PAPERS PRESENTED AT SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS AND ABSTRACTS SINCE 1986

1986 CIHA XXVI International Congress of Art History, Washington D.C.
Self Representations of Romanesque Sculptures.

1989 Organizer of two sessions: Manifestations of Lay and Popular Culture in Romanesque Art.
[23^rd International Congress of Medieval Art, Western Michigan University].
Paper: The Struggle and Triumph of Church and Burghers in the Romanesque Sculpture of Le-Puy Cathedral.

1990 Contexts and Codes of Gothic Marginal Sculpture.
[24^th International Congress on Medieval Art, Western Michigan University].

1990 Emotional Woman in Marginal Romanesque Sculpture.
78^th Annual Conference of the College Art Association New York, N.Y.

1991 The Persistent Image of Marginal Women in Medieval Sculpture in France.
Matrons and Marginal Women. Penn State University, Medieval Institute, annual conference.

1991 Popular Culture in Ecclesiastical Art. The Israeli Historical Society.

1992 The ''Cry'' and the Image of Women in Early Medieval Art. Tel Aviv.

1993 The Portal of St. John in Sens Cathedral. In 118^e Congrès de Societés Historiques et Scientifiques. Pau, France.

1994 Organizer of two sessions: Center and Periphery in Medieval Art. Chair
(Participation of 5 Ph.D. candidates, Tel Aviv University).
[29^th International Congress on Medieval Art, Western Michigan University].

1995 The Return of the Crusader, between Official and Popular culture.
[International Congress of Medieval Studies. Leeds. Leeds University, Center for Medieval Studies].

1995 The Relationship between the Cathedral of Sens and Sebaste.
The 83 annual conference College Art Association, San Antonio, U.S.A.

1995 The Miserables in the Cathedral: Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris.
In International Conference ''The Painted Word,'' Groningen University, The Netherlands.

1996 Sculpture High Up: The Forgotten Meanings of Memorial Sculpture.
In: Memory and Oblivion: XXIX International Congress of Art History, Amsterdam.

1998 Congresso internationale di studi storico artistici, Ariano Irpino (Italy) 17-18 September 1998.
Paper : The crusades and the Holy land : Issues of artistic activity.

1999 The metamorphosis of marginal images : From antiquity to present time.
Tel Aviv Uni. Kipp and Bloch chairs. January 1999.

2001 Ravenna- Le copie dei mosaici medievali di San Giovanni Evangelista. April 2001.

2002 International conference on design history and design studies. Istanbul 9-12 July 2002.
Paper : Center and Periphery - 3 generations of Armenian ceramics.

2002 Culture Politique des Plantagenets (1154-1224). Colloques mai 2-5 2002.
Lecture : Eleonor of Aquitaine as patron of the arts. Poitiers , France.

2003 Colloque internationale a la conference de moyen agein honor of the 50 years of the center. Poitiers, September 1-4.
Lecture : The murals in Chinon.

2004 International conference : Society for the study of the crusades and the Latin east.
"1204 and its historical memory".
Session : Commemorating the Crusade and artistic Patronage. Istanbul, Bogazici University, August 25-30 September.

2004 Jerusalem and the Armenians, International conference, UCLA, Los Angeles November, 5-7.
Paper: Three generations of Armenian ceramics artists in Jerusalem, since 1919.