The Sacred Image: Between Revealing and Concealing

Date: 

Thursday, April 20, 2017 (All day) to Friday, April 21, 2017 (All day)

Location: 

The Naumburg Room, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street

A two-day international symposium highlighting new research on the interpretation of the sacred in ancient and medieval art, with a keynote address by François Lissarague (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris) and presentations by Milette Gaifman (Yale University), Jeffrey Hamburger (Harvard University), John Hamilton (Harvard University), Henriette Hofmann (University of Basel), Pierre-Alain Mariaux (University of Neuchâtel), Ioannis Mylonopoulos (Columbia University), Laura Nasrallah (Harvard University), Felipe Pereda (Harvard University) Verity Platt (Cornell University), Barbara Schellewald (University of Basel), Sophie Schweinfurth (University of Zürich), James Simpson (Harvard University), Adrian Stähli (Harvard University), and Gerard Wildgruber (Basel University). Co-sponsored by Eikones/Basel University, Swissnex Boston, the Harvard University Department of the Classics, and the Harvard University Department of the History of Art and Architecture. For complete program and registration information, please visit the conference website here.