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Nov 7, 2024

Nov 7, 2024

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

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Anthony Kaldellis is the Gaylord Donnelly Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Classics and the College, University of Chicago. The siege and fall of Constantinople in 1453 was a traumatic event for the city’s defenders. After being bombarded by the world’s largest cannons for almost two months, they were all enslaved, if not killed, though some were ransomed. Among them were men trained in classical Greek and Latin, including teachers and students of ancient literature, who...

Nov 9, 2024

Nov 9, 2024

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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Join us in the museum lobby on Saturday, 11/9 at 2 p.m. for presentations by the Stanley Museum of Art Mellon team. They will share updates on their latest research of the Stanley's African collection. Refreshments will be provided. Between 1979 and 1990, Claude (“Max”) and Elizabeth (“Betty”) Stanley of Muscatine, Iowa, gifted nearly 600 historical African objects to the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art. The Stanley Collection of African Art is recognized globally for its impressiv...

Nov 21, 2024

Nov 21, 2024

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

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Join us for a talk by Jake Ransohoff, Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Bowdoin College, about the intersection of punishment, incapacity, and exclusion in the Byzantine world. Ransohoff will focus on a particular penalty — blinding — commonly used by Byzantium’s rulers to disqualify rivals from positions of political leadership. Despite its official justification as a merciful alternative to death, “political” blinding in Byzantium often backfired and provoked popular opposition. D...