15.04.2024

Lecture "Cycles of crisis and recovery in Byzantine and Ottoman Macedonia"

Adam Izdebski and Georgios Liakopoulos, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (“Palaeo-Science and History” Research Group)

 

The event is organised on short notice to take advantage of the presence of Prof. Izdebski and Dr Liakopoulos in Vienna on occasion of the annual Congress of the European Geophysics Union.

Cycles of crisis and recovery Invitation

In their lecture, they will present some results of their project on the interplay between societies of the past, natural environment and climate in the Byzantine and Ottoman Balkans (https://www.shh.mpg.de/1056512/byzres). This project was also one basis for the recently published “Companion to the Environmental History of Byzantium” (https://brill.com/display/title/24910, edited by Adam Izdebski and our CoE member Johannes Preiser-Kapeller).

Within the CoE, the event is related to the research topics of the Research Node “Geographies of Power” and the Transversal Working Group “Impacts and Interpretations of Environmental Heritage”.

Time: Monday, 15 April, 10:00-11:30 am

Venue: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Institut für Mittelalterforschung (IMAFO), Georg Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Wien (Seminarraum 5. Stock; barrierefreier Zugang über Wiesingerstraße 4)

 

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