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  • 2017 Mar 30

    Medieval Metal: Process and Practices

    2:00pm to 4:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums Art Study Center and Materials Lab, 32 Quincy Street

    A workshop on the techniques and technology of medieval metalworking, led by Francesca Bewer (Research Curator for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard Art Museums), Ittai Weinryb (Assistant Professor of Art History, Bard Graduate Center), and Katherine Eremin (Patricia Cornwell Senior Conservation Scientist, Harvard Art Museums). This workshop is part of the 2017 Harvard Medieval Material Cultures program Breaking the Mold: Metal as Material, Medium and Message in the Middle Ages. Space in the workshop is limited; to reserve a place, please email...

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  • 2017 Mar 30

    Medieval Metal: Method and Meanings

    10:00am to 12:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums Art Study Center, 32 Quincy Street

    A workshop introducing participants to the diverse forms, uses, and meanings of medieval metalwork, led by Ittai Weinryb (Assistant Professor of Art History, Bard Graduate Center) and Francesca Bewer (Research Curator for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard Art Museums). This workshop is part of the 2017 Harvard Medieval Material Cultures program Breaking the Mold: Metal as Material, Medium and Message in the Middle Ages. Space in the workshop is limited; to reserve a place, please email medieval@fas.harvard.edu with "morning workshop" in the...

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  • 2017 Mar 28

    Harvard Medieval Material Culture Lecture

    6:00pm to 7:15pm

    Location: 

    Barker Center 110 (the Thompson Room)

    Ittai Weinryb (Bard Graduate Center), Casting Monuments: Bronze, Ecology, and Colonialism. This lecture is part of the 2017 Harvard Medieval Material Culture Lecture and Workshop program Breaking the Mold: Metal as Material, Medium and Message in the Middle Ages.

  • 2017 Mar 28

    Medieval History Workshop

    4:15pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    Robinson Lower Library

    Ra'anan Boustan and Karen Brit, Greek Kings and Judaean Priests in the Late Antique Synagogue: The Newly Discovered 'Elephant Mosaic' at Huqoq (Israel)

  • 2017 Mar 27

    MHC Medieval Studies Seminar

    5:00pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    Barker Center 133

    Lisa Fagin Davis (Medieval Academy of America), Broken Books: Digital Methods for Reconstructing Dismembered Manuscripts. Co-sponsored by the MHC History of the Book Seminar.

  • 2017 Mar 27

    Harvard Islamic Legal Studies Program Lecture

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Law School, WCC 4059

    Maribel Fierro (Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Madrid; Senior Research Fellow, ILSP: SHARIAsource), The Trial of a Heretic: (Muslim Toledo, 11th-Century) Judicial Procedure and Political Context. Co-sponsored with the ILSP and the Department of History.

  • 2017 Mar 24

    (Dis)Entangling Global Early Modernities, 1300-1800

    (All day)

    Location: 

    Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South (1730 Cambridge Street)

    A one-day symposium exploring how distinct global “early modernities” emerged across time, space, and place in the period from 1300-1800, and re-contextualizing the contingent rise of Western Europe among other hegemonic areas in the eighteenth century. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Asia Center, Colloquium for Intellectual History, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Center for African Studies, History Department, Early Modern History Workshop, Center for History and Economics, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the Mellon Rare Book School. A complete program may be found...

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