David Callander (Cardiff University), Merlin's Lost Britain.

Paul Russell (University of Cambridge), At the Crossroads of Medieval Learning and Language: An Early Welsh Manuscript with an Irish Accent. Read more about Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures Lecture

Jerry Hunter (Bangor University), From the Vale of Hebron to the Land of Death: Taliesin’s Travels and the History of Welsh Literature.

Pablo Sanahuja (Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard), Justice in Practice: The Delivery of Justice by Peter IV of Aragon.

Michael Pifer (University of Michigan) Language Care and Community: The Fashioning of Middle Armenian into a Courtly Vernacular. Co-sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Mashtots Chair of Armenian Studies at Harvard University. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register. Read more about East of Byzantium Lecture Series

Tobias Hrynick (Mahindra Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellow): According to the Law of the Marsh: Community Government and Environmental Crisis in the Medieval Romney Marsh.

James Simpson (English, emeritus), Modernity's Selfhood and the Desacralization of Images; or, Being an Early Modern Image Hurts. Co-sponsored by the English Department Renaissance Colloquium.

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Ahmed Seif (English): In Reported Speech and Through It; or, "What Women Really Want".

 

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Arthur Bahr (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Toward a Speculative Expansion of Pearl, Line 735. Read more about English Department Medieval Colloquium

Alexander Riehle (Harvard University), Towards a History of Women's Writing in Byzantium. Read more about Mahindra Humanities Center Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome Seminar

Melis Taner (Özyeğin University), Materia Medica on the Move in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture. Read more about AKPIA Lecture Series

Rebecca Wrightson (AKPIA Fellow), An Epigraphic (Re)assessment of Ninth-Tenth Century Southern Mesopotamian Luster Ceramics. Sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture.

Leah Whittington (Harvard University), Spenser, Chaucer, and the Supplemented Book. Co-sponsored by the English Department Renaissance Colloquium.

An introduction to the work of Caucasus Heritage Watch (CHW), which uses the techniques of cultural aerospace to document, detect, and deter attacks on the fragile remains of the human past in the South Caucasus; presentations by Adam T. Smith (Cornell University), Ian Lindsay (Purdue University), Lori Khatchadourian (Cornell University), and Husik Ghulyan (Cornell University). Co-sponsored by the Harvard Department of the History of Art & Architecture, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies, the Program on Georgian Studies, the... Read more about Heritage Forensics: Satellites and Specters in the Contested Caucasus

Reyhan Durmaz (University of Pennsylvania), Daughter, Healer, Soldier, Spy: Finding Communities in the Medieval Middle Eastern Countryside. Sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies at Harvard University. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; click... Read more about East of Byzantium Lecture Series