Guest Speakers

EVA BABOULA

Panelist
Art Historian - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Eva Baboula is an archaeologist from Greece who holds a PhD from in Oxford. Currently she teaches art history at the University of Victoria.  Her dissertation explored social and economic conditions on the island of Crete 3,500 years ago as reflected in funerary weapons, jewellery, domestic utensils and other metal objects.  More recently, Eva has been writing on the art of the Medieval East Mediterranean and how peoples with different ethnic and religious backgrounds cooperated or conflicted with one another during an earlier age of "multiculturalism." 

Presently she is working on a book dealing with the post-Byzantine art and history of Greece (15th to early 19th century), during the period of Muslim Ottoman occupation.  Through her research, she will reveal the integral role Turks and other Ottoman Empire peoples played in the culture of region prior to independence through the mapping of  the Empire's "lost" architecture: mosques, and other Ottoman buildings, scattered through contemporary Greece.