Call for Papers / Conference: "Reception, appropriation, and innovation: Byzantium between the Christian and Islamic worlds", 2nd Annual International Graduate Edinburgh Byzantine Conference (30 November-1 December 2018) - LIMITE : 01/08/2018

Reception and appropriation (whether reuse, imitation, or variation) have long been recognised as necessary tools for the interpretation of Byzantine literature, art, architecture and archaeology, while research on innovations is still at a relatively early stage. The key theme of this conference is dialogue – dialogue between Byzantium and its neighbouring cultures. The conference will explore all three of the fundamental modes of dialogue and discourse (reception, appropriation and innovati..