This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 665778
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19 October 2018: Reading and Understanding ΛΟΓΟΙ in Byzantium: An Experimental Workshop, Katowice.
4 October 2018: Creating and communicating a worldview: Diagrammatic and theoretical accounts of the cosmos in Palaiologan Byzantium, presentation at the Forum Moving Byzantium XIV, Vienna.
6 August 2018: The Mirror of the Moon and the Moon in the Mirror: The Lunar Theory of Demetrios Triklinios (revised), delivered at the international workshop Interstellar Skies: The Lunar Passage in Literature through the Ages, Hven, Sweden.
24 July 2018: “Παθητικός νοῦς или способен ли е интелектът да се диви на творението: Теодор Метохит, Miscellanea philosophica et historica 42–45″, delivered at the Summer school for Medieval Philosophy and Culture, Elena, Bulgaria.
3 July 2018: Teaching and Learning Mathematics in Eleventh-Century Byzantium: The Case of The ‘Anonymous Heiberg’, delivered at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds.
7 June 2018: The Mirror of the Moon and the Moon in the Mirror: Demetrios Triklinios’ on Lunar Theory (an extended version), delivered at the IRH Lunchtime Seminar, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Bucharest.
14 April 2018: The Mirror of the Moon and the Moon in the Mirror: Demetrios Triklinios on Lunar Theory, delivered at the 51st Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Edinburgh, April 13–15, 2018.
12 March 2018: Together with Paul Magdalino, Les comètes dans la littérature byzantine: théorie et perception, delivered at the international colloquium Les comètes entre ciel et terre de l’Antiquité à la Renaissance, Paris, March 12–13, 2018.
2 December 2017: Reading and Writing Books: From Byzantium to 2017, delivered at the Silesian Science Festival, International Congress Center, Katowice, November 30–December 2, 2017.
27 September 2017: Wondrous Knowledge and The Emotional Responses of Late Byzantine Scholars to Its Acquisition, delivered at the international conference Emotions through Time: From Antiquity to Byzantium, Nicosia, September 27–29, 2017.
The conference program is available here.
28 April 2017: Presentation at the Research Seminar of Center for Studies on Literature and the Reception of Byzantium, University of Silesia in Katowice
I am very happy to share with you my conversation with Glenn McDorman on Byzantine science and philosophy which was recorded as an episode of Agnus: The Late Antique, Medieval, and Byzantine podcast. In order to listen to our talk, click here or listen below.
Polymathy and Intellectual Curiosity in Byzantine Discourses of Science and Philosophy (13th-15th Centuries) 