East of Byzantium: Lecture

Date: 

Wednesday, April 13, 2016, 6:15pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street

Anthony Eastmond (Courtauld Institute, University of London), East of Byzantium: Shifting Identities and New Approaches. With response by Anthony Kaldellis (Ohio State University). This is the inaugural event in a new partnership between the Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Chair of Armenian Art at Tufts University and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, that explores the cultures of the eastern frontier of the Byzantine empire in the late antique and medieval periods.