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The Encounters Lecture Series, established in 2025, is a joint initiative of the Norwegian Institutes in Athens and Rome.
The international conference “Fabulous beasts and where to read them: Animals in Byzantine fables, proverbs, and dreambooks” will take place online on 11th June 2026. The conference will discuss the roles, figures, representations, and agency of animals in “minor” genres of Byzantine literature.
Lorenzo Ciolfi (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), affiliated researcher at the Norwegian Institute in Rome, collaborates with Przemyslaw Marciniak and Katarzyna Piotrowska from Katowice University on the organisation of the conference. Deadline for abstracts: 28th February.
Institute seminar 8 April 2025
Taran Palmstrøm Fenn (PhD-student, University of Oslo): Chronicling the Environment: Matthew Paris’ Chronica Majora and the Temporalization of Nature
Institute seminar 4 March 2025
Sunniva Berger: The Madness and Stupidity of the Venerable Ancients: Boccaccio and the Pagan Gods
Victoria Frivik: Ancient ghosts in Mussolini's Rome: The creation of memory in an urban landscape
Institute seminar 18 February 2025
Åslaug Ommundsen (Prof. in Medieval Latin philology at the University of Bergen) will present the CODECO project focusing on how books and literary networks shaped Europe