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We are pleased to announce our study day with a panel discussion on Simple Believers on July 16, 2025. The event is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of the State of Baden-Württemberg via the Tübingen Center for Religion, Culture and Society within the framework of the Excellence Strategy. For information and registration, please contact maren.bienerspam prevention@student.uni-tuebingen.de. The full program will be available here shortly.

We are happy to announce our workshop Christian Arabic Literatue: Figures, Thought and Challenges on April 7, 2025!

We will be in Mainz from September 26 to 28, 2024, for the conference Reframing Byzantine Law, and in Heidelberg from October 7 to 9, for the conference The Emperor as Theologian.

We are happy to announce that starting in September 2024 Dr. Jeffrey Berland will join our team with a project on 'Imperial Recognition and "Ecclesiological Compatibility": Frankish-Byzantine Relations ca. 800-850' funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation!

Our contribution to the "Coin of the month" series for March 2024 on the website of the Tübingen Research Center for Islamic Numismatics (FINT).

We look forward to a large attendance and a lively discussion at our double event (TBNES and Special Talks) with Prof. Zaroui Pgossian (Florence) on November 9-10, especially in view of current events in Nagorno-Karabakh.

We are happy to announce our workshop Constructing the eighth century, on October 6-7!

On May 10, we will talk to the Oxford Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar.

On March 12-14, 2023, we will be in Jerusalem at the conference "Palaestina on the Map of Late Antique Mobility and Migration".

On September 30, 2022, we will be at the conference Mobility of Power: Succession in the Late Antique World here in Tübingen!

We are happy to announce our conference "The road to Rome", on April 8-9, 2022!

New publication: The Acts of the Council of Constantinople of 869-70, Translated by Richard Price with an introduction and notes by Federico Montinaro (Translated Texts for Historians 79), Liverpool: Liverpool University Press - order now!

On November 30, 2021 we are (virtually) in Mainz!

On November 12-13, 2021 we are at the conference "Mobility and Materiality in Byzantine-Islamic Relations" (Universität Boğazici, Istanbul).