A two-day symposium featuring presentations by medievalist graduate students from Harvard and Yale Universities. Co-sponsored by Yale's Beinecke Library. A complete program can be found here.

Nicholas Paul (Fordham), The Lord's Tournament: Cultural Capital and the Crusading Frontier.

Stratis Papaioannou (Brown University), Readers and Reading in Byzantium.

Ra'anan Boustan and Karen Brit, Greek Kings and Judaean Priests in the Late Antique Synagogue: The Newly Discovered 'Elephant Mosaic' at Huqoq (Israel)

Joel Kaye (Columbia University), The Modeling of Balance in Scholastic Economic Writings.

Sara McDougall (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY), "Bastards!"

Jesse Izzo (Harvard University), Talking Arabic: Bridging the Language Gap in the History and Historiography of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Giovanni Ceccarelli (University of Parma), Marine Insurance and the Culture of Risk in Late Medieval Florence.

Michael Davis (Mt. Holyoke College), The Architecture of Learning in Medieval Paris.

Doug Erwin (Smithsonian), Contingency, Chance, and Determinism in the Study of Deep History. More information here.

Michelle Karnes (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Stanford), The Meaning of Medieval Marvels.