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2018 Mar 20

Five College Annual Lecture in Late Antiquity

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Amherst College Frost Library
John Matthews (Yale University), The Foundation of Constantinople: Four Problems and Three Answers. Sponsored by Five Colleges, Inc., the Amherst College Religion Department, the University of Massachusetts Amherst History Department, the Mount Holyoke College Religion Department, the Smith College Classical Languages and Literature Department, and the Smith College History Department. Read more about Five College Annual Lecture in Late Antiquity
2018 Mar 22

Five College Medieval Studies Seminar

5:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

DuBois Library Special Collections Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Medieval Manuscripts at UMass Amherst, a workshop led by Sonja Drimmer (University of Massachusetts Amherst).
2018 Feb 15

Five College Medieval Studies Seminar

5:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Herter Hall 601, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Barbara Zimbalist (University of Texas El Paso), Talk to God and Write It Down: Visionary Translation in the Late Middle Ages.
2017 Nov 15

Boston College Lowell Humanities Series

7:00pm to 8:30pm

Location: 

Boston College, Gasson 100

Patience Agbabi, Telling Tales.

Patience Agbabi is a poet and performer, and Fellow in Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes University. Her most recent book, Telling Tales (2014), is a vivid retelling of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales for the 21st century. Her other poetry collections include R.A.W. (1995), Transformatrix (2000), and Bloodshot Monochrome (2008).

 

2017 Nov 16

Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Lecture

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Brandeis University, Lown Center 315, 415 South Street, Waltham
A workshop with Alfred Ivry (New York University), marking the publication of his book Maimonides Guide of the Perplexed: A Philosophical Guide (The University of Chicago Press, 2016). Sponsored by Brandeis University's Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry and the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies. .
2017 Nov 15

Five College Medieval Studies Seminar

7:00pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Smith College, TBA
Elly Truitt (Bryn Mawr College), Temporal Media: The Codex and the Clock in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
2017 Oct 23

Five College Medieval Studies Seminar

5:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

109 Hillier Hall, Brown Fine Arts Center, Smith College
Brigitte Buettner (Smith College), Rocky Relics and Sacred Impressions in the Holy Land.
2017 Apr 24

Cosmos and Creation in the Twelfth Century: An Interpretation of Genesis 1

5:30pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

Boston Museum of Science Planetarium

A collaborative digital performance integrating the images of creation from Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias with Hildegard's poetry and music performed by the Notre Dame Program in Sacred Music. Created by Margot Fassler (Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy, Notre Dame) and digital artist Christian Jara. Admission is free; to reserve a ticket, please click...

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2017 Mar 22

Five College Annual Lecture in Late Antiquity

5:30pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather Hall, Amherst College

Michael Maas (Rice University), After Attila: Rethinking Steppe Nomads in Roman Late Antiquity.

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). For more information, including program and registration information, please visit the New England Medieval Consortium website. Co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lesley University, and the Harvard University...

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