Adam Trettel (Harvard University), Flowers in Venantius Fortunatus: The Continuity of Nature in Late Antiquity.

Scent and Fragrance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the 41st meeting of the Medieval and Renaissance Forum, featuring a keynote address by Deirdre Larkin, former Managing Horticulturist at The Cloisters Museum and Gardens. Paper and session submission deadline is 15 January 2019; please direct abstracts and contact information to Dr. Robert G. Sullivan, Assistant Forum Director.

"When I See Winter Returning," an afternoon of music with Susan Matsui. Medieval songs and dance tunes on the return of winter, featuring a soprano, a tenor, and four instrumentalists, followed by the musical skit Tha Thrie Smale Swyne.

Nasser Rabbat (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Veni, vidi, mutatio: The Multicultural Roots of Islamic Architecture. Sponsored by the Lowell Institute. This event is free, but tickets are required; for reservations, please visit the MFA website... Read more about MFA Lecture Series

Adam Franklin Lyons (Marlboro College), 'Demand and Distribution of Timely Information: News in the Fourteenth Century’—Projects from the Travelers Lab (http://travelerslab.research.wesleyan.edu). Read more about Five College Medieval Studies Seminar

Rethinking the Body: Humanity and its Discontents in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, the 2019 meeting of the New England Medieval Consortium. A day-long conference addressing how the human body (broadly conceived) was imagined, depicted, and treated in life and death in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, featuring a keynote address by Jacqueline Jung (Yale University). To register, please visit the conference website... Read more about New England Medieval Conference

Kathy Lavezzo (University of Iowa), The Wandering Woman in the Jewish Boy: Gender, Antisemitism, and the English City.

Valerio Cappozzo (University of Mississippi), The Medieval Dream Dictionary: Collecting Symbols from the Ninth Century to 1550.

A day-long symposium examining the extent to which Irish Gaels participated in European cultural trends during the first millennium or so of Irish history. Sponsored by the Flatley Lecture Series in Irish Studies, Boston College.

Aaron Pratt (Carl & Lily...

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Matthew Collins (University of Copenhagen and Cambridge University), Environmental History: A Molecular Take.

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A two-day conference featuring art historians and curators, archaeologists, and historians of political institutions, economics, and the slave trade to explore how Africans played active roles in shaping global histories c. 1300-1700 and creating transnational spaces, ones that continue to inform the circulation of people, goods, and ideas today. For more information, please click... Read more about Crossroads Africa: African Engagement in the Making of Early Modernity

Michael McCormick (Harvard University), From the Fall of Rome to Byzantium: New Light from DNA, Ice Cores, and Harvard’s Science of the Human Past. Read more about Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Studies Lecture

Marina Rustow (Princeton University), Lost Archives, Sacrosanct Wastebins, and the Jewish Communities of the Medieval World. Sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies. Read more about 2019 Jacobs Lecture

Karen King (Harvard University), Ascent to God: The Gospel of Mary Reads The Gospel of John.