Office: Δ1.1
Undergraduate courses
- Byzantine History (semester: 3)
- Aspects of Byzantine Culture (semester: 5)
- History of Civilizations I (semester: 6)
- History of Civilizations IΙ (semester: 7)
- Aspects of Post-Byzantine and Ottoman Culture (semester: 8)
Graduate courses
Education
- Archeology studies at the Universities of Ioannina, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) and Paris I (France)
- Doctor of Byzantine Archeology of the University of Ioannina
- PhD fellow of the University of Ioannina in the field of post-Byzantine cultural heritage
- Personal website
- CV: see also Personal website
Research interests
- History of culture & cultural theory
- Byzantine Cultural history
- Cultural history of the body
- Post-Byzantine material culture and silversmiths in the late Ottoman period
- Ottoman culture and art
- Cultural management and promotion of mountain areas
- Body – integration – archaeological object and potential reality
Selected publications
- Ιλιάνα Ζάρρα, Χρήστος Μεράντζας, Στέφανος Τσιόδουλος (2016). Από τον μεταβυζαντινό στον νεότερο ελληνικό πολιτισμό. Παραδείγματα εικαστικής παραγωγής (16ος-20ός αιώνας). Αθήνα: Ελληνικά Ακαδημαϊκά Ηλεκτρονικά Συγγράμματα και Βοηθήματα. [ISBN: 978-960-603-046-8].
- Χρήστος Δ. Μεράντζας, Ανα-χώρα(-η)ση: Μορφές ετερότητας στον βυζαντινό πολιτισμό, Σμίλη, Αθήνα 2014 [in Greek with English summary] Christos D. Merantzas, Αna-chora(-i)tism: Forms of Otherness in the Byzantine Culture, Smili, Athens 2014.
- Χρήστος Δ. Μεράντζας, Οι πολιτισμικές συνιστώσες του «τόπου της αγιότητας». Η συλλογή εικόνων της μονής Βύλιζας Ματσουκίου, Σμίλη, Αθήνα 2012 [in Greek with an extensive English summary]. Christos D. Merantzas, The Cultural Components of the “Locus Sanctitatis”. The Collection of Icons of the Monastery of Vyliza, Matsouki Epirus, Smili, Athens 2012. [Βραβείο καλύτερης ερευνητικής εργασίας (2013) στο πεδίο “Φύση και Πολιτισμός στις Ορεινές Περιοχές στην Ελλάδα και την Ευρώπη” του Ιδρύματος Ανάπτυξης του Μετσόβιου Κέντρου Διεπιστημονικής Έρευνας (ΜΕ.Κ.Δ.Ε.) του Εθνικού Μετσόβιου Πολυτεχνείου]
- Χρήστος Δ. Μεράντζας, Ο αντεστραμμένος Διόνυσος. Σχεδίασμα μιας σωματοθεωρίας αλγαισθητικού αυτοκαταναγκασμού, Σμίλη, Αθήνα 2011 [in Greek with English summary]. Christos D. Merantzas, The Inverted Dionysus. A Draft Body-theory of Algaesthetic Self-constraint, Smili, Athens 2011.
- Χρήστος Δ. Μεράντζας, Ο “τόπος της αγιότητας” και οι εικόνες του. Παραδείγματα ανάγνωσης της τοπικής ιστορίας της Ηπείρου κατά τη μεταβυζαντινή περίοδο, Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων, Ιωάννινα 2007 [in Greek]. Christos D. Merantzas, The “Locus Sanctitatis” and its Images. Examples of Reading the Local History of Epirus, Greece, in the Post-Byzantine Period, University of Ioannina, Ioannina 2007.
- Christos Merantzas, A Treasured Memory. Ecclesiastical Silver from Late Ottoman Istanbul in the Sevgi Gönül Collection, Vehbi Koç Foundation-Sadberk Hanım Museum, Istanbul 2006, In collaboration with Dr. Brigitte Pitarakis (CNRS, France) [in English and Turkish].
- Christos Merantzas, Claude Lévi-Strauss Going on a Journey to Byzantium. From Last Judgment to Paradise, Proceedings of the “Philosophy and Crisis” International Conference, University of Ioannina & The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (RVP), Washington, D.C. 2017 (forthcoming).
- Christos Merantzas, Assessing local cultural heritage through a walking trail: the case study of the ‘Theodoros Papagiannis’ museum of contemporary art (Helliniko Ioanninon, Epirus, Greece), Museum Management & Curatorship (2015).
- Christos Merantzas, The Embodied Self in Byzantine Culture, in Pitarakis, B. (επιμ.) Life is Short, Art Long: The Art of Healing in Byzantium, Istanbul: Pera Museum 2015, 180-191.
- Christos D. Merantzas, Martyrdom as a Form of Embodiment in the Byzantine Culture, Scientific Culture 15/1 (2015).
- Christos Merantzas, From Real to Digital-mediated Objects: Reflections Upon the Digital Reproduction of Archaeological Objects, ESJ 10/17 (2014), 118-128.
- Christos Merantzas, Plato’s Chora Documented Inside the Monastery of Chora (Cariye Camii), in Nazlı Ferah Akıncı (ed.), International Istanbul Historical Peninsula Symposium 2013, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul 2014, 511-518.
- Christos Merantzas, The Castle of Salona (Amfissa, Municipality of Delphi, Central Greece): A Proposal for Holistic Approach to Cultural Management, sdct-journal, no 1 (2014).
- Christos Merantzas, The Role of Computer-mediated Technologies in the Formation of the Cultural Self: Embodiment, Identity, Community, in M. Mulalic, A. S. Ozturk, T. Boz (eds.), ICECI 2013. The International Conference on Eduction, Culture and Identity. Book of Proceedings, International University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo 2013, 215-224.
- Christos Merantzas, The Cultural Construction of the Byzantine Identity: The Case of “Islamophobia”, in A. Kralides, A. Gkoutziokostas (eds.), Proceedings of the Symposium “Byzantium and the Arab World: Encounter of Civilizations”, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 2013, 291-304.
Research work (indicative)
Scientist in charge for the the research project The ‘Virtual Museum’: Recording, Researching and Digitizing the Cultural Heritage of the Sculpture Collection Housed in the “Theodoros Papayiannis” Museum of Contemporary Art, Located in the Elliniko Settlement of Ioannina (The Municipality of Northern Tzoumerka)] approved for funding within 2015 by Latsis Public Benefit Foundation.