Dr Nikolaos Karydis has been invited to present his recent work on the building phases of the church of St. Mary at Ephesus at the international conference: Transforming Sacred Spaces: New Approaches to Byzantine Ecclesiastical Architecture from the Transitional Period. The conference is organised by the Byzantine Institute of the University of Munich, and will take place at the State Museum of Egyptian Art in Munich from the 13th to the 16th of May.