#  Past and Present: Cultural Politics in Byzantium and Beyond 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **May 1 - May 2, 2026** 

 All day 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Boylston Hall 110 (Friday) and the History Department Seminar Room, Robinson Hall (Saturday)**  



 

 [ Full symposium program arrow\_circle\_right ](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/event/past-and-present-cultural-politics-byzantium-and-beyond) 

 



 

A two-day conference featuring a keynote address by [Peter Frankopan](https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-peter-frankopan) (Oxford University), lightning talks by undergraduate and graduate students, and presentations by [Dimiter Angelov](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/dimiter-angelov) (Harvard University), [Nathanael Aschenbrenner](https://www.bard.edu/faculty/nathanael-aschenbrenner) (Bard College), [Zachary Chitwood](https://www.byzantinistik.uni-muenchen.de/personen/professoren/zachary-chitwood/index.html) (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), [Antony Eastmond](https://courtauld.ac.uk/people/antony-eastmond/) (Courtauld Institute of Art), [Eurydice Georganteli](https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/people/eurydice-georganteli) (Harvard University), [Jonathan Harris](https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-education/departments-and-schools/history/about-us/staff-key-contacts/jonathan-harris/) (Royal Holloway, University of London), [Ioli Kalavrezou](https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/people/ioli-kalavrezou) (Harvard University), [Derek Krueger](https://derekkrueger.org/about-me/) (University of North Carolina Greensboro), [Fabio Pagani](https://ancient-medieval.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/pagani-fabio/index.html) (The Catholic University of America), [Filippomaria Pontani](https://www.unive.it/data/persone/5592491/ricerca) (Università Ca'Foscari), [Panagiotis Roilos](https://complit.fas.harvard.edu/people/roilos-panagiotis/) (Harvard University), and [Baukje van den Berg](https://people.ceu.edu/baukje-van-den_berg) (Central European University). Co-sponsored by the Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, and the Harvard University Department of History, Department of Classics, Committee on Medieval Studies, and Byzantine Studies Ph.D. Program. For the full program, please click [here](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/event/past-and-present-cultural-politics-byzantium-and-beyond).



 

 



 

 See also:- [ Committee on Medieval Studies ](/events/committee-medieval-studies)
- [ Byzantine Studies ](/events/byzantine-studies)
- [ Department of Classics ](/events/department-classics)
- [ Department of History ](/events/department-history)
 
 

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