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23rd Congress of Byzantine Studies
The Association Internationale des Études Byzantines (AIEB) held its 23rd Congress of Byzantine Studies in Belgrade 22–27 August 2016. Its particular focus was on deepening the understanding of Byzantium as a living organism whose life lasted more than a millennium and whose ideology, erudition, art and culture contributed essentially to the development of Europe not only in late antiquity and the middle ages but down to the present. The Congress assembled more than 1200 scholars from all over the world.
Danica Popović, PhD, senior fellow at the Institute for Balkan Studies SASA, was a member of the Organising and Program Committees of the 23rd Congress of Byzantine Studies.
Members of the Institute for Balkan Studies participated in the Congress by presenting their papers, and acting as session moderators and discussants.
Valentina Živković, PhD, senior research associate, was a moderator of the Thematic Session of Free Communications devoted to Byzantine Artistic Tradition and the Western World. Mediterranean Domain ‒ Part 2 (26 August), and presented her paper “The Vow by Ivan Crnojević to the Virgin Mary in Loreto in the Shadow of Turkish Conquests”.
Boris Milosavljević, PhD, research associate, presented two papers: “Palamas’ Understanding of οὐσία and ἐνέργεια” at the Thematic Session on Saint Gregory Palamas and Barlaam the Calabrian in the Context of 14th-Century Byzantine Philosophy and Theology (24 August), and “The Byzantine Empire in the Typology of States (Typical Medieval State, Byzantine Republic, Modern Absolute Monarchy)” at the Thematic Session devoted to Political Ideology and Heresies (26 August).
Marka Tomić Djurić, MA, research assistant, took part in the Thematic Session on Rethinking the Passion Cycle by presenting her paper “Eucharistic Symbolism and the Passion Scenes in the Prothesis of Markov Manastir” (26 August).