Polymnia Synodinou M.A.

Sprachen: Neugriechisch (Muttersprache), Englisch (C2), Deutsch (B1), Französisch (B2)
Antike Sprachen: Graecum, Latinum

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang

  • Seit 04/2025: Promotion an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
  • 02/2021- 05/2024: Master of Arts in Byzantine Archaeology and History of Byzantine from University of Crete, Department of History and Archaeology. Master Thesis Title: the Church of Holy Apostles in the village of Kavousi in eastern Crete: iconographic and stylistic analysis of the wall paintings.
  • 09/2016- 03/2021: Bachelor of Arts in Archaeology and History of Art, University of Crete, Department of History and Archaeology (first of class)

Fachbezogene berufliche Tätigkeiten

  • 09/23- 04/2025: Archaeologist. Archaeological Supervision in the island of Salamis, Greece. Greek Archaeological Service- Ephorate of Antiquities of Piraeus and the Islands

Universitäre Tätigkeit

  • 05/22 – 09/2022: Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft an der Abteilung Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte an der Universität Kreta

Stipendien

  • 09/202202/2023: Postgraduate financial support for Master Studies and Research by the Foundation of Education and European Culture (Greece)- Founders Nikos and Lydia Tricha
  • 05/2022 – 02/2022: Postgraduate adjuvant fellowship for student supportive help by ELKE and the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete
  • 2017-2020: Undergraduate fellowship by the State Scholarship Foundation (IKY).

Praktische Arbeit

  • 07/2023Teilnahme an der Ausgrabung im Ancient Lyktos (Kreta, Griechenland) unter der Leitung von Prof. Angelos Chaniotis.
  • 11/22-03/23: Research Assistant (Erasmus +). Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz (Germany) Documentation and evaluation of the Greek inscriptions of Crete (13th- 17th c.) Depictions of Material Culture in Byzantine Manuscripts, unter der Leitung von Prof. Vasiliki Tsamakda.
  • 10/22: Conference organization. 13th Congress of Cretan Studies
  • 07/22: Conference organization 7th Biennial Conference of the Society of the Medieval Mediterranean (SMM) at University of Crete
  • 07/ 2021- 08/2021 Mount Oxa survey (Kreta, Griechenland). Institute of Mediterranean Studies, Rethymnon., Laboratory of Geophysical Satellite Remote Sensing and ArchaeoEnvironment, project: BYZMOLAB
  • 09/2019Teilnahme an der Ausgrabung im Eleutherna II (Kreta) unter der Leitung von Prof. Christina Tsigonaki
  • 06/2019-09/2019Praktikum am Benaki Museum zu Griechenland
  • 08/2018 Teilnahme an der Ausgrabung bei Gavdos (Kreta, Griechenland) unter der Leitung von Prof. Katerina Kopaka

Zertifikate & Zusatzqualifikation

  • 12/2023: Participation in the workshop Digital approaches to Post-Byzantine Inscriptions, organized by the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of the University of Cologne in the framework of the project DiBS – Creating a Sustainable Digital Infrastructure for Research-Based Teaching in Byzantine Studies funded by the VolkswagenStiftung| Köln, Germany
  • 06/ 2023: Participation in the interdisciplinary workshop Meteora: A Unesco World Heritage Site, organised by the Princeton University| Meteora, Greece.
  • 09/2022- 12/2022: Greek Palaeography and Epigraphy courses, by the Training and Continuing Learning Center of the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
  • 07/ 2022: Numismatics Seminar Greece After Rome. Coinage in the Hellenic Lands during the Middle Ages, by the Princeton University, instructor: Alan Stahl. Athens Princeton Center.

Vorträge

  • 03/2025: Byzantine couples and byzantines wives: Euthalia Lampaki and Maria Soteriou, announcement in the workshop «The Great Women Behind Great Men. Third Workshop on Women in the Archaeology of Greece. Tribute to Maria Ludwika Bernhard», organized by the École française d’Athènes and the Polish Archaeological Institute at Athens, 12 & 13 March 2025, École française d’Athènes, Greece.
  • 11/ 2024: Nature Depicted: Byzantine Art in Crete under Venetian Rule. Examining Last Judgment Scenes and Funeral Portraits, announcement in the conference ,“Turning Over a New Leaf- Perspectives on Byzantine Understandings of Nature”, organized by Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz| Mainz, 14-15 November 2024.
  • 05/2024: Aspects of memory in a dedicatory funeral portrait from Venetian Crete, announcement in the 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies| Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, 10 May 2024.
  • 05/ 2024: The Church of the Holy Apostles (Hagioi Apostoloi) at Kavousi, Crete: Aspects of Byzantine Art under Venetian Rule, speech in the Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar| University of Oxford, 1 May 2024.
  • 04/ 2023: Formation of an "enclosed garden" and transformation of prayers' gaze: a discussion about the Paradise scene of Saint Apostoloi Church in Kavousi, Crete, announcement in the Aigeros conference “(Trans)formation of Physical and Cultural Environment”| Deutsches Archäologischen Institut, Athen, 28-29 April 2023.
  • 12/ 2022: Byzantine Art in Venetian Crete: the case of Hagioi Apostoloi Church in Kavousi village, announcement in the 1st Graduate Forum for Mediterranean Archaeology| Nicosia 9-10 December 2022.
  • 07/ 2022: Emotional’ worries: the depiction of sinners in Byzantine Art as a field of social disruptions (11th- 16th century), announcement in the conference “Interruptions & Disruptions in the Medieval Mediterranean, 400- 1500”, The Seventh Biennial Conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean (SMM), organized by Department of History and Archaeology| University of Crete, 11-15 July 2022.
  • 07/ 2022: The theme of magissa (=witch) in Late and Post- Byzantine Art: emotions of guilt, punishment and social exclusion, announcement in ANZAMEMS 2022 Conference "Reception and Emotion", organized by the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies| 27 June-1 July 2022.