Join us for our second lecture of the 2020-2021 ASW lecture series! Professor David Brick, University of Michigan, Professor of Sanskrit Literature will be presenting his talk titled “Widows Under Hindu Law: An Overview”
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
Jaś Elsner, University of Oxford, “Visual Epitome in Late Antique Art.”
Respondent: Maria Doerfler, Yale.
Co-sponsored with Yale Department of Classics and Yale Department of the History of Art
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
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
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
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
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
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