Robert Branner (1927-1973) was an art historian specializing in Gothic architecture and manuscript illumination. Active as an excavator, he made important discoveries in the chronology and style of French cathedrals, incorporating cultural historical tools into the method of design analysis that had more traditionally dominated architectural history.
Branner is remembered through the Robert Branner Forum, a student-run symposium sponsoring lectures several times a year that are open to the public. The Forum originated as a series of visiting lectures organized by Branner's graduate students immediately after his death during the academic year as a way of continuing his courses. To honor Robert Branner’s legacy, the forum continues to invite scholars of medieval art and architecture to Columbia’s campus and serves to connect the medievalist community within and beyond the University.
Branner Forum: Arnaud Timbert, "Mater Cathedra - Mater Ecclesia: Imitation Formelle et Signification Politique dans l'Architecture du XIIe Siecle'
Branner Forum: Arnaud Timbert, "Mater Cathedra - Mater Ecclesia: Imitation Formelle et Signification Politique dans l'Architecture du XIIe Siecle'
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Sheila Bonde and Clark Maines, "What's the Plan? New Work at Cistercian Ourscamp"
Branner Forum: Sheila Bonde and Clark Maines, "What's the Plan? New Work at Cistercian Ourscamp"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Kirk Ambrose, "Viollet-le-Duc's Interpolation of Judith at Vézelay: Fashioning History through Sculptural Restoration"
Branner Forum: Kirk Ambrose, "Viollet-le-Duc's Interpolation of Judith at Vézelay: Fashioning History through Sculptural Restoration"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Juergen Schulz, "Communal Palaces of Northern Italy"
Branner Forum: Juergen Schulz, "Communal Palaces of Northern Italy"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: William W. Clark and Thomas G. Waldman, "Rereading Abbot Suger on Saint-Denis"
Branner Forum: William W. Clark and Thomas G. Waldman, "Rereading Abbot Suger on Saint-Denis"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Patrick Ponsot, "La Cathedrale de Bourges en 1313, 1842 et 2010 que « restaurer » veut dires?"
Branner Forum: Patrick Ponsot, "La Cathedrale de Bourges en 1313, 1842 et 2010 que « restaurer » veut dires?"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Robert Ousterhout, "Visualizing the Tomb of Christ: Images, Settings, and Modes of Seeing"
Branner Forum: Robert Ousterhout, "Visualizing the Tomb of Christ: Images, Settings, and Modes of Seeing"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Peter Low, "'The Rock of the Church Is Standing on a Rock': Paulinus of Nola's Letter 32 and the Materializing of Scriptural Metaphor in Medieval Art"
Branner Forum: Peter Low, "'The Rock of the Church Is Standing on a Rock': Paulinus of Nola's Letter 32 and the Materializing of Scriptural Metaphor in Medieval Art"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Arnaud Timbert and Stephanie Diane Daussy, "Les portails sculptés de la cathédrale de Noyon et la sculpture du 13e siècle"
Branner Forum: Arnaud Timbert and Stephanie Diane Daussy, "Les portails sculptés de la cathédrale de Noyon et la sculpture du 13e siècle"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Martha Easton, "Visual Pleasure and Patron Saints: Dress and Undress in the 'Belles Heures' of Jean, Duke of Berry"
Branner Forum: Martha Easton, "Visual Pleasure and Patron Saints: Dress and Undress in the 'Belles Heures' of Jean, Duke of Berry"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Marvin Trachtenberg, "Building-in-Time: Thinking and Making Architecture in the Premodern Era"
Branner Forum: Marvin Trachtenberg, "Building-in-Time: Thinking and Making Architecture in the Premodern Era"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: James Addiss, "The Role of the Village Churches in Romanesque Architecture: Type, Invention, and the Integrated Interior"
Branner Forum: James Addiss, "The Role of the Village Churches in Romanesque Architecture: Type, Invention, and the Integrated Interior"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Donna Sadler, "The Craft of Royal Virtue on the Reverse Facade of Reims Cathedral"
Branner Forum: Donna Sadler, "The Craft of Royal Virtue on the Reverse Facade of Reims Cathedral"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Meredith Cohen, "'Nothing Compares to Paris': A Reassessment of the Rayonnant Capital"
Branner Forum: Meredith Cohen, "'Nothing Compares to Paris': A Reassessment of the Rayonnant Capital"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Asa Mittman, "'of great size and ferocious appearance...': Medieval Monsters and Modern Monster Studies"
Branner Forum: Asa Mittman, "'of great size and ferocious appearance...': Medieval Monsters and Modern Monster Studies"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Emily Guerry, "Louis IX, Robert Branner, and the Wall Paintings of the Sainte-Chapelle"
Branner Forum: Emily Guerry, "Louis IX, Robert Branner, and the Wall Paintings of the Sainte-Chapelle"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Conrad Rudolph, "'In Its Extraordinary Arrangement': Hugh of Saint Victor, the History of Salvation, and the World Map of The Mystic Ark"
Branner Forum: Conrad Rudolph, "'In Its Extraordinary Arrangement': Hugh of Saint Victor, the History of Salvation, and the World Map of The Mystic Ark"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Sasha Suda, "Marvels in Making: 16th-century Boxwood Carving"
Branner Forum: Sasha Suda, "Marvels in Making: 16th-century Boxwood Carving"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Caroline Bynum, "Crowned with Many Crowns: Nuns and Their Statues in Late Medieval Germany"
Branner Forum: Caroline Bynum, "Crowned with Many Crowns: Nuns and Their Statues in Late Medieval Germany"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Dale Kinney, "Architecture as Image: a Case Study, S. Maria in Trastevere"
Branner Forum: Dale Kinney, "Architecture as Image: a Case Study, S. Maria in Trastevere"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Robert Maxwell, "Prolegomena on Artistic Forgery in the Middle Ages”
Branner Forum: Robert Maxwell, "Prolegomena on Artistic Forgery in the Middle Ages”
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Terryl Kinder, "Praxis at Pontigny: 900 years and counting"
Branner Forum: Terryl Kinder, "Praxis at Pontigny: 900 years and counting"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Ittai Weinryb, "Bronze and Conversion"
Branner Forum: Ittai Weinryb, "Bronze and Conversion"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Sonja Drimmer, "A City Full of Walls You Can Post Complaints at"
Branner Forum: Sonja Drimmer, "A City Full of Walls You Can Post Complaints at"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Benjamin Anderson, "Monument and Narrative in Medieval Constantinople"
Branner Forum: Benjamin Anderson, "Monument and Narrative in Medieval Constantinople"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Bettman Forum: Elina Gertsman, "The Matter of Nothing"
Bettman Forum: Elina Gertsman, "The Matter of Nothing"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Adam Cohen, "Shaping Medieval Art for the Twenty-First Century"
Branner Forum: Adam Cohen, "Shaping Medieval Art for the Twenty-First Century"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Bissera Pentcheva, "Hagia Sophia: A Space In-between Heaven and Earth"
Branner Forum: Bissera Pentcheva, "Hagia Sophia: A Space In-between Heaven and Earth"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: David Frankfurter, "The Magic of Craft: Workshops and the Materialization of Christianity in Late Antique Egypt"
Branner Forum: David Frankfurter, "The Magic of Craft: Workshops and the Materialization of Christianity in Late Antique Egypt"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Eliza Garrison, "Motion and Time in the Egbert Psalter"
Branner Forum: Eliza Garrison, "Motion and Time in the Egbert Psalter"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Jill Caskey, "(Re)Birth of a Seal: Power and Pretense at San Nicola, Bari"
Branner Forum: Jill Caskey, "(Re)Birth of a Seal: Power and Pretense at San Nicola, Bari"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Jennifer Feltman, "When is Gothic Sculpture? Reims Cathedral as a Living Monument”
Branner Forum: Jennifer Feltman, "When is Gothic Sculpture? Reims Cathedral as a Living Monument”
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Helen Evans, “Armenia!”
Branner Forum: Helen Evans, “Armenia!”
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Nina Rowe
Branner Forum: Cecily Hilsdale
Branner Forum: Cecily Hilsdale
Schermerhorn 612
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Jerrilynn Dodds, “The Virgin as Colonial Agent: Fashioning the Subaltern in the Cantigas de Santa Maria"
Branner Forum: Jerrilynn Dodds, “The Virgin as Colonial Agent: Fashioning the Subaltern in the Cantigas de Santa Maria"
Schermerhorn 807
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Christina Maranci, "They Have Been Watching You All This Time: Newly Discovered Wall Paintings in Ani"
Branner Forum: Christina Maranci, "They Have Been Watching You All This Time: Newly Discovered Wall Paintings in Ani"
Schermerhorn 612
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Paul Binski, “Mood and Magniloquentia: The Emotional Lives of Gothic"
Branner Forum: Paul Binski, “Mood and Magniloquentia: The Emotional Lives of Gothic"
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Roland Betancourt, "Queer Desire and the Senses in Byzantium"
Branner Forum: Roland Betancourt, "Queer Desire and the Senses in Byzantium"
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Isabelle Dolezalek, "Showing Stolen Relics - Booty from the Fourth Crusade in Halberstadt"
Branner Forum: Isabelle Dolezalek, "Showing Stolen Relics - Booty from the Fourth Crusade in Halberstadt"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Michele Bacci, "Orographic Prominence and Iconicity: Zion, Sinai, Tabor, and Their Doubles in Eastern Christian Arts"
Branner Forum: Michele Bacci, "Orographic Prominence and Iconicity: Zion, Sinai, Tabor, and Their Doubles in Eastern Christian Arts"
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Jennifer Ball and Thelma Thomas, “Collaborative Research on Byzantine Silk: Two Case-Studies from Aachen”
Branner Forum: Jennifer Ball and Thelma Thomas, “Collaborative Research on Byzantine Silk: Two Case-Studies from Aachen”
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Elizabeth James, "Good, better, best: what’s quality when it comes to mosaics?"
Branner Forum: Elizabeth James, "Good, better, best: what’s quality when it comes to mosaics?"
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Emanuele Lugli, "Dragon Breath: On Paolo Uccello’s Saint George in London’s National Gallery"
Branner Forum: Emanuele Lugli, "Dragon Breath: On Paolo Uccello’s Saint George in London’s National Gallery"
Webinar
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.POSTPONED: Branner Forum: Antony Eastmond, "The image is not god."
POSTPONED: Branner Forum: Antony Eastmond, "The image is not god."
Webinar
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.POSTPONED: Branner Forum: Beate Fricke, "Silk in Stone. Mediums of Labor, Craft, and Art"
POSTPONED: Branner Forum: Beate Fricke, "Silk in Stone. Mediums of Labor, Craft, and Art"
Webinar
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Beate Fricke, "Silk in Stone. Mediums of Labor, Craft, and Art."
Branner Forum: Beate Fricke, "Silk in Stone. Mediums of Labor, Craft, and Art."
Live Webinar
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Eric Ramírez-Weaver, 'Teasing apart Terzysko’s Tools: Assessing Astronomy and Astrology in Late Medieval Prague'
Branner Forum: Eric Ramírez-Weaver, 'Teasing apart Terzysko’s Tools: Assessing Astronomy and Astrology in Late Medieval Prague'
807 Schermerhorn Hall
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Achim Timmermann, 'navicule ac de caracis…: A Brief History of Medieval Ex-Voto Ships'
Branner Forum: Achim Timmermann, 'navicule ac de caracis…: A Brief History of Medieval Ex-Voto Ships'
Zoom
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Beatrice Kitzinger (Princeton University), 'Regarding Cassiodorus'
Branner Forum: Beatrice Kitzinger (Princeton University), 'Regarding Cassiodorus'
612 Schermerhorn Hall
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Katherine Boivin (Associate Professor, Bard College), "Bridge Encounters"
Branner Forum: Katherine Boivin (Associate Professor, Bard College), "Bridge Encounters"
612 Schermerhorn Hall
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Branner Forum: Julia Perratore
Branner Forum: Julia Perratore
807 Schermerhorn Hall
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.(Virtual) Branner Forum | Prof. Dr. Rebecca Müller, Heidelberg University, "Beyond Deception: Materials and Meanings of Early Medieval Glass Gems"
(Virtual) Branner Forum | Prof. Dr. Rebecca Müller, Heidelberg University, "Beyond Deception: Materials and Meanings of Early Medieval Glass Gems"
Zoom (registration required)
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.