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2017 Sep 11

Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location:
Barker Center 110 (the Thompson Room)
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
2017 Sep 21

MHC Medieval Studies Seminar: Collations

12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location:
Barker Center 133
Daniel Donoghue (English): Two Questions: Could Medieval Readers Shut Up? Did Ambrose Astonish Augustine? Please RSVP to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu). Read more about MHC Medieval Studies Seminar: Collations
2017 Sep 28

Center for Middle Eastern Studies

4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location:
CMES Room 102, 38 Kirkland Street
Alex Metcalfe (Lancaster University), Conquest and Conversion in Medieval Muslim Sicily.
2017 Sep 28

Mahindra Humanities Center Lecture

6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location:
Barker Center 110 (the Thompson Room), 12 Quincy Street
Jeffrey Hamburger (Harvard University), Mindmapping: Diagrams in the Middle Ages—and Beyond.
2017 Oct 02

Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location:
Barker Center 133
Adam Afterman (Tel Aviv University), The Rise of the ‘Holy Spirit’ in Thirteenth- to Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah. Professor Afterman's visit is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions, the Committee on Medieval Studies, the MHC Jewish Cultures and Societies Seminar, and the Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar
2017 Oct 07

New England Medieval Conference

(All day)
Location:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA
Charlemagne’s Ghost: Legacies, Leftovers, and Legends of the Carolingian Empire, the 44th annual New England Medieval Conference, with keynote address by Simon Maclean (University of St. Andrews). Paper proposals due by 1 June 2017. For more information, please visit the New England Medieval Consortium website. Co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lesley University, and the Harvard University Committee
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2017 Oct 20

Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe: A Roundtable

4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location:
CGIS South (1730 Cambridge Street), Room S354
A roundtable discussion marking the publication of Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe (Routledge, 2017), with presentations by Florin Curta (University of Florida), Inés Garcia de la Puente (Boston University), Donald Ostrowski (Harvard University), and Christian Raffensperger (Wittenberg University). Co-sponsored by the Early Slavic Studies Seminar of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Read more about Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe: A Roundtable
2017 Oct 26

The Invention of Byzantine Studies in Early Modern Europe

(All day)
Location:
Barker Center 110 (the Thompson Room), 12 Quincy Street
A two-day symposium exploring the process by which scholars came to see "Byzantium" as distinct from its Roman predecessor and medieval contemporaries, the scholarly practices and contemporary concerns that shaped how early modern scholars studied the "Byzantine" past, and how the historical context of Byzantium’s emergence continues to shape the discipline of Byzantine studies today.

Keynote address on Thursday, 26 October (5:00 pm) by Anthony Grafton (Princeton University), followed by a public reception. Sessions all day Friday, featuring presentations by Shane
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2017 Nov 02

Christian Africa/Medieval Africa, 300-1600 CE

Thu - Fri, Nov 2 to Nov 3, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Location:
CGIS South (1730 Cambridge Street) and the Barker Center (12 Quincy Street)
A two-day symposium exploring the long, rich, and complex history of Christian beliefs, institutions, and communities in Africa between Late Antiquity and the seventeenth century CE, bringing together an international group of researchers in medieval studies, African studies, Byzantine studies, archeology, book history, and the history of religion.

Keynote address on Thursday, 2 November (5:00 pm) in CGIS S020 by Stephen Davis, Professor of Religious Studies and History at Yale University and director of the Yale Monastic Archeology Project. Reception to follow. On Friday
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