The History and Visual Culture of Medieval Moldavia, with Alice Sullivan, 4/17

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The Center for Humanities invites you to a special presentation from Professor Alice Sullivan entitled “The History and Visual Culture of Medieval Moldovia,” featuring scholarship from her newest monographs, The Eclectic Visual Culture of Medieval Moldavia and Europe’s Eastern Christian Frontier. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A. This event will take place at noon on April 17 here at 48 Professors Row (Fung House). Light lunch will be served.

About Professor Alice Sullivan:

Alice Isabella Sullivan is a historian of medieval art, architecture, and visual culture, specializing in the artistic production of Eastern Europe and the Byzantine-Slavic cultural spheres. Her current projects focus on the history, art, and culture of regions of the Balkan Peninsula and the Carpathian Mountains (especially in modern Romania), which developed at the crossroads of the Latin, Greek, and Slavic traditions between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. Her research has been supported by fellowships and grants from Tufts University, Princeton University, the University of Michigan, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (The Center), Dumbarton Oaks (DO), the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Getty Foundation, the Medieval Academy of America (MAA), the Renaissance Society of America (RSA), the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA), the Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA), the Kress Foundation, the VolkswagenStiftung, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, among others.