Foteini Spingou (Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies), Memory, Aesthetics and Poetic Anthologies in Late Thirteenth-Century Constantinople.

Christos Simelidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Gregory of Nazianzus' Poems and Byzantine Scholarship.

Maurice Pomerantz (New York University-Abu Dhabi), The Maqāmāt Between Philology and World Literature.

Edel Bhreathnach (Discovery Programme: Centre for Archaeology and Innovation Ireland), Kings, Ceremonies, and Landscapes: Understanding the Royal Sites of Ireland.

Shady Nasser (Cambridge University), Is Qurʾān bad Poetry? Evolution and Creationism in the Arabic Literary Tradition.

Katelyn Mesler (Hebrew University), “In the Language of the Christians”: On the Role of Latin among Late Medieval Sephardic Jews.

Yaacob Dweck (Princeton University), The Ordeal of Jacob Sasportas: Jewish Messianism and the Sephardic Diaspora in the Seventeenth Century.

Book launch party for What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic by Shahab Ahmed (†)

Adam Talib (American University in Cairo), How Do You Say “Epigram” in Arabic?

Harvard, Spanish Medieval Art, and the Pilgrimage Road to Santiago: A Tribute to Professor Serafín Moralejo. With presentations by José Manuel Martínez Sierra (Real Colegio Complutense), Luis Girón Negrón (Harvard University), Francisco Prado-Vilar (Andrew Mellon Santiago Cathedral Program), and José Luis Moralejo (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares). For more information, please visit the...

Paola Tartakoff (Rutgers University), The Deacon and the Jewess: Conversion to Judaism in Medieval Spain and Beyond.

Oded Zinger (Duke University), "She Intends to Torment Him": Jewish Women in Muslim Legal Forums in Medieval Egypt.

Islamic Manuscripts, featuring a Kashmiri manuscript of Firdawsi's Shahnama (Book of Kings); with presentations by Mary McWilliams (Norma Jean Calderwood Curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art), assistant curator Ayşin Yoltar-Yıldırım, and Calderwood Curatorial Fellow Stephanie Rozman. Admission is free, but capacity is limited; to register, please email am_visitorservices@harvard.edu.

William Caferro (Vanderbilt University), The HBS Medici Collection: Florentine Business and Accounting Practices. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies, Harvard Business School, Houghton Library, and the Department of History. For more information, please visit the Medici events website.

Space in the workshop is limited; to...

William Caffero (Vanderbilt University), The HBS Medici Collection: Reading Account Books as Texts and Historical Sources. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies, Harvard Business School, Houghton Library, and the Department of History. For more information, please visit the Medici events website.

Space in the workshop is limited...