Material Faith: The Mosaic of the Archangel Gabriel in the Hagia Sophia, Constantinople, and the Angels of the Panaghia Angeloktistos, Kiti, Cyprus, lecture by Liz James (University of Sussex), Hellenic Centre, London, June 7, 7:15 pm

Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies Summer Lecture. Supported by the SPBS and the Hellenic Centre.

Professor Liz James did her first degree at the University of Durham in Ancient History and Archaeology. She then moved south to the University of Birmingham for an MA in Byzantine Studies and finally to the Courtauld Institute for a doctorate in light and colour in Byzantine art. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, and a British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, she started at Sussex in 1993. Dr. James is currently engaged on a major research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust about Byzantine mosaics.

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