A symposium on Eastern European identity and biography in the Middle Ages, with contributions by Isaiah Gruber (Hebrew University), Jakub Kabala (Davidson College), Eve Levin (University of Kansas), Timothy May (University of North Georgia), Leonora Neville (University of Wisconsin), Heidi Sherman (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay), Oleksii Tolochko (Ukrainian National Academy of Science), and Lisa Wolverton (University of Oregon). Sponsored by The Committee on Medieval Studies, the Davis Center for Russian Studies, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, the Harvard Early Slavists...
The Technique and Trade of Glass in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, with Patrick Degryse (University of Leuven). This workshop is part of the 2016 Harvard Medieval Material Culture Lectures and Workshop series "In the glasing y-wroght: Medieval Glass as Material, Medium, and Message," sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies, the Harvard Art Museums, the Harvard Semitic Museum, and the Harvard Initiative for the Science of the Human Past. Space in the...
Art Study Center, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street
The Craft of Medieval Glass: Decorative Glass in the Harvard Art Museums, with Katherine Eremin (Harvard Art Museums Straus Center for Conservation) and Elizabeth Pastan (Emory University). This workshop is part of the 2016 Harvard Medieval Material Culture Lectures and Workshop series "In the glasing y-wroght: Medieval Glass as Material, Medium, and Message," sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies, the Harvard Art Museums, the Harvard Semitic Museum...
Patrick Degryse (University of Leuven), Making Magical Glass: From the Ancient to the Medieval World. This lecture is part of the 2016 Harvard Medieval Material Culture Lectures and Workshop series "In the glasing y-wroght: Medieval Glass as Material, Medium, and Message," sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies, the Harvard Art Museums, the Harvard Semitic Museum, and the Harvard Initiative for the Science of the Human Past.
Elizabeth Pastan (Emory University), Romancing the Rose: Materiality and Meanings in that Singular Circular Window. Reception to follow. This lecture is part of the 2016 Harvard Medieval Material Culture Lectures and Workshop series "In the glasing y-wroght: Medieval Glass as Material, Medium, and Message," sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies, the Harvard Art Museums, the Harvard Semitic Museum, and the Harvard Initiative for the Science of the...
Boston University Judaic Studies Center, 147 Bay State Road
Gary Vikan (Carleton College), The Sacred Art of Ethiopia. The lecture will explore the history and character of Ethiopian Christian art—icons, manuscripts, and crosses—from its first tentative appearance on fourth-century coinage to the eighteenth century, drawing heavily on objects in the Walters Art Museum collection in Baltimore, which is the finest of its kind outside of Ethiopia, but also addressing other works, including the great “Holy Land” architectural complex at Lalibela. This lecture is part of the 2015-2016 series "Reading Between Word and Image in Medieval Europe,...
Boston University Judaic Studies Center, 147 Bay State Road
The Legal and Moral Challenges of Acquiring Antiquities and Medieval Art: A Case Study, a workshop with Gary Vikan (Carleton College) discussing the legal and moral issues surrounding the acquisition and preservation of ancient and medieval art. Space is limited; email Brian Loh at the Program in Scripture and the Arts (scripart@bu.edu) to reserve a place in the workshop.
A day-long symposium featuring presentations by Frank Coulson (Ohio State University), Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich and Beatrice Wyss (Universität Bern), Ana Pairet (Rutgers University), Albert Lloret (University of Massachusetts Amherst), and Gemma Pelissa Prades (Harvard University). For more information, please visit the conference website.