Research and Teaching Assistant at the Chair of Berlin Byzantine Studies (on leave until 2021)

Postdoc in Byzantine Studies – Detailed CV Manolis [download]

Featured Biography

• Private Meeting with Pope em. Benedict XVI for the Presentation of the Ph.D. Thesis “Coranus Graecus” (Vatican, 20/12/2015) & Personal Correspondence regarding its Publication (2016/17)
• Private Audience with the Ecumenical Patriarch S. A. Bartholomew of Constantinople and Presentation of the Ph.D. Thesis “Coranus Graecus” (Istanbul, 13/03/2019)
• “Traveler between Religions on his research in Damascus and meeting Pope Benedict”, Radio Inteview with Monika Müller-Kroll in the Program “Profiles”, KCRW Berlin (26/12/2107)
• “Ein Plädoyer für Europa” [‘A Plea For Europe’], Magazine wir [p. 19] (Freie Universität Berlin, Summer 2017)
• Short Portrait in the Magazine wir [p. 41] (Freie Universität Berlin, Winter 2016/17)
• “Es war eine Entscheidung von Tag zu Tag” [‘A decision from day to day’ – About my Research in Syria (2010–2012)], Interview in the Newspaper Der Tagesspiegel (p. B6, 08/12/2012)
• “Zwischen Mönchen und Moscheen – zwei Jahre in Damaskus” [‘Among Monks and Mosques – Two Years in Damascus’], Field Report for the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (06/01/2014)

• Awards

• Education

• Work Experience

• Languages

• Research Grants

Academic Activities

• Successful Funding

• Staff Responsibilities

• Project Coordination

• Conference Organization

• Commission Member

Overview of didactic approaches

Berlin Byzantine Studies prides itself for effectively integrating the ongoing research conducted by the chair of Byzantine Studies into its students’ regular curriculum in accordance with the Freie Universität Berlin’s future-oriented institutional strategy. Through this research-orientated teaching, our students and the students of neighboring disciplines can be actively introduced to the questions arising from ongoing research projects in an interdisciplinary manner

Therefore, we regularly offer ‘research internships’ that undergraduate as well as masters students may attend. It is our goal to introduce our students to the methods and approaches of this future-orientated teaching as early as possible. A characteristic example of a sustainable combination of research and teaching at Berlin Byzantine Studies is the conceptualization of and successful application for the teaching project “The Digitization of Philology – Corpus Coranicum Christianum”. The project was designed by and for students and directly integrates the research into the regular teaching curriculum.

Moreover, our professorship is actively involved in the digitization of the humanities. A concrete expression of this commitment is the securing of the 2019 E-Learning-Project “Methods for Digitally Indexing and Compiling Digital Editions in the Philology of the Christian Orient: from Digitizations of Handwritten Text to a Digital Edition (<xml/>)”. Starting in the 2019/20 winter semester we offer an introductory course as well as an advanced training course in the digital humanities.

We foster this kind of interaction between researchers and students at all levels!

Evaluation of the courses

The courses taught by Manolis Ulbricht are evaluated by the students themselves in the course of each term. If you would like to gain an overview of the teaching evaluations, you can find the feedback from students with regards to Manolis Ulbricht’s course offerings under the following link:

• Teaching Evaluations

Courses and teaching formats:

• Supervision of Ph.D. and Postdoc Schools

• Doctoral Committees

• Masters course

• Bachelor courses

• Research internships

Byzantium and Early Islam

• Muslim-Christian Relations in Early Islam
• Byzantine Apologetics and Polemics against Islam

See Ph.D. Thesis: “Coranus Graecus. The Oldest Transmitted Translation of the Qur’ ān within the  «Ἀνατροπὴ τοῦ Κορανίου» of Nicetas of Byzantium. Introduction, Text, Translation, Commentary”

Abstract, Table of Contents, Disputatio (14/07/2015), Exposé (2012)

Muslim Qur’anic Studies and Christian Translations of the Qur’an

• Greek Translations of the Qur’an and their Reception in the Latin Middle Ages
• Efforts for the Establishment of an Interdisciplinary Research Project “Corpus Coranicum Christianum”

Project Description: Corpus Coranicum Byzantinum, presented in the frame of the Disputatio (14/07/2015)

Byzantine Theology and Heresiology

• The Orthodoxy of Byzantium
• East Christian Heterodoxies

Byzantine Hymnology and Psalmody

• Music Theory of Byzantine Church Music
• Common Music Traditions in Near Eastern Liturgical Practices

Digital Humanities

• E-Learning-Project “Methods for Digitally Indexing and Compiling Digital Editions in the Philology of the Oriens Christianus: from Digitizations of Handwritten Text to a Digital Edition <xml/>”
• Teaching Project “Digitization of Philology - The Corpus Coranicum Christianum”