Inspired by Pera Museum’s exhibition “What Byzantinism Is This in Istanbul!”: Byzantium in Popular Culture, we invited artists to converse with researchers of Byzantine history on how they have engaged with Byzantine history in their works. We explore the unearthly ways of appropriating Byzantine culture in unlikely mediums and genres, showing novel ways of engagement with Byzantine heritage in popular culture.
Two Byzantinist colleagues reunite to discuss Arkady Martine’s 2020 Hugo winner space opera A Memory Called Empire, and its allusions to Byzantine culture.
Ingela Nilsson is the former director of the Swedish Institute in Istanbul. She is also a professor in Greek and Byzantine Studies at Uppsala University. Her research interests lie in the narrative traditions between the Ancient and Byzantine worlds, historiography, and fictional writings in Byzantium, as well as the reception of Byzantium in post-Byzantine Europe. Her most recent book is titled Writer and Occasion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium: The Authorial Voice of Constantine Manasses
Arkady Martine is the pen name of Dr. AnnaLinden Weller that she adopts in her speculative fiction writing. As AnnaLinden Weller, she is a historian of the Byzantine Empire and a city planner. She actually did her postdoctoral research at Uppsala University where she worked with Ingela Nilsson. Arkady Martine published short fiction in many prominent speculative fiction magazines. She won the Hugo Award for best novel in 2020 with her debut novel A Memory Called Empire. Her second novel, a sequel to her first, A Desolation Called Peace is published in 2021.
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Inspired by Pera Museum’s exhibition “What Byzantinism Is This in Istanbul!”: Byzantium in Popular Culture, we invited artists to converse with researchers of Byzantine history on how they have engaged with Byzantine history in their works. We explore the unearthly ways of appropriating Byzantine culture in unlikely mediums and genres, showing novel ways of engagement with Byzantine heritage in popular culture.
Two Byzantinist colleagues reunite to discuss Arkady Martine’s 2020 Hugo winner space opera A Memory Called Empire, and its allusions to Byzantine culture.
Ingela Nilsson is the former director of the Swedish Institute in Istanbul. She is also a professor in Greek and Byzantine Studies at Uppsala University. Her research interests lie in the narrative traditions between the Ancient and Byzantine worlds, historiography, and fictional writings in Byzantium, as well as the reception of Byzantium in post-Byzantine Europe. Her most recent book is titled Writer and Occasion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium: The Authorial Voice of Constantine Manasses
Arkady Martine is the pen name of Dr. AnnaLinden Weller that she adopts in her speculative fiction writing. As AnnaLinden Weller, she is a historian of the Byzantine Empire and a city planner. She actually did her postdoctoral research at Uppsala University where she worked with Ingela Nilsson. Arkady Martine published short fiction in many prominent speculative fiction magazines. She won the Hugo Award for best novel in 2020 with her debut novel A Memory Called Empire. Her second novel, a sequel to her first, A Desolation Called Peace is published in 2021.
Buket Kitapçı Bayrı, çizgi roman kahramanı Batman’in dünyanın çeşitli şehirlerinde atıldığı maceralarını konu alan Batman: Dünya (2021) cildindeki Beşik öyküsünün çizeri Ethem Onur Bilgiç’le Bizans’ın sahnelenişini tartışıyor.
Buket Kitapçı Bayrı, doktora derecesini Paris 1/Panthéon-Sorbonne ve Boğaziçi Üniversiteleri’nin ortak programından aldı. İstanbul Bilgi, Yeditepe ve Boğaziçi Üniversiteleri’nde dersler verdi ve Koç Üniversitesi-ANAMED ve GABAM'da doktora sonrası araştırmalar yaptı. 2020’de Brill yayınevinden Warriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes: Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities in the Land of Rome (13th-15th Centuries) isimli kitabı yayımlanan araştırmacı Türkiye’de edebiyat ve film alanında Bizans gösterimleri hakkında da öncü çalışmalar yapmıştır.
Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi’nin Grafik Tasarımı bölümünden mezun Ethem Onur Bilgiç bugüne kadar pek çok kitap ve dergi kapağı tasarladı, çeşitli film ve festivaller için posterler üretti. Salkım Söğüt isimli kısa animasyonu çeşitli ulusal festivallerden ödül kazandı. Ertan Ergil’in kaleme alıp DC Comics’in yayımladığı Beşik’in çizeridir.
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Buket Kitapçı Bayrı talks to the artist Ethem Onur Bilgiç on the representation of Byzantium in The Cradle from Batman: The World, where Batman quests in various cities around the world.
This podcast episode is only available in Turkish.
Buket Kitapçı Bayrı is awarded PhD by the joint programme of Paris 1/Sorbonne and Boğaziçi University. Since 2011, she has been instructing at İstanbul Bilgi, Yeditepe, and Boğaziçi universities. She has conducted post doctoral research both at Koc University-ANAMED and GABAM. Her recent book Warriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes: Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities in the Land of Rome (13th-15th Centuries) has been published by Brill in 2020. Her research on the reception of Byzantium in Turkish literature and cinema is pioneering in the field.
Ethem Onur Bilgiç, a graduate of Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, has designed numerous book and magazine covers, posters for films and festivals. His short animation Weeping Willow has been awarded at various film festivals. He did the drawings and coloring for The Cradle, written by Ertan Ergil and published by DC Comics.
What Byzantinism Is This in Istanbul!
Inspired by Pera Museum’s exhibition “What Byzantinism Is This in Istanbul!”: Byzantium in Popular Culture, we invited artists to converse with researchers of Byzantine history on how they have engaged with Byzantine history in their works. We explore the unearthly ways of appropriating Byzantine culture in unlikely mediums and genres, showing novel ways of engagement with Byzantine heritage in popular culture.
Two Byzantinist colleagues reunite to discuss Arkady Martine’s 2020 Hugo winner space opera A Memory Called Empire, and its allusions to Byzantine culture.
Ingela Nilsson is the former director of the Swedish Institute in Istanbul. She is also a professor in Greek and Byzantine Studies at Uppsala University. Her research interests lie in the narrative traditions between the Ancient and Byzantine worlds, historiography, and fictional writings in Byzantium, as well as the reception of Byzantium in post-Byzantine Europe. Her most recent book is titled Writer and Occasion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium: The Authorial Voice of Constantine Manasses
Arkady Martine is the pen name of Dr. AnnaLinden Weller that she adopts in her speculative fiction writing. As AnnaLinden Weller, she is a historian of the Byzantine Empire and a city planner. She actually did her postdoctoral research at Uppsala University where she worked with Ingela Nilsson. Arkady Martine published short fiction in many prominent speculative fiction magazines. She won the Hugo Award for best novel in 2020 with her debut novel A Memory Called Empire. Her second novel, a sequel to her first, A Desolation Called Peace is published in 2021.
