We are delighted to announce a series of lectures on eco-criticism and medieval art, slated for spring semester of 2022! The lectures will take place on Zoom; please register here.

January 21, 5:00 PM: Achim Timmerman (University of Michigan), “Mnemotopes: Jerusalem and the Civic Imagination in the German Late Middle Ages.”

February 11, 5:30 PM: Danielle Joyner (Lawrence University),  “Transcendent Birds: Crossing Oceans and Boundaries.” 

February 23, 5:30 PM: Benjamin Tilghman (Washington College), “Sanctified Stillness against a Dynamic World in the Early Middle Ages.”

And save the dates for two more lectures that will take place later this spring, in person!

March 18: Philippe Cordez (German Center for Art History, Paris), “Music and Youth in the Kingdom of France. The Roman de Fauvel and the Cleveland Fountain (Paris, ca. 1320)”. C0-sponsored by the CMA and CWRU.

April 13: Herbert Kessler (Johns Hopkins University), “Decorated with Life. Ornament’s Meaning during the Middle Ages and Beyond.”  The Julius Fund Lecture in Medieval Art, Cleveland Museum of Art.