Funding opportunity: ARIT Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Turkey, 2027. Applications due November 15, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/arit-fe...
Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture
Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture
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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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Funding opportunity: 2027/2030 Dan David Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowships, Tel Aviv University. Applications due November 22, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/2027-20...
Funding opportunity: Bodleian Visiting Fellowships, 2026–27. Applications due November 27, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/bodleia...
CFP: Fake News and Gossip in Byzantine Culture, 57th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK, April 2–4, 2027. Submissions due November 30, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/fake-ne...
Job posting: International Touring Exhibitions Curator, The British Museum. Applications due November 1, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/interna...
Funding opportunity: Junior Research Fellowship 2027, Clare College, University of Cambridge. Applications due November 9, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/junior-...
Funding opportunity: Early Career Research Fellowship 2027, Churchill College, University of Cambridge. Applications due November 9, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/early-c...
New book: Claudia Rapp, ed., Power and People: Collective Agency in Byzantium (Harvard University Press, 2026) maryjahariscenter.org/blog/power-a...
Join us on November 6 for Asa Eger's East of Byzantium lecture: Re-excavating Antioch: The First New Publication of Princeton’s Excavations of the 1930s. 12:00 pm ET on Zoom. Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Next week we welcome Justin Mann for his lecture "Decoding the Enigma of the Daphni Monastery: Landscape and Identity in Middle Byzantine Attica." October 29 at 12:00 ET on Zoom. Please join us! Register: maryjahariscenter.org/events/decod...
Funding opportunity: President’s Postdoctoral Scholars Program, Ohio State University. Applications due November 30, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/preside...
Attend: Scripted Women: Female Voices across Text, Liturgy and Theatre, Oriel College, University of Oxford, November 2, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/scripte...
Attend: Caskets of Late Antiquity: Materiality, Iconography, and Identity, Austrian Academy of Sciences and Collegium Hungaricum Wien, November 9–10, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/caskets...
New book: Li Tang and Dietmar W. Winkler, eds., Manuscripts, Gravestones, Monastic Remains: Studies on Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia (LIT Verlag, 2026) maryjahariscenter.org/blog/manuscr...
Save the date for the third lecture in our 2026–2027 series: Daniel Reynolds on "Inheritors of Christ: Christian Pilgrimage in Early Islamic Palestine, c.750–c.1099." November 18 at 12:00 EST on Zoom. Register: maryjahariscenter.org/events/inher...
We're excited to announce the first MJC @bsanabsc workshop of 2026–2027: GIS Tools for Byzantinists: Visibility Analysis with Becky Seifried. December 11 on Zoom. Registration closes November 19. More info: maryjahariscenter.org/events/visib...
Opportunity: Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography Junior Fellows Program. Applications due November 20, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/sofcb-j...
Attend: Crafting Community: Potters in the Roman and Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean, lecture by Elizabeth A. Murphy, Boğaziçi University Byzantine Studies Research Center, October 26, 2026, 5:00 PM maryjahariscenter.org/blog/craftin...
Attend: Visible Vessels, Hidden Meanings: Unveiling the Immured Ceramics of the Churches of Greece, workshop with Anastasia G. Yangaki, Princeton University, October 30, 2026, 12:30–2:00 pm. Advance registration requested maryjahariscenter.org/blog/visible...
New book: Eleftherios Despotakis, Anti-Jewish Greek Texts in Late Medieval Crete: The Case of Manouel Savios and Angelos Gregorios (Brepols, 2026) maryjahariscenter.org/blog/anti-je...
New book: Ravinder S. Binning, The Medieval Art of Fear (University of Chicago Press, 2026) maryjahariscenter.org/blog/the-med...
New book: Giulia Rossetto, ed. Monastic Manuscripts from the Eastern Mediterranean (Sinai, Jerusalem, Antioch): Production, Use, and Contexts (V&R unipress, 2026) maryjahariscenter.org/blog/monasti...
Funding opportunity: ISAW Visiting Assistant Professor 2027-29. Applications due November 20, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/isaw-vi...
Funding opportunity: ISAW Research Scholar 2027-28. Applications due November 20, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/isaw-re...
Opportunity: ISAW Externally Funded Visiting Scholar 2027-28. Applications due November 20, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/isaw-ex...
Funding opportunity: Newberry Library Long-Term Fellowships, 2027–2028. Applications due November 20, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/newberr...
CFP: Syriac Culture and the Military, session at the 10th North American Syriac Symposium, Vanderbilt University, June 27–July 1, 2027. Submissions due October 23, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/syriac-...
Attend: Greek Linguistics: An Introduction to the Historical Linguistics of Ancient and Medieval Greek, Ghent University, December 7–8, 2026. Applications due October 31, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/greek-l...
Funding opportunity: British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships. Applications due November 11, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/british...
Fundingn opportunity: John W. Baldwin Post-Doctoral Fellowship, UCLA. Applications due November 13, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/john-w-...
Exhibition: Light from the East: Masterpieces from the Ikonen-Museum Recklinghausen, The Icon Museum and Study Center, on view October 16, 2026–March 21, 2027 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/light-f...
Join us on October 29 for Justin Mann's lecture: Decoding the Enigma of the Daphni Monastery: Landscape and Identity in Middle Byzantine Attica. 12:00 ET on Zoom. Register: maryjahariscenter.org/events/decod...
Funding opportunity: 2027–2028 I Tatti Term Fellowships. Applications due November 16, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/2027202...
New book: Vasileios Marinis, The Cult of the Martyr Euphemia in Byzantium (Oxford University Press, 2026) maryjahariscenter.org/blog/the-cul...
New book: Stratis Papaioannou and Charis Messis, Euthymios the Iberian, Theodore of Edessa (Uppsala Scholarly Books, 2026) maryjahariscenter.org/blog/euthymi...
New book: Philip Forness and J. Edward Walters, eds., A Guide to Preaching and the Homiletic Genre in Late Antique Syriac Literature (Brill, 2026) maryjahariscenter.org/blog/a-guide...
Job posting: Assistant Professor Specializing in the Study of Early Christianity, Vanderbilt University. Applications due November 15, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/assista...
CFP: Travellers in Ottoman Lands Seminar, Thessaloniki, April 23–24, 2027. Submissions due November 15, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/travell...
Attend: Violences sur les femmes, violences des femmes: les Amazones dans la littérature byzantine (XIIe-XVe s.), lecture by Charis Messis, NHRF at the Princeton Athens Center and Zoom, October 19, 2026, 6:00 PM (EET). Advance registration required maryjahariscenter.org/blog/violenc...
Attend: 2026 ASOR Annual Meeting, Hilton Chicago and Zoom, November 18–21, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/2026-as...
Attend: 2026 Dumbarton Oaks Graduate Student Museum Study Day, Given, Received, Displayed: Objects of Power, Generosity, and Faith, December 4, 2026. Applications due October 26, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/2026-du...
Job posting: Assistant Professor of Medieval History, University of Texas at Austin. Applications due November 13, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/assista...
Funding opportunity: British School at Rome 2027–2028 Fellowships in the Humanities. Applications due November 13, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/british...
Attend: Phanariot and Post-Phanariot Networks and Regional Power Reconfigurations (1750s-1900s), ANAMED Auditorium, Koç University, October 26–27, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/phanari...
Please join us on November 6 for our next East of Byzantium lecture. Asa Eger will discuss "Re-excavating Antioch: The First New Publication of Princeton’s Excavations of the 1930s." 12:00 pm ET on Zoom. Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Job posting: Professorship in History of the Earlier Middle Ages, University of Zurich. Applications due November 4, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/profess...
Job posting: Assistant Professor, History of Science and Medicine, University of Scranton. Applications due November 5, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/assista...
Job posting: Assistant Professor of Classics, Carleton College. Applications due November 6, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/assista...
CFP: Monsters and Marvels of Anatolia, Ankara, April 14–16, 2027. Submissions due November 6, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/monster...