The Craft of Medieval Glass: Decorative Glass in the Harvard Art Museums, with Katherine Eremin (Harvard Art Museums Straus Center for Conservation) and Elizabeth Pastan (Emory University). 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...

Ben Morgan (Oxford University), Varieties of Freedom: Eckhart, Seuse, ‘Sister Catherine’, and Forms of Agency in Recent Cognitive Science. Followed by a roundtable discussion with Amy Hollywood (Harvard Divinity School), Racha Kirakosian (Harvard University), Niklaus Largier (University of California Berkeley), and Judith Ryan (Harvard University). Co-sponsored by the Harvard Provostial Fund for Arts and Humanities, the Committee on Medieval Studies, the Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar, and the Committee on the Study of Religion.

Patrick Degryse (University of Leuven), Making Magical Glass: From the Ancient to the Medieval World. This lecture 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.

Elizabeth Pastan (Emory University), Romancing the Rose: Materiality and Meanings in that Singular Circular Window. Reception to follow. This lecture 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...

Nils Bock (Postdoctoral Fellow, Mahindra Humanities Center), George Washington’s English Herald and the Medieval Origins of the American Flag.

Gemma Pellissa (Visiting Fellow, Classics), A Medieval Catalan Translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Its Sources.

Featuring Charles Donahue (Harvard Law School), Magna Carta in the Fourteenth Century: From Law to Myth? and Stephen White (Emory University and Harvard University), The Interpretation of Magna Carta in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries. Moderated by Elizabeth Kamali (Harvard Law School). Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and Harvard Law School.

Laura Ashe (Oxford University), Twelfth-Century Transformations. Co-sponsored by the English Department Medieval Colloquium.

Celebrate Valentine's Day early with a live, semi-staged performance of Chaucer's witty poem on nature, love, and finding Mr. Right (or maybe not ...). Music, Middle English, and munchies: what could be more romantic? Co-sponsored by the Program in General Education and the Committee on Medieval Studies.

Georgia Henley (Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University), Monastic Libraries in Wales and the March.

Charles Bartlett (Classics, Harvard University), The Lex Romana canonice compta: Tenth-Century Roman Law in Context.

Oliver Marjot (Classics, Harvard University), Lepers and Lay Piety: Exile and Salvation in Jean Bodel's Congés d'Arras.

Cecily Hilsdale (McGill University), Worldliness in Byzantium and Beyond: Manuscript Materiality and Byzantine Materialism. Co-sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross. Reception to follow.

Rowan Dorin (Harvard Society of Fellows), The Epidemiology of Expulsion in Late Medieval Europe. Please RSVP to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

Francisco Prado-Vilar (Real Colegio Complutense), Factum est silentium: Cosmic Silence as an Image in Medieval Manuscript Illumination. Please RSVP by 29 February to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).