MJC News
Jun 01, 2023

Mary Jaharis Center Announces Grants for 2023–2024

The Mary Jaharis Center is pleased to announce the winners of its 2023–2024 grant competition.

The Mary Jaharis Center awarded a Co-Funding Grant to Rev. Fr. Stefanos Alexopoulos, Catholic University of America, for the three-day conference “The Liturgies of the Church of Alexandria:…

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Jun 01, 2022

Mary Jaharis Center Announces Grants for 2022–2023

The Mary Jaharis Center is pleased to announce the winners of its 2022–2023 grant competition.

The Mary Jaharis Center awarded its first Co-Funding Grant to Dr. Sharon E. J. Gerstel, Director, UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture, for the one-day conference…

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Jun 01, 2021

Mary Jaharis Center Announces Grants for 2021–2022

The Mary Jaharis Center is delighted to announce the results of the 2021–2022 grant cycle.

Alessandro Carabia, studying at the University of Birmingham, was awarded a Dissertation Grant for his dissertation, "Space, Population, and Economy in a Frontier Region: Liguria in the Context…

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May 24, 2016

Cecily Hilsdale on Barlaam and Ioasaph and Mondialisation

The final talk of the Mary Jaharis Center’s 2015–2016 Lecture Series was delivered by Cecily J. Hilsdale, Associate Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University in Montreal, on May 4, 2016. In her lecture titled…

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Aug 11, 2015

MJC Awards Grants for 2015–16

In May 2015, the Mary Jaharis Center awarded its first Dissertation Grants and Dissertation Development Grants. Dissertation Grants, which provide funding to help defray the costs of research-related expenses, were awarded to Shannon Steiner (Bryn Mawr) for her dissertation, “Byzantine Enamel…

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Sep 02, 2014

Second Boston Byzantine Music Festival Program Announced

The Second Boston Byzantine Music Festival will feature performances by the internationally acclaimed vocal ensemble Cappella Romana, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Byzantine Choir, and the Grammy-nominated DÜNYA ensemble. Cappella Romana will perform The Fall of Constantinople, which includes…

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Mar 11, 2014

Tradition Comes Alive at the Boston Byzantine Music Festival

On February 24 and February 25, 2014, the Mary Jaharis Center with the New York Life Center for the Study of Hellenism in Pontus and Asia Minor presented the Boston Byzantine Music Festival at the Maliotis Cultural Center on the Hellenic College Holy Cross campus in Brookline, MA. Audiences were treated…

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Sep 16, 2013
by Josh Cole, Manager of Marketing and Communications, Hellenic College Holy Cross

Mary Jaharis Center Teaches Byzantine Art

Brookline, MA. In conjunction with the Hellenic College Holy Cross 75th Anniversary Jubilee, on September 15 the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture sponsored an afternoon of Byzantine-themed children’s crafts and provided family entertainment.

As part of its 75th Jubilee…

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Apr 02, 2013
by Josh Cole, Manager of Marketing and Communications, Hellenic College Holy Cross

New Director of Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture Appointed

Brookline, MA, April 2, 2013 – Hellenic College Holy Cross (HCHC) announced today that Brandie Ratliff has been named the new Director of the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture. Ratliff is a well respected Byzantine art historian with extensive project management and curatorial…

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Aug 27, 2010
by Dr. Maria Kouroumali

Photis Kontoglou Exhibit Celebrates Byzantine Style Icon Painting

An exhibition of icons by Greek painter and iconographer Photis Kontoglou will be featured at the inaugural celebration of the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College and Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, Massachusetts, on Saturday, October 2,…

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