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How to de-colonize Byzantine Studies, with Ben Anderson and Mirela Ivanova

A conversation with Ben Anderson and returning guest Mirela Ivanova on their co-edited volume of papers on the question Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? Toward a Critical Historiography. We talk about how colonial, imperialist, or exploitative practices and ideologies have marked the history of our field, whether by making it complicit in them or by colonizing it.

Ben Anderson is an associate professor of the history of art and classics at Cornell University. Mirela Ivanova is a Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Sheffield. She previously appeared on Episode 56: Cyril, Methodios, and the conversion of the Slavs

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Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? Toward a Critical Historiography, is published by Penn State University Press. You can read the opening chapter here. This book is available on Amazon.com.

Byzantium & Friends is hosted by Anthony Kaldellis, a Professor at the University of Chicago. You can follow him on his personal website. You can listen to more episodes of Byzantium & Friends through PodbeanSpotify or Apple Podcasts

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