Press & Media Coverage 2019-2021
2021:
16 November 2021: Prof. Claudia Rapp, Mobilität als kultureller Motor in Byzanz“, ÖAW Homepage-Link
2020:
20 March 2020: Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, " "Justinianische Pest": Verheerende Seuche oder doch nur eine kleine Krankheitswelle? ", Der Standard (link to the online version)
March 2020: Prof. Ronnie Ellenblum (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) was invited by the Wittgenstein Award Project “Moving Byzantium” to give a lecture on the topic “Resilience” or “Fragility”? Reconsidering Climate and Historical Civilizations (planned on 11 March 2020) and he received the following coverage:
13 March 2020: Press interview with Prof. Ronnie Ellenblum in the "Wiener Zeitung" on the topic "Coronavirus: Die Krise starrt jetzt jedem ins Gesicht" [Coronavirus: The crisis is now staring into everyone's face]. The topic is discussed from the viewpoint of environmental history and historical geography - Link
14 April 2020: Radio interview with Prof. Ronnie Ellenblum, broadcasted on Ö1 (Vienna) on “What can we learn from historical crises? / Was man aus historischen Krisen lernen kann?”.
Radio interview by Hanna Ronzheimer (Ö1-Wissenschaft)
Coverage of the interview on the Science-Website of Austrian TV and Radio ORF
2019:
Articles:
23 Oktober 2019: Michael Knoche, „Legt das Pergament wieder in die Nische zurück“, Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 246 (2019), p. 3 – PDF
10 July 2019: „Ein Kaiserreich voller Bewegung“, Forschungsnewsletter Juli 2019 (University of Vienna: Medienportal) – Link
27 July 2019: Erich Witzmann, „Alte Manuskripte und der Text unter dem Text“, Die Presse (link to the online version: 26 July 2019)
Media coverage:
9 July 2019: Radio interview in Georgia with Dr. Emilio Bonfiglio, member of the Wittgenstein-Moving Byzantium-project team – Link / Also available on YouTube – Link
10 July 2019: TV interview in Georgia with Dr. Emilio Bonfiglio, member of the Wittgenstein-Moving Byzantium-project team, on Georgian manuscript culture in the program "New Day" broadcasted this morning on Georgian "First Channel" – Link