Committee on Medieval Studies

Boston-area medievalists and friends are invited to join us for the annual end-of-year celebration, this year featuring BBQ, beer, and Bardcore! Enjoy tasty treats and libations while chatting with friends old and new--can't wait to see you!

Hollywood meets Medieval in this special lunchtime event, as Harvard students pitch their television treatments of medieval sex, love, and marriage to a celebrity panel of judges. Who will prevail? Come for lunch, stay to find out! Sponsored by the...

Medievalist (and medieval-curious) grad students: put on your top hat, put on your ball gown, put on your tails! The Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop and Medieval English Colloquium proudly present the final Bibendum of the year, prom edition...

An all-day symposium on the ancient, medieval, and early modern world, featuring presentations by an interdisciplinary group of undergraduate scholars from Harvard College including Niyathi Chagatipati, Felix Chen, Peter Chen, Christine Corcoran, Jericho...

A two-day conference featuring a keynote address by Peter Frankopan (Oxford University), lightning talks by undergraduate and graduate students, and presentations by Dimiter Angelov (Harvard University), Nathanael Aschenbrenner (Bard College), Zachary...

The Spring seating of the Medieval Studies graduate Latin translation exam. Blue books and dictionaries will be provided. Successful completion of this exam fulfills the translation requirement for the graduate Secondary Field in Medieval Studies; please...

Jesse Arlen (Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America; Fordham University), Heresy and Excommunication in Tenth-Century Armenia: Hierarchs, Abbots, Monks, and Tondrakites. Co-sponsored by the Mashtots Chair for Armenian Studies, the Department of...

Cristina Maria Cervone (University of Memphis; Visiting Scholar in Medieval Studies), Lily Crucifixes in England and Wales . Lunch will be served; please RSVP by Monday, 20 April here .

A new one-woman opera by composer Kevin Bleau and librettist David Schrag, based on the works of the tenth-century playwright Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim and featuring soprano Jennifer Litwin with pianist Kevin Bleau. Performance followed by a discussion...

Samuel Puopolo (Celtic Languages and Literatures), Stop All the Clocks: 1282, The Conquest of Wales, and the End of Time .