Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.