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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, 2026September 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, titled “Talking to Oneself, to God, or to Act: Shifts in Speech Patterns Across Versions and Translations of the Same Story”. On September 25, 2025, at 15.15, our guest researcher Cameron Cross (Michigan) will trace the itineraries of medieval romances in “Love at the Limits: Exploring Early Persi
29 August, 2025The 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 moderator Jenny Wallensten (Athens) for an online discussion on The Piraeus Lion: Whose Story. The Dialogue takes place online via Zoom on Tuesday, May 6, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. (Athens). Register here.
05 May, 2025Greek 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 David Ricks (London) and moderator Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala) for an online discussion on Greek Literature: Revolution, Revision, Reading Greek literature is often defined, interpreted, and appreciated – both within and beyond the academic setting – according to the period in which it was written: Cla
04 March, 2025Layers 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 Can modern urban experiences shape the way we understand Byzantine cities? In this dialogue, we will discuss the impact of modern urban experiences on the interpretation of Byzantine Athens, drawing from archaeological records and contemporary socio-economic phenomena. In doing so I follow two dis
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