International Workshop "Gender and Ageing Agency in Urban and Non-Urban Religious Spaces in Antiquity", 29-30 March 2022
The Principal Investigator of TaleTheory, and Director of the Centre of Medieval Arts and Rituals Dr. Stavroula Constantinou participates to the hybrid International Workshop "Gender and Ageing Agency in Urban and Non-Urban Religious Spaces in Antiquity, 29-30 March 2022, with the contribution “Female agency in religious space: Mothers and infants in early Byzantine miracle tales“
Time and Place
University of Hamburg (hybrid event)
29-30 March 2022
You can find the Program here
Seminar on "Issues of Metaphrasis", 21 February 2022
The Principal Investigator of TaleTheory and Director of the Centre for Medieval Arts and Rituals Dr. Stavroula Constantinou, and the TaleTheory Project Advisor Prof. Christian Høgel participate to an invited hybrid seminar organised by The Department of Linguistics and Philology of Uppsala University.
Time and Place
Engelska parken 9-3042 Uppsala University & Zoom
You can find the Program here
International Conference "Ηumour and Religion", 19 February 2022
The Principal Investigator of TaleTheory and Director of the Centre for Medieval Arts and Rituals Dr. Stavroula Constantinou participates to the International Conference "Humour and Religion" organised by Sankt Ignatios College, of the University College, Stockholm.
Time and Place
Sankt Ingatios College, Stockholm
19 February 2022
You can find the Program here
Zenonio Free University, 9 November 2021
The Project TaleTheory participates to the second lecture of the institution of "Free Universities"
Time and Place
House of Letters and Arts, Larnaka
Τuesday, 9 Νοvember 2021, 7:00 p.m.
You can view the invitation here
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Narrating Relationships in Holy Lives from the First Millennium AD conference, 12 July 2021 (online)
TaleTheory’s Principal Investigator and Director of the Centre of Medieval Arts and Rituals Dr Stavroula Constantinou, will be speaking at the Narrating Relationships in Holy Lives from the First Millennium AD conference, organised by the Department of Classics & Ancient History of the University of Exeter. Dr Constantinou’s paper is entitled “Narrating Friendship in Byzantine Hagiography” and features an engaging reading of friendship in the fifth-century anonymous text Life of Eupraxia. The conference will be held online via zoom, on 12 July 2021. For more information about the programme, please see the workshop website: Narrating Relationships in Holy Lives. This is a closed workshop; to enquire about attendance, please contact the conference organisers at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Interational Medieval Congress, Leeds IMC 2021: TaleTheory, Session of Wednesday, July 7 2021, 11:15-12:45
Andria Andreou, paper focusing on the mother - child bond in Miracle Collections
Time and Place:
Online Event (ZOOM), Wednesday July 7 2021, 11:15-12:45
Paper entitled:
"Children in Distress: Agonising Mothers as Intercessors in Byzantine Miracle Collections"
For further information see here
or follow the link of the International Medieval Congress
https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2021/programme/
2021 International Conference: "Epiphanies of the Saints" in Late Antique Literature
Stavroula Constantinou: Lecture on Epiphanies in Byzantine Literature
Time and place:
Online event, via Zoom, 21.05.2021, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. CET
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89672374192?pwd=bUcyZFV4T29uWHRGNnY0Q0piVy84QT09%23success#success
Lecture entitled:
“Patterns of Epiphany in Byzantine Miracle Stories"
Relevant Material:
2021 international Conference Epiphanies of the Saints Programme
Invitation to the Workshop: Tales From Antiquity to the Present: Genre, Impact and Application (Η Σύντομη Διήγηση από την Αρχαιότητα Μέχρι Σήμερα: Το Είδος, η Σημασία και οι Πρακτικές της Εφαρμογές), in Greek
Time and Place:
Online Event (ΖΟΟΜ). Wednesday 07 April 2021, 4.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.
Details:
The event is free and open to the public, registration required (https://ucy.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqdu-trD4vE9bKIOm1vO_vw68dauld6EOX).
For further information, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
You can view the Invitation via this link:
You can view two of the Workshop Presentations via this link:
Full Programme and Details of the UCY Interdisciplinary Forum
You can view the Presentation of the Forum via this link: