The A.G. Leventis Foundation is currently generously sponsoring a two-year, part-time Fellowship on post-Byzantine art in honour of the late Konstantinos Leventis. This sponsorship is both a confirmation and a recognition of The Open University’s contribution in the field. The objectives of this research fellowship are to explore the contribution of Candia, the capital of Venetian Crete, to the cultural developments of Western Europe in the late 15th century and evaluate links between post –Byzantine art and the Renaissance.
In February 2009 The Open University and The Warburg Institute co-organised a workshop in connection with the Byzantine exhibition at the Royal Academy London (25 October 2008 - 22 March 2009). This workshop was co-funded by The Open University and the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (SPBS). SPBS is the major Society for Byzantine studies in the UK and its funding and support of an Open University Byzantine-related project signifies a further reputable recognition of our achievements on this field. The Open University’s funding application to the SPBS was ‘the best the Society had received’ in connection to the exhibition.
The Open University is hoping to be the host of the Spring Byzantine Symposium either in 2014 or 2015 with a theme dedicated to the cross-cultural interaction between Byzantine East and European West.
Angeliki Lymberopoulou has been invited to deliver a paper in the seminar series at the University of Birmingham, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies on 4th March 2010 with the title ‘Fourteenth-century regional Cretan church decoration: A tale of two cultures?’.
