Restoring Byzantium Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery
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  Symposium
Friday, 16 April–Saturday, 17 April 2004

Location


The Italian Academy of Advanced Studies in America Casa Italiana
1161 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027


Registration

To register for the symposium, send an email listing your name(s) and affiliation to: byzantium@columbia.edu.


Schedule

9:00–9:30
Coffee
   
9:30–9:45    
Holger Klein, Columbia University
Introduction

9:45–10:30
Robert Ousterhout, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Reading Difficult Buildings: The Architecture of the Kariye Camii in Context

10:30–11:15
Paul Magdalino, University of St. Andrews
Theodore Metochites, the Chora, and Constantinople

11:15–12:00
Sharon Gerstel, University of Maryland at College Park
'It is now time to be mindful of death:' The Chora Parekklesion, Palaeologan Burial Chapels, and Hopes for a Peaceful Afterlife
 
12:00–2:00
Lunch Break
   
2:00–2:30
Holger Klein, Columbia University
'Restoring Byzantium' at Columbia's Wallach Art Gallery

2:30–3:15
Robin Cormack, The Courtauld Institute of Art
The Talented Mr. Hawkins

3:15–3:30
Carroll Wales, Boston
Working with Byzantine Institute of America: Personal Recollections

3:30–3:45
Guiseppe C. Infranca, Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
A New Program of Restoration at the Kariye Museum in Istanbul

4:00–5:00
Reception at the Wallach Art Gallery
   
5:00–6:00
Shuttle Service to The Metropolitan Museum of Art

     
Restoration Photographs from the Dumbarton Oaks Archive.


   
               
 
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