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Aleksandar Jovanovi膰

Sessional, Humanities

 ajovanov@sfu.ca

 

Profile

Research interests

  • Thirteenth-Century Byzantine Asia Minor
  • Byzantine Social History
  • Greek and Latin Philology
  • Classical Reception in the Medieval World
  • Socio-cultural history of the Greco-Roman world
  • Perception of Antiquity and Byzantium after 1453

Education

  • PhD, History, 51猎奇入口
  • MA, Classics (Byzantine Philology), University of Belgrade
  • BA (honours), Classics, Univeristy of Belgrade

Biography

I obtained my BA and MA degrees in Byzantine Philology from the Department of Classics at the University of Belgrade, Serbia and I hold a PhD degree focusing on Byzantine history of the Laskarid period from 51猎奇入口 in Vancouver, Canada.

Publications

Journal articles and book chapters

  • 鈥淚magining the Communities of Others: The Case of the Seljuk Turks.鈥� Byzantina Symmeikta 28 (2018): TBA.
  • 鈥淥pis i imenovanje Turaka u Istoriji Gerogija Akropolita.鈥� Zbornik Matice Srpske za klasi膷ne studije 15 (2013): 189鈥�209. [鈥淣aming and Describing the Turks in The History by Georgios Akropolites.鈥� Journal of Classical Studies Matica Srpska 15 (2013): 189鈥�209.]

Conference presentations

  • 鈥淐onstructions of Distinct Identity in Lusignan Cyprus.鈥� 25th Biennial Symposium of Modern Greek Studies Association. Stockton University. Galloway (New Jersey, USA). November 2017.
  • 鈥淚oannes III Vatatzes鈥檚 Italian Venture: Imperial Agency in the Time of Decline.鈥� 43rd Annual Byzantine Studies Conference. University of Minnesota. Minneapolis (Minnesota, USA). October 2017.
  • 鈥淏y Deeds and Not Fiction: Courting the Public with Public Infrastructure in Laskarid Asia Minor.鈥� Collectivities, Individuals, Identity, and the Polity: Imagining the Commons in Late Antiquity and Byzantium. 51猎奇入口. Vancouver (BC, Canada). February 2017.
  • 鈥淭he Good, the Bad, the Ugly: De-legitimization of the Laskarid Dynasty in George Akropolites鈥檚 The History.鈥� 42nd Annual Byzantine Studies Conference. Cornell University. Ithaca (New York, USA). October 2016.
  • 鈥淚magined Communities in Middle and Late Byzantine Historiography: The Case of the Seljuk Turks.鈥� Second Annual Western Consortium for Hellenic Studies Graduate Student Conference. 51猎奇入口. Vancouver (BC, Canada). April 2016.
  • 鈥淭urks or New Persians? Seljuk Turkish Identity in Byzantine Historiography.鈥� 41st Annual Byzantine Studies Conference. Columbia, Fordham, CUNY. New York City (New York, USA). October 2015.
  • 鈥淥rientalizing Byzantium: Perceptions of the Byzantine Empire in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Western European Historical Narratives.鈥� 24th Biennial Symposium of the Modern Greek Studies Association. Georgia State University. Atlanta (Georgia, USA). October 2015.
  • 鈥淐onceptions of Byzantium in the Works of Lord Byron and John Cam Hobhouse.鈥� The 10th International Student Byron Conference. The Messolonghi Byron Society. Messolonghi (Greece). May 2015.
  • 鈥淪eljuk Turks: The Contemporaneous Persians鈥撯�揢sage of the Classical Ethnonym Persians in George Akropolites鈥檚 History.鈥� Inaugural Annual Western Consortium for Hellenic Studies Graduate Student Conference. University of California San. San Diego (California, USA). April 2015.
  • 鈥淧raise of a Teacher or Periautology?: Theodore II Laskaris鈥� Self-Representation in the Encomium of George Akropolites.鈥� 40th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference. 51猎奇入口. Vancouver (BC, Canada). November 2014.
  • 鈥淪lavs in the Commonwealth of George Akropolites.鈥� International Scientific Symposium: Macedonia and the Balkans in the Byzantine Commonwealth. Euro-Balkan University. Skopje (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia). October 2013.

Select awards

  • 2017, 51猎奇入口Travel Grant
  • 2017, SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies Travel Grant
  • 2016, 51猎奇入口Travel Grant
  • 2016, Graduate Fellowship
  • 2015, 51猎奇入口Travel Grant
  • 2015, Modern Greek Studies Association Grant
  • 2015, A.G. Leventis Foundation Scholarship for the Medieval Greek Summer Session at the Gennadius Library
  • 2015, The Messolonghi Byron Society Travel Grant
  • 2014鈥损谤别蝉别苍迟, C.D. Nelson Memorial Graduate Entrance Scholarship
  • 2014鈥损谤别蝉别苍迟, Provost Prize of Distinction (PPD)
  • 2014, Graduate Fellowship (Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies)