A day-long symposium featuring presentations by Yale and Harvard graduate students, and a keynote address by Hussein Fancy (Yale University). Read more about Harvard-Yale Medieval History Conference

Shirin Fozi (University of Pittsburgh), Eidolon and Anima: Romanesque Portraiture and the Problem of the Soul. Sponsored by the Five College Medieval Studies Seminar and the University of Massachusetts Department of the History of Art and Architecture. This lecture will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; to register, please contact Prof. Sonja Drimmer (sdrimmer@umass.edu). Read more about Five College Medieval Studies Seminar

David Shyovitz (Northwestern University), Soul Food and Salvation in Medieval Ashkenaz: The Ambrosian Bible's 'Heavenly Banquet' Revisited. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click... Read more about Brandeis University Jewish Studies Colloquium

A virtual exploration of Sargent's visual masterpiece Hell through Dante's Commedia, organised in honor of Smith College Emeritus Professor Alfonso Procaccini and featuring presentations by Marco Piana (Smith College) and Danielle Carrabino (Smith College Museum of Art). Sponsored by the Smith College Department of Italian Studies and the Smith College Museum of Art. This event will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click... Read more about Consuming the Soul: Visions of Hell between Dante and Sargent

Shane Bobrycki (University of Vienna), Plague, War, Migration, Climate Change, Sex, and the Demographic Riddle of the Early Middle Ages. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register. Read more about MIT Ancient and Medieval Studies Colloquium

Dawit Muluneh (Catholic University of America), The Legacy of Colonialism in Ethiopic Studies. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; to register, please contact Jessica Beasley (jbeasley@umass.edu). Sponsored by the Comparative Literature and Italian Studies programs of the University of Massachusetts Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Read more about University of Massachusetts Comparative Literature Program Lecture

Annemarie Weyl Carr (Southern Methodist University, emerita), The Ziyareti of Kykkos: The Kykkotissa Meets the Ottomans; response by Robert S. Nelson (Yale University). Sponsored by the Yale Department of Classics and Yale Department of the History of Art. This lecture will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; click here to register. Read more about Yale Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture

Panagiotis Agapitos (University of Cyprus), “Towards a Higher Vision” and “Inside the Depth of Words”: The Aesthetics of Layering in Byzantine Art and Literature; response by Emmanuel Bourbouhakis (Princeton University). Sponsored by the Yale Department of Classics and Yale Department of the History of Art. This lecture will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; click here to register. Read more about Yale Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture

Mikael Muehlbauer (American Council of Learned Societies), Staging Late Antiquity: An Eleventh-Century Revolution in Ethiopian Architecture; response by Jacopo Gnisci (University College London). Sponsored by the Yale Department of Classics and Yale Department of the History of Art. This lecture will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; click here to register. Read more about Yale Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture

Ann Marie Yasin (University of Southern California), Architectural Restoration and the Sensory Experience of Time in Late Antiquity; response by Kimberly Bowes (University of Pennsylvania). Sponsored by the Yale Department of Classics and Yale Department of the History of Art. This lecture will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register. Read more about Yale Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture

Ioanna Rapti (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris), Stories for a King: Images and Narratives at the Holy Cross of Aght’amar; response by Christina Maranci (Tufts University). Sponsored by the Yale Department of Classics and Yale Department of the History of Art. This lecture will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; click here to register. Read more about Yale Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture

Anna Zakharova (Moscow State University), Reception and Adaptation of Byzantine Art in Old Rus in the Eleventh–Twelfth Centuries; response by Justin Willson (Princeton University). Sponsored by the Yale Department of Classics and Yale Department of the History of Art. This lecture will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; click here to register. Read more about Yale Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture

Maria Parani (University of Cyprus), Face to Face with the Sacred: Icons in the Byzantine Home; response by Anastasia Drandaki (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens). Sponsored by the Yale Department of Classics and Yale Department of the History of Art.

Marica Cassis (University of Calgary), Syriac Villages in the Tur Abdin: A Microhistory of the Medieval Middle East. Sponsored by the Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Chair of Armenian Art at Tufts University and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; registration information can be found at the... Read more about East of Byzantium Lecture Series

Roland Betancourt (University of California Irvine), The Sound of the Lectionary: Chant, Architecture, and Salvation in Byzantium. Sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture. This lecture will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click... Read more about Boston Byzantine Music Festival Lecture Series