The 4th Annual Late Antique, Islamic, and Byzantine Studies Conference focuses on disasters (natural, “manmade” or “supernatural”) that shape historical memory and our understanding of the past, concentrating on the problematic relations between catastrophes and memory in Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine societies.
Keynote Speakers:
Leslie Brubaker, Professor of Byzantine Art History at the University of Birmingham and Director of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies.
Antoine Borrut, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of History at the University of Maryland.