Sex, Love, and Marriage in the Middle Ages: The Final Cut!

Date: 

Thursday, December 6, 2018, 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Barker Center 110 (the Thompson Room), 12 Quincy Street

Hollywood meets Medieval in this special lunchtime event, as Harvard students pitch their television treatments of medieval sex, love, and marriage to a celebrity panel of judges! Who will prevail? Come for lunch, and stay to find out!

The pitches:

Brothers in Christ, prod. Isaac Grafstein '19, Samantha Hand '20, and Charlotte Ruhl '22

Letters to H[El]o[ise], prod. Noah Houghton '20, Charlotte Partow '19, and Tess Sussman '22

Mathilda Duae Vitae, prod. Hannah Feldman '19, Colin McGinn '21, and Diana Myers '21,

The judges:

Dr. Sarah Zeiser, award-winning screenwriter and special assistant to the Dean of Arts and Sciences; Dr. Cemal Kafadar, film critic and Professor of Turkish Studies; and Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis, manuscript specialist, blogger, and Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America.