Shane Bobrycki (Program in Economics, History, and Politics), Plus quam civile bellum in Isidore of Seville. Please RSVP by Thursday, 23 March to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

Brian FitzGerald (History and Literature), The Greek East and the Spiritual Franciscan View of History. Please RSVP by Thursday, 2 March to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

Justine Landau (NELC), A Good Poet, a Dead Poet? Untimeliness and Literary Assessment in Medieval Iran. Please RSVP by Thursday, 9 February to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

Joseph Nagy (Celtic Languages and Literatures), Medieval Celtic Pigs and Pork. Please RSVP by Thursday, 2 February to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

Lisa Fagin Davis (Medieval Academy of America), Broken Books: Digital Methods for Reconstructing Dismembered Manuscripts. Co-sponsored by the MHC History of the Book Seminar.

Pernille Hermann (Aarhus University), Vision, Space, and Memory in Old Norse Literature.

Bernhard Jussen (University of Frankfurt), From Marcus Aurelius' Horse to the Sexuality of Christ: Toward the Reconfiguration of European Historical Macronarratives.

Dimiter Angelov (History), Native or Western? New Evidence on Ordeals in Byzantium. Please RSVP by Monday, 28 November to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu)

Stephen Mitchell (Scandinavian Studies), The (Real) Mother of Dragons. Please RSVP by Monday, 7 November to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

Emily Rose (Medieval Studies), Cutting Edge: The Changing Imagery of Ritual Murder. Please RSVP by Monday, 24 October to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

William Granara (NELC), Reading Arabic Panegyrics to Roger II: Between Chaos and Seduction. Please RSVP by Monday, 3 October to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

Virginie Greene (Romance Languages) and Sean Gilsdorf (Medieval Studies), Colloquamur igitur! Please RSVP by Monday, 19 September to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

Blurred Boundaries: Defining the "East" in Medieval Studies, a panel discussion with Anne Broadbridge (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Michael Penn (Stanford University), John Zaleski (Harvard University), and Charles Stang (Harvard Divinity School). Preceded by the Spring welcome reception of the Committee on Medieval Studies.

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Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places: Medieval Legal History and the Problem of Sources. A panel discussion on what it means to study ‘medieval law’ as a secular and religious phenomenon, what counts as a 'legal document', and how apparently 'non-legal' sources can deepen our understanding of medieval legal thought and practice. Featuring Piotr Górecki (University of California Riverside), ...

Ben Morgan (Oxford University), Varieties of Freedom: Eckhart, Seuse, ‘Sister Catherine’, and Forms of Agency in Recent Cognitive Science. Followed by a roundtable discussion with Amy Hollywood (Harvard Divinity School), Racha Kirakosian (Harvard University), Niklaus Largier (University of California Berkeley), and Judith Ryan (Harvard University). Co-sponsored by the Harvard Provostial Fund for Arts and Humanities, the Committee on Medieval Studies, the Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar, and the Committee on the Study of Religion.