Byzantine Studies

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...

Michael Pifer (University of Michigan) Language Care and Community: The Fashioning of Middle Armenian into a Courtly Vernacular. Co-sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Mashtots Chair of Armenian Studies at Harvard...

Alexander Riehle (Harvard University), Towards a History of Women's Writing in Byzantium.

Andrew Mellas (St. Andrew’s Theological College and the University of Sydney), A Song of Theology and Emotion: Romanos the Melodist’s Hymn on Pentecost. This lecture will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; click here to register.

Rebecca Darley (University of Leeds), Byzantium as an Indian Ocean Society. Sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; click here to register.

Reyhan Durmaz (University of Pennsylvania), Daughter, Healer, Soldier, Spy: Finding Communities in the Medieval Middle Eastern Countryside. Sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies at...

Alexander Saminsky (Independent Scholar), Mid-Eleventh-Century Miniatures from Antioch and Constantinople, with response by Joe Glynias (Harvard Society of Fellows). Co-sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and departments of Classics and the...

Henry Maguire (Johns Hopkins University), “Fiery Light” of Majesty: Glass Mosaic and the Aesthetic of Silk in Byzantium, with response by Gudrun Buehl (Independent Scholar). Co-sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and departments of Classics...

Curious about how coins were made from their inception in 7th-century BCE Lydia until the birth of mechanized coinage at Matthew Boulton's Soho Manufactory in 18th-century Birmingham, Britain? Visit the Harvard Art Museums Materials Lab on Thursday, April...