The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, is pleased to announce the fall lecture in its 2019–2020 lecture series:
Thursday, October 10, 2019, 6:15–7:45 pm
Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Wall Mosaics, Ekphrasis, and Cultural Memory between Byzantium, Persia, and Early Islam
Sean V. Leatherbury, Bowling Green State University
Sean V. Leatherbury considers how public works of art expressed identity in the cross-cultural environment of the eastern Mediterranean.
Details at https://maryjahariscenter.org/events/wall-mosaics-ekphrasis-and-cultural-memory.
Mary Jaharis Center lectures are co-sponsored by Harvard University Standing Committee on Medieval Studies.
