Calls
Translating and Narrating in the Middle Ages: Doctoral Summer School 2026
What happens when stories are translated into new languages? Is translating a narrative different from translating any other type of discourse? What techniques do medieval translators use to render narratives in different languages or linguistic registers? How does the transfer affect things like th
14 October, 2025Postdoc positions and guest researchers at WIVA, Uppsala!
The Centre of Excellence for The World in the Viking Age (WIVA) is a collaborative, interdisciplinary meeting place for the study and wider communication of a defining episode in global history. If you work on a topic that would profit from and benefit such an environment and would like to work with
07 May, 2025Greek Paleography Course
This hybrid, non-credit seminar introduces post-classical Greek book culture (4th–16th c. CE), literary scripts, textual transmission, and textual criticism. Hosted by the Gennadius Library with Dumbarton Oaks‘ support, it provides in-depth training in reading and dating Greek scripts and edit
04 March, 2025
Call for Applications: History of Science in the Medieval World Summer School
The History of Science in the Medieval World (HSMW) summer school, organized by St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, with Academic Theatre Ikaros, in cooperation with the International Summer Seminar in Bulgarian Language and Culture (University of Veliko Tarnovo), with the supp
29 March, 2024A Viking in the Sun: Women and Power
The research project A Viking in the Sun: Harald Hardrada, the Mediterranean, and the Nordic World, between the late Viking Age and the Eve of the Crusades (University of Edinburgh) welcomes proposals for the project’s second symposium. This symposium Women and Power explores how powerful wome
31 January, 2024
Collective Volume: Stories in the Story
Retracing Connections programme is looking for papers that relate to the Life of Theodore of Edessa, a complex hagiography made up of several stories, which was authored (or redacted) in Greek in the eleventh century to be quickly disseminated in Arabic, Georgian, and Slavonic. Although the story wa
13 December, 2023Call for Applications: KUDAR – SRII Joint Fellowship
Koç University Mustafa V. Koç Maritime Archaeology Research Center (KUDAR) and The Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII) offer a short-term fellowship focusing on connections between the Byzantine and Nordic worlds Applications, including include a cover letter, curriculum vitae with list of
28 February, 2023Call for Papers: The Language of Violence
The KOINet pleased to announce the workshop The Language of Violence, which will take place from the 10th till the 12th of April 2024 in Visby (Gotland/Sweden). Papers from humanities and sciences that can provide example of expressing, experiencing or witnessing violence are welcome. Send the lectu
28 February, 2023
Call for Papers: Narrative and Narratology in Pre-modern Historiography
Aske Damtoft Poulsen, Matthew Kinloch and Ingela Nilsson are organizing a workshop aimed to bring together PhD students and early career scholars who work with issues of narrative and narratology in pre-modern historiography. The workshop will be held at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 3
15 March, 2022Call for Applications: Multi-lingual Summer School
Call for Applications for the Multi-lingual Summer School Medieval literature Across Languages, to be held online on May 17-28, 2021, organised by the Retracing Connections programme and the Center for Medieval Literature (SDU, York), is open till December 15, 2020.See all the details below or here.
26 October, 2020Call for applications – Funded PhD position at Uppsala University
Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology offers a four-year fully funded PhD position in Greek and Byzantine Studies, primarilly to candidates interested in joining the work of the Retracing Connections: Byzantine Storyworlds in Greek, Arabic, Georgian, and Old Slavonic (c. 950–c.
07 September, 2020
