James Simpson (Harvard University) and Leah Whittington (Harvard University), The Dark Age (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries): A Debate. Co-sponsored by the English Department Medieval Colloquium and Renaissance Colloquium.

Kathryn Maude (American University of Beirut & Bloomfield Fellow), Feeling Bad in the Middle Ages: Weeping and Women's Literary Culture.

Elizabeth Robertson (University of Glasgow), Willful Griselde: Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale and Late Medieval Voluntarism. 

Anna Wilson (Harvard University): "Petrarch's Friends: Ernest Wilkins and the Medieval Academy of America"

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Martín Hadis, Borges the Medievalist: Old English Poetry and Old Norse Myths in his Life and Works. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please contact Colloquium coordinator Ahmed Seif for access.

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Harvard English's own Kathryn Wagner will speak on “The Shepherds’ Gloria: Reception of Latin Liturgy and the Figure of the ‘Lewed’ Listener in the Mystery Plays.” 

In anticipation of director David Lowery's visit to Harvard on 22 November, please join us for a screening of Lowery's The Green Knight (2021), a provocative retelling of the late medieval English romance Gawain and the Green Knight. Sponsored by the Committee on Folklore and Mythology, the Committee on Medieval Studies, the English Department Graduate Medieval Colloquium, and the Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop.

D. Vance Smith (Princeton University), The African Map of Europe: The Brut and Balliol College Colonialism. Co-sponsored by the GSAS English Department Medieval Colloquium and the Committee on Medieval Studies. Please note that due to current university Covid-19 restrictions, attendance at this event is limited to Harvard faculty, students, and on-campus affiliates Read more about English Department Graduate Medieval Colloquium

A conversation with David Lowery, writer and director of The Green Knight (2021), on the making of the film and the process of adopting and adapting a medieval story for modern audiences. Moderated by Ahmed Seif (Department of English), with panelists Daniel Donoghue (Department of English), Sean Gilsdorf (Medieval Studies), Aarya Kaushik '24 (Department of English), and Nicholas Watson (Department of English). Presented by the Standing Committee on Medieval... Read more about "In Stori Stif and Stronge": A Conversation with David Lowery

The Harvard Medieval English Colloquium will host Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja as he presents a...

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Rob Brown (Harvard University), Towards a Theory of Middles: Dalliance and Duty in The Romance of Horn and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. This presentation will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; for registration information, please contact Colloquium coordinator Joe Shack. Read more about English Department Medieval Colloquium

Joseph Shack (Harvard University), Tracing Time and Eternity in Maxims II and Cotton Tiberius B. i. This presentation will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; for registration information, please contact Colloquium coordinator Rob Brown.

James Simpson (Harvard University) and David Hall (Harvard Divinity School, emeritus), Predestination and Piety in the Early Modern World: A Debate, moderated by Michelle Sanchez (Harvard Divinity School).

Kathryn Maunde (American University of Beirut), Title TBA CANCELLED

Mary Dockray-Miller (Lesley University), The Old English Exodus, the afrisc meowle, and the State of the Field.