The ICMA is co-sponsoring the Symposium “Eclecticism at the Edges: Medieval Art and Architecture at the Crossroads of the Latin, Greek and Slavic Cultural Spheres.” The Symposium will be held on April 5-6, 2019 at Princeton University.
This event is free, but registration is required to guarantee seating. Please register here.
For any queries, please contact the organizers at eclecticism.symposium@gmail.com.
SYMPOSIUM
Eclecticism at the Edges: Medieval Art and Architecture at the Crossroads of the Latin, Greek, and Slavic Cultural Spheres (c.1300-c.1550)
April 5-6, 2019
Princeton University
Organizers:
M. Alessia Rossi, The Index of Medieval Art
Alice Isabella Sullivan, University of Michigan
eclecticism.symposium@gmail.com
This event is generously co-sponsored by the following:
The International Center of Medieval Art
The Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture
The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture
The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
The Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University
The Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University
The Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund
Friday, April 5, 2019
5:00 M. Alessia Rossi, The Index of Medieval Art
Alice Isabella Sullivan, University of Michigan
Welcome
5:15 Keynote Lecture
Jelena Erdeljan, University of Belgrade
Cross-Cultural Entanglement and Visual Culture in Eastern Europe c. 1300-1550
6:30 Film Screening and Exhibition
Introduction by Julia Gearhart, Princeton University
"No Woman’s Land”: A 1929 Expedition to Mount Athos and Meteora
7:30 Reception, McCormick Hall
Saturday, April 6, 2019
9:00 Session 1 - New Constructs of Identity
Chair: Charlie Barber, Princeton University
Elena Boeck, DePaul University
A Timeless Ideal: Constantinople in the Slavonic Imagination of the 14th-16th Centuries
Gianvito Campobasso, University of Fribourg
Eclecticism Among Multiple Identities: The Visual Culture of Albania in the Late Middle Ages
Ida Sinkević, Lafayette College
Serbian Royal Mausolea: A Reflection of Cultural Identity?
10:40 Coffee / Tea Break
11:00 Session 2 - Shifting Iconographies
Chair: Pamela Patton, The Index of Medieval Art
Vlad Bedros, National University of Arts, Bucharest
A Hybrid Iconography: The Lamb of God in Moldavian Wall- Paintings
Krisztina Ilko, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Dormition of the Virgin: Artistic Exchange and Innovation in Medieval Wall Paintings from Slovakia
Ovidiu Olar, Austrian Academy of Sciences
A Murderer among the Seraphim: Prince Lăpușneanu’s Transfiguration Embroideries for Slatina Monastery
12:40 Lunch Break
2:00 Session 3 - Patronage and Agents of Exchange
Chair: Cristina Stancioiu, College of William and Mary
Dragoş Gh. Năstăsoiu, Centre for Medieval Studies, National Research University “Higher School of Economics,” Moscow
Appropriation, Adaptation, and Transformation: Painters of Byzantine Tradition Working for Catholic Patrons in 14th- and
15th- century Transylvania
Christos Stavrakos, University of Ioannina/Greece
Donors, Patrons, and Benefactors in Mediaeval Epirus between the
Great Empires: A Society in Change or a Continuity?
Nazar Kozak, National Academy of Sciences of UkrainePost-
Byzantine Art as a Network: Mobility Trajectories of the Akathistos Cycle in the Balkans, the Carpathians, and Beyond
3:40 Coffee / Tea Break
4:00 Keynote Lecture
Michalis Olympios, University of Cyprus
“Eclecticism,” “Hybridity,” and “Transculturality” in Late
Medieval Art: A View from the Eastern Mediterranean
5:15 Roundtable Discussion, Questions, and Closing
Moderator and Respondent: Ivan Stevović, University of Belgrade
6:00 Final Reception, Chancellor Green Rotunda