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We are pleased to announce an extraordinary series of lectures made possible by the generous support of the Nord Foundation at Case Western Reserve University. The lectures will take place within the framework of Professor Elina Gertsman’s graduate seminar on medieval Jewish art and will be held on Zoom.
Big congratulations to Reed O'Mara, whose paper "The Monstrous Script: Instances of Pseudo-Hebrew in Fifteenth-Century German Prints" has been accepted into the Medieval Academy of America's annual conference, to be held in April of 2021. Reed's paper developed during Professor Elina Gertsman's course Medieval Matters: The Monstrous, the Macabre,...
Recently, The New Yorker published a highly problematic piece by Lawrence Wright, “How Pandemics Wreak Havoc and Open Minds.” Medievalists around the country responded to the article in a series of open letters. Click “Learn more” for one such open letter sent to the magazine by Prof. Elina Gertsman and her colleague at California State University, Prof. Asa Simon Mittman.
Professor Maggie Popkin will be giving an online lecture on "The Mysteries of Samothrace: American Excavations in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods" on Tuesday, July 28, 1:30 pm, as part of the Siegal Center's Classical Archaeology Series. Professor Popkin will present the most up-to-date archaeological research in the Sanctuary of...
Congratulations to Kylie Fisher who has been invited to submit an essay about the history of printmaking in Europe, ca. 1400-1800 to Smarthistory. Smarthistory is the most-visited, open-access art history resource in the world. It is the official provider of art history for khanacademy.org, and supports AP art history and A-level...
Elizabeth S. Bolman published an article for the Wall Street Journal's Masterpiece series (June 5, 2020), on her work at the Red Monastery Church, in Upper Egypt. She founded and directed a twenty-year project to conserve, clean, document, study and publish this late fifth-century monastic church. Read the article here.
Congratulations to Reed, whose peer-reviewed article, “‘On Golden Tablets’: The Cleveland Museum of Art’s Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Manuscript as a Self-Referential Icon,” was just published in Religions, as part of the Special Issue Seeing and Reading: Art and Literature in Pre-Modern Indian Religions, guest-edited by Phyllis Granoff and Sonya Rhie Mace. Read it here: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11/6/274/pdf
Please join Professor Bolman for a lecture on an amazing and historic 20-year long Egyptian/American collaboration. Together, three churches and a painted tomb were conserved. All of this work was funded by USAID and administered by the American Research Center in Egypt.
This lecture took place on Wednesday, June 3....
Prof. Elina Gertsman was recently interviewed about her Guggenheim Fellowship on NPR's Ideastream! Listen here.
Huge congratulations to Angie Verduci for receiving the ICMA Student Travel Grant, which will support research for her dissertation on Northern Italian “Triumph of Death” imagery. Only three such awards are annually given.