{"id":581,"date":"2013-10-29T16:30:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T20:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval\/?p=581"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:05:17","slug":"byzantium-and-islam-art-poetry-and-sound-at-the-crossroads-of-the-mediterranean-sean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/2013\/10\/29\/byzantium-and-islam-art-poetry-and-sound-at-the-crossroads-of-the-mediterranean-sean\/","title":{"rendered":"Byzantium and Islam: Art, Poetry, and Sound at the Crossroads of the Mediterranean Sean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From October 29 &#8211; November 20, 2013, the Program in Classical and Medieval Studies and the Department of Religious Studies at Bates College presented a three-part series on &#8220;Byzantium and Islam: Art, Poetry, and Sound at the Crossroads of the Mediterranean Sea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>October 29, 2013:\u00a0 &#8220;Venice, Byzantium, and Islam: Trade and the Arts in the Medieval Mediterranean&#8221; presented by Professor Maria Georgopoulou from the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, The Gennadeion.<\/p>\n<p>November 14, 2013:\u00a0 &#8220;Sicily: A Mediterranean Island at the Crossroads of Byzantium and Islam&#8221; presented by Professor Russell J. Hopley from Bowdoin College.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Byzantium in Ottoman Clothing: Greeks of Istanbul and the Music of Rembetiko&#8221; presented by Professor Ali Humayum Akhtar from Bates College.\u00a0 To view more about Professor Akhtar and his presentation, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/11\/08\/bates-college-lectures-to-explore-intersections-of-religion-trade-culture-in-mediterranean\/\">Bates College lectures to explore intersections of religion, trade, culture in Mediterranean<\/a><\/strong>, from the Bates News.<\/p>\n<p>This lecture series was made possible with the generous support of the Maliotis Charitable Foundation in conjunction with the support of several divisions, departments, and programs at Bates College.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From October 29 &#8211; November 20, 2013, the Program in Classical and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}