Lewis Read, MA MLitt.


Lewis Read

Lewis Read, MA MLitt.

Maria-Theresien-Straße 9
1090 Wien
Room: 1.04

T: +43-1-4277-40814
lewis.read@univie.ac.at

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Curriculum Vitae

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  • Curriculum Vitae

    Education

    September 2021 – ongoing | PhD in History, Department of History, University of Vienna.

    • Research Cluster: Ancient, Byzantine and Medieval Studies
    • Thesis: Maintaining Contact or Losing Touch?: Armenians and the Byzantine Empire 1071-1095
    • Supervisor: Prof. Tara Andrews.

     

    September 2019 – September 2020 | Master of Letters Middle Eastern History and Arabic, University of St Andrews.

    • Dissertation: Fostering in Early Medieval Armenian Sources
    • Supervisor: Professor Timothy Greenwood

     

    September 2015 – July 2019 | Master of the Arts (Honours) in Medieval History, University of St Andrews.

     

    Further Education and Training

    June 2023 | Byzantine Greek. Course: International Byzantine Greek Summer School (IBGSS), Trinity College Dublin.

    January – September 2022 | TEI-XML Encoding. Course: TEI-XML Text Encoding and Analysis, University of Vienna. 

    October 2020 – June 2021 | Islamic Numismatics. Course: Numismatics and Economy- Islamic Coins as a Source for Political, Urban, Legal and Economic History, Islamic Material Culture Initiative 2020/21, Universität Bonn, Ludwig-Maximilian Universität Munich, Universität Hamburg. 

     

    Employment

    September 2021 – ongoing | ERC RELEVEN Project Research Assistant (Universitätsassistent) with Responsibility for Armenian and Eastern Christian Source Material (PI: Prof. Tara Andrews), Department of History, University of Vienna.


    July 2018 – July 2019 | Quantitative Data Analyst, ‘Escaping ISIS: Internally Displaced Persons in Iraq’ (PI: Dr Andrew Marin), University of St Andrews.


    September 2016 – September 2017 | Project Intern, Conference Administration and Logistics, Declaration for a Shared Humanity, (PI: Prof. Mario Aguilar), Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics, University of St Andrews.

Publications

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Fostering in Early Medieval Armenian Sources from the Fifth to the Seventh Century. / Read, Lewis.
In: Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1-2, 01.09.2024, p. 46-80.

Publications: Contribution to journalArticlePeer Reviewed


Re-Evaluating the Eleventh Century through Linked Events and Entities. / Andrews, Tara; Rózsa, Márton; Prajda, Katalin et al.
In: Historical Studies on Central Europe , Vol. 4, No. 1, 2024, p. 217–245.

Publications: Contribution to journalArticlePeer Reviewed


Armenia’s Eleventh Century. / Read, Lewis.
In: History Today, Vol. 73, No. 3, 01.03.2023.

Publications: Contribution to journalArticle


EU Energy Security is the Caucasus’ Political Insecurity. Read, Lewis (Editorial Journalist). 2022. online: The International Affairs Network.

Publications: Electronic/multimedia outputWeb publication


Kazakhstan, the CSTO, Armenia and the Role of Russian Regional Power. Read, Lewis (Editorial Journalist). 2022. Online: The International Affairs Network.

Publications: Electronic/multimedia outputWeb publication


Armenia’s Warrior Queen. / Read, Lewis.
In: History Today, Vol. 71, No. 9, 01.09.2021.

Publications: Other contribution to periodicalNewspaper/Magazine article


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Activities

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Theoktistos: Hegoumenos of Esphigmenou and Protos of Athos: Armenians in Eleventh-century Byzantium

Lewis Read
Annual Conference of the Slavonic and East European Medieval Studies Society of the United Kingdom
Conference, Talk or oral contribution
11.11.2023 - 11.11.2023

Armenians in the 1070s: New Perspectives on Entanglements Between Byzantium and the Seljuk Turks

Lewis Read
International Medieval Congress
Conference, Talk or oral contribution
4.7.2023 - 4.7.2023

Maintaining Contact or Losing Touch? Armenians and the Byzantine Empire 1071 – 1080

Lewis Read
Talk or oral contribution
5.6.2023 - 5.6.2023

Through the Lens of Legal Culture and Hagiography: Armenians and the Byzantine Empire, 1071-1095

Lewis Read
Armenia and Byzantium IV: Graduate and Early Career Workshop
Seminar/Workshop, Talk or oral contribution
22.4.2023 - 22.4.2023

’This account of the holy martyrs was translated from Greek letters into Armenian’: Greek Cultural and Intellectual Transmission Amongst Armenian Communities from 1071-1095.

Lewis Read
Talk or oral contribution
5.3.2023 - 5.3.2023

RELEVEN Poster Session

Lewis Read , Aleksandar Andjelovic
Digital Humanities 2022
Conference, Poster presentation
28.7.2022 - 28.7.2022

Dayeaks: Fostering as a Site of Shared Cultural Interaction in Early Medieval Armenia 5th-7th century

Lewis Read
International Medieval Congress 2022
Conference, Talk or oral contribution
5.7.2022 - 5.7.2022

RELEVEN - An introductory poster session

Lewis Read
Linked Pasts 7
Conference, Talk or oral contribution
14.12.2021 - 14.12.2021

Dayeaks: Fostering in Early Medieval Armenia 5th - 7th Century

Lewis Read
5th Edinburgh International Graduate Conference in Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies, Sites of Encounter and Cultural Exchange (500-1500 CE)
Conference, Talk or oral contribution
6.11.2021 - 6.11.2021

Armenian Attitudes Toward Sasanian Persia in the 5th and 6th century

Lewis Read
IMC 2021 - International Medieval Congress, Leeds
Conference, Talk or oral contribution
5.7.2021 - 8.7.2021

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