Category Archives: Announcements

Call for Applications: Mary Jaharis Center Grants 2026–2027 The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce its 2026–2027 grant competition. Mary Jaharis Center Co-Funding Grants promote Byzantine studies in North America. These grants provide co-funding … Continue reading →

Online Lecture: Learning Late Antiquity: The Quarry Church at Deir al-Ganadla and the Lost Timber Nave The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Mashtot Chair of Armenian Studies at Harvard University are pleased to announce the … Continue reading →

Online Lecture: Worshipping the Mother Goddess: An Underground Cult Complex in Late Antique Aphrodisias The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce the next lecture in our 2025–2026 lecture series. December 2, 2025 | Zoom … Continue reading →

International Medieval Society–Paris, Annual Orientation Aperitif I am delighted to announce that IMS-Paris’s annual Paris orientation Aperitif will take place this year on Tuesday, 18 November at 18h00 chez Kristin Hoefener near Republique. We will be joined by Professors Kristine … Continue reading →

If you have recently seen a major research project to completion, please let us know!  The 2026 Medieval Academy meeting on the campuses of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Amherst College (March 19–21, 2026) will feature two sessions celebrating “New … Continue reading →

Online Lecture: Mediating Touch: Ivory Pyxides and the Eucharist The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce the next lecture in our 2025–2026 lecture series. November 17, 2025 | Zoom | 12:00–1:30 pm (Eastern Standard … Continue reading →

The Rawlinson Center at Western Michigan University announces the eighth Paul E. Szarmach Prize, to be awarded in May 2026. It consists of an award of $500 to the author of a first article on a topic in the culture … Continue reading →

Curator’s Talk with British Library curators Claire Breay and Calum Cockburn Featuring medieval manuscripts digitized with American Trust for the British Library funding from the late Elizabeth A.R. and Ralph S. Brown, Jr. Hosted by the American Trust for the … Continue reading →

Online Lecture: Creating Christian Sacred Spaces: The Armenian Case (4th–7th Centuries) The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Mashtot Chair of Armenian Studies at Harvard University are pleased to announce the first lecture in the 2025–2026 … Continue reading →

Online Lecture: Daily Life Encounters between the Byzantines and the Ottomans The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce the first lecture in our 2025–2026 lecture series. October 20, 2025 | 12:00 PM (EDT, UTC … Continue reading →