The Keynote Lecture is part of the Inaugural Conference »Victors and Vanquished in the Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War in the Middle Ages« of the Research Training Group 2304: Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Martial Cultures. Exchange, Differentiation and Reception. Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG): Alte Universitätsstraße 19, 55116 Mainz 18.00 Introduction 18.15 KEYNOTE LECTURE Taxiarchis Kolias (Athens) Transcultural Experiences of War. The Function of Victory and Defeat 19.30 Reception of the Leibniz ScienceCampus Mainz: Byzantium between Orient and Occident