To answer this question, one needs to consider this undeservedly forgotten Empire in the context of the Russian self-perception during the last several centuries. And this is what Sergey Ivanov will do in his keynote lecture, which opens the conference on “Byzantium and the Origins of Eurasia” at the IWM on 26 March 2020.
Sergey Ivanov, one of Russia’s most distinguished historians, is a Professor of Byzantine Studies at Higher School of Economics, National Research University and a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Slavic Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences. In March 2020, he will be a Eurasia in Global Dialogue Fellow at the IWM in Vienna.
