Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South lower level (also via Zoom webinar)
A roundtable discussion on an ongoing pioneering international investigation of anomalous burials in early medieval Gaul, and the evidence they provide about the so-called "Justinianic Plague". Featuring presentations by Philippe Blanchard (INRAP), Isabelle Catteddu (INRAP Grand Ouest), Valérie Delattre (Université de Bourgogne), Michael McCormick (Harvard University), Claude Raynaud (CNRS), Solenn Troadec (Harvard University), and Marie-Cécile Truc (Université de Caen). Sponsored by the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM) and the... Read more about (Bio)archaeological Approaches to Disease and Death in Early Medieval France
Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South lower level (also via Zoom webinar)
Post-Pandemic Update: What has the Science of the Human Past Discovered Lately? Introduced by Michael McCormick, with presentations by Christina Warriner, Jason Ur, Michael Isakov, Daniel Lord Smail, Gabriel Pizzorno, Solenn Troadec, Alexander More, David Reich, and Margaret Andrews. Reception to follow. Sponsored by the Harvard Initiative for the Science of the Human Past and the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean. Note that this is a hybrid event; those wishing to attend virtually can register... Read more about Harvard Initiative for the Science of the Human Past
Solenn Troadec (Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Initiative for the Science of the Human Past), The Archaeology of Death: Burial Places, Graves, and Bodies. Note that this talk is a hybrid event; to attend virtually, please contact workshop organizers Sama Mammadova or Reed Morgan.
James Simpson (Harvard University) and Leah Whittington (Harvard University), The Dark Age (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries): A Debate. Co-sponsored by the English Department Medieval Colloquium and Renaissance Colloquium.
The Spring seating of the Medieval Studies graduate Latin translation exam; successful completion of this exam satisfies the language proficiency requirement of the graduate secondary field in Medieval...
A book talk on Ibn Hamdis the Sicilian: Eulogist for a Falling Homeland by author William E. Granara, Professor of the Practice of Arabic on the Gordon Gray Endowment, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Co-sponsored by the Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the Committee for... Read more about A Medieval Life in Modern Circumstances
A two-day workshop on digital editing for Medieval Studies with Dr. Sarah Lang (University of Graz), sponsored by the Medieval Graduate Interdisciplinary Workshop and the Committee on Medieval Studies.