A conversation with Bissera Pentcheva (Stanford University) about the sensory and spiritual experience of Hagia Sophia, where architecture, sound, and light met theology and prayer, based on her book Hagia Sophia: Sound, Space, and Spirit in Byzantium (Pennsylvania State University Press 2017). For the associated video, go to https://vimeo.com/365102931 (password: HS2018).
16. The Parthenon mosque, with Elizabeth Key Fowden
15. When does Roman history end and Byzantine begin?, with Marion Kruse
14. Byzantine Orthodoxy and homosexuality, with Stephen Morris
13. The case for Shenute the Great and the Coptic tradition, with Sofia Torallas Tovar and David Brakke
12. Byzantine Studies in Turkey 2.0, with Siren Çelik
11. Byzantine erotic epigrams, with Steven Smith
10. A Byzantine man of affairs, with Dimitris Krallis
9. From India to Byzantium, with Paroma Chatterjee
7. The kingdom of Rus' and "medieval Europe," with Christian Raffensperger
6. Armenian art, with Christina Maranci
5. Western fantasies about Byzantium, with Elena Boeck
4. The New Environmental History, with Tina Sessa
3. The Colonial Fourth Crusade, with George Demacopoulos
2. Imagining the Moment of Death, with Ellen Muehlberger
1. Byzantine Gender, with Leonora Neville
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