Post-Doctoral Researcher, IMAFO, Austrian Academy of Sciences I Armenologist and Historian of Medieval Eastern Christian Book Cultures
Joined August 2012
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Mar 13
New article about Chalcedonian Armenians in eleventh-century Byzantium! Open Access: austriaca.at/?arp=0x00416251
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10 Sep 2025
A rainy day in Venice well spent working on the Armenian version of the Life of John Chrysostom, translated by the Catholicos Grigor II Vkayaser in 1101CE! 🤓
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17 Jul 2025
2nd International Armenological Congress, 9-12 July, 2025 🤩🇦🇲
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2 Dec 2024
It was a pleasure to be in Yerevan 🇦🇲 last week to share a working prototype for a new digital corpus of medieval Armenian colophons developed in collaboration with the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts. More to come! 📜
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5 Oct 2024
Ending the conference with a tour of the Mekhitarist Monastery in Vienna. Thanks to everyone who made the last three days so enjoyable!
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5 Oct 2024
Very happy to be here, learning tons and participating in this fascinating group of papers and thinking about memory and the landscape
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3 Oct 2024
It was a pleasure to open our international workshop “Places of Faith, Places of Memory: Sacral Topography in the Pre-Modern Caucasus” at the Embassy of Armenia to Austria @ARMEmbVienna - our thanks to all those who made this evening possible!
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Honored to host the opening of the international workshop Places of Faith, Places of Memory: Sacral Topography in the Pre-Modern Caucasus. A crucial platform to counter historical revisionism & safeguard cultural heritage. Grateful to @oeaw @univienna & all the conveners.
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We are very pleased to announce that the third volume of our journal has now been released!
Please, invite your institutions to subscribe to the journal, if they have not done so already.
@EdinburghUP @HCAatEdinburgh @EdinClassics @spbs @bsanabsc
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11 Sep 2024
The next #RevIdEM co-organized academic event is coming up: The international workshop "Places of Faith, Places of Memory: Sacral Topography in the Pre-Modern Caucasus" will take place on 3-5 October in Vienna! For more details, see below!
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10 Sep 2024
Delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference next month in Vienna!
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International Conference "Places of Faith, Places of Memory. Sacral Topography in the Pre-Modern #Caucasus" (Vienna, 3-5 October 2024), organised at our #Byzanzforschung @imafo_oeaw @oeaw with support of @FCGulbenkian & @ERC_Research.
Programme: oeaw.ac.at/imafo/veranstaltu…
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10 Sep 2024
International Conference "Places of Faith, Places of Memory. Sacral Topography in the Pre-Modern #Caucasus" (Vienna, 3-5 October 2024), organised at our #Byzanzforschung @imafo_oeaw @oeaw with support of @FCGulbenkian & @ERC_Research.
Programme: oeaw.ac.at/imafo/veranstaltu…
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17 May 2024
Next week, I give one of the keynotes at the conference "Telling #Byzantine History" at @ceu and @univienna, talking about "Stones, bones, sherds, trees, pollen & genes" - and the #ecologicalfootprint of #Byzantium :).
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#byzanzforschung @imafo_oeaw @oeaw
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3 May 2024
For those of you who can’t join us in person, the conference will also be streamed via Zoom (see details in attachment)!
2nd International Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Graduate Conference takes place on May 24-25, 2024 @univienna & @ceu
The program is now online!
#ByzantineStudies #MedievalHistory #graduateconference
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2nd International Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Graduate Conference takes place on May 24-25, 2024 @univienna & @ceu
The program is now online!
#ByzantineStudies #MedievalHistory #graduateconference
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#STD PhD Symposium Ancient, Byzantine & Medieval Studies, May 10, 17-19 @univienna
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Armenian Alexander Romance: Glimpses into the Text Transmission | R. Kuntner @Uni_WUE
Demetrios Kydones in the 70s: East-West repercussions | A. Zaloumis @EPHE_PSL
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13 Apr 2024
Yesterday, in our second LABS (@dshcs_univie @medstudCEU) Reading Session of this AY, we discussed poetry in twelfth-century Byzantium with Dr Nikos Zagklas who shared with us his work on his new monograph "Theodoros Prodromos: Miscellaneous Poems" (OUP, 2023) 📚🏛
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Lewis Read retweeted
10 Apr 2024
Our #Byzanzforschung @imafo_oeaw invites you to the international conference: Personal Stories from the Literary Landscapes of the Agitated (Post-)Byzantine World (13th to 16th c.): Intercultural Perspectives, April 17–19, Vienna:
oeaw.ac.at/imafo/veranstaltu… @FWF_at
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7 Mar 2024
At the Mekhitarist Monastery of San Lazzaro degli Armeni 🤩
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4 Mar 2024
The best type of working day (spent at the Mekhitarist Monastery in Vienna)
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