Institutional Identities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

The 7th International Graduate Conference in Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies will be hosted at the University of Edinburgh by the Centre for Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies. The theme of the conference, 'Institutional Idenitities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages', will be explored from a wide range of angles and perspectives by the graduate speakers over two days, from the 18th to the 19th of May. Lunch and refreshments will be provided to both the speakers and the attendees.
For more information, please see the webpage for the event linked below: https://hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-events/events/institutional-identities-in-late-antiquity-and-the-middle-ages.

Info: Panelists: Marlee Merson, 'Caretakers of the Body and the Soul: Women, Hospitals and Community Identity in Fifteenth-Century France'; Thomas McBarron, 'Enslaved Elites and Institutional Identity: The Ṣaqāliba of the Fatimid Caliphate'; Maha Shawki, 'Writing the Self in Times of Institutional Shift: Patronage and Centralization in the Mamluk-Ottoman Transition in Cairo'.

Info: Panelists: Nila Namsechi, 'Institutional Transformation and Elite Authority in the Duchy of Naples (7th-10th Centuries)'; Vasileios Brentas, 'From Enemy to Roman: Byzantine Administrative and Ecclesiastical Institutions as Mechanisms of Identity Transformation in Conquered Bulgaria (1018-1025)'; Madi Ibrahim, 'The Thematic Institution in Byzantine Anatolia: Imposing and Negotiating Provincial Roman Identities (7th-11th Centuries)'; Nihan Zorlu Başel, 'Authority Spaces in the Pontic Countryside: Monastic Power and Rural Spatial Organisation in Maçka'.

Info: Panelists: Karolina Tomczyszyn, 'Expressing Identity through Literary Curation: Letters as a Source for the Institutionalisation of the Syriac Orthodox Church (7th-8th c.)'; Thijs Kersten, 'The Pagans Have Come (Again): Popular Theology and Associative Memory in 4th-century Milan'; Kevser Gul, 'The Imperial Institution and the Making of Oppositional Identity in George of Pelagonia's Life of John III Vatatzes'; Daiki Sano, 'Silence as Kaiserkritik in Historiography: The Case of George Pachymeres in Late Byzantium'.

Info: 'Empire, institutions and identity in the medieval Islamic world'

Info: Panelists: Shawn Cheng, 'Maritime Institutions and Merchant Identities: How institutions and merchants fulfilled the goals of polities in the maritime space in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century'; Aysha Narmanova, 'Religion or Identity?: Impact of religion on the identity of the Caucasian Albanians'; Cihan Şimşek, 'Institutional Identities in the Early Medieval Mounted Pastoral Nomadic Political Ecumene: Khazar Brokerage and Magyar Transformation in a Multi-Core Model'.

Info: Panelists: Seyed Salam Fathi, 'Kufic Epigraphy and Institutional Identity in Norman Sicily and the Byzantine World (10th to 13th Centuries)'; Sotiris Sotiriou, 'Shaping Religious Identities in the City: Sainthood and Urban Hagiography in Tenth-Century Constantinople'; Antoine Brenne, 'Religious Identities and Agency Beyond Institutions: The Zodiac in Synagogues'.

Info: Panelists: Ankur Desval Fehrani, 'Idea of the Central Islamic Imamate and Alexander's Election to Kingship in Jami's "Khirad-Nāma-ye Iskandarī"'; Zhang Chenlin, 'Consul aut Augustus: Clovis and the Blurring of Roman Political titles'; Zorana Cvijanović, 'A Crow of One: The Maculine Other in a Byzantine Reading of Trajan's Justice'.

Info: Panelists: Luca Melis, 'The Religion of Λόγος: Himerius and His Rhetoric School as a Mystery Community'; Mohamed Ahmed Taher Abdelrahman Elnakep, 'Al-Azhar as an Institutional Identity: Continuity and Transformation from the Mamluk Era to Modern Egypt'; Erdinç Yalınkılıç, 'Institutional Contexts of Musical Knowledge in Late Byzantium: Harmonic Science and Psaltic Authority across Scholarly and Ecclesiastical Worlds'; Cristina Cocola, 'Modelling the Penitent Soul: Byzantine Katanyktic Poetry as an Institutional Tool for Identity Formation'.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Medical School (Old Medical School), The University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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