2025 Annual Lecture of the Yan P. Lin Centre - ‘Constantinople 1453: The Fate of the Conquered and the Passage to Modernity’ by Anthony Kaldellis
The Lin Centre’s 2025 Annual Lecture, ‘Constantinople 1453: The Fate of the Conquered and the Passage to Modernity’, was delivered by Professor Anthony Kaldellis, Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago, on March 26.
2025 Global Pasts Works-in-Progress Workshop and Awards Program
Global Pasts Works-in-Progress WorkshopAs a means of enhancing our scholarly community on campus, the Yan P. Lin Centre’s Research Group on Global Pasts will organize a workshop to showcase ongoing research aligned with the core agenda of our research group. The workshop will consist of a series of short (ca. 20 minute) presentations on individual case studies (texts, events, objects, monuments, etc.) followed by group discussion.
The Yan P. Lin Centre’s Research Group on Global Pasts Releases Book on Place and Performance in Antiquity
We enthusiastically announce the publication of Place and Performance in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China with Cambridge University Press in December 2024. It is the first volume in Cambridge’s new series Antiquity in Global Context. Profs. Griet Vankeerberghen and Hans Beck have edited this volume, and their long-standing collaboration was the foundation of the Global Antiquities cluster of the Yan P. Lin Centre, evolved and expanded into our Global Pasts Research Group.