Research

Fields of Research

• Early Christian and medieval cults of saints and relics
• Archaeological science: establishing new collaborations and methods
• Archaeology of Cultural Heritage: science, ethics and cultural memory
• Past, Present & Future: applying archaeological data in other fields of science
• Beyond Disciplinary Thinking: the Institute for Advanced Studies model and its potential developments
• Research, Development and Innovation (RDI): transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral strategies for sustainable growth

Selected Publications

• Georges Kazan, The Church of the Virgin of the Pharos in Constantinople, Gods Collections – Open Material Religion Project, The Open University (2021)
• Georges Kazan, Eleanor Farber, Higham Thomas, ‘Étude scientifique de la relique de Saint Jacques le Majeur à Liège’, in Philippe George, ‘Un grand reliquaire liégeois aux pieds de la toute nouvelle Tour Eiffel en 1889’, Bulletin de la Société royale Le Vieux-Liège (Liège 2021), p. 1-29: 27-28.
• Georges Kazan, Thomas Higham, ‘Researching the Relics of the True Cross – a preliminary study’, in A. Pazos, C. Gonzalez Paz (eds.), Relics, shrines and pilgrimages in the European historical context:  proceedings of the X International Colloquium, Santiago de Compostela, Spain 26-28 September 2016. (Routledge: Abingdon, 2020), p. 225-246.
• Rossina Kostova, Casimir Popkonstantinov, Hannes Schroeder, Eske Willerslev, Alexander Sultanov, Georges Kazan& Thomas Higham, ‘AMS dating and ancient DNA analysis of bone relics associated with St John the Baptist from Sveti Ivan (Sozopol, Bulgaria)’, Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 29:102082 (Elsevier: Amsterdam, 2020).
• Georges Kazan, Thomas Higham, ‘Researching relics: new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of historic and religious objects’, in S. Hope et al. (eds.), Life and cult of Canute the Holy: the first royal saint of Denmark, Centrium – Kulturhistoriske studier i centralitet – Archaeological & Historical Studies in Centrality, vol. 4 (2019). Syddansk Universitetsforlag, p. 142-167.
• Georges Kazan, ‘Exploring the Past through Relics: The Oxford Relics Research Cluster’, Material Religion 14.3 (Taylor & Francis: Oxford, 2018), p. 1-3.
• Georges Kazan, ‘Entre l’Histoire et la Science : Le Bois de la Croix après l’an mil’, Trésor de Liège Bulletin Trimestriel 57 (December 2018: ISSN : 2295-6751), p. 5-17.
• Georges Kazan, ‘Arks of Constantinople, the New Jerusalem: the Origins of the Byzantine Sarcophagus Reliquary’, Byzantion 85. Peeters (Leuven, 2015), p. 77-126.