CFP: Mirages of Byzantium across the Arts in France (1821–1931), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, June 11-12, 2026. Submissions due November 30, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/mirages...

Funding opportunity: RHS Postgraduate Research Support Grants. Applications due December 5, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/rhs-pos...

Funding opportunity: RHS Early Career Research Support Grants. Applications due December 5, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/rhs-ear...

Funding opportunity: 2026–2027 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Emory University. Applications due December 8, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/2026202...

Funding opportunity: PhD Opportunities in Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick. Applications due December 8, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/phd-opp...

Attend: Studying Geography in 12th-Century Constantinople: The Lessons of John Tzetzes and Eustathios of Thessalonike, lecture by Inmaculada Pérez Martín, University of Vienna, November 10, 2025, 6:30 pm maryjahariscenter.org/blog/studyin...

Attend: The Mother of God in Byzantium between Art, Poetry, and Music, lecture by Ugo Mondini, Temple University, November 12, 2025, 4:30–6:00 pm maryjahariscenter.org/blog/the-mot...

Attend: Textile as Object: Centering Cloth in Interdisciplinary Approaches to Textile History, CUNY Graduate Center and Zoom, November 13, 2025. Advance registration required maryjahariscenter.org/blog/textile...

On December 2, Ine Jacobs will give the third lecture in 2025–2026 lecture series. She will discuss "Worshipping the Mother Goddess: An Underground Cult Complex in Late Antique Aphrodisias." 12:00 pm on Zoom. Register: maryjahariscenter.org/events/worsh...

Funding opportunity: Bibliographical Society of America Fellowships, 2026–2027. Applications due December 3, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/bibliog...

Funding opportunity: NEH Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations Grants, 2026–2027. Applications due December 3, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/neh-sch...

Funding opportunity: Lydie T. Shufro Summer Research Fellowship, 2026–2027, W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research. Applications due December 5, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/lydie-t...

Attend: Greek Rhetoric and Its Arabic Afterlives: Mapping Early Modern Graeco-Arabica in the Ottoman Levant, lecture by Stefano Di Pietrantonio, Princeton University, November 12, 2025, 4:30–6:00 pm maryjahariscenter.org/blog/greek-r...

The Mary Jaharis Center is now accepting applications for 2026–2027 Co-Funding, Dissertation, Project, and Publication Grants. Applications due February 1, 2026. More information: maryjahariscenter.org/grants

Attend: Retracing Connections Summer School on Translating and Narrating in the Middle Ages, CEU, Vienna Campus, May 25–29, 2026. Applications due November 30, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/retraci...

Funding opportunity: Virginia & Walter Nord Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, Case Western University. Applications due December 1, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/nord-po...

Funding opportunity: President’s Postdoctoral Scholars Program, Ohio State University. Applications due December 1, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/preside...

Funding opportunity: 2026/2028 Dan David Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowships, Tel Aviv University. Applications due December 1, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/2026-20...

Attend: Byzantine Learning in Ottoman Service: Manuscripts, Scholars, and Ideology (1450–1500), lecture by Samet Budak (Princeton University), Princeton University, November 10, 2025, 4:30–6:00 pm maryjahariscenter.org/blog/byzanti...

TOMORROW, November 4, we welcome Nazénie Garibian for the first lecture in the 2025–2026 East of Byzantium lecture series: Creating Christian Sacred Spaces: The Armenian Case (4th–7th Centuries). 12:00 pm ET on Zoom. Register: eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-eve...

Join us on November 17 for the next lecture in our 2025–2026 lecture series. Evan Freeman will discuss "Mediating Touch: Ivory Pyxides and the Eucharist". 12:00 pm ET on Zoom. Register: maryjahariscenter.org/events/media...

CFP: Bridging the Past and Present in Cartography, 31st International Conference on the History of Cartography, Prague, July 7–11, 2026. Submissions due November 14, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/bridgin...

Job posting: Postdoctoral University Assistant, Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna. Applications due November 21, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/postdoc...

CFP: Decline and Flourish: New Paradigms of Decline and Renewal in Late Antiquity and Byzantium, 28th OUBS International Graduate Conference, University of Oxford, February 28–March 1, 2026. Submissions due November 29, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/decline...

Attend: 9th International Byzantine Seminar Lecture Series: Byzantium and the Steppe, Northeast Normal University via Zoom. Next lecture November 4, 3:30–5:00 pm (China)/8:30–10:00 am (CET) maryjahariscenter.org/blog/9th-int...

Attend: Credo: Sacred Music from the East and West, St. Paul’s Church, Cambridge, MA, and online, November 9, 2025, 3:00 pm EST maryjahariscenter.org/blog/credo-s...

Attend: A Short History of the Entanglement between Syriac and Armenian Christianities, lecture by Andy Hilkens, Princeton University, November 13, 2025, 4:30–6:00 PM maryjahariscenter.org/blog/a-short...

Attend: Like the Dawn of Creation: Byzantine Fragments in the Queer Imagination, Patrons' Circle Lecture 2025 by Roland Betancourt (University of California, Irvine), Ohio State University, November 13, 2025, 5:00–6:30 pm maryjahariscenter.org/blog/like-th...

Attend: Evolution of the Layout in Syriac Illustrated Lectionaries, in Relation to the Development of Reading Systems, lecture by François Pacha Miran, Yale University via Zoom, November 14, 2025, 12:00–1:15 pm. Advance registration required maryjahariscenter.org/blog/evoluti...

Attending this BSC in Detroit this week? Stop by our sponsored session New Results from the Archaeological Exploration of Byzantine Sardis, organized by Jordan Pickett and Benjamin Anderson. Session 3B, October 31 at 2:30 PM. Full description: maryjahariscenter.org/sponsored-se...

Attending this BSC in Detroit this week? Stop by our sponsored session The Currency of Byzantine Visual and Literary Models, organized by Alice Sullivan and Olga Yunak. Session 2A, October 31 at 11:00 AM. Full description: maryjahariscenter.org/sponsored-se...

Attend: Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, June 3–19, 2026. Applications due December 2, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/SISECSE...

Attend: Holy Mountain(s), in Byzantium and Beyond, Fondazione Collegio San Carlo, Modena, November 7–8, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/holy-mo...

Attend: People and Their Environments in the First Millennium CE Seminar Series, Zoom, November 2025–June 2026. Next meeting November 10 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/people-...

New article: Tomasz Derda and Piotr Zakrzewski, "Church N1 at ‘Marea’/Philoxenite: An Outstanding Example of Late Antique Sacral Architecture," Antiquity, First View (9 September 2025) maryjahariscenter.org/blog/church-...

Next week, we welcome Nazénie Garibian for her East of Byzantium lecture "Creating Christian Sacred Spaces: The Armenian Case (4th–7th Centuries)". November 4 at 12:00 pm ET on Zoom. Register: eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-eve...

CFP: Small Worlds, Big Worlds: Medieval Mediterranean Perspectives, Ninth International Conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean, Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM) – NOVA, FCSH, Lisbon, June 22–26, 2026. Submissions due December 1, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/small-w...

CFP: On the Trail of the Bible of Niketas: A Transverse Approach to Catenae, KU Leuven, March 31, 2026. Submissions due December 1, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/on-the-...

Attend: Adrift in Time: Istanbul’s Theodosian Land Walls in the Urban Fabric of the Modern Megacity, lecture by Alexander Christie-Miller, Society of Antiquaries of London and Zoom, November 7, 2025, 6:00–8:00 PM (London GMT)/9:00 - 11:00 PM (Ankara UTC+3) maryjahariscenter.org/blog/adrift-...

CFP: Politics, Spatial Dynamics, and Emotions in Late Medieval ‘Mediterranean Romances’, session at 9th Int'l Conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean. Submissions due November 25, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/politic...

CFP: New Ancient Greek Literature: Contexts, Audiences, Legacies, KU Leuven, July 8–10, 2026. Submissions due November 30, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/new-anc...

Funding opportunity: C. Brian Rose AIA/DAI Exchange Fellowships. Applications due November 30, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/c-brian...

New book: James Howard-Johnston, Byzantium in a Changing World (Oxford University Press, 2025) maryjahariscenter.org/blog/byzanti...

Job posting: Assistant/Associate Professor of Archaeology, American University of Rome. Applications due November 20, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/assista...

Funding opportunity: 2026–27 Mahindra Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University. Applications due November 21, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/202627-...

Attend: Beyond Text: Objects and Manuscripts in Sacred Storerooms across Medieval Africa, Carl Sheppard Memorial Lecture in Medieval Art History by Ariel Fein, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, November 6, 2025, 7:00–8:30 pm maryjahariscenter.org/blog/beyond-...

Attend: Egyptian Christianities Lecture Series, Zoom, Thursdays, October 2025–February 2026, 4:00–6:00 pm. Next lecture November 6. Advance registration required maryjahariscenter.org/blog/egyptia...

Attend: Mapping Regional Connectivities and Their Implications: Architectural, Epigraphic, and Art Historical Evidence from the Byzantine Southern Peloponnese, lecture by Sharon E. J. Gerstel, Simon Fraser University, November 7, 2025, 2:30 pm maryjahariscenter.org/blog/mapping...

Announcing the next lecture in our 2025–2026 lecture series: Mediating Touch: Ivory Pyxides and the Eucharist with Evan Freeman. November 17, 2025, at 12:00 EST on Zoom. Please join us! Register: maryjahariscenter.org/events/media...

Service opportunity: 2025 BSANA Governing Board Nominations and Self-Nominations. Nominations due October 28, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/2025-bs...