CONGRESS AWARDS FOR STUDENTS

The International Association of Byzantine Studies will grant 60 Congress Awards to undergraduate and postgraduate students to assist with the cost of attending the 22nd Con-gress of Byzantine Studies. The individual award amounts to a total of 350 (three hundred fifty) euros, which covers the 80-euro student Participation Fee plus 270 euros for subsistence and accommodation. Applications must be submitted, by mail, to the Congress Organizing Committee, no later than 31 October 2010. Please, fill out the enclosed form. Note that travel expenses are not covered by the award. Award-winners will receive their Congress Award upon registering at the Registration Desk. The 80-euro Participation Fee is deducted at the moment of their registration.

APPLICATION FORM

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Prof. Miliyana Kaymakamova
Faculty of History Sofia University
15 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd.
BG-1504
Sofia BULGARIA

On April 4th, 2011 in Sofia a Committee consisting of Prof. Peter Schreiner, Prof. Evangelos Chryssos, Prof. Vassil Gjuzelev, Prof. Axinia Dzhurova and Prof. Miliana Kaimakamova chose from 97 applicants 60 award-winners as follows:

List of award-winners
1. Satenik Chookaszian, Cilician book illumination between Byzantuum and Crusaders, Armenia
2. Grigori Simeonov, Fruits in Byzantium, Austria
3. Nadejda Miladinova, Reuses of a Byzantine anthology in the Early Modern Period – case study on Panoplia Dogmatike of Euthymios Zygadenos, Belgium
4. Силвия Аризанова, Култът към светците в България и Византия през ХІІІ-ХV век, Bulgaria
5. Георги Димов, Градовете в Южна Италия между Изтока и Запада – ХІ – ХІІ век, Bulgaria
6. Алена Тeнчова, Наблюдение върху монетната циркулация по средното течение на р. Марица VІ – VІІ век, Bulgaria
7. Vladislav Ivanov, The “Greek” Project of the Order of St. John, Bulgaria
8. Люба Илиева, Bulgarian contribution to the economics and culuture of the Byzantine Empire (Bulgarian territories in the end of the 11th-12th centuries), Bulgaria
9. Светозар Ангелов, Редки иконографски сюжети в стенната живопис в Софийско и Кюстендилско през ХVІ в., Bulgaria
10. Martina Jiroušková, Local and long-distance trade of Cherson in the period of 7th and 8th centuries crisis, Czech Republic
11. Saška Bogevska, Virgin Archipriest in Byzantine Art, France
12. Jovan Milanović, Les archeveques de Thesaolniqua a l’epoque de Gregoire Palamas, France
13. Ana Palanciuc, La théorie des modes d’être. Reconstitution des sources et fondation dans la cosmologie de Maxime la Confesseur, France
14. Julien Auber, La diffusion de l’iconographie chrétienne occidentale dand l’Égipte ottomane – le travail de Yuhamma al-Armani, France
15. Ekaterina Nechaeva, The Sovereign’s Image Abroad: Imperial Portraits in Early Byzantine Diplomacy, France
16. Anna Lampadaridi, Nouvelles remarques sur la valeur historique de la Vie le Porphyre de Gaza (BHG3 1570), France
17. Eka Berelashvili, “Mitrophane’s Miter” – Crown or Miter?, Georgia
18. Nino Mghebrishvili, Theodore Abu-Qurra’s Treatises in Dogmaticon Arsen of Igalto, Georgia
19. Anna Paranou, Die Kommunion von Maria Ägyptiaca und die verschieden Interretationsebenen innerhalb der Kirchenbildausstattung, Germany
20. Emilio Bonfiglio, The Syriac translations of the corpus Chrysostomicum, Germany
21. Despoina Petrougaki-Kalaizantonaki, L’oraison funèbre de Théodore Stoudite à Platon de Sakkoudion, Greece
22. Demetra Samara, Gregorios Kyprios-Theodore Mouzalon: the “Contra Beccum” oration, Greece
23. Nikolaos Agiotis, Leo Magentinus: a Biographical Sketch of a Byzantine Commentator of Aristotle, Greece
24. Kosta Simić, A Note on the Nachleben of Kassia’s Poetry, Greece
25. Dimitrios Panagiotopoulos, Saint Mary of Egypt in Byzantine Hymnographu, Greece
26. Theodora Zampaki, The Image of the Byzantine Empire in Ţabarī’s History, Greece
27. Mircea Duluş, Philogatos of Cerami and the Monstic Renewal in the Twelfth -Century Norman Kingdom: Preaching, Persuasion and Poetic Language, Hungary
28. Erika Juhász, Quellenstudium zur Osterchronik, Hungary
29. Asya Bereznyak, A Coversion Gone Away? A Different Perspective on the Christianisation of Bulgaria and the Rise of Bogomilism, Israel
30. Zahari Konkyov, Church Councils in support of and against Monothelism during the Reign of Emperor Heraclius (610-641), Italy
31. Andrea Ginnasi, The Imperial Coronation and the court of Basil I and his sons, Italy
32. Giulia Marsili, Byzantine amphores’ production at Gortyn (Crete): economy and trade of a capital during early-byzantine period, Italy
33. Dariya Rafiyenko, Petros Petrikios and his primary source. A linguistic, stylistic and contentual comparison, Latvia
34. Alexandros Tsakos, A contribution to patristic studies from the backstage of the medieval Nubian world, Norway
35. Filip Ivanovic, The Notion of Eros in Dionysius the Areopagite, Norway
36. Jecek Maj, Traum von Byzanz. Zur mittelosterurpäischen Byzanz-Rezeption im 19. Jahrhunderts, Poland
37. Adam Izdebski, Borderlands or cenre? The agriculture of Paphlagonia and Pontus in the early medieval period – palynological, archaeological and textual evidence, Poland
38. Błażej Cecota, Constantinople in early Islamic sources, Poland
39. Karolina Wiśniewska, Image of Constantinople in “Historia captae a Turca Constantinopolis descripta a Leonardo Chiensi”, Poland
40. Adam Łajtar, Wine production in Byzantine Egypt, Poland
41. Raluca Betea, The Trial of the Soul: Post-Byzantine Visual Representations of the Tollbooths in the Romanian Churches in Maramures, Romania
42. Ionuţ-Alexandru Tudorie, Letter against the zealots: patriarch Athanasius I (1289-1293; 1303-1309) and the Arsenites, Romania
43. Ioan Andrei Dumitru, Living in a Sacred Byzantium Imperial Palace vs Holy Temples, Romania
44. Anca Elisabeta Tatay, The Engravings of Byzantine tradition from the Old Romanian Books Printed in Buda (1780-1830), Romania
45. Maria Grinberg Miniatures of the Metaphrastic Menologion Syn.gr.9 (Vlad.382), Russia
46. Angelina Volkoff, The formative years of a statesman, Russia
47. Grigory Benevich, Maxcimus the Congessor’s and John Philogomes’s argument for the beginning and the end of the world, Russia
48. Fedor Benevich, Rationalism in the theological polemics in Byzantium in 6th-8th centuries, Russia
49. Tatjana Bardashova, Byzantine matriamonial diplomacy (X-XII centuries), Russia
50. Daria Resh, Symeon of Thessalonika as vir litteratus, Russia
51. Marka Tomić Durić, Representation of the death Christ and the Mother of God in the western part of naos in Byzantine art, Serbia
52. Bojana Pavlović, Perception of Serbs and Bulgars in the letters of Demetrios Kydones, Serbia
53. Yuri Alessandro Marano, The Privileged Burials of Early Byzantine Greece (4th – 6th c. AD), UK
54. Carlo Virgilio, The Privileges granted by John VIII to Florence in 1439, UK
55. Annika Sylvia Elisabet Asp, Byzantium, Byzantios – names and identity in the early middle ages, UK
56. James Wills, The “Schism of 1054″ in Byzantine Sources (14th-15th c.), UK
57. Christopher Lilington-Martin, Aspects of the Literary Composition of Prokopios’ Anekdota, UK
58. Foteini Spingou, Text and Image at the court of Manuel Komnenos Epigrams on works of art in Marc. Gr. 524, UK
59. Mariia Tymoshenko, The Case Study of the Reconstruction the Harbor of Sudak of the Byzantine Period, Ukraine
Andrei Gandila, In the shadow of the Empire: early Byzantine coins across the frontiers, USA

The Committee has decided that the award-winners from Bulgarian would not receive the whole grant but only the amount of their participation fee.