Associazione Italiana
di Studi Bizantini
Newsletter – Edizione del 15 marzo 2014
Redazione: Donatella Bucca; Francesco D'Aiuto; Luigi D'Amelia
Indirizzo: aisbnews@gmail.com
SOMMARIO:
A. EVENTI
1. CICLO DI CONFERENZE: "LA CALABRIA NEL MEDIOEVO" (REGGIO
CALABRIA, 25.02-29.05.2014)
2. EXHIBITION: "ANTIOCH ON THE ORONTES, EARLY EXPLORATIONS IN THE
CITY OF MOSAICS" (ISTANBUL, 28.02-20.04.2014)
3. SEMINARIO: GIANFRANCO AGOSTI, "LE ISCRIZIONI IN VERSI" (CASSINO,
19.03.2014)
4. "IN CORSO D'OPERA": GIORNATE DI STUDIO DEI DOTTORANDI IN STORIA
DELL'ARTE DELLA "SAPIENZA" (ROMA, 24-26.03.2014)
5. EXHIBITIONS: "HEAVEN AND EARTH: BYZANTINE ILLUMINATION AT THE
CULTURAL CROSSROADS" (LOS ANGELES, 25.03.-22.06.2014) -- "HEAVEN AND
EARTH: ART OF BYZANTIUM FROM GREEK COLLECTIONS" (PACIFIC
PALISADES [CA], 09.04-25.08.2014)
6. WORKSHOP: "SCRITTURA EPIGRAFICA E SCRITTURA LIBRARIA FRA ORIENTE
E OCCIDENTE" (CASSINO, 09.04.2014)
7. SEMINARI "LAVORI IN CORSO" PRESSO L'UNIVERSITA' DI NAPOLI
"L'ORIENTALE" (NAPOLI, 09.04-28.05.2014)
8. BYZANTINE STUDIES SYMPOSIUM: "KNOWING BODIES, PASSIONATE SOULS:
SENSE PERCEPTIONS IN BYZANTIUM" (WASHINGTON, D.C., DUMBARTON
OAKS, 25-27.04.2014)
9. COLLOQUIUM: "THE MEDITERRANEAN CITY AND ITS RULERS: A
COMPARISON OF BYZANTIUM, ISLAM, AND WESTERN CHRISTENDOM IN THE
HIGH MIDDLE AGES" (PRINCETON, 26-27.04.2014; APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR
FUNDING: 25.04.2014; OTHER APPLICATIONS DEADLINE: 12.05.2014)
10. BYZANTINE GREEK SUMMER SCHOOL 2014 (BIRMINGHAM, 27.07-24.08.2014)
11. CALL FOR PAPERS: 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE "THE WORLD OF
ISLAM: HISTORY, SOCIETY, CULTURE" (MOSCOW, 22-24.10.2014; APPLICATION
DEADLINE: 01.05.2014)
B. PUBBLICAZIONI
1. "NEA RHOME" 9 (2012) [2013] [= "CHRONOS SYNEGOROS. MELANGES ANDRE'
GUILLOU", II]
2. B. CROSTINI - S. LA PORTA (EDS.), "NEGOTIATING CO-EXISTENCE" (2013)
3. "BYZANTINISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT" 106/2 (2013)
4. "PAREKBOLAI. AN ELECTRONIC JOURNAL FOR BYZANTINE LITERATURE" 3
(2013)
5. J. BECKER, "DOCUMENTI LATINI E GRECI DEL CONTE RUGGERO I DI
CALABRIA E SICILIA" (2013)
6. "ESTUDIOS BIZANTINOS" 1 (2013)
7. "BYZANTINE AND MODERN GREEK STUDIES" 38/1 (MARCH 2014)
8. "DIOGENES" 1 (JANUARY 2014)
C. NOTIZIE
1. SUMMER SCHOOL ON THE TOPIC "SAINTS AND SINNERS IN BYZANTIUM"
(THESSALONIKI, 30.06-12.07.2014; DEADLINE FOR SCHOLARSHIPS: 16.03.2014)
2. SUMMER COURSE 2014: GREEK PALAEOGRAPHY AND CODICOLOGY
(UPPSALA, JULY 2014; APPLICATION DEADLINE: 17.03.2014)
3. POSTDOCTORAL ANNOUNCEMENTS AT THE RESEARCH CENTRE "RELIGIONS
AND SOCIETIES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD", AFFILIATED TO SORBONNE
UNIVERSITY, PARIS (APPLICATION DEADLINES: 18.04.2014; 03.04.2014)
4. ONLINE DATABASE: "INSCRIPTIONS OF ISRAEL/PALESTINE"
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[1]. CICLO DI CONFERENZE: "LA CALABRIA NEL MEDIOEVO" (REGGIO CALABRIA,
25.02-29.05.2014)
Da: Antonio Labate (alabate@libero.it)
Ciclo di conferenze "La Calabria nel Medioevo": approfondimenti storici e novita' sul patrimonio
architettonico e artistico della Calabria nel Medioevo.
25 FEBBRAIO
Vera VON FALKENHAUSEN: "La Calabria greca medievale: bizantina e normanna"
3 APRILE
Margherita CORRADO: "Il golfo di Squillace da Capo Rizzuto a Copanello: un osservatorio
privilegiato sull'alto Medioevo calabrese"
8 MAGGIO
Francesco A. CUTERI: "La citta' di Ruggero: Mileto e la Calabria normanna"
29 MAGGIO
Domenico MINUTO: "Architettura bizantina in Calabria: esperienze e ricerche"
Tutti gli incontri si svolgeranno alle ore 17.00 presso la Sala conference DiDiEc, Palazzo Sarlo,
Reggio Calabria.
Agli studenti dei Dipartimenti PAU e DArTe partecipanti al ciclo di conferenze saranno
riconosciuti n. 1 CFU.
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[2]. EXHIBITION: "ANTIOCH ON THE ORONTES, EARLY EXPLORATIONS IN THE CITY
OF MOSAICS" (ISTANBUL, 28.02-20.04.2014)
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"ANTIOCH ON THE ORONTES, EARLY EXPLORATIONS IN THE CITY OF MOSAICS" (28
February-20 April 2014)
Curated by Murat Akar
Koc University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations
Koc University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations will host the exhibition "Antioch on
the Orontes, Early Explorations in the City of Mosaics" between 28 February and 20 April 2014.
Curated by Murat Akar, it tells the story of how archaeologists unearthed findings from the most
brilliant period in the history of Antioch, one of the most important political and cultural centers of
the Hellenistic Orient and one of the great metropolises of the Roman Empire.
A catalog published by Koc University Press - containing a brief history of Antioch, a history of the
excavations, and a selection of the excavation photographs - will accompany the exhibition.
Koc University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations
Istiklal Caddesi No: 181 Merkez Han 34433 Beyoglu
P.O.B. 260 -- Istanbul, Turkey
T: + 90 212 393 6000 -- F: + 90 212 245 1761
rcac_info[at]ku.edu.tr
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[3]. SEMINARIO: GIANFRANCO AGOSTI, "LE ISCRIZIONI IN VERSI" (CASSINO,
19.03.2014)
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Universita' di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale
Dipartimento di Scienze Umane Sociali e della Salute
Seminari del Laboratorio di ricerche storiche e archeologiche dell'antichita'
(PRIN 2010: "Colonie e municipi dell'Italia romana nell'era digitale: fra storia locale e storia
generale. L'apporto delle nuove tecnologie di archiviazione e gestione dei dati epigrafici allo studio
delle citta', intese come elemento fondante della civilta' romana")
Gianfranco AGOSTI
"Le iscrizioni in versi: societa' e cultura nell'epigraphic habit tardoantico"
(mercoledi' 19 marzo, ore 10.30-13.30)
L'incontro avra' luogo presso il Laboratorio di ricerche storiche e archeologiche dell'antichita' -DipSUSS (via Mazzaroppi snc, Cassino)
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[4]. "IN CORSO D'OPERA": GIORNATE DI STUDIO DEI DOTTORANDI IN STORIA
DELL'ARTE DELLA "SAPIENZA" (ROMA, 24-26.03.2014)
Da: Lorenzo Riccardi (riccardi.lorenzo@gmail.com)
In corso d'opera
Giornate di studio dei dottorandi in Storia dell'arte della "Sapienza" Universita' di Roma
Lunedi' 24 marzo 2014
Aula Odeion, Facolta' di Lettere e Filosofia, "Sapienza" Universita' di Roma
PROGRAMMA
9.30 Indirizzi di Saluto
Prof. Alessandro Zuccari, Coordinatore del Dottorato di Ricerca in Storia dell'Arte
Prof.ssa Marina Righetti, Direttore del Dipartimento di Storia dell'Arte e Spettacolo
10.00 Prima sessione
Cantieri e botteghe
(presiede prof. Antonio Iacobini)
- Veronica Dell’Agostino, Exempla di pittura ornamentale tra i frammenti di intonaco dipinto
emersi dallo scavo di San Pietro al Monte di Civate.
- Antonino Tranchina, Fortune e sfortune della famosa fabbrica dell'Acroterio: il monastero del
Salvatore di Messina oltre la sua tormentata vicenda.
- Melania Marrocco, L'arredo liturgico della cattedrale di Sessa Aurunca: una ricostruzione
attraverso le fonti documentarie.
11.20-11.40
Break
- Paola Torniai, Le munitioni sanpietrine tra il XVII e XVIII secolo: Scipione Santucci, Alessio
Mattioli e la stipula della privativa nei documenti dell'AFSP.
- Lucia Ajello, Maestri argentieri a Roma: opere insigni e un antico privilegio in un memoriale
dell'Ottocento.
- Manuel Barrese, Regio, popolare, wagneriano. Il cantiere del teatro Costanzi a Roma e le
decorazioni di Annibale Brugnoli.
12.40-13.10
Discussione
15.00 Seconda sessione
Artisti e committenti
(presiede prof.ssa Michela di Macco)
- Martina Nardacci, "Terre Incognitae" dell’arte: bureau d’etudes.
- Jelena Jovanovic, Architettura e committenza all'epoca di Stefan Nemanja: alcune riflessioni sulle
origini delle forme architettoniche nella seconda meta' del XII secolo in Rascia (Serbia).
- Michele Nicolaci, La Deposizione di Cristo nel Sepolcro di Giovanni Baglione e la sua attivita'
pittorica per le Confraternite
16.30-16.50
Break
- Yuri Primarosa, Fermare il modello in posa attraverso il disegno, l'incisione, il pennello. Il
cardinale Erminio Valenti nei ritratti di Ottavio Leoni.
- Michela Gianfranceschi, Il senso morale nelle stampe di traduzione d'ambito caravaggesco.
Riflessioni e confronti.
- Federico De Martino, Nuovi contributi sui quadri di Lazzaro Baldi per la chiesa del SS. Sudario
18.20-18.50
Dibattito
Martedi' 25 marzo 2014
Sala Rossa, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Roma
9.30 Indirizzi di saluto
Arch. Francesco Moschini, Segretario Generale dell'Accademia Nazionale di San Luca
Prof. Angela Cipriani, Soprintendente alla Galleria e alle Collezioni dell'Accademia Nazionale di
San Luca
10.00 Terza sessione
Geografie dell'arte
(presiede prof. Alessandro Zuccari)
- Lorenzo Riccardi, Il fratello negletto: Costantino Comneno Douka nell'Etolia-Akarnania (12101240 ca.).
- Maurizio Ficari, La decorazione cosmatesca del duomo di Sutri all'epoca di Innocenzo III: Pietro
Ismaeli, Jacopo di Lorenzo e la propaganda pontificia nella Tuscia suburbicaria.
- Claudia Quattrocchi, "E vi fu battaglia nel cielo" (Ap. 12, 7-12). Un tema apocalittico in alcuni
esempi artistici fra Europa e Lazio medievale
11.20-11.40
Break
- Claudia Matera, "Genialita' ci accompagni": Novissima e il Liberty d'oltralpe.
- Manuel Carrera, John Lavery e l'Italia.
- Realda Abdija, "The last gestures": L'inganno della memoria.
12.40-13.10
Dibattito
15.00 Quarta sessione
Storia delle immagini
(presiede prof. Claudio Zambianchi)
- Silvia Pedone, La passione aurea. Il colore dell'oro a Bisanzio.
- Barbara Villa, I Disciplini a Bergamo: appunti per una nuova lettura iconografica.
- Hiroko Nagai, Pintoricchio e la sua cerchia: "La Madonna con il Bambino che tiene il libro",
reiterazione di uno schema.
- Silvia Trisciuzzi, "E' in tutte le sue parti riguardevole e ammirabile": fortuna dell'altare di S.
Ignazio al Gesu'.
16.40-17.00
Break
- Fabio Cafagna, Esercizi di trasparenza dell'anatomia artistica tra XVIII e XIX secolo.
- Matteo Piccioni, Le stanze di Flaubert fra pittura e immagine popolare.
- Simona Caramia, Carte di viaggio.
18.20-18.50
Dibattito
Mercoledi' 26 marzo 2014
Aula Levi della Vida, Facolta' di Lettere e Filosofia, sede ex-Vetrerie Sciarra, Sapienza Universita'
di Roma
9.30
Quinta sessione
Collezionare, studiare ed esporre l'arte
(presiede prof.ssa Claudia Cieri Via)
- Elisa Minciacchi, Disegni e incisioni nei libri della Roma Chigiana.
- Rosalia Pagliarani, Lorenzo Casoni e Joseph Emmanuel de La Tremoille: due residenze
cardinalizie a confronto.
- Massimo Fiorot, Gli scritti giovanili sulla pittura veneziana nel percorso intellettuale di Lionello
Venturi.
- Giulia Calanna, Il viaggio a Istanbul di Antonio Munoz (1905-1906): la citta' e i monumenti nel
suo fondo fotografico
11.20-11.40
Break
- Giulia Grassi, L'Italia all'Exposition d'art byzantin di Parigi del 1931.
- Aurora Roscini Vitali, Fra orientalismo e modernita', la mostra d'arte coloniale a Roma (1931).
- Michela Bassu, Il motivo pittorico come soggetto fotografico negli anni trenta del novecento:
confronti per una storia critica dell'arte di Cezanne.
- Sara Catenacci, "L'ambiente come sociale alla Biennale di Venezia 1976": note da un libro mai
realizzato.
13.00-13.20
Discussione e chiusura dei lavori
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[5]. EXHIBITIONS: "HEAVEN AND EARTH: BYZANTINE ILLUMINATION AT THE
CULTURAL CROSSROADS" (LOS ANGELES, 25.03.-22.06.2014) -- "HEAVEN AND EARTH:
ART OF BYZANTIUM FROM GREEK COLLECTIONS" (PACIFIC PALISADES [CA], 09.0425.08.2014)
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"HEAVEN AND EARTH: BYZANTINE
CROSSROADS" (March 25-June 22, 2014)
ILLUMINATION
AT
THE
CULTURAL
THE GETTY CENTER:
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90049
Tuesday-Friday and Sunday 10:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Saturday 10:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.
Closed Mondays
The glittering courts of the Byzantine Empire (A.D. 330-1453) have long been admired for their
rich tradition of manuscript illumination. The prominent use of gold, a striking sense of naturalism,
and a distinctive spiritual character were among the widely celebrated aspects of Byzantine art in
the Middle Ages. These qualities inspired artists and patrons in other Christian locales, including
western Europe, Armenia, and Ethiopia. Primarily drawn from the Getty Museum's collection, this
exhibition also features important loans in partnership with "HEAVEN AND EARTH: ART OF
BYZANTIUM FROM GREEK COLLECTIONS", on view at the Getty Villa from April 9 through
August 25, 2014.
THE GETTY VILLA:
17985 Pacific Coast Highway
Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
Wednesday-Monday 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Closed Tuesdays
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[6]. WORKSHOP: "SCRITTURA EPIGRAFICA E SCRITTURA LIBRARIA FRA ORIENTE E
OCCIDENTE" (CASSINO, 09.04.2014)
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"SCRITTURA EPIGRAFICA E SCRITTURA LIBRARIA FRA ORIENTE E OCCIDENTE"
WORKSHOP INTERNAZIONALE, 9 APRILE 2014
Universita' degli studi di Cassino e del Lazio meridionale
Facolta' di Ingegneria -- Aula Magna
Via Gaetano di Biasio, 43 - Cassino
Programma:
09.45-10.00 Saluti
10.00-10.30 Pasquale Orsini (Roma), "Scritture epigrafiche e scritture librarie a Bisanzio"
10.30-11.00 Flavia de Rubeis (Venezia), "La scrittura epigrafica tra merovingi e carolingi: modelli,
prestiti, invenzioni"
11.00-11.30 Pausa caffe'
11.30-12.00 Andreas Rhoby (Wien), "Inscriptions and manuscripts in Byzantium: A palaeographic
approach"
12.00-12.30 Carlo Tedeschi (Chieti), "Le iscrizioni di Dodone, vescovo di Rieti e Amiterno"
12.30-13.30 Discussione
15.00-15.30 Gianfranco Agosti (Roma), "La mise-en-page come elemento significante nell'epigrafia
e nei libri tardoantichi"
15.30-16.00 Tommaso Gramigni (Firenze), "Scritture distintive e scritture epigrafiche in Toscana
nella prima meta' del XII secolo"
16.00-17.00 Discussione e conclusioni
Coordinamento scientifico:
Pasquale Orsini - Edoardo Crisci - Marilena Maniaci
Segreteria:
Filomena Valente - Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia
(fvalente@unicas.it)
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[7]. SEMINARI "LAVORI IN CORSO" PRESSO L'UNIVERSITA' DI NAPOLI "L'ORIENTALE"
(NAPOLI, 09.04-28.05.2014)
Da: Antonio Rollo (a.rollo@inwind.it)
Universita' di Napoli "L'Orientale" -- Dipartimento di Studi letterari, linguistici e comparati, via
Duomo 219, I piano, stanza 120, ore 15.00-16.30
Seminario "Lavori in corso", a cura di A. Rollo e A. Roselli.
Si segnalano i seguenti interventi di interesse bizantinistico:
Mercoledi' 9 aprile: David SPERANZI, Per Demetrio Damilas copista e disegnatore di caratteri
Mercoledi' 7 maggio: Giuseppe DE GREGORIO, Il Vaticano Urbinate greco 125 sotto analisi
paleografica e testuale. Origine e storia di una collezione planudea
Mercoledi' 14 maggio: Anna Maria IERACI BIO, Per lo studio dei testi medici greci
nell'Umanesimo
Mercoledi' 21 maggio: Giuseppe UCCIARDELLO, I lessici atticisti di Pausania e Elio Dionisio:
problemi di trasmissione e di Quellenforschung
Mercoledi' 28 maggio: Antonio ROLLO, Il restauro dei graeca nei codici delle Institutiones di
Lattanzio
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[8]. BYZANTINE STUDIES SYMPOSIUM: "KNOWING BODIES, PASSIONATE SOULS:
SENSE PERCEPTIONS IN BYZANTIUM" (WASHINGTON, D.C., DUMBARTON OAKS, 2527.04.2014)
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KNOWING BODIES, PASSIONATE SOULS: SENSE PERCEPTIONS IN BYZANTIUM
Byzantine Studies Symposium, April 25-27, 2014
Symposiarchs: Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Brown University and Margaret Mullett, Dumbarton Oaks.
Byzantine culture was notably attuned to a cosmos of multiple domains: material, immaterial;
bodily, intellectual, physical, spiritual; human, divine. Despite a prevailing discourse to the
contrary, the Byzantine world found its bridges between domains most often in sensory modes of
awareness. These different domains were concretely perceptible; further, they were encountered
daily amidst the mundane no less than the exalted. Icons, incense, music, sacred architecture, ritual
activity; saints, imperial families, persons at prayer; hymnography, ascetical or mystical literature:
in all of its cultural expressions, the Byzantines excelled in highlighting the intersections between
human and divine realms through sensory engagement (whether positive or negative). Byzantinists
have been slow to look at the operations of the senses in Byzantium, especially those of seeing, its
relation to the other senses, and phenomenological approaches in general. More recently work on
smell and hearing has followed, and yet the areas of taste and touch -- the most universal and the
most necessary of the senses -- are still largely uncharted. Nor has much been done to explore how
Byzantines viewed the senses, or how they envisaged the sensory interactions with their world. A
map of the connections between of sense-perceptions and other processes (of perception, memory,
visualization) in the Byzantine brain has still to be sketched out. How did the Byzantines describe,
narrate or represent the senses at work? It is hoped to further studies of the operations of individual
senses in Byzantium in the context of all the senses, and their place in what the Byzantines thought
about perception and cognition. Recent work on dreaming, on memory and on the emotions has
made advances possible, and collaborative experiments between Byzantinists and neurological
scientists open further approaches. The happy coincidence of a Dumbarton Oaks Garden and
Landscape symposium on 'Senses in the landscape: non-visual experiences' and of a forthcoming
exhibition at the Walters Art Museum on the five senses enable some cross-cultural comparisons to
be made involving gardens in Islamic Spain, Hebrew hymnography, Syriac wine-poetry,
Mediterranean ordure, and Romanesque and Gothic precious objects—that were not just looked at
but also touched, smelled, heard. Architects, musicologists, art historians, archaeologists,
philologists, all can contribute approaches to the revelation of the Byzantine sensorium.
PROGRAM:
FRIDAY
8.30: Coffee on the Music Room Terrace
9.00: Welcomes
9.15: Introduction: Susan Ashbrook Harvey
I: SOUNDS AND SILENCES
9.30: Amy Papalexandrou (Austin, Texas) on acoustics: Toward a Sonic History of Byzantium
10.15: Discussion and coffee
11.00: Kim Haines-Eitzen (Cornell): Geographies of Silence in Late Antiquity
11.45: Spiro Antonopoulos (City University, London, but US) on ornamentation and
comprehensibility in music: The Phenomenon of Embellishment and Re-composition in the Music
of Late Byzantium
12.30: Discussion
1.00: Luncheon
II: OLFACTORY LANDSCAPES
2.30: Susan Alcock (Brown) on the smells of the street
3.15: Dede Fairchild Ruggles (Urbana-Champaign), Finding Scents in Islamic Gardens
4.00: Discussion and Tea
III: TOUCHING AND FEELING
4.30: Stavroula Constantinou (Nicosia), The Saint's Two Bodies: Sensibility under (Self-)Torture in
Byzantine Hagiography
5.15: Discussion
5.30-7.30: Drinks on the Green Terrace
SATURDAY
9.00: Coffee on the Music Room Terrace
9.30: Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala), To Touch or not to Touch: Erotic Tactility in Byzantine Literature
10.15: Discussion and Coffee
IV: TASTES OF LIFE
11.00: Thomas Arentzen (Lund), Struggling with Romanos's "Dagger of Taste"
11.45: David Taylor (Oxford) on wine poetry
12.30: Discussion
1.00: Luncheon
V: SIGHT UNSEEN
2.30: Glenn Peers (Austin Texas), How Bodies Know, How We Know Bodies
3.15: Martina Bagnoli (Walters), Sensing Beauty. Medieval Art, the Five Senses and the Art
Museum
4.00: Discussion and Tea
VI: CELEBRATING THE SENSES
4.45: Ruth Webb (Lille) on rhetoric: Virtual Sensations and Inner Visions: Words and the Senses in
Late Antiquity and Byzantium
5.30 Discussion
7.00 for 7.30 Speakers' Dinner
SUNDAY
9.30: Coffee on the Music Room Terrace
10.00: Laura Lieber (Duke) on the senses and ritual participation: Dancing with the Angel of Death:
The Adulterous Woman of Numbers 5
10.45: Marcus Plested (Cambridge) The Spiritual Senses, Monastic and Theological
11.30: Discussion and Coffee
12.00: Conclusion: Margaret Mullett
ABSTRACTS:
http://doaks.org/research/byzantine/events/knowing-bodies-passionate-souls-sense-perceptions-inbyzantium/sense-symposium-abstracts
INFO:
Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Studies Program
1703 32nd Street, NW, Washington, DC 20007
Tel.: 202-339-6940 Fax: 202-298-8409, E-mail: Byzantine@doaks.org
http://doaks.org/research/byzantine/events/knowing-bodies-passionate-souls-sense-perceptions-inbyzantium#.UukX4BD109U.facebook
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[9]. COLLOQUIUM: "THE MEDITERRANEAN CITY AND ITS RULERS: A COMPARISON
OF BYZANTIUM, ISLAM, AND WESTERN CHRISTENDOM IN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES"
(PRINCETON, 26-27.04.2014; APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR FUNDING: 25.04.2014;
OTHER APPLICATIONS DEADLINE: 12.05.2014)
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COLLOQUIUM:
"THE MEDITERRANEAN CITY AND ITS RULERS: A COMPARISON OF BYZANTIUM,
ISLAM, AND WESTERN CHRISTENDOM IN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES" (PRINCETON,
26-27.04.2014)
The High Middle Ages were a period of profound transformation for the Christian cities of the
central and western Mediterranean. However, it has generally been thought that the urban centers of
the Islamic and Byzantine worlds to the south and east did not share in the same economic,
political, and cultural developments. Most interregional studies carried out so far have promoted
this understanding of the period by considering the "classic example" of the cities of northern Italy
solely in the context of the situation on the other side of the Alps. Otherwise, attention has tended to
be focused on specific polities within each of the three Mediterranean macro-regions, to the neglect
of the picture across macro-regions. There has been no in-depth comparison of how cities were
ruled in the various lands encircling the Great Sea, despite the existence of a strong common
Roman heritage, as well as evidence for extensive interaction through long-distance trade,
pilgrimage, diplomacy, and warfare. This conference will begin to undertake such an analysis,
highlighting similarities and differences in governmental institutions, civic identity, and
revolutionary activity throughout the Mediterranean. The event is intended as a pilot establishing a
network of scholars. The next meeting will be held at the University of Edinburg in 2105 and is
being organized by Dr. Gianluca Raccagni, Chancellor's Fellow in History.
PRINCETON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL STUDIES
Location: Aaron Burr Hall, Room 216
04/26/14 at 9:30 pm - 04/27/14 at 6:00 pm
INFO:
http://www.princeton.edu/hellenic/events/viewevent.xml?id=438
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[10]. BYZANTINE GREEK SUMMER SCHOOL 2014 (BIRMINGHAM, 27.07-24.08.2014)
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BYZANTINE GREEK SUMMER SCHOOL 2014
(27 July-24 August 2014)
Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies
Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
University of Birmingham
The BYZANTINE GREEK SUMMER SCHOOL offers courses in medieval Greek language at
three levels:
Level 1 Beginners (27 July - 10 August);
Level 2 Intermediate (10 - 24 August);
Level 3 Advanced Reading (10 - 24 August).
The Byzantine Greek Summer School operated at Queen's University Belfast from 2002 to 2011
and has now relocated to the University of Birmingham.
We are very grateful to the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at
Birmingham for making the continuation of the Summer School possible when Queen's University
declined to host it after 2011.
FURTHER INFORMATION:
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/bomgs/events/summerschool/index.aspx
DEADLINES:
- If you are applying for funding via the application form, your
application form must be returned by FRIDAY 31 MARCH 2014 to guarantee
consideration. Decisions on the award of bursaries will be made by
Wednesday 25 April.
- The deadline for all other applications is MONDAY 12 MAY 2014.
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[11]. CALL FOR PAPERS: 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE "THE WORLD OF
ISLAM: HISTORY, SOCIETY, CULTURE" (MOSCOW, 22-24.10.2014; APPLICATION
DEADLINE: 01.05.2014)
Da: Vera von Falkenhausen (verafalk@libero.it)
3rd International Research Conference
"THE WORLD OF ISLAM: HISTORY, SOCIETY, CULTURE"
22-24 October 2014, Moscow
CALL FOR PAPERS
The All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature (LFL) in collaboration with the Mardjani
Foundation (MF) are organizing the Third International Research Conference which will take place
at LFL in Moscow on 22-24 October 2014.
The first conference "The World of Islam" was inaugurated by the MF in 2007. It took place at the
Russian State University for Humanities. The second conference was held in the People's
Friendship University of Russia in 2010. Both research meetings gathered specialists on Islamic and
Russian studies from leading Russian and foreign university centers. They considered a wide range
of problems related to interregional and interdisciplinary study of Islamic cultural and theological
legacy, past and present development of Muslim societies, as well as methodological and
organizational issues of Islamic studies at the age of modern globalization. Initially it was decided
to make disciplinary scope of the conference as wide as possible to enable productive
interdisciplinary dialogue between historians, anthropologists, sociologists, philologists,
philosophers, political scientists and other specialists involved in the study of Muslim societies
throughout the world whose interests are close to the research repertoire examined in the
conferences.
Reaching its third conference "The World of Islam" aims to foster high-quality, original and
innovative research, both theoretical and empirical, in history and across the social sciences on key
topics related to Islam and Muslim societies;
to cover all Muslim regions as widely as possible with topics related to Islam, including their
mutual relationships and relations with Russia's Muslims;
to focus on historical, cultural, economic and socio-political issues;
to enable research collaboration between specialists in related fields of human and social sciences
whose study focuses on Islam;
to encourage publication and dissemination of this research in edited volumes, thematic issues of
learned journals, and the "The World of Islam" Working Papers.
Working languages are Russian, English and Arabic. There will be no translation or interpretation
services available.
STRUCTURE
The "The World of Islam" 2014 consists of 8 workshops. Each workshop is directed by one-two or
three workshop directors and on average includes 20 participants. The participants of each
workshop meet in four sessions for a total of approximately fourteen hours over two days. They
discuss papers, general topics, ways to publish the papers, and how to continue collaborative efforts.
Plenary and social events are organised during the MRM. In addition, two or three more thematic
round tables might be held during the conference. The eventual list of workshops and round tables
will be available on the Mardjani Foundation website http://www.mardjani.ru/ru/projectsnews/conference.html by February 20 2014.
Applications for listening participants are now open.
Deadline: 1 May 2014.
WORKSHOPS
1. Problems of Studying the "Classical" Islamic Heritage: Source Studies, Historiography, History
of Islamic Thought directed by Pavel V. Basharin, Russian State University for Humanities,
Mardjani Foundation, pbasharin@yandex.ru; Jens Scheiner, Göttingen University, jschein@unigoettingen.de
2. Islam in Russia and Eurasian Space: Rethinking legacy of the Archival Revolution of the 1990s
directed by Dmitry Yu. Arapov, Moscow State University; Vladimir O. Bobrovnikov, Institute for
Oriental Studies, Mardjani Foundation, Vladimir.Bobrovnikov@gmail.com; Aydar Yu.
Khabutdinov, Russian Academy of Justice (Kazan), Mardjani Foundation, aihabutdinov@mail.ru
3. Islamic Response to the challenges of Modernity: ideas, persons, institutes directed by Ilshat G.
Saetov, Margarita Rudomino All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature saetov@gmail.com;
Мarina Sapronova, Moscow State Institute of International Relations MGIMO,
m.sapronova@inno.mgimo.ru
4. Anthropological and Sociological Approaches to the Study of Muslim Societies directed by
Nikolay S. Terletsky, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera),
terletsky@inbox.ru
5. Islam and Migration Processes directed by Serguey N. Abashin, European University in St.
Petersburg, abashin@mail.ru
6. Art and Material Culture of the Muslim World directed by Anton D. Pritula, State Hermitage
Museum, pritulanna@googlemail.com
7. Manuscripts and Rare Books of the Islamicate World directed by Ilya V. Zaytsev, Margarita
Rudomino All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature, iliaz@libfl.ru; Olga M. Yastrebova,
Russian National Library in St. Petersburg, yastrebochek@gmail.com
8. Eastern Christianity and Islam directed by Tarek M. Muhammad, Ayn Shams University, Egypt,
tarekmansoureg@yahoo.com;
Wessam
A.
Farag,
Mansourah
University,
Egypt
wesamfarag_97@hotmail.com
How to apply
Candidates apply online contacting directors of the workshop they are interested in, who will
evaluate their request and decide whether to accept their participation. Application materials should
include:
a paper proposal of approximately 300 words in Russian, English or Arabic;
contact information of the applicant: family and given names, academic degree and rank(s),
affiliation, e-mail and postal address, phone and/or fax numbers/
Co-authored papers might be proposed. It is possible to apply for more than one workshop
submitting the online application for each workshop separately. Please note that workshops are held
simultaneously and you will not be able to go from one workshop to the other.
Selection
Workshop directors select the paper proposals, and the results of the selection process will be
communicated to all applicants by 21 May 2014. All selected candidates need to confirm their
participation by e-mail to their workshop directors within 10 days of the receipt of an invitation to
participate. Participants should guarantee their participation in all sessions of their workshop.
Fee: 500 rubles for residents of from Russia and the CIS countries, and euro 50 for participants
from abroad should be paid in cash at the opening of the conference.
Participants pay for their own travel and accommodation costs. However, they will benefit from a
special discount rate in hotels close to the place where the conference will be held.
Non-Russian citizens will receive a letter of official invitation to facilitate visa procedures.
For all enquiries, please contact the "The World of Islam" Scientific Coordination Team at
libmardjani@gmail.com
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[1]. "NEA RHOME" 9 (2012) [2013] [= "CHRONOS SYNEGOROS. MELANGES ANDRE'
GUILLOU", II]
Da: Santo Luca' (luca@lettere.uniroma2.it)
"NEA RHOME. RIVISTA DI RICERCHE BIZANTINISTICHE" 9 (2012) [2013] [= "CHRONOS
SYNEGOROS. MELANGES ANDRE' GUILLOU", II, Etudes reunies par L. Benou et C.
Rognoni], 316 p.: ill.; 8 tavv. color. f.t.
INDICE:
B. HAMARNEH, "Scene bibliche nella basilica di Ya'amun: una riconsiderazione", 5 --- M.
FALLA CASTELFRANCHI, "Sulla cosiddetta s. Elena raffigurata nella catacomba di S. Lucia a
Siracusa", 23 --- P. SCHREINER, "Griechisches Feuer in Tours. Bemerkungen zu einer wenig
beachteten lateinischen Notiz", 31 --- A. CARILE, "Funerali e sepolture imperiali a Costantinopoli
fra realta' e leggenda", 43 --- B. FLUSIN, "Les tenues imperiales pour les ceremonies religieuses
d'apres le De cerimoniis", 59 --- S. LUCA', "Le Boulai di Bartolomeo il Giovane, IV egumeno di
Grottaferrata, conservate nell'Angel. gr. 41", 81 --- Ch. ANGELIDI, "Translationes Agathae. Note
sur le culte d'une sainte entre Byzance et la Sicile normande", 123 --- C. ROGNONI, "Disposer des
hommes dans la Sicile du XIIe siecle: deux documents grecs inedits", 133 --H.
ENZENSBERGER, "Einige unbekannte Dokumente aus normannischer und staufischer Zeit", 153
--- E.A. ZACHARIADOU, "Encore quelques remarques sur les ideogrammes chinois de Geraki",
183 --- C.G. PITSAKIS, "Les querelles hesychastes et les juristes byzantins des XIVe-XVe
siecles", 189 --- T. DORANDI, "Due nuove 'cronache' di Giorgio-Gennadio Scolario", 211 --- R.S.
STEFEC, "Zur Geschichte der Handschriften des Francesco Patrizi und des Antonios Eparchos",
245 --- Ch. MALTEZOU, "I privilegi degli arcondopoula e di Notara: osservazioni sulle copie dei
documenti", 261 --- R. LAVAGNINI, "1857: notizie dal Salento", 281 --- Resumes degli articoli
--- Pubblicazioni ricevute --- Norme per l'invio di contributi alla redazione e procedura di peer
review.
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[2]. B. CROSTINI - S. LA PORTA (EDS.), "NEGOTIATING CO-EXISTENCE" (2013)
Da: Aisbnews (aisbnews@gmail.com)
Barbara CROSTINI, Sergio LA PORTA (eds.), "NEGOTIATING CO-EXISTENCE. Communities,
Cultures and Convivencia in Byzantine Society"
Trier, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2013
(Bochumer Altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium, 96)
299 p., ill. -- ISBN 978-3-86821-504-5
CONTENTS:
B. Crostini, "Introduction: Exploring Byzantine Convivencia", 9 -- I. DELINEATING ARABS
AND ISLAM IN BYZANTIUM: D. Woods, "Maslama and the Alleged Construction of the First
Mosque in Constantinople c. 718", 19 -- R.F. Glei, "John Damascene on Islam: a Long-Term
History in Byzantium", 31 -- N. Koutrakou, "Language and Dynamics of Communication in
Byzantium: The 'Image' of the Arabs in Hagiographical Sources, 45 -- II. MATERIAL
EXCHANGES AND CULTURAL DIFFUSION: A. D'Ottone, "Manuscripts as Mirrors of a
Multilingual and Multicultural Society: the Case of the Damascus Find", 63 -- M. Fincati, "To
ioudaikon: Greek Bible and Hebraica Veritas among Byzantine Christians and Jews", 89 -- A.K.
Vionis, "'Reading' Art and Material Culture: Greeks, Slavs and Arabs in the Byzantine Aegean",
103 -- III. CROSSING BORDERS IN TEXTS AND ART: TALES FROM THE FRONTIERS: I.
Toral-Niehoff, "Constantine's Baptism Legend: a 'Wandering' Story between Byzantium, Rome,
The Syriac and the Arab World", 129 -- F. Dell'Acqua, "The Fall of the Idol on the Frame of the
Genoa Mandylion: a Narrative on/of the Borders", 143 -- Ch. Lee, "The Tale of the Veronica in
Paris, BnF fr. 1553: an Example of Translatio studii and Imperii?", 175 -- IV. THE DYNAMICS
OF CO-EXISTENCE: J. Holo, "Both Byzantine and Jewish? The Extent and Limits of Jewish
Integration in Middle Byzantine Society", 189 -- A. Peters-Custot, "Convivencia between
Christians: the Greek and Latin Communities of Byzantine South Italy (9th-11th Centuries)", 203 -S. Neocleous, "Greeks and Italians in Twelfth-Century Constantinople: Convivencia or Conflict?",
221 -- S. La Porta, "Re-Constructing Armenia: Strategies of Co-Existence amongst Christians and
Muslims in the Thirteenth Century", 251 -- Index nominum et rerum, 273 -- List of Contributors,
297.
INFO:
www.wvtrier.de
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[3]. "BYZANTINISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT" 106/2 (2013)
Da: Aisbnews (aisbnews@gmail.com)
BYZANTINISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT (ISSN: 1868-9027), Volume 106, Issue 2 (Dec. 2013), pp. 5951296
INHALT:
"'What agreement has the temple of God with idols?' Christian homilies, ancient myths, and the
'Macedonian Renaissance'", Antonopoulou, Theodora (p. 595) -- "Beobachtungen zu den Briefen
des Theodoros Daphnopates. Neue Tendenzen in der byzantinischen Literatur des zehnten
Jahrhunderts", Chernoglazov, Dmitry (p. 623) -- "Excavations in Firan - Sinai in the years from
2000 to 2005", Grossmann, Peter (p. 645) -- "The application of natura (physis) in Byzantine law",
Jong, Hylkje de (p. 683) -- "Translatio imaginis: assimilating the triple-towered castle in late
Byzantine coinage", Kontogiannis, Nikos (p. 713) -- "Provincial art in Epirus and Macedonia in the
16th century: influences, interactions, origins, models", Kontopanagou, Katerina (p. 745) -"Inscriptions on middle Byzantine marble templon screens", Pallis, Georgios (p. 761) -- "The
'Politikos Stichos' poetry as reliable evidence of linguistic phenomena", Soltic, Jorie (p. 811) -- II.
ABTEILUNG (p. 843) -- III. ABTEILUNG: Bibliographische Notizen und Mitteilungen (p. 873) -Totentafel (p. 1255) -- Autoren- und Herausgeberverzeichnis zur Bibliographie Band 106, Heft 1
und 2 (p. 1257) -- Tafelanhang (p. 1287).
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[4]. "PAREKBOLAI. AN ELECTRONIC JOURNAL FOR BYZANTINE LITERATURE" 3
(2013)
Da: Aisbnews (aisbnews@gmail.com)
"PAREKBOLAI. AN ELECTRONIC JOURNAL FOR BYZANTINE LITERATURE" (ISSN:
2241-0228), Vol. 3 (2013)
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Abbreviations (p. i-iv) -- ARTICLES: "Sappho kai Palladas: semeioseis se hena epigramma",
Ioannis Polemis (p. 1-4) -- "L'eloge de Saint Eudocime par Constantin Acropolite (BHG 606)", Ilias
Taxidis (p. 5-44) -- "Chapters, Epistolary Essays and Epistles. The Case of Michael Glykas'
Collection of Ninety-Five Texts in the 12th Century", Eirini-Sophia Kiapidou (p. 45-64) -- "The
Prophetic Dream in the Itinerary of Constantine Manasses", Konstantinos Chryssogelos (p. 65-76)
-- "Ekphrasis Earos. Le topos de la venue du printemps chez des auteurs byzantins", Marina
Loukaki (p. 77-106) -- "Representations of Power in the Byzantios Oration of Theodore Metochites:
Illusions and Realities", Alexandra Voudouri (p. 107-130) -- Anekdotos kanonas eis ten hyperagian
Theotokon tou Euthymiou A' Konstantinoupoleos (;)", Filippos Germanis (p. 131-144).
INFO and ONLINE ACCESS:
http://ejournals.lib.auth.gr/parekbolai
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[5]. J. BECKER, "DOCUMENTI LATINI E GRECI DEL CONTE RUGGERO I DI CALABRIA E
SICILIA" (2013)
Da: Aisbnews (aisbnews@gmail.com)
"DOCUMENTI LATINI E GRECI DEL CONTE RUGGERO I DI CALABRIA E SICILIA"
Edizione critica a cura di Julia Becker.
Roma, Viella, 2013 -- (Ricerche dell'Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma, 9)
365 p. -- ISBN 978-88-8334-747-4
Dopo la conquista della Calabria meridionale e della Sicilia (fine dell'XI secolo), il conte Ruggero I
si concentro' sul consolidamento del potere all'interno dei propri domini. Attraverso la
riorganizzazione dell'amministrazione e delle strutture ecclesiastiche Ruggero pose le basi per lo
sviluppo della monarchia normanna nel Mezzogiorno.
Nonostante la sua importanza storica mancavano finora una raccolta e un'edizione critica dei
documenti da lui prodotti: l'ultimo tentativo di pubblicare gran parte dei diplomi risale ai secoli
XVIII-XIX. Tale situazione documentaria ha contribuito a far si' che la figura del primo conte di
Sicilia sia stata oggetto di scarso interesse storiografico. Il libro raccoglie per la prima volta tutti i
documenti greci e latini di Ruggero, alcuni dei quali inediti. Attraverso un apparato critico e un
dettagliato commento diplomatico e contenutistico di ogni documento il libro apre la strada a
possibili nuovi studi sulla storia siculo-normanna.
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[6]. "ESTUDIOS BIZANTINOS" 1 (2013)
Da: Aisbnews (aisbnews@gmail.com)
"ESTUDIOS BIZANTINOS" vol. 1 (2013)
REVISTA DE LA SOCIEDAD ESPANOLA DE BIZANTINISTICA (ISSN 2014-9999)
Estudios bizantinos is a digital and international open-access journal of Byzantine Studies. It has
been created by the Sociedad Espanola de Bizantinistica and it welcomes scientific papers with
original and high-quality content on any aspect of the Byzantine civilisation.
MANAGING EDITOR: Inmaculada Perez Martin (CSIC, Madrid)
EDITORIAL BOARD: Raul Estangui (CNRS, Paris) -- Anthony Kaldellis (Columbus, Ohio
University) -- Giuseppe Mandala' (CSIC, Madrid) -- Ernest Marcos Hierro (Universidad de
Barcelona) -- Mar Marcos Sanchez (Universidad de Cantabria) -- Juan Pedro Monferrer
(Universidad de Cordoba) -- Juan Antonio Alvarez Pedrosa (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
-- Juan Signes Codoner (Universidad de Valladolid) -- Margarita Vallejo (Universidad de Alcala' de
Henares)
ONLINE OPEN ACCES:
http://www.publicacions.ub.edu/revistes/estudiosBizantinos01/
Vol. 1 (2013)
CONTENTS:
JOSEPH A. MUNITIZ, "La importancia de lo secundario" (pp. 1-12) -- GEOFFREY GREATREX,
"The date of Procopius' Buildings in the light of recent scholarship" (pp. 13-29) -- JASON
FOSSELLA, "'Waiting Only for a Pretext': A New Chronology for the Sixth-Century Byzantine
Invasion of Spain" (pp. 30-38) -- PEDRO SABE ANDREU, "El himno Akathistos en Occidente. La
importancia de la traduccion latina de Cristoforo (ca. 800)" (pp. 39-55) -- ANTHONY
KALDELLIS, "The Military Use of the Icon of the Theotokos and its Moral Logic in the Historians
of the Ninth-Twelfth Centuries" (pp. 56-75) -- PATRICIA GONZALEZ ALMARCHA, "El
concepto de sabiduria en las traducciones eslavas de las sentencias atribuidas a Menandro" (pp. 76104) -- JESUS RODRIGUEZ VIEJO, "Byzantine influences on Western aristocratic illuminated
manuscripts: the Fecamp Psalter (Ms. The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 76 F 13) and other
related works" (pp. 105-139) -- RAUL ESTANGUI GOMEZ, "Saint-Sauveur de Chora. Un
monastere catholique a' Constantinople dans le troisieme quart du XIVe siecle" (pp. 140-197) --
CARMEN GARCIA BUENO, "El copista cretense Constantino Paleocapa: un estado de la
cuestion" (pp. 198-218).
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[7]. "BYZANTINE AND MODERN GREEK STUDIES" 38/1 (MARCH 2014)
Da: Aisbnews (aisbnews@gmail.com)
"BYZANTINE AND MODERN GREEK STUDIES" vol. 38, issue 1 (March 2014)
Print ISSN: 0307-0131
Online ISSN: 1749-625X
Published on behalf of The Centre for Byzantine Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies University of
Birmingham
CONTENTS:
"Chastity stripped bare: on temporal and eternal things in the Sacra Parallela", Mati Meyer (pp. 123) -- "Performing gender in lay saints' Lives", Stavroula Constantinou (pp. 24-32) -- "Byzantium
confronts its neighbours: Islam and the crusaders in the twelfth century", John France (pp. 33-48) -"The blind bard and 'I': Homeric biography and authorial personas in the twelfth century", Eric
Cullhed (pp. 49-67) -- "Venise apres Venise: official languages in the Ionian Islands, 1797-1864",
Peter Mackridge (pp. 68-90) -- "The Dark Philosopher and the postmodern turn: Heraclitus in the
poetry of Seferis, Elytis and Fostieris", Irene Loulakaki-Moore (pp. 91-113) -- "1973: the
Metapolitefsi that never was", Ioannis Tzortzis (pp. 114-129) -- REVIEWS, Paul Magdalino (pp.
130–139).
WEBSITE:
http://www.maneyonline.com/toc/byz/38/1
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[8]. "DIOGENES" 1 (JANUARY 2014)
Da: Aisbnews (aisbnews@gmail.com)
"DIOGENES", Issue 1 (January 2014), ISSN 2054-6696
Published by:
GEM - Gate to the Eastern Mediterranean (Student Society for the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman
and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham)
Issue 1: CONTENTS
Wei-sheng Lin: Editorial -- Zuzana Cernakova: "Prejudices, Emotions and Power of Political
Restraint: A Study in the Second Crusade" -- Elli Evangelidou: "The Representation of the Greek
Civil War in Eleni and The Heroic Age" -- Alexandros Siapkas: "Different academic approaches
towards the British intervention in Greece (1941-1944). A synopsis" -- Yannis Stamos: Of pleasure
and sorrow: Two modern Greek Epicurean poems" -- Niki Touriki: "Ekphrasis in the Alexiad" -Gemma Norman: Review – Christine Woodhead (ed.), "The Ottoman World"
ONLINE OPEN ACCESS:
http://gembirmingham.org/gem-activities/online-journal-cfp/diogenes1/
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[1]. SUMMER SCHOOL ON THE TOPIC "SAINTS AND SINNERS IN BYZANTIUM"
(THESSALONIKI, 30.06-12.07.2014; DEADLINE FOR SCHOLARSHIPS: 16.03.2014)
Da: Santo Luca' (santo.luca@teletu.it)
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR 40 SCHOLARSHIPS
The Municipality of Thessaloniki and the Centre for Byzantine, Modern Greek and South-Eastern
European Studies of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris), in
collaboration with the Museum of Byzantine Civilization of Thessaloniki and the Ministry of
Education and Cults, of Culture and Sports of the Hellenic Republic, have organized a series of
courses (in English and French) as part of a summer school on the topic "Saints and Sinners in
Byzantium" to be held at Thessaloniki the 30 June-12 July 2014.
SCHOLARSHIPS
To enable students to participate in the courses, the organizers are offering 40 scholarships,
covering the following costs
1) Accommodation in Thessaloniki (hotel and half-board)
2) Participation in the course
3) Excursions
In exceptional cases aid may be given for costs of transport, depending on resources.
Applicants for such aid should make a special request addressed to Centre for Byzantine, Modern
Greek and South-Eastern European Studies of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
(EHESS, Paris) for this providing reasons which prevent them from paying for transport.
At the end of the course, certificates of participation will be issued to students, equivalent to 12
ECTS for students enrolled in the Master's program at the EHESS.
APPLICATION
Those eligible
a) Students enrolled in a Master's programm (Metaptychiako, Laurea specialistica...)
b) Doctoral students
c) Students enrolling in Master's or doctoral programms in 2014 (letter from supervisor required)
The students must understand both languages of the Summer School (French/English)
DEADLINES
Before 16th March 2014: Email to be sent by applicants stating their intention to apply to the
secretariat of the Summer School: byzance@ehess.fr
In the subject line: Scholarship - Summer School in Thessaloniki
The pre-registration form is to be attached to the email.
Before 30th March 2014: Applications to be sent by email to byzance@ehess.fr
DOCUMENTS TO BE SUBMITTED
1) Covering letter
2) Curriculum studiorum indicating clearly studies already completed, research activity and field of
research
3) A letter of recommendation from the student's director of studies (which can be sent separately
by the professor, to the address byzance@ehess.fr: in the subject line Scholarship - Summer School
in Thessaloniki followed by the name of the student).
4) Other documents the candidate considers useful in support of his application.
5) In the event that applicants request exceptional aid for transport, they should include a letter to
this effect together with documents attesting to their need for such aid.
N.B.: for practical reasons, applicants are kindly requested not to wait the last day to send their
application and their dossier
Programme
Lundi 30 juin 2014 - 19 h.
Inauguration de l'Ecole d'Ete'
Prises de parole
Conference d'ouverture :
Vassilis Katsaros: Amartia kai exileose sten kathemerine' zoe' tou Byzantiou
Mardi 1 juillet 2014
9.00-10.30 Tassadit Yacine (EHESS– Paris) - Le saint entre representation et realites dans l'islam
maghrebin.
10.30-10.45 Discussion
10.45-11.00 Pause
11.00-12.30 Dominique Iogna Prat (EHESS - Paris) - Le saint, le peche' et l'institution dans
l'Occident medieval.
12.30-12.45 Discussion
16.00-17.30 Stephanos Efthymiadis (Libre Universite' de Chypre) - L'hagiographie byzantine: ses
heros, son evolution et ses methodes.
17.30-17.45 Discussion
17.45-18.00 Pause
18.00-19.30 Michel Kaplan (Paris I Sorbonne) - Saintete' et pouvoir.
19.30-20.00 Discussion
Mercredi 2 juillet 2014
9.00-10.30 Tassadit Yacine (EHESS - Paris) - La notion de peche' chez les populations musulmanes
d'Afrique du Nord (lecture anthropologique).
10.30-10.45 Discussion
10.45-11.00 Pause
11.00-12.30 Dominique Iogna Prat (EHESS - Paris) - Le saint, le peche' et l'institution dans
l'Occident medieval.
12.30-12.45 Discussion
16.00-17.30 Stephanos Efthymiadis (Libre Universite' de Chypre) - Saints et anti-saints dans
l'hagiographie byzantine: une relation reciproque.
17.30-17.45 Discussion
17.45-18.00 Pause
18.00-19.30 Michel Kaplan (Paris I Sorbonne) - Saintete' et pouvoir.
19.30-20.00 Discussion
Jeudi 3 juillet 2014
9.00-10.30 Christian Gastgeber (Academie des Sciences - Vienne) - Peches et pecheurs dans le
Registre du patriarcat de Constantinople.
10.30-10.45 Discussion
10.45-11.00 Pause
11.00-12.30 Constantin Papageorgiou (Universite' Aristote - Thessalonique) - Le peche' dans les
relations entre Etat et Eglise.
12.30-12.45 Discussion
16.00-17.30 Antonio Rigo (Universite' de Venise) - Le saintete' dans une province: la Vie de saint
Athanase des Meteores.
17.30-17.45 Discussion
17.45-18.00 Pause
18.00-19.30 Simeon Paschalides (Universite' Aristote - Thessalonique) - Les limites byzantines
entre la saintete' et le peche'.
19.30-20.00 Discussion
Vendredi 4 juillet 2014
9.00-10.30 Constantin Papageorgiou (Universite' Aristote - Thessalonique) - Le peche' dans les
relations entre Etat et Eglise.
10.30-10.45 Discussion
10.45-11.00 Pause
11.00-12.30 Christian Gastgeber (Academie des Sciences - Vienne) - Peches et pecheurs dans le
Registre du patriarcat de Constantinople.
2.30-12.45 Discussion
16.00-17.30 Antonio Rigo (Universite' de Venise) - Le saintete' dans une province: la Vie de saint
Athanase des Meteores.
17.30-17.45 Discussion
17.45-18.00 Pause
18.00-19.30 Simeon Paschalides (Universite' Aristote - Thessalonique) - Les limites byzantines
entre la saintete' et le peche'.
19.30-20.00 Discussion
Samedi 5 juillet 2014
VISITE DE LA VILLE
Dimanche 6 juillet 2014:
EXCURSION
Lundi 7 juillet 2014
9.00-10.30 Vasso Penna (Universite' du Peloponnese) - La monnaie et la saintete'.
10.30-10.45 Discussion
10.45-11.00 Pause
11.00-12.30 Paolo Odorico (EHESS-Paris) - Les synaxaires et la sanctification a' Byzance.
12.30-12.45 Discussion
16.00-17.30 Beatrice Caseau (College de France - Paris) - Lieux de redemption, lieux de debauche.
17.30-17.45 Discussion
17.45-18.00 Pause
18.00-19.30 Filippo Ronconi (EHESS - Paris) - Photius dans le reflet des manuscrits
mesobyzantins: saint, heretique ou simple pecheur?
19.30-20.00 Discussion
Mardi 8 juillet 2014
9.00-10.30 Vasso Penna (Universite' du Peloponnese) - La monnaie et le peche'.
10.30-10.45 Discussion
10.45-11.00 Pause
11.00-12.30 Paolo Odorico (EHESS-Paris) - Les synaxaires et la sanctification a' Byzance.
12.30-12.45 Discussion
16.00-17.30 Beatrice Caseau (College de France - Paris) - Lieux de redemption, lieux de debauche.
17.30-17.45 Discussion
17.45-18.00 Pause
18.00-19.30 Filippo Ronconi (EHESS - Paris) - Photius dans le reflet des manuscrits
mesobyzantins: saint, heretique ou simple pecheur?
19.30-20.00 Discussion
Mercredi 9 juillet 2014
9.00-10.30 Marina Falla Castelfranchi (Universite' de Lecce) - Les ruines de la saintete':
archeologie et architecture des lieux byzantins de culte.
10.30-10.45 Discussion
10.45-11.00 Pause
11.00-12.30 Paul Magdalino (Koc Univeristy - Istanbul) - Les criteres moraux de l'invective et de la
satire.
12.30-12.45 Discussion
16.00-17.30 Maria Kambouri - Athanasios Semoglou (Universite' Aristote - Thessalonique) Representation de saints et de pecheurs dans l'art byzantin
17.30-17.45 Discussion
17.45-18.00 Pause
18.00-19.30 Marie-Helene Congourdeau (CNRS - Paris) - Saint guerrier ou homicide? Le cas du
soldat qui tue a' la guerre.
19.30 - 20.00 Discussion
Jeudi 10 juillet 2014
9.00-10.30 Marina Falla Castelfranchi (Universite' de Lecce) - Les ruines de la saintete':
archeologie et architecture des lieux byzantins de culte.
10.30-10.45 Discussion
10.45-11.00 Pause
11.00-12.30 Paul Magdalino (Koc Univeristy - Istanbul) - Les criteres moraux de l'invective et de la
satire.
12.30-12.45 Discussion
16.00-17.30 Maria Kambouri - Athanasios Semoglou (Universite' Aristote - Thessalonique) Representation de saints et de pecheurs dans l'art byzantin
17.30-17.45 Discussion
17.45-18.00 Pause
18.00-19.30 Charis Messis (EHESS - Paris) - Les faibles de la chair: peche' individuel,
marginalisation sociale et sanctions legales.
19.30-20.00 Discussion
Vendredi 11 juillet 2014
9.00-10.30 Marie-Helene Congourdeau (CNRS-Paris) - L'inversion des valeurs a' Byzance: le salos,
saint ou pecheur?
10.30-10.45 Discussion
10.45-11.00 Pause
11.00-12.30 Maria Kambouri - Athanasios Semoglou (Universite' Aristote - Thessalonique) Representation de saints et de pecheurs dans l'art byzantin
12.30-12.45 Discussion
16.00-17.30 Agathoniki Tsilipakou (Musee de la civilisation byzantine - Thessalonique) - Familles
de saints et femmes saintes dans l'art byzantin.
17.30-17.45 Discussion
17.45-18.00 Pause
18.00-19.30 Charis Messis (EHESS - Paris) - Les faibles de la chair: peche' individuel,
marginalisation sociale et sanctions legales.
19.30-20.00 Discussion
Samedi 12 juillet 2014
9.00-10.30 Maria Kambouri - Athanasios Semoglou (Universite' Aristote - Thessalonique) Representation de saints et de pecheurs dans l'art byzantin
10.30-10.45 Discussion
10.45-11.00 Pause
11.00-12.30 CLOTURE DE L'ECOLE D'ETE
Dimanche 13 juillet 2014
Depart des participants
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[2]. SUMMER COURSE 2014: GREEK PALAEOGRAPHY AND CODICOLOGY (UPPSALA,
JULY 2014; APPLICATION DEADLINE: 17.03.2014)
Da: Barbara Crostini (crostini.barbara@gmail.com)
During the first half of summer 2014 we will give a course on Greek Palaeography and Codicology:
To Read and Study the Ancient Book 7,5 ECTS (course plan). The course is a master course and
given in English.
The course will introduce students to the development of Greek writing techniques and materials
from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance. It will also practically prepare the student to analyse and
describe a medieval manuscript from the palaeographical and codicological points of view by
providing the terminology and the reference materials used for such work.
Further it will survey the contemporary approaches to book conservation and the digital resources
that are transforming the study of manuscripts.
The studies will begin with a self-study period followed by c. 10 days of seminars in Uppsala (the
first two weeks of July) and concluding with a week for writing the final essay.
HOW TO APPLY:
Applications to the course must be made via the Swedish application system, antagning.se, which
unfortunately exists only in Swedish. In order for non-Swedish speakers we have therefore created a
step-by-step guide. The application period is 21 February to 17 March 2014. Swedish applicants are
referred to the Swedish version of this page.
The important dates are as follows:
- 21 February 2014: The online application service opens at www.antagning.se.
- 17 March 2014: Application deadline and deadline for when all supporting documents must have
reached University Admissions in Stroemsund.
- 31 March 2014: Deadline for payment of application fee (if required) or documentation of fee
exemption status.
- Beginning of May 2014: Notification of selection results is published. This will tell you if you
have been offered a place or placed on reserve for the course you have applied for.
- June 2014: Summer semester starts. It is important that you register for the course you have been
admitted to in order to keep your place.
Note that non-Swedish students must also submit:
- copies of previous study information
- a document of English proficiency
- a copy of their passport (if they are from a EEA country; otherwise they will have to pay study
fees)
Detailed information regarding what must be submitted, in what form and to which address is found
under documentation requirements on the application site and links are also provided in the step-bystep guide.
There will be a few stipends available. Applications for stipends may be sent to
grekiska@lingfil.uu.se. A CV and a motivation why the stipend is sought must be included.
If you have questions concerning the application process, please look first at the application site's
overview of the application process (with additional information under the menu "Applying for
studies"). Other questions may be addressed to grekiska@lingfil.uu.se.
INFO:
http://www.grekiska.net/palaeography/
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[3]. POSTDOCTORAL ANNOUNCEMENTS AT THE RESEARCH CENTRE "RELIGIONS
AND SOCIETIES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD", AFFILIATED TO SORBONNE
UNIVERSITY, PARIS (APPLICATION DEADLINES: 18.04.2014; 03.04.2014)
Da: Vera von Falkenhausen (verafalk@libero.it)
1)
The Research Centre "Religions and Societies in the Mediterranean world" (RESMED), a
laboratory of excellence affiliated to Sorbonne University (Paris) offers three (3) one-year
RESMED postdoctoral fellowships, starting September 2014. Deadline for applications: 18 April
2014.
Eligibility
Candidates will have defended their doctorates in France or abroad less than 5 years ago.
Candidates holding a PhD from our founding institutions are not allowed to apply (Universities of
Paris-Sorbonne, Pantheon- Sorbonne, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes).
Application documents
Application form to download
Application letter
Curriculum vitae
Postdoctoral project description (up to 5 pages)
Two recommendation letters
Electronic copy of the thesis if it not published at the time of application
A significant paper in electronic format
The application may be submitted in French or English.
Submission
The application will be sent in pdf format before April 18, 2014 at midnight (Paris) to the Director
and the Secretary of the Labex RESMED (Jean-Claude.Cheynet@paris-sorbonne.fr,
olivier.delouis@labex-resmed.fr).
Decisions will be taken at the end of June 2014.
Starting date of the contract
1st September 2014
Net salary
2000 euros/month
A final report has to be provided at the end of the contract.
Profiles
Profile 1. B1. Cultural backgrounds of the Greek Christian exegesis
This profile is about exploring how Christian writers of the first four centuries used notions and
practices of the Greek world (edition, theory of interpretation, modes of argumentation, philosophy)
to suit their exegetical and doctrinal works. Concerning the texts of the Apostolic Fathers and
apologists, the research could focus on the recovery of forms of Greek literature and rationality
found in previously independent documents, now unified. The culture of Irenaeus of Lyon could be
a research topic in this context. Alexandrian writers like Clement and Origen especially require
some attention, considering in particular the newly found original pieces of Origen on the Psalms.
The investigation could be expanded to the use of logic in the theological controversies of the fourth
century.
Profile 2. B2. Food and religion in the Mediterranean world: from polytheistic to monotheistic
religions
This research will contribute to the program jointly supported by the UMR Orient et Mediterranee
and the Labex RESMED on "Medicine and Food in Antiquity", in line with:
1- the existing research on "the Syriac version of the Treaty On food composed by Hunain ibn
Ishaq" (ERC-FLORIENTAL project led by R. Hawley);
2- a programme of the units of research "Greek Medicine" and "Pharaonic Worlds" on "Food
preservation" (international conference held in May 17, 2013);
3- a conference scheduled in April 2014 led by Herve' Monchot and Beatrice Caseau on "Prohibited
foods in religions".
The goal is to focus on dietary practices in a broad sense, to study the links between religion and
food from production to consumption, to show the continuities or ruptures between different
cultural and religious traditions of the Mediterranean world.
Some topics are proposed:
- Rites and practices developed around growing plants and harvesting (cereals, herbs, etc.), the role
of incantations;
- Animal sacrifice and rituals of slaughter, distribution of meat (to priests, warriors, etc.);
- Methods of food preservation (salting, drying, wine making, etc.)
- Distinctive diets (men, women, children), food for gods and food for men, recipes (cooking,
pharmacology, magic, etc.), diet interdictions, deviant behaviours (anthropophagy for instance).
Profile 3. C1. Music, ritual, sociability in the area of the former Ottoman Empire
In the area of the former Ottoman Empire, festive and musical sociability is mainly called
"muhabbet", literally "love" (from Arabic, as "agape" in French comes from Greek), an intimate and
domestic form of some institutional rituals such as the "djem" of the Alevi-Bektashi. Other names
are also used to designate these meetings such as "yaranlik", literally "the appointment of friends",
from Persian "yar", "friend", "(the) beloved one". Lawful or unlawful consumption of alcohol (a
part of the ritual in the Bektashi culture) may take place during these festive meetings which often
deal with micro-politics as well, according to the contents of the poems that are sung. We invite
those studying these "interaction rituals" across the area of the former Ottoman Empire to submit an
application.
Profile 4. C1. Religious festivals in the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages
(1st to 10th century).
Are invited to present a proposal, postdoctoral students interested to work on religious festivals of
the Late Antique and early mediaeval period. Among the projects that fall in this profile, we include
those that address the issue of participation in religious celebrations of members of another religion
or another group of the same religion, eg Christians' participation in Jewish holidays or pagan
festivals, the attendance of heretics at religious festivals of communities who proclaim themselves
Orthodox, the participation of Muslims in Christian holidays. Is also included the study of
restrictions that sources mention about this participation. Will also be considered for this profile
those who are interested in aspects of sociability and social practices such as food, songs and dances
that took place during these festivals. The successful candidate will participate in the organization
of a conference and share editorial work on the themes of religious sociability.
Profile 5. C2. Religions and social practices: mutual assistance in multireligious societies
This profile is about studying mutual aid between social groups in urban areas of the Mediterranean
in medieval times. Who are the social actors, donators or receivers? What is their economic level
and their religious and political position? One might wonder whether a prior relationship is
necessary in order to put in place a system of mutual aid. What do these practices reveal about
sociability? Once established, do they change social relationships?
How does the assistance to the needy function in various communities? What are the institutional
supports? What is the implication of political power in these social practices, in regard to the
confession of the dominant group or of the minorities?
Quantitative issues should be explored (such as capital flows or interest), but they will not be the
ultimate goal of this research. Economic factors will be treated as social indicators. What are the
prohibitions, the limits and transgressions at work thay one may discover through such a research?
How can the study of this phenomenon enhance our knowledge of multireligious societies?
You can download the application form at the following address: http://www.labexresmed.fr/spip.php?article21&lang=en
2)
The Fernand Braudel IFER programme is an international mobility programme open to candidates
from all countries who wish to carry out a 9-month research project in France. It is supported by the
European Commission (Marie Curie Action Programme - COFUND - FP7).The Research Center
'Religions and Societies in the Mediterranean world' (RESMED) is part of the Fernand Braudel
IFER network.
Four (4) postdoctoral scholarships starting in September 2014 are offered. Candidates should
submit a resarch project corresponding to one aspect of RESMED's programme on the Ancient and
Medieval Mediterranean:
1. Religions, places and conflicts;
2. Religion and reason: tradition and innovation;
3. Religions and social practices.
See more on the Labex here: http://www.labex-resmed.fr/spip.php?rubrique25
The online application form (accessible from March 3 midday until April 3 midday), as well as
details on the call, elegibility and selection process are available at http://www.fmsh.fr/en/c/4723
Deadline for applications: 3 April 2014 midday.
Labex RESMED
PRES Sorbonne Universite'
Directeur: Jean-Claude Cheynet (Universite' Paris-Sorbonne)
Jean-Claude.Cheynet@paris-sorbonne.fr
Secretaire general: Olivier Delouis (CNRS)
olivier.delouis@labex-resmed.fr
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[4]. ONLINE DATABASE: "INSCRIPTIONS OF ISRAEL/PALESTINE"
Da: Aisbnews (aisbnews@gmail.com)
The Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine (IIP) is a premier open-access epigraphic database directed by
Professor Michael Satlow of Brown University, begun already in 1996. The goal of the project is to
digitize the approximately 15,000 published inscriptions from Israel/Palestine, over a broad
temporal range, from the Persian Period to the Islamic Conquest (i.e. 500 BCE - 640 CE);
approximately 1,500 inscriptions have already been entered. What distinguishes this site from
others of similar scope is the multiple languages included: Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin. One
can search the database in any of these languages, or their English translations (the project's own);
by content (e.g., "synagogue" or "church" for inscriptions in synagogues or churches); or by
accompanying figures (e.g. cross). Similarly, one can browse by place, date, inscription genre,
physical medium, language (including multiple languages such as Aramaic and Greek), and, finally,
religion (Jewish, Christian, Pagan, but currently no Samaritan). This powerful tool allows for
tracking various expressions (e.g., "one God"), and more generally, epigraphic practices, across the
communities of Israel/Palestine. In short, the site is a major resource for the study of the religions of
Late Antiquity.
WEBSITE:
http://cds.library.brown.edu/projects/Inscriptions/
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Newsletter AISB (aisbnews@gmail.com) dovra' recare in primo luogo il titolo dell'iniziativa cui si
riferisce (o un titolo in forma breve della pubblicazione segnalata). Di seguito andranno fornite le
notizie relative all'iniziativa stessa, in maniera sintetica. L'annuncio che sara' divulgato nella
Newsletter conterra', all'inizio, anche il nome del mittente e il suo indirizzo e-mail, che saranno
diffusi insieme alla notizia stessa (salvo esplicita richiesta contraria). Gli annunci devono essere
formulati come corpo del testo del messaggio e-mail, SENZA FORMATTARE I CARATTERI IN
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DIRAMERA' I MESSAGGI PERVENUTI ENTRO IL 10 APRILE 2014. Le comunicazioni giunte
dopo questo termine saranno inserite nel numero successivo del notiziario.