Byron MacDougall (University of Vienna), Figure Exercises: John of Sardis, Aphthonius, and Aristotelian Syllogistic.

John Hudson (University of St. Andrews), Emotions in the Early Common Law. Sponsored by the International Academic Program-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Fundación Asisa.

Johannes Krause (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena), The Genetic History of Plague: From the Stone Age to the Eighteenth Century via the Roman Empire. This talk, part of the lecture series What’s New in the Fall of the Roman Empire?, is co-sponsored by the Department of the Classics and the Department of History.

Donald Ostrowski (Harvard Extension School), Was There a Riurikid Dynasty in Early Rus'?

Nancy Edwards (Bangor University, Early Medieval Wales: Material Evidence and Identity.

Huw Pryce (Bangor University), History and Legend: Remembering Rulers in Medieval Wales.

Michael McCormick (Harvard University), The Fall of the Roman Empire: How Should We Study It In the 21st Century?

Dianne E. Berg (Tufts University), Monstrous Un-Making: Blood, Milk, Maternity, and Murder as Female Agency in Early Modern England.

Helen Cushman (English), The Spectacle of Testimony in the Middle English Mystery Plays.

Dan Smail (History), Violence and Predation in Late Medieval Mediterranean Europe. 

To request a copy of the paper, email jminnich@law.harvard.edu.

Francisco Prado-Vilar (Real Colegio Complutense), Fragmentation and the Limits of Iconography: Methodological Reflections on a Recent Discovery in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.

Elena Iourtaeva (HAA), Adolphus Busch Hall: Medieval Sculpture Casts and Historical Educational Strategies.

Domenico Ingenito (University of California, Los Angeles), Through the Mirror of My Fantasies: The Sacred, the Courtly, and the Obscene in Sa'di's Lyricism.

Charles Bonnet (University of Geneva), Pnubs, an Egyptian Foundation in the Southern Lands.

Charles Bonnet (University of Geneva), Dukki-Gel, an African Town in Nubia.