October 14-15, 2011
Michele Bacci
University of Fribourg
“A Maniera Latina” in the Levant?
Charles Barber
University of Notre Dame
Out of Sight: Painting and Perception in Fourteenth-Century Byzantium
Leslie Brubaker
University of Birmingham
Matronage, Patronage and the Cult of the Virgin
Gudrun Buehl
Dumbarton Oaks
The Staging of Byzantium: Some Thoughts on Byzantine Exhibition Making
Anastasia Drandaki
Benaki Museum
“A Maniera Greca”: Content, Context and Transformation of a Term
Helen Evans
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artistic Relations-Connections, Disjunctions in the Arts of Byzantium and Islam
Sharon Gerstel
University of California, Los Angeles
Byzantine Folk Art: A Monumental Perspective
Ioli Kalavrezou
Harvard University
Looking Anew. Iconography Reconsidered
Holger Klein
Columbia University
Materiality and the Sacred: Byzantine Reliquaries and the Rhetoric of Enshrinement
Henry P. Maguire
Johns Hopkins University
Kurt Weitzmann and the Classical in Byzantine Art
Georgi Parpulov
University of Oxford
The Study of Byzantine Book Illumination: Past, Present, and Future
Bissera Pentcheva
Stanford University
The Concept of Eikon in Constantinople and at Sinai
Jelena Trkulja
Princeton University
Experiencing Faith: Byzantine Ecclesiastical Architecture Revisited
Maria Vassilaki
University of Thessaly
Defining and Redefining the Case of the Artist in Byzantium
Alicia Walker
Bryn Mawr College
“The Art That Does Not Think”: Byzantine “Decorative Arts”, History and Limits of a Concept