If you're in the Chicagoland area, my friend Nikos Bakirtzis is
giving a talk on Byzantine monasticism at the Wheaton College Art Department this Monday Feb. 4th at 4:30pm in Adams Hall (3rd floor). And I'm giving one at the University of Chicago's Workshop on Late Antiquity and Byzantium on
Tuesday, Feb. 5 at 4:30pm (Cochrane-Woods Art Center, Room
156), where I'll demonstrate with overwhelming persuasiveness how Byzantine art solves all our contemporary problems. Come on by to one or both.