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.

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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.

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William Caferro (Vanderbilt University), The HBS Medici Collection: Merchants, Markets, and Business Practices in the Renaissance. For more information, please visit the Medici events website.

William Caferro (Vanderbilt University), The HBS Medici Collection: Florence and International Trade, 1400-1600. 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.

Christopher Loveluck (University of Nottingham), Atlantic Networks and Social Change in the Early Medieval West: Western Britain and Ireland in an Expanding Archaeological Context, c. AD 400-1200.

Katharine Olson (Bangor University), "The Seven Journeys of the Soul": Women, Manuscript Culture, and the Apocalypse in Medieval and Renaissance Wales and Ireland.

Christoph Markschies (Humboldt University Berlin), Demons and Diseases. Co-sponsored by the Boston Area Patristics Group and the International Catacomb Society.

Touba Ghadessi (Wheaton College), Vexed Rulership: Ambiguous Valois Bodies (1494-1589).

Panel discussion of Ahmed Ragab's The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion and Charity, featuring Shigehisa Kuriyama (East Asian Languages and Civilizations), Roy Mottahedeh (History), and Charles Stang (Harvard Divinity School) in conversation with the author.

Robert Wisnovsky (James McGill Professor of Islamic Philosophy, McGill University), Muhammad ʿAbduh’s Metaphysics in Context. Sponsored by the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

Robert Wisnovsky (James McGill Professor of Islamic Philosophy, McGill University), Avicenna and Avicennism. Sponsored by the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

Francisco Prado-Vilar (Real Colegio Complutense), Hidden Masterpieces Revealed: Spanish Medieval Art in the Zodiaque La nuit des temps Series. A lecture marking the publication of Janet Marquardt's Zodiaque: Making Medieval Modern, 1951-2001 (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015).