The Workshop on Late Antiquity and Byzantium is pleased to announce our Spring 2016 schedule. All workshops will meet in CWAC 152 on Tuesdays at 4:30 PM.
March 29 – Jaś Elsner will present “Vrtanes Kertogh and the Dynamics of Iconoclasm in Seventh Century Armenia”
April 5 – Matthew Milliner will present “A Madonna of the Future: Rethinking the “Afterlife of Icons”
April 12 – Nathan Leidholm will present “The Representation and Appropriation of the Persian Past in Middle Byzantine Court Rhetoric”
April 19 – Carlos Grenier will present “To String the Pearls of Orthodoxy”: Vernacular Sunni Apologetics in Fifteenth Century Gallipoli in its Borderland Context”
May 3 – Leonidas Pittos will present “Aesthesis and Aesthetics in Nicholas Kabasilas’ Mystagogic Works”
May 10 – Kelly Andino will present “The Holy Sepulchre until the Siege of Jerusalem: An Examination of the Relevant Patristic Texts, Archaeological Evidence, and Material Sources”