Adam’s Lament and Eve’s Blame: Performing Gender in Byzantium

When: Wednesday, May 29, 2024 | 18:00

Where: Deree Faculty Lounge
The seminar can also be attended via Zoom. The link will be provided on the day of the event and sent via email to those opting for online participation.

Speaker: Kallirroe Linardou, Assistant Professor, Byzantine & Medieval Art History, Athens School of Fine Arts

Organized by: Institute for Hellenic Culture and the Liberal Arts

About the Lecture

The final Hellenic Seminar Series lecture for Spring 2024 will examine a richly-illustrated Byzantine narrative of the twelfth century (Vaticanus graecus 1162) containing six sermons composed by the monk Iakovos of the Kokkinobaphou Monastery in Constantinople on the apocryphal early life of the Virgin Mary. More specifically, it will focus on the visual enactment of Adam’s lament over the loss of paradise and discuss the role of ‘performativity’ in both verbal and visual constituents of the narrative.

Kallirroe Linardou was awarded a PhD in Byzantine Art History from the University of Birmingham (2004). A recipient of a scholarship from the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) of the British Academy and a Stanley J. Seeger fellowship in Hellenic Studies at the Center of Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, Professor Linardou has been a faculty member of the Athens School of Fine Arts since 2010. Her research focuses on Byzantine illuminated manuscripts and she has published widely on the topic.