Roland Betancourt is professor of art history and Chancellor's Fellow at the University of California at Irvine. Betancourt’s research focuses on the visual culture of the Byzantine Empire. He is the author of Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium (2018) and Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages (2020) and Performing the Gospels in Byzantium: Sight, Sound, and Space in the Divine Liturgy (2021).

Betancourt's lecture, "The Ethiopian Eunuch: Gender and Racialization in Byzantium,” will present research from his recent book, Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages (Princeton University Press, 2020).

The talk is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Register here.

The Jackson Lecture is generously supported by Lynn Jackson.

Image: Ethiopian Eunuch and Philip in the Menalogion of Basil II, ca. 1000 CE (Vatican Library, Vat.gr.1613, fol. 107). ©Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, http://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.1613/0129