This video contains Marie-José Mondzain's keynote lecture at the Byzantium/Modernism Symposium. Her presentation is an analysis of early-Christian image theory and the doctrine of the incarnation manifested in the work of the Russian filmmaker, Andrei Tarkovsky. This talk was translated by...

This paper was delivered by Stratis Papaioannou at the Byzantine/Modernism Symposium in a panel entitled, "Byzantine Subjectivity in Modernity," which also included a paper by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and was chaired by Roland Betancourt. Professor Papaioannou's paper analyzes the (mis-)reading...

What does modern art have to gain from Byzantium? What does Byzantine art have to gain from modernism? How can Byzantine philosophy enrich our understanding of the modern and contemporary image? In this introduction to the Byzantium/Modernism Symposium, conference co-chair Roland Betancourt...