Each year, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies presents the Lawrence Stone Lectures, co-sponsored by the Princeton University Press. The Center was founded by former chair of the History Department, Lawrence Stone (1919-99). The three-part lecture series is lead by the Lawrence Stone Visiting Professor.
The final lecture is followed by a reception.
Lawrence Stone Visiting Professor
The Lawrence Stone Visiting Professor for Spring 2025 is Judith Herrin, who will give a series of lectures called “Before ‘West’ and ‘East.’”
Judith Herrin
Judith Herrin is the author of The Formation of Christendom (just republished as a Princeton Classic); Ravenna, Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe; Byzantium, the surprising life of a medieval empire; and Women in Purple; as well as two collections of historical essays: Unrivalled Influence and Margins and Metropolis.
After a long career teaching Byzantine and medieval history, notably at Princeton University and King’s College London, Herrin retired to pursue research, which is currently centred on the city of Ravenna and its anonymous Cosmographer.
She is attached to the Wittgenstein Project Moving Byzantium, based at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, and maintains continuing membership of the Journal of Ecclesiastical History. the Advisory Publications Committee of the British School at Athens. Euro-Clio and the European Association of History Educators; Advisory Board of Symmeikta, Athens; Advisory Board of the Stavros Niarchos-Koç Center for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Koç University, Istanbul; Advisory Council of the Research Center for Byzantine Studies, Bogazici University, Istanbul. She was elected President of the Association Internationale des Etudes Byzantines, 2011-12, and is the Founding Editor of Translated Texts for Byzantinists, series published by Liverpool University Press.
