Winter Term 2026/ 27
Wednesday, 28. October, 6.15pm guest lecture:
Robert Uys (NWU South Africa): "uMgungundlovu: A Retrospective of the Life and Death of Dingane’s Royal Kraal, 1828 – 1838."
Wednesday, 2. December, 18.15 Uhr, presentation of postdoctoral project:
Dr. Aleksei Kamenskihk: "Early outlines of the imagined Byzantium in Russian imperial thought: From Innokentii Gizel to August L. von Schlözer".
Wednesday, 16. December, public lecture and book launch:
Prof. Dr. Jeroen Wijnendaele (Ghent): "From Odoacer to Theoderic: Italy and its Neighbours in the 490s CE"
Summer Term 2026
20.07. - 24.07.2026 (JGU):
International Summerschool "Beyond the Battlefield. Consequences of premodern Warfare for Society, Culture and Landscape", organized in cooperation with the Centre for Medievals Arts & Ritual (CeMAR) Zypern. Summer school_programme
17.04.2026:
Retreat of the members in the GRK (internal event)
13.05.2026: Guest Lecture Prof. Dr. Talmon-Heller (Mercator-Fellow GRK): "Warring with Words: Islamic Polemics against Judaism and Christianity” (P 204)
27.05.2026: Guest lecture Prof. Dr. Monica White (Nottingham): The First Two Centuries of Byzantine-Rus Encounters: War, Peace, Faith and Trade’ ( P 204)
10.06. 2026 Guest lecture: Dr. Timothy G. Dawson:
Fit for the Task. The Material Aspect of Byzantine Warfare (P 204)
26.06.2026:
Respondent-Format (internal event)
02.07. - 03.07.2026:
Workshop "War and Society: Anthropological, Ideological and Military Perspectives", organised by GRK 2304 in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Rustam Shukurov (Vienna)
GRK 2304 Workshop_War and Society
for past semesters see archive