The monasteries of Cozia and Hurezi will host at the end of this week the colloquium “The Past and the Future of Byzantine Studies,” an academic event taking place within the International Symposium “The Centennial of the Byzantine Studies Congresses 1924-2024. The Bucharest Congress and the internationalisation of Byzantine studies,” which started on Wednesday at the National Museum of Art of Romania (MNAR).
Representatives of the Archdiocese of Ramnic said that this event, which is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the congress on this theme organised in Bucharest by Nicolae Iorga, is attended by worldwide known researchers.
“The colloquium brings together more than 20 renowned Byzantinists from all over the world, who will discuss the importance of the congress organised a hundred years ago in Romania for the development of Byzantine studies worldwide. The papers will emphasise the important place that Romanian science has had and continues to have in Byzantine studies. By hosting the colloquium, MNAR, the holder of the oldest public collection of Byzantine and post-Byzantine art in the world, exhibited in the Romanian Gallery of Old Romanian Art and in the historical monasteries representative of Byzantine and post-Byzantine art in Romania, it continues the initiative of the organisers of the 1924 congress to bring to the attention of the international scientific community the valuable cultural treasure of Byzantine tradition in Romania,” the representatives of the Archdiocese of Ramnic said in a press release.
The events of this symposium in Valcea will start on Friday, from 16.30, at Cozia Monastery and will continue on Saturday at Hurezi Monastery, organised by the Archdiocese of Ramnic, the Institute of South-East European Studies of the Romanian Academy, the Romanian Society of Byzantine Studies, the International Association of Byzantine Studies and the National Museum of Art of Romania.