We are delighted to share the program and recordings of 2021 Keithley Symposium, Monumental Conversations: City Stories that was held on December 3, 2021. The symposium was guided by the questions: what is the story of Cleveland, where does it live? Each panel explored different ways that Cleveland’s public...
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Congratulations to Professor Maggie Popkin on the publication of her edited volume, Future Thinking in Roman Culture: New Approaches to History, Memory, and Cognition. This volume, the first dedicated to the exploration of prospective memory and future thinking in the Roman world, integrates cutting edge research in cognitive sciences and theory...
(The lecture was postponed due to CWRU restrictions on large gatherings during the current COVID surge)
Bonna D. Wescoat, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Art History, Emory University; Director of Excavations in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace
The Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace is a physically remarkable...
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. Our speakers will include Achim Timmerman (University of Michigan), Danielle Joyner (Lawrence University), and Benjamin Tilghman (Washington College). Click below for details — and save the dates of March 18 and April 13 for the lectures presented by Philippe Cordez (German Center for Art History, Paris) and Herbert Kessler (Johns Hopkins University), respectively.
Huge congratulations to our fourth-year PhD student Sam Truman, who has been awarded the coveted Byzantine Studies Conference Graduate Student Paper prize for her paper, “‘Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree’: The Execution of Judas Iscariot in Two Byzantine Marginal Psalters"! Macte hac gloria!
The last of the talks in the series of St. Catherine's webinars was dedicated to the Sinai library. To watch the recording, click here.
WHEN: Friday, December 3, 2021 10:15 am-5pm
WHERE: Gartner Auditorium at the CMA
For the 2021 symposium, “Monumental Conversations: City Stories,” CWRU and the CMA are collaborating with Monument Lab, an internationally recognized public art and history studio that cultivates and facilitates critical conversations around the past, present and future of...
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!
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...