge transfer in the medieval period and beyond more broadly.

CeMAR proposes the participation in the "Echoes of the City, Ayioi Omoloyites" cultural action, organized by the Cultural Centre of Ayioi Omoloyites, in Nicosia, Cyprus. This is an interactive guiding tour with stations in the historical core of Ayioi Omoloyites. Visitors will be able to move freely, in groups and families by holding a map (printed or digital) that will lead them to stations in the neighborhood of Ayioi Omoloyites.

The aim of the workshop is to investigate how hope functioned in premodern societies, paying attention to how hope and futurity are structured in life strategies and how they are performed in the contexts of different cultural scripts. Keynote Speakers: Stavroula Constantinou (University of Cyprus) & Jenni Kuuliala (Tampere University). Please submit the title of your presentation and a short abstract of ca. 300-500 words with a description of the theme, methodology, main questions, and sources by May 20, 2022.

Our NetMAR partners from the Centre for Medieval Studies (ZeMas) at the University of Bamberg (UNI BA) invite again to ten exciting interdisciplinary lectures that approach a medieval subject from a historical, philological, archaeological, and art historical perspective, dedicated to Iberian cultures of the Middle Ages and start on 02 May 2022. All lectures in German. For the poster, click here!