Off Campus

Svein Harald Gullbekk (University of Oslo), From Constantinople to the North: Harald Hardrada and the Making of Norway’s First Currency. This talk is offered in conjunction with Dr. Eurydice Georganteli’s seminar HAA 174, “The King’s Money: Power, Art...

Jonas Wellendorf (University of California Berkeley), The 'Æsar' at the Convent: Imagining Paganism in Late Medieval Iceland.

Juan Antonio Marcos (Universidad Pontificia Comillas), John of the Cross: Poetry Born of Mystical Experience. Response by Luis Girón Negrón (Harvard University). Co-sponsored by the Institute of Carmelite Studies and the Harvard Christian Alumni Society.

Sara McDougall (John Jay College, CUNY) discusses her new book Justice for Jehanne: The Tale of a Medieval Survivor (Princeton University Press, 2026) with Irit Kleiman (Boston University). For more information, click here.

Daniel L. Smail (Harvard University), Practices of Slavery in Mediterranean Europe, 1250-1500.

Gregory T. Doolan (The Catholic University of America), Aquinas’ Philosophy of the Angels . Free and open to the public.

A three-day interdisciplinary symposium organized by Irit Kleiman (Boston University), featuring presentations by Matthew Gabriele (Virginia Tech), Jennifer Jahner (CalTech), Jonathan Conant (Brown University), April Hughes (Boston University), James Hill...

In honor of the 1700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, two distinguished choirs devoted to their rich traditions of sacred music—the Holy Cross St. Romanos the Melodist Byzantine Choir, directed by Fr. Romanoss Karanos, and the St...

Alexandra Montero Peters (Northwestern University), Race, Chess, and Thirteenth-Century Court Culture in the Western Mediterranean. The art of the thirteeth-century Book of Games (Libro del axedrez, dados e tablas ) reveals visions of a diverse...

In this program, the renowned Boston Camerata explores age-old themes of justice and corruption as told through ancient minstrel songs, featuring satirical works from medieval France, Provence, and Germany that provide a sharply-etched and astonishingly...