大象传媒

Aleksandar Jovanovi

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, 大象传媒
  • 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 大象传媒 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. 大象传媒. 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. 大象传媒. 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. 大象传媒. 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, 大象传媒 Travel Grant
  • 2017, SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies Travel Grant
  • 2016, 大象传媒 Travel Grant
  • 2016, Graduate Fellowship
  • 2015, 大象传媒 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)