Panagiotis Roilos (Classics and Comparative Literature), The Cultural Politics of Phantasia: Late Antique and Byzantine Developments. Please RSVP by 4 December to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu) Read more about MHC Medieval Studies Seminar: Collations

Elena Iourtaeva (HAA), When Pages Weep: Boston Manuscript Fragments and the Digital Humanities 'Fragmentarium' Platform.

Vasileios Marinis (Yale University), Death and the Fate of the Soul in Byzantium: Theologies, Liturgies, Images. Co-sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture of Hellenic College Holy Cross.

Stijn Praet (Medieval Studies and Stockholm University): On the Narrative Logic of an Asinine Medieval Fairy Tale. Please RSVP by 30 October to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu). Read more about MHC Medieval Studies Seminar: Collations

Eva Schlotheuber (University of Düsseldorf), How to Read Letters from a Nun: Paleography and Female Religious Life. Co-sponsored by the Medieval History Graduate Workshop. Read more about Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop

Eva Schlotheuber (University of Düsseldorf), Letters from the Convent: The Late Medieval Benedictine Nuns of Lüne Writing on Daily Life, Amor Dei, and Politics. Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

Sarah Axelrod (Romance Languages and Literatures), The 'Right' Lessons from Literature, as Taught by Giovanni Boccaccio. Please RSVP to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu) by 13 November. Read more about MHC Medieval Studies Seminar: Collations

Sarah Kay (New York University), Singing with the Stars. Co-sponsored with the English Department Medieval Colloquium.

Adam Afterman (Tel Aviv University), The Rise of the ‘Holy Spirit’ in Thirteenth- to Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah. Professor Afterman's visit is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions, the Committee on Medieval Studies, the MHC Jewish Cultures and Societies Seminar, and the... Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

A two-day symposium exploring the long, rich, and complex history of Christian beliefs, institutions, and communities in Africa between Late Antiquity and the seventeenth century CE, bringing together an international group of researchers in medieval studies, African studies, Byzantine studies, archeology, book history, and the history of religion.

Keynote address on Thursday, 2 November (5:00 pm) in CGIS S020 by Stephen Davis, Professor of Religious Studies and History at Yale University and director of the Yale Monastic Archeology Project. Reception to follow. On Friday, 3...

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Jeffrey Hamburger (Harvard University), Mindmapping: Diagrams in the Middle Ages—and Beyond.

Daniel Donoghue (English): Two Questions: Could Medieval Readers Shut Up? Did Ambrose Astonish Augustine? Please RSVP to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu). Read more about MHC Medieval Studies Seminar: Collations

Blurred Boundaries: Defining "The West" in Medieval Studies: a panel discussion exploring the variety and complexity of "western-ness" in medieval European, Middle Eastern, and Eurasian societies, and how notions of "west" and "east" were assumed, maintained, and transgressed across the medieval world. Chaired by Stephen Mitchell (Harvard University), with presentations by... Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

A roundtable discussion marking the publication of Donald Ostrowski and Christian Raffensperger's Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe (Routledge, 2017) and Christian Raffensperger's Kingdom of Rus' (Arc-Humanities, 2017), with presentations by Florin Curta (University of Florida), Inés Garcia de la Puente (Boston University), Donald Ostrowski (Harvard University), and Christian Raffensperger (Wittenberg University). Co-sponsored by the Early Slavic Studies Seminar of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

A two-day symposium exploring the process by which scholars came to see "Byzantium" as distinct from its Roman predecessor and medieval contemporaries, the scholarly practices and contemporary concerns that shaped how early modern scholars studied the "Byzantine" past, and how the historical context of Byzantium’s emergence continues to shape the discipline of Byzantine studies today.

Keynote address on Thursday, 26 October (5:00 pm) by Anthony Grafton (Princeton University), followed by a public reception. Sessions all day Friday, featuring presentations by Shane Bobrycki (...

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