Category Archives: Announcements

To encourage the integration of Byzantine studies within the scholarly community and medieval studies in particular, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 2027 International Medieval Congress, … Continue reading →

The Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, are pleased to invite abstracts for the next Studying East of Byzantium workshop: … Continue reading →

School of Historical Studies The School of Historical Studies supports scholarship in all fields of historical research but is concerned principally with the history of western, near eastern and Asian civilizations, with particular emphasis on the Greek and Roman world, … Continue reading →

Transmitting and Preserving Languages in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean. Second International Workshop Date: 4 June 2026 Venue: Balliol College, Gillis Lecture Theatre and Massey Room (Oxford OX1 3BJ) & online Convenors: Daniel Gallaher and Ugo Mondini (University of Oxford) … Continue reading →

Introduction to Research in France: IMS-Paris Workshop for Graduate Students On behalf of the IMS-Paris, Tori Schmitt and Gabriela Chitwood, two recent recipients of the Medieval Academy of America’s Birgit Baldwin Fellowship in French medieval history, will host a workshop … Continue reading →

With the support of a grant from the American Musicological Society’s Early Music Program Fund, the Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission (DACT) project seeks six students for work in Summer 2026 to catalog fragments from the collection of Otto F. … Continue reading →

I’m pleased to call your attention to a new digital resource for teaching and studying Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales at manuscriptreader.org. This site offers an up-close, accessible encounter with the original text in its manuscript setting. The site allows users to … Continue reading →

Call for Sessions: Mary Jaharis Center Sponsored Panel, 52nd Annual Byzantine Studies Conference As part of its ongoing commitment to Byzantine studies, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for Mary Jaharis Center sponsored sessions at … Continue reading →

Online Lecture: Contested Space: Land, Law and Society in Early Medieval Armenia The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University are pleased to announce the final lecture in the … Continue reading →

Online Lecture: The Spatial and Material Turn in Monastic Archaeology: A Retrospective The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University are pleased to announce the next lecture in the … Continue reading →