Dear Lady / Dear Sir,

It is our great pleasure to inform you that the City of Nis in cooperation with the University of Nis organizes the 9th International Symposium of Byzantologists "NIS AND BYZANTIUM", which will be held from 3rd to 5th June 2010 within framework of marking the city Festivities of St. Czar Constantine and Czarina Helena. 

The Symposium shall gather renowned researchers of our past on the Day of Saints Czar Constantine and Czarina Helena, with the purpose of informing the European scholarly public about the significance of Nis for the entire Christian world. The intention of the Symposium organizers is to contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the Early-Christian, Byzantine and Post-Byzantine past of Nis, as well as of its reverberations to the later spiritual, cultural and artistic creative endeavors in Nis and its surrounding area, the Balkans and Europe. This would imply the interdisciplinary approach and the participation of art historians, historians, architects, archaeologists, classical philologists, literature-historians, theologians, philosophers… http://www.ni.rs/byzantium/english.php

The presented papers shall be published in the Proceedings of the Symposium that shall be promoted on the first day of the next meeting in 2011. The participants have to furnish the organizers with their respective papers together with complete scientific references by November 2010.               

Highly appreciating your work and the results achieved in the field of medieval studies and the influence of the Byzantine world on modern Europe, we kindly invite you to take part in the 9th International Symposium "NIS AND BYZANTIUM - IX", this year with a view towards the celebration of the Edict of Milan anniversary.

The Symposium organizers shall cover the accommodation and meal expenses for the participants whose work paper is accepted for the presentation.

The deadline for paper submission is May 10th 2010, to the following addresses:

• Ana Misic, Mayor's Office, International Cooperation Affairs,7. juli Street No. 2, 18 000 Nis,
  tel. +381(0)18-504-408  Fax. +381(0)18-504-545; mob.064/833-00-42, e-mail: ana.misic@gu.ni.rs
• Misa Rakocija, Institute for Cultural Monuments Protection Nis, Dobricka street 2, 18 000 Nis
  Tel. +381(0) 18- 523- 414, e-mail: mrakocija@ptt.yu