The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture The Mary Jaharis Center was established in 2010 to promote Byzantine studies, with a particular emphasis on Byzantine art and culture.

Founded in 2010 through a generous gift from the Jaharis Family Foundation, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is dedicated to the promotion and advancement of knowledge about the rich heritage of Byzantine art and culture. The Mary Jaharis Center’s location on the Hellenic College Holy Cross campus provides a unique opportunity to foster Byzantine studies within an Orthodox Chr

istian community. The Center sponsors a wide range of public programming, including lectures, conferences, and concerts, aimed at a broad audience, supports the study of Byzantium through grants and other resources, and maintains a vibrant Internet and social media presence.

CFP: An Olive Tree, a Vineyard, and a Ship: (Re)imagining the Greek World Across Time, University of Edinburgh, November...
08/26/2026

CFP: An Olive Tree, a Vineyard, and a Ship: (Re)imagining the Greek World Across Time, University of Edinburgh, November 2026

Submissions due September 15, 2026

Call for Papers for ‘An Olive Tree, a Vineyard, and a Ship: (Re)imagining the Greek World Across Time’, a one-day postgraduate conference organised by the A.G. Leventis Centre for Greek Studies at the University of Edinburgh, to be held during the week beginning 30 November 2026.

Inspired by Odysseas Elytis’ image of Greece as an olive tree, a vineyard, and a ship, the conference will explore the ways in which the Greek world has been imagined, appropriated, and reconstructed across different historical periods, geographical contexts, and literary and artistic traditions.

We particularly welcome interdisciplinary and comparative approaches, as well as papers that move beyond conventional divisions between ancient, Byzantine, Ottoman, and modern Greece or examine encounters between Greek and non-Greek perspectives.

Proposals are invited from postgraduate students, PhD candidates, and early career researchers working across Classics, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, History, Archaeology, Comparative Literature, Art History, Film and Media Studies, Translation Studies, and related disciplines.

An Olive Tree, a Vineyard, and a Ship: (Re)imagining the Greek World Across Time, University of Edinburgh, November 2026 Call for Papers for ‘An Olive Tree, a Vineyard, and a Ship: (Re)imagining the Greek World Across Time’, a one-day postgraduate conference organised by the A.G. Leventis Centre...

CFP: Homosocial Spaces in Monastic Places, hybrid session at the 62nd International Congress on Medieval Studies at West...
08/26/2026

CFP: Homosocial Spaces in Monastic Places, hybrid session at the 62nd International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, May 13–15, 2027

Submissions due September 15, 2026

Medieval monks cultivated gender-segregated networks that supported their own learning, dialogues, and customs, which meant people assigned female at birth were essentially locked out of much of intellectual life. Eve Sedgewick’s work on homosociality has described “the continuum between ‘men loving men’ and ‘men promoting the interests of other men’.” This panel invites work which interrogates the ways in which the patriarchal system of monasticism created structures of male bonding and loyalty which excluded women except for utility, and examines the limits of those structures: questions of resistance and reinvention, male exclusion from policed masculinity, and women’s own complicity.

Session organizer:
Lindsay Gill, Indiana University–Bloomington

Homosocial Spaces in Monastic Places, hybrid session at the 62nd International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, May 13–15, 2027 Medieval monks cultivated gender-segregated networks that supported their own learning, dialogues, and customs, which meant people assigned fe...

New book: Marco Mostert and Carlo Tedeschi, eds. Graffiti in Medieval and Early Modern Societies: Italy and Beyond. Utre...
08/26/2026

New book: Marco Mostert and Carlo Tedeschi, eds. Graffiti in Medieval and Early Modern Societies: Italy and Beyond. Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, volume 69 Brepols, 2026.

Marco Mostert and Carlo Tedeschi, eds. Graffiti in Medieval and Early Modern Societies: Italy and Beyond. Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, volume 69 Brepols, 2026. From Brepols Graffiti is increasingly being recognised as an important historical source that can provide first-hand information on...

CFP: New Approaches to Medieval Collectivity, session at the 2027 International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, ...
08/25/2026

CFP: New Approaches to Medieval Collectivity, session at the 2027 International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 5–8, 2026

Submissions due September 10, 2026

The postdoctoral project Collectives in Late Byzantine Narratives and Society (CoByNS), funded by the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation at the Centre for Medieval Arts and Rituals of the University of Cyprus (POST-DOC/0925 – RoandOther/0121) warmly invites proposals for papers in a session at the International Medieval Congress 2027 (University of Leeds, 5–8 July, 2027), titled New Approaches to Medieval Collectivity.

The project develops innovative ways of analyzing medieval collectives not merely as aggregates of individuals but as entities produced through narrative, discourse, practice, and social interaction. While medievalists have often focused on individuals, institutions, or fixed social categories, many medieval sources formulate human actors primarily as collective entities without distinguishable individual members: villages, neighborhoods, monasteries, military groups, urban populations, religious communities, guilds, factions, congregations and other social bodies acting, speaking, and feeling together. Building on recent developments in narratology, social theory, and heritage studies, the project analyzes how collective characters were formulated in medieval narratives and discourses, how these narrative forms shaped collective life and social action in medieval societies, and how medieval collectives have been transformed through modern historiography, memory cultures, and heritage practices.

This session invites papers that push beyond traditional approaches centered on individual characters and actors, as well as probe and transcend pre-defined categories such as ethnicity, class, nation, or family. We encourage contributions from scholars working in history, literary studies, philology, religious studies, archaeology, heritage studies, and related disciplines, with a strong focus on innovative and interdisciplinary methodological approaches. We welcome papers that explore new methodological and theoretical approaches to medieval collectives across the full chronological span of the Middle Ages and across Western European, Byzantine, Eastern European, Western Asian, and wider Mediterranean traditions, in Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic and various Eurasian vernaculars.

New Approaches to Medieval Collectivity, session at the 2027 International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 5–8, 2026 The postdoctoral project Collectives in Late Byzantine Narratives and Society (CoByNS), funded by the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation at the Centre for Mediev...

CFP: Environments of Healing: Art, Nature, and Medicine in Medieval Communities, East and West, session at the 2027 Inte...
08/25/2026

CFP: Environments of Healing: Art, Nature, and Medicine in Medieval Communities, East and West, session at the 2027 International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 5–8, 2026

Submissions due September 11, 2026

This panel will explore the relationships between art, medicine, and nature in western and eastern communities across the Middle Ages. Medieval art historians have studied medical images for as long as the discipline has existed, but scholarship has often treated medical art as merely representing natural and cosmological phenomena. Moving beyond iconography, this panel invites papers that consider how images and objects actively mediated bodies, environments, and medical practices.

The connection between medieval healers and nature was complex; nature inflicted illnesses but also provided cures. Visual art played a central role in communicating and negotiating this fraught relationship. Art was used to teach and record medical knowledge, but art objects were also employed as apotropaic, protective, and powerfully curative in themselves.

Session organizers:
Zoe Appleby, Case Western Reserve University
Claudia Haines, Case Western Reserve University

Environments of Healing: Art, Nature, and Medicine in Medieval Communities, East and West, session at the 2027 International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 5–8, 2026 This panel will explore the relationships between art, medicine, and nature in western and eastern communities across ...

CFP: 2027 Stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship, Christ's College, University of CambridgeApplications due September 15...
08/25/2026

CFP: 2027 Stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship, Christ's College, University of Cambridge

Applications due September 15, 2026

Christ’s College, University of Cambridge, applications for two stipendiary Junior Research Fellowships in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. The Fellowships will normally be tenable for four years from normally no later than 1st October 2027 and are not renewable.

A Junior Research Fellowship is intended for a researcher early in their career and, in this case, is restricted to applicants in one or more of the following subject areas: Anthropology, Archaeology, Architecture, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, English (limited to literature of 1800 to the present day), Linguistics (theoretical and applied), Modern and Medieval Languages (limited to French and Francophone, German, Italian, or Slavonic), and Theology.

Each Junior Research Fellowship offers an opportunity to carry out novel research in a stimulating academic environment. A successful applicant is expected to be either a postgraduate student, probably in the latter stages of research leading to a PhD degree (or equivalent), or a post-doctoral researcher who has completed their PhD Degree after 1 January 2026.

Christ’s College, University of Cambridge, applications for two stipendiary Junior Research Fellowships in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. The Fellowships will normally be tenable for four years from normally no later than 1st October 2027 and are not renewable. A Junior Research Fellowship ...

Graduate Student Opportunity: International Symposium at the Icon Museum and Study CenterApplications due September 1, 2...
08/24/2026

Graduate Student Opportunity: International Symposium at the Icon Museum and Study Center

Applications due September 1, 2026

Encountering the Sacred Image: Highlights from the Icon Museum and Study Center, Icon Museum and Study Center, October 15–16, 2026

The Icon Museum and Study Center invites 2 graduate students of any level to submit a one-page letter of interest to attend the international symposium Encountering the Sacred Image: Highlights from the Icon Museum and Study Center held October 15-16, 2026, in conjunction with the exhibition opening Light from the East: Masterpieces from the Ikonen-Museum Recklinghausen.

Successful applicants will be invited to attend the two-day symposium, as well as the exclusive opening of the exhibition, and will receive a reimbursement for travel and lodging up to $1,000.

Encountering the Sacred Image: Highlights from the Icon Museum and Study Center, Icon Museum and Study Center, October 15–16, 2026 The Icon Museum and Study Center invites 2 graduate students of any level to submit a one-page letter of interest to attend the international symposium Encountering th...

Funding opportunity: Research Fellowships 2027, Peterhouse, University of CambridgeApplications due September 7, 2026The...
08/24/2026

Funding opportunity: Research Fellowships 2027, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge

Applications due September 7, 2026

The Governing Body of Peterhouse, applying the benefactions of the late William Stone, former Scholar of the College, and others, intends to elect a number of Research Fellows, who will enter upon their three year tenure on 1 October 2027.

Candidates must, by 1 October 2027, have passed all examinations required for a first degree at a university. They should be capable of performing unsupervised post-graduate research. Eligibility criterion requires a period of no more than 18 months between completion of the thesis and the start of the Fellowship. Furthermore, candidates must be graduates of, or current students at, universities in the UK or the Republic of Ireland.

The Governing Body of Peterhouse, applying the benefactions of the late William Stone, former Scholar of the College, and others, intends to elect a number of Research Fellows, who will enter upon their three year tenure on 1 October 2027. Candidates must, by 1 October 2027, have passed all examinat...

New book: Merle Eisenberg, Lee Mordechai, and David Yoon, eds. Coins and Money in the Middle Ages: Studies in Honor of A...
08/24/2026

New book: Merle Eisenberg, Lee Mordechai, and David Yoon, eds. Coins and Money in the Middle Ages: Studies in Honor of Alan Stahl. The Numismatic Studies, volume 50. Brepols, 2026.

Merle Eisenberg, Lee Mordechai, and David Yoon, eds. Coins and Money in the Middle Ages: Studies in Honor of Alan Stahl. The Numismatic Studies, volume 50. Brepols, 2026. From Brepols Alan Stahl’s distinguished career in numismatics has ranged over numerous topics in the study of coins, monetary h...

CFP: Temporality and Characterization in Byzantine Literature, VI Byzantine Colloquium of the University of Buenos Aires...
08/20/2026

CFP: Temporality and Characterization in Byzantine Literature, VI Byzantine Colloquium of the University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, March 25–26, 2027

Submissions due September 15, 2026

Since the 1990s, with the pioneering work of Irene de Jong, the narratological approach has firmly entered Classical Studies. About ten years later, Byzantine literature began to take advantage of narratological tools; in this respect, the analysis carried out by I. Nilsson on Hysmine and Hysminias is exemplary. A more theoretical perspective on the need for a specifically medieval narratology was proposed by E. von Contzen in 2014. In Byzantine Studies, M. Kulhánková’s narratological commentary on Digenis Akrites (2025) was a true response to that call. Against the backdrop of this interest in diachronic narratology, the Byzantine Colloquia at UBA were established. Since 2015, their main objective has been to study both narrative and non-narrative texts, analyzing them from a shared perspective grounded in the theoretical tools of narratology.

This installment focuses on two aspects that are usually addressed separately: temporality, understood both as the temporal dimension of the narrated world/narrative and as the relation between the different temporal levels in the narration, and character construction, which – when compared to other categories such as space – has not received sustained attention in recent years despite the contributions of researchers such as K. De Temmerman to the subject. These aspects can be studied in many genres of Byzantine literature, all of which are welcome to be represented at the colloquia.

We invite researchers to present their work on this subject, particularly in the form of case studies or more theoretical analyses of specific topics (for example, temporal manipulation in hagiography, novels or encomia, or the different characterization techniques that prevail in various genres, such as biblical commentaries and apocalyptic literature). We also encourage reflection on the combination of temporality and characterization in narrative construction; that is, to consider whether the order chosen to present information about characters influences the construction of the audience’s perception of the character (e.g. the so-called effect of primacy, among others). Finally, we will also accept presentations that carry out narratological analyses from other perspectives within the field.

Temporality and Characterization in Byzantine Literature, VI Byzantine Colloquium of the University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, March 25–26, 2027 Since the 1990s, with the pioneering work of Irene de Jong, the narratological approach has firmly entered Classical Studies. About ten years later, ...

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