Byzantium at Ankara (a joint project of the Bilkent Department of History and Hacettepe University, Department of Art History) is happy to announce the inaugural talk of the Spring 2021\/22 Seminar Series entitled: \u201cBeyond Books: the Diagrammatic Mode in Byzantium.\u201d<\/p>\n
Recording of our previous lectures can be found on our Youtube channel (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCN6mx3xkQknph5pPwrodhrw).<\/p>\n
Date: 31.03.2022
\nTime: 18.00 (Ankara Time Zone) via zoom.<\/p>\n
***This is an online event. For further info and registration, please send an email to byzantiumatankara@hotmail.com<\/p>\n
Title: \u201cBeyond books: The Diagrammatic Mode in Byzantium\u201d
\nSpeaker: Prof. Linda Safran (Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto)<\/p>\n
Abstract:<\/p>\n
Beyond books: The Diagrammatic Mode in Byzantium:
\nDiagrams in manuscripts are easy to recognize, if not necessarily easy to describe. This talk considers diagrams outside of manuscripts and unaccompanied by lengthy texts. Such diagrams, as well as abstract ways of thinking diagrammatically\u2014that is, in linear and geometrical terms, in three dimensions and not just two\u2014were more widespread in the Byzantine visual landscape than has previously been noticed. I propose that this \u201cdiagrammatic mode\u201d played a role in public life, helping to structure the Byzantines\u2019 understanding of time and space, demonstrate harmonious relationships, and reify \u03c4\u03ac\u03be\u03b9\u03c2.<\/p>\n
Biography<\/p>\n
Linda Safran is a Research Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto. She holds a Ph.D in History of Art from Yale University. Her research interests are Byzantine and Mediterranean art and architecture, medieval studies, cultural history, material culture studies, archaeology of Southern Italy, Art History, and Jewish Art History.
\nRecent and forthcoming publications include: \u201cLa mise-en-page dei testi pubblici nel Salento medievale,\u201d in \u201cGli uomini e le lettere: personaggi, testi e contesti della Terra d\u2019Otranto di cultura bizantina,\u201d ed. Alessandro Capone, special issue, Rudiae: Ricerche sul mondo classico, n.s. 3 (2017)[2018], 271\u201390; \u201cTwo Classrooms in China\u201d (with Adam S. Cohen), Common Knowledge 24, no. 3 [\u201cSymposium: In the Humanities Classroom, Part 2,\u201d ed. Caroline Walker Bynum] (2018): 375\u201388; \u201cRemembering the Jewish Dead in Medieval Apulia and Basilicata,\u201d in Letters in the Dust, Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion, ed. Leonard Rutgers and Ortal-Paz Saar (Leuven: Peeters, 2020); \u201cFour Inscriptions from Salento,\u201d in Medieval Texts on Byzantine Art and Aesthetics, vol. 3, From Alexios I Komnenos to the Rise of Hesychasm (1081\u2013ca. 1330), ed. Charles Barber and Foteini Spingou (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020); and \u201cA Prolegomenon to Byzantine Diagrams,\u201d in Visualization of Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Studies in the Visual Cultures of the Middle Ages, ed. Marcia Kupfer, Adam S. Cohen, and J. H. Chajes (Turnhout: Brepols, 2020).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Byzantium at Ankara (a joint project of the Bilkent Department of History and Hacettepe University, Department of Art History) is happy to announce the inaugural talk of the Spring 2021\/22 Seminar Series entitled: \u201cBeyond Books: the Diagrammatic Mode in Byzantium.\u201d Recording of our previous lectures can be found on our [\u2026] <\/p>\n