Workshop on Late Antiquity and Byzantium

The Workshop on Late Antiquity & Byzantium is pleased to announce its next meeting on Tuesday, May 22nd at 4:30 pm.  Albertus Horsting, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame and Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, will be presenting a paper entitled, “Reception, tradition, transformation: Prosper of Aquitaine and the making of Saint Augustine.”

The workshop will take place in the Cochrane-Woods Art Center (5540 S. Greenwood Ave.), Room 152.

Persons in need of assistance, contact Kristine Larison (kmh@uchicago.edu).

The following event on the U of C campus may be of interest:

“Preserving the Sacred Cultural Heritage of Macedonia” – A screening of the documentary film by historic preservationist Dr. Pance Velkov,
President of the Makedonida Foundation.

Tuesday, April 24th @ 5pm
Franke Institute for the Humanities

Followed by a discussion with Pance and Gordana Nestorovska Pelkov.  This event is free and open to the public.  Light refreshments will be served.

Sponsored by the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies and the Franke Institute for the Humanities.

If you require assistance to attend this event, please email Dana Immertreu (immertreu@uchicago.edu).

Please join us Tuesday, April 17th, at 4.30pm in the Cochrane-Woods Art Center (5540 S. Greenwood Ave.), Room 152 for a presentation by Nicola Barham, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago.  Nicola’s paper is entitled, “Aesthetics of Encounter: the Concept of Ornament in Frescoes of Murecine and the Late Antique.”

Persons in need of assistance, contact Kristine Larison (kmh@uchicago.edu).

Please join us this Friday, April 13th, at 12pm in the Cochrane-Woods Art Center, Room 152, for a joint meeting with the Medieval Studies Workshop.  Heather Badamo, Harper-Schmidt Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago will be presenting, “Epiphany and Representation at the Frontier: Envisioning Warrior Saints in Medieval Egypt and the Levant.”

Persons in need of assistance, contact Kristine Larison (kmh@uchicago.edu).

Please join us for our first meeting of the spring quarter on Tuesday, April 3 at 4.30pm in the Cochrane-Woods Art Center, Room 152 (5540 S. Greenwood Ave., Chicago, IL).

Professor Elena Boeck from the Department of the History of Art & Architecture at DePaul University will be presenting a paper, entitled, “Wicked Woman of Constantinople: Constructing the Memory of Empress Theophano.”

Persons in need of assistance, contact Kristine Larison (kmh@uchicago.edu).

Bissera Pentcheva, Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University, will be giving a public lecture, “Hagia Sophia and the Aesthetics of the Sea,” at the Art Institute of Chicago on Thursday, February 16th, from 6-7pm.  This will take place in Fullerton Hall and is sponsored by Echo Effect Events.

Also of interest:  The collaborative project, “Icons of Sound,” and a short video evoking the transient aesthetics of Hagia Sophia’s interior in relation to light and sound.