Venice university "Ca' Foscari", in collaboration with and the support of the Greek Ministries of Foreign Affairs and of Culture, and the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Cyprus, the Department of Classical Studies and Near Eastern Studies of Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, and Fondazione Venezia (through the Associazione Italia-Grecia of Venice), has opened the call for papers for the 4th Edition of the Prize in memory of Nikolaos M. Panagiotakis. Here you can find the Call in Italian and English.



The call, intended for scholars not over forty years of age, will award the best original, single author and unpublished work regarding the themes of:

- Byzantine and post-Byzantine language, literature, and history;
- Byzantine and humanistic philology;
- Archive records relating to Greek history (medieval and modern);
- Literary production in Demotic Greek;
- Cretan literature and culture of the Venetian period;
- Historical, historical-literary, and cultural relations between the Greek East
and the West, during the medieval and modern ages;
- The scholars of the Greek diaspora;
- Venice and the Greeks.

The prize will be 2,500.00 €. the deadlines for the submission of the papers is June 30, 2009. For further informations: premiopanagiotakis@yahoo.it.