Slobodan Ćurčić has finished writing the text of his book Architecture in the Balkans from Diocletian to Süleyman the Magnificent (ca. 300-ca. 1550). The book will be published by Yale University Press (London). He is working on a number of other projects, among them, the organization of the exhibition “Architecture as Icon: Perception and Representation of Architecture in Byzantine Art”. The exhibition is co-sponsored by Princeton University and the European Center for Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments, in Thessaloniki, Greece. The show will open in Fall 2009 in Thessaloniki and in Spring 2010 in Princeton. A catalogue, specifically prepared for this occasion, will accompany the exhibition. At Princeton, Ćurčić organized (with Shari Kenfield) an exhibition of photographs, entitled “The Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai”, based on archival material of the late Princeton Professor Kurt Weitzmann. The exhibition, opened in May 2006, was planned to coincide with a seminar on the Monastery of Saint Catherine, taught by Professor Ćurčić during the Spring semester of 2006. An online version of the exhibition is available here: http://web.princeton.edu/sites/Archaeology/rp/sinaiexhibit/. In 2004, Ćurčić was elected Honorary Member of the Christian Archaeological Society in Athens. In 2005, he was appointed by Koïchiro Matsuura, the Director-General of UNESCO, to an international Experts Committee on the Rehabilitation and Safeguarding of Cultural Heritage in Kosovo. Ćurčić lectured widely during 2004-06, giving lectures and seminars in Moscow (twice), Thessaloniki, Frieburg (Switzerland), Athens, GA, and Philadelphia, PA. He also presented two papers at the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies, in London in August 2006. Awarded a Research Grant from the A.S. Onassis Foundation, he spent the month of February 2007 in Athens, Greece, where he gave two public lectures. In April-May 2007 he presented papers in Palermo and at Harvard. In 2006 he was appointed the Director of the Program in Hellenic Studies at Princeton.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS: “Some Reflections on the Flying Buttresses of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul,” Sanat Tarihi Defterleri 8 (Istanbul, 2004), 7-22; “A Lost Byzantine Monastery at Palatitzia-Vergina,” Mnemeio kai perivallon / Monument and Environment 8 (2004), 13-30; “Unobserved Contributions of Hilandar to the Development of Serbian Medieval Architecture” (in Serbian with English sum.) The Holy Mountain – Thoughts and Studies 4 (2005), 18-37; “‘Renewed from the very Foundations’: The Question of Genesis of the Bogorodica Ljeviska in Prizren,” Archaeology in Architecture: Studies in Honor of Cecil L. Striker (Mainz, 2005), pp. 23-35; “Cave and Church. An Eastern Christian Hierotopical Synthesis,” Hierotopy. The Creation of Sacred Spaces in Byzantium and Medieval Russia, ed. A. Lidov (Moscow 2006), pp. 216-36; “Monastic Cells in Medieval Serbian Church Towers. Survival of an Early Byzantine Monastic Concept and Its Meaning,” Sofia. Sbornik statei po iskusstvu Vizantii i Drevnei Rusi v chest A.I. Komecha (Moscow, 2006), pp. 491-512.