Harvard scholars use ice core data to explore the role of famine in the fourteenth-century plague pandemic. Read more here ...

A memorial celebration of the life and work of our friend and colleague Shahab Ahmed will take place at Harvard's Memorial Church on Sunday, 15 November from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.. A reception will follow the service. For more on Professor Ahmed's career and many accomplishments, please click here.

... The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion, and Charity, in bookstores this week from Cambridge University Press. More here ...

Professor Racha Kirakosian (Germanic Languages and Literatures) explores women's voices in medieval literature through an Arts@29Garden concert. More here ...