The Ethical Museum: Reflections on Cultural Mission and Civic Responsibility in a Changing Landscape
November 9, 2023 | Daniel H. Weiss explores the evolving civic role of the art museum while facing longstanding challenges and an increasingly polarized environment.
Taste, Social Class, and Oriental Carpet Design in the Eighteenth-Century Cossack Hetmanate
A lecture about the social significance of the Orient-style Hetmanate carpets in relation to the Cossack elite as a social class
Anna Yaroslavna, Queen of France, in History and in Ukrainian Imagination
A lecture about the wife of King Henry I who ruled France as co-regent during the minority of her son Philip I
Historical Memory
A roundtable on historical memory in Ukraine.
Dynastic Jewels: A Late Antique Rhetoric of Treasure and Adornment
A lecture about exquisite jewels associated with women of the western court at the turn of the fifth century.
The Sovereign's Image and its Site-Specificity in Kyivan Rus'
A lecture about how Kyivan sovereign's portraits concealed the questionable mechanisms of rising into power and legitimized the alleged usurpers in the eyes of the society, the Church, and Christ.
Displaced Cultural Heritage
A roundtable on concerns related to displaced cultural heritage, including that of Ukraine.
The Image of the Mother of God on Byzantine Lead Seals: Ubiquitous Presence/ Rare Selection
Public lecture coinciding with the current Dumbarton Oaks special exhibition, "Lasting Impressions: People, Power, Piety" and a tribute to John Nesbitt, Special Emeritus Advisor in Sigillography, an esteemed scholar of Byzantine history, sigillographer, and colleague.
A Collaboration between Dumbarton Oaks and the National Gallery of Art
Reading the Image of Prince Volodymyr Sviatoslavych in Seventeenth-Century Kyiv
A public lecture about Prince Volodymyr Sviatoslavych and the evolution of his image from the mid-seventeenth to the early eighteenth centuries by Maria Grazia Bartonlini
Endangered Monuments
A lecture on the endangered cultural monuments of Kyivan Rus
Looking for the Nomads
Florin Curta on Byzantium and the Nomads
Mazepa's Women Before and After Poltava
A lecture on the strong women of Mazepa's family by Dr. Liudmyla Sharipova
Medieval Origins and Modern Constructs, Rus–Ukraine–Russia
A virtual lecture by Dr. Christian Raffensperger
The Cathedral of St. Sophia, Kyiv
Roundtable discussion with Thomas Dale, Ioli Kalavrezou, and Sofia Korol’
The Holy Rus’: Concept and Religious Art with Political Connotations
A Lecture about Pochayiv Monastery in the 19th Century by Dr. Mariana Levytska
Public Lecture in Byzantine Studies
“Ancients and Moderns: Reconsidering Style in the Visual Arts of Late Antiquity,” Sarah E. Bassett, University of Indiana, Bloomington | September 25, 2014, 6:15 p.m.
Lacunae of Art History and Kyiv’s Visual Culture
A Lecture by Olenka Z. Pevny
The Gold of Banjska
Ivan Drpić examines the use of gilding in medieval Serbian wall painting.
From Individual Stories to Imperial Policy
Seals and the Reign of Basil II
Worth Their Weight in Gold: The Significance of Lead Seals to Byzantine Studies
In this lecture, Alicia Walker presents Byzantine sigillography as a rich domain for interdisciplinary investigation and collaboration.
Slaying the Dragon: Byzantine Survivals in the Greek War of Independence
In this public lecture, Nikos Panou discusses the role and reception of the Byzantine heritage in the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire.
The Concept and Experience of Holy Wisdom in Hagia Sophia
Bissera Pentcheva explores phenomena of light and sound in Hagia Sophia as manifestations of Holy Wisdom.
“The chatter, dialogue, and squabble of the Byzantine corridors of power”: Writing History in the Aftermath of Mantzikert (1071)
Eric McGeer honors John Nesbitt, a distinguished Byzantine historian and scholar in Byzantine sigillography, and discusses their book “Byzantium in the Time of Troubles: The Continuation of the Chronicle of John Skylitzes (1057–1079).”
Virtue and Politics: A Byzantine Debate
CANCELLED | Dimiter Angelov considers the cultivation of political virtue and the debate on character in Byzantine politics.
The Virgin and the Juggler: Mary East and West
Juggling the Middle Ages and Byzantine Studies Public Lecture | Annemarie Weyl Carr, Southern Methodist University
Spheres of Influence: Byzantine Art in the Global Middle Ages
Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Helen C. Evans discusses the reach of Byzantine art and culture during the Middle Ages.
From the Fall of Rome to Byzantium: New Light from DNA, Ice Cores, and Harvard’s Science of the Human Past
Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Michael McCormick
Lights in the Dark
Paul Magdalino delivers public lecture in Byzantine Studies
Mary, a Multivalent Figure and the Mother of All
Juggling the Middle Ages and Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Ioli Kalavrezou, Harvard University