Amy Remensnyder '83 (Brown University), Lampedusa: The Past and Present of a Mediterranean Island. Reception to follow. This is the keynote address for the second annual Harvard Medieval and Early Modern Undergraduate Symposium, which will take place on Friday, 1 May in the Barker Center's Thompson Room. Sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and the Committee on Degrees in History and... Read more about Medieval and Early Modern Undergraduate Symposium Lecture

The second annual Harvard undergraduate medieval and early modern symposium, featuring work by Harvard College students in all disciplines. Please click here for the call for papers. Sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature. CANCELLED Read more about Harvard Medieval and Early Modern Undergraduate Symposium

Lydia Shahan (Committee on the Study of Religion), Double Dutch: Two Marys in Mystical Literature from the Medieval Low Countries. CANCELLED

Philip Liston-Kraft (Germanic Languages and Literatures), Death Drive and the Maiden: The Queerness of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim. CANCELLED

David Stifter (Maynooth University), Alliterating by Number in Early Irish Literature. Sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures. CANCELLED

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Travis Zadeh (Yale University), Where Magic Still Dwells: Islamic Philosophy and the Metaphysics of the Extraordinary.

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Ludger Lieb (University of Heidelberg), A Fascination with Writing on Things: The Materiality of Texts in the Middle Ages. Sponsored by the Houghton Library and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies. CANCELLED Read more about Houghton Library George Parker Winship Lecture

A talk by William Granara (Harvard) on his new book Narrating Muslim Sicily: War and Peace in the Medieval Mediterranean World... Read more about Center for Middle Eastern Studies: Book Launch

Alex Brey (Wellesley College), Byzantine Pieces of an Umayyad Puzzle: A Basalt Platform in the Azraq Oasis. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross. CANCELLED

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Dirceu Marchini Neto (Federal University of Tocantins; Visiting Scholar in Medieval Studies), Imagining Crusade in Medieval Iberia: The Battle of Salado and the Relic of the True Cross. CANCELLED Read more about MHC Medieval Studies Seminar Collations

Sharon Gerstel (UCLA), Hearing/Seeing in Late Byzantine Churches. This event is part of the 2019-2020 MHC Medieval Studies Seminar series Hearing the Middle Ages. Note that this talk will take place in the Lamont Forum Room, on the third floor of Harvard's Lamont Library... Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

David Ganz (Visiting Scholar in Medieval Studies), The Palaeography of Silence. This lecture is part of the 2019-2020 Medieval Studies Seminar series "Hearing the Middle Ages". CANCELLED Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

David Ganz (Visiting Scholar in Medieval Studies), New Fragments of the Bible of Bishop Angilram of Metz and the Origins of Caroline Minuscule. Please RSVP by 6 February to Joe Shack (josephshack@g.harvard.edu). Read more about MHC Medieval Studies Seminar Collations

Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado), Choosing between Faith and Heresy. Co-sponsored with the Committee on Medieval Studies. CANCELLED

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