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SUMMARY:Third Annual Public Lecture in Medieval &amp\; Early Modern Slavon
 ic  Studies: A Twelfth-Century Slavonic Ekphrasis of Hippodrome Scenes in 
 the Cathedral of St. Sophia in Kyiv? - Assoc. Prof. Robert Romanchuk\, Dep
 t. of Modern Languages and Linguistics\, Florida State University\; Resear
 ch Fellow\, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and Visiting Asst. Prof. 
 Brad Hostetler\, Dept. of Art History\, Kenyon College
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DESCRIPTION:*Third Annual Public Lecture in Medieval and Early Modern Slav
 onic Studies Lecture in collaboration with the Byzantine Worlds Seminar*\n
 \nSponsored: CRASSH and Cambridge Ukrainian Studies\n\n*Robert Romanchuk* 
 is a philologist. He has published the monograph _Byzantine Hermeneutics a
 nd Pedagogy in the Russian North: Monks and Masters at the Kirillo-Belozer
 skii Monastery\, 1397–1501_ (U. Toronto Press\, 2007) and a number of bo
 ok chapters and journal publications\, most recently chapters on the liter
 ature of Mount Athos for David Wallace’s _Europe: A Literary History\, 1
 348–1418 (Oxford UP\, 2016) and on “lettered education” in Kyivan Ru
 s for the English translation of Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s History of Ukrain
 e-Rus'_\, vol. 3 (ed. Frank Sysyn: \nCIUS\, 2016). He is preparing a criti
 cal edition of the Byzantine romantic epic Digenis Akritis in its Old Slav
 onic translation\, _The Deeds of the Brave Men of Old_. He also works in p
 sychoanalysis and literature.\n\n*Brad Hostetler* is an art historian whos
 e research focuses on relics and reliquaries\, text and image relationship
 s\, and patronage practices in the Byzantine Empire. He has held fellowshi
 ps at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection and the Metropolitan 
 Museum of Art. His current book project examines the design and use of rel
 iquaries in Byzantium after Iconoclasm and before the Fourth Crusade. He l
 ooks at the ways in which these objects mediated the viewer’s access to\
 , and veneration of\, sacred matter in personal devotion and public ceremo
 nial.
LOCATION:Alison Richard Building\, Sidgwick Site\, Room SG2 7 West Road\, 
  Cambridge\, CB3 9DT
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