Yale Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture
Each year, the Institute of Sacred Music offers a series of Zoom lectures focusing on late antique and Byzantine art and architecture. This year eight lectures will cover a range of subjects from the glass mosaics of Byzantium, to women’s health, riverscapes, and eleventh century miniatures.
Lecture series organized by Robert S. Nelson, Robert Lehman Professor in the History of Art, and Vasileios Marinis, associate professor of Christian Art and Architecture at the ISM and YDS.
Presented in collaboration with Yale Department of Classics and Yale Department of the History of Art.
Schedule
September 10, 2021
The Arts of Georgia: Culture, Nationalism, and Byzantine Colonialism
Antony Eastmond, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
Respondent: Nino Zchomelidze, the Johns Hopkins University
October 8, 2021
Face to Face with the Sacred: Icons in the Byzantine Home
Maria Parani, University of Cyprus
Respondent: Anastasia Drandaki, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
November 12, 2021
Reception and Adaptation of Byzantine Art in Old Rus in the 11th–12th Centuries
Anna Zakharova, Moscow State University
Respondent: Justin Willson, Princeton University
December 3, 2021
Stories for a King: Images and Narratives at the Holy Cross of Aght’amar
Ioanna Rapti, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
Respondent: Christina Maranci, Tufts University
January 14, 2022
Architectural Restoration and the Sensory Experience of Time in Late Antiquity
Ann Marie Yasin, University of Southern California
Respondent: Kimberly Bowes, University of Pennsylvania
February 11, 2022
Staging Late Antiquity: An 11th Century Revolution in Ethiopian Architecture
Mikael Muehlbauer, American Council of Learned Societies
Respondent: Jacopo Gnisci, University College London
March 11, 2022
“Towards a Higher Vision” and “Inside the Depth of Words”: The Aesthetics of Layering in Byzantine Art and Literature
Panagiotis Agapitos, University of Cyprus
Respondent: Emmanuel Bourbouhakis, Princeton University
April 8, 2022
The Ziyareti of Kykkos: The Kykkotissa Meets the Ottomans
Annemarie Weyl Carr, Southern Methodist University (emerita)
Respondent: Robert S. Nelson, Yale University