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Mati Meyer, Associate Professor

Prof. Mati Meyer
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The Open University of Israel Department of Literature, Language and Arts 1 University Road P.O.B. 808 Ra’anana 4353701, Israel
Office:972-9-778-1214 Fax:972-9-778-2671 Email:[email protected]

Areas of Interest
  • Biblical studies
  • Byzantine art
  • Byzantine studies
  • Cultural studies
  • Emotion studies
  • Illuminated Manuscripts
  • Reception studies
  • Women and Gender studies

Mati Meyer, Associate Professor at the Open University of Israel, has published many articles on Byzantine illuminated manuscripts, and a book, An Obscure Portrait: Imaging Women's Reality in Byzantine Art (London: Pindar Press, 2009). With Katrin Kogman-Appel, she edited Between Judaism and Christianity. Art Historical Essays in Honor of Elisheva (Elisabeth) Revel-Neher (Leiden: Brill, 2009). A collected volume on emotions and gender in Byzantine culture was co-edited with Stavroula Constantinou (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2018). She is currently editing with Charis Messis a Handbook of Gender in Byzantium, (Abington, UK: Routledge, forthcoming), and writing a monograph dealing with representations of the gendered female body in Byzantine illuminated books.

2002
Ph.D, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Direct doctoral program for outstanding students, History of Art.
Dissertation title: The Image of the Biblical Woman in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts of the Macedonian Dynasty (867-1056) (Summa cum Laude)
1996
M.A, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
History of Art
1992
B.A, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
History of Art
1989 - 1990
Université de Paris I (Sorbonne)
History of Art, undergraduate courses
1983 - 1995
Tel Aviv University
History of Theater, undergraduate and graduate studies, History of Theatre
Since 2009
The Open University of Israel, Associate Professor and head of Art History section
Since 2007
The Open University of Israel, Department of Literature, Language and Arts
Faculty Member in Art History
2012 - 2013
Tel Aviv University, Department of Art History
Adjunct Lecturer
Graduate course: Queens, Saints and Prostitutes: The Female Visual Portrait in Byzantine Culture
1999 - 2003 2008 - 2009
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Department of Arts
Teaching Associate; Adjunct Lecturer
Upper-level undergraduate courses: Multiple Eves: Imaging Women in Medieval Art; The Byzantine Church and its Decoration; Satan and Pals – Medieval Images of Evil; The Image of Women in the History of Art; Between East and West: the influence of Byzantine art on Western Art, 9th-15th centuries; Issues in Byzantine Painting; Byzantine Art; Introduction to Ancient, Classical and Medieval Art (tutorials)
2008 - 2009
University of Haifa, Onassis Program of Hellenic Studies
Adjunct Lecturer
Upper-level undergraduate course: Between the Gold and the Purple. Issues in Byzantine Art
1996 - 2007
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Art History
Adjunct Lecturer, Associate Teacher, Instructor
Undergraduate lecture courses: Medieval Art Survey (tutorials); History of Art Survey (tutorials)
Upper-level undergraduate courses and tutorials: The Female Ideal in Art; Form and Meaning in the Work of Art; The Romanesque Church and its Decoration; The Woman in Art; Byzantine Painting; Sinner, Repentant and Valiant: The Biblical Woman in Art History; The Romanesque Church and its Decoration; The Image of the Medieval Woman: Identity and Perception; Images of Evil in Medieval Art
2003 - 2004
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Revivim Program
Adjunct Lecturer
Upper-level undergraduate course: Looking at the Work of Art
2005 - 2007
Central School for Teachers, Tel-Aviv (affiliated to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Adjunct lecturer
Undergraduate lecture course: Medieval Art Survey
Upper-level undergraduate courses: Mythological Sources to Art, The Image of Woman in Art History
2006 - 2007
Academic College “Hadassa”, Jerusalem, Depts. of Photography and Design
Adjunct lecturer
Undergraduate lecture course: Survey of Art History: From Prehistory to Post-Modern Era
2002 - 2003
“Emunah” College, Jerusalem
Teacher
Undergraduate lecture course: Medieval Art Survey
2001
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
Teacher
Undergraduate lecture course: Medieval Art Survey Upper-level undergraduate courses: Medieval Iconography
2020
Publishing Grant for The Routledge Handbook of Gender in Byzantium, co-edited with Charis Messis (Abington, UK: Routledge, forthcoming), The Research Authority, The Open University of Israel
2018
Publishing Grant for Emotions and Gender in Byzantine Culture, co-edited with Stavroula Constantinou (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2018), The Research Authority, The Open University of Israel
2017
Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, NYC
2014
Summer visitorship, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
2013 - 2016
Israel Science Foundation Grant
2010
Research Grant, The Open University Research Authority
2005 - 2007
Fellow of the Robert H. and Clarice Smith Center for the History of Art, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2003
Postdoctoral grant for a two-month research conducted at the Index of Christian Art, Princeton, and Dumbarton Oaks Research Institute, Washington, D.C., of the Robert H. and Clarice Smith Center for the History of Art, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2003 - 2006
Postdoctoral grant; researcher and staff member of joint project of the Index of Christian Art, Princeton and Ben-Gurion University in the Negev, Beer-Sheva
2001
Guest fellow, Dumbarton Oaks Research Institute, Washington, D.C.
2000
One-month scholarship in Paris, granted by the Cultural Department, Embassy of France, Tel-Aviv
1997
Award of the Israel Association of University Women, Jerusalem
1996 - 1998
Award of the Israel Association of University Women, Jerusalem, 1997 Four grants for limited periods of research conducted in different libraries abroad, of the Robert H. and Clarice Smith Center for the History of Art, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1994 - 1995
Award and scholarship of the Rector and of the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities for outstanding students

IMAGO – The Israeli Association for Visual Culture in the Middle Ages

    2017-2019 President

    2011-2013 President

    2007-2013 Governing Board

    2007-2011 Treasurer

BSANA – The Byzantine Studies Association of North America

CAA – College Art Association, USA

ICMA – The International Center for Medieval Art

The Medieval Academy of America

The International Association for Byzantine Studies

The Israeli Association for Byzantine Studies

Curator and responsible of the Open Art Gallery, The Open University of Israel, Raanana
Researcher and assistant curator, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem

An Obscure Portrait: Imaging Women's Reality in Byzantine Art (London: Pindar
Press, 2009)

Beauty, Sex and Gender: The Female Body in Byzantine Illuminated Books (proposal submitted to Oxford University Press)

Edited Books

- The Routledge Handbook of Gender in Byzantium, co-edited with Charis Messis (forthcoming)
- Emotions and Gender in Byzantine Culture, co-edited with Stavroula Constantinou (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2018)
- Between Judaism and Christianity: Art-historical essays in honor of Elisheva (Elisabeth) Revel Neher, eds. Katrin Kogman-Appel and Mati Meyer (Leiden: Brill, 2009).

Open University Books
Medieval Art in Europe and Byzantium (Ra’anana, 2019): Vol. 1-3

“The Rhetoric of Aphrodite in the Byzantine Illuminated Book,” Studies in Iconography 41 (2020): 30–66.

“Hiding in Plain Sight: The Second Coming and the Last Judgment in the Vatican Psalter, gr. 752,” Cahiers archéologiques 56 (2016): 71–86.

“Chastity Stripped Bare. On Temporal and Eternal Things in the Sacra Parallela (Paris, BnF, gr. 923),” Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 38/1 (2014): 91–113.

“Theologizing Desire: Bathers in the Sacra Parallela (Paris, BnF, gr. 923),” Different Visions. A Journal of New Perspectives on Medieval Art 4 (2014): 25–57. Fifth issue Female Sexuality edited by Sherry Lindquist and Mati Meyer; http://differentvisions.org/issue-five/ (online journal)

“Divine Nourishing: On Breasts and Bottles in the Miniatures of Iakobos Kokkinobaphos,” Deltion tes Christianikes Archaiologikes Hetaireias 33 (2012), 265–76.

“On Birth and More in Middle Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts,” Cahiers Archéologiques 53 (2011): 49–62.

“On Sense and Sensibility in the Work of Talia Tokatly,” Protocols. History & Theory, issue no. 22 On the Sensual in Art (Sept. 2011). http://bezalel.secured.co.il/zope/home/en/1315639275/131594928 (online journal)

Porneia. Quelques considérations sur la represéntation du péché de chair dans l’art byzantin, ” Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale 51/203 (2009): 225–44.

“Between Realia and Eschatological Hopes. The personification of Zion in Byzantine Psalters with marginal decorations,” Ars Judaica 5 (2009): 7–22.

“Garbing Orthodoxy in Classicism: revisiting the illustrated homilies of Gregory of Nazianzos,” Iconographica 7 (2008): 11–22.

“Harlot or Penitent? The Image of Rahab in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts,” Ars Judaica 2 (2006): 25-34.

“The Levite’s Concubine: Imaging the Marginal Woman in Byzantine Society,” Studies in Iconography 26 (2006): 45–76.

“On the Hypothetical Model of the Iconography of Birth-giving in the Octateuchs,” Deltion tes Christianikes Archaiologikes Etairerias 26 (2005): 311–18.

“Woman to Woman: Parturient-Midwife Imagery in Byzantine Art,” Bizantinistica VI (2004): 101–19.

“Did the Daughters of Israel come out dancing and singing to meet…David? A Biblical Image in Christian-Imperial Attire,” Byzantion LXXIII/2 (2003): 467–87.

Chapters in Books

“Too Real to Behold: Vandalizing Childbirth Images in Sacred Texts,” in Maternal Materialities: Objects, Rituals and Material Evidence of Medieval and Early Modern Childbirth, ed. Costanza Dopfel (Brepols, forthcoming; 17 pp.)

“Towards an Approach to Gendered Emotions in Byzantine Culture,” in Emotions and Gender in Byzantine Culture, co-edited with Stavroula Constantinou (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2018), 3–32.

“Stirring up Sundry Emotions in the Byzantine Illuminated book: Reflections on the Female Body,” in Emotions and Gender in Byzantine Culture, co-edited with Stavroula Constantinou (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2018), 245–79.

“Urban Topographies: Investigating Space in Vat. gr. 752,” in Book of Psalms from Eleventh-Century Constantinople: On the Complex of Texts and Images in Vat. gr. 752, eds. Barbara Crostini Lappit and Glenn A. Peers, Studi e Testi (Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2016), 515–45.

“‘Remembering Zion’ and Simulacra: Jerusalem in the Byzantine Psalter,” in Visual Constructs of Jerusalem, eds. Bianca Kühnel, Galit Noga-Banai and Hanna Vorholt, Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 18 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), 451–61.

“Venus Lost and Found. Aesthetic Perceptions of the Female Nude in Byzantine Art,” in: Körper-Ästhetiken. Der [allegorische] Körper als ästhetisches Prinzip - [gender-]theoretische Perspektiven, eds. Miriam Oesterreich, Julia Rüthemann, Cornelia Logemann, Reihe Kultur- und Medientheorie (Bielefeld: Transcript-Verlag, 2013), 181–205.

“Constructing Emotions and Weaving Meaning in Byzantine Art,” in: Happiness or Its Absence in Art: Selected Papers from a Symposium Held in Ben-Gurion University on March 2011, eds. William Barcham and Ronit Milano (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013), 9–26.

“On Sense and Sensibility in the Work of Talia Tokatly,” in Protocollage 2012: MATERIA, ed. Dror Pimental, Dana Arieli-Horowitz, Gal Ventura, Naomi Meiri-Dan (Tel Aviv: Resling, 2012), 52–73 (in Hebrew).

“Refracting Christian Truths through the Prism of the Biblical Female in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts,” in: Jews of Byzantium: Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures, eds. Robert Bonfil, Oded Irshai, Guy G. Stroumsa, Rina Talgam, Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture 14 (Leiden: Brill, 2012), 971–1000.

“Eve’s nudity. A sign of shame or a precursor of Christological economy?” in Between Judaism and Christianity. Art Historical Essays in Honour of Prof. Elisabeth (Elisheva) Revel-Neher, eds. Katrin Kogman-Appel and Mati Meyer, Leiden: Brill (2009), 243–58.

“The Window of Testimony. A Sign of Physical or Spiritual Conception?” Interactions. Artistic Interchange between the Eastern and Western Worlds in the Medieval Period, ed. C. Hourihane (Philadelphia, PA: Penn State University Press, 2007, 244–59.

Edited Issue
Different Visions. A Journal of New Perspectives on Medieval Art 4 (2014). Fifth issue Female Sexuality, co-edited with Sherry Lindquist; http://differentvisions.org/issue-five/

Conference Abstracts
“The Female Martyr Body and Male Prowess in Byzantine Art,” in: RSA 2012 85h Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., March 22–24, 2012, Abstracts, 2012.
“The Byzantine Last Judgment Iconography Revisited,” 22nd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Sophia (22-27 August, 2011), in: Proceedings of the 22nd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Vol. II: Abstracts of Round Table Communications (Sofia: Bulgaria Historical Heritage Foundation, 2011).
“The Personification of Zion and the Marian Cult in Byzantine Psalters with Marginal Illustrations,” in: CAA 2009 97th Annual Conference, Los Angeles February 25–28, 2009, Abstracts, 53.
“Women at windows: glimpses of reality in Byzantine art,” in: Proceedings of the 21st Congress of Byzantine Studies, London 21-26 August 2006, III: Abstracts of Communications (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), 100–101.
“The Female Nude in Byzantine Art,” in: The Thirtieth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference. Abstracts of Papers, October 28-31, 2004, The Walters Art Museum and The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., 102–103.

Catalogues
A Matter of Discourse: a retrospective of Talia Tokatly’s art, The Open University of Israel, Raanana, 2009 (Hebrew)
Georgia. A Journey through the Ages, exhibition catalogue, The Open University of Israel, Raanana, 2009 (Hebrew)
Products of Palestine: Propaganda, Design and Advertisement 1923-1949, exhibition catalogue, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1997 (Hebrew)

Entries in Encyclopaedia (refereed)
“Nurse, Nursing,” “New Testament,” “Midwife in Visual Arts,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, vol. 19 (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter; forthcoming).
Jezebel in Visual Arts,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter) (online Dec. 2016; print March 2017), 14: 257–59".
“Jewish Art. Ancient,” in Oxford Bibliographies in Art History, ed. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 1–28; DOI"
 10.1093/OBO/9780199920105-0116

Book Reviews
Eirini Panou, The Cult of St. Anna in Byzantium (London and New York: Routledge, 2018); Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 14/2 (2020): 186–91.
Scott P. Brown, The Riddle of Jael: The History of a Poxied Heroine in Medieval and Renaissance Art and Culture (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018); Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 14/2 (2020): 251–54.
Bissera Pentcheva, Hagia Sophia: Sound, Space, and Spirit in Byzantium
          (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2017); April 18, 2018; DOI:
          10.3202/caa.reviews.2018.127
Cecily Hennessy, Images of Children in Byzantium (Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey, UK; Burlington, VA, 2008), in: Journal für Kunstgeschichte / Journal of Art History. The International Periodical of Reviews 14/1(2010): 34–39

Conferences and Talks
2020
Third International Conference on Byzantine and Medieval Studies, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, “The Rhetoric of Aphrodite in Byzantine Illuminated Books” (Nicosia, January 2020)
2018
Moving Violence in Medieval Imagery, International Conference, Tel Aviv, “A Shameful Sight/Site: 'Barbarism' and the Female Body in the Byzantine Illustrated Book,” December 2018)

Evil Women: Women and Evil. An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference, Vienna, “Beautiful, Enticing and Deceptive: The Reception of the Female Body in the Byzantine Illuminated Book” (December 2018)

International History of Emotions Conference, International History of Emotions Conference, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, “Men’s Emotional Reception of Women’s Bodies in the Byzantine Illuminated Book” (June 2018)

11th annual Conference of the Israeli Association for Visual Culture in the Middle Ages (IMAGO), Tel-Aviv University, “The Reception of the Female Body in the Byzantine Illuminated Book” (March 2018)

Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, Boston, “Aesthetics and Rhetoric in the Byzantine Illuminated Book: The Case of Aphrodite,” (January 2018)
2017
17th  Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities “Gendering and Sexualizing the Female Body in Byzantine Art” (Hofstra University, NY, June)
Renaissance Society of Art (RSA), “Imaging the ‘Other’ and Political Identity in the Byzantine Illuminated Book” (Chicago, 30 March-1 April)
CAA 105th Annual Conference, New York, “Encapsulating Antiquity and the Bible: The Imperial ‘I’ and Cultural Identity in the Byzantine Illuminated Book” (New York, NY, Feb.)
2016
34th Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art (CIHA), “Gender Slippage in the Byzantine Illuminated Book” (Beijing, Sept.)
23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, “Hiding in Plain Sight: The Second Coming and the Last Judgment in the Vatican Psalter, gr. 752” (Belgrade, Aug.)
2015
International Medieval Congress at the Medieval Institute, “Venus Rewritten: Aesthetic Perceptions and Cultural Discourse in Byzantine Art” (Leeds, UK, July)
2014
Fifth Feminist Art History Conference, “Theological and Moral Aspects of the Female Body in Byzantine Art” (American University, Washington, DC, Oct.31–Nov. 2)
International Medieval Congress at the Medieval Institute, Leeds, UK, “The Female Martyr and the Imperial Cohorts in Byzantine Art” (Leeds, UK, July)
49th International Congress on Medieval Studies, “Refiguring ֶ‘Masculinity’ and Imperial Identity in the Menologion of Basil II (Bibl. Apost. Vat., gr. 1613)” (Western Michigan University, May)
2011
22nd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, “Table ronde – conclusions ou recommencements?” (Sophia, Aug.)
International Medieval Congress at the Medieval Institute, “Chastity Stripped Bare: Female Nudity in the Sacra Parallela (Paris, BnF, gr. 923)” (Leeds, UK, July)
4th annual Conference of the Israeli Association for Visual Culture in the Middle Ages (IMAGO), “Theology and Transgender: The Power of Suggestion in Byzantine Art” (Tel-Aviv University, May)
Workshop on  Körper-Ästhetiken. Der (allegorische) Körper als ästhetisches Prinzip - (gender-) theoretische Perspektiven, Transcultural Studies, “The Eloquent Body: Bathers in the Sacra Parallela (Paris, BnF, gr. 923)” (Ruprecht-Karls- Universität Heidelberg, May)
2010
SECAC/MACAA Conference, “Talia Tokatly: The Object’s Discourse” (Richmond, VA, Oct.)
2009
15th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, "From Zion to Constantinople: The Ups and Downs of a Biblical Image" (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Aug.)
International Medieval Congress at the Medieval Institute, “Hagia Sion: Gendering the Orthodox Faith in Byzantine Art” (Leeds, UK, July)
College Art Association 96th Annual Conference, “The Personification of Zion and the Marian Cult in Byzantine Psalters with Marginal Illustrations” (Los Angeles, Feb.)
2007
International Medieval Congress at the Medieval Institute, “The Window in Byzantine Art as Metonym of Female Perceptions” Leeds, UK, July)
1st Congress of the Israeli Association for Byzantine Studies, “Sexual Actions and Morals in Byzantine Art” (Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem, June)
2006
21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies, University of London, London “Reading Sexuality in Byzantine Art” (London, Aug.)
International Conference at the Medieval Institute, “Gestual and Sexual Interplay in Byzantine Art” (Leeds, UK, July)
International Conference “Art and Liturgy in the Middle Ages,” “Garbing Orthodoxy in Classicism: Revisiting the Illustrated Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus” (Ben-Gurion University in the Negev, June)
International Conference “Art and Liturgy in the Middle Ages,” chair person of session on illuminated manuscripts (Ben-Gurion University in the Negev, June)
Conference “Conversion,” Ben-Gurion University in the Negev, “Atoning for Her Sins. The Figure of Rahab in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts” (Ben-Gurion University in the Negev, March)
2005
14th World Congress of Jewish Studies, “Eve’s Nudity. A Sign of Shame or Precursor of Christological Economy?” (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Aug.)
1st International Congress “Art and the Mediterranean Culture,” “The Window of Testimony”—A Sign of Physical and Spiritual Conception” (University of Haifa, May)
2004
30th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, “The Female Nude in Byzantine Art” (The Walters Art Museum and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Oct.)
International Medieval Congress at the Medieval Institute, “Punished by her Lust: Luxuria in Byzantine Art” (Leeds, UK, July)
International Symposium “The Art of Narrative,” “Birth-giving imagery in Byzantine Art” (Ben-Gurion University in the Negev, March)
College Art Association 92nd Annual Conference, “Woman to Woman: Parturient-Midwife Imagery in Byzantine Art” (Seattle, Wash., Feb.)
2003
“The Portrayal of Birth Giving in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts” (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Nov.)
27th Annual Congress on History, Shazar Center, Jerusalem, “The Image of the Dancer/Musician in Byzantine Art – Fiction or Reality?” (Shazar Center, Jerusalem, June)
38th International Congress on Medieval Studies, “The Levite Concubine: A Case in Point of the Clerical Attitude towards the Marginal Woman in Byzantine Society” (Western Michigan University, May)
2001
13th World Congress of Jewish Studies, “And the Daughters of Israel exalted David – A Jewish Image in Christian-Byzantine Disguise” (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Aug.)
1998
6th International Seminary on Jewish Art: “Scripture and Picture,” “Between Harlot and Penitent. The Image of Rahab in Illuminated Byzantine Manuscripts” (Jerusalem, June)
Invited Guest Lectures and Conference Participations
2021
Annual Lecture of the Foundation Anastasios G. Leventis, Nicosia, “‘Ways of Seeing’: Aphrodite/Venus in Art” (May 2021)
International Conference on Disciplining Emotions, Bar-Ilan University, “Finger and Fury: Emotional Erasures in Byzantine Illuminated Books (May 2021)
International Medieval Congress at the Medieval Institute, Leeds, UK, “Breastfeeding in Byzantine Art: Aspects of Materiality and Realia” (July 2021)
2019
International Medieval Congress at the Medieval Institute, Leeds, UK, “Giving Birth in the Byzantine Illuminated Books” (July 2019)
2018
IMAGO – The Israeli Association for Visual Culture in the Middle Ages, Doctoral Workshop, Haifa University (October 2018)
11th annual Conference of the Israeli Association for Visual Culture in the Middle Ages (IMAGO), Tel-Aviv University, “The Reception of the Female Body in the Byzantine Illuminated Book” (March 2018)
2012
International Workshop, “Book of Psalms from Eleventh-Century Constantinople: On the Complex of Texts and Images in Vat. gr. 752,” “Structures and Imperial Identity, Investigating Space in Vat. gr. 752” (Swedish Institute, Rome, June)
International Conference, “Cultural Exchanges in the Late Byzantine World,” “On Earthly Possessions and the Desire of the Flesh in the Sacra Parallela” (Haifa University, May)
2011
International Conference, round table on “Poor...Rich in the Middle Ages” (Medieval Institute, Leeds, UK, July)
2010
International Conference, “Visual Constructs of Jerusalem,” “'Remembering Zion' and Simulacra: Jerusalem in the Byzantine Psalter” (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Nov.)
Seminar, “The Female Body and the Battle on Morals in Byzantine Art” (Department of Art History, Tel Aviv University, June)
2009
Seminar and open lecture (Department of History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Sept.)
3rd International Conference, “Art in Conflict,” “Depicting the Devotional Image in Byzantine Psalters with Marginal Decorations” (University of Haifa, June)
2nd Congress of the Israeli Association for Byzantine Studies, “The Art of the Book in Byzantium: Tradition and Innovation” (Jerusalem, Yad Ben-Zvi, Feb.)
2008
International conference “The Jewish Presence in Art,” “Between Realia and Eschatological Hopes. The personification of Zion in middle Byzantine illuminated manuscripts” (Bar-Ilan University, June)
2007
2nd International Congress, “Greek Art and Culture: Origins and Influences,” “Architectural Openings: Metonyms of Perceptions of Women in Byzantine Art” (University of Haifa, May)
“Imaging the Women of the Bible in Byzantine Art,” “The Art in the Bible/ The Bible in Art” (University of Haifa, May)
2006
“Women’s Reality in Byzantine Art” (University of Haifa, May)
2005
“Imaging the Woman in Byzantine Art” (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Scholion Project, May)
“Between Convention and Reality: Imaging the Midwife in Art,” The  Israeli Society for History of Medicine and Science, (Hadassah hospital, Jerusalem, April)
2004
“The marginalized woman: the case of Levite’s concubine,” 36th Congress of Jewish Art, Society for Jewish Art (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, May)
Conferences and sessions organized
2022
Co-organizer with Maria Parani, 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Istanbul, “Materiality in Byzantine Culture Revisited,” round table (August 2022)
2021
Scientific committee member, “Disciplining Emotions: Texts and Images in Medieval and Early Modern Times,” International Conference, Bar-Ilan University (May 2021)
2019
Organizer, “Who’s Afraid of Medieval Times: Art in Times of Faith,” The Open University, Ra’anana, study day (Nov. 2019)
“Body and Matter in Medieval and Early Modern Arts,” 12th International Conference of the Israeli Medieval and Early Modern Association for Visual Culture, The Open University, Raanana (April 2019)
2016
“Time and Temporality in Medieval and Early Modern Art,” 9th International Conference of the Israeli Medieval and Early Modern Association for Visual Culture (The Open University, Raanana, Feb.)
Co-organizer with Assaf Pinkus, “Thinking through the Body: Visual Passion in the Middle Ages,” CAA’s 104th Annual Conference, (Washington, DC, Feb.)
2015
Double session co-organized with Stavroula Constantinou, “Emotions in Byzantine Culture,” International Medieval Congress at the Medieval Institute (, Leeds, UK, July)
2013
Co-organizer with Emma Fanar-Maayan, “Capturing Light in Late Antique, Medieval and Early Modern Art,” 6th Annual Conference of the Israeli Medieval Association for Visual Culture (University of Haifa, Jan.)
2011
Co-organizer with Catherine Jolivet-Lévy, 22nd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, “The Byzantine Last Judgment Iconography Revisited,” round table (Sofia, Aug.)
Co-organizer with Assaf Pinkus, “Medieval Spectacle: Art and Performance in the Middle Ages,” International Conference at the Medieval Institute (Leeds, UK, July)
Co-organizer with Assaf Pinkus, “Boundaries and Multiculturalism in the Middle Ages," 4th Annual Conference of the Israeli Medieval Association for Visual Culture (IMAGO) (Tel-Aviv University, May)
2010
Co-organizer with Sherry Lindquist, “Representing the Sexuality of Women in Medieval Europe and Byzantium,” International Medieval Congress, sponsored by the International Center for Medieval Art (Leeds, UK, July)
2009
15th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, “Envisioning the Past and Present. The Relevancy of Traditions in Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts,” organized session (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Aug.)
2nd Workshop of the Israeli Medieval Association for Visual Culture (IMAGO) (The Open University, Raanana, May)
2006
“Gesticulating the spiritual/motioning the secular. Ideals, morals and actions in Byzantine art,” organized session, International Conference at the Medieval Institute (Leeds, UK, July)

  • 2019 - Classicisms and Art: Interpretations and Reception (course in development) 

  • Academic responsibility for courses:
    2019- Visual Creation in Jewish Society (10797)
    2017- The Arts of Greece and Rome (10816), Medieval Art in Europe and Byzantium (10755)
    2009- Renaissance Art in Italy (10232), Still Life: From Collected Objects to Objects on their Own (10675), Introduction to Art in the Islamic Countries (10873)

  • Academic consultant for textbooks and units:
    2019 - “Music at First Glance (10148); rewriting proposal
    Renana Bartal, “Medieval Art in Europe and Byzantium,” ch. 7 (10755; scientific consultant)
    Mira Banay, “Inclusive Aspects in Intermedia Works of Art (10950); report in view of a final edition
    2010-  Trends and Movements in Modern and Contemporary Art
    2011-2014  Art History Survey in Islamic Countries
    2010  Palestine between Christianity and Islam (1 unit)
    Renaissance Art in Italy (1 unit)
    Internal advisor for art history courses in development:
    2011-  Baroque and Rococo: Art of the 17th and 18th Centuries (10776)
    2012-  Visual Art in Jewish Society (10797)