Cfp: 3rd Online Athens-Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival

Organised by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Bilal Adıgüzel, Lucas Butler, and Callum Hendleman

The Department of History and Philosophy of Science (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) and the Centre for Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies (University of Edinburgh) warmly invites you to contribute and participate in the 3^rd Online Athens-Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival.

The Athens-Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival is a unique opportunity to learn about recently published books on any area of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (AD ca.300–ca.1500), including literature, history, archaeology, and material culture. The Festival is an online event, allowing attendees from all over the world to join in. It takes place every two years in order to promote a wider understanding and awareness of Byzantine scholarship in a spirit of collegiality. It is also intended to encourage future collaborations and networking among the various presenters and attendees. 

The 3rd Online Athens-Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival includes volumes published in 2023 and 2024, and forthcoming books with an estimated publication date no later than June 2025. There is no restriction as regards the original language of the book, but all presentations will be in English.

If you are an author of a monograph (including editions, commentaries, and translations of primary sources), on Late Antique and Byzantine studies, please complete the submission form (below - Word) and send it in Word version along with an image of the book’s cover to byzantinebookfestival@hotmail.com by 6 April 2025. The practical guidelines of the Festival are available below (PDF). Please note that edited volumes, volumes that include a collection of previously published articles (e.g. variorum), reprints, re-editions or new paperback editions are not accepted. Each author can present up to one book.

Recordings of the first two Festivals are available on YouTube.