Cultural Exchanges between Byzantium, East and West in the Late Byzantine World 12th-16th centuries)

The aim of this conference is to highlight the various cross cultural aspects and the vehicles for their distribution according to the topics below.
• Constantinople a hub of cross cultural exchanges
• Cultural mobility within Eastern Mediterranean
• Trade and transportation as vehicles for cultural and technological exchanges and knowledge
• Art and Architecture in Byzantium and beyond
• Dialogue between Byzantium the Islamic and Ottoman worlds
• Byzantine cultural and political heritage in the West (Italy and Sicily)
• Byzantium and Eastern Europe: cultural, religious and political inheritance
• Byzantium and Georgia: Cultural and artistic ties
• Christian communities in the former Byzantine territories in the Near East: synthesis of cultures
• Cross-cultural, economic and political exchanges between East and West in the former Byzantine territories in the Adriatic, Ionian, Levant and Egypt
• Profane and religious literature in late Byzantium
• Chronicles and the writing of history
• Byzantine inheritance in music