The Sixth Annual Mathews Byzantine Lecture with Prof. Juan Signes Codoñer (Complutense University of Madrid), "Defining Iconoclasm"

Save the date for the sixth annual Mathews Byzantine Lecture with Prof. Juan Signes Codoñer of the Complutense University of Madrid. Prof. Signes Codoñer will be speaking on "Defining Iconoclasm." This lecture will be delivered as the opening keynote for the Fifty-Second Annual Byzantine Studies Conference of the Byzantine Studies Association of North America (BSANA).

About the Speaker

Juan Signes Codoñer is Professor of Greek at the Complutense University of Madrid and President of the Spanish Association of Byzantine Studies. He specializes in ancient and medieval Greek literature, Greek historiography, iconoclasm, Byzantine law, Greek grammatical tradition, classical tradition, and orality and writing in the Greek world. He holds a Ph.D. in Classical Greek from the University of Salamanca, and previously served as a Professor at the University of Valladolid where he was coordinator of the international Master of Classical Cultures program with a network of twelve European universities. At the Complutense University of Madrid, he is additionally coordinator of the Ph.D. program "Estudios del Mundo Antiguo."

About the Series

The Mathews Byzantine Lectures, begun in the 2021–22 academic year, bring a distinguished scholar of Byzantine studies to campus each year to deliver a talk, supported by the Rev. Constantine Mathews Endowment for Excellence in Byzantine Christianity in the Medieval Institute.