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ARTS OF THE EAST-BYZANTINE STUDIES IN PRINCETON

A ONE-DAY CONFERENCE

Thursday, October 16th 2008

Venue to be announced on the Index of Christian Art website

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 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

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.

Past Conferences

March 23rd and 24th, 1990
Iconography at the Crossroads

April 22, 1995
Art and Ritual at the Threshold: The Imagery of Portals in Medieval Europe

February 16, 1996
Devotions for Women: Books of Hours from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Centuries

October 28th and 29th, 1997
Iconography at the Index – Celebrating Eighty Years of the Index of Christian Art

March 5th and 6th, 1999
From Ireland Coming: Irish Art from the Early Christian to the Late Gothic Periods and its Context within Europe

March 23rd and 24th, 2001
Objects, Images and the Word: Art in the Service of Liturgy

October 24th, 2003
St. Denis Revisited: The Man, The Art and the Architecture

March 27, 2004
Between the Picture and the Word: The Book of Kings (Morgan 638) in Focus: A Colloquium in Honor of John Plummer

October 1, 2004
The Index of Christian Art – An Afternoon of Medieval Art at Princeton University

April 8th and 9th, 2005
Interactions: Artistic Interchange between the Eastern and Western Worlds in the Medieval Period

April 29th, 2006
Spanish Medieval Art: New Approaches and Studies

October 26th and 27th, 2006
Romanesque Art and Thought in the Twelfth Century

February 2nd, 2007
The Medieval Arts of North Africa and the Near East

April 20th, 2007
Matters Iconographical – Celebrating Ninety Years of the Index of Christian Art

May 8th, 2007
The Cross in Image and Text: A Celebration of the Ninetieth Anniversary of the Foundation of the Index of Christian Art

June 12th, 2007
Databases and Medieval Scholarship