The Swedish Institute at Athens & the Retracing Connections Research Programme, invite you to the sixth Retracing Connections online research dialogue.
Join us with Aileen Das (University of Michigan), N. İpek Hüner (Boğaziçi University) and Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala University) for an online discussion about
Classical, Medieval, Oriental: Disciplinary Ideologies.

The Di­a­logue takes place on­line via Zoom on Tues­day, May 19, 2026, at 18.00 (Athens).
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Despite the ever-increasing focus on interdisciplinarity, there are certain boundaries that seem more than difficult than others to cross. Classical philologist may turn to postclassical texts, but they often do it from the same classicist position, without taking the later context fully into account. Arabic-Greek relations are discussed from whatever position the scholar in question take: as reception/translation of one or the other, but rarely as a relational situation of equal importance for both fields. Medieval Studies tend to indicate the European West – rarely the so-called Orient, and most often not even Byzantium. What does this situation mean for the understanding of the material we study? And what does it do to us as scholars?