Sonja Drimmer (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Representative Bodies: Mass Production and the Parliamentary Manuscript in Late Medieval England. Sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and Houghton Library.... Read more about Houghton-Medieval Studies Lecture in Early Book History

An hour of symposial socializing for medievalist grad students and fellow travellers, hosted by the Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop and the Medieval English Colloquium. Contact Colloquium coordinator Emily Sun with any questions!

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The Re-Writing the Middle Ages talk with author Kisha Tracy on her new book Why Study the Middle Ages?  has been postponed; we hope to welcome Prof. Tracy to campus sometime next semester. Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar: POSTPONED

Members of the Harvard Medieval Studies Community (and friends!) are warmly invited to celebrate the opening of the academic year, and to commemorate the accomplishments (scholastic and personal) of this community in the past three years. Join us in Barker Center 110 (Thompson Room) and the Barker Center Tent on Monday September 12 at 5:30 PM for a reception and celebration. Food and drink will be served! A welcome and brief presentations on recent research will take place from 5:45-6:15. Please RSVP to Lydia Shahan (lydiashahan@g.harvard.edu)

Author Alfred Thomas, Professor of English at the University of Illinois Chicago, discusses his new book Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 with ... Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

Author Rita Copeland, Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Classical Studies, English, and Comparative Literature... Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

Whether scholars are annotating restored images of medieval maps or plotting data on modern cartographic platforms, the challenges they face in representing medieval spatial data remain largely unanswered. In this virtual symposium, participants will discuss what has already been accomplished with online medieval maps and mapping projects, and identify the larger questions concerning this genre of digital scholarship. Part I (Digital Mapping and Medieval Studies: Approaches), moderated by cartographic historian... Read more about Quo Vadis: Digital Mapping and Medieval Studies Today

D. Fairchild Ruggles (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of a Thirteenth-Century Sultan-Queen: Shajar al-Durr of Egypt. Co-sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture and the Committee on Medieval Studies. Read more about AKPIA-Medieval Studies Lecture on Islamic Architecture

A roundtable discussion on an ongoing pioneering international investigation of anomalous burials in early medieval Gaul, and the evidence they provide about the so-called "Justinianic Plague". Featuring presentations by Philippe Blanchard (INRAP), Isabelle Catteddu (INRAP Grand Ouest), Valérie Delattre (Université de Bourgogne), Michael McCormick (Harvard University), Claude Raynaud (CNRS), Solenn Troadec (Harvard University), and Marie-Cécile Truc (Université de Caen). Sponsored by the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM) and the... Read more about (Bio)archaeological Approaches to Disease and Death in Early Medieval France

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Naama Golan (Kibbutzim College of Education and 2021-22 Associate at the Center for Jewish Studies), A Creative Interpretation within the Genre Constraints: A Study of Yehuda Uziel's Super-Commentary on Rashi. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies and the Committee on Medieval Studies. Attendance at the Starr Seminars is open to Harvard affiliates on a testing cadence; please RSVP to Sandy Cantave Vil... Read more about Center for Jewish Studies Starr Seminar

A book talk on Ibn Hamdis the Sicilian: Eulogist for a Falling Homeland by author William E. Granara, Professor of the Practice of Arabic on the Gordon Gray Endowment, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Co-sponsored by the Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the Committee for... Read more about A Medieval Life in Modern Circumstances

Kentigwern Jaoen (University of Southern Brittany, Visiting Scholar in Celtic Languages and Literatures): The Mutation from the Medieval Knight at Sea to the Captain at the End of the Fifteenth Century and the Opening of the Sixteenth Century.

From Wednesday 23 March to Sunday 27 March 2022, the students in Harvard's Latin Palaeography and Manuscript Culture course (Medieval Studies 202) will work online with a team of volunteers to create a complete transcription of Houghton Library, MS Lat 5. Anyone interested in joining the challenge should sign up... Read more about Houghton MS Lat 5: The Spring Transcription Challenge!