Michael Vila's calendar for event attendance planning.

Join us for a spirited conversation between Holly Hughes, legendary Culture Wars provocateur and queer feminist performance icon, and Katie Pearl, an acclaimed theatre-maker addressing the climate crisis. Together they confront the unsayable and explore resistance, representation, and artistic risk.

Dr. Elias Petrou will explore the evolution and transmission of the Greek book from East to West, beginning with an overview of the Byzantine educational system, the preservation and transmission of classical Greek knowledge through manuscripts, and how this inherited book culture was transformed through the new technology of print.

Dr. Anastasios Antonaras (Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki,) places Byzantine glass in context to a wider Mediterranean tradition where it emerges as a powerful medium of splendor, authority, and sacred presence.

This public event will begin with a lecture by Dr. Warren C. Brown (California Institute of Technology discussing medieval textuality and materiality. A reception and open house will follow where visitors may view our recently acquired Merovingian manuscript and Greek papyrus. All are welcome, and refreshments will be served.

Dr. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Sociology Duke University