Carolyn Dinshaw (New York University), Green is the New Black: Medieval Foliate Heads, Racial Trauma, and Queer Worldmaking.

Hannah Weaver (Harvard University), The Hague Fragment: Problems and Possibilities.

A vocal and musical performance reviving the female voice as preserved in medieval Yiddish, Latin, and German texts and traditions. Co-sponsored by the Elson Family Arts Initiative, the Provostial Fund for the Humanities, the Center for Jewish Studies, and the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. Free and open to the public.

A two-day symposium. Keynote address by David Abulafia (Cambridge University) on Thursday, 6:00 pm, Sackler Auditorium, with panels at Sackler Auditorium on Friday morning and afternoon. Followed by a handling session on medieval coins at the Harvard Art Museums, and a closing reception and concert at First Church Cambridge featuring Natasha Roule, the Hellenic College Byzantine Choir, and Sephardic music ensemble...