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.
Shane Bobrycki (Program in Economics, History, and Politics), Plus quam civile bellum in Isidore of Seville. Please RSVP by Thursday, 23 March to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).
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.
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...
The Spring 2017 seating of the Medieval Studies secondary field Latin exam. Use of one dictionary is allowed. To register for the exam, please contact Sean Gilsdorf. For more information, including sample exam texts, please visit the "Graduate Program" page of the Medieval Studies website.
Julian Weiss (King's College London), Creating Vernacular 'Literature' in Renaissance Spain and Portugal. A workshop exploring how paratexts (prologues, glosses, commentaries) and the layout of manuscripts and early printed books helped to construct ideas of authorship and canonicity, and to create the conditions for the emergence of the idea of a national 'literature' before the term 'literature' itself was coined. Space in the workshop is limited; to reserve a place, please email Monique Duhaime (duhaime@fas.harvard.edu) with "afternoon workshop registration" in the subject line...
Julian Weiss (King's College London), Creating Vernacular 'Literature' in Renaissance Spain and Portugal. A workshop exploring how paratexts (prologues, glosses, commentaries) and the layout of manuscripts and early printed books helped to construct ideas of authorship and canonicity, and to create the conditions for the emergence of the idea of a national 'literature' before the term 'literature' itself was coined. Space in the workshop is limited; to reserve a place, please email Monique Duhaime (duhaime@fas.harvard.edu) with "morning workshop registration" in the subject line,...
Arafat Razzaque (CMES/History), An Early Islamic Social Critique? Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb’s Speech on the Fitna of Scholars and its Plagiarized Imitation as a Ḥadīth.
NB. This workshop is intended for graduate students only.