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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Mary Jaharis Center Lecture on Byzantine Arts and Culture
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SUMMARY:Mary Jaharis Center Lecture on Byzantine Arts and Culture
DESCRIPTION:<p>	<a data-url="https://lsa.umich.edu/histart/people/faculty/paroma.html" href="https://lsa.umich.edu/histart/people/faculty/paroma.html" title="">Paroma Chatterjee</a> (University of Michigan): <em>Measuring Weather: The Windvane and the Nilometer in Byzantine Art and Texts</em></p><p>	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 levels of the Nile.</p><p>	The lecture will take place on the Zoom meeting platform. Register <a data-url="https://maryjahariscenter.org/events/lecture-by-measuring-weather" href="https://maryjahariscenter.org/events/lecture-by-measuring-weather" title="">here</a>.</p>
LOCATION:Zoom
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART:20231106T170000Z
DTEND:20231106T183000Z
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