[MGSA-L] Fwd: International Virtual Conference - Borderland: Christian Identities and Cultures in Early Modern Cyprus and Beyond (6-7 May 2022)

Thu Apr 28 06:16:23 PDT 2022

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From: Dendrinos, Ch <Ch.Dendrinos at rhul.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 8:03 AM
Subject: International Virtual Conference - Borderland: Christian
Identities and Cultures in Early Modern Cyprus and Beyond (6-7 May 2022)
To:

*Borderland:*

*Christian Identities and Cultures in Early Modern Cyprus and Beyond*

F. Bertelli, *Isola di Cipro*, 1562

© Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, M&A 9

*International Virtual Conference*

*6-7 May 2022*

The fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed the emergence
of new confessional identities throughout Europe as well as the
re-negotiation and adaptation of earlier confessional self-perceptions.
Over the past four decades, medieval and early modern Cyprus has attracted
the attention of the international scholarly community as a geographically
distinct zone of religious diversity. So far, research in the field covers
aspects of identity formation, religious contention and conviviality as
well as the construction of institutional, social and economic structures.
Less attention has been paid, however, to the dynamics and mechanisms of
Christian co-existence and strife in relation to religious culture. Equally
important, yet largely unexplored, is the impact on Cypriot Christian
self-perceptions and religious culture of major and broader developments in
Europe (e.g., the Renaissance, Reformation and Counter-Reformation) and the
Levant, at the time of the Ottoman expansion and the transformation of the
post-Byzantine “Commonwealth”. Since Fredrik Barth’s work on the
development, maintenance and negotiation of group boundaries (1969),
scholars have been focusing on the relationship between identity and
boundary construction, especially in multi-confessional and multi-ethnic
societies. Although hardly impenetrable, boundaries ―physical/territorial
and imaginary/psychological/spiritual― diachronically function as visible,
audible, tangible and performed markers of religious and cultural
perception and self-perception. The aim of our conference is to address the
status of Cyprus as a “borderland” or “frontier-zone”, already noted but
not adequately investigated and analysed in historiography. In what ways
were religious and cultural borders defined, constructed, negotiated,
performed, and crossed in Cyprus between ca. 1500 and 1600? How can borders
help us better understand Cypriot Christian identities (Orthodox, Latin,
Maronite, Armenian, among others) and forms of cultural expression?
Scholars from Britain, Cyprus, Germany, Ireland, Italy and the United
States of America, who work on early modern multi-confessionalism and
Cyprus from different disciplines and perspectives, and employ different
sources, approaches and methodologies, will present papers and offer views
and ideas on key themes related to the island’s religious geography and
cultural physiognomy in this critical period. The programme with abstracts
of papers is attached.

*ALL WELCOME*

*To join the Conference please use the following link**: *

*Friday, 6 May 2022*

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 *Saturday, 7 May 2022*

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*For further information and to book a place please contact by 1 May 2022*:

Chrysovalantis.Kyriacou at hotmail.com

Co-organised by the *Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation*, *The Fitzwilliam
Museum, Cambridge, * and* Royal Holloway, University of London (Centre for
GeoHumanities, Centre for Greek Diaspora Studies *and* The Hellenic
Institute)*

[image: The Fitzwilliam Museum]

The conference is part of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation’s research
project CyChrist (POST-DOC/0916/0060). Funded by the European Regional
Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research and
Innovation Foundation, CyChrist explores aspects of multi-confessionalism
and human geography in early modern Cyprus, during the transitional period
between the Venetian and Ottoman rule (ca. 1560-1670).

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