Francisco Prado Vilar (Real Colegio Complutense), The Smiles of the Portal of Glory during Wartime: Science and the Defense of Art in the Axis Santiago-Madrid-Harvard in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century... and Today.

Peter Frankopan (Oxford University), Re-imagining the Middle Ages: Cultural Politics and the Impact of Globalization.

Patricia Lovett, Gold on Parchment: How Manuscripts are Made.

Simon Teuscher (University of Zurich), Knowing Kinship. Epistemologies of Relatedness in Medieval Law. To receive a copy of the paper for this session, please contact Tamar Herzog at therzog@fas.harvard.edu.

Dominic Powlesland (The Landscape Research Centre, University of York), The Changing Past Through Archaeology and Science: 40 Years Embedded in the Multiple Past Landscapes of Ancient Britain. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Standing Committee on Archeology.

Maryam Kamali (Harvard CMES), The Collapse of the Khwarazmshah Dynasty in Iran: Reasons and Consequences.

A Volkswagen Fellowship Symposium of the Mahindra Humanities Center investigating pre-capitalist, western and non-western uses and construals of money, including the social relationships that constituted the value of money, its role in economic practice, the connection between money and other forms of capital, and the role of money in stabilizing or disturbing socio-economic forms of transformation. With presentations by Nils Bock (University of Münster), William Caferro (Vanderbilt University), Jessica Goldberg (UCLA), Martha Howell (Columbia University), Martin Kintzinger (University of...

David Stern (Harvard University), Books as Jews: The Burning of the Talmud, Paris 1241 and Rome 1553.

Stephen J. Milner (University of Manchester), Printing, Parchment, and Protein: The Bioarcheology of Harvard’s Books on Skin. Followed by a reception in the Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library.

Michael Berry (Princeton University), The Persian and Afghan Romance of Alexander the Great: The Seeker. Co-sponsored by the Association for Central Asian Civilizations and Silk Road Studies.

Colmán Ó Clabaigh (Glenstal Abbey and Boston College), Daughters of Eve: Women and Religion in Late Medieval Ireland.

The 2016 Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Studies Symposium, featuring papers by Elizabeth Bolman (Temple University), Antoine Borrut (University of Maryland), Averil Cameron (Oxford University), Daniel Galadza (University of Vienna), Cecily Hilsdale (McGill University), Scott Johnson (University of Oklahoma), Kostis Kourelis (Franklin and Marshall College), Margaret Mullet (Queens University Belfast), Arietta Papaconstantinou (University of Reading), Stephen Rapp (Sam Houston State), Columba Stewart (Hill Museum and Manuscript Library), Jack Tannous (Princeton University), Alicia Walker (Bryn...

Valentina Pugliano (University of Cambridge), The Artisan and the Koran: A Mediterranean Perspective on Early Modern Science and Medicine.

Vera Keller (University of Oregon), Francis Bacon and the Science of Wishing.

Hannah Marcus (Stanford University), The Utility of Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Counter-Reformation Italy.