Congratulations to Professor Gertsman on the review of her Absent Image in the venerable Times Literary Supplement, where the book is lauded for its "wonderful novelistic sensibility"! Read it here!
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Our first Medieval Reading Circle on November 19 was a great success! We learned many important things about divine love, ghosts, vengeful saints, and the dangers of consuming sage. We look forward to seeing you at our next reading circle during spring semester!
"Discerning the Artist's Hand: Machine Learning on Surface Topography" was published in Heritage Science. The article is the result of the collaboration between CWRU Physics Department and Department of Art History and Art. The article is available here.
Congratulations to Reed who has been selected to participate in the 2022 Multidisciplinary Graduate Conference in Premodern Studies at the Newberry Library! Reed will present her paper, "The Language(s) of the Other: Pseudo-Hebrew & Yiddish in Fifteenth-Century German Broadsides," in the Redefining Community: Selfhood and Identity session. The hybrid...
On November 13, Professor Elizabeth Bolman and Professor Helen Evans, Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator of Byzantine Art Emerita, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, gave the talk about icons of Sinai. The recording is available here.
The last talk will be dedicated to St. Catherine's library and will be...
Free Public Lecture as part of a series looking at Lost Narratives: Materiality, Marginalization, and Women’s Agency in Museums.
Mary Jo Bole: Recent Work.
When: November 19, 7.00 pm
Where: CMA, Recital Hall
Mary Jo Bole is currently an artist-in-residence in the Video/Film lab at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Bole has made her...
Graduate Association of Medieval Studies (GAMS) invites faculty, staff, students (undergrad and graduate) to join a Medieval Reading Circle on November, 19.
WHEN: November 19, 7.00 pm
WHERE: Bottlehouse Brewing (2050 Lee Rd.)
Bring along a medieval text to share and discuss over a glass of mead, or just stop by to...
We are very excited to be hosting this year’s Vagantes Conference in Medieval Studies here at CWRU and the Cleveland Museum of Art! The conference will be held from March 24–26, 2022. Activities will include an opening recital, a banquet, and various workshops. Keynote lectures will be given by...
During Homecoming week, the class of 2020 was able to attend an in-person ceremony honoring their graduation during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Former MA students Reed O’Mara and Rebecca Woodruff were able to celebrate with Prof. Gertsman after the ceremony. Congrats to the class of 2020!
CWRU Art Historry Club invites all undergraduate students to participate in Art History Trivia Night. Do you think you know art? Come and see!
WHEN: 7:00pm on Tuesday, November 2nd
WHERE: Tink 204
WHO: Open to all undergrads!
The Byzantine Studies Conference preliminary program is released and available for viewing here.
CWRU and The Cleveland Museum of Art will host the 47th Annual Conference of the Byzantine Association of North America. The conference will take place on December 9-12, 2021.
The conference will be held in honor of Alice-Mary...
Join us on October 20 for the virtual colloquium sponsored by the Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University, with the participation of Les Enluminures. Specialists in medieval art and literature--Elina Gertsman, Sandra Hindman, Meradith McMunn, Christine McWebb, Jonathan Morton, Stephen G. Nichols, and Melanie Garcia Sympson--will hold a series...