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Active collaborations: Simon Bliudze

Simon Bliudze is a member of UMR 9189 CRIStAL and researcher at the INRIA Lille – Nord Europe centre; he is also a part-time lecturer in the Computer Science Department at the École polytechnique. He obtained a Master’s degree in Mathematics from the University of St. Petersburg (Russia, 1998), a DEA (Master’s research) in Computer Science from the University of Paris 6 (DEA Algorithmics; France, 2001) and a PhD in Computer Science from the École Polytechnique (France, 2006).

Before joining INRIA in 2017, he spent two years as a post-doc at Verimag (Grenoble, France) working with Joseph Sifakis on the formal semantics of BIP, then three years as a research engineer at CEA Saclay (France) and six years as a scientific associate at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland).

SESSION: Educational Networks of the Late Antique Borderland: Armenia between Rome and Iran through Political and Military Crises

Leeds International Medieval Congress, 3/07/2024

This EX-PATRIA session organised by Anna Usacheva explored the educational mobility of scholars, students, and captives across Roman and Sasanian Armenia.

Educational Networks of the Late Antique Borderland: Armenia between Rome and Iran through Political and Military Crises

In this EX-PATRIA session, we examined how individuals—scholars, students, and captives—moved for the purpose of education across Roman and Sasanian Armenia. We focused on how such movements shaped identity, careers, and responses to political crisis. Particular attention was given to the roles of Armenian intellectuals and the strategic deployment of displacement.

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SESSION & ROUND TABLE: Digital Late Antique Prosopography: Between Fragmented Knowledge and Formal Methods

Leeds International Medieval Congress, 8/07/2025

The EX-PATRIA will organise a Session and a Round Table to address the methodological challenges faced by historians working on digital prosopographies.

Digital Late Antique Prosopography, I: Between Fragmented Knowledge and Formal Methods

Digital Late Antique Prosopography, II: Between Fragmented Knowledge and Formal Methods – A Round Table Discussion

We will offer an interdisciplinary reflection and discussion on managing incompleteness, uncertainty, inconsistency, and internal conflicts in historical sources, in application to Late Antique prosopographical data. We will also focus on the potential benefits of correct formalisation and transparency of integration of incoherent data into digital tools, which includes possibilities of automatised querying, search for patterns and connections and generating new historical knowledge.

Daniel Alford represents the EX-PATRIA a the Connecting Late Antiquities Conference in Bonn, 03-05.02.2025

On a chilly February morning in Lille, I once more found myself heading to Germany to present at the Connecting Late Antiquities conference in Bonn. What had originally been planned as a whole team trip had over the weeks been gradually whittled down to just me by illness and other realities, and myself would not have made it if not for Ekaterina speedily finding me train tickets when my bus didn’t turn up!

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