Byzantine Studies

"New Frontiers in Medieval History Research", featuring presentations by Reed Morgan and Elena Shadrina (Department of History); complete program and details here. Co-sponsored by the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard.

Salam Rassi (University of Edinburgh), A Republic of Letters in Verse? Syriac Poems Addressed to Individuals and Communities (Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries). Co-sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Mashtots Professor...

Maria Mavroudi (Professor of Byzantine History, University of California Berkeley): The Byzantine and Ottoman Intellectual Encounter, 14th-16th Centuries: Intellectuals in Greek and Arabic: Philosophy and the Sciences. Sponsored by the Center for Middle...

Maria Mavroudi (Professor of Byzantine History, University of California Berkeley): The Byzantine and Ottoman Intellectual Encounter, 14th-16th Centuries: Bureaucrats in Greek and Arabic: Archival Documents. Sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern...

Maria Mavroudi (Professor of Byantine History, University of California Berkeley): The Byzantine and Ottoman Intellectual Encounter, 14th-16th Centuries: The Historiographical Stakes. Sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard...

Jordan Pickett (University of Georgia), Recycled Cities: Sardis and the Fortifications of Early Byzantine Anatolia. Co-sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art & Culture and the Mashtots Chair for Armenian Studies at Harvard University. This...

Gohar Grigoryan (University of Fribourg), Political Rituals and Urban Communities in Cilician Armenia. Co-sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies at Harvard University. This lecture...

David Berikashvili (University of Georgia), Uncovering Samshvilde: Commerce and Conflict in the Medieval Caucasus. Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Program on Georgian Studies, the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies, and the Committee on Archeology...

Benjamin Garstad (MacEwan University), India on the Red Sea: The Early Byzantine Awareness of East Africa and South Arabia. To register for the Zoom presentation of this talk, please click here.

Anthony Kaldellis (University of Chicago), Byzantium as Europe's Black Mirror. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross. This talk will take place on the...