Armenia & Byzantium without Borders V: Disruption and Resilience, Graduate and Early Career Workshop, University of Oxford, February 7–8, 2025

'Armenia & Byzantium without Borders' is a two-day workshop aiming to bring together advanced PhD students and early career scholars working in the fields of Armeno-Byzantine studies. This event continues the successful collaboration between the University of Oxford and the University of Vienna that began in Vienna in 2018, with the first workshop convened by Dr Emilio Bonfiglio and Prof. Claudia Rapp within the framework of the 'Moving Byzantium: Mobility, Microstructure and Personal Agency' project, and subsequent workshops held in Oxford (II: 2019 & IV: 2023) and Vienna (III: 2021).

For this event, we invite advanced PhD candidates and early career researchers working in the fields of Late Antique, Armenian, Byzantine, and Middle Eastern Studies to submit proposals for 20-minute papers on any aspect of Armeno-Byzantine relations, with a focus on the special (but not exclusive) theme for the 2025 run, which is ‘Disruption and Resilience'. To give participants the opportunity to discuss their ongoing research in conversation with senior specialists in their field, each paper will be accompanied by a senior scholar's 10- minute response, followed by a general discussion. The workshop will be inaugurated with the lecture of our keynote speaker, Dr Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna). The working language of the workshop will be English.

Conveners: Dr Emilio Bonfiglio, Prof. Theo Maarten van Lint, Prof. David Zakarian