Anthony Kaldellis,
professor in the Department of Greek and Latin, is one of six newly promoted full professors to speak in the College of Humanities Inaugural Lecture Series for 2007-2008. His April 7, 2008 lecture, "The Byzantines: Who Were They?" comes from a long study of a complex subject. The people whom we know as the Byzantines called themselves Romans: their state was a direct continuation of the Roman Empire, their capital was New Rome, and their ruler was the emperor of the Romans. Yet from the ninth to the twenty-first century this claim has never been properly recognized: modern scholarship still misrepresents them as Greek, multi-ethnic, medieval, oriental, Orthodox, or 'Byzantine.' In this lecture, Professor Kaldellis will speak about what it means to be a Byzantinist today, and about our continuing reluctance to respect the Byzantines' notions of who they were and why they mattered.
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