Byzantine Studies

Bissera Pentcheva (Stanford University), Icons of Sound: Chant and Recitation in Hagia Sophia. Followed by a reception at the Harvard Faculty Club (20 Quincy Street).

Svein Harald Gullbekk (University of Oslo), From Constantinople to the North: Harald Hardrada and the Making of Norway’s First Currency. This talk is offered in conjunction with Dr. Eurydice Georganteli’s seminar HAA 174, “The King’s Money: Power, Art...

A two-day conference featuring a keynote address by Peter Frankopan (Oxford University), lightning talks by undergraduate and graduate students, and presentations by Dimiter Angelov (Harvard University), Nathanael Aschenbrenner (Bard College), Zachary...

Laury Sarti (University of Bonn), The Frankish Kingdom and the Eastern Empire: Rethinking Their Interconnections from a Medieval Perspective. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art & Culture at...

Translating the Middle Ages: The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library at Fifteen . A roundtable chaired by DOML General Editor Daniel Donoghue (Harvard University), featuring Nicole Eddy (Managing Editor, Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library ), Emily Francomano...

In honor of the 1700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, two distinguished choirs devoted to their rich traditions of sacred music—the Holy Cross St. Romanos the Melodist Byzantine Choir, directed by Fr. Romanoss Karanos, and the St...

Peter Bouteneff (St. Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary), "Sacred Arts" in the Christian Context and in the Secular Marketplace of Ideas. Followed by a reception in the HAA "Living Room" (485 Broadway, second floor). Sponsored by the McDonald Agape Foundation.

Elizabeth Dospěl Williams (Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Medieval Studies Associate in Research), From Gandhara to Egypt: Rethinking a Late Antique Lapis Lazuli Pendant . Lunch will be served; please RSVP here before Friday, 17 October 2025.

Denis Searby (Stockholm University; Medieval Studies Visiting Scholar), A Greek Defending Latin Scholasticism: Demetrios Kydones' Defense of Thomas Aquinas. Lunch will be provided; please RSVP here .

Dimitris Krallis (Simon Fraser University), Between Byzantium and Modernity: Portraits of Civic Virtue in Late Ottoman Lesvos. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College...