Emily Rose (Visiting Scholar, Medieval Studies): The Judgment of the Bleeding Corpse: Medieval Myth and Early Modern Law. 

The Fall seating of the Medieval Studies secondary field Latin exam. Use of one dictionary is allowed. To register for the exam, please contact Sean Gilsdorf. For more information, including sample exam texts, please visit the "Graduate Program" page of the Medieval Studies website.

Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places: Medieval Legal History and the Problem of Sources. A panel discussion on what it means to study ‘medieval law’ as a secular and religious phenomenon, what counts as a 'legal document', and how apparently 'non-legal' sources can deepen our understanding of medieval legal thought and practice. Featuring Piotr Górecki (University of California Riverside), ...

Alicia Walker (Bryn Mawr College), Christian Bodies, Pagan Images: Women, Beauty, and Morality in Byzantium.

Asa Eger (University of North Carolina Greensboro), The Islamic-Byzantine Frontier: Interaction and Exchange Among Muslim and Christian Communities. Co-sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture.

Matilda Bruckner (Boston College), The Deacon and the Devil and the Jew: Gautier de Coincy and Rutebeuf Take Turns on the Legend of Theophilus.

Amy Remensnyder (Brown University), Shared Shrines, Muslim-Christian Trust and Pre-Modern Mediterranean Sailors' Culture on the Island of Lampedusa. Co-sponsored by the Medieval History Graduate Workshop.

A symposium in memory of the life and work of Shahab Ahmed, featuring presentations by Michael Cook, Noah Feldman, Cemal Kafadar, Gülru Necipoğlu, Parimal Patil, and Nicholas Watson. Sponsored by the Harvard Committee on Medieval Studies, the Mahindra Humanities Center, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, the Committee on the Study of Religion, with support of the Rabbi Joseph S. Shubow Memorial Fund, the South Asia Initiative, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program...

Almut Suerbaum (Oxford University), Beyond Crisis? Mystical Theology in Late Medieval Song. Sponsored by the Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities, the Mahindra Humanities Center, the Committee on Medieval Studies, the Committee on the Study of Religion with support of the Rabbi Joseph S. Shubow Memorial Fund, and the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.

Luis Lopez (Romance Languages and Literatures), The Gendered Gaze: Torrellas’ Sadistic Torture in Grimalte y Gradissa.

Stephen Shoemaker (University of Oregon), Eschaton and Empire: Political Apocalypticism in Late Antiquity and Early Islam. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies.

Jenny Adams (University of Massachusetts Amherst), The Literature, Economics, History, Sociology (maybe) of Medieval Student Loans: A Methodology Workshop.

A two-day symposium on the present and future of digital humanities within the broader study of medieval England, and the multimodal approach to Medieval Studies it entails; with keynote addresses by Martin Foys (University of Wisconsin Madison) and Timothy Stinson (North Carolina State University). Sponsored by the Department of English, the Morton Bloomfield Fund, the Provostial Fund for Arts and Humanities, and the Committee on Medieval Studies. For program and registration information, please visit the...

The annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, featuring keynote addresses by Barbara Newman (Northwestern University), William Noel (University of Pennsylvania), and Robin Fleming (Boston College), with closing reception at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and Boston College, Boston University, Brandeis University, Lesley University, The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Wellesley College. For complete information and...

The Technique and Trade of Glass in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, with Patrick Degryse (University of Leuven). This workshop is part of the 2016 Harvard Medieval Material Culture Lectures and Workshop series "In the glasing y-wroght: Medieval Glass as Material, Medium, and Message," sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies, the Harvard Art Museums, the Harvard Semitic Museum, and the Harvard Initiative for the Science of the Human Past. Space in the...