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.
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.
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
A Collaboration between Dumbarton Oaks and the National Gallery of Art
Endangered Monuments
A lecture on the endangered cultural monuments of Kyivan Rus
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
Looking for the Nomads
Florin Curta on Byzantium and the Nomads
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
Lacunae of Art History and Kyiv’s Visual Culture
A Lecture by Olenka Z. Pevny
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.
Lights in the Dark
Paul Magdalino delivers public lecture in Byzantine Studies
Ancients and Moderns: Public Lecture in Byzantine Studies
Witnessing Byzantium: The Greek Perspective
Imperial Radiance: Solar Imagery and Cosmic Order
A Public Lecture by Ioli Kalavrezou, Dumbarton Oaks Professor in Residence
Upcoming Public Lectures in Byzantine and Garden and Landscape Studies
Claudia Rapp of the University of Vienna | Luke Morgan of Monash University
Conceiving Byzantium: Behind the scenes at 'Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition'
A Public Lecture by Dr. Helen C. Evans, Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator for Byzantine Art, the Department of Medieval Art and the Cloisters, the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dialogues in Byzantium: The Long History of a Literary Form
Avril Cameron, University of Oxford, November 10, 2011
A Prince and His Monastery: Isaac Comnenus and the Church of the Virgin Kosmosoteira in Thrace (1152)
September 29, 2011
Dumbarton Oaks and the Byzantine Churches of Cyprus
March 31, 2011, Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Annemarie Weyl Carr
Looking into Carolingian Monastic Libraries: Reichenau and St. Gall, Pat Geary
February 17, 2011 | 2011 Byzantine Studies Public Lecture Poster
Rhetoric, Ambition, and the Function of the Capella Palatina in Palermo
November 18, 2010, Public Lecture, Beat Brenk
The Songbook of William Villehardouin, Prince of Frankish Greece
November 4, 2010 | 2010 Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, John Haines
Brands: Antioch-on-the-Orontes
April 15, 2010, Public Lecture, Gunnar Brands
Theology and Social Criticism: Salvian of Marseilles and the End of the Roman Empire in the West
April 1, 2010
Reading and Writing the Qur'an with Riccoldo da Monte di Croce
Thomas Burman, March 3, 2010