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Endangered cultural heritage: Documentation and research

Culture and languages

Interdisciplinary seminar on the rock-cut complex in Murfatlar (Romania) and Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv (Ukraine), with researchers from Bulgaria, Romania and Sweden. Welcome!

Seminar
Date
25 Mar 2025
Time
10:00 - 15:00
Location
Room C442, Humanisten, Renströmsgatan 6

Good to know
The seminar will be held in English
Organizer
Department of Languages and Literatures

Program

10.00–12.00

  • Quality and agency of documentation: Lessons from Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv
    Gunnar Almevik, Jonathan Westin
  • SLAM LiDAR scanning of the Murfatlar rock complex in Romania (presentation and video)
    Asparuh Kamburov, Mladen Tsenov, Evgenia Komatarova-Balinova
  • Observations on architecture and relative chronology of Church B4, the “catholicon” of the Murfatlar medieval rock-cut complex (Constanţa district, Romania)
    Evgenia Komatarova-Balinova

13.30–15.00

  • Greek language and its place in the varied environment of Murfatlar
    Pantelis Charalampakis
  • Documenting and analyzing space, script, and meaning of medieval graffiti: Cyrillic graffiti from Murfatlar (Romania)
    Antoaneta Granberg
  • Video: 3D visualization of the Gallery sector at the Murfatlar rock complex
    Asparuh Kamburov, Evgenia Komatarova-Balinova

Participants

Antoaneta Granberg, University of Gothenburg, Dept of Languages and Literatures
Asparuh KamburovUniversity of Mining and Geology „St. Ivan Rilski“Department of Mine surveying and geodesy
Constantin Aurel Mototolea, Museum of National History and Archaeology, MINAC (Constanţa, Rumänien)
Evgenia Komatarova-Balinova, National archaeological institute with museum, Bulgarian academy of Sciences
Gunnar Almevik, University of Gothenburg, Dept of Conservation
Hristo Popov, National archaeological institute with museum, Bulgarian academy of Sciences (Sofia)
Jonathan Westin, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities (GRIDH)
Mladen TsenovUniversity of Mining and Geology „St. Ivan Rilski“Department of Mine surveying and geodesy
Pantelis Charalampakis, National archaeological institute with museum, Bulgarian academy of Sciences