UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM: CENTRE FOR BYZANTINE, OTTOMAN AND MODERN GREEK STUDIES

The Centre's General Seminar normally meets in the Whitting Room (436), 4th floor, Arts Building on Thursdays at 5.15pm, unless otherwise stated, and is open to all interested in the related concerns of the Centre.

11 Oct
TRAVELLERS’ TALES
Students of the Centre
Followed by CENTRE PARTY

25 Oct
ALEXANDER PANAYOTOV and GETHIN REES (Cambridge)
Putting the Jewish communities of Byzantium on the map: a geographical information systems approach to minority history

15 Nov
IOANNA RAPTI (London and Paris)
John-Baldwin, an Armenian-Frank aristocratic bishop and bookman in the second half of the 13th century

22 Nov
ARTEMIS COOPER (London)
Patrick Leigh Fermour in Greece: a Philhellene in occupied Crete and post-war Greece, 1940-1972

29 Nov
YANNIS TZORTZIS (Birmingham)
1941: Britain’s Greek Dunkirk

6 Dec
LESLIE BRUBAKER (Birmingham)
The princess and the scroll

For more information, contact the convenor, Ruth Macrides: r.j.macrides@bham.ac.uk

Website: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/iaa/departments/bomgs/index.aspx