Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop

A conversation with David Lowery, writer and director of The Green Knight (2021), on the making of the film and the process of adopting and adapting a medieval story for modern audiences. Moderated by Ahmed Seif (Department of English), with panelists...

Sama Mammadova (Harvard University Department of History), A Bank for the People: Popular Credit and Moral Economy in Renaissance Italy Refreshments will be provided. Due to current Harvard University Covid-19 restrictions, Workshop meetings this semester...

Philip Liston-Kraft (Harvard University Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures), Death Drive and the Maiden: The Queerness of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim. Refreshments will be provided. Due to current Harvard University Covid-19 restrictions...

Travis Zadeh (Yale University), Where Magic Still Dwells: Islamic Philosophy and the Metaphysics of the Extraordinary. The question of how to explain and define magic features throughout the development of Islamic philosophy. Avicenna famously united both...

Marissa Smit (History Department, Harvard University), Animal Frontiers in the Byzantine and Ottoman Worlds.

Kirsten Burke (History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University), Picturing the Islamic World as Ruin in Konrad Grünemberg’s Pilgrimage Journey (c. 1487).

Martin Carver (University of York), Wearing Wealth: A Discussion about Social Change from Coinage to Clothing. This seminar for undergraduate and graduate students is part of the 2019 Harvard Medieval Material Culture program The View from the Trenches...

Shireen Hamza (Harvard University), The Weight of Dreams: the Kābūs in Islamicate Medical Literature, 1100-1500.

Giulia Accornero (Department of Music, Harvard) Buying Time, Marking Space: Algorism, Algebraic Objects and the Emergence of Mensural Notations

Joseph Shack (Celtic Languages and Literatures), Ways of "Being" in Medieval Welsh and English Gnomic Poetry