Saturday, November 11, 2023
8:45 am to 5:15 pm, with reception to follow
Julis Romo Rabinowitz A17, Princeton University
The Index thanks our conference co-sponsors: The Princeton Department of Art & Archaeology, PIIRS – Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and The Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, with the support of The Erric B. Kertsikoff Fund for Hellenic Studies.
8:45 Coffee and Pastries
9:00 Welcome
9:15 Christian Raffensperger, Wittenberg University, A Third Category: Rus in History and Art
9:45 Margarita Voulgaropoulou, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Whose Adriatic? Blurring the Boundaries of East and West in the Artistic Production of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Adriatic
10:15 Break
10:45 Jelena Bogdanović, Vanderbilt University, On Theory and Architecture in the Medieval Balkans
11:15 Jana Gajdošová, Sam Fogg, Byzantium and the Court of Emperor Charles IV in Prague
11:45 Mirela Ivanova, University of Sheffield (respondent); Q&A
12:30-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00 Anthi Andronikou, University of St. Andrews, Breaking Free from Bias: Eastern Christian Art between the Islamic and Western Worlds
2:30 Gohar Grigoryan, University of Fribourg, The East-West Paradigm in High Medieval Armenia: The Evidence of Polemical Writings and Visual Sources
3:00 Coffee and Tea Break
3:30 Tolga Uyar, Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University, Thirteenth-Century Monumental Painting in Cappadocia: The Artistic Bonds between Byzantium, Seljuk Rūm, and the Eastern Mediterranean World
4:00 Erik Thunø, Rutgers University, Nobody’s East: The Interconnected World of South Caucasian Cross Steles
4:30 Antony Eastmond, Courtauld Institute of Art (respondent); Q&A
5:15 Reception
The day before the Index Conference, the Art & Archaeology Department will be hosting the Weitzmann Lecture by Professor Christine Kondoleon: “‘To put back all the things people cluttered up…To Straighten, like a diligent Housekeeper of Reality…’: The Greek, Roman and Byzantine Collections at MFA Boston Re-imagined.”
Please join us for this event on Friday, November 10, 2023 at 4:30pm.
This year, the Index will offer one graduate student travel grant for a non-Princeton student who wishes to attend the conferences but lacks the financial resources to do so. Review the application process here.