23/11/2018 - Ανοιχτή Συζήτηση | Forum Moving Byzantium XV (Βιέννη)

“Forum Moving Byzantium XV” will take place on Friday 23.11.2018, from 11:00 to 12:30, at the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (University of Vienna, Postgasse 7, 1010 Vienna, Staircase 1, Third Floor, Hörsaal).

The Forum Moving Byzantium XV will provide the unique opportunity to discuss with Dr. Matthew Kinloch (Austrian Academy of Sciences) his current work on “Moving Byzantine Historiography into Postmodernity: From Vanishing Ladies to Female Gendered Characters”.

In this forum, we will use the challenges posed by the study of female gendered characters in Byzantine narratives to discuss the broader challenges to traditional historiographical practice posed by postmodernism, as well as potential responses. After a brief introduction by Dr. Kinloch, there will be extensive time for discussion on the basis of the following preparatory readings:

1. Jenkins, K., ‘Introduction: History Limited’, in K. Jenkins (ed.), At the Limits of History (London, 2009), 4-21 (esp. 4-14).
2. Kinloch, M., Rethinking Thirteenth-Century Byzantine Historiography: A Postmodern, Narrativist, and Narratological Approach (Doctoral Thesis for the University of Oxford, 2018), 3-34.
3. Ballif, M., ‘Re/dressing Histories; Or, on Re/Covering Figures who have been Laid Bare by Our Gaze’, Rhetoric Society Quarterly 22 (1992), 91-8.
4. Clark, E., ‘The Lady Vanishes: Dilemmas of a Feminist Historian after the “Linguistic Turn”’, Church History 67 (1998), 1-31 (esp. 1-14).
5. Kaldellis, A., ‘The Study of Women and Children: Methodological Challenges and new Directions’, in P. Stephenson (ed.), The Byzantine World (Abingdon, 2010), 61-71.

Attached you will find the invitation with further details.