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The Mary Jaharis Center was established in 2010 to promote Byzantine studies, with a particular emphasis on Byzantine art and culture. Visit us at maryjahariscenter.org.

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Assistant/Associate Professor of Archaeology, American University of Rome | Mary Jaharis Center

Job posting: Assistant/Associate Professor of Archaeology, American University of Rome. Applications due November 20, 2025
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2026–27 Mahindra Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University | Mary Jaharis Center

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

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Beyond Text: Objects and Manuscripts in Sacred Storerooms across Medieval Africa | Mary Jaharis Center

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-...

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Egyptian Christianities Lecture Series, Winter Term 2025/2006 | Mary Jaharis Center

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...

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Mapping Regional Connectivities and Their Implications: Architectural, Epigraphic, and Art Historical Evidence from the Byzantine Southern Peloponnese | Mary Jaharis Center

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...

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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...

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2025 BSANA Governing Board Nominations and Self-Nominations | Mary Jaharis Center

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

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NEH Collaborative Research Grants, 2026–2027 | Mary Jaharis Center

Funding opportunity: NEH Collaborative Research Grants, 2026–2027. Applications due November 19, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/neh-col...

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ISAW Visiting Assistant Professor 2026–28 | Mary Jaharis Center

Funding opportunity: ISAW Visiting Assistant Professor 2026–28. Applications due November 20, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/isaw-vi...

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ISAW Research Scholar 2026–27 | Mary Jaharis Center

Funding opportunity: ISAW Research Scholar 2026–27. Applications due November 20, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/isaw-re...

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ISAW Externally Funded Visiting Scholar 2026–27 | Mary Jaharis Center

Funding opportunity: ISAW Externally Funded Visiting Scholar 2026–27. Applications due November 20, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/isaw-ex...

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Saints at the Limits: Seven Byzantine Popular Legends | Mary Jaharis Center

From The Medieval Review: Stratis Papaioannou, ed. and trans. Saints at the Limits: Seven Byzantine Popular Legends. (Harvard University Press, 2023). Review by Stephanos Efthymiadis maryjahariscenter.org/blog/saints-...

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Join us on November 4 for the first lecture in the 2025–2026 East of Byzantium lecture series. NazΓ©nie Garibian will discuss "Creating Christian Sacred Spaces: The Armenian Case (4th–7th Centuries)". 12:00 pm ET on Zoom. Register: eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-eve...

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Junior Research Fellowship Competition 2026, Homerton College, University of Cambridge | Mary Jaharis Center

Funding opportunity: Junior Research Fellowship Competition 2026, Homerton College, University of Cambridge. Applications due November 9, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/junior-...

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Early Career Research Fellowship - Arts, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge | Mary Jaharis Center

Funding opportunity: Early Career Research Fellowship - Arts, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. Applications due November 10, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/early-c...

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Assistant Professor in Medieval European Art and Architectural History in the World, Brown University | Mary Jaharis Center

Job posting: Assistant Professor in Medieval European Art and Architectural History in the World, Brown University. Applications due November 15, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/assista...

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Assistant Professor of Art History (Medieval Art), SMU | Mary Jaharis Center

Job posting: Assistant Professor of Art History (Medieval Art), SMU. Applications due November 17, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/assista...

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The Invention of Prayer for the Dead in the Byzantine Tradition | Mary Jaharis Center

Attend: The Invention of Prayer for the Dead in the Byzantine Tradition, Fifth Annual Mathews Byzantine Lecture by Zachary Chitwood, University of Notre Dame and Online, October 28, 2025, 5:00–6:00 pm maryjahariscenter.org/blog/the-inv...

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Materialising the Holy. Matter, Senses, and Spiritual Experience in the Middle Ages (12th–15th century) | Mary Jaharis Center

CFP: Materialising the Holy. Matter, Senses, and Spiritual Experience in the Middle Ages (12th–15th century), University of Padua, May 6–8, 2026. Submissions due October 31, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/materia...

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Elevating the Word. Bimah – Ambo – Minbar – Pulpit as Spaces of Sacred Speech | Mary Jaharis Center

CFP: Elevating the Word. Bimah – Ambo – Minbar – Pulpit as Spaces of Sacred Speech, Zentralinstitut fΓΌr Kunstgeschichte, Munich, July 22–23, 2026. Submissions due October 31, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/elevati...

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Carrying Across: Translation as Material Practice in the Pre/Early Modern World | Mary Jaharis Center

CFP: Carrying Across: Translation as Material Practice in the Pre/Early Modern World, session at the Association for Art History 2026 Annual Conference, University of Cambridge, April 8–10, 2026. Submissions due November 2, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/carryin...

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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies, University of Sydney | Mary Jaharis Center

Job posting: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies, University of Sydney. Applications due November 3, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/lecture...

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Monastic Landscapes in Northern Mesopotamia in the 6th-10th Centuries | Mary Jaharis Center

Attend: Monastic Landscapes in Northern Mesopotamia in the 6th-10th Centuries, Goethe-UniversitΓ€t, Frankfurt, October 24–25, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/monasti...

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Join us tomorrow, October 20, for the first lecture in our 2025–2026 lecture series. Siren Γ‡elik will discuss "Daily Life Encounters between the Byzantines and the Ottomans". 12:00 pm ET on Zoom. Register: maryjahariscenter.org/events/daily...

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Trading Patterns in Middle East History, 700–1900: Impacts, Ruptures and Continuities | Mary Jaharis Center

CFP: Trading Patterns in Middle East History, 700–1900: Impacts, Ruptures and Continuities, American University in Cairo, March 27–28, 2026. Submissions due November 1, 2025

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Prayer in Late Antiquity | Mary Jaharis Center

CFP: Prayer in Late Antiquity, 12th Nordic Patristic Meeting, University of Helsinki, August 20–22, 2026. Submissions due November 15, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/prayer-...

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A Well-known Bibliographer, an Unknown Grammarian: Zacharias Kallierges (c. 1470­–1524) | Mary Jaharis Center

Attend: A Well-known Bibliographer, an Unknown Grammarian: Zacharias Kallierges (c. 1470­–1524) [in Greek], lecture by Maria Luisa Agati, NHRF at the Princeton Athens Center and Zoom, October 20, 2025, 6:00 PM (EET). Advance registration required maryjahariscenter.org/blog/a-well-...

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Ancient and Biblical Languages Winter School (January 2026) | Mary Jaharis Center

Attend: Ancient and Biblical Languages Winter School (January 2026), Westminster College, Cambridge. Early bird registration closes October 31 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/ancient...

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Eastern Christians’ Engagement with Islam and the Qur’ān: Texts, Contexts and Knowledge Regimes | Mary Jaharis Center

New book: Octavian-Adrian NegoiΘ›Δƒ, ed. Eastern Christians’ Engagement with Islam and the Qur’ān: Texts, Contexts and Knowledge Regimes (De Gruyter, 2025) maryjahariscenter.org/blog/eastern...

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Marble Distribution Patterns in the Early Byzantine Southwestern Levant: Quantitative and Spatial Approaches | Mary Jaharis Center

New article: Mariusz Gwiazda, Oskar Graszka, and Anna FijaΕ‚kowska, "Marble Distribution Patterns in the Early Byzantine Southwestern Levant: Quantitative and Spatial Approaches." American Journal of Archaeology (October 2025) maryjahariscenter.org/blog/marble-...

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