Congratulations to Zoe and Luke on getting their papers accepted to the Oxford University Byzantine Society’s 27th Annual International Graduate Conference! Entitled “Byzantium and its environment,” it will take place on the 1st-2nd March, 2025, at the Faculty of History, George Street, OX1 2BE. The conference will also be available online; please purchase a ticket via Eventbrite here. The full program and abstracts of papers can be found on the OBS website.
This weekend, third-year doctoral student Rebekkah Hart and second-year MA student Sarah Frisbie traveled to Chicago to participate in the Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference in Pre-Modern Studies at the Newberry Library. Rebekkah served on the conference’s organizing committee and chaired a panel entitled “Oh, When the Saints…” Sarah presented a version of her MA Qualifying Paper, “’One God, One Light, One Cause’: Materialities of Stained Glass in an Auvergnois Trinity” at the panel “Visual Landscape of Faith.” Congratulations to Rebekkah and Sarah! Click below to see more photos.
Join us for a facsimile viewing session on Wednesday, January 29, at 11 am! Listen to graduate students and faculty talk about illuminated manuscripts — poetry collections, books of hours, festival books — written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Middle High German. All are welcome!
January brings us three Art Talks presented by the department’s graduate students! All will be held in the Ingalls Seminar Room.
On January 23, at 1 PM, join us for two medieval art papers! Sara Frisbie will present “One God, One Light, One Cause’: Materialities of Stained Glass in an Auvergnois The Trinity” in preparation for the Multidisciplinary Graduate Conference at the Newberry Library, immediately followed by Cecily Hughes’s grant-winning paper, “The Measure of a Saint: Size, Landscape, and Meaning in St. Olaf Pilgrim Badges,” which she will deliver at the College Art Association’s conference in February. Also at the CAA conference, Jillian Kruse will present “Collective Labors: Collaboration as Motif and Method in Pissarro’s Prints,” and her Art Talk is scheduled for January 27 at 11 AM. We hope you can attend all three!
Congratulations, everyone, on the fabulous prospectus-cum-QP session on Friday! Arielle Suskin, Clara Pinchbeck, and Claire Sumner presented their dissertation research, while MA students Sarah Frisbie, Sara Miller, Darren Helton, Megan Alves, and Sydney Collins took us on a dizzying visual tour that ranged from contemporary cyborg theory to medieval theology of light, and from ancient Etruria to Byzantine Rus. Pictured here with Prof. Gertsman wielding the Chicken of Power and Timekeeping.