A day-long conference celebrating the career of Walter Denny, Distinguished Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, featuring contributions by Yael Rice (Amherst College), Laura Weinstein (Museum of Fine Arts Boston), Aimée Froom (Museum of Fine Arts Houston), Amanda Phillips (University of Virginia), Margaret Squires (Courtauld Institute of Art), and Sumru Krody (The Textile Museum, Washington D.C.). For a complete program, please click... Read more about Walter Denny: A Symposium
Christopher Baswell (Barnard College and Columbia University), The Medieval Manuscript in Time. Co-sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and Houghton Library. Space in this hands-on workshop is limited; please click here to register.
Christopher Baswell (Barnard College and Columbia University), The Medieval Manuscript in Time. Co-sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and Houghton Library. Space in this hands-on workshop is limited; please click here to register.
Lorenzo Bondioli (History and NELC): Weaving Capital and Labor: The Medieval Egyptian Textile Boom. Co-sponsored with the Medieval History Graduate Workshop.
Reyhan Durmaz (University of Pennsylvania), Daughter, Healer, Soldier, Spy: Finding Communities in the Medieval Middle Eastern Countryside. Sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies at Harvard University. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; click... Read more about East of Byzantium Lecture Series
Christopher Baswell (Barnard College and Columbia University), Arthurian Immobilities: Disabled Kings and Nobles in the Lancelot Prose Cycle. Co-sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and Houghton Library.
Henry Maguire (Johns Hopkins University), “Fiery Light” of Majesty: Glass Mosaic and the Aesthetic of Silk in Byzantium, with response by Gudrun Buehl (Independent Scholar). Co-sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and departments of Classics and the History of Art. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please register here. Read more about Yale Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture
Rebecca Wrightson (AKPIA Fellow), An Epigraphic (Re)assessment of Ninth-Tenth Century Southern Mesopotamian Luster Ceramics. Sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture.