Category Archives: Lectures

Online Lecture: Language Care and Community: The Fashioning of Middle Armenian into a Courtly Vernacular

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 2023–2024 East of Byzantium lecture series. Tuesday, December 5, 2023 | 12:00 … Continue reading

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Online Lecture: Measuring Weather: The Windvane and the Nilometer in Byzantine Art and Texts

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce the next lecture in our 2023–2024 lecture series. Monday, November 6, 2023 | 12:00 PM EST | Zoom Measuring Weather: The Windvane and the Nilometer in Byzantine … Continue reading

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Online Lecture: Divine King or Sacrilegious Upstart? The Portrait of Emperor Yǝkunno Amlak in Gännätä Maryam

East of Byzantium is pleased to announce the next lecture in its 2022–2023 lecture series. Tuesday, March 21, 2023 | 12:00 PM EDT | Zoom Divine King or Sacrilegious Upstart? The Portrait of Emperor Yǝkunno Amlak in Gännätä Maryam Jacopo … Continue reading

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Online Lecture: Dialogue in Homilies and Hymns on the Annunciation

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce the next lecture in its 2022–2023 lecture series. Wednesday, March 1, 2023 | 12:00 PM EST | Zoom Dialogue in Homilies and Hymns on the Annunciation: The … Continue reading

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Mary Jaharis Center Lecture: The Lonely Mountain: The Emergence of a ‘Hagiorite’ Identity on Medieval Mount Athos

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce the next lecture in its 2022–2023 lecture series. Tuesday, January 24, 2023 | 12:00 PM EST | Zoom The Lonely Mountain: The Emergence of a ‘Hagiorite’ Identity … Continue reading

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East of Byzantium Online Lecture: East of Byzantium: Syriac Christianity along the Silk Roadvvb vv bv bn

East of Byzantium is pleased to announce the first lecture in its 2022–2023 lecture series. Tuesday, October 18, 2022 | 12:00 PM EDT | Zoom East of Byzantium: Syriac Christianity along the Silk Road Li Tang, University of Salzburg Li … Continue reading

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Medieval Rolls in a Digital Environment

Friday, September 16, 2022, 12:00 – 1:30 pm EDT Medieval Rolls in a Digital Environment Dot Porter, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Penn Libraries, and Lisa Fagin Davis, Medieval Academy of America Medieval rolls are notoriously difficult to display and … Continue reading

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Online Lecture – Medieval Rolls in a Digital Environment

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies is excited to announce the first lecture in this fall’s SIMS Online Lecture Series. See details below. Friday, September 16, 2022, 12:00 – 1:30 pm EDT Medieval Rolls in a Digital Environment Dot Porter, … Continue reading

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“The Gold of Banjska” Public Lecture Date: March 24, 2022, at 4:00pm EDT via Zoom Midway through the quick succession of brief biographical notes about Serbian monarchs and potentates that comprise the so-called Genealogy of Karlovci, a fifteenth-century text, the reader … Continue reading

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SIMS Online Lecture Series – Bryan C. Keene, “Masters in Miniature” Feb. 11

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies is pleased to announce the next lecture in its Online Lecture Series, presented in partnership with Center for Italian Studies and the Italian Studies section of the Department of Romance Languages at the University … Continue reading

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