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Public Lectures

  • Nikos Tsivikis (PI BALAA), Οινοπαραγωγή, αμπελοκαλλιέργεια και αγροτική τεχνολογία στο βυζαντινό Αμόριο της Μικράς Ασίας (7ος-9ος αιώνας), Public Lecture at University of Patras, 11/12/2023.
  • Nikos Tsivikis (PI BALAA), Περιβαλλοντική Ιστορία και Περιβαλλοντική Αρχαιολογία μια Βυζαντινή (αγροτική) εκδοχή, Public Lecture at Hellenic Association for Environmental History, Athens, 28/9/2023.

Keynote presentations

  • Nikos Tsivikis (PI BALAA), Αρχαιολογικές προσεγγίσεις στο βυζαντινό αγροτικό τοπίο: παρόν και μέλλον, Keynote presentation at the 43rd Symposium of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Archaeology and Art, Christian Archaeological Society, Athens, 25/5/2024
  • Nikos Tsivikis (PI BALAA), Viticulture and Wine Production in Amorion as a characteristic of the Byzantine Early Medieval cities of Asia Minor: defining space between ruralization and urbanization,Keynote presentation at Conference “Urban-Rural Relationships and Relationships between Urban Centers/Mega Centers and Economic Spaces”, Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut Istanbul, Princeton CCHRI, Koç University ANAMED, Istanbul, 4/3/2024.

Conference Presentations

  • Nikos Tsivikis (PI BALAA), Environmental Challenges to Agricultural Production in a Transforming Byzantine Landscape (6th-12th c.): The Archaeological View, at the International Conference “Envisioning the Greek Landscape: from Thera to Climate Change”, organized by Sacramento State University, UCLA and University of Athens, 19/10/2023.
  • Nikos Tsivikis (PI BALAA) / Jamieson Donati (BALAA), The BALAA Project and the Byzantine Agricultural Landscape. Is there a byzantine field type?, at the ANALYZING THE BYZANTINE LANDSCAPE: AGRICULTURE, ECONOMY, AND IDEOLOGY session of the 24th International Byzantine Studies Conference, Venice-Padova, 23/8/2022.
  • Thanasis Sotiriou (BALAA), In search of the agricultural historical landscape in the byzantine sources (7th-12th centuries), at the ANALYZING THE BYZANTINE LANDSCAPE: AGRICULTURE, ECONOMY, AND IDEOLOGY session of the 24th International Byzantine Studies Conference, Venice-Padova, 23/8/2022.
  • Selda Uygun (BALAA) / Zeynep Aktop (BALAA), Landscape and the materiality of the agrarian cycle of Amorian economy, at the ANALYZING THE BYZANTINE LANDSCAPE: AGRICULTURE, ECONOMY, AND IDEOLOGY session of the 24th International Byzantine Studies Conference, Venice-Padova, 23/8/2022.
  • Nikos Tsivikis (PI BALAA), Between the City and the Fields: Power, Economy and Materiality in a Byzantine Early Medieval (7th-9th c.) House at the ‘Large Building’ of Amorium, at the “Archaeological Approaches to the Byzantine House” in the Archaeological Institute of America and Society of Classical Studies joint Annual Meeting, San Francisco,  08/01/2022.
  • Nikos Tsivikis (PI BALAA), The Byzantine Agricultural Landscape Across the Aegean project: putting Remote Sensing into Byzantine context, at the “40th International Mediterranean Survey Conference: Remote Sensing, Ecology and Heritage Management”, organized by Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and DAI Istanbul, Istanbul, 04/06/2021.

Conference Session Organised

  • ANALYZING THE BYZANTINE LANDSCAPE: AGRICULTURE, ECONOMY, AND IDEOLOGY, session organized by Nikos Tsivikis (PI BALAA) at the “24th International Byzantine Studies Conference”, Venice-Padova, 23/8/2022.

Publications

  • Nikos Tsivikis (PI BALAA), “Before the Coming of the Slavs: Architecture and Liturgy in Rural Sixth century Peloponnese”, in: M. Hathaway (ed.), Religious Exchange and Identities in Europe: Byzantium, Latin West and the Slavic World, Mainz 2025, 57-71.
  • Z. Demirel-Gökalp and Ν. Tsivikis, “Understanding Urban Transformation in Amorium from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages”, in: E. Fiore and M. Trizio (eds.), Proceedings of the 24th  International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Venice and Padova, 22-27 August 2022. Plenary Papers. Venice 2022, 325-344.
  • N. Tsivikis και J. Donati, “The ‘Byzantine Agricultural Landscape Across the Aegean’ Project and the Byzantine Field Systems. Is there a distinct type of Byzantine Field?” in: L. Farina and E. Despotakis (eds.), Abstracts of the Free Communications, Thematic Sessions, Round Tables and Posters. The 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies. Venice and Padua, 22-27 August 2022, Venice 2022, 294.
  • N. Tsivikis, «Αρχαιολογικές προσεγγίσεις στο βυζαντινό αγροτικό τοπίο», in: 43rd Symposium of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Archaeology and Art, Christian Archaeological Society, Abstracts, Athens 2024, 119-121.