Conferences

ARTS OF THE EAST-BYZANTINE STUDIES IN PRINCETON

A ONE-DAY CONFERENCE
Thursday, October 16th 2008 Princeton University

Speakers will include:

9:00-9:15 Welcome
Colum Hourihane, Director, Index of Christian Art

9:15-10:00 Representations of Towers in Byzantine Art.

The Question of Meaning
Slobodan Curcic, Princeton University

10:00-10:30 Monastic Challenges: Manuscripts of the Heavenly Ladder of John Climacus in Princeton and on Patmos
Nancy Sevcenko, Independent Scholar

10:30-11:00 Questions and Coffee

11:00-11:45 Legal Iconicity: The Documentary Image, Sacred Space and the Work of the Beholder
Anthony Cutler, Penn State University

11:45-12:15 Manuscripts Speaking: the history of readership and ownership
Sofia Kotzabassi, University of Thessaloniki

12:15-12:45 Looking Again and Anew at Cappadocia: Bahattin samanligi kilisesi at Belisirma Revisited
Catherine Jolivet-Lévy, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne)

12:45-1:00 Questions

1:00-2:00 Lunch

2:00-2:45 Moslems, Christians, and Iconoclasm: Some Erasures from the Early Islamic Period
Eunice and Henry Maguire, Johns Hopkins University

2:45-3:30 Byzantium between East and West and the Origins of Heraldry
Robert Ousterhout, University of Pennsylvania

3:30-3:45 Questions

3:45-4:30 An Armenian Khatchkar: A Gospel in Stone?
Helen C: Evans, Metropolitan Museum of Art

4:30-5:00 When St: Luke Painted the Virgin--Musing on Things Not Made by Human Hands
Gary Vikan, The Walters Museum

5:00-5:30 From Byzantium to Princeton: A Century of Collecting Greek Manuscripts
Don C: Skemer, Princeton University

5:30 Questions

Conclusion from Linda Safran, University of Toronto, President of Byzantine Studies Association of North America Inc.

To be followed by a reception in the exhibition “The Greek Book from Papyrus to Printing”, Main Gallery, Harvey Firestone Memorial Library, Princeton University. Curated by Don C: Skemer, Curator of Manuscripts.

The Index wishes to acknowledge the generous support of Princeton University Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund, The Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University and Firestone Library.

Spaces are limited and registration is required: To register please contact Robin Dunham (rdunham@princeton:edu) before October 9th 2008.

Read additional information about the symposium.

This one day symposium is held in conjunction with the exhibition "The Greek Book from Papyrus to Printing" September 8 - December 7, Main Gallery, Harvey S: Firestone Memorial Library, Princeton University. Curated by Don C: Skemer, Curator of Manuscripts

For more information about the exhibition, please see the exhibition webpage and the news article about it.