Author: Brian Loh

2016-2017 Events

The Boston University Program in Scripture and the Arts Presents “The Unfolding of Scripture Through Movement” The Program for Scripture and the Arts is proud to present a brief preview of the speakers featured in this coming year’s events! This posting will be updated as more details about the events become available. Mark your calendars […]

Reading Between Word and Image Lecture Series: “Holy Beds and Holy Families: Encounters with Devotional Objects in the Metropolitan Museum of Art” with Caroline Walker Bynum

Thursday, March 24, 2016 The Program in Scripture and the Arts is proud to present the second speaker in its 2015-2016 speaker series, Caroline Walker Bynum, from the Institute for Advanced Study. Professor Bynum is a preeminent scholar in the field of Medieval Christian Studies, and her work has been instrumental in introducing the concept of gender into the […]

“Reading Between Word and Image” Lecture Series: “Medium and Message: Decoding the Mosaic Message in ‘Abd al-Malik’s Dome of the Rock” with Marcus Milwright

The Program in Scripture and the Arts is proud to present the first speaker in its 2015-2016 speaker series, Marcus Milwright, from the University of Victoria Department of Art History and Visual Studies. Professor Milwright is an authority on the art and architecture of the Islamic Middle East, cross-cultural interaction in the Medieval and early […]