Lisa Fagin Davis (Medieval Academy of America), Broken Books: Digital Methods for Reconstructing Dismembered Manuscripts. Co-sponsored by the MHC History of the Book Seminar.

Pernille Hermann (Aarhus University), Vision, Space, and Memory in Old Norse Literature.

Michael Barry (Princeton University), The Persian and Afghan Romance of Alexander the Great, Part III: Alexander, God and Mortal. Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Aga Khan Fund, and the Association for Central Asian Civilizations and Silk Road Studies.

Bernhard Jussen (University of Frankfurt), From Marcus Aurelius' Horse to the Sexuality of Christ: Toward the Reconfiguration of European Historical Macronarratives.

Dimiter Angelov (History), Native or Western? New Evidence on Ordeals in Byzantium. Please RSVP by Monday, 28 November to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu)

Stephen Mitchell (Scandinavian Studies), The (Real) Mother of Dragons. Please RSVP by Monday, 7 November to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

Emily Rose (Medieval Studies), Cutting Edge: The Changing Imagery of Ritual Murder. Please RSVP by Monday, 24 October to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

William Granara (NELC), Reading Arabic Panegyrics to Roger II: Between Chaos and Seduction. Please RSVP by Monday, 3 October to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

Virginie Greene (Romance Languages) and Sean Gilsdorf (Medieval Studies), Colloquamur igitur! Please RSVP by Monday, 19 September to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

Blurred Boundaries: Defining the "East" in Medieval Studies, a panel discussion with Anne Broadbridge (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Michael Penn (Stanford University), John Zaleski (Harvard University), and Charles Stang (Harvard Divinity School). Preceded by the Spring welcome reception of the Committee on Medieval Studies.

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Liam Anton Brannelly (Celtic), "A chruth sídhe": Beauty and the Male Body in Medieval Irish Literature.

Eric Nemarich (Harvard University), Voce mea ad Dominum clamavi: William of Auvergne on Gothic polyphony.

Susan Einbinder (University of Connecticut), Bone, Stone and Text: Commemoration of the Black Death among Iberian Jews. Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies.

Jessica Streit (The College of Charleston), The Nature of Almohad Architectural Ornament. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture.

A three-day symposium accompanying the collaborative exhibition Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections, hosted by Boston College's McMullen Museum of Art (Thursday, 3 November), the ...