Dr. Christine Stephan-Kaissis - Projects

• Work on a postdoctoral degree (Habilitation) at the Institute of Byzantine Archaeology and Art History of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg: Codex Athos Pantokratoros (working title) (in preparation)
• Byzantium Beyond its Eastern Borders. Drittmittelprojekt/Cluster of Excellence: Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries and Cultural Flows, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (concluded)

Academic interests

• Late antique and early medieval byzantine book illumination
• Byzantine image theology - Visual communication in Byzantium
• Visual culture of the Palaiologan age
• Transcultural processes between Byzantium, China and India