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Daria Resh in the Athens Greek Religion Seminar
Join us at the Swedish Institute at Athens for a session of the Athens Greek Religion Seminar series with Dr Daria Resh (SIA). What is in the Bath? Space and Ritual in the Byzantine Legends of St. Barbara The subject of this seminar sits at the crossroads of the history of storytelling – within the conventions of the hagiographical genre – and cultic practices directed towards saints, and brings into focus the early Byzantine Passions of St Barbara. A considerable part of Barbara’s story unfolds in a Roman bath, where the martyr first experienced her own conversion to Christianity and...
11 September, 2026Saint Theodore of Edessa – Book Launch
We are happy to announce the publications of the Retracing Connections core research results – the critical edition and introduction to the Life of Saint Theodore of Edessa by Stratis Papaioannou and Charis Messis. This two-volume work offers a thorough re-evaluation of Theodore of Edessa, a groundbreaking yet little-known Byzantine Greek literary gem. The work, preserved in numerous manuscripts and translations into other medieval languages, is an extensive, two-part composition: the Life of Theodore and a hundred Chapters, supposedly composed by the protagonist saint of the hagiographi
11 September, 2026Classical, Medieval, Oriental: Disciplinary Ideologies – Retracing Connections online research dialogue
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 aboutClassical, Medieval, Oriental: Disciplinary Ideologies. The Dialogue takes place online via Zoom on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, at 18.00 (Athens).Sign up here! Despite the ever-increasing focus on interdisciplinarity, there are certain boundaries that seem more than difficult than others t
11 May, 2026The 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, 2025
