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English Department Medieval Colloquium

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Holly Crocker (Boston College), Boundless Subjects and the Literary Downfalls of Eleanor Cobham. Co-sponsored by the English Department Renaissance Colloquium.

Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop

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Susan Phillips (Northwestern University) discusses her new book Learning to Talk Shop: Mercantile Mischief and Popular Pedagogy in Premodern England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025). Co-sponsored by the English Medieval Colloquium, the Medieval...

English Department Medieval Colloquium

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James Simpson (English, emeritus), Modernity's Selfhood and the Desacralization of Images; or, Being an Early Modern Image Hurts. Co-sponsored by the English Department Renaissance Colloquium.

English Department Medieval Colloquium

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Leah Whittington (Harvard University), Spenser, Chaucer, and the Supplemented Book. Co-sponsored by the English Department Renaissance Colloquium.

English Department Medieval Colloquium

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Avantika Kumar (Department of the History of Art & Architecture), Between Book and Body: Art, Language and the Limits of Interpretation in the Manuscripts of the English Benedictine Movement.

English Department Renaissance Colloquium

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Leah Whittington (Harvard University), Textual Repair: Humanism, Lost Texts, and the Renaissance Pursuit of Completeness. Co-sponsored by the Department of English.

English Department Medieval Colloquium

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James Simpson (Harvard University) and Leah Whittington (Harvard University), The Dark Age (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries): A Debate. Co-sponsored by the English Department Medieval Colloquium and Renaissance Colloquium.

English Department Graduate Medieval Colloquium

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D. Vance Smith (Princeton University), The African Map of Europe: The Brut and Balliol College Colonialism. Co-sponsored by the GSAS English Department Medieval Colloquium and the Committee on Medieval Studies. Please note that due to current university...

Bibendum/Gebeorscip

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Join us for the inaugural Bibendum/Gebeorscip, a chance to meet other graduate medievalists (and fellow travelers) for snacks, libations, and sparkling repartée! Co-sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies Workshop and the English Department...

"In Stori Stif and Stronge": A Conversation with David Lowery

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A conversation with David Lowery, writer and director of The Green Knight (2021), on the making of the film and the process of adopting and adapting a medieval story for modern audiences. Moderated by Ahmed Seif (Department of English), with panelists...

English Department Medieval Colloquium

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Ahmed Seif (English): In Reported Speech and Through It; or, "What Women Really Want".

English Department Medieval Colloquium

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Joseph Shack (Harvard University), What Is and Ought to Be: Analogues, Influence, and Meaning in Old English Gnomic Verbs.