Semoglou, Athanasios

BIOGRAPHY

Athanasios Semoglou was born in Thessaloniki, where he studied at the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of History and Archaeology (AUTH). From 1988 to 1991 he pursued graduate studies in Paris (Paris I) and Belgrade (Faculty) with a scholarship from the Ministry of National Education. Then (1992-1995) he achieved his doctoral thesis at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris) as a fellow of the Foundation Alexandros Onassis. He worked in the 10th Byzantine Antiquities. He taught at the School of Guides Thessaloniki and as a visiting professor (1998) at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes-Sorbonne. Since 2007 he is a regular researcher at the Ecole pratique des hautes études. In 2006 he was a curator assistant of the Exhibition at the new Ecclesiastical Museum of Thessaloniki. In 2007 he received a centenary scholarship from the British School of Athens for research in museums in the UK. Since 2008 he is a member of the International Scientific Committee of the Central Iv. Dujcev  (Sofia). In 2012 he was a DAAD fellow for research in Munich and Friburg. The same year he was also elected Directeur d’Études associé at Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (Paris). He is also member of the scientific committee of international magazines Iconographica (ed. Sismel- Florence), Series Byzantina (Warsaw, Poland), Anastasis (Research in Medieval Culture and Art, Iasi, Romania) and Byzantina (KBE) as well as the local magazine meletimata Imathias (Veria).

PUBLICATIONS

• SEMOGLOU, A., “La Seconde Parousie et le cycle de la Création dans  l’église de la Vierge à Evangelismos (Mouhtaroi) en Crète.  L’application d’un modèle occidental”, Ars auro gemnisque prior,  Mélanges en hommage à Jean-Pierre Caillet, Zagreb 2013, p. 499-506. [PDF]
• SEMOGLOU, A., “La théophanie de Latôme et les exercices  d’interprétation artistiques durant les ‘renaissances’ byzantines. Les  nouveaux signifiants de (vision de) Dieu, yzantium and Renaissances.  Dialogue of Cultures, Heritage of Antiquity – Tradition and Modernity,  Warsaw, 19-21 october 2011”, Actes du Congrès International,  Βαρσοβία 2012, p. 231-239. [PDF]
• SEMOGLOU, A., “Portraits chypriotes de donateurs et le triomphe de  l’élégance. Questions posées par l’étude des vêtements du XIVe au XVI esiècle. Notes additives sur un atériel publié”, Volume dédié au  mémoire de Sotiris Kissas, Thessalonique 2001, p. 485-509. [PDF]