Within the framework of celebrating the Festivities of Saint Czar Constantine and Czarina Helena, the City of Niš organizes the Seventh Symposium "NIŠ AND BYZANTIUM", which will be held from the 3rd to the 5th of June 2008 in the Main Auditorium of the University of Niš. 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 reflections to the later spiritual, cultural and artistic creative endeavors in Niš 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.nis.org.yu/byzantium/).

The presented papers will be published in the Proceedings of the Symposium that will be promoted on the first day of the next meeting in 2009. The participants have to furnish the organizers with their respective papers together with complete scientific references by November 2008.

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 Seventh International Symposium "NIŠ AND BYZANTIUM VII", this year, In glory of St. Emperor Constantine the Great and Empress Helena.

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 2008, to the following addresses:

Tamara Milenković
Mayor's Office, 7. juli Street No. 2, 18000 Niš
tel/fax: +381 18 504-714, 504-726; mob: 063/8640-235;
e-mail: mtamara@gu.ni.sr.gov.yu

Miša Rakocija
Institute for cultural monument protection Niš, Dobrička street 2, 18000 Niš
tel. +381 18 523-414;
e-mail: mrakocija@ptt.yu

Sincerely yours,

RECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NIŠ prof dr Radoslav Bubanj

MAYOR OF THE CITY OF NIŠ Smiljko Kostić