Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies

Chen Zhi-qiang was born in Tianjin, China and is a professor of history at Nankai University. He earned a BA and an MA in history in 1982 and 1989, respectively, from Nankai University. He holds a PhD from Greece's Aristotelian University in history and archaeology from 1994. He has been a world history professor at Nankai University, Director of the History Department and the Center for European Studies, the Dean of the History College, and the Vice President of the Chinese Association of Byzantine Studies and the Chinese Association of Medieval World Studies. Recent publications include Fall of Constantinople (Guangdong People Press, 1996), Byzantine Civilization (Chinese Youth Press, 1998), Military Elite (Jilin Wenshi Press, 1999), History of Byzantine Culture (Yunnan People Press, 2001), and Studies of Byzantine Empire (People Press, 2001). 

Greece from the viewpoint of the Chinese and the Byzantine empire in China are often overlooked. There were continuous contacts of fold trade, commercial intercourse, and cultural exchanges between the Byzantine and Chinese people during ancient and medieval times. Gold Byzantine coins discovered in China in the last century offer profound proof of the fact. About 50 Byzantine coins (of which 47 are gold) have been discovered in more than 20 locations in China. Studying the coins will give direct insight into the history of Chinese-Byzantine relations.  [Last Updated 2003]

Dr. Peter Frankopan studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he took a First class degree in History, winning several scholarships and prizes. He began his post-graduate work at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, earning an M.Phil. in Byzantine Studies, where he was elected Senior Scholar. He moved to Worcester College, Oxford, in 1997 as the Junior, and later Senior, Research Fellow. He completed his PhD thesis on the reign of the Emperor Alexios I Komnenos in 1998, and he continues to work on the Komnenoi dynasty in Byzantium. His interests lie primarily in the history and literature of the Mediterranean, eastern Europe, and the Near East in the 10th-12th centuries. 

Peter Frankopan will address Byzantium and the First Crusade. He proposes to take a fresh look at the sources for the Crusade, assessing in particular the eastern context for the events of the late 1090s. Attention will be given to the main Greek source for this period, namely the Alexiad of Anna Komnene, with the keenest scrutiny imposed upon the coverage (and lack of coverage) which this provides. He suggests that the origins of the Crusade lay in Constantinople and in Byzantium, and that the Emperor Alexios was not the bystander the Latin and Greek sources suggest he was.  [Last Updated 2003]

Oleksander Halenko graduated from the History Department of Kiev State University. He earned the Candidate of Sciences Degree in 1987. His studies are devoted to the Northern Black Sea area and he has begun to learn Ottoman-Turkish. Since 1991, he has been working both as an administrator and a Senior Research Fellow in Oriental Studies at the Institute of Political Studies in the Ukraine 

Oleksander Halenko's project focuses on the history of the Greek community in the northern Black sea area under the Ottoman rule. The main goal is to obtain new data about this community from the two extant Ottoman tax registers from the province of Kefe (from c. 1520 and 1542). The study of data about taxation will allow reconstructions of the overall picture of agriculture. The list of taxpayers will make possible an estimation of the demographic profile of the area, including the number of Greeks, the character, and the dynamics of demographic changes. The problem of cultural interaction with neighboring peoples also will be brought under analysis.  [Last Updated 2003]

John Kokkinakis graduated from the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Crete in 1988 and received a Ph.D. degree in Modern Greek History in 1998. He has worked as a fellow and researcher on several research projects for various institutions including the Institute of Mediterranean Studies, the University of Crete, and the National Bank of Greece. He has written articles and essays concerning the economic and social history of modern Greece, the Cretan state (1898-1913), and the monetary history of the United States. Currently, he is a professor teaching modern history at the University of Crete in Rethymno.  

Having been founded in the second half of the 19th century, the Latin Monetary Union was such that, according to a variety of today's scholars, it differed in many important ways from the other gold standard countries in Europe and America. In this context, the use of silver as a standard coin after the rapid depreciation of silver metal in the 1870s, was the main source of monetary and economic disequilibria which emerged in the union. So the acceptance of a single gold standard was conceived as the main remedy to the real or imaginary evils of this unsettled monetary situation. John Kokkinakis will examine to what extent the Latin Monetary Union represented after the 1870s a real monetary or economic threat to the internal stability of the monetary arrangements in Europe and USA and how this kind of threat was finally settled in accordance with the monetary orthodoxy of the times.  [Last Updated 2003]

Emmanuel Stefanov Moutafov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1968. A graduate of the National College for Ancient Languages and Civilizations (Sofia) and of University of Athens (Archeology and Art History Dept.), he is a researcher in Byzantine and Slavonic paleography and art, and obtained his doctorate in 2001. At present he works as a full-time researcher and PR at the Post-Byzantine Art Department of Institute for Art Studies of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and manages the Greek-Bulgarian scientific project Greek Painters in Bulgaria after 1453. He teaches Modern Greek and Post-Byzantine Archeology, works as an illustrator and translated in Bulgarian Ioanna Karistianni's novel Little England. His scientific work has been published in Bulgaria, Greece and FYROM. Major interests include Post-Byzantine art, paleography and archeology, 18th -19th c. Balkan Christian and Ottoman culture and history, hermeneias zographikis, iconography, Greek and Slavonic inscriptions on icons, cult of the Orthodox saints etc. His publications include Pagan Elements in the Cult and Iconography of St. Elijah (Sofia, 1987) and Europeanisation on Paper: Treatises on Painting in Greek during the First Half of the 18th century (Sofia, 2001). 

Post-Byzantine Hermeneias Zographikis
Emmanuel Moutafov's findings over the last ten years in the field of Post-Byzantine Studies will serve as the basis for research. His purpose is to reveal the significance of the Orthodox painter's manuals, called hermeneias zographikis, in the formation of Post-Byzantine iconography and painting' technology/techniques on the Balkans during the 18th-19th centuries. Here he studies in general the culture processes on the peninsular among Christians, as well as among Ottomans. Thus it is interesting to view the problem of Europe on the Balkans through this kind on writings. Moutafov features the main routes of ideas penetration of the European Enlightenment, as well as the artist-mediators in this process of Europeanization. It is the first time certain data of unpublished Greek and Slavonic manuscripts appears. Those writings play a significant role of the development of Post-Byzantine painting.   [Last Updated 2003]
 

After graduating from the Department of History & Archaeology at the University of Athens in 1993, Katerina Panagopoulou was trained in Numismatics and in Epigraphy during a research assistantship at the Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquities of the Hellenic Research Foundation (1993 - 1994). She was then engaged in research on Hellenistic History jointly at the History Department at University College London and at the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum (1994 - 2000). Her doctoral dissertation, entitled Antigonos Gonatas: Coinage, Money and the Economy, has been revised for publication as a Royal Numismatic Society Special Monograph. She is currently a temporary Ancient History lecturer at the Classics Department, at the University of Patrae, while contributing to the Encyclopaedia Micrasiatica Graeca project at the Foundation of the Hellenic World at Athens. Her research interests lie in the areas of Greek and Roman Coinage, Classical, Hellenistic and Roman Economic and Social History; Greek Art, Hellenistic Kingship and War Studies. A current research project, entitled Greek Cash Economies, is a study of the function of coinage in the Greek economy/ies, aiming to explain the process of the penetration of Roman coinage into the Mediterranean economies of the ancient world. 

Greek Cash Economies: Redefining Economic Systems in Antiquity
Even though coins evidently cannot be omitted from ancient economic 'landscapes', models of economic transactions are not specific about ways of integrating (i.e. interpreting, quantifying) numismatic evidence into the broader picture. Katerina Panagopoulou will introduce the concept of 'economic systems' in the examination of monetary activity in the Grecoroman world. The methodology followed in order to identify the broader areas where more states shared the same conventions in relation to coinage will be addressed. She will ultimately investigate the mechanisms, which regulated the rhythm of production (by different issuing authorities) and use of coinage within a single system and which allowed the transport of coined money in areas with different numismatic conventions in the ancient world. 

Cross-Reading Images: Royal Iconographic 'Debates' in the Hellenistic Period
This will be a comparative study of the ideological codes employed by two conflicting Hellenistic dynasties, the Antigonids and the Ptolemies, in order to promote their interests in the Aegean during the third and second centuries BC. It is here argued that coins, bearers and transmitters of the ideology of an issuing authority alongside their practical use, effectively complement the literary and other documentation in revealing the political claims of the two rivals. She will also argue that the thematic coincidences between the Antigonid and Ptolemaic numismatic iconography and other forms of contemporary art develop upon two mainstream political messages of the Classical period: the 'soteria' of the Greeks from barbaric invaders and thalassocracy.  [Last Updated 2003]

Born in Athens in 1967, Panayotis Panopoulos received his University Degree in Education from the University of Athens (1989). Both his Post-graduate Degree and his Ph.D. on Social Anthropology were received from the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of the Aegean, Mytilene, in 1991 and 1997, respectively. During the last four years, he has been teaching Social Anthropology in the Department of History and Ethnology at the Democretian University of Thrace (1999-2000) and the Department of Philosophy and Social Studies at the University of Crete (2000-2002). In November 2001, he was awarded a post-doctoral research scholarship from State Scholarships Foundation of Greece and he is a post-doctoral fellow of the University of the Aegean. His current research interests concern the ethnography of sound and the anthropology of performance. 

Animal Bells as Symbols: Sound and Audition in a Greek Island Village
Panayotis Panopoulos will address the cultural construction of sound and audition in a mountain village of Naxos, Cyclades islands, Greece. The analysis is based on the ethnographic presentation and discussion of the cultural meanings and symbolism of animal bells. Further he will explore the relation between bells' sound and the symbolic constitution of social order. By focusing on the indigenous meanings of sounds and noise and the metaphoric language concerning the sense of hearing, he will also consider some wider aspects of sound, sound symbolism and audition in this community.  [Last Updated 2003]

Born in Hungary in 1957, Istvan Perczel has been teaching since 1994 at the Central European University in Budapest. He is currently involved in two major research projects. One regards the Dionysian Corpus and the other is to investigate the Syriac manuscripts, as well as the history, of the Saint Thomas Christians in India. 

Istvan Perczel's aim is to work on a book on the Dionysian Corpus. The book will present the Corpus as an encoded text, written for a quick-witted audience, and will suggest several methods for decoding it. It will constitute a comprehensive study that raises the problems of Dionysian interpretation, elaborates a rigorous methodology, and tries to solve the problems. The methodology that he will use in the book is liable to yield results that may change some views on the 5th-6th century intellectual climate of the Late Antique and Early Byzantine world. In fact, the DC is not a unique phenomenon; it belongs to a genre of 5th-6th century theological forgeries, pseudonymous writings, and encoded texts. This genre has not yet been adequately treated. The method Perczel will draft in the book will present the DC as an example of an entire discursive formation, commonly governed by similar rules and decodable according to similar principles. Once understood and treated, the cumulative testimony these hitherto "slumbering" writings hold will prove to be a gold mine of information about this so little known and puzzling segment of Late Antique thought.  [Last Updated 2003]

George Tolias is currently Associate Research Professor at the Institute for Neohellenic Research. He is the author of a number of publications including La Medaille et la Rouille: Images de la Grece moderne dans la Presse Literaire Parisienne 1794-1885 (1997) which won a prize from the Society for the Encouragement of Greek Studies in France. 

George Tolias will conduct research on the "proskynetaria" and the related Greek topographic and cartographic works. He will evaluate the pilgrimage network in the Greek east and analyze the representations of sacred space. He will also work on an evaluation of the functions of the Greek pilgrims, patrons, and benefactors. Study will be conducted into relevant sacred territoriality and into the modes of production and diffusion of proskynetaria.  [Last Updated 2003]

Maria Tzevelekou-Poulou was born in Athens. She studied theoretical and formal linguistics in Paris. She lives in Athens and she works as a senior researcher in the Institute for Language and Speech Processing. Her area of interests includes topics on the philosophy of language, semantics, language acquisition, historical linguistics and natural language processing. 

Historical present is considered as a rhetorical/stylistic device used in narratives for the sake of vividness in the description of past episodes. Compared with alternative modes of narration, namely with past tense narratives, historical present shows a particular feature: it bears composite temporal meaning. In past tense narratives the two basic functions of narration, i.e. foreground (events that take place) and background (states that hold), are conveyed by two distinct tense forms i.e. simple past (aorist) and imperfective past (paratatikos) respectively. In historical present narratives these functions are subsumed under a single form, i.e. present form. 

The purpose of this study is to investigate how the distinction between foreground and background is expressed by a single marker. It is argued that the present form is neutral with respect to temporal distinctions. The temporal structuring of narrative is based on the lexical properties of predicates, and more specifically on aspectual class. This hypothesis enables us to consider present tense as a lexeme-centered form (like for instance infinitive in many language) and also, to draw a parallel between reportive present (used by journalist) and historic present.  [Last Updated 2003]

Fotini Zika studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford from 1978-81. She earned an MA in Philosophy and Modern Greek Literature (1987) and PhD in Philosophy (1991) at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki. Her thesis subject was Ontology and Semantics of Color in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy. Since 1991, she has been teaching Philosophy at the American College of Greece (Deree) and has been a full-time professor since 1998. She was a visiting professor at the School of Architecture, National Technical University, Athens (1998-2000) with a postgraduate seminar on Aesthetics and Color. Her lectures and publications are mainly in the areas of epistemology and metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and ethics. Main interests include color, perception, aesthetics, ethics, and the relation between philosophy, science, and art. 

Synaesthesia as a Modern Version of Molyneux' Problem
Synaesthesia is a special case of cross-modal association in which the sensory material connected to one sense is perceived by stimulation of another sense, such as colors by hearing or shapes by taste. Molyneux' problem is a different case of cross-modal association in which it is questioned whether a person born blind, who has learned to distinguish certain shapes by touch, will be able to recognize them by sight upon suddenly seeing. The aim of this paper is to show the significance of the debate on the above cases to our view of the mind. First, Fotini Zika will consider the connection of both problems with the Aristotelian distinction between proper and common sensibles in order to bring out the difference in cross-modal association involved in each case. Secondly, she show how, despite the difference, both Molyneux' problem and synaesthesia are related to the debate on innate and acquired ideas. Thirdly, she will maintain that just as the debate on innate-acquired ideas centering around Molyneux' problem was significant for the view of the mind and the acquisition of knowledge, so synaesthesia's special interest for contemporary philosophy of mind lies in its implications for the plasticity or modularity of the mind. Finally, in the light of positions reached in the contemporary debate, she will conclude with a reconsideration of what is proper to each sense.  [Last Updated 2003]

Georgios Kalogeras is Professor of American Ethnic and Minority Studies in the Department of American Literature and Culture, School of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His research primarily focuses on Greek American Studies and has published a number of articles in American Literary History, MELUS, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, College Literature, Ethnic Forum, International Fiction Review, Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora among others as well as in collective volumes in Greece and the U.S.A. He has edited two volumes of papers, Nationalism and Sexuality: Crises of Identity, Toni Morrison and two special issues of Gramma (The Gender of Reading, 1993), Of People and Places: Decentering Ethnicity (1998). He is the founder and managing editor of Gramma/Gpaµµa, and the founder of the Hellenic Association of American Studies (HELAAS). His most recent book is a study and new edition of the first Greek collection of short stories to be published in the U.S.A. by an immigrant, Konstantinos Kazantzes' Istories Tis Patridos Mou (2001). 

Abstract 1
Contact Zones and Transition Narratives: The Literary "Circles" of Greek Imigration

Although the Jews, the Greeks and the Armenians have long been conceived as people of the diaspora, research in the diaspora experience of the last two groups has been haphazard and limited. A close study of the literary production of the Greeks in the United States reveals how diaspora Greeks perceive of themselves and their community. For these authors population movement is represented in ways, typical of other migrating people; these representations range from exile/self-exile, to adventure, to political defiance, to permanent physical and spiritual alienation and/or eventual rejection; nevertheless, the employment by Greek American writers of a historical discourse militates against classical paradigms of diaspora and immigration literature; hence literary expressions of Greek diaspora or immigrant culture are not always associated with the space, place, and people among whom these texts are produced; it is thus that Greek American writers often question the concept of what is "home" and what "foreign"; consequently, their adoption of a "foreign" language in their work, but also the need to "translate" their texts in the author's "mother tongue" is significant. Therefore, taking the above into consideration, the idea that a diaspora/immigrant culture can be conceived as mediating between home and host cultures or that we can predict its process of hybridization remain problematic.

Abstract 2
Unfixing the Boundaries and Patrolling the Borders: Greek American Political and Literary Intervention on the Question of the Greco-Albanian Frontier in Epirus, 1912-1919.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the gradual emergence of a Greek American identity became connected with a process of "diasporization". The immigrants attempted to redefine themselves not as victims of classical capitalism, as economic migrants subjects to political and social exploitation; instead they perceived their modest financial successes as entitling them to join the ranks of the Hellenic Diaspora. In their own words, they became practitioners and accomplices of classical capitalism, rather than its victims.

This process of "diasporization" can be detected in the early histories of the Greeks in America as well as in the various journalistic publications involving them. Furthermore, the absence of immigration stories until the 1920s and the choice of the immigrants to produce prose and poetry which focuses on the pre-American motherland complies with this pattern. The immigrants with literary aspirations saw their move from Greece as a way to emancipate themselves from the shackles of the purist language/katharevousa, an emancipation process to which the greek diaspora (Psycharis, Pallis, Eftaliotis etc) played a pivotal role.

The struggle over Macedonia, but primarily the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) and the consequent squabbles over the redrawing of the new boundaries gave the former immigrants an opportunity to consolidate their new role as members of the diaspora. The political interventions of the Greek diaspora in favor of the Greek claims on Ottoman lands was part of the 19th century struggle between Greece and the Ottoman Empire. This paper will elaborate on how Greek Americans behaved in the case of the disputed Greco-Albanian frontier in Epirus. The focus will be on Konstantinos Kazantzes', Demetra Vaka' and Nicholas J. Cassavetes' work, as well on the editorials published in Atlantis, National Herald and Nike, all New York-based newspapers.

The political and literary writings of Kazantzes, Vaka and Cassavetes accept the instability of racial and ethnic signifiers in the area. However, they use this ambivalence in the service of political expedience. They serve the expansionist interests of Greece by consciously attempting to separate the ideal (Hellenic) from the phobic (Albanian) in writings which are published in international political reviews or by prestigious US publishing houses.

What remains carefully submerged in their work, nevertheless, is how their diasporic self-conscioussness works in the context described earlier. Their nationalistic aspirations are expressed in terms set by the colonial and neo-colonial powers. Their explorations in liminal self-identifications among the populations in Epirus and Albania might be construed by the reader as a process whereby the authors unfix the boundaries between the ideal and the phobic; in essence though, on the one hand, these authors express an anxiety that racial and ethnic difference is masked and perhaps manqué; on the other, they suggest that such differences ought to be defined, and controlled.  [Last Updated 2003]

Born in Thessaloniki, Aristotelis Mentzos participated as a student in the excavations of Philippi and Dion in Macedonia. He worked for a short time in the Administration of Classical and Roman Antiquities of Central Macedonia. In 1988, he earned his PhD after researching the Corinthian Capital in Macedonia during Late Antiquity. He was appointed Lecturer of Byzantine Archaeology in the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Thessaloniki in 1989 and was elected Associate Professor of Byzantine Archaeology in 1999. He participated in the excavation of the early Christian octagonal church complex at Philippi (1975-1983) and he comes from just completing the excavation of an early Christian basilica at Dion. His writings include work on early Christian and Byzantine architecture and sculpture, pilgrimage, and cult objects and practices of the cult of St. Demetrius.

Architectural Arrangement and Religious Practice in Early Christian Churches
Aristotelis Mentzos plans to work on the preparation of a publication of the early Christian basilica at the ancient city of Dion in southern Macedonia. He also plans to collect comparative material to assist him in the publication on the octagonal church at Philippi, on which he will collaborate with E. Pelekanidou. He will concentrate on a revision of dates of early Christian churches based on observations of the architectural arrangement of the churches.  [Last Updated 2003]

Professor David F. Graf, of the History Department at the University of Miami since 1986, received his Ph.D. in 1979 from The University of Michigan in Classical Greek History, with a dissertation on "Medism: Greek Collaboration with Achaemenid Persia" with Professor C. G. Starr. Subsequently he has been engaged in research on Greek-Persian relations and the Greco-Roman Near East. He has published over 50 related articles and contributed several maps of the Near East to the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (Princeton, 1999). For the past 25 years, he has been engaged in various archaeological projects from Zeugma on the Euphrates to the Nile in Egypt. In 2001, he was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award for archaeological projects in Saudi Arabia. His research focuses on Arabia from the Achaemenid Persian period to the dawn of Islam, which is the subject of his recent book: Rome and Its Arabian Frontier from the Nabataeans to the Saracens (Ashgate, 1997). Currently he is facilitating the publication of several hundred recently discovered Greek inscriptions from Late Antiquity sites in northern Jordan. Professor Graf is the Director of the new "Program of Classical Antiquity" at the University of Miami.

David Graf is concerned with the Byzantine Arabia in the pre-Islamic period. Abstract: "Recent archaeological discoveries in modern Jordan have been contributing new information to our understanding of the political, economic, social, and religious developments of this region in the centuries before the rise of Islam. The new sources include inscriptions and papyri from the period of the sixth century, which attest to a great deal of growth and prosperity in this often neglected quarter of the Byzantine realm that continued even after the Islamic conquests into the eighth and ninth centuries."  [Last Updated 2003]

Derek Krueger is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He received his Ph.D. in the Religions of Late Antiquity from Princeton University in 1991. His research has been supported by grants from Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, the ACLS, and the NEH. The author of Symeon the Holy Fool: Leontius's Life and the Late Antique City (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), Krueger has written on Greco-Roman Cynicism, early Christian hagiography and hymnography, and questions of writing and authorship in Byzantium. In addition to completing a book entitled Writing and Holiness: The Performance of Authorship in the Early Christian East, he is editing a volume on Byzantine Christianity for Fortress Press's People's History of Christianity.

Aspects of Devotion in the Production of Pilgrims' Shrine Literature: Text and Cult in the Early Byzantine Miracula of Artemios and Thecla
The fifth century Miracles of Thecla and the seventh century Miracles of Artemios offer opportunities to reexamine the relationship between text and cult.
Derek Krueger will consider the role of authors as devotees of healing shrines and situates the act of literary composition within the context of acts of devotion, the receipt of miracles, and the conventions of offering narrative as a form of thanksgiving.  [Last Updated 2003]

Chrisy Moutsatsos holds a PhD in Social Science from the University of California, Irvine (2001), with a dissertation on "Transnational Beauty Culture and Local Bodies: An Ethnographic Account of Consumption and Identity in Urban Greece." Her research interests include the ethnography of Greece, feminist theory, globalization and capitalism, and the processes and practices of Europeanization. From 2001-2002, she was Lecturer in Women's Studies and Anthropology at Scripps College.

Chrisy Moutsatsos' work is an ethnographic account examining the interconnections between the production of normative femininity, the consumption of the products and narratives of the global beauty industry, and the processes of Europeanization and globalization, in the context of urban Greece. In the process of consuming cosmetic products and services offered at sites, such as a multinational direct-sales cosmetic company, and neighborhood beauty day spas, Greek urban women become members of an imagined transnational feminine aesthetic community and are actively implicated in the transnational politics of femininity, whiteness, class, and sexuality. The normalization of the "unruly Mediterranean" female body involves Greek women consumers in the ongoing reproduction and reconfiguring of the idea of Europe, the Mediterranean, tradition, and modernity.  [Last Updated 2003]

Educated in Britain, John Wortley was appointed professor of medieval history at the University of Manitoba in 1969 from which post he recently retired and was appointed professor emeritus. His doctoral studies led him into Byzantine hagiography which led him to consider "narrationes animae utiles," a sub-section of hagiography which he has now explored in depth and of which he has published a provisional analytical repertoire. He has also pursued a life-long interest in the process of relic acquisition at Constantinople to 1204 which he now hopes to describe in a definitive directory. Most recently he produced a provisional English translation of John Scylitzes' Synopsis Historiarum. In the fall term of 2002 he was Leverhulme visiting professor at the Queen's University, Belfast. 

John Wortley plans to focus on the relics of the "friends of Jesus" at Constantinople." This has to do with the acquisition of a very specific group of relics by the Macedonian emperors. There is a highly colorful acquisition story that accompanies one of the relics. He will also address the curious means my which the other relics came to the Queen of Cities.  [Last Updated 2003]

Visiting Fellows 2001-2002
Visiting Fellows 2000-2001