Dimitris Loupis studied philosophy and history of the Middle East in Athens, Ankara and Boston. He holds an MA in Ottoman history from Bilkent University and another MA in the History of Middle East from Harvard University. He is a PhD candidate at Harvard and research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research in the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens. His fields of interest are focused on the cultural history of the Mediterranean from Late Antiquity to Early Modern Era, as well as on the relations and networks of peoples in Eurasia with an emphasis on the Byzantine and the Islamic worlds.
The advancement of digital technologies has offered new tools to historians in their effort to co... more The advancement of digital technologies has offered new tools to historians in their effort to convey to a wider public their understanding of the past. In cinema, many professional historians have contributed to bringing realistic depictions of past worlds. Today, videogames are an equally important medium where historians can bring a more realistic, and therefore, more attractive for a –usually younger– audience, gameplay. The role of the historian in the development of digital applications, such as videogames and mostly Role-Playing Games (RPG), focuses on the constant need for closer collaboration between historians and developers, and, eventually, a better mode of mutual understanding. Historians are thus involved in a process that can be described in three phases: the creative, during which the main concept is formulated; the research phase, when the historical information is gathered; and the aesthetic phase, where the historians help depict the built environment and the cultural features. These reflections have been the main focus of the project “Digital Routes in Greek History’s Paths” (RoGH) implemented by the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation with the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Athens, and Content Management in Culture (COMIC). RoGH’s main initiative is the development of a digital platform allowing anyone to visit the history of Greece from antiquity to modern times. This paper focuses on the case study of the tower of Ouranoupolis in Chalkidiki, which has been recreated in 3D. The tower is an important landmark at the entrance of Mount Athos and has been the main edifice of the dependency of Vatopediou monastery from the Byzantine era until the 20th century. Today it hosts the local museum.
The advancement of digital technologies has offered new tools to historians in their effort to co... more The advancement of digital technologies has offered new tools to historians in their effort to convey to a wider public their understanding of the past. In cinema, many professional historians have contributed to bringing realistic depictions of past worlds. Today, videogames are an equally important medium where historians can bring a more realistic, and therefore, more attractive for a –usually younger– audience, gameplay. The role of the historian in the development of digital applications, such as videogames and mostly Role-Playing Games (RPG), focuses on the constant need for closer collaboration between historians and developers, and, eventually, a better mode of mutual understanding. Historians are thus involved in a process that can be described in three phases: the creative, during which the main concept is formulated; the research phase, when the historical information is gathered; and the aesthetic phase, where the historians help depict the built environment and the cultural features. These reflections have been the main focus of the project “Digital Routes in Greek History’s Paths” (RoGH) implemented by the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation with the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Athens, and Content Management in Culture (COMIC). RoGH’s main initiative is the development of a digital platform allowing anyone to visit the history of Greece from antiquity to modern times. This paper focuses on the case study of the tower of Ouranoupolis in Chalkidiki, which has been recreated in 3D. The tower is an important landmark at the entrance of Mount Athos and has been the main edifice of the dependency of Vatopediou monastery from the Byzantine era until the 20th century. Today it hosts the local museum.
Bektashism in the Southern Balkans
An e-Symposium in Memory of Efstratios Zeginis
Sa 30 - Su 31 O... more Bektashism in the Southern Balkans An e-Symposium in Memory of Efstratios Zeginis Sa 30 - Su 31 October 2021 Organized by Paschalis Androudis & Dimitris Loupis
Lecture delivered in Greek in a series of the Online event "Dimensions of the History of the Quee... more Lecture delivered in Greek in a series of the Online event "Dimensions of the History of the Queen of Cities," organized by the Society of Friends of the Patriarchal Great School of Nation, 27/5/2021.
Paper presented at the Online event "The Ottoman Acropolis: Entangled Biographies, Shared Heritag... more Paper presented at the Online event "The Ottoman Acropolis: Entangled Biographies, Shared Heritage," organized by dëcoloиıze hellάş in collaboration with the Decolonial Initiative at Brown University, 26/5/2021.
Lecture delivered in Greek. Organized by
The Greek Committee & Center for Southeastern European ... more Lecture delivered in Greek. Organized by The Greek Committee & Center for Southeastern European Studies
Lecture delivered in Greek. Organized by
The Greek Committee & Center for Southeastern European ... more Lecture delivered in Greek. Organized by The Greek Committee & Center for Southeastern European Studies
Paper presented in Greek at the Colloque "Monuments ottomans en Grèce: héritages en négociation,"... more Paper presented in Greek at the Colloque "Monuments ottomans en Grèce: héritages en négociation," held at École Française d’Athènes, 20-22/6/2019.
Lecture delivered in Greek. Organized by
The Greek Committee & Center for Southeastern European ... more Lecture delivered in Greek. Organized by The Greek Committee & Center for Southeastern European Studies
Lecture delivered in Greek. Organized by
The Greek Committee for South-East European Studies
&
T... more Lecture delivered in Greek. Organized by The Greek Committee for South-East European Studies & The Historical and Palaeographical Archive National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation (ΙΠΑ/ΜΙΕΤ)
Lecture delivered in Greek at the Kastritseion Museum for the Culture of Constantinople and Asia ... more Lecture delivered in Greek at the Kastritseion Museum for the Culture of Constantinople and Asia Minor. Organized by the Society for the Study of Near East and the Seminar of Ottoman Language and Paleography in Athens, Greece, on Thursday, May 9th 2019.
Lecture delivered in Greek at the event "Through the eyes of foreigners" at the Athenian Library,... more Lecture delivered in Greek at the event "Through the eyes of foreigners" at the Athenian Library, Municipal Library of Athens, Thursday January 31st 2019 at 18:30, as part of "Athens 2018-World Book Capital"
Paper presented at the International Scientific Conference "Fortifications of the Ottoman Period ... more Paper presented at the International Scientific Conference "Fortifications of the Ottoman Period in the Aegean", October 30th-31st 2018, Ephorate of Antiquities of Lesbos, Mytilene.
Lecture delivered in Greek at the Kastritseion Museum for the Culture of Constantinople and Asia ... more Lecture delivered in Greek at the Kastritseion Museum for the Culture of Constantinople and Asia Minor. Organized by the Society for the Study of Near East and the Seminar of Ottoman Language and Paleography in Athens, Greece, on Tuesday, October 9th 2018.
Lecture delivered in Greek at the Kastritseion Museum for the Culture of Constantinople and Asia ... more Lecture delivered in Greek at the Kastritseion Museum for the Culture of Constantinople and Asia Minor. Organized by the Society for the Study of Near East and the Seminar of Ottoman Language and Paleography in Athens, Greece, on Monday, June 18th 2018.
Paper presented in Greek at the Dialogues in Archaeology, 4th Meeting, May 31st - June 3rd 2018, ... more Paper presented in Greek at the Dialogues in Archaeology, 4th Meeting, May 31st - June 3rd 2018, Society of Greek Archaeologists, Athens
Lecture delivered in Greek for the event "Ottoman Boeotia" organized by the Society for the Study... more Lecture delivered in Greek for the event "Ottoman Boeotia" organized by the Society for the Study of Near East and the Seminar of Ottoman Language and Paleography at the Kastritseion Museum for the Culture of Constantinople and Asia Minor in Athens, Greece, on Thursday, May 17th 2018.
Lecture delivered in Greek. Organized by
The Greek Committee for Studies on Southeastern Europe
... more Lecture delivered in Greek. Organized by The Greek Committee for Studies on Southeastern Europe & The Historical and Palaeographical Archive National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation (ΙΠΑ/ΜΙΕΤ)
Talk delivered in Greek at the Kastritseion Museum of the Culture of Constantinople and Asia Mino... more Talk delivered in Greek at the Kastritseion Museum of the Culture of Constantinople and Asia Minor in Athens, Greece on Wednesday, December 13th, 2017 during the event of the presentation of a new publication by Ahmed Ameen on Ottoman mosques in Greece.
IV. FORUM KUNST DES MITTELALTERS
BERLIN UND BRANDENBURG
360° – VERORTUNG, ENTGRENZUNG, GLOB... more IV. FORUM KUNST DES MITTELALTERS
BERLIN UND BRANDENBURG
360° – VERORTUNG, ENTGRENZUNG, GLOBALISIERUNG
20.–23. SEPTEMBER 2017
veranstaltet vom
Deutschen Verein für Kunstwissenschaft e.V.
mit der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, der Freien Universität Berlin und dem Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa
PANEL TOPIC
Spätbyzantinische Ornamente (13.–15. Jahrhundert) – Überschreitung von Genregrenzen, Kulturgrenzen und Forschungsdisziplinen
Organisation: Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture, Brookline (MA)
Leitung: Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie, Mainz
PAPER ABSTRACT
Middle and Late Byzantine era architecture developed a specific idiom in wall masonry with the implementation of a variety of stone and brick or all-brick patterns and decorative designs. Ceramoplastic ornamented façades of churches became a canvas on which a variety of ornaments were applied. One of the early and most striking examples were the Pseudo-Kufic freezes of churches of Southern Greece such as the Panagia Church of Osios Lucas dated ca. 962-963. This Kufesque ornament, which lasted up until 13th century, is an apparent example of cultural transfer among Islamic world and Byzantium.
This paper focuses though on a few other brick ornaments such as ‘ivy leaf,’ ‘sun,’ and ogee blind arches that have attracted comparatively less the interest of scholars. Those ornaments either in single occurrence or in combination are met on façades of mosques, churches, fortification walls, dervish convents in a wide geography all around Eastern Mediterranean under the Byzantine and the Islamic cultures of the Fatimids, Ayyubids, Mamluks, and Ottomans. In this context Venice should also be taken into consideration. Cultural transfer through this example of mobility of ornaments apparently is beyond religious limitations. It becomes clear that there is a flexibility in what enters an architect’s or mason’s design portfolio compared to what enters a priest’s bag.
Project RoGH, a collaboration of the Department of Informatics and Communications of the National... more Project RoGH, a collaboration of the Department of Informatics and Communications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, and COntent Management In Culture (COMIC), creates the innovative application "Digital Routes" that presents important events and moments in Greek History as an experiential journey. The application hosts digitized content and multimedia material (2D, 3D, holograms, etc.), presents them through virtual reality, and offers its users the opportunity to journey through the footsteps of the timeless historical course of Hellenism from Antiquity to modern times. With the use of a virtual reality mask and guided by an interactive timeline, users will have the opportunity to chart individual paths in the course of Greek history and get to know important historical events, virtually visiting historical places of Greece. They will be able to select more information, as well as search and locate historical events, sites, and interesting objects based on terms or chronology. It is also possible to write comments, helping create an information “route”. The dynamic design and setup of the chronology platform allow visitors to directly access historical sites in Greece in a direct and experiential way. Users have access to texts, photos, videos, and 3D representations through a journey in Greek history that will be fun and educational for young and old
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An e-Symposium in Memory of Efstratios Zeginis
Sa 30 - Su 31 October 2021
Organized by Paschalis Androudis & Dimitris Loupis
The Greek Committee & Center for Southeastern European Studies
Monday, December 23, 2019, 7 p.m.
EESNAE-EKENE, 112 Solonos Str., Athens, Greece
The Greek Committee & Center for Southeastern European Studies
Wednesday, October 23, 2019, 7 p.m.
EESNAE-EKENE, 112 Solonos Str., Athens, Greece
The Greek Committee & Center for Southeastern European Studies
Wednesday, June 19, 2019, 5 p.m.
EESNAE-EKENE, 112 Solonos Str., Athens, Greece
The Greek Committee for South-East European Studies
&
The Historical and Palaeographical Archive
National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation (ΙΠΑ/ΜΙΕΤ)
Friday, May 10, 2019, 7 p.m.
ΙΠΑ/ΜΙΕΤ, Panagi Skouze 3, Athens, Greece
The Greek Committee for Studies on Southeastern Europe
&
The Historical and Palaeographical Archive
National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation (ΙΠΑ/ΜΙΕΤ)
Friday, January 19, 2018, 7 p.m.
ΙΠΑ/ΜΙΕΤ, Panagi Skouze 3, Athens, Greece
National and Capodistrian University of Athens
School of Economic and Political Sciences
Department of Turkish and Modern Asian Studies
Athens, Greece
Course: Arts of Islamic World Ι: Arabic and Persian Art, 7th-18th c.
Instructor: Lecturer Dr. Panagiotis Poulos
Monday, November 27 2017, 16:00-17:00
Wednesday, October 18th, 2017, at 18:00
Kastritseion Museum of the Culture of Constantinople and Asia Minor
(17 Kapodistriou Av., Philothei, Athens)
BERLIN UND BRANDENBURG
360° – VERORTUNG, ENTGRENZUNG, GLOBALISIERUNG
20.–23. SEPTEMBER 2017
veranstaltet vom
Deutschen Verein für Kunstwissenschaft e.V.
mit der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, der Freien Universität Berlin und dem Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa
PANEL TOPIC
Spätbyzantinische Ornamente (13.–15. Jahrhundert) – Überschreitung von Genregrenzen, Kulturgrenzen und Forschungsdisziplinen
Organisation: Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture, Brookline (MA)
Leitung: Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie, Mainz
PAPER ABSTRACT
Middle and Late Byzantine era architecture developed a specific idiom in wall masonry with the implementation of a variety of stone and brick or all-brick patterns and decorative designs. Ceramoplastic ornamented façades of churches became a canvas on which a variety of ornaments were applied. One of the early and most striking examples were the Pseudo-Kufic freezes of churches of Southern Greece such as the Panagia Church of Osios Lucas dated ca. 962-963. This Kufesque ornament, which lasted up until 13th century, is an apparent example of cultural transfer among Islamic world and Byzantium.
This paper focuses though on a few other brick ornaments such as ‘ivy leaf,’ ‘sun,’ and ogee blind arches that have attracted comparatively less the interest of scholars. Those ornaments either in single occurrence or in combination are met on façades of mosques, churches, fortification walls, dervish convents in a wide geography all around Eastern Mediterranean under the Byzantine and the Islamic cultures of the Fatimids, Ayyubids, Mamluks, and Ottomans. In this context Venice should also be taken into consideration. Cultural transfer through this example of mobility of ornaments apparently is beyond religious limitations. It becomes clear that there is a flexibility in what enters an architect’s or mason’s design portfolio compared to what enters a priest’s bag.
With the use of a virtual reality mask and guided by an interactive timeline, users will have the opportunity to chart individual paths in the course of Greek history and get to know important historical events, virtually visiting historical places of Greece. They will be able to select more information, as well as search and locate historical events, sites, and interesting objects based on terms or chronology. It is also possible to write comments, helping create an information “route”. The dynamic design and setup of the chronology platform allow visitors to
directly access historical sites in Greece in a direct and experiential way. Users have access to texts, photos, videos, and 3D representations through a journey in Greek history that will be fun and educational for young and old