Isabelle Catteddu (Institut de recherches archéologiques préventives), Archaeology of early Medieval Rural Societies in Northwestern France (6th-12th c.): Settlements, Agriculture and Landscape. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Initiative for the Science of the Human Past.
Cord Whitaker (Wellesley College), Shimmering Philological Mirage: Chaucer's Miller's Tale and the Spiritual Side of Race. Co-sponsored by the Race and Ethnicity Colloquium.
The annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, featuring keynote addresses by Barbara Newman (Northwestern University), William Noel (University of Pennsylvania), and Robin Fleming (Boston College), with closing reception at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and Boston College, Boston University, Brandeis University, Lesley University, The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Wellesley College. For complete information and...