The RICONTRANS Project Diaries Exhibition
travels to FORTH central premises, at Heraklion
Date: Spring 2025
Venue: FORTH Heraklion central premises
The RICONTRANS Project Diaries Exhibition travels to FORTH central premises, at Heraklion
Presentation of the RICONTRANS Project & SYNTHESIS Data Access Portal at the Researchers’ Night
Presentation of the RICONTRANS Project & SYNTHESIS Data Access Portal
at the Researchers’ Night
Date: 25 September 2025
Venue: FORTH Heraklion and Rethymnon premises
Serbian Television Documentaries on the RICONTRANS Project
Serbian Television Documentaries on the RICONTRANS Project
Religious Patronage as an Instrument of “Soft” Political Power During War: Russian Donations to Orthodox Communities in the Ottoman Empire – Poster Presentation at 14th FORTH Scientific Retreat 2024
Religious Patronage as an Instrument of “Soft” Political Power During War: Russian Donations to Orthodox Communities in the Ottoman Empire
Poster Presentation at 14th FORTH Scientific Retreat 2024
Date: October 11–13, 2024
Venue: The International Olympic Academy in Ancient Olympia, Greece.
Presenter:
Yuliana Boycheva, Assistant Researcher, Institute for Mediterranean Studies-FORTH, RICONTRANS Project Director
Travelling Monks: Three Alms-Collection Synodics from the Patmos Monastery Library Workshop at Princeton Athens Center
Travelling Monks: Three Alms-Collection Synodics from the Patmos Monastery Library
Workshop at Princeton Athens Center
Date: Friday, 13 June 2025
Time: 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Speakers:
Yuliana Boycheva, Assistant Researcher, Institute for Mediterranean Studies-FORTH, RICONTRANS Project Director
Daria Resh, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Mediterranean Studies-FORTH
Venue: Princeton Athens Center, Timarchou 3, Athens 116 34
Sorbonne, Paris, Public Lectures
Sorbonne, Paris, 2025 Public Lectures
Yuliana Boycheva, the RICONTRANS Project PI has given 4 public lectures at Sorbonne, at École Pratique des Hautes Études on the project’s research and results. The lectures took place on April 29, May 6, 13, and 21. It was possible to watch the lectures online.
RICONTRANS Concluding Conference: Orthodox Hegemony and Art
RICONTRANS Concluding Conference
Orthodox Hegemony and Art
Transfer of Russian Religious Art to the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean
(late 16th – early 20th centuries)
The project’s Concluding Conference “Orthodox Hegemony and Art: Transfer of Russian Religious Art to the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean (late 16th – early 20th centuries)” was hosted at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies – FORTH, between January 23 and January 25, 2025.
24 international researchers, in the majority members of the RICONTRANS team participated with talks and discussions.
A photo exhibition entitled RICONTRANS Project Diaries accompanied the conference.
Beyond Epistemic Nationalism and Eurocentrism. Transregional Approaches to Western Balkan Modernities during the Nineteenth Century – Conference at the University of Saragevo, Philosophical School
Beyond Epistemic Nationalism and Eurocentrism
Transregional Approaches to Western Balkan Modernities during the Nineteenth Century
Conference at the University of Saragevo
Members of the RICONTRANS team participated with talks at the conference “Beyond Epistemic Nationalism and Eurocentrism. Transregional Approaches to Western Balkan Modernities during the Nineteenth Century” that took place at the Philosophical School, Center for Historical Studies of the the University of Saragevo.
The conference took place between October 31 and November 3, 2024.
Routes of Icons, 17th- 19th century: Art and Technology – Exhibition at the Museum of Greek Culture, Drama, Greece
Routes of Icons, 17th- 19th century: Art and Technology
Exhibition at the Museum of Greek Culture, Drama, Greece
The exhibition explores the stylistic and technical diversity of the icons that circulated in the Greek Orthodox space from the 17th to the 19th century, through the collections of the Benaki Museum. The concept of space is treated not only as a geographical entity but, above all, as a social construction that is consistent with the notion of community created by the Orthodox identity and shared by populations with different traditions, political status, even language. The common Byzantine background created a unified legacy of iconographic themes and technical solutions that were constantly enriched in a variety of ways in each centre of production. However, this artistic polyglossy did not erode the common foundation that allowed the transfer of icons from place to place and their common use in the same place of worship from Russia and Ukraine to the Ionian Islands, Crete, and Asia Minor.
A section of the exhibition is dedicated to the technology and conservation of Russian icons and devotional metal objects, presenting the recent findings of the European research project ERC RICONTRANS.
Opening: 13/12/2024
Duration: 14/12/2024 – 27/04/2025
ART READINGS 2024 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: OLD ART MODULE – ART AND HISTORY
ART READINGS 2024 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
OLD ART MODULE – ART AND HISTORY
Institute for Art Studies, BAS, Sofia, April 11-13, 2024
Between 11 and 13 April 2024, the traditional international scientific conference Art Readings, Old Art Module, took place in Sofia. The purpose of the forum, organized by the Institute of Art Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia, is to bring together scholars with interests and expertise in the field of art from Antiquity to the early modern period. More than 40 specialists from leading scientific and cultural institutions in Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia, North Macedonia, and Romania participated, and the topic of the module, defined this year as Art and History, provided unlimited space for discussions and exchange of knowledge and ideas related to the methodology, approaches, and problems in the study of various art manifestations in an extremely wide time range. The working languages of the conference were Bulgarian and English. The papers of the conference will be published by the end of this year in a collective volume.
Many RICONTRANS team members participated with an entire panel and talks.
The Art Readings International Scientific Conference was held in the meeting rooms in the building of the Institute for Art Studies, BAS, Sofia, 21 Krakra Str., Tel: +359 2 489 03 57; +359 2 489 03
Program of Old Art Module
Online participation here