4-7 October 2018 – Byzantine Studies Conference – Sponsored Sessions

North of Byzantium: Art and Architecture at the Crossroads of the Latin, Greek, and Slavic Cultural Spheres, c. 1300 – c. 1550

Byzantine Studies Conference / 4-7 October, 2018 / San Antonio, Texas

SPONSOR: Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture

SESSION 1

Speakers:Jelena Bogdanovic, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Architectural History and Theory, Iowa State University
Triconch Churches Sponsored by Serbian and Wallachian Nobility, ca. 1350s–1550s

Alice Isabella Sullivan, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Department of History of Art, University of Michigan
Cultural Interactions in Moldavian Art and Architecture

Henry Schilb, Ph.D.
Index of Medieval Art, Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University
Mutual Peripheries: Differentiating between the Byzantine Traditions of Wallachian and Moldavian Embroideries

SESSION 2

Speakers: Ida Sinkevic, Ph.D.
Professor of Art History, Lafayette College
Dečani Between East and West

Maria Alessia Rossi, Ph.D.
Index of Medieval Art, Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University  
Early Fourteenth-Century Serbian Monumental Painting: Continuation or Rupture with Byzantium?

Justin L. Willson, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
The Allegory of Wisdom in Hreljo’s Tower (1335) seen in light of Philotheos Kokkinos’s Discourse on Wisdom