Jordan Pickett (University of Georgia), Recycled Cities: Sardis and the Fortifications of Early Byzantine Anatolia. Co-sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art & Culture and the Mashtots Chair for Armenian Studies at Harvard University. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click... Read more about East of Byzantium Lecture Series
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall 3008 (18 Everett Street)
Sylvia di Paolo (University of Roma III), How Ill-Gotten Gains Produced Public Good in Late Medieval Law. Sponsored by the IAP-UAM International Lectureship in Law, the Legal History Colloquium, and the Early Modern History Workshop. Read more about IAP Annual Lecture in Legal History
Guillem Gavaldà (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Visiting Fellow in Classics), The Manuscript Transmission of the Fortalitium Fidei. Co-sponsored by the Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop.
Pere Benito Monclús (University of Lleida): Beyond Climate: War, Crusade, and the Making of Famine in Mediterranean Europe, 11th-13th Centuries
Over the last two decades, the paleoscientific revolution has had a profound impact on the way we make history, generating new narratives that have challenged older historiographical paradigms. Studies on premodern food crises have been undergoing a similarly important renewal, spearheaded by specialists in the social and economic history of the Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds....
The Braun Room, Swartz Hall, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue
An intersectional, interdisciplinary conference drawing together religious studies, queer studies, the history of Christian social care, LGBTQ+ activism in the community, and ‘popular medievalisms’. Keynote lecture on 21 March, 5:00 pm, by Miles Pattenden (University of Oxford) and...
Mapping Past Societies (MAPS) replaces and expands the acclaimed Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations (DARMC), which attracted more than a million visits a year. MAPS is a free and public tool that enables users to peer into the human past with cutting-edge data analytics: this includes geospatial coverage of historical societies in Afro-Eurasia, North Africa and the overseas Spanish Colonial Latin America, with a rich selection of data in health, environmental, economic, and social themes.
This special event—chaired by Henry Gruber (University...
Rae Erin Dachille (University of Arizona), Regard the Seams and Sutures: Exegesis and Imagination in Fifteenth-Century Tibet. Co-sponsored by the Committee on the Study of Religion and the Lakshmi Mittal South Asian Institute. This will be a hybrid event; to participate via Zoom, please register... Read more about MHC Buddhist Studies Forum