Summer Intensive Courses – Intro to Coptic; Intermediate Syriac
at HMML, St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota
July 10-August 4, 2023
Deadline for applications: February 13https://hmml.org/programs/intr
https://hmml.org/programs/inte
The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and BSANA are pleased to offer a three-part Computational Text Analysis workshop for graduate students and early career researchers in collaboration with Dr. Jakub Kabala of Davidson College.
Introduction to Computational Text Analysis for Byzantinists, workshop by Jakub Kabala (Davidson College), via Zoom, March 15, March 22, March 29, 2023, 12:00–2:00 pm (EDT)
This online workshop will offer Byzantinists an applied introduction to computational text analysis. Over the course of three sessions, participants will 1) learn the basics of programming with the Wolfram Language in Mathematica; 2) experiment with a series of text analysis functions on a common set of biblical texts (in both Greek and English); and 3) apply their new skills to a digital Byzantine text of their own choosing.
The workshop is limited to 15 participants. The time commitment for this workshop is six hours of instruction and an additional one–two hours between each session for light exercises in coding and preparatory work. Participants should have at least beginner level Greek. Participants are required to attend all sessions. Registration is first come, first served.
Registration closes Sunday, March 5, 2023.
Who is eligible?
To read a full description of the workshop and register your interest, please visit https://maryjahariscenter.org/events/introduction-to-computational-text-analysis.
Contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture, with any questions.
Virtual Workshop Program
Artificial Light in Medieval Churches between Byzantium and the West
9 February 2023
Register Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfGj4WxvME6eCOyhpm8Nk8nr-TtT34_LuI6OLaToTd7OrF4vA/viewform
ORGANIZERS:
Alice Isabella Sullivan, Tufts University
Vladimir Ivanovici, University of Vienna | Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, USI
Throughout the Middle Ages, artificial illumination was used to draw attention to and enhance certain areas, objects, and persons inside Christian sacred spaces. The strategies usually found in Latin and Byzantine churches have been analyzed in recent decades. However, the cultures that developed at the crossroads of the Latin, Greek, and Slavic spheres, particularly in regions of the Balkan Peninsula and the Carpathian Mountains, have received less scholarly attention. The uses of artificial light in churches were likely shaped by aspects such as inherited practices, the imitation of other societies, as well as by local climatic, economic, and theological parameters.
Following a similar workshop that focused on natural light, which showed how uses of sunlight reveal patterns of knowledge transfer and cultural interaction between Byzantium, the West, and the Slavic world throughout the Middle Ages, this workshop hosts papers on the economy of artificial light in medieval churches with a focus on examples from Eastern Europe and other regions of the medieval world that developed at the crossroads of competing traditions. Whether innovative or inspired by the more established traditions on the margins of the Mediterranean, local customs are examined to understand how artificial light was used in ecclesiastical spaces, and how it brought together and enhanced the architecture, decoration, objects, and rituals.
Thursday, 9 February 2023 (EST time)
09:00-09:15 Alice Isabella Sullivan, Welcome and Introduction
09:15-09:45 Teresa Shawcross (Princeton University), The Influence of the Jerusalemite Miracle of Holy Light on Medieval
Sacred Space
09:45-10:15 Thomas E.A. Dale (University of Wisconsin–Madison), The Phenomenology of Artificial and Natural Light at San Marco in Venice
10:15-10:30 (make your own) Snack / Coffee Break
10:30-11:00 Anna Adashinskaya (New Europe College Bucharest | The University of Bucharest, Center for Russian Studies), “The Radiance of the Divine”: Lightening Iconography, Its Significance,, Equipment, and Procurement in the Katholikon of Visoki Dečani Monastery
11:00-11:30 Jelena Bogdanović, Leslie Forehand, Magdalena Dragović, Dušan Danilović, Travis Yeager, Debanjana Chatterjee, Jacob Gasper, Marko Pejić, Aleksandar Čučaković, Anastasija Martinenko, Suvadip Mandal, and Charles Kerton
Modeling the Illumination of the Church at Studenica Monastery During
Evening Services
11:30-12:00 Vlad Bedros (National University of Arts Bucharest), “In thy light shall we see light”: The Interplaying of Light, Liturgical Furnishings, and Images in Moldavian Monastic Churches (15th–16th c.)
12:00-13:00 Longer Break
13:00-13:30 Vera Henkelmann (University of Erfurt | Max-Weber-Kolleg), The Use of Artificial Light in Medieval Churches of Old Livonia – On the Relationship between Lighting, Ritual, Furnishings and Architecture
13:30-14:00 Anthony Masinton (Independent Scholar), Lux ex Machina: Methodological Approaches to Simulating and Analyzing Light in Medieval Churches
14:00-14:30 Discussion followed by concluding remarks (Vladimir Ivanovici)
The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and BSANA are pleased to offer a two-part 3D Modeling workshop for graduate students and early career researchers in collaboration with Alicia Walsh of Recollection Heritage.
Introduction to 3D Modeling with Photogrammetry and Agisoft Metashape for Byzantinists, workshop Alicia Walsh (Recollection Heritage), via Zoom, January 27 and February 3, 2023, 12:00–1:30 pm (EST)
Photogrammetry is the science of creating a measurable 3D point cloud from high-resolution 2D images. It is a commonly used to document archaeological and cultural heritage in order to preserve, analyze, and make artefacts digitally accessible. This online workshop will introduce the theory of photogrammetry and Agisoft Metashape, a useful software for processing 3D models. Participants will create a 3D model of an object of their choosing during the workshop.
The workshop is limited to 15 participants. The time commitment for this workshop is three hours of instruction and an additional two–four hours between the meetings for the creation of the 3D model. Participants are required to attend both sessions. Registration is first come, first served.
Registration closes Wednesday, December 21 at 1:00 pm (EST). If spaces are still available, registration will reopen on Tuesday, January 10 and close on Wednesday, January 18 at 1:00 pm (EST).
Who is eligible?
To read a full description of the workshop and register your interest, please visit https://maryjahariscenter.org/events/introduction-to-3d-modeling.
Contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture, with any questions.
2023 ASCSA Summer Session
The Dumbarton Oaks Coins and Seals Summer School will be held from June 26 to July 21, 2023, and applications are due February 13, 2023. See the website for more information: https://www.doaks.org/research/byzantine/scholarly-activities/2023-byzantine-coins-and-seals-summer-program
This conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary and critical investigation of cities in Byzantium, drawing on the material, literary, epigraphic, archaeological, environmental, and geospatial evidence. We will examine Byzantine cities through a series of thematic sessions centered on the daily life of the city, its infrastructure, and built environment, as well as the relationship between the Byzantine heartland and its coastal and insular koine, urban cultural history, and symbolic spaces, and finally, Byzantine cities as seen and perceived by ‘the other.’
The series will start on 15 October with the session entitled Cities: Material Remnants as divided into two panels which will see the participation of Kerem Altug (IBB), Michael Jones (Koç University), Jorge Quiroga (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid), and Natalia Poulou-Papadimitriou (University of Thessaloniki) and Koray Durak (Bogazici University), and Jim Crow (University of Newcastle) as respondents.
The series will continue with further workshops to be hosted by ANAMED-Koç University (26 November), Hacettepe University (8 December), and Bilkent University (17 December).
Each panel will host two scholars in conversation on the topic in question. After a brief presentation (20 minutes maximum) of the presenter’s main arguments and the historiographical and methodological issues at stake, a respondent will engage with the presenters in a 15-minute dialogue with the respondent. Finally, the three speakers will be all involved in the Q&A session (15-20 mins).
The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and BSANA are pleased to offer a four-part Network Analysis workshop for graduate students and early career researchers in collaboration with Dr. Johannes Preiser-Kapeller of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Introduction to Network Analysis for Students of Byzantium and Late Antiquity, workshop by Dr. Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Austrian Academy of Sciences), via Zoom, October 7, October 14, October 21, October 28, 2022, 11:00 am–1:00 pm (EDT)
This online workshop will provide both an overview of basic concepts of network theory and their application in historical and archaeological research (with a focus on the study of Late Antiquity and Byzantium) as well as an introduction into software tools and practical network analysis. The aim of the workshop is to enable students to critically evaluate the growing number of studies using network analysis as well as to apply these tools themselves in a well-reflected and productive way.
The workshop is limited to 15 participants. The time commitment for this workshop is eight hours. It will meet every Friday in October from 11:00 am–1:00 pm (EDT). Participants are required to attend all sessions. Registration is first come, first served.
Registration closes Friday, September 30 at 1:00 pm (EDT).
Who is eligible?
· Graduate students and early career researchers (PhD received after October 2014) in the field of Byzantine studies. Students enrolled in graduate programs in North America and early career researchers working in North America will be given priority. Graduate students and early career researchers outside of North America will be placed on a waiting list and contacted if space is available.
· All participants must be BSANA members. BSANA membership is free for graduate students and early-career contingent scholars who have earned their PhD within the last eight years and who do not hold a permanent or tenure-track appointment. If you are not already a BSANA member, please complete the BSANA Membership Form (https://bsana.net/members/) before registering for the workshop. Your membership status will be confirmed before your space in the workshop is confirmed.
To read a full description of the workshop and register your interest, please visit https://maryjahariscenter.org/
Contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture, with any questions.
The Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, are pleased to invite abstracts for the next Studying East of Byzantium workshop: Studying East of Byzantium IX: Networks.
A three-part workshop that intends to bring together doctoral students and very recent PhDs studying the Christian East to reflect on how to reflect on the usefulness of networks in studying the Christian East, to share methodologies, and to discuss their research with workshop respondents, Zara Pogossian, University of Florence, and Joel Walker, University of Washington. The workshop will meet on November 18, 2022, February 17, 2023, and June 12–13, 2023, on Zoom. The timing of the workshop meetings will be determined when the participant list is finalized.
We invite all graduate students and recent PhDs working in the Christian East whose work considers, or hopes to consider, the theme of networks (microregional, regional, transregional, global, etc.) in their own research to apply.
Participation is limited to 10 students. The full workshop description is available on the East of Byzantium website (https://eastofbyzantium.org/
For questions, please contact East of Byzantium organizers, Christina Maranci, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies, Harvard University, and Brandie Ratliff, Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at contact@eastofbyzantium.org
EAST OF BYZANTIUM is a partnership between the Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA. It explores the cultures of the eastern frontier of the Byzantine Empire in the late antique and medieval periods.
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