Online Lecture: ‘Luxury for All? Jewelry and People in the East Roman Empire’, with Georgios Makris, 11 March 2025, 4pm (GMT)

Join this online lecture with Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art & Culture, where Dr Georgios Makris (University of British Columbia) explores issues of taste in the East Roman Empire.

Online Lecture: Cambridge Medieval Art Seminar, ‘Playing with Fools?’ with Dr Krisztina Ilko, 17 February 2025 (5-6:30pm, GMT)

Join the second Cambridge Medieval Art Seminar of 2025, Krisztina Ilko (Queens’ College, University of Cambridge) will speak on her new research project on medieval chess pieces.

Online lecture: ‘Golden Wreaths for Hippocrates: Art, Learning, and Lineage on a Medieval Cup’ with Dr Mary Franklin-Brown, 4 February 2025 (5:30 – 7pm GMT)

Join this lecture on a medieval cup made for Humfrey & Eleanor, Duke & Duchess of Gloucester, and owned by Lady Margaret Beaufort.

Online Lecture: ‘Inscribing Sacred Matter: Reading and Writing Inscriptions on Byzantine Relics’, with Brad Hostetler, 5 December 2024, 12:00 PM (EST)

This online lecture brings together literary and material sources that speak to the act of reading and writing inscriptions in situ, focusing on those that were attached to relics and reliquaries.

Lecture Series: British Archaeological Association Programme of Meetings 2024-2025

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.

Online lecture: ‘The Winter Sun in Capricorn: Portal Imagery in Chaucer & Chartres Cathedral’ with Shelley Williams, American Friends of Chartres, 25 October 2024 (19.30-21.00pm EDT)

Join the American Friends of Chartres to find out how Chaucer’s poetic description inspired by the Labors of the Month matches the art of the north porch and portail royal.

Online Lecture: ‘Food for Thought: Reconsidering Late Medieval English Cadaver Monuments’ with Morgan Ellis Leah, Tuesday 30 July 2024, 5.30pm-6.30pm (BST)

Join the National Churches Trust for an online lecture that will reconsider the long-standing misconception that transi effigies present the body in a ‘late stage of decay.’

Online Lecture: ‘Designing Chartres Cathedral: A Geometrical Perspective’, with Robert Bork and Ellen Shortell, 14 May 2024, 7.30pm (EST) 

Join The Friends of Chartres for this online lecture in collaboration with the University of Iowa and Villa Albertine, featuring two speakers.

Lecture: ‘Foreignness and Architecture in late fifteenth-century Castile’ with Dr Costanza Beltrami, The Murray Seminars at Birkbeck, 5 December 2023, 5pm (GMT)

Join Dr Costanza Beltrami who will be presenting on fifteenth-century Castilian architecture and its evolution through migration and artistic exchange.

Online Lecture: ‘The Wall Paintings of Angers Cathedral’ with Professor Paul Binski, Dr Emily Guerry, and Dr Lucy Wrapson, Monday 27 November 2023 5-7pm (GMT)

Professor Binski, Dr Guerry, and Dr Wrapson will discuss their work on Gothic Wall Paintings in Angers Cathedral in this online lecture.