Adam Franklin Lyons (Marlboro College), 'Demand and Distribution of Timely Information: News in the Fourteenth Century’—Projects from the Travelers Lab (http://travelerslab.research.wesleyan.edu). Read more about Five College Medieval Studies Seminar

Kathy Lavezzo (University of Iowa), The Wandering Woman in the Jewish Boy: Gender, Antisemitism, and the English City.

Valerio Cappozzo (University of Mississippi), The Medieval Dream Dictionary: Collecting Symbols from the Ninth Century to 1550.

Colleen Curran (Corpus Christi College Oxford), The Classical Influence in Anglo-Saxon Poetry: An Introduction to the CLASP Project.

Sharon Farmer (University of California Santa Barbara, emerita), Global Perspectives on the Making of a Fourteenth-Century French Almspurse. Sponsored by the Five College Medieval Studies Seminar, Smith College Department of History, and Smith College Lecture Committee.

Race in the Middle Ages, a symposium featuring presentations by Geraldine Heng (University of Texas Austin), Dorothy Kim (Brandeis University), and Sierra Lomuto (Macalester College). Sponsored by the Amherst College Department of English, the Five College Medieval Studies Seminar, the Amherst College Department of European Studies, and The Eastman Fund.

Grace Delmolino (University of Massachusetts), Medieval #MeToo: Boccaccio and the Origins of Consent. Sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Italian Program and Medieval Studies Program.

Martha Newman (The University of Texas at Austin), Assigned Female at Death: Joseph of Schönau's Disruption of Medieval Gender Binaries.

Stephen Harris (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Algorithms of Poetry: Computing the Grammar of Meaning.

Amanda Luyster (College of the Holy Cross), Signatures, Labels, Inscriptions, and Inventories: The Use of Text in Treasuries and Other Networks of Collection.