April 8, 2024
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])
March 28, 2024
The director of CeMAR Stavroula Constantinou presents NetMAR during the CYBC radio programme entitled “The Latin Community of Cyprus” (in Greek). 23 March 2024 https://radio.rik.cy/show/oi-latinoi-tes-kuprou/ The […]
March 27, 2024
The German network Arbeitskreis für hagiographischen Fragen celebrates its 30-year anniversary with a conference entitled ‘Interdisciplinary Hagiography: Current Topics and Tendencies in Hagiographical Studies’ which will take place between 10-13 April 2024 at Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart in Germany. The Director of CeMAR, Stavroula Constantinou, will give a paper with the title: ‘Holy Mothers: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Hagiographical Motherhood’.
December 13, 2023
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.
November 1, 2023
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.
November 1, 2023
To τελικό συνέδριο του ευρωπαϊκού προγράμματος NetMAR της ΕΜοΜεΤ του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου θα πραγματοποιηθεί στην Αίθουσα Τελετών του ιδίου πανεπιστημίου (Καλλιπόλεως 75, Λευκωσία) τη Δευτέρα 04 Δεκεμβρίου 2023
October 25, 2023
October 11, 2023
International Colloquium | Emotions in History and Psychology: Time, Gender and Society | 11 March 2023 | Marie Blanch Library, Rafina, Greece | Constantinou Stavroula, Tsironi Niki
September 25, 2023
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.
June 19, 2023
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
June 13, 2023
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.
June 12, 2023
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
May 29, 2023
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.
May 11, 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.
May 8, 2023
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
April 6, 2023
NetMAR is organizing an International Conference on "Rituals of Gender Staging and Performance in the Middle Ages" that address the role of rituals in the staging and performance of medieval gender roles. The conference will be held at the premises of the University of Bamberg between the 3rd and 4th of May 2023.
February 21, 2023
Vienna, June 2-3, 2023
June 2: Central European University, Quellenstrasse 51, D002, 1100 Vienna
June 3: University of Vienna (Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies), Postgasse 9, Lecture Hall, 1010 Vienna
February 8, 2023
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.
February 3, 2023
Pilgrimage Studies Network (PILNET) of EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists) PILNET invites papers that explore these and related fields. Please send abstracts (300-350 words) and […]
January 25, 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 […]
January 5, 2023
NetMAR Coordinator Stavroula Constantinou will be presenting at the International Symposium Literary History in a Medieval Eurasian Environment: Methodological and Interpretive Approaches Johannes Gutenberg University of […]
December 12, 2022
Sixth International Byzantine Seminar Lecture Series (2022) “Realism in Hagiography” at the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations (IHAC), Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China […]
November 18, 2022
The Network for Medieval Arts & Rituals (NetMAR), an international, interdisciplinary network investigating the intersections between medieval arts and rituals, invites proposals for 20-minute papers that address the role of rituals in the staging and performance of medieval gender roles. The conference, which will include scholars of different career stages, will be held at the premises of the University of Bamberg between the 3rd and 4th of May 2023.
November 10, 2022
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.
November 10, 2022
Με μεγάλη επιτυχία πραγματοποιήθηκε την Τετάρτη, 9 Νοεμβρίου 2022 στο Κέντρο Πληροφόρησης–Βιβλιοθήκη «Στέλιος Ιωάννου» το δεύτερο μοναδικό στο είδος του εργαστήριο (stakeholders workshop), το οποίο διοργανώθηκε από το Δίκτυο για Μεσαιωνικές Τέχνες και Τελετουργίες (Network for Medieval Arts and Rituals - NetMAR) της ομώνυμης Ερευνητικής Μονάδας (ΕΜοΜεΤ) του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου.
October 13, 2022
Members of the NetMAR consortium have planned workshops and meetings with interested stakeholders to define targets, limitations and prospects of collaboration. The 2nd NetMAR Stakeholders Workshop will be held on the 9th November 2022 at 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.
October 13, 2022
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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!
March 24, 2022
The annual lecture series of the Centre for Medieval Studies (ZeMas) at the University of Bamberg (UNI BA) invites 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!
March 19, 2022
The #NetMAR Reading Group will be meeting again (online) this coming Thursday 24 March, from 4-6pm CET. The Reading Group, organised by our partners at the Centre for Medieval Literature runs under the theme of '#Arts & #Rituals in the #Middle #Ages and Beyond'.
This week we'll be looking at T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral (London, 1935)! Join us here!
March 18, 2022
Mar 28, 2022 01:00 PM in London
With escalating Article Processing Charges (APCs) under the Gold Open Access Model, attention has been turning to the Diamond Model, where scientific articles are not subject to APCs. Join a one-hour webinar, where an expert panel will explain and discuss these latest developments in Open Access publishing and what it means for researchers, research-intensive institutions, learned societies, libraries and other publishers.February 27, 2022
29-30 March 2022 NetMAR’s coordinator, Associate Professor Stavroula Constantinou (University of Cyprus), will be presenting on March 30th, at 15:00, on “Female agency in religious space: Mothers and infants in early Byzantine miracle tales“. The conference will go hybrid from Hamburg, Germany
February 25, 2022
In the framework of the project "DigiByzSeal – Unlocking the value of seals: New Methodologies for Historical Research in Byzantine Studies" jointly funded by the ANR and the DFG, there are open positions for 2 postdoctoral researchers in Byzantine Studies and Digital Humanities to start on April 1st 2022 for 24 months.
February 25, 2022
The central aim of this conference is to explore the spatial, temporal and archival scales which structure our literary histories of the Middle Ages.
February 14, 2022
NetMAR Coordinator Assoc. Prof. Stavroula Constantinou will present on "Laughing Saints and (Un)Righteous Patients, Humour and Laughter in Byzantine Collections of Miracle Stories" at the International Conference: Humour and Religion at Sankt Ignatios College of the University College Stockholm on the 19th of February 2022
February 14, 2022
The Department of Linguistics and Philology and its Greek and Byzantine Studies of the Uppsala University, organizes a seminar under the Retracing Connections Research Programme with title "Issues of metaphrasis"
February 2, 2022
The Network for Medieval Arts and Rituals, a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, invites PhD and Master students from all related disciplines to participate to its one-week-long summer school in the UNESCO world heritage city of Bamberg. Generous travel grants are on offer.
January 31, 2022
The Network for Medieval Arts and Rituals, a Horizon 2020 project funded by the European Union and bringing together the Centre for Medieval Arts & Rituals of the University of Cyprus (host institution) and the Centre for Medieval Literature of the University of Southern Denmark and the Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of Bamberg, organised in Nicosia on the morning of Wednesday 26 January its first Stakeholder Workshop.
January 17, 2022
The conference invites papers from scholars of all career levels that engage with questions and themes including but not limited to:
• The practice of pilgrimage and its place in medieval literature and visual arts
• Pilgrimage in literature and literature as pilgrimage
• Pilgrimage in painting/ sculpture/ music/ rhetoric and/or performance
• The architecture of pilgrimage
• The communities of pilgrimage-goers and of pilgrimage sites
• Pilgrim routes
• The afterlives of pilgrimages
by no later than 31 July 2022.
January 15, 2022
By NetMAR
In the framework of the project "DigiByzSeal – Unlocking the value of seals: New Methodologies for Historical Research in Byzantine Studies" jointly funded by the ANR and the DFG, there are open positions for 2 postdoctoral researchers in Byzantine Studies and Digital Humanities to start on April 1st 2022 for 24 months.January 14, 2022
The online journal Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture Online (MEMO) invites expressions of interest for articles on the subject of Material Culture and Emotions for publication in MEMO #10 (2022).
Those interested are invited to send a short abstract (max. one page) in English or German to [email protected] by 31 January 2022.
Manuscripts should be ready for submission by 30 April 2022.
For more information on the topics covered by this issue, please click here.
November 18, 2021
19 November 2021, 18:00 CET (in Italian)
More info here: https://lastatalenews.unimi.it/bookcity-universita-2021-statale-presenta-sua-milano-university-press
“Libera e senza barriere: l’Università editore di saperi” è il titolo dell’evento di apertura di Bookcity Università alla Statale 2021, il palinsesto di 65 eventi con cui l’Ateneo aderisce, come da tradizione, a Bookcity Milano. 18 novembre, ore 18, Aula Magna (via Festa del Perdono 7) e in diretta sul canale YouTube @UnimiVideo.
November 3, 2021
You are cordially invited to the second lecture within the Medieval advanced level Seminar series of UNI BA’s Winter Semester 2021/22, by Prof. Dr. Nils Holger Petersen (Odense), with title: “The Medieval Latin Mass and its Receptions into the modern Concert Hall and various Electronic Media"
Coordination: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Bennewitz/Prof. Dr. Klaus van Eickels
Monday, November 22, 2021
19:00 CET, via Zoom
October 27, 2021
Lecture at UNI BA: Prof. Dr Bettina Wagner, Director of the Bamberg State Library, and Alyssa Steiner (M.St. University of Bamberg) will give a joint paper entitled 'Albrecht Pfister and the Earliest Printed Books in German from Bamberg’ on Tuesday, 2 November 2021, at 3:30 CET (online). The paper will focus on the first Bamberg book printer, Albrecht Pfister, and specifically on the extremely rare Pfister prints held in British and American libraries. The talk will be in English; to register and join, please visit: https://www.staatsbibliothek-bamberg.de/article/albrecht-pfister-and-the-earliest-printed-books-in-german-from-bamberg/
October 19, 2021
Ingrid Bennewitz (University of Bamberg) will be giving an online seminar on "Brynhild's Return. On the Depiction of the Icelandic Queen in Twenty-first Century Cinema" on Thursday, 25 November.
The seminar is part of the autumn 2021 seminar series and will be online via Zoom. All are welcome!
To register please write to [email protected]
October 18, 2021
November 4-6, 2021 (Online Conference). Organized by the International Society for the Study of Medievalism. Hosted by Delta College, Michigan. NetMAR members will participate in Session 1b.
October 14, 2021
26 & 27 November 2021
This conference is organized in the framework of the two-year research project (2019-2022) “Storyworlds in Collections: Toward a Theory of the Ancient and Byzantine Tale (2nd – 7th c. CE)”, which is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research and Innovation Foundation.October 1, 2021
5–7 November 2021
This conference is organized in the framework of a three-year research project (2019-2021) entitled ‘Lactating Breasts: Motherhood and Breastfeeding in Antiquity and Byzantium (4th c. BCE–7th c. CE)’, which is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research and Innovation Foundation.September 9, 2021
29 September 2021
The Annual Meeting of the Finnish Society for Byzantine Studies will be held on September 29, at 18.00 EET online via Zoom (link below). We have the great honour to have with us as our keynote speaker Associate Professor Stavroula Constantinou, Director of the Centre for Medieval Arts & Rituals (University of Cyprus) who will be speaking on Arts and Rituals of Death in Byzantine Literature.August 2, 2021
9-14 May, 2022
The international Network for Medieval Arts and Rituals (NetMAR) is seeking to organise a session at the 57th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 9-14 May, 2022. We have the great honour to have with us as our keynote speaker Associate Professor Stavroula Constantinou, Director of the Centre for Medieval Arts & Rituals (University of Cyprus) who will be speaking on Arts and Rituals of Death in Byzantine Literature.July 12, 2021
The NetMAR team participated at the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds on 8 July 2021. This NetMAR event, which was held as an IMC 2021 Fringe Event, featured Dr Stavroula Constantinou of UCY (Project Coordinator of NetMAR) and Dr Christos Hadjiyiannis also of UCY; Prof. Dr Ingrid Bennewitz and Dr Detlef Goller of UNI BA; and Dr Nils Holger Petersen and Dr Rosa Rodriguez Porto, both attached to SDU
July 10, 2021
On Monday July 12, 2021, at 8 pm CET, art historian Dr Clemens Kosch (Mainz) will speak at the Centre for Medieval Studies (ZeMas) of the University of Bamberg about the functional environment of medieval cathedrals as part of the annual ZeMas lecture series.
July 9, 2021
12 July 2021
NetMAR’s Project Coordinator, Dr Stavroula Constantinou, will be speaking at the Narrating Relationships in Holy Lives from the First Millennium AD conference, organised by the Department of Classics & Ancient History of the University of Exeter. Dr Constantinou’s paper is entitled “Narrating Friendship in Byzantine Hagiography” and features an engaging reading of friendship in the fifth-century anonymous text Life of Eupraxia.July 1, 2021
On 07 July 2021, 8:30am CET, Dr Nadine Hufnagel (Bremen/Bayreuth), Privatdozentin for Medieval German Philology, will speak on contemporary literature’s reception of the character of Hagen (from the Middle High German “Nibelungenlied”). The lecture will be in German and will take place via Zoom. To register, please e-mail [email protected]
June 15, 2021
The international workshop, Mothers in the Time of the Church Fathers: Maternal Thought and Maternal Practice between Normative Representations and Individual Transgressions, which will be held in Verona, Italy on 17-18 February (dates tbc), is now inviting proposals for papers interested in the different ways in which religion, through the words of mainly male authorities, has dictated the female perception of the role of mother and affected the daily life of mothers.
June 15, 2021
24-25 June 2021. A two-day conference on the Palaiologan Romance will take place on 24-25 June online, to which everyone is welcome to register and attend. The conference is taking place within the framework of the research programme The World of the Palaiologan Romance: Representations of Self and Society in the Greek Narrative works of the Late Medieval period (thirteenth – fifteenth centuries): A Multidisciplinary Approach to Identity, Otherness, Gender and Ideology housed at the Department of Social Anthropology and History of the University of the Aegean and funded by the H.F.R.I. // G.S.R.I.
January 26, 2021
Έναρξη εργασιών του Δικτύου για Μεσαιωνικές Τέχνες και Τελετουργίες (NetMAR).
January 26, 2021
Χρηματοδότηση από Ε.Ε. για διερεύνηση των αλληλεπιδράσεων μεταξύ Μεσαιωνικών Τεχνών και Τελετουργιών
by NetMAR
Το Τμήμα Βυζαντινών και Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου εξασφάλισε ευρωπαϊκή χρηματοδότηση για την υλοποίηση του προγράμματος με τον τίτλο «Δίκτυο για Μεσαιωνικές Τέχνες και Τελετουργίες» (με το ακρωνύμιο NetMAR - Network for Medieval Arts and Rituals).
