• 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