Part two of a three-part lecture series. This series is co-sponsored by the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies and Princeton University Press.

The “Before 'West' and 'East'” lectures are as follows:

• Tuesday, April 29: Part One
• Wednesday, April 30: Part Two
• Thursday, May 1: Part Three

Judith Herrin

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.