Keynote Speaker

Dr. Naomi Pitamber

Naomi Pitamber is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Clark University, currently in residence at the Getty Research Institute as part of the scholar year devoted to “Art and Migration.”  Specializing in Byzantine and Crusader art, architecture, and material culture, Pitamber’s research on Laskarid art explores how the Byzantine past is reconstructed after the fall of Constantinople and how immigration contributed to it.