The UMMAA Brown Bag Lecture Series is pleased to present Drosos Kardulias, PhD pre-candidate at the University of Michigan, who will speak on Friday, March 10, 12-1 pm. The lecture, "A Preliminary Report on the Medieval Roman Kastra of Kalymnos, Greece," will take place in Room 1315, School of Education.
The Aegean island of Kalymnos, part of the Dodecanese Archipelago, has long sat at the crossroads of nations and empires. The ruggedness of its terrain belies its prosperity, and, during the regionally destructive transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages, Kalymnians distinguish themselves from their neighbors by the construction of fortifications, in contrast to other islanders’ flight and dispersal. Reporting on a preliminary season of site visits and GIS recording, Kardulias places Kalymnos within the context of debates on settlement, conflict, and economy in the tumultuous seventh century AD.
The Museum’s Brown Bag Lecture Series is free and open to the public.
