Keynote address is delivered by Prof. Dr. H.C. Dimitri Terzakis. The event series includes three sessions of lectures, the workshop “Reading Byzantine Notation” and the closing concert “Both sides of the sea”.

 The symposium is hosted by Bilkent History Department and Bilkent Saygun Center. All face-to-face and hybrid events take place in FEASS, C-Block Amphi. Events are held in different formats, hybrid, face-to-face, and online. For program outline, registration to events, and further info see below.

* 11 November 2021, Thursday

 10:30-13:00

Workshop “Reading Byzantine Notation - Introductory Level I”

 17:00-20:00

Welcome speech by Sercan Yandım Aydın

"Need for New Rhetoric - Understanding Byzantium and Its Culture"

 Keynote address by Prof. Dr. H.C. Dimitri Terzakis

“Byzantine and New Music - The Music of Dimitri Terzakis”

 Session “Theoretical Connections”

Chair: Antonios Botonakis

*  12 November 2021, Friday

 10:00-13:00

Workshop “Reading Byzantine Notation - Introductory Level II”

 16:00-19:00

Sessions “Visual Witnesses” and “Contemporary Influences”

Chair: Cenk Güray

 19:00-19:15

Closing speech by Luca Zavagno

“Epilogue - Closing remarks”

 20:00-21:30

Pre-concert talk by Antonios Botonakis

Closing concert “Both sides of the sea”

The Maestros of the Psaltic Art (Athens) and Achilleas Chaldaeakes, choral conductor

Nevin Şahin, percussion and Cenk Güray, bağlama (Ankara)