Category Archives: Lectures

Online Lecture: Between Byzantium and Modernity: Portraits of Civic Virtue in Late Ottoman Lesvos

Posted on February 13, 2025 by Chris

Online Lecture: Between Byzantium and Modernity: Portraits of Civic Virtue in Late Ottoman Lesvos The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce the 2024–2025 edition of its annual lecture with the Harvard University Standing Committee … Continue reading →

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Online Lecture: “This Holy One is Mother, Father, and Sister to Me”: Gender and Beyond in Byzantine Hagiography

Posted on October 22, 2024 by Chris

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce the first lecture in our 2024–2025 lecture series. Friday, November 7, 2024 | 12:00 PM (EST, UTC -5) | Zoom “This Holy One is Mother, Father, and … Continue reading →

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Online Lecture: Sing to Him a New Song! Liturgical Hymns from Medieval Nubia

Posted on September 9, 2024 by Chris

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University are pleased to announce the first lecture in the 2024–2025 East of Byzantium lecture series. Friday, September 27, 2024 | 12:00 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on November 20, 2023 by Chris

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

Posted on October 25, 2023 by Chris

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

Posted on March 10, 2023 by Chris

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

Posted on February 14, 2023 by Chris

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

Posted on January 10, 2023 by Chris

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

Posted on October 6, 2022 by Chris

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

Posted on September 12, 2022 by Chris

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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