Past Events

  • 2017 Sep 12

    Medieval History Workshop

    4:15pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    Robinson Hall Basement Seminar Room
    Rodrigo Adem (History), Muslim Religious Authority in the Middle Ages: Between Social History and Discursive Analysis.
  • 2017 Sep 11

    Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

    5:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Barker Center 110 (the Thompson Room)
    Blurred Boundaries: Defining "The West" in Medieval Studies: a panel discussion exploring the variety and complexity of "western-ness" in medieval European, Middle Eastern, and Eurasian societies, and how notions of "west" and "east" were assumed, maintained, and transgressed across the medieval world. Chaired by Stephen Mitchell (Harvard University), with presentations by... Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar
  • 2017 May 20

    A New Light on Bernard Berenson: Persian Paintings from Villa I Tatti

    Sat May 20 (All day) to Sun Aug 13 (All day)

    Location: 

    University Research Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street
    An exhibition featuring illustrated Persian manuscripts and detached folios of the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries, collected by Harvard alumnus Bernard Berenson (1865–1959), the famous American art historian and connoisseur of Italian Renaissance painting. The show also includes additional related works from the Harvard Art Museums, the Morgan Library and Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, collected by close associates of Berenson who shared his enthusiasm for Persian painting. Curated by Aysin Yoltar-Yildirim, Assistant Curator for... Read more about A New Light on Bernard Berenson: Persian Paintings from Villa I Tatti
  • 2017 Apr 25

    Medieval History Workshop

    4:15pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    Robinson Lower Library

    Nicholas Paul (Fordham), The Lord's Tournament: Cultural Capital and the Crusading Frontier.

  • 2017 Apr 25

    Celtic Languages and Literature Lecture

    2:00pm to 3:30pm

    Location: 

    Kates Room, Warren House

    Georgia Henley (Celtic), Monastic Manuscript Networks of the Anglo-Welsh March: A Study in Literary Transmission, a talk in defense of the Ph.D dissertation.

  • 2017 Apr 24

    Boston College Dante Lecture Series

    7:30pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Devlin Hall 101, Boston Colllege main campus

    Giovanni Braico (New York University), Re-constructing Demonic Anatomies: The Demons of Chantilly, MS 597.

  • 2017 Apr 24

    Cosmos and Creation in the Twelfth Century: An Interpretation of Genesis 1

    5:30pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    Boston Museum of Science Planetarium

    A collaborative digital performance integrating the images of creation from Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias with Hildegard's poetry and music performed by the Notre Dame Program in Sacred Music. Created by Margot Fassler (Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy, Notre Dame) and digital artist Christian Jara. Admission is free; to reserve a ticket, please click...

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  • 2017 Apr 24

    Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop

    5:00pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    Kates Room, Warren House

    Alex Mueller (Visiting Scholar), Waking the Wordsmith: Alliterative Verse and Letter Writing in Late Medieval Oxford.

  • 2017 Apr 21

    38th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum

    (All day)

    Location: 

    Keene State College, Keene NH

    Culture and Violence, the 38th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum, featuring keynote address by Richard Kaeuper (University of Rochester). For more information, please visit the conference website.

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