Mosaic, Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem. Photo: Liz James The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce the next lecture in its 2022–2023 lecture series. The ‘theology of icons’ is well-discussed in Byzantine Studies: the role that religious images played in Byzantine life; the relationships between the icon, the worshipperContinue reading “Online Lecture: Responding Icons and Miraculous Images? Is There a Theology for Mosaics? by Liz James, 9 February 2023, 12:00pm EST”
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Fellowship: Post-Doctoral Fellow in Byzantine Coins, Dumbarton Oaks, Deadline 15 June 2022
Dumbarton Oaks invites applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow to work with the museum team on projects relating to cataloging, publication, and exhibition of the coin collection. The successful candidate will receive training in digital cataloging, collections management, and exhibition planning. They will catalogue the newly acquired Mansfield and Shaw collections of early Byzantine coins, describing,Continue reading “Fellowship: Post-Doctoral Fellow in Byzantine Coins, Dumbarton Oaks, Deadline 15 June 2022”
Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at International Medieval Congress 2022
To encourage the integration of Byzantine studies within the scholarly community and medieval studies in particular, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 2022 International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 4–7, 2022. We invite session proposals on any topic relevant toContinue reading “Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at International Medieval Congress 2022”
New Publication: Art and Material Culture in the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds – Studies in Honour of Erica Cruikshank Dodd , edited by Evanthia Baboula and Lesley Jessop
Dedicated to Erica Cruikshank Dodd, Art and Material Culture in the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds offers new perspectives on the Christian and Muslim communities of the east Mediterranean from medieval to contemporary times. The contributors examine how people from diverse religious backgrounds adapted to their changing political landscapes and show that artistic patronage, consumption, and practices areContinue reading “New Publication: Art and Material Culture in the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds – Studies in Honour of Erica Cruikshank Dodd , edited by Evanthia Baboula and Lesley Jessop”
Online Lecture: ‘Auro, argento, aere perennius: Byzantine Art in & through Coins 4th–15th Centuries’ with Dr Cécile Morrisson, 9 April 2021, 12pm (EST)
Join Yale for their up-coming Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture series.
Online Lecture: Rethinking Byzantine Masculinities: Gender, Sexuality, Emotions, Devotion, 30 October 2020 2pm-3:30pm (ET)
For the past five decades, Byzantinists have explored gender and sexuality. More recent work has turned to gendered emotions and religious devotion. While much of this research has its origin in women’s history, there has been an increasing interest in men, including monks and eunuchs, and in the articulations and performances of masculinity.
Call for Papers: Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture session, IMC Leeds, 2019 (Deadline: 1 September 2018)
To encourage the integration of Byzantine studies within the scholarly community and medieval studies in particular, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 26th International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 1–4, 2019. We invite session proposals on any topic relevant to ByzantineContinue reading “Call for Papers: Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture session, IMC Leeds, 2019 (Deadline: 1 September 2018)”
CFP: Crossing Rivers in Byzantium and Beyond (Vienna, 2-3 Nov 18) (Deadline 1 June 18)
Crossing Rivers in Byzantium and Beyond Department of Art History, University of Vienna, 02. – 03.11.2018 Deadline: Jun 1, 2018 “It is always dramatic to cross a frontier, even though the frontier is only a brook” (V. S. Pritchett, Geographical Magazine, December, 1942) This workshop is organized as part of the project “Byzantine Stone Bridges: Material Evidence andContinue reading “CFP: Crossing Rivers in Byzantium and Beyond (Vienna, 2-3 Nov 18) (Deadline 1 June 18)”
6 CfP for ICMS Kalamazoo 2018
[1] Venice, Materiality, and the Byzantine World [2] De-Centering the Romanesque [3] Creative Modes of Activating the Early Medieval Manuscript [4] Creative Strategies of Intellectual Engagement with Tradition and the Auctores [5] “Manuscripts in the Curriculum”: New Perspectives on Using Medieval Manuscripts in the Undergraduate Classroom from Special Collection Librarians, Faculty, and Booksellers (A Roundtable)Continue reading “6 CfP for ICMS Kalamazoo 2018”
Lectureship in Classics (Roman Art) (Including Late Antique/Early Byzantine art to c. 700 AD), School of Human Environment, University College Cork, Ireland
Job: Lectureship in Classics (Roman Art), Including Late Antique/Early Byzantine art to c. 700 AD), School of Human Environment, University College Cork, Ireland Deadline: 5pm, 01 November 2016 Contract Type: Permanent Whole-Time Job Type: Academic Salary: €31,821 – €56,967/€62,353 – €76,942 UCC wishes to appoint an experienced academic to the role of Lecturer in ClassicsContinue reading “Lectureship in Classics (Roman Art) (Including Late Antique/Early Byzantine art to c. 700 AD), School of Human Environment, University College Cork, Ireland”
Medieval Art Research 