Filippa Modesto (Berkeley College and Brooklyn College), Dante and Friendship.

Chet van Duzer (Library of Congress), Bringing to Life the World Map of Henricus Martellus (c. 1491): Multispectral Imaging and Early Renaissance Cartography.

Ahmed Ragab (Harvard Divinity School), How to Be a Patient: Patienthood and Medical Thinking in the Medieval Islamicate World.

Martha Newman (University of Texas Austin), The Sacramental Imagination of Engelhard of Langheim: Cistercian Monks and Nuns Around the Year 1200.

Marcus Milwright (University of Victoria), Medium and Message: Decoding the Mosaic Message in 'Abd-al-Malik's Dome of the Rock.

Free lectures and workshop, as well as concerts highlighting the influence of Byzantine music on modern and contemporary music in the East and West. Sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the New York Life Center for the Study of Hellenism in Pontus and Asia Minor. For ticketing information and complete program, visit the festival website.

Jonathan Decter (Brandeis University), Jewish Thinking about Religion in the Medieval Mediterranean.

Sonja Drimmer (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Limners and the Making of Literature in Late Medieval England.

Charles Stang (Harvard Divinity School), Centers and Peripheries between the Eastern Mediterranean and the Silk Road.

Babette Hellemans (University of Groningen), Peter Abelard and Forms of Biotopy. Co-sponsored by the Boston University Interdisciplinary Program in Medieval Studies, and by the Departments of Classics, History, Philosophy, Religion, and Romance Studies.

A memorial conference honoring †Fredric Cheyette (Ph.D. '59), Professor of History emeritus at Amherst College. Presentations by Elizabeth A.R. Brown (CUNY), Geoffrey Koziol (University of California Berkeley), Paul Hyams (Cornell University), Stephen White (Emory University and Harvard University), and Bailey Young (Eastern Illinois University). For more information, visit the Amherst College History...

Roger Stalley (Trinity College Dublin), The Book of Kells: Art and History in Medieval Europe.

Lynn Staley (Colgate University), Exploring Secular Vocation from Ricardian to Tudor England: The Merchant. Free and open to the public.

Lynn Staley (Colgate University), Exploring Secular Vocation from Ricardian to Tudor England: The Poet. Free and open to the public.

Lynn Staley (Colgate University), Exploring Secular Vocation from Ricardian to Tudor England: The Queen. Free and open to the public.