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Scholars of the TIB Balkans presented their newest scholarly results together with colleagues of the Natural History Museum Vienna, the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences (HTWK Leipzig), the University Belgrade and the ACDH-CH of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in three sessions entitled “Entanglements across Medieval Space, Objects, and Data” on 6 July 2023 at the IMC Leeds.

The TIB and its retired colleagues took part substantially in the conference “Lead Seals in Byzantine Thrace” on 19 April 2022 at the IMAFO of the ÖAW. While Andreas Külzer and Peter Soustal presented papers, Klaus Belke and Mihailo Popović were chairing sessions. Finally, Mihailo Popović gave a résumé of the conference.

Mihailo Popović was invited by the Institute for Byzantine Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts to give a paper entitled “Пројекат Tabula Imperii Byzantini: о будућности (?) проучавања историјске географије Византије” [“The Project Tabula Imperii Byzantini: on the Future (?) of the Research in the Field of the Historical Geography of Byzantium”] on 22 February 2023 in Belgrade.

Andreas Külzer and Mihailo Popović gave a joint paper entitled "Reality and Mirage in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Long Term Project Tabula Imperii Byzantini and its Reconstruction Work of Late Antique and Medieval Settlements" at the conference “Les ciutats mediterrànies. Realitat i miratge” in Barcelona, Spain, on 15 December 2022.

On Monday, 14 November 2022, the TIB volume "Macedonia, Southern Part" (TIB 11) will be officially promoted at the Department of Byzantine Research of the Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO).

• Date: 24.11.2022
• Begin: 17:00
• Venue: Hollandstrasse 11-13, 1st Floor, 1020 Vienna
• Registration: Ekaterini.Mitsiou@oeaw.ac.at

On Thursday, 10 November 2022, Mihailo Popović will present a paper in Leipzig, which is entitled “Die historische Geographie von Byzanz neu gedacht – Über den Wert der digitalen Kartographie und Geokommunikation in der Vermittlung historischer Inhalte am Beispiel des Projektes ‚Jenseits von Ost und West‘” and is based on scholarly results from the project “Beyond East and West (HOLDURA)”

The “Commission for the Historical Geography and Spatial Analysis of Byzantium” of the AIEB is organising a Round Table entitled “Historical Geography of Byzantium in a Digital Age: Chances and Risks” at the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies in Venice and Padua (22 to 27 August 2022). It will take place on 23 August in Venice. On Thursday, 25 August, Mihailo St. Popović will give a Plenary Paper entitled “A Race against Time: The Impact of Contemporary Environmental and Demographic Change on the Research of the Historical Geography of Byzantium” within the Plenary Session “Bridging Interdisciplinary Gaps: New Ways of Making Connections” in Padua, which will be chaired by Professor Judith Herrin.

For further information and the programme please cf.

https://byzcongress2022.org/

The paper “OpenAtlas und historische Geographie: Die Tabula Imperii Byzantini (Balkan) im digitalen Zeitalter” by Bernhard Koschiček-Krombholz and Mihailo St. Popović is presented and commented in a blogpost by a student of the University of Cologne:

https://dhc.hypotheses.org/2053

It is with great pleasure that we may announce the publication of the TIB Volume 11 ("Macedonia, Southern Part") written by Peter Soustal (with Andreas Pülz and Mihailo St. Popović as co-authors).

Cf. in detail:

https://verlag.oeaw.ac.at/en/product/makedonien-suedlicher-teil/99200596

During the International Medieval Congress (IMC) in Leeds from 4 to 7 July 2022 the team of the TIB Balkans will present its research in the sessions No. 1034, 1134, 1234 and 1334 on Wednesday, 6 July.

Cf. in detail

https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2022/programme/

Bernhard Koschiček-Krombholz and Mihailo St. Popović present a paper on “OpenAtlas und historische Geographie: Die Tabula Imperii Byzantini (Balkan) im digitalen Zeitalter” at the University of Cologne, Germany at an Digital Humanities colloquium.

In May 2022, the Austrian Academy of Sciences co-hosted and participated in the Austrian nationwide event "Lange Nacht der Forschung 2022" (Science Night 2022). This provided another excellent opportunity for the Long-Term Project Tabula Imperii Byzantini (TIB) to communicate its newest research output to the public. At the stand of the academy's Institute for Medieval Research, the TIB-team organized fun discovery activities such as the Historical Geographer's Quiz for all ages and presented the everyday work of a TIB researcher in a custom-made short film, here based on the sub-project Beyond East and West: Geocommunicating the Sacred Landscapes of "Duklja" and "Raška" through Space and Time (11th-14th Cent.).

Mihailo Popović presented paper on the TIB at the conference “Global Eurasia – Comparison and Connectivity II: Agency, Networks and Transregional Contexts” at the IMAFO (ÖAW).

Mihailo Popović gave an online paper entitled “On the Use and Usefulness of Digital Humanities in the Historical Geography of Byzantium” on 1 April 2022 in front of students and colleagues of the Aristotle University in Thessalonica and the Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul. This paper is part of a seminar series with the title “The Balkans Between Empires”. After the paper the audience asked manifold questions on the Historical Geography of the Byzantine Empire and Digital Humanities.

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