Joseph Kopta (PhD Candidate) will speak at the workshop "Shades of Purple: Purple Ornament in Medieval Manuscripts" at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, on November 11, 2021. He will present a paper, "Purple Aesthetics in Middle Byzantine Manuscripts," stemming from his research on pigments for his dissertation on Greek-language Gospel Lectionaries.

The workshop is organized by the SNF-Projekt Textures of Sacred Scripture in the Institute of Art History at the University of Zurich, and features two days of international papers by art historians and conservation scientists of the medieval world.