The multi-year international joint project, Abstraction Before the Age of Abstract Art, spearheaded by Prof. Elina Gertsman and Prof. Vincent Debiais (École des hautes études en sciences sociales | EHESS), saw its latest event in Paris with the lecture delivered by Prof. Gertsman on abstraction in medieval Sephardic haggadot. The project, which began with the support of the French-American Cultural Exchange Foundation grant, and was picked up last year as part of the collaborative series at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art, took graduate students to both sides of the Atlantic to attend and participate in workshops and symposia in Cleveland and Paris, as well as in the conferences co-organized by Gertsman and Debiais at Princeton University and EHESS. During the collaboration, Prof. Debiais gave a keynote address at the Cleveland Symposium and Prof. Gertsman served as a professeure invitée at the EHESS. Among the publications that the project yielded are the edited volume Abstraction in Medieval Art: Beyond the Ornament; “Narration / Abstraction,” a conversation between specialists in medieval and contemporary art published in Perspective: actualité en histoire de l’art; “Au-delà des sens, l’abstraction,” the article co-authored by Debiais & Gertsman for Convivium; a blog written by graduate students; and the culminating publication to be announced shortly.