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BYZANTIUM, ITS NEIGHBOURS AND ITS CULTURES: DIVERSITY AND INTERACTION XVIITH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE Call for Papers Papers exploring any aspect of cultural and political interactions between Byzantium and its neighbours, or within regions of the Byzantine empire, are invited. Abstracts of up to 300 words for papers of 20 minutes' duration should be sent by 30 April to AABS2012@mq.edu.au. 20-21 July 2012 Macquarie University Keynote Speaker Professor Jonathan Shepard, University of Cambridge Our understanding of Byzantium's external and internal interactions has shifted significantly as a result of recent scholarship. The significance of this state to a millennium of developments throughout Eurasia has been examined; more importantly, the nature of contacts between Byzantium and its Eurasian neighbours has been reconceived. Models for understanding Byzantium's interactions with its neighbours have moved from imperial centre and periphery, to 'commonwealth', to ...

Oxford Patristics: FELLOWSHIPS AVAILABLE AT IIAS : FELLOWSHIPS AVAILABLE  AT IIAS Applications are invited for Postdoctoral Fellowships at  the International Institute for Asian Studies. We We are particularly looking for researchers focusing on the three clusters: ‘Asian Cities’, ‘Asian Heritages', and ‘Global Asia’. Application deadline: 1 April 2012

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance (UMR 8167) 52 rue du Cardinal Lemoine 75005 Paris May 24-25, 2013 The ‘School of Gaza’: Literary Space and Cultural Identity in Late Antiquity (source: Calenda ) Guiding line The study of literary activity in V-VI c. AD Gaza is in full bloom. In recent years, new editions of Procopius of Gaza, Chorikios and John of Gaza have been published or are in preparation as well as a bibliography of the literature covering the period 1930-2012, to appear in Lustrum. This is a good moment for an international conference in which senior specialists and young researchers of the period will be able to exchange views and to advance research on the topic. Building on the results achieved by two previous conference (Christian Gaza in Late Antiquity, ed. B. Bitton-Ashkelony, A. Kofsky, Leiden-Boston 2004 and Gaza dans l’Antiquité tardive. Archéologie, rhétorique et histoire, ed. C. Saliou, Salerno 2005), the...