Symposium: "Gender in Byzantium: Textual, Visual, Material”

All are welcome to join the Fall Meeting of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association “Gender in Byzantium: Textual, Visual, Material”
Four papers will be delivered, followed by discussion:
Cecily Hilsdale, “Reading Female Presence in a Male Ivory Diptych: Concordia, Captivity, and Galla Placidia's Two Marriages"
Elizabeth Dospel Williams, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, "Beauty across the Seas: Crafting and Wearing Lapis Lazuli in Late Antiquity”
Leonora Neville, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Ancient Roman Women in Medieval East Roman Memory”
Alicia Walker, Bryn Mawr College, “Lived Paideia and the Material Culture of Women’s Everyday Practices in Byzantium”

A reception will follow the symposium. Free and open to the public
Co-sponsored by the Delaware Valley Medieval Association and the Center for Visual Culture, the Program in Middle Eastern, North African, and Central Asian Studies, Medieval Area Studies, and the Department of History of Art, Bryn Mawr College