Francesco M. Galassi (University of Zurich), Giovanni Boccaccio’s Demise: A Philologico-Clinical Investigation.

A two-day symposium featuring presentations by medievalist graduate students from Harvard and Yale Universities. Co-sponsored by Yale's Beinecke Library. A complete program can be found here.

Michael Papio and Albert Lloret (University of Massachusetts Amherst), An Impossible Edition: Boccaccio’s De montibus.

Daniel Birkholz (University of Texas Austin), Roads Taken: Literary Geography and the Impossibility of Medieval Biography.

Culture and Violence, the 38th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum, featuring keynote address by Richard Kaeuper (University of Rochester). For more information, please visit the conference website.

Molly Greene (Princeton University), Ottoman Christians and the Question of Ottoman Society.

Elaine Treharne (Stanford University), Momentary Presence and Manuscript Permanence in Digital Space.

Joseph Howley (Columbia University), Setting (and Binding) the Table: Ancient Roman Paratext in the Age of Print.

Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago), Poetry, Prose, and the Bible in John of the Cross.

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A symposium exploring the challenges of preserving the cultural heritage of the Christian East, with presentations by Michael Danti (American Schools of Oriental Research), Laurent Dissard (University College London), Karel Innemée (University of Amsterdam), and Anton Pritula (Hill Museum and Manuscript Library). Sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and Tufts University.

Mark Dickens (University of Alberta), East Syriac Christianity in the Mongol Empire. Please RSVP here.

Giovanni Ruffini (Fairfield University), Which Nubia and Which Byzantium? Please RSVP here.

Aaron Butts (Catholic University of America), Anti-Jewish Polemic Among Syrian Christians During the First Centuries of Islam. Please RSVP here.

Douglas Bolander (Project Director, Skagafjörður Archaeological Settlement Survey), Viking Colonization of the North Atlantic.

A two-day celebration of Christian and Jewish sacred music, featuring lectures, workshops, and performances by Cappella Clausura, the Holy Cross St. Romanos the Melodist Byzantine Choir, and Kol Arev. Presented by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the New York Life Center for the Study of Hellenism in Pontus and Asian Minor. For tickets and a complete schedule, visit the...