A One-Day Workshop at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London Sponsored by the AG Leventis Foundation The mosaics of Thessaloniki provide the most comprehensive ensemble of Byzantine mosaics in the world, with examples from late antiquity right through to the fourteenth century. They present remarkable testimony to the skills of artists throughout theContinue reading “Workshop: The Mosaics of Thessaloniki Revisited (London, 30 May 2014)”
Category Archives: Upcoming Events
Rare Book School, Charlottesville, Virginia, June 2014
This summer Rare Book School is excited to offer four courses designed specifically to advance the research of scholars in medieval and renaissance studies. *Introduction to Paleography, 800-1500* introduces students to the book-based scripts and the text typologies of the western European Middle Ages and the Renaissance, from Caroline minuscule through early print. Taught by Consuelo Dutschke, Curator of MedievalContinue reading “Rare Book School, Charlottesville, Virginia, June 2014”
Upcoming Event: The Healing Arts across the Mediterranean (Rutgers University, 28 March)
The Healing Arts Across The Mediterranean: Communities, Knowledge And Practices, a conference sponsored by SAS, the Program in Medieval Studies, the Program in Early Modern Studies, the Center for Cultural Analysis, the Centers for Global Advancement and International Affairs, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, the Department of History at Rutgers-Newark, and theContinue reading “Upcoming Event: The Healing Arts across the Mediterranean (Rutgers University, 28 March)”
Upcoming Event: Mapping the Miraculous: A Medieval Hagiography Conference (Cambridge, 2 May 2014)
The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic is delighted to announce a one-day conference focusing on saintly miracles and their roles in medieval hagiography. Speakers include Robert Bartlett, Dorothy Ann Bray, Thomas Clancy, Catherine Cubitt, Barry Lewis, Rosalind Love and Christine Rauer. Find the Conference poster here. For more information and the full programme, visitContinue reading “Upcoming Event: Mapping the Miraculous: A Medieval Hagiography Conference (Cambridge, 2 May 2014)”
Upcoming Event: Art and Attention: Alabaster and Ivory Sculpture in the Middle Ages
Seminar at the Anatomy Museum, King’s College, London. 24.03.2014, 18.30-20.30. A Seminar Series and Cross-Period Investigation Attention is an intense concentration enacted in the body and mind. It is something to be attracted or something we give, generously and with due consideration. In theatre and performance, it is that which unites an audience, who are,Continue reading “Upcoming Event: Art and Attention: Alabaster and Ivory Sculpture in the Middle Ages”
Upcoming Event: Mediterranean Connectivities and Religious Communities, Los Angeles, 2-3 May
With the collaboration and support of the Spain-North Africa Project (SNAP), and Loyola Marymount University, the Mediterranean Seminar/University of California Multi-Campus Research Project invites participants to the Spring 2014 workshop on “Mediterranean Connectivities,” to be held at Loyola Marymount University on Saturday, 3 May, 2014. This event is presented in conjunction and collaboration with the SNAP conference, “Power RelationsContinue reading “Upcoming Event: Mediterranean Connectivities and Religious Communities, Los Angeles, 2-3 May”
Upcoming Event: Prof. Joan Breton Connelly (NYU), Acropolis and Parthenon: Genealogical Myth, Boundary Catastrophes and Local Memory *TOMORROW*
Special Guest Lecture being held in the Senate House *tomorrow* (in collaboration with UCL and KCL Prof. Joan Breton Connelly (New York University) Acropolis and Parthenon: Genealogical Myth, Boundary Catastrophes and Local Memory When: Wednesday 19th March 2014, 17:15 – 18:45 Where: Senate House (WC1E 7HU ), South Block, Room G22/26 The Parthenon’s sculptural programContinue reading “Upcoming Event: Prof. Joan Breton Connelly (NYU), Acropolis and Parthenon: Genealogical Myth, Boundary Catastrophes and Local Memory *TOMORROW*”
Programme: Study Day on Pseudo-Dionysius, Florence
Programma ps.-Dionigi / Programme ps.-DionysiusSOCIETÀ INTERNAZIONALE PER LO STUDIO DEL MEDIOEVO LATINO – SISMEL Via Montebello 7, Firenze 9 aprile 2014 Seminario LA CONOSCENZA DELLO PS. DIONIGI IN OCCIDENTE FINO ALL’ETÀ CAROLINGIA/THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PS.-DIONYSIUS IN THE WEST UNTIL THE CAROLINGIAN TRANSLATIONS 10.30 – 10.45 Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, Introduzione 10.45Continue reading “Programme: Study Day on Pseudo-Dionysius, Florence”
‘Goitein in Perspective’ (31 March, Brandeis University)
The Tauber Institute presents: “Goitein in Perspective,” an International Symposium, March 31, 2014 – April 1, 2014 at Brandeis University in the Mandel Center for the Humanities, Room 303. This symposium seeks to understand the life and work of the towering figure S.D. Goitein—scholar of Islamic Studies, Jewish Social History, the Cairo Geniza, and the medieval Mediterranean—fromContinue reading “‘Goitein in Perspective’ (31 March, Brandeis University)”
Mary Jaharis Center Lecture Series: The Reliquary-Enkolpia of Saint Demetrios and the Wonder of Art, April 3
The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce the second lecture in its 2013-2014 lecture series. On April 3, 2014, at 4pm, Dr. Ivan Drpić (University of Washington) will present “The Reliquary-Enkolpia of Saint Demetrios and the Wonder of Art.” Professor Drpić will explore the intersection of personal piety, art, and aestheticsContinue reading “Mary Jaharis Center Lecture Series: The Reliquary-Enkolpia of Saint Demetrios and the Wonder of Art, April 3”
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