Flora Karagianni

Flora Karagianni

Director

European Centre for Byzantine and Post Byzantine Monuments, Greece

Dr. Flora Karagianni has studied History and Archaeology in the Department of History and Archaeology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where she continued her postgraduate studies (MA and PhD) on Byzantine Archaeology and Art. Later on, she took a diploma of the Theology from the Theological School of the same University. Since 1995 she has been working in the Ministry of Culture, where she serves as Director in the European Centre for Byzantine and Postbyzantine Studies as well as Head of the Department of Byzantine and Postbyzantine Antiquities in the Ephorate of Antiquities of Thessaloniki City. She has given courses on Byzantine Art and Archaeology in the International Hellenic University, in the University of Thessaly, in the Technological Institute of Larissa and in the School of Guides. She supervises projects of restoration of byzantine and postbyzantine monuments abroad (Albania, North Macedonia, Turkey, Jordan ect) as well as in Thessaloniki city. In her scientific interests are included topics in the field of byzantine architecture, art and iconography. She has written two books, she has edited many others, she has participated in many international and Hellenic conferences, she has published more than 50 studies and she has given lectures in Greece and abroad on byzantine archaeology and art. She has particularly undertaken the scientific organization of conferences and exhibitions for several Byzantinological topics in Greece and abroad. Recently she was the curator of the digital exhibition: “The Legend of Alexander the Great as Byzantine Legacy. The Testimony of a byzantine manuscript” (India, New Delhi, 12-16 December 2022).