Richard Cole (Harvard University), Philology and Desire.

Ahmed Ragab (Harvard Divinity School), That Weight in Your Loins: Patienthood and Case Histories in Medieval Islamicate Medicine. Please RSVP to hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu.

Artes and Liberal Arts: From Medieval Learning to the Modern University: a panel discussion featuring Jan Ziolkowski (Classics, Harvard), Eileen Sweeney (Philosophy, Boston College), Nicholas Watson (English, Harvard), and Ahmed Ragab (Harvard Divinity School). Preceded by the Fall welcoming reception of the Committee on Medieval Studies.

Sean Gilsdorf (History and Literature and Medieval Studies), Doing Words (and Pictures, and Curriculum) with Things: The Medieval Object Lessons Initiative. Please RSVP to hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu.

Charles Donahue (Harvard Law School), Why Would Anyone Want to Look at an English Manuscript Statute Book? Please RSVP to hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu.

Sarah Spence (Medieval Academy of America), Sicily and the Poetic Negotiation of Empire. Please RSVP to hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu.

Virginie Greene (Romance Languages and Literatures), Performing Old French Poetry. Please RSVP to hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu.

Julian Yolles (Classics), Reading the Desert Fathers in Frankish Sidon. Please RSVP to hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu.

Ann Marie Rasmussen (University of Waterloo), The Polyfunctionality of Script on Medieval Badges. Co-sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.

Hannah Weaver (Harvard University), The Hague Fragment: Problems and Possibilities.

A symposium featuring presentations by Stefan Brink (University of Aberdeen), Hans-Jacob Orning (University of Oslo), Helle Vogt (University of Copenhagen), and ...

Welcoming reception for all first- and second-year graduate students in Medieval Studies, featuring food, drink, and merriment! Sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop.

Slow Catastrophe, the 2015 meeting of the New England Medieval Conference, with keynote addresses by Michael McCormick (Harvard University) and Kathleen Davis (University of Rhode Island). Sponsored by the Harvard University Committee on Medieval Studies; the Northeastern University Department of English, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Humanities Center, and Environmental Studies Program; the Boston University Center for the Humanities and Interdisciplinary Program in Medieval Studies; and the University of Massachusetts Boston Department of English. For complete...

Derek Krueger (University of North Carolina at Greensboro), Lamenting Eden: Placing Adam, Eve, and Humanity in Byzantine Hymns. Reception to follow. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture.

A vocal and musical performance reviving the female voice as preserved in medieval Yiddish, Latin, and German texts and traditions. Co-sponsored by the Elson Family Arts Initiative, the Provostial Fund for the Humanities, the Center for Jewish Studies, and the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. Free and open to the public.