Oliver Marjot (Classics, Harvard University), Lepers and Lay Piety: Exile and Salvation in Jean Bodel's Congés d'Arras.

Welcoming reception for all first- and second-year graduate students in Medieval Studies, featuring food, drink, and merriment! Sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop.

Eileen Joy (University of Southern Illinois), Pursuing a Vagabond, Promiscuous Humanities: The BABEL Project.

Paul Magdalino (Koç University/Dumbarton Oaks), The Apostolic Tradition in Constantinople. Co-sponsored with the Medieval History Workshop.

David Ungvary (Graduate Student, Classics), Poetic Self-Effacement and Self-Fashioning in Early Medieval Epitaphs.

Nicole Burgoyne (Graduate Student, Germanic Languages and Literatures), Irony and the Hildebrandslied.