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Medieval Love: The Final Cut!

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Hollywood meets Medieval in this special lunchtime event, as Harvard students pitch their television treatments of medieval sex, love, and marriage to a celebrity panel of judges. Who will prevail? Come for lunch, stay to find out! Sponsored by the...

Houghton-Medieval Studies Lecture on Early Book History

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Denva Gallant (Rice University), Considering Withdrawal in Images of the Vitae patrum (Lives of the Desert Fathers). Co-sponsored by Houghton Library and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies. The Desert Fathers and Mothers defined their lives...

Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

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Aleks Pluskowski (University of Reading), Landscapes of (Re)conquest: Archaeologies of Frontier Societies in Medieval Iberia. Co-sponsored with the Harvard Standing Committee on Archeology.

Harvard Medieval and Early Modern Undergraduate Symposium

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The second annual Harvard undergraduate medieval and early modern symposium, featuring work by Harvard College students in all disciplines. Please click here for the call for papers. Sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and the...

Houghton Library George Parker Winship Lecture

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Ludger Lieb (University of Heidelberg), A Fascination with Writing on Things: The Materiality of Texts in the Middle Ages. Sponsored by the Houghton Library and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies. CANCELLED

New Director for the Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions

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Charles Stang, Professor of Early Christianity at the Harvard Divinity School and a member of the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, has been named the new director of Harvard's Center for the Study of World Religions. Read more ...

The Theodosian Harbor Excavations and 37 Byzantine Shipwrecks at Yenikapı in Istanbul-Turkey

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Lecture by Ufuk Kocabaş, Istanbul University. Co-sponsored by the Consulate General of Turkey in Boston, the Standing Committee on Archeology, and the Department of History of Art and Architecture.

Medieval and Early Modern Undergraduate Symposium Lecture

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Amy Remensnyder '83 (Brown University), Lampedusa: The Past and Present of a Mediterranean Island. Reception to follow. This is the keynote address for the second annual Harvard Medieval and Early Modern Undergraduate Symposium, which will take place on...

Harvard Initiative for the Science of the Human Past Lecture

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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.

Mahindra Humanities Center France and the World Seminar

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Mireille Séguy (Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis), Faire monde au XIIIe siècle: Le cycle du Lancelot-Graal. Univers, livre, écosystème. Co-sponsored by the France and the World Seminar at the Mahindra Humanities Center and the Standing Committee...

Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

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The Faking of the Middle Ages: Misappropriation, Misrepresentation, and the Medieval: a panel discussion featuring remarks by Patrick Geary (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton), Katharine Park (Harvard University), and Cord Whitaker (Wellesley...

New England Medieval Conference

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Teaching the Middle Ages: Pandemic Lessons and Post-Pandemic Pedagogy, the 48th annual New England Medieval Conference. Sponsored by the Harvard Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and the University of Massachusetts Boston. This event will take place...