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

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

Alex Mueller (Visiting Scholar), Waking the Wordsmith: Alliterative Verse and Letter Writing in Late Medieval Oxford.

Mary Dockray-Miller (Lesley University), Teaching the Middle Ages (and literary criticism and research skills and academic writing and professional communication and many other things as well).

Kate Leach (Celtic), Healing Charms and Medicine in Late Medieval and Early Modern Wales.

Sonja Drimmer (University of Massachusetts), Illuminating Chaucer When He Was Obscure. Co-sponsored with the Medieval English Colloquium.

Arafat Razzaque (History/Middle Eastern Studies), Speaking of Private Life in Medieval Baghdad.

Juliette Calvarin (Art History), Pregnancy and the Priesthood: A Chasuble from Prague.

NB. The chasuble in question will be on view at the Harvard Art Museum 4th floor study room from 4-5 PM on Monday, Feb. 13. Please feel free stop by and see it before Juliette's talk.

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.

Elias Muhanna (Brown University), The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition: A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World.

The second of two sessions with Katharine Park (History of Science) and Ahmed Ragab (HDS), who will discuss draft chapters of their book in progress, A History of Medieval Science: Knowledge, Objects, and Communities in Europe and the Islamicate World, intended as a survey and potential text book that rewrites the history of medieval science by insisting on the contemporaneity and mutual engagement of Latin and Arabic science. To receive copies of the chapters, please contact Ardeta Gjikola or...

The first of two sessions with Katharine Park (History of Science) and Ahmed Ragab (HDS), who will discuss draft chapters of their book in progress, A History of Medieval Science: Knowledge, Objects, and Communities in Europe and the Islamicate World, intended as a survey and potential text book that rewrites the history of medieval science by insisting on the contemporaneity and mutual engagement of Latin and Arabic science. To receive copies of the chapters, please contact Ardeta Gjikola or...