Medieval Studies @ Harvard

Upcoming Medieval Studies Committee Events

Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop

October 5, 2026
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6:00PM - 7:30PM EDT
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485 Broadway, room 422

Jordan Vanderpool (Romance Languages and Literatures), New Manuscript Evidence Related to Gonzalo de Berceo's Source for His Vida de Santa Oria.

MHC Medieval Studies Seminar: Collations

October 6, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT
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Barker Center 133 (the Plimpton Room)

Bárbara Arango Serrano (Universidad Computense de Madrid; Visiting Doctoral Fellow in Medieval Studies), “My Wound Precedes Me”: Mystical Bodies and Apophatic Hypertrophy. Co-sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies. Lunch will be served...

Bibendum/Gebeorscip

October 8, 2026
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5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT
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The Medieval Studies Library (Widener D, third floor)

Hwaet! Join us, graduate pursuers of knowledge medieval, for food and drink and mutual support. Proudly presented by the Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop and the English Medieval Colloquium.

Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

October 14, 2026
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5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT
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Barker Center 133 (the Plimpton Room)

Jack Tannous (Princeton University), The End of Prophecy and the Seal of the Prophets. Co-sponsored with the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Center for the Study of World Religions.

Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

October 15, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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CMES room 102, 38 Kirkland Street

Jack Tannous (Princeton University), From Syriac to Arabic: The Rise of Arabic as a Christian Language. Co-sponsored with the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Center for the Study of...

Medieval Studies-Art History joint lecture

October 19, 2026
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5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT
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485 Broadway, lower lecture hall

Krisztina Ilko (Stefan Engelhorn Curatorial Fellow in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard  Art Museums), Bringing Medieval Lordship into Play: The Symbolic and Material Values of Chess Sets as Votive Offerings, c. 900–1350. Co-sponsored by the Committee...

News

Digging for answers

A recent issue of the Harvard Gazette featured a profile of Anthropology graduate student Andrew Bair, discussing his research and the challenge it poses to long-established chronologies of rural settlement in medieval Ireland.

Andrew Bair photo

New issue of Sententiae now available!

Issue 9 (Fall 2025) of Harvard's undergraduate Medieval Studies journal Sententiae, featuring articles by Daniel Bethke (Tufts University), Conger Wang (University of Edinburgh), Kaitlyn Stanton (RISD), and Keaton Flynn (UCLA) now is available on the...

Cover image from 2025 issue of journal Sententiae