Monday, February 1: Sara Lipton.  "Isaac and Antichrist in the Archives: The Origins and Poetics of the Anti-Jewish Caricature," Thompson room, Barker Center, 4:15 p.m., reception to follow

Monday, February 22:  Nicholas Wey-Gomez.  "Antithetical Tropics: Paradise, Hell, and Imperial Geopolitics in Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo's Summary of the Natural History of the Indies (1526)."   Barker Center 133, 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, March 4:  Professor Finbarr Barry Flood, "All That Glitters: Image and Ornament in Early Islam," William B. Kenan Professor of the Humanities Institute of Fine Arts & Department of Art History, New York University 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. in Room 318 of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum

Wednesday, March 31:  Tom Glick, "The Transmission of Arabic Science in Latin and Hebrew in Medieval Spain,"  Barker 133, 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, April 1:  Amity Law, "Cultural Modeling and Identity in the Western Mediterranean," Postdoctoral Fellow in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, Harvard University 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. in Room 318 of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum

Monday, April 12: DO-MSC exchange.  Maria Evangelatou, "Weaving Christ's body: clothing, femininity and sexuality in the Marian imagery of Byzantium, " Barker 133, 4:15 p.m.

Wednesday, April 14:  Maria Evangelatou, "Female threads of salvation: the Mother of God, the veil of the Incarnation and the Sevastokratorissa Eirene in twelfth-century Constantinople,"  Sackler Museum, room 515, 5:00 p.m.

Monday, April 26:  Pernille Hermann.  Barker 133, 4:15 p.m.

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Monday, February 8, 2010 at 5:00 pm in Room 201 of the Semitic Museum, at 6 Divinity Avenue.

The Hebrew Bible and Judaism in Antiquity Workshops are excited and honored to present a lecture by Dr. Isaac Gottlieb, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Bible at Bar-Ilan University and a member of its Institute for Jewish Bible Interpretation.

"Order in the Bible: The Arrangement of the Torah in Rabbinic and Medieval Jewish Commentary."

Kosher refreshments will be served and the lecture is open to the public.

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Colloquium: “Renaissance Women: Female Authors, Patrons, and Readers in the
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century”
Date: Friday, February 12, 2010 , Barker 133, 2:00 to 6:00

Organizers: Virginie Greene and Tom Conley
Co-sponsored by: the Global French Seminar and the Renaissance Seminar (Humanities Center), RLL, the Committee on Medieval Studies, WGS, and the French Consulate through the Center for European Studies.
Contact person: Nicolas Tripet (tripet@fas.harvard.edu)

• Tracy Adams, University of Auckland, New Zeland: “The Queen and her Poet:  Isabeau of Bavaria and Christine de Pizan.”
• Julia Simms Holderness, Wellesley College; "Breaking the Glass Ceiling:  Transcendent Joy in Christine de Pizan".
• Andrea Tarnowski, Dartmouth College: “Reasoning in Red:  Rubrics to Persuade Queen Isabeau.”
• Mireille Huchon, Sorbonne; subject: “Forgeurs et Lecteurs de Louise Labé”
• Deborah Lesko Baker, Georgetown University: “Revisiting Labé's Sonnets with Petrarch and Scève”
• Anna Klossowka, Miami University (Ohio); “The poetic dialogue between Madeleine de L’Aubespine and Ronsard.”

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Wednesday, March 31, 2010:  Patrice Calvel, Architect in Chief, Historic Monuments in France. "Splendors and Highlights of Stained Glass at Chartres:  Restoration, Newest Techniques and Latest Discoveries."  Sackler Lecture Hall, 6:30 p.m.

Houghton Library

Books in Books: Reflections on Reading and Writing in the Middle Ages
5 April – 25 June 2010

The manuscripts in this small exhibition, which range in date from the early twelfth to the late fifteenth century, all contain images of books in the process of being made, presented, exchanged written or read. The images in their pages testify to the central place of the book in many, if not all, aspects of medieval life. Images of books in books not only document the various settings in which manuscripts were used or even how they were employed, they also testify to a self-conscious culture of the word in which books served as symbols of authority, access and authenticity. This exhibition is mounted in conjunction with the General Education Program’s course Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 16, “Openings: The Illuminated Manuscript” taught by Professor Jeffrey Hamburger of Harvard’s History of Art and Architecture Department.

Amy Lowell Room, Houghton Library

For details contact William Stoneman


Writing in Light: Gold as Medium in the Illuminated Manuscript

This series of lectures brings together two distinguished practicioners who will share their insights on how gold was used in medieval manuscripts. Patricia Lovett is a professional scribe, illuminator, artist and designer. She is an active member of the Calligraphy and Lettering Arts Society and she has taught and lectured at the British Library, the Fitzwilliam Museum(Cambridge) and the Dulwich Picture Gallery, among others. Nancy Turner is Conservator of Manuscripts, Department of Paper Conservation at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. She is a contributor to A Masterpiece Reconstructed: The Hours of Louis XII, edited by Thomas Kren and published in 2005.

Edison & Newman Room, Houghton Library

25 February 2010, 5:00 pm
Patricia Lovett
“Gold on Parchment: How Manuscripts were Made”

2 March 2010, 5:00 pm
Nancy Turner
“Illuminare: The Use and Embellishing of Gold and other Metallic Leaf and Inks in Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Painting”

May 8, 2010  Symposium:  Cultural Transfer in the Mediterranean (5th-9th Centuries)   Please register in advance with symposium organizer and Humanities Center postdoctoral fellow, Andreas Fischer:  afischer@fas.harvard.edu

Please refer to these links for the Medieval Seminar, GSAS Workshops, Houghton Library Workshop,  Harvard English Department Medieval Colloquium. and Humanities Center.