Past Events

  • 2017 Mar 23

    Houghton-Medieval Studies Workshop in Early Book History

    10:00am to 12:00pm

    Location: 

    Houghton Library Seminar Room (2nd floor)

    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,...

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  • 2017 Mar 22

    Workshop on Arabic and Islamic Studies

    5:45pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Semitic Museum 201

    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.

  • 2017 Mar 22

    Five College Annual Lecture in Late Antiquity

    5:30pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather Hall, Amherst College

    Michael Maas (Rice University), After Attila: Rethinking Steppe Nomads in Roman Late Antiquity.

  • 2017 Mar 20

    Boston College Dante Lecture Series

    7:30pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Devlin Hall 101, Boston Colllege main campus

    Matthew Collins (Harvard University), Readership In and Through Commedia Illustrations.

  • 2017 Mar 09

    Five College Medieval Studies Seminar

    5:00pm to 6:15pm

    Location: 

    Herter Hall 301, University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Michael Papio and Albert Lloret (University of Massachusetts Amherst), An Impossible Edition: Boccaccio’s De montibus.

  • 2017 Mar 06

    Workshop on Arabic and Islamic Studies

    5:45pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Semitic Museum 201

    Avigail Noy (NELC Ph.D. 2016), Reflections from the Other Side of the Dissertation.

    NB. This workshop is intended for graduate students only.

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