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The Poetics of Eastern Christianity Workshop
Sankt Ignatios College in Stockholm and the Retracing Connections Progarmme are co-organizing a one-day workshop on the Poetics of Eastern Christianity. The workshop will take place on February 11, 2026 at Sankt Ignatios College, Nygatan 2, Södertälje.
09 February, 2026
Love at the Borders: An Interview with Cameron Cross
This autumn semester at UU, we have the honour and pleasure to host the Associate Professor of Iranian Studies at the University of Michigan, Cameron Cross, who works on the comparative study of narrative in the Middle East during the Middle Ages, primarily in Persian but also in Arabic, Greek, Geor
17 December, 2025Book Award for Markéta Kulhánková
Our colleague and the friend of the programme Markéta Kulhánková (Czech Academy of Sciences/Masaryk University Brno) has been awarded the 2025 book prize for Outstanding Research Results by Masaryk University Brno. The award was granted for her most recent book Cease Writing of Achilles: A Narratolo
17 December, 2025
Recognising the Stranger in Translation
Two Retracing Connections members have had the chance to translate Isabella Hammad’s essay Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative, which was mentioned in one of our earlier blog posts. This erudite and poignant text was originally presented as Edward W. Said memorial lecture at C
19 November, 2025
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, 2025September Seminars
Retracing Connections begins a new semester with two exiting seminars on storytelling across languages in the medieval and early modern world at Uppsala University. On September 9, 2025, at 15.15 İpek Hüner (Istanbul) will share her reserach on early Ottoman stories and their translation into French
29 August, 2025From nonsense towards a meaningful story? The winding path of a Byzantine coin
Mysterious markings on an old coin take Ingela Nilsson on a journey into a storyworld full of unexpected turns. Coins were never part of my undergraduate or even graduate studies. I was trained as a philologist and I guess coins were not considered relevant. It was Roger Scott who first taught me th
18 August, 2025Stratis Papaioannou appointed professor at Oxford
We are proud to share the good news that our colleagues and RC member in charge of the Book, Writing, and Performance Cultures team, Stratis Papaioannou, will be joining the faculty of Oxford University next spring. Stratis obtained his BA from the University of Athens and his PhD from Vienna Univer
27 May, 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, 2025
New Double Issue of the Scandinavian Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
A new, double issue of the Scandinavian Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies is out of press, under the editorial hand of Vassilios Sabatakakis and Christian Høgel. The topics range from Cappadocian visual narratives to female voices in re-writings of the Alexander Romance and the history o
07 May, 2025Xiphilinos’ Saints – Marijana Vuković’s and Sandro Nikolaishvili’s film series for Gerda Henkel’s Foundation
Former Retracing Connections members Marijana Vuković’ and Sandro Nikolaishvili have produced an exciting video and podcast series about their new project Retrieving a Forgotten Byzantine Hagiography Collection from Georgian: John Xiphilinos’ Saints’ Lives, affiliated with the University of Southern
07 May, 2025
The Piraeus Lion: Whose Story
The Swedish Institute at Athens and the Retracing Connections Research Programme invite you to the fourth Retracing Connections online research dialogue. Join us with Neil Price (Uppsala), Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson (Uppsala), Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt (Stockholm), Tristan Schmidt (Mainz) and moderat
05 May, 2025ICBS 2021-Istanbul – the congress that never took place
There have been many stories in circulation about the 2021 International Congress of Byzantine Studies that was supposed to take place in Istanbul, but instead was moved to Venice-Padua and became ICBS 2022. Melek Delilbaşı, president of the Turkish National Committee of Byzantine Studies and the Tu
24 April, 2025Panagia the Mermaid: A partly lost Aegean storyworld
Viktoria Tasoula takes us to Panagia the Mermaid, a small, mysterious church built on top of a cliff, at the harbour off Skala Sykamineas (Sykamias) on the island of Lesvos. A wall painting depicting the Virgin Mary with a mermaid’s tail gave the church its name, and one of the rarest descriptive
15 April, 2025
Greek Literature: Revolution, Revision, Reading: Retracing Connections online research dialogue
The Swedish Institute at Athens andthe Retracing Connections Research Programme,in collaboration with the Princeton Athens Center for Hellenic Studies, invite you to the third Retracing Connections online research dialogue Join us with Panagiotis Agapitos (Mainz), Barbara Graziosi (Princeton),and Da
04 March, 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, 2025From Isabella Hammad to Theodore or Edessa: Reading for Recognition and Dialogue in Palestine
Reading a story tends to be a solitary act today. Still, engaging in a narrative remains a vital social practice. The aesthetic, affective, didactic, and political are always tightly interwoven in narrative webs. Critical storytelling is built on the idea that if we arrange those strings in the righ
03 February, 2025Awe and Envy: Byzantine motifs in Scandinavian Saga literature
“The cool breeze forced the black prow of the ship forward along the coast, and the armoured ships proudly bore their tackle. The eminent king saw iron-thatched Miklagard before the bow; many fair prowed ships advanced toward the tall arm of the city”- translation of Morkinskinna by Theodore M. Ande
16 January, 2025A renaissance for Lady Philology? Or at least for her narrative heritage…
“Philology brings out the worse in people”, we used to say when I was a doctoral student in the 1990s. It was an internal joke, probably a paraphrase of Eugène Ionesco’s La Leçon from 1950, “l’arithmétique mène à la philologie et la philologie mène au pire.” We weren’t familiar with Ionesco, but had
17 December, 2024Tracing the Manuscripts, Translating the Bible
We invite you to follow our programme member Mirjam Lindgren Hjälm (lecturer in Eastern Christian Studies at Sankt Ignatios College, University College Stockholm, and a researcher at the Department of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University) on her exciting exploration of the Christian Arabi
26 November, 2024Ritual Forms and Storyworlds: New Publications on Byzantine Poetry
A new collected volume Cult, Devotion, and Aesthetics in Later Byzantine Poetry, co-edited by Maria-Lucia Goiana and Krystina Kubina for Brepols and exploring the aesthetics of the late Byzantine poetry in the context of religious practice and devotion, features two chapters by Retracing Connections
08 November, 2024
Storyworlds in Short Narratives – New Publications of Our Programme Members
A recent volume Storyworlds in Short Narratives: Approaches to Late Antique and Early Byzantine Tales, edited by Stavroula Constantinou and Andria Andreou in Brill’s Series on the Early Middle Ages, features two open-access chapters by our principle investigators and programme members, Ingela
04 November, 2024“Famous Among the Monarchs:” Queen Tamar and the Rhetoric of Female Success. Part II
Sandro Nikolaishvili continues to follow the panther’s footsteps into the storyworld of the medieval Georgia’s most celebrated woman. The Verse and Prose lauding Tamar Throughout her long reign, the Georgian Queen Tamar proved to her Christian and Muslim subjects that they were mistaken
15 October, 2024
Syrian Stylites: Rereadings and Recastings of Late Ancient Superheroes
How did you meet your first stylite? In the ruins of a Syrian monastery or in the pages of a Byzantine menologion? In a poem by Tennyson or a movie by Buñuel? Perched up in a Thessalian tree, or performing endurance on the top of a pole in New York’s Central Park? In a Cappadocian church fresco or
15 October, 2024The Language of Violence
The KOINet is pleased to announce the program of the workshop The Language of Violence, which will take place in hybrid form on October 3rd and 4th 2024 at Uppsala University. It features contributions that provide example of expressing, experiencing or witnessing violence through language.
23 September, 2024The Body and the Text: Critical storytelling, autotheory, and sexual abuse
In 2017, the Swedish Academy – until then known primarily for the Nobel prize and a rather conservative agenda – was rocked by a scandal in the wake of the #metoo movement. Not only the Academy, but a large part of the literary elite in Sweden became involved in a long and complicated exchange of st
18 September, 2024“Famous Among the Monarchs:” Queen Tamar and the Rhetoric of Female Success. Part I
Sandro Nikolaishvili follows the panther’s footsteps into the storyworld of the medieval Georgia’s most celebrated woman. In the last decades, scholars have taken considerable interest in studying medieval queenship and the ways women of high standing exercised power and established aut
09 September, 2024The Narrations of Hagia Sophia: an interview with Stephanos Efthymiadis
This spring, one of the Retracing Connections advisory board members, Stephanos Efthymiadis, has spent time at Dumbarton Oaks, working on his book project Hagia Sophia of Constantinople: its Political, Social, and Urban History (537-1453). Since Ingela Nilsson was there too, drafting the very first
27 May, 2024Book launch: the Swedish translation of Achilles Tatius
Join us in Rönnells Antikvariat (Stockholm) on Friday, June 7, 2024 at 18:00, for the launch of the new Swedish translation of Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon by Ingela Nilsson, the principal investigator of Retracing Connections and the Professor of Greek and Byzantine Studies at Upps
27 May, 2024Christian Høgel elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities
Christian Høgel, the leader of the Translation and Rewriting team and professor of Greek, Latin and Modern Greek at Lund University, has become a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. Christian was employed at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, first as
27 May, 2024
Layers of Urban History: From Modern to Byzantine Athens through the Athenian Agora Excavations Archives
Retracing Connections and the Swedish Institute at Athens are presenting an online research dialogue with Fotini Kondyli (Virginia/Patras)moderated by Milan Vukašinović (Uppsala) on the topic of Layers of Urban History: From Modern to Byzantine Athens through the Athenian Agora Excavations Archives
02 May, 2024Call 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, 2024
Translating Worlds Exhibition: Retracing Connections between Medieval Literature and Contemporary Art
The contemporary art exhibition “Translating Worlds,” focusing on issues of translation and travelling stories, was curated by Milan Vukašinović and Nilüfer Şaşmazer, as a part of the Retracing Connections programme. The exhibition took place at Depo, Istanbul between November 2023 and Ja
08 March, 2024
From Narrative to Lived Spaces: Digenis Akritas in recent research
Retracing Connections and the Swedish Institute at Athens are presenting an online research dialogue between Myrto Veikou (Patras) and Markéta Kulhánková (Prague),moderated by Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala) on the topic of From narrative to lived spaces: Digenis Akrites in recent researche Digenis Akrites
08 March, 2024New Illustrated Swedish Translation of Leucippe and Clitophon
In the Greco-Roman narrative tradition, the ancient Greek novels play a crucial role: as pioneers in romantic storytelling, as models for successive narratives in Greek (including much hagiography), and as inspiration for writers like Shakespeare and Madeleine de Scudéry. Later this spring, one of t
05 February, 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, 2024Two evenings with “Songs of the Night” – Romanos the Melodist in Danish
Two weeks ago, the RC team member Uffe Holmsgaard Eriksen (SDU) presented his new book “Nattens Sange” (“Songs of the Night”, published by Atlanten) at two events in Denmark. The book is the first monograph on the Byzantine poet Romanos the Melodist (485-560 CE) in Danish, containing an introduction
22 December, 2023Workshops on Religious Narrative
What is a religious narrative? Do religious narratives function in different ways than non-religious narratives? How may we fruitfully analyze and interpret religious narratives? These are questions that were discussed at two workshops in May 2022 at the University of Southern Denmark and again at V
22 December, 2023Collective 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, 2023From multitudes to multipedes: the exhibition is finally ready!
Tuesday 28 November, day before the opening Milan and the team are still working on the exhibition, putting everything in place. For those of us who are used to long-term planning and unreasonably long printing processes, this is a completely different experience. Last night, Milan’s co-curator Nilü
13 December, 2023Travelling Tales – A workshop on storytelling across time and languages
Uppsala University Greek and Byzantine Studies and the Retracing Connections programme present Travelling Tales – A workshop on storytelling across time and languagesat 9:15 am CET on October 4, 2023, room 9-3042, Engelska Parken, Uppsala & Zoom For more information, abstracts, the reading mater
25 September, 2023Songs of the Night – New Study and Translation of Roman the Melodist
On 14 September, the book Nattens Sange (Songs of the Night) by Retracing Connections team member Uffe Holmsgaard Eriksen was published in Denmark by Atlanten. The book contains four hymns of the poet Romanos Melodos (c. 485-560 AD) in a fresh translation into Danish. The hymns are accompanied by be
15 September, 2023New Edition and Translation of Popular Byzantine Narratives
A new publication, Saints at the Limits: Seven Byzantine Popular Legends, edited and translated by Stratis Papaioannou, has appeared in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library series of the Harvard University Press. This is a collection of medieval tales of Byzantine saints, including some rejected by
15 September, 2023Greek Literature in Italy
The Book, Writing, and Performance Cultures team of the Retracing Connections Programme is organizing and two-day colloquium on Greek Literature in Italy (8th to 12th c.), in collaboration with the Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche of Università di Palermo and the Istituto Siciliano di Studi Bizan
13 September, 2023On Jesus as a Trickster Child, and the Unpredictable Narratives in Medieval Manuscripts
Marijana Vuković takes a less traveled narrative path and follows the adventures of Jesus the Menace. It seems unlikely that the foremost person in Christianity – Jesus – would ever appear in a Christian narrative as a child who gets up to mischief, brings harm to his peers and teachers, or general
06 September, 2023A Byzantine Performance for the King
On the 6th of May 2023, Retracing Connections researcher Dimitrios Skrekas performed at the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla in Westminster Abbey. Dimitrios was part of the Byzantine Chant Ensemble, directed by Dr Alexander Lingas, Prof. Emeritus at City University. We took this opp
14 June, 2023Liminal Spaces in Byzantium and Beyond
The International Conference “Liminal Spaces in Byzantium and Beyond. Perceptions, Performativity and Placemaking” took place at the Swedish Institute at Athens on April 27-29, 2023, as part of the activities of the Section of Byzantine Studies in the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala
10 May, 2023Stories in Stone: Exploring the Eastern Mediterranean and its Byzantine heritage
My project, The Byzantine Legacy, aims to make the heritage of cities and monuments around the Eastern Mediterranean more accessible. It showcases Byzantine cultural heritage on a website that documents various sites using my photos, accompanied by plans, historic images, and texts reviewing academi
10 March, 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
Statement of Solidarity with Victims of Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria
The members of the Retracing Connections programme express their deepest condolences to everyone who lost their loved ones in the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, as well as their firmest solidarity with everyone affected by these tragic events. While the rescue efforts continue and the care
14 February, 2023
RC AB Member Karin Kukkonen receives an ERC Consolidation Grant
Our warmest congratulations to our advisory board member Karin Kukkonen (University of Oslo), who has received an ERC Consolidator Grant for the research project JEUX – Literary Games, Poetics and the Early-Modern Novel . The project offers a valuable continu
14 February, 2023Babel: translation and alternate worldmaking in a recent novel
Last spring, our research programme reading group focused on translation theory and translation studies, reading our way through a rather long list of essays, articles and books. One of them was Jacques Derrida’s “Des tours de Babel” (1985), in which Derrida dwells on the problems that translation c
24 January, 2023New research school: Early Languages, Digital Philology (DigPhil)
A research school in early languages and digital philology has been awarded funding from The Swedish Research Council (2023–2027), hosted by the Faculty of Languages at Uppsala University and coordinated by Ingela Nilsson. The profile of the research school partly overlaps with the interests of Retr
17 January, 2023Siri the Viking – a narrative cosmonaut returns to Constantinople
Have you come across Siri the Viking girl yet? If you have, you can now look forward to a fourth book and her return to Constantinople. If you haven’t yet made her acquaintance, you have something to look forward to! Siri is a feisty Pippi Longstocking kind of girl, presented in words and images tha
11 January, 2023Gustav Karlsson Lecture on Byzantine Cultureand Literature 2022: Stratis Papaioannou
The Swedish Institute at Athens and the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul present the Gustav Karlsson Lecture on Byzantine Culture and Literature, given by Stratis Papioannou (University of Crete & Swedish Institute at Athens), on the topic of Readerly Pleasures in Byzantium. The lect
16 December, 2022The Reuse of Ancient and Late Antique Narratives in the Medieval Middle East and Beyond
Retracing Connections organizes a one-day hybrid workshop together with the ERC project Novel Echoes under the title The Reuse of Ancient and Late Antique Narratives in the Medieval Middle East and Beyond, on January 31, 2023 hosted by Ghent University. You can find the program and register here.
14 December, 2022Seminar Lecture Series in Changchun
Three of our team members, Christian Høgel, Daria Resh and Stratis Papaioannou will participate in the 6th Interantional Byzantine Seminar Lecture Series at the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations (IHAC) at the Northeast Normal University in Changchun (China), under the general theme
17 October, 2022A Tale of Telling – A week with and among Sami-Kurdish writers
Scene 1: Day, inside After walking in the spring rain through the narrow streets of Pera, we finally reach Kiraathane – the Literature House in Istanbul. We sit around the big table in a rather cramped room, a room literally full of writers. The dark clouds of the sky reflect the conversation: faces
05 July, 2022Stratis Papaioannou in a Podcast on Byzantine Literature
Before approaching Byzantine literature in translation, we need to face the question of what Byzantine literature is in the first place. How do we deal with a modern term in the Byzantine context? Stratis Papaioannou discusses what we mean by “Byzantine” and by “literature”,
30 May, 2022The Winding Roads of Storytelling (Research Discussion)
On May 8, 2022 from 13.30 to 16.30, a group of Retracing Connections researchers will present their individual and group research to Stockholmers Medelhavsmuseet in Swedish, Danish and English. Some stories seem to be particularly suitable for being translated and adapted. They are distributed
25 March, 2022
Kosovo and the UN, National Interests and Ethnic Conflicts
Kosovo and the UN, national interests and ethnic conflicts – an evening of political and personal reflections with a point of departure in the book by Karin Rudebeck, Kosovo och FN – Ögonblicksbilder från en dagbok (2020). A conversation in Swedish among the author Karin Rudebeck and political
25 March, 2022Narratives on the Move: Byzantine Storyworlds, Space and Liminality (Ingela Nilsson, Myrto Veikou)
On May 9, 2022 at 15.00, Ingela Nilsson and Myrto Veikou are presenting a part of their research from the Retracing Connections programme at the Stockholm’s University Medieval Seminar. Find more information and the zoom link here.
23 March, 2022Call 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, 2022
The Early Greek Translation of the Qur’an: Aim and Orientation (Christian Høgel)
Join us for a lecture by Christian Høgel (Odense / Uppsala) on Wednesday 23 March, at 16:15, in Humanistiska teatern, Engelska parken, Uppsala, organized by Greek and Byzantine Studies and the Retracing Connections research programme. The early Greek translation (before 870 CE) of the Qur’an is know
11 March, 2022“The story is for others, the laughter for myself” – How journalistic storytelling can employ humour in migration narratives
In both fictional or autobiographical/biographical writing, there are certain topics that are difficult to address. Abuse, violence, severe poverty or childhood traumas… They are certainly challenging, but also quite compelling, which explains their popularity in several genres. For instance,
07 January, 2022Arkady Martine and Ingela Nilsson on Storyworlds and Empires
How much Byzantium can fit onto a planet in an outer space, in a distant future? How do we build future storyworlds out of past civilizations? How would you like your entire cultural memory wrapped and handed down? Can meeting a linguistic alien make us ponder on the foundations of our own culture?
07 January, 2022Saint Nicholas is coming (back) to town
Uffe Holmsgaard Eriksen follows the generous saint from Anatolia, across seas and rooftops, into a narrative rabbit hole. On 2 November 2021, the rebuilt Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox church at Ground Zero in New York was opened. The old church was completely destroyed during the terrorist attacks o
06 December, 2021The City in Song
We present Uffe Holmsgaard Eriksen, one of the Narrative Cosmonauts from our Storytelling & Narratology team. His research focuses on hymnography and narratology. He is also very fond of music from the Eastern Mediterranean and an amateur performer of different kinds of traditional music. In October
30 November, 2021“Pop the top, toss the stump” – The strange dance of the ‘told’ and ‘untold’ in journalistic storytelling
The question of how that which is left untold determines the characteristics and essence of journalistic storytelling is very important and continually changing for any journalist inspired by real life informants and situations. However, it takes time to reach this comprehensive question, it takes c
12 July, 2021
Medieval Storyworlds Across Languages
In May 2021, a virtual multilingual summer school Medieval Literature Across Languages took place. It was co-organized by the Center for Medieval Literature in Odense and the Retracing Connections program. One of the participants, our PhD researcher Lilli Hölzlhammer (Uppsala) gives a graphic summar
30 June, 2021Stratis Papaioannou in a Podcast on Michael Psellos
Discover the countless worlds and faces of Michael Psellos, the intellectual whose words and stories marked our image of the eleventh century more than any others. Stratis Papioannou presents the Greek edition of his book ΜΙΧΑΗΛ ΨΕΛΛΟΣ: Η ρητορική και ο λογοτέχνης στο Βυζάντιο, in the LiFO ΒΙΒΛΙΑ ΚΑ
31 May, 2021Milan Vukašinović on Heritage Management, Memory Politics and Nation-building in Serbia
Follow the exciting life of a charter, from a medieval monastery on Mont Athos to a bronze monument in central Belgrade. Why don’t the kings let the librarians do their job? How do we fit a complex life and a controversial historical figure into a monument? Can nameless beekepers also build a
13 March, 2021Living in the Midst of Storyworlds
Ingela Nilsson explains what storyworlds are, what they can do, and why we enjoy studying them so much.
16 February, 2021Call 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, 2020Public presentation of the programme
RETRACING CONNECTIONS programme had a public launching event on September 28, 2020 at the Humanities theater of Uppsala University. Ingela Nilsson presented the programme’s structure and members. Miriam Hjälm spoke about miraculous births, merciful caliphs and audacious monks in Arabic and Greek sto
14 October, 2020Zoom presentation of the programme
Instead of letting the extraordinary circumstances of the global pandemic hinder our work and isolate us in our homes, the members of the Retracing connections programme want to reach out, bring colleagues closer and inspire discussion. Join us on Friday, October 23 at 13.15 CET on zoom to meet our
14 October, 2020Sandro Nikolaishvili in a radio program on Queen Tamar
Our colleague Sandro Nikolaishvili from the Center for Medieval Literature at the University of Southern Denmark helped shed light on the life of Queen Tamar of Georgia (1160-1230) and some of the stories surrounding her rule. Dive into the world of revolutionary political decisions, choosing husban
24 September, 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, 2020First Retracing Connections Online Workshop, Autumn 2020
MAPPING THE BYZANTINE STORYWORLDS is the first Retracing Connections Workshop, to be held online on September 28-29 & October 2, 2020. The program members will unwrap the concept of storyworlds and discuss the Life of Saint Theodore of Edessa, the pillar narrative of the programme. The guest spe
30 June, 2020Public programme presentation, Uppsala, September 2020
RETRACING CONNECTIONS programme will have a public launch of the program at the Uppsala University on September 28, 2020. Join us to meet our team members and hear about the programme! While being physically distanced, we will connect the first dots of premodern transcultural storytelling. See the i
30 June, 2020
