Category Archives: Announcements

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 →

The 3rd Porto Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy Summer School, on Petrus Hispanus Tractatus: Logic and Philosophy from the Middle Ages to Modernity,  will be held in Porto from 15 to 19 June 2026. The call for participation is open until … Continue reading →

The Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is happy to announce the Elizabeth A. R. Brown Medieval Historians Archive. Historian Elizabeth A.R. Brown (“Peggy”), who died in August 2024 at age … Continue reading →

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) is pleased to announce that the call for applications for its 2026-2027 Visiting Research Fellowship program is now open. Guided by the vision of its founders, Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, … Continue reading →

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Byzantine Studies Association of North America are pleased to offer a a GIS basics workshop series for graduate students and early career researchers in collaboration with Becky Seifried of … Continue reading →

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce the final lecture in our 2025–2026 lecture series. Spindle Whorls and Women’s Work: Reframing Middle Byzantine Lives in the Athenian Agora Fotini Kondyli, University of Virginia March … Continue reading →

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce the 2025–2026 edition of its annual lecture with the Harvard University Standing Committee on Medieval Studies. The Frankish Kingdom and the Eastern Empire: Rethinking Their Interconnections from … Continue reading →

Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History Call for Fellowship Applications The lenses of Western modernity surreptitiously shape the study of past cultures in ways that encourage us to disregard their own claims about their world in favor of those that … Continue reading →

Greetings from Rare Book School! Our summer 2026 course schedule features nearly 50 classes, including in-person offerings at three new course locations: York in the United Kingdom, North Bennet Street School in Boston, and the University of Texas at Austin’s Harry Ransom … Continue reading →