CALL FOR PAPERS DELTION OF THE CHRISTIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY (DChAE) 46 (2026) Dedicated to the memory of MARIA PANAYOTIDI

CALL FOR PAPERS

DELTION OF THE CHRISTIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY (DChAE) 46 (2026)

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Deadline for submissions: Monday, June 30, 2025

The Board of the Christian Archaeological Society (ChAE) decided to honor Professor Emerita Maria-Aphroditi Panayotidi-Kesisoglou’s memory by dedicating the 46th volume of the Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society (2026) in memory of her unexpected death on July 19, 2024. Professor Panayotidi-Kesisoglou served as a councillor, vice-president, treasurer, general secretary, president, and honorary president.

Greek and foreign archaeologists and historians of Byzantine art and architecture are invited to contribute to the volume with original studies related to the Early Christian, Byzantine and Post-Byzantine periods to the end of the sixteenth century, focusing on the special research interests of late Professor Emerita (i.e. painting and painters, sculpture, Cappadocia, Georgia, Cyprus, Naxos) without excluding other thematic contributions.

As with previous honorary volumes, submissions should not exceed the 5,000 words (text and footnotes) and contain no more than eight (8) photographs and drawings/plans.

In accordance with the editorial guidelines of the Deltion of the ChAE, each submission will be evaluated for approval by two anonymous reviewers designated by the Society’s Board.

Papers submitted for consideration should be prepared in accordance with the Guidelines for Authors: http://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/deltion/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

The submitted file must include in the following order (a) the title of the paper, (b) an abstract of max. 80 words, (c) at least four keywords indicating the period, the general and specific subject and finally the site and the monument, encompassed by the paper, (d) the text with footnotes, (e) a summary of ca. 1,000 words, (f) the list of the Figures with subtitles and their provenance/copyrights, and (g) at the end of the file, the illustrations in law resolution must be included (one figure in each page). In case that the language of the paper is other than the English, all the above information (a, b, c) must be also in English.

All papers should be submitted in a single file, Pdf and Word, avoiding any mention of the author’s name and affiliation and any acknowledgements in the footnotes. Submissions must be placed in the electronic platform of the Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society: https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/deltion/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

Once the paper has been accepted for publication, the final text must be submitted in the electronic platform of the Deltion together with the author’s name and affiliation, the acknowledgments and the illustrations as high-resolution digital file (at least 300 dpi).

Due to the implementation of the electronic version of the Deltion of the ChAE, and in accordance with established international practice, authors of papers accepted for publication are kindly requested to provide the necessary licences for the study and the publication of the archaeological material and also to sign an Agreement with the Christian Archaeological Society, in which copyright matters are clarified.

Authors that are not already subscribed in the electronic platform of the Deltion of the ChAE should be subscribed following the instructions in the link below: https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/deltion/user/register

 

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