Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture

2024 Feb 27

East of Byzantium Lecture Series

12:00pm to 1:30pm

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Zoom presentation
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 will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register. Read more about East of Byzantium Lecture Series
2024 Feb 16

Medieval Studies-Mary Jaharis Center Lecture in Byzantine Studies

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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Zoom presentation

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 Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register.

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2023 Dec 05

East of Byzantium Lecture Series

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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Zoom presentation
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 University. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register. Read more about East of Byzantium Lecture Series
2023 Nov 06

Mary Jaharis Center Lecture on Byzantine Arts and Culture

12:00pm to 1:30pm

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Zoom

Paroma Chatterjee (University of Michigan): Measuring Weather: The Windvane and the Nilometer in Byzantine Art and Texts

This lecture discusses the monumental scientific devices that appear in the Byzantine literary and pictorial tradition, particularly the windvane that stood for centuries in Constantinople before its destruction during the Fourth Crusade (1204 CE) and the Nilometer used for measuring the rising...

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2023 Oct 17

East of Byzantium Lecture Series

12:00pm to 1:30pm

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Zoom presentation
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 Harvard University. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; click... Read more about East of Byzantium Lecture Series
2023 Jan 24

Mary Jaharis Center Lecture Series

12:00pm to 1:30pm

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Zoom presentation
Zachary Chitwood (University of Mainz), The Lonely Mountain: The Emergence of a 'Hagorite' Identity on Medieval Mount Athos. This lecture will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; to register, please visit the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture website...
2023 Feb 09

Medieval Studies-Mary Jaharis Center Lecture in Byzantine Studies

12:00pm to 1:30pm

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Zoom presentation

Liz James (University of Sussex), Responding Icons and Miraculous Images: Is There a Theology for Mosaics? Co-sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross, the Committee on Medieval Studies, and the Harvard University Ph.D. Program in Byzantine Studies. This lecture will take place on the Zoom platform; please register here.

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2022 Oct 18

East of Byzantium Lecture Series

12:00pm to 1:30pm

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Zoom presentation
Li Tang (University of Salzburg), East of Byzantium: Syriac Christianity along the Silk Road. This lecture will take place virtually on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register. Sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies at Harvard University. Read more about East of Byzantium Lecture Series

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