CHRISTINE ANGELIDI, Research Director

ACADEMIC DEGREES

• 1980: Ph.D., Faculty of Philosophy, University of Jannina.
• 1974: Maitrise d'Enseigement en Histoire, University of Paris-I.
• 1972: Diploma of the Faculty of Philosophy (Department of Byzantine and Neohellenic Studies), University of Athens.

PRESENT AND PAST POSITIONS

• 2001- : Research Director at the Institute for Byzantine Research / NHRF
• 1995-2001: Senior Researcher at the Institute for Byzantine Research / NHRF
• 1990-1995: Research Associate at the Institute for Byzantine Research / NHRF
• 1981-1990: Research Assistant at the Institute for Byzantine Research / NHRF
• 1978-1980: Research Assistant at the College de France (chair of History and Civilisation of the Byzantine World).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• 2003: Associated Professsor at the Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Centre of Byzantine, Neohellenic and Southeastern European Studies)
• 1995 (spring semester): Visiting professsor at the Department of History and Social Anthropology (University of the Aegean).
• 1985-1986 and 1987-1990: Visiting lecturer at the Department of Philology (University of Crete).

MAIN FIELDS OF RESEARCH

• Byzantine rhetoric, Byzantine culture

RECENT INVITED PAPERS TO AND ORGANISATION OF INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES AND CONFERENCES

• Co-chair (with Prof. M. Mullett) of Section IV. Words / XXI International Congress of Byzantine Studies (London, 21-26 August 2006).
• Co-ordinator of Panel I.2: Theories of Empire / XXI International Congress of Byzantine Studies (London, 21-26 August 2006).
• Invited paper at the LIII Settimana di Studi sul Alto Medioevo: Comportamenti e immaginario della sessualita nell'alto medioevo (Spoleto, 2005).
• Invited paper at the Colloque International Les Vies des Saints: Genre littéraire ou biographie historique? (Paris, 2002).
• Invited main paper at the 21st Symposium of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Art and Archaeology (Athens, 2001).
• Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Symposium Images of the Mother of God. Perceptions of the Theotokos in Byzantium (Athens, 2001).
• Invited paper at the Convegno: Italia e Grecia. Temi e storiografie a confronto (Venice, 2000).

• Participation in 21 national and international Conferences and Academic Meetings.
• Lectures and courses given at Greek and British Universities (post-graduate seminars).

PUBLICATIONS

• 2 monographs, 2 books in collaboration, 8 edited volumes, and ca. 50 publications in refereed and other scientific journals, edited volumes, conference proceedings, electronic publications, dictionaries, and encyclopaedias.

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• ''Byzantine heterodoxy and the search for identities: Some thoughts on Byzantine Iconoclasm'', Historein 2 (2000), 123-34
• (in collaboration with T. Papamastorakis) ''The monastery of the Hodegoi and the veneration of the Virgin Hodegetria'', in: Mother of God. Representations of the Virgin in Byzantine Art (Athens & Milan, 2000), 373-87.
• ''Aισθήσεις, σεξουαλικότητα και οπτασίες'' [Senses, sexuality and visions''], in: Toleration and Repression in the Middle Ages (Athens, 2002), 221-9.
• ''Les vies exemplaires ne sont pas toujours des Vies des saints'', in: P. A. Agapitos & P. Odorico (eds.), Les Vies des Saints: Genre littéraire ou biographie historique?, (Paris, 2004), 73-86.
• (in collaboration with T. Papamastorakis) ''Picturing the spiritual protector From Blachernitissa to Hodegetria'', in M. Vassilaki (ed.), Images of the Mother of God. Perceptions of the Theotokos in Byzantium (Ashgate, 2005), 209-223.