News and Events

October 13, 2022

NetMAR Reading Group 2: Fall 2022 – Spring 2023, organised by UNI BA

NetMAR announces the 2nd Reading Group series for Fall 2022 – Spring 2023, organised by NetMAR Partner UNI BA. Committed to fostering inclusive, exciting conversations, NetMAR runs reading groups 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.
August 25, 2022

NetMAR SDU Scientific Project Manager Dr Chiara D’Agostini has been awarded a two-year postdoc position by Gerda Henkel Stiftung

Warm congratulations to our NetMAR SDU Scientific Project Manager Dr Chiara D’Agostini who has been awarded a two-year postdoc position by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung for the project ‘Necessity by Design: The Mathematics of Rhetoric in Middle Byzantine Culture’. Dr D’Agostini will analyse the diagrammatic commentaries on the Corpus Hermogenianum.
July 1, 2022

NetMAR at the International Medieval Congress (IMC) 2022

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. NetMAR young scholars will present their exciting research on the 5th and 7th of July. NetMAR leaders Bennewitz and Constantinou will be also presenting on the 6th and 7th of July respectively.
June 9, 2022

A YEAR OF NetMAR BLOG

The Network for Medieval Arts & Rituals is celebrating a year of NetMAR Blog! The NetMAR Blog, which has published thirteen 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. #NetMAR blog posts are published at the end of each month and are available on our website: www.netmar.cy/blog.
May 2, 2022

NetMAR participates in the 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Live on the internet, May 09-14, 2022. 216* Thursday, May 12, 9:00 a.m. EDT Medieval Arts and Rituals Organizer: Stavroula Constantinou, Centre for Medieval Arts and Rituals, Univ. of Cyprus Presider: Stavroula Constantinou
April 26, 2022

Call for Papers: Workshop on ‘Constructing and performing hope in the premodern world’ April 13-14, 2023, Tampere University, Finland.

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.

April 13, 2022

UNI BA Lecture: Prof Dr Sophia Labadi, University of Kent, UK: CAN HERITAGE EVER BE DIVERSE?

You are invited to a guest lecture at UNI BA on "Heritage and Diversity" by Prof Dr Sophia Labadi, University of Kent, UK. The lecture's title is: CAN HERITAGE EVER BE DIVERSE? Thursday, 28 April 2022, 18:00 c.t. (CEST). The lecture is in English and can be attended online via Zoom.
March 28, 2022

LOGO-DIMIA: Lecture by CeMAR Director Assoc. Prof. Stavroula Constantinou (6th lecture of the second cycle, March 09, 2022)

On Wednesday, March 9, 2022, the division of Greek and Latin Language and Literature of the Academy of Athens held the 6th lecture of the second cycle of LOGO-DIMIA. Watch here, the lecture by CeMAR Director, Assoc. Prof. S. Constantinou, entitled: "Milky Breasts A socio-ideological approach to the breastfeeding woman in antiquity and Byzantium"
March 24, 2022

New CML online seminars programme Spring 2022

Online via Zoom. The Centre for Medieval Literature (CML, SDU) is happy to present the programme for the online seminars in spring 2022. This spring the seminars will be the three keynotes at the conference Scale(s) of Literary History – Europe c. 500-1500 taking place in Rome. All are welcome to register for the online seminars and join these three exciting talks online via Zoom. To register please write to [email protected]. For the poster, click here!