Mikael Muehlbauer (American Council of Learned Societies), Staging Late Antiquity: An Eleventh-Century Revolution in Ethiopian Architecture; response by Jacopo Gnisci (University College London). Sponsored by the Yale Department of Classics and Yale Department of the History of Art. This lecture will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; click here to register. Read more about Yale Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture
Sivan Nir (Tel Aviv University and Starr Fellow), Exempla Patterned after the Talmud: The Tales of The Sages in Neo Classical Medieval Midrash. Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies and the Committee on Medieval Studies. This seminar will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click... Read more about Center for Jewish Studies Starr Seminar
Kathleen Coyne Kelly (Northeastern University), Anthophilia and the Medieval Ecologies of Grafting. Due to Harvard University Covid-19 restrictions, this in-person event is limited to those enrolled in Harvard's testing cadence.
Martín Hadis, Borges the Medievalist: Old English Poetry and Old Norse Myths in his Life and Works. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please contact Colloquium coordinator Ahmed Seif for access.
Ann Marie Yasin (University of Southern California), Architectural Restoration and the Sensory Experience of Time in Late Antiquity; response by Kimberly Bowes (University of Pennsylvania). Sponsored by the Yale Department of Classics and Yale Department of the History of Art. This lecture will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register. Read more about Yale Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture
Hollywood meets Medieval in this special lunchtime event sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, as Harvard students pitch their television treatments of medieval sex, love, and marriage to a celebrity panel of judges. Who will prevail? Come for lunch, stay to find out!
The pitches: Sacred Heart, prod. Jenna Garofolo (RLL), Kendall Jean '24, and Madison McCoy '25; Unholy Confessions, prod. Jordyn Duby '25, Jodie Kuo '25, and Jacquelyn Dunn (HDS); All or Nun, prod. Saskia Fisher '24, Mira Kingsbury-Lee '24, and Julia Ward '25
A virtual exploration of Sargent's visual masterpiece Hell through Dante's Commedia, organised in honor of Smith College Emeritus Professor Alfonso Procaccini and featuring presentations by Marco Piana (Smith College) and Danielle Carrabino (Smith College Museum of Art). Sponsored by the Smith College Department of Italian Studies and the Smith College Museum of Art. This event will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click... Read more about Consuming the Soul: Visions of Hell between Dante and Sargent