BEMA Online Seminars - Balkan Heritage Field School
BEMA ONLINE SEMINARS
in Balkan and Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology are a series of online archaeology seminars covering topics from the prehistoric, classical and medieval periods. All lectures are presented in English.
GEOGRAPHICAL FOCUS
The seminars' geographical focus falls on Southeastern Europe, Asia Minor, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Black Sea and the Caucasus region but can be expanded to include other areas thematically or geographically related to them.
BEMA
‘Bema’ (βῆμα) also means orators’ podium in Greek. The seminars offer a platform for specialists in archaeology, but also other related fields like anthropology, conservation, art history and museum studies to share their knowledge with a global audience.
ORGANIZERS & PARTICIPATION
The seminars are co-organized by the Balkan Heritage Foundation and the Department of Archaeology at New Bulgarian University. They take place on Zoom and are available for free upon subscription.
by Dr. Katharine Kolpan
Assistant Professor at the Department of Culture, Society, and Justice at the University of Idaho
by Dr. Phillip W. Stockhammer and Bogdan Athanasov
by Dr. Carolyn S. Snively
Professor Emeritus of the Department of Classics at Gettysburg College and Co-director of the Konjuh Archaeological Project
by Dr. Andrew Koh
Associate Research Scholar in NELC and PI of the Yale Peabody Museum Ancient Pharmacology & Medicine Lab
by Stefan Palitov
Extended reality, film and cultural practitioner and researcher
by Dr. Despoina Tsiafaki
Director of Research at "Athena": Research & Innovation Center in Information, Communication & Knowledge Technologies
by Dr. Silvana Blazhevska
National Institution Stobi, R. of N. Macedonia
by Dr. Julien Vieugué and Anna Eirikh-Rose
Permanent researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS),
Permanent researcher at the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), dig co-directors of Sha`ar Hagolan
by Historian David Hendrix,
Founder of The Byzantine Legacy website
by Dr. Kamen Boyadzhiev
Head of the “Exhibitions” Department at the National Archaeological Institute with Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
By Dr. Kroum Batchvarov
Associate Professor of Maritime Archaeology at the University of Connecticut
By Alexander Manev
Ph.D. Candidate in Classical Archaeology at National Institute of Archaeology and Museum (NAIM-BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria), Balkan Heritage Field School Instructor
by Dr. Richard Wenghofer
Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Nipissing University (North Bay, Ontario, Canada)
by Dr. Nikolas Sarris
Conservator of paper and archive materials at the National Library of Greece
by Dr. Petya Ilieva
Institute of Balkan Studies and Center for Thracology,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
by Dr. Matthew Shueller
Department of Classical Studies,
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
by Dr. Nayden Prahov
Director of the Center for Underwater Archaeology in Sozopol, Bulgaria,
Founding Member of the Balkan Heritage Foundation
by Dr. Vassil Tenekedjiev
Balkan Heritage Foundation Branch Manager – Varna
Assistant professor at the Department of Archaeology,
Varna Regional Museum of History.
by Dr. Tsenka Tsanova
Department of Human Evolution
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany