In October 2019, Professor Georgios Makris gave a talk at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies, Simon Fraser University. His recent projects include a talk at an international workshop titled Textiles in the Greek World from Antiquity to the Modern Era, held at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in April 2020. This summer, Makris returned to the field to lead the surface survey of the Molyvoti, Thrace, Archaeological Project, a collaborative and multidisciplinary archaeological expedition in northeastern Greece. His SSHRC project “Ornaments in Life and Death: Jewelry in the Byzantine World” examines a number of precious objects worn on the bodies of deceased people at a medieval cemetery in northwestern Greece, then part of the Byzantine world. By focusing on the excavated material, this project seeks to delve deeply into the notions of ownership, self-representation, and human behaviour in Byzantium and beyond. Professor Makris presented his SSRHC paper in the UBC CNERS Seminar on October 14, 2020.