CfP: Online Workshop: Armenian Society under Caliphal Rule II
Following the success of the online workshop ‘Armenian Society under Caliphal
Rule’ in December 2023, the research group ‘Social Contexts of Rebellion in the
Early Islamic Period’ (SCORE, University of Hamburg) will host a follow-up event in
December 2025. On this occasion, the workshop will focus especially, though not
exclusively, on material culture.
The workshop will comprise a two-day fully online event, taking as its focus the
region of Armenia between the first Muslim invasions and the establishment of the
Bagratuni Kingdom, i.e. seventh to ninth centuries CE/first to third centuries AH.
Contributions will be welcome on any aspect of material culture, for instance – but by
no means limited to – monumental architecture, coins, inscriptions, ceramics,
glassware or metalwork. Papers addressing Armenian society under caliphal rule by
means of other types of evidence (e.g. texts or climatic data) will also be considered.
As in 2023, the workshop will be a compact and focused event running on two
consecutive afternoons only, thereby facilitating the participation of scholars in
multiple time zones. The dates of the workshop are fixed as Monday 8 and Tuesday
9 December 2025. Papers will be pre-circulated among speakers (though need not
be polished) two weeks in advance, i.e. by Monday 24 November 2025.
Following the workshop, revised versions of the papers will be requested from
contributors, to be submitted as a dossier for publication. This publication will form a
sequel to the volume currently in preparation from the workshop of 2023.
If you would like to participate in the workshop, please send an abstract of around
250 words to alasdair.grant"AT"uni-hamburg.de by Monday 31 March 2025. Preliminary expressions of interest or questions about the event are also warmly welcome at any time before the deadline.