Alex Brey (Wellesley College), title TBA. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross. Read more about Medieval Studies-Mary Jaharis Center Lecture in Byzantine Studies

Dirceu Marchini Neto (Federal University of Tocantins; Visiting Scholar in Medieval Studies), Imagining Crusade in Medieval Iberia: The Battle of Salado and the Relic of the True Cross. Read more about MHC Medieval Studies Seminar Collations

Sharon Gerstel (UCLA), Hearing/Seeing in Late Byzantine Churches. This event is part of the 2019-2020 MHC Medieval Studies Seminar series Hearing the Middle Ages. Note that his talk will take place in the Lamont Forum Room, on the third floor of Lamont Library. Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

David Ganz (Visiting Scholar in Medieval Studies), The Palaeography of Silence. This lecture is part of the 2019-2020 Medieval Studies Seminar series "Hearing the Middle Ages". Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

David Ganz (Visiting Scholar in Medieval Studies), New Fragments of the Bible of Bishop Angilram of Metz and the Origins of Caroline Minuscule. Please RSVP by 6 February to Joe Shack (josephshack@g.harvard.edu). Read more about MHC Medieval Studies Seminar Collations

Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado), title TBA. Co-sponsored with the Committee on Medieval Studies. Read more about Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop

Felege-Selam Solomon Yirga (The Ohio State University; Dumbarton Oaks Junior Fellow), title TBA. Co-sponsored by the Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Studies Program and the Committee on Medieval Studies. Read more about Medieval Studies-Dumbarton Oaks Visiting Lecture in Byzantine Studies

Ada Kuskowski (University of Pennsylvania), title TBA. Co-sponsored by Harvard Law School, the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid International Academic Program, Fundácion Asisa, and the Committee on Medieval Studies. Read more about Harvard Law School Lecture on European Legal History

Katrin Kogman-Appel (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster), A Jewish Look at World Politics: The Catalan Mappamundi (Majorca, 1375). Co-sponsored with the Mahindra Humanities Center Cartography Seminar. Read more about Center for Jewish Studies-Medieval Studies Lecture in Medieval Jewish Culture and Society

Susan Rankin (Cambridge University; Radcliffe Institute Fellow), Musical Sounds in Musical Signs: an Early Medieval Invention. This lecture is part of the 2019-2020 Medieval Studies Seminar series Hearing the Middle Ages. Preceded by the Spring welcoming reception of the Committee on Medieval Studies (4:00-5:30 pm, CGIS South lower concourse). Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

Maria Subtelny (University of Toronto), Iranian Elements in the Pseudo-Aristotelian Sirr al-asrār (Secretum secretorum). Co-sponsored with the MHC Medieval Studies Seminar and the Aga Khan Fund for Iranian Studies.

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The Fall seating of the Medieval Studies graduate Latin translation exam. Successful completion of this exam will satisfy the language proficiency requirement of the graduate secondary field in Medieval Studies. More information about the exam, including sample texts, can be found on the Medieval Studies website. If you plan to take the exam, please RSVP to Sean Gilsdorf by Monday, 28 October.

Volker Drecoll (University of Tübingen), Venantius Fortunatus and his Contemporaries: New Perspectives on the Transformation from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies... Read more about Department of the Classics Lecture

Mireille Séguy (Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis), Faire monde au XIIIe siècle: Le cycle du Lancelot-Graal. Univers, livre, écosystème. Co-sponsored by the France and the World Seminar at the Mahindra Humanities Center and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies. Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center France and the World Seminar

Marissa Smit (History Department, Harvard University), Animal Frontiers in the Byzantine and Ottoman Worlds.