Archaeology and History of the Balkans in Late Antiquity (3rd-8th Centuries AD)

Officially inaugurated on 18 June 2021, the HAEMUS International Research Network brings together researchers in archaeology and history working on the Balkan Peninsula and the surrounding regions during the Late Roman and Early Byzantine periods.

For the first time, a research network dedicated to this field connects scholars from the eleven Balkan countries 11 Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia), as well as Hungary and Turkey.

HAEMUS aims to foster international collaboration and to promote the exchange of knowledge, research practices, and academic resources among scholars working on the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Balkans. Particular attention is given to supporting early-career researchers and facilitating scholarly mobility and cooperation across institutions and countries.

Scholars and students interested in joining the network are warmly invited to subscribe to the mailing list.

PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers may also follow the Young Scholars Circle, a community dedicated to early-career researchers, on Facebook.

For its implementation phase, the HAEMUS International Research Network was mainly supported by the University of Lille; the HALMA-UMR 8164 research centre (Univ. Lille, CNRS, MC, Inrap—now the HARTIS-UMR 9028 research centre); and the I-SITE ULNE Foundation (now the Initiative d'Excellence de l'Université de Lille). It was also supported as a structuring activity of the InclusU: The European University for Inclusiveness project, in cooperation with a consortium of other high-ranking European institutions.