Medieval Studies @ Harvard

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...

Lori Bondioli (Department of History), The Case for a Medieval Islamic Commercial Revolution. Co-sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies.

Pamela Klasova (The University of Chicago), The Eloquent Tyrant: Speech and Empire in Umayyad Iraq under al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf al-Thaqafī, 694-714. Co-sponsored with the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Seminar and the Center for Middle Eastern...

Heba Mostafa (University of Toronto), High Stakes, Big Data: The Existential Entanglements of the Abbasid Nilometer in Cairo. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture and the Committee on Medieval Studies.

Dolan Wells Gallagher (Celtic Languages and Literatures), Buried in the Narrative: Women in the Early Irish Legal Imaginary. 

A lecture by Patrick Geary, Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Advanced Study; co-sponsored with the Harvard Catholic Forum, the Société des Bollandistes, and the Clough School of Theology at Boston College. Free and open to the public; to join the...