{"id":17857,"date":"2025-11-03T14:33:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/?p=17857"},"modified":"2025-11-03T14:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:35:16","slug":"fall-2025-guest-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/2025\/11\/03\/fall-2025-guest-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2025 Guest Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/haa\/files\/2025\/11\/IMG_0447-636x477.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"477\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/files\/2025\/11\/IMG_0447-636x477.jpeg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/files\/2025\/11\/IMG_0447.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>On Thursday, October 23rd, we welcomed Prof. Gregory Bryda, Assistant Professor of Art History at Barnard College, for the first talk in our 2025-2026 Guest Lecture Series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Prof. Bryda\u2019s talk, entitled \u201cHigher Ground: Medieval Foundations and the Formation of Heathen Prehistory,&#8221; explored how Christian art from the eleventh through fifteenth centuries exaggerated the pagan connection to the land as a way to juxtapose Christian religious superiority.<span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bryda demonstrated how Christians in Austria, Germany, and Poland used works of art to cast the non-Christian peoples of Eastern and Baltic Europe as a primitive \u201cother\u201d who worshipped nature in order to justify Christian expansion into the region. Our <span data-markjs=\"true\" class=\"outlook-search-highlight\">guest<\/span> <span data-markjs=\"true\" class=\"outlook-search-highlight\">lecture<\/span> attracted a wide audience of BU graduate students, faculty and colleagues from Boston College and Harvard University.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, October 23rd, we welcomed Prof. Gregory Bryda, Assistant Professor of Art History at Barnard College, for the first talk in our 2025-2026 Guest Lecture Series. Prof. Bryda\u2019s talk, entitled \u201cHigher Ground: Medieval Foundations and the Formation of Heathen Prehistory,&#8221; explored how Christian art from the eleventh through fifteenth centuries exaggerated the pagan connection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24650,"featured_media":17858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17857"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17861,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17857\/revisions\/17861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}