Graduate Seminars

A graduate work-in-progress conference in celebration of Daniel Donoghue's thirty-nine years (and counting!) as a Harvard faculty member, followed by a lunch and a cake. All are welcome! For a full program and schedule, please click here .

Masoud Ariankhou (Harvard University), Ahriman, Iblis, and the Geography of Satan in the Shahnameh.

Medievalist (and medieval-curious) grad students: put on your top hat, put on your ball gown, put on your tails! The Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop and Medieval English Colloquium proudly present the final Bibendum of the year, prom edition...

Giorgio Lizzul (University of Vienna), Measuring Inequality in Fifteenth-Century Venice: New Evidence from Venetian Chronicles . This paper examines a hitherto unstudied Venetian chronicle which uniquely reproduces fiscal data from a mid-fifteenth-century...

Samuel Puopolo (Celtic Languages and Literatures), Stop All the Clocks: 1282, The Conquest of Wales, and the End of Time .

Finlay Darlington-Bell (Romance Languages and Literatures), Read My Desire: Authorial Editions and the Question of Selfhood in Medieval Italy. The emergence of the libri d'autore (authorial editions of vernacular texts) marks a pivotal moment in...

Adam Franklin-Lyons (Emerson College), The Cost-Benefit Analysis of Medieval Crises: Food Shortages and Piracy.

Sri Sathvik Rayala (Harvard Divinity School), The Gift of Health: Medicine as Śiva’s Dharma in Premodern India. Please RSVP here to receive a copy of the precirculated paper. Concerned with the history of premodern Indian medicine, this article examines...

Amy Appleford (Boston University), Peter Damian, Richard Rolle, and Julian of Norwich: Asceticism and the Impaired Chri st . Co-sponsored by the English Renaissance Graduate Colloquium.

Kersti Francis (Boston University Society of Fellows), Fear of a Queer Magic: Venereal Fiction in De Planctu Naturae .