The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Mashtot Chair of Armenian Studies at Harvard University is hosting an online lecture by Mikael Muehlbauer on December 9, 2025, focusing on the Quarry Church at Deir al-Ganadla and its significance for understanding Late Antique architecture in Egypt and the Mediterranean.
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Online Lecture: ‘Worshipping the Mother Goddess: An Underground Cult Complex in Late Antique Aphrodisias’ with Ine Jacobs, 2 December 2025, 12:00–1:30 pm (Eastern Standard Time, UTC -5)
Ine Jacobs from the University of Oxford will discuss the discovery of a well-preserved underground cult complex dedicated to the mother goddess Kybele in Late Antique Aphrodisias, exploring its architecture, cultic artifacts, and the persistence of pagan worship until the 7th century, during a lecture hosted by the Mary Jaharis Center on December 2, 2025.
Online lecture: ‘Mediating Touch: Ivory Pyxides and the Eucharist’, with Evan Freeman, 17 November 2025, 12–1:30 pm (EST, UTC -5)
In this lecture, Evan Freeman, Simon Fraser University, will consider the use of ivory pyxides for receiving Communion in church. A large body of these round ivory boxes survive from late antiquity. Several boxes display motifs associated with the Eucharist.
Online Lecture: ‘Creating Christian Sacred Spaces: The Armenian Case (4th–7th Centuries)’, with Nazénie Garibia, 4 November 2025, 12:00 PM (EST, UTC -5)
The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Mashtot Chair of Armenian Studies at Harvard University are pleased to announce the first lecture in the 2025–2026 East of Byzantium lecture series.
Online Lecture Series: ‘Participation through Prayer in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World’, 21 October 2025 – 10 February 2026, Tuesdays, 4–6 pm (CET)
Join PRAYTICIPYTE for this lecture series on prayer in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World, which takes place online.
Online lecture: ‘Grünewald Remediating Wood from the Panel’ with Gregory Bryda, 8 October 2025, 5pm (CEST)
Gregory Bryda will present an online lecture on October 8, 2025, examining how Matthias Grünewald utilised wood’s dual nature in his altarpieces to intertwine the medicinal properties of Christ and saints with those of trees and plants.
Lecture Series: British Archaeological Association Programme of Meetings 2025-2026
The British Archaeological Association holds regular monthly lectures on the first Wednesday of each month between October and May in the rooms of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Burlington House and online.
Murray Seminar: ‘Natural Disorder: Art and Unruliness in Norwich Priory’ with Dr Jessica Barker, Birkbeck, 7 May 2025, 17-18:30 (GMT)
Join the next Murray Seminar with Dr Jessica Barker, who will be presenting on representations of the natural world within a particular late-medieval monastic community.
Online Lecture: ‘The Blood of His Flesh? Controversial Relics from Byzantium in Venice’, with Karin Krause, 10 April 2025, 12–1.30 pm (ET)
The upcoming Mary Jaharis Center lecture will be by Karin Krause (University of Chicago), who will discuss the history and veneration of two relics of the Holy Blood of Christ kept in the church of San Marco in Venice.
Online talk: ‘Unfolding Concertina-Fold Almanacs: The Making of an Exhibition’, 28 March 2025 12-1.30pm (EDT)
In this online talk, Sarah Griffin, curator of the exhibition, and Megan McNamee, a collaborator, will introduce the concertina corpus and discuss the process of putting these frighteningly fragile, fiendishly complex, and wonderfully dynamic little books on public view.
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