Georgia Henley (St. Anselm College), Visions and Revisions of the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval Wales. Read more about Celtic Languages and Literatures Lecture

Members of the Harvard Medieval Studies Community (and friends!) are warmly invited to celebrate the opening of the academic year, and to commemorate the accomplishments (scholastic and personal) of this community in the past three years. Join us in Barker Center 110 (Thompson Room) and the Barker Center Tent on Monday September 12 at 5:30 PM for a reception and celebration. Food and drink will be served! A welcome and brief presentations on recent research will take place from 5:45-6:15. Please RSVP to Lydia Shahan (lydiashahan@g.harvard.edu)

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

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