Received from Dr. Nick Evans (Birkbeck, University of London) and Dr. John Latham-Sprinkle (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) The SHOC Research Group at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, in association with the Medieval Caucasus Network and the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, have announced that registration for the international conference ‘Studying Non-Elites in the Medieval Caucasus’ is open. You can register here. The organisers welcome anyone, including academics, students and members of the public, with an interest in the history of the Caucasus or in methodologies for studying the experience of non-elite groups, such as women, peasants, or enslaved people. The conference features two days of papers on a variety of topics, from the Caucasian slave trade, to the place of women in medieval Armenian society, to the bioarchaeology of the medieval Caucasus. The keynote speakers are Nik Matheou (University of Edinburgh) and Irina Arzhantseva (Insitute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences). Speakers hail from Belgium, the United Kingdom, Austria, Germany, Czechia, the Russian Federation, Georgia, Armenia, and Egypt. The final programme will be published soon, including details about the local area and catering options. The in-person component of the hybrid conference will take place at the U-Residence, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, […]