Register Now- Ukraine Lecture Series: The Cathedral of St. Sophia, Kyiv

The Cathedral of St. Sophia, Kyiv
June 8, 2022, 12-1:30 pm ET
Virtual Lecture

The cathedral of St. Sophia in the historic center of Kyiv dates to ca. 1037 and is one of the most remarkable medieval monuments of Kyivan Rus. The building was designed, built, and decorated according to Byzantine traditions interpreted in a local context. This roundtable brings together three scholars who will address the distinctive architectural and decorative features of this impressive monument, as well as its visual and symbolic transformations from the Middle Ages into the present.

Speakers:

Thomas Dale (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “‘In Heaven or on Earth’: Saint Sophia in Kyiv and the Reinvention of Byzantine Sacred and Palatine Architecture in the Kyivan Rus”

Ioli Kalavrezou (Harvard University), “The Original Mosaic Program of St. Sophia in Kyiv”

Sofia Korol’ (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), “To the History of the Interwar Church Decorations in Galicia: Kyivan Rus’ Images and Motifs (P. Kholodny and M. Osinchuk)”

This event is co-organized by Dumbarton Oaks in collaboration with North of Byzantium and Connected Central European Worlds, 1500-1700.

Sponsors and Endorsers: Dumbarton Oaks | Princeton University | Boise State University | Tufts University College Art Association (CAA) | Byzantine Studies Association of North America (BSANA) | Society of Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA) | Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Kent | Historians of German, Scandinavian, and Central European Art (HGSCEA) | British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) | International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) | Renaissance Society of America (RSA)

Forgotten Christianities 2022

‘Forgotten Christianities’ is a seminar series exploring critical theories of identity formation, communal memory, and intellectual exchange.
For the purposes of this project, ‘Forgotten Christianities’ are defined as those Christian linguistic and ethnic self-defined groups which traditionally have been overlooked by mainstream academia including, Georgian, Syriac, Armenian, Ethiopic, Coptic, and Arabic Christianity. The “Forgotten Christianities” seminars will explore critical theories of identity formation, communal memory, and intellectual exchange in the history of the Eastern and Oriental Churches.

Each session will bring together doctoral students and ERCs from various fields such as history, archaeology, theology, and the social sciences. Spanning Late Antiquity, the early Islamic era, and the Middle Ages, they will provide a diachronic and kaleidoscopic view of these historical communities and their self-representation. Participants are invited to engage critically with a range of theoretical frameworks and methodologies, such as postcolonial studies, memory studies, the history of ideas, and the development of cultural, religious, and social identity. Through exploring Christianities outside of Western Europe, the seminars aim to contribute to the paradigm shift which decentralises academic interest from a Eurocentric perspective, while showcasing the interconnectedness of societies.

The conveners Bogdan Draghici (DPhil in Oriental Studies – Syriac, Wolfson College), Alexis Gorby (DPhil in Classical Archaeology, St John’s College), Dan Gallaher (DPhil in History – Armenian/Byzantine Studies, Balliol College) can be contacted at forgottenchristianities@gmail.com.

This seminar series is funded by the Ancient World Research Cluster at Wolfson College, Oxford and supported by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH).

6th June, 5pm 

Dr Ani Honarchian (Utah)

‘Veiling and Stripping the Sasanian Empire: Some reflections of political theologies from Armenian and Syriac sources’

Earnestine Qiu (Princeton)

‘Kingship, Travel, and Animals in the Armenian Alexander Romance’

 

13th June, 5pm

Dr Peter Miller (Iowa)

‘Learning Ascesis in Three Steps: Training Novices in the Reform Monastic Tradition of the Church of the East

David Gyllenhaal (Princeton)

‘The Rebuke Homily: Collective Trauma and the Christianization of the Syriac Speaking Peasantry

 

20th June – 5pm

Chloe Agar (Oxford)

‘Shaping Coptic Christian Identity: Forging Collective Memories through Hagiography’

Mikail Berg (Brown)

The Conversation of Nubia and the Divine Feminine: Reverence of the Holy Mother as a communal Memory of  Cult of Isis’

 

27th June – 5pm

Dr Yuliya Minets (Jacksonville)

‘Revising the Instrumentarium: How do we discuss Languages and Identities in Late Antique Christianity’

Walter Beers (Princeton)

Chalcedonian counterinsurgency and Miaphysite ruralization: John of ephesus’ persecution narrative in the Zuqnin chronicle

Byzantinist Society of Cyprus lecture series: Athanasios Markopoulos, “Education in Byzantium”

The Byzantinist Society of Cyprus lecture series Athanasios Markopoulos, “Education in Byzantium” (the lecture will be given in Greek: “Η Εκπαίδευση στα χρόνια του Βυζαντίου”). Thursday, 9 June at 19:00 (ΕΕΤ)

Meeting link:
https://byzantinistsociety.my.webex.com/byzantinistsociety.my/j.php?MTID=m9fe6fec42fd1409eedfa3ace5ff85077

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2557 253 8664

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2022 Cleveland Symposium CFP

The Department of Art History and Art at Case Western Reserve University invites graduate students to submit abstracts for the 2022 Annual Symposium, Recentering the Periphery: An Inclusive Future of Art History. This event, in partnership with FRONT International 2022: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art (July 16-October 2, 2022) and Assembly for the Arts will take place over in a two-day collaborative event on September 16th and 17th. There will be opportunities to present scholarship, network with professionals, and engage in dialogues surrounding community engagement.

Current and recent graduate students in art history and related disciplines are invited to submit a 350-word abstract and a CV to clevelandsymposium@gmail.com by Friday, June 24, 2022. Selected participants will be notified by the end of July. Presentations will be no more than 10-15 minutes in length, and accompanied by a PowerPoint. Presentations will be followed by a roundtable Q&A session to facilitate dialogue among panelists and the audience. Accepted presenters will be able to apply for partial need-based travel assistance.

Please see the attached Call for Papers for full information.

Sincerely,
Luke Hester, Arielle Suskin, & Katharine Young
Co-Chairs, 2022 Cleveland Symposium 

Conference, 2-3 June 2022: Sung, Written and Painted. The Ἀκάθιστος ὕμνος and Intermedial Compositional Processes in Later Byzantium

Conference, 2-3 June 2022: Sung, Written and Painted. The Ἀκάθιστος ὕμνος and Intermedial Compositional Processes in Later Byzantium.
It is planned as a hybrid event, which all of you are warmly invited to join.
Abstract:
Painted cycles based on the Akathistos represent one of the great novelties of late Byzantine art, translating a by then already ancient piece of liturgical music into the world of visual art. However, even though the Akathistos Hymn to the Virgin Mary has been studied quite extensively, the relationship between its text, music, and illustrations has not yet been fully explored.
Building on the Akathistos Hymn, the planned conference will examine late Byzantine intermedial compositional processes. Painted cycles based on the Akathistos should be studied as a product of the interaction between hymnography, psalmody, and visual art – not just as a mere visualisation of a text. Illuminated and notated manuscript copies of the hymn ought to be examined as evidence for varied liturgical and devotional practices. Icons and murals that illustrate the Akathistos need to be seen as constituent elements of sacred space. At the same time, the broader social and religious context(s) for the hymn’s use during the late Byzantine period need to be considered.
Methodologically, the conference will have as its focus the concept of intermediality, that is, the interface between various media of cultural expression. The organisers hope that it will contribute towards bridging the methodological gaps that separates various scholarly approaches to the study of medieval culture.
Join us!
2.Juni.2022 06:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rom, Stockholm, Wien
Join Zoom-Meeting
Meeting-ID: 617 2779 2998
Code: 432988

Gedenkveranstaltung für ao. Univ. Prof. Dr. Wolfram HÖRANDNER (1942-2021)

Gedenkveranstaltung für ao. Univ. Prof. Dr. Wolfram HÖRANDNER (1942-2021)
23.05.2022
mit Vorträgen von

Panagiotis Agapitos / Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Diskrete Innovation und handwerklicher Modernismus: Zum Werk von Wolfram Hörandner

Martin Hinterberger / Universität Zypern
Eine stille Revolution: Wolfram Hörandner zur byzantinischen Sprachkunst in Lehre und Forschung

Zeit: Montag, 23. Mai 2022, 16 Uhr s.t.

Ort:Erika Weinzierl-Saal, Hauptgebäude der Universität Wien, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien

Präsenzteilnahme: Anmeldung bei petra.greger@univie.ac.at
und online (Registrierung unbedingt erforderlich)

CfP: Southeast European Silversmithing

Southeast European Silversmithing: Liturgical Objects and the Construction of a Cultural, Technological and Iconographical Network in the Early Modern Period

The conference is scheduled to take place on 4th-5th November 2022. Due to the ongoing epidemiological situation, postponement until Spring 2023 is possible. The conference will be held at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, with the option of remote participation online.
To submit, please provide your full name, title, affiliation, and the theme of your conference paper with a 400 words abstract written in English. The deadline for submissions is 1st June 2022. You should also provide a short personal bio (max. 300 words) and photo for use on the conference website. Prospective conference participants will be notified if their paper has been accepted no later than by 10th June 2022. The conference will be held entirely in English. All information about the conference, including participants, proposal themes and abstracts will be made available on the conference website. A collection of papers is planned following the conference.

Tübingen Byzantine and Near Eastern Seminar, May 19

Tübingen Byzantine and Near Eastern Seminar
Religious Conflict in Baghdad: Proto-Sunnism and Its Opponents in Ibn Qutayba’s (d. 276/889) Kitāb Ta’wīl Mukhtalif al-Ḥadīth
Gabriel Said Reynolds, Jerome J. Crowley and Rosaleen G. Crowley Professor of Theology University of Notre Dame
Thursday, May 19, 2022 at 6:15 p.m.
Kupferbau, Lecture Hall 22
Philosophische Fakultät
The lecture is hybrid. For online (Zoom) registration please contact viola.osswald@student.uni-tuebingen.de or markus-piet.kleemann@student.uni-tuebingen.de.

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