{"id":14220,"date":"2023-01-17T15:34:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T13:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.cas.bg\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=14220"},"modified":"2023-01-24T11:37:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T09:37:26","slug":"cas-discussion-series-why-byzantium-3","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/event\/cas-discussion-series-why-byzantium-3\/","title":{"rendered":"CAS Discussion Series: \u201cWhy Byzantium?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p>The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia hosts a discussion series under the theme:<\/p>\n<h3>Why Byzantium?<\/h3>\n<p>On the 31st January 2023 we will convene the third meeting of the series on the following topic:<\/p>\n<h3><b>&#8220;The Enduring Problems with the \u2018Brand\u2019 Byzantium: Thoughts on the Empire and Its Scholarship&#8221;<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Lecturer: <\/strong>Prof. Vlada Stankovi\u0107 (University of Belgrade)<\/p>\n<p>31 January 2023 (Tuesday), at 16:30h.<\/p>\n<p>Presentation abstract:<\/p>\n<p>More than a century after the creation of the academic, institutionalized field of Byzantine studies, the scholars of the empire with the centre in Constantinople still struggle to define, and to agree among themselves on even the basic elements, principles, characteristics and features of Byzantine empire, its history, culture, and on \u2013 in general \u2013 Byzantium as a historical phenomenon. Overwhelmed by the volume and nature of the first-hand sources from more than a millennium of Byzantine history, the scholars of Byzantium seem to struggle to shatter the image of the \u2018brand\u2019 Byzantium, created already in the Middle Ages in the western Europe and developed during the Enlightenment, and to break the academic isolation of the scholarly field of Byzantine studies from the wider scholarship of European Middle Ages. This contribution will address three aspects of the enduring problems with the \u2018brand\u2019 Byzantium in scholarship, and beyond it: a. Byzantine sources in correlation with studying and understanding Byzantium; b. The geopolitical and ideological position of Byzantium, and imaginary Byzantium, in contemporary scholarship, and c. Benefiting from the self-isolation of Byzantine studies and from perpetuating the negative image of the \u2018brand\u2019 Byzantium.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>About the discussion series:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The topic of this discussion series hosted by the Centre for Advanced Study, titled \u201cWhy Byzantium?\u201d, deals with the influence and legacy of the Eastern Roman Empire, which withstood multiple waves of barbarian invasions and lasted more than a millennium after the fall of its western half, spanning the entire Middle Ages. Apart from being an Empire, however, Byzantium was a cultural and historical community of enormous influence that carried the Hellenic, Hellenistic and Roman heritage or inheritances, but already in their Christian form, into all spheres of its existence, transmitted them to other populations and continued to live long after its fall under the Ottoman Sultans. This influence took on a strongly identitarian character \u2013 recognized or not \u2013 for many peoples, states and social establishments. And thus, the circle of our interests is formed: how Byzantium comes to be perceived, studied, appreciated and understood. This takes place in various ways, some of which we are trying to trace, but one of the main ones is its comprehension in historical works \u2013 chronicles, narratives and scholarship \u2013 both in the Middle Ages and up to the present day. At the centre of our interest is the perception and conceptualization of the phenomenon of \u201cByzantium,\u201d and not so much the phenomenon itself. This is achieved through various paths, only one of which is historiography. In addition to historians, the discussion series is addressed to representatives of various disciplines with an interest in the Middle Ages, the Modern Period or Late Antiquity \u2013 literary scholars, linguists, art historians, archaeologists \u2013 and to all those for whom the phenomenon of Byzantium could and should be of interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia hosts a discussion series under the theme: Why Byzantium?<br \/>\nOn Tuesday, 31 January 2023 the third meeting of the series will be convened in the CAS conference hall on the topic &#8220;The Enduring Problems with the \u2018Brand\u2019 Byzantium: Thoughts on the Empire and Its Scholarship&#8221; with lecturer Prof. Vlada Stankovi\u0107 (University of Belgrade).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/14220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/14220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14220"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=14220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}