Other Scholarly Events

In addition to its regular annual series of academic events, SBR also organizes a wide range of additional conferences, symposia, and lectures as part of funded research projects, institutional collaborations with other organizations, and the hosting of visiting scholars.

Over the past two years, the following ad hoc scholarly events have been organized:

• May 24–25, 2025: Workshop “Alchemy in Byzantium: Exploring a Fascinating ‘Art’”, organized by the Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, the IHR/NHRF, and the Pavlos and Alexandra Kanellopoulou Museum (academic coordinator: G. Merianos), held in Nafplio.
• January 31, 2024: Lecture by Jake Ransohoff (Postdoctoral Fellow at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton), titled “The Origins of Political Blinding in Byzantium”, Room 524, IHR.
• March 4, 2024: Academic meeting “Byzantine and Latin-Occupied Tinos: Old and New Archaeological Data. Preliminary Results from the 2019–2023 Period”, “Leonidas Zervas” Auditorium, NHRF (organized by A. Yagkaki).
• March 4, 2024: Lecture by Vanessa R. De Obaldía and Elias Kolovos titled “Athonite Archival Heritage: Unique Documents from the Ottoman Archive of Simonopetra Monastery”, part of the project “Archives of Mount Athos”, Seminar Room, NHRF (organized by N. Livanos).
• March 14, 2024: Workshop “Between Memory and History: The Beginnings of Historical Narrative Formation in Mount Athos”, Seminar Room, NHRF (organized by N. Livanos).
• April 1, 2024: Book presentation “Byzantium, History, and Culture: Research Findings” (academic director: Tilemachos K. Loungis, in collaboration with Ewald Kislinger / D. Lampada, coordinator: G. Merianos).
• June 10, 2024: International Symposium “Making Alchemical Knowledge: From Antiquity to the Middle Ages” (co-organized by IHR/NHRF and the Princeton Athens Center for Research and Hellenic Studies), NHRF (organized by G. Merianos and J. M. Rampling).
• November 27, 2024: Scientific workshop “Complex Realities: Medieval Pottery Contexts in the Eastern Mediterranean (7th–15th c. CE)”, co-organized by IHR/NHRF, the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (organized by A. Yagkaki [IHR]).