Events

Archaia Open House

Come and hear about our new initiatives for the year, including our flagship lecture series (Ancient Societies) and core seminar on ”Law and Historiography”, led by Professors Maria Doerfler and Travis Zadeh, as well as our second core seminar, “Sociolinguistics of the Ancient World”, taught by

Friday, September 11, 2020 - 4:30pm to 5:30pm
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Christina Maranci, Tufts University, “Everlasting Monument” [արձան մշտնջենաւոր]: Ani Cathedral and its Contexts”

Christina Maranci, Tufts University, “Everlasting Monument” [արձան մշտնջենաւոր]: Ani Cathedral and its Contexts.”
Respondent: Vasileios Marinis, Yale
Co-sponsored with Yale Department of Classics and Yale Department of the History of Art

Friday, November 13, 2020 - 12:00pm
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Paroma Chatterjee, University of Michigan, “Visual Mastery of the Hippodrome?: Rethinking the Imperial Image in Byzantium"

Paroma Chatterjee, University of Michigan, “Visual Mastery of the Hippodrome?: Rethinking the Imperial Image in Byzantium.”
Respondent: Jacqueline Jung, Yale.
Co-sponsored with Yale Department of Classics and Yale Department of the History of Art

Friday, October 9, 2020 - 12:00pm
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Liz James, University of Sussex, “What do Mosaics Want? Or, Wall Mosaics and the Space between Viewer and Viewed”

Liz James, University of Sussex, “What do Mosaics Want? Or, Wall Mosaics and the Space between Viewer and Viewed.”
Respondent: Rob Nelson, Yale
This lecture will be delivered via Zoom.
Co-sponsored with Yale Department of Classics and Yale Department of the History of Art

Friday, December 11, 2020 - 12:00pm
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Sean Leatherbury, University College, Dublin, “From Domestic to Divine: The Mosaics of Late Antique Syria”

Sean Leatherbury, University College, Dublin, “From Domestic to Divine: The Mosaics of Late Antique Syria”
Respondent: Örgü Dalgıç, Yale

Zoom registration link forthcoming.
Co-sponsored with Yale Department of Classics and Yale Department of the History of Art

Friday, February 12, 2021 - 12:00pm
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Andrea Achi, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Africa in Late Antiquity: Faith, Politics, and Commerce between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea”

Andrea Achi, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Africa in Late Antiquity: Faith, Politics, and Commerce between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.”
Respondent: Felicity Harley, Yale

Friday, March 12, 2021 - 12:00pm
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Cécile Morrisson, CNRS and Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, “Auro, argento, aere perennius: Byzantine Art in and through Coins 4th-15th Centuries"

Cécile Morrisson, CNRS and Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, “Auro, argento, aere perennius: Byzantine Art in and through Coins 4th-15th Centuries.”
Respondent: Noel Lenski, Yale

Friday, April 9, 2021 - 12:00pm
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