English Department Medieval Colloquium

Hwaet! Join us, graduate pursuers of knowledge medieval, for food and drink and mutual support. Proudly presented by the Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop and the English Medieval Colloquium.

Ahmed Seif (Harvard University), title TBD.

Karl Steel (Brooklyn College, CUNY) , Animals, Plants, and Truth in The Seven Sages of Rome.

Joseph Shack (University of Central Florida), 'An Untamed Race Bred in Caucasian Rocks': Discourses of Barbarity in Eleventh-Century England .

Grace O'Duffy (Harvard Society of Fellows), Legible Bodies: Towards a Vocabulary of Sexual Violence in Old Norse Literature.

Paul Russell and Nicholas Watson (Harvard University), Editing Workshop: From Manuscripts to Print, from Authors to Readers .

Rachel Smith (Villanova University), Technologies of Entanglement: Writing, Confession, and Compassion in the Life of Ida of Nivelles (c. 1231).

... a bi-weekly festive gathering, in which those pursuing graduate studies of things medieval join together in commensural union. And drink. Proudly presented by the Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop and the English Medieval Colloquium.

Join us for the inaugural Bibendum/Gebeorscip, a chance to meet other graduate medievalists (and fellow travelers) for snacks, libations, and sparkling repartée! Co-sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies Workshop and the English Department...

Susan Phillips (Northwestern University) discusses her new book Learning to Talk Shop: Mercantile Mischief and Popular Pedagogy in Premodern England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025). Co-sponsored by the English Medieval Colloquium, the Medieval...