Eirini Panou

Personal details

Date of Birth: 04/ 05/ 1981

Address Evagelou Georgaki 39, Koropi, 19400, Athens, Greece

Email: eirini.panou@gmail.com

Studies

2007- 2011: Ph.D. in Byzantine studies, University of Birmingham

2005-6: MA in Byzantine studies, University of Birmingham

1999-2003: BA in Archaeology and Ηistory of Art, National Kapodistrian University

of Athens, Greece

Employment

Oct 2014- Sept 2015: Post Doctoral Researcher. Hebrew University of Jerusalem,

Israel.

June 2010- February 2013: The International Greek New Testament Project (IGNTP),

Transcriber of Byzantine manuscripts of the Gospel of John, ITSEE Institute,

University of Birmingham

May 2008-September 2009: Codex Sinaiticus Project, University of Birmingham.

2008 (winter semester): Teaching assistant, University of Birmingham

August 2008 – August 2009: Research assistant of Leslie Brubaker, director of the

college of Arts and Law, University of Birmingham

May 2008- March 2009 : Translator for the Foundation of the Hellenic world for the

digital project ‘Encyclopedia of the Hellenic world’, Greece

Seminars-Summer Schools

July 2013- February 2014: Management of Cultural Organizations,University of

Athens

2004-2005: Greek palaeography, National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation

2004-2005: Latin paleography, National Hellenic Research Foundation

July-Aug 2004: Summer school in Biblical Studies, University of Oxford

July-Aug 2002: Summer school in Medieval Studies, University of Cambridge

Organisation of Conferences-Symposia

2010, 15-7 Sept. : Member of the organization committee of the ‘U21 Digital

Humanities’ conference, University of Birmingham

2009, 27-28 June: Member of the organization committee of the workshop ‘Sailing

from Byzantium’: Themes and Problems in Sylvester Syropoulos’s

Memoirs, Book IV, University of Birmingham

2009, 8 July: Member of the organization committee of the conference ‘A

Celebration of The Mingana Collection Online’, Barber Institute,

Birmingham

Scholarships – Awards

May 2009: International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan,

(Travel-award)

April 2009: Society for the Promotion of Byzantine studies. Travel award, to

attend the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan

Dec. 2005- Dec. 2008: National Scholarship Foundation of Greece. Scholarship

to pursue postgraduate studies at the University of Birmingham

List of publications of Eirini Panou

Books:

The Cult of St Anne in Byzantium, Ashgate (2015).

Edited books:

Themes and Problems in Sylvester Syropoulos' Memoirs, Book IV - A

Byzantine view of politics and culture in the 15th-century Mediterranean,

Ashgate (2014).

Articles:

Patronage in the Patria, matronage and maternity in Wiener Jahrbuch für

Kunstgeschichte, Böhlau (2011-2), pp. 129-134.

Mary’s parents in homilies before and after James Kokkinobaphos in

Wonderful things, Byzantium through its art (42nd

Symposium of Byzantine

Studies, King’s College, London and Courtauld Institute, March 2009),

Ashgate (2012), pp. 91- 101.

The Colours Sylvester Syropoulos Saw: The ideological function of colour in

Byzantine histories and chronicles (13th- 15th centuries) in M. Cunningham,

F. Kondyli, E. Panou, V. Andriopoulou, eds, Themes and Problems in

Sylvester Syropoulos' Memoirs, Book IV - A Byzantine view of politics and

culture in the 15th-century Mediterranean, Ashgate (2014), pp. 175-184.

'The Church of Mary in the Probatic Pool and the haghiasmata of

Constantinople', Patristic Studies in the Twenty-first Century: An International

Conference to Mark the 50th Anniversary of AIEP/IAPS, Jerusalem, Brebols,

(2014), pp. 617-632.

Articles in press:

‘Female Patronage in the churches of Macedonia during the Middle and Late

Byzantine period’, in George Kakavas et al. (eds), The institution of

sponsorship from ancient to modern times, Athens (2015).

‘Apocryphal genealogy in fourteenth-century Serbia’, in Misa Rakocija (ed.),

Nis and Byzantium XIII, Stefan Nemanja between East and West, Nis i

Vizantija VI. Zbornik radova VII, Nis, (2015).

The imagery of Mary’s parents in the Byzantine art of Eastern Europe’,

Proceedings of the 2nd

International symposium "Days of Justinian I, Skopje,

17-18 October 2014 (Skopje, 2015).

Articles in preparation

‘Nikephoros Gregoras’s homily on the lament of Mary’s parents,’ in Yiannis

Petropoulos and Niki Tsironis (eds) Literature as Performance, Ashgate

(2015).

‘Between condemnation and use: Byzantine amulets of pregnancy’, in Antje

Bosselmann-Ruickbie and Leo Ruickbie (eds) The Material Culture of Magic

(2015).

Entries in encyclopedias:

"Earliest frescoes in the Roman Catacombs (ca. 200)," in Great Events in

Religion: An Encyclopedia of Pivotal Events in Religious History, edited by

Florin Curta and Andrew Holt (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2015), forthcoming

Entries in online publications

‘The cult of the Theotokos in Constantinople’, 2008,

Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, Costantinople, URL:

<http://www.ehw.gr/l.aspx?id=12525 (in Greek)

Translations of articles in online encyclopaedias

Bakou Eleni, ‘Antioch on the Orontes (Byzantium), Palace’, Encyclopaedia of the

Hellenic World, Constantinople, Asia Minor, URL:

<http://www.ehw.gr/l.aspx?id=7294

Moutafov Emmanuel, ‘Pantokrator Monastery (Molla Zeyrek Camii)’, Encyclopaedia

of the Hellenic World, Constantinople, URL: <http://www.ehw.gr/l.aspx?id=11770>