Dr Foteini Spingou is a cultural historian at the University of Edinburgh working on the broad topics of Memory, Collection, Beauty, and Tradition and Empire. Her expertise lies in the relation of art and literature between the eleventh and fourteenth century Byzantium. She has also worked on late antique Egyptian wall-hangings and I'm an expert…

Dr Adam Talib is an Associate Professor at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University. His research demonstrates how the methods, concerns, and reading practices of comparative…