Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

Cristina Maria Cervone (University of Memphis; Visiting Scholar in Medieval Studies), Lily Crucifixes in England and Wales . Lunch will be served; please RSVP by Monday, 20 April here .

Paul Russell (Celtic Languages and Literatures), Reading Greek (Out Loud) in Medieval Wales (and/or Maybe Ireland) . Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar and the Committee on Medieval Studies. Lunch will be served...

Matthew Gabriele (Department of Religion and Culture, Virginia Tech; Medieval Studies Associate in Research), Apocalyptic Certitude after the First Crusade . Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar and the Committee on...

Matilda Bruckner (Boston College) discusses her new book Jewish-Christian Dialogue in Medieval French Literature: Inscribing Biblical Encounters in the Vernacular (Boydell & Brewer, 2025) with Irit Kleiman (Boston University). Reception to follow. Just as...

Translating the Middle Ages: The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library at Fifteen . A roundtable chaired by DOML General Editor Daniel Donoghue (Harvard University), featuring Nicole Eddy (Managing Editor, Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library ), Emily Francomano...

Elizabeth Dospěl Williams (Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Medieval Studies Associate in Research), From Gandhara to Egypt: Rethinking a Late Antique Lapis Lazuli Pendant . Lunch will be served; please RSVP here before Friday, 17 October 2025.

Aaron Macks (Harvard Business School), Squeeze Play: A Condensed Bible in the Twelfth Century . Lunch will be served; please RSVP here by Friday, 14 November.

Denis Searby (Stockholm University; Medieval Studies Visiting Scholar), A Greek Defending Latin Scholasticism: Demetrios Kydones' Defense of Thomas Aquinas. Lunch will be provided; please RSVP here .

Nicholas Watson (English, Harvard University), The Humiliation of St. Osith . Lunch will be provided; please RSVP by Thursday, 18 September to Program Assistant Sofía Carbonell Realme .

Reception(s); a roundtable featuring Jessica Barr (Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts), Hussein Fancy (History, Yale University), Alice Isabella Sullivan (History of Art & Architecture, Tufts University), and Jan Ziolkowski (Classics and...