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
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
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.
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...
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.