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MHC Medieval Studies Seminar: Collations

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Paul Russell (Celtic Languages and Literatures), Reading Greek (Out Loud) in Medieval Wales (and/or Maybe Ireland) . Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar and the Committee on Medieval Studies. Lunch will be served...

MHC Medieval Studies Seminar: Collations

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Matthew Gabriele (Department of Religion and Culture, Virginia Tech; Medieval Studies Associate in Research), Apocalyptic Certitude after the First Crusade . Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar and the Committee on...

Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

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Roy Mottahedeh (Harvard University), Medieval Kashan. Co-sponsored with the Mahindra Humanities Center Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar and the Aga Khan Fund for Iranian Studies.

Welcome!

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Join Harvard and Boston-area medievalists for food, drinks, and lively conversation at the Committee on Medieval Studies' Fall welcome reception! Followed by Reception(s), the opening meeting of the Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar.

Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

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Almut Suerbaum (Somerville College, Oxford University), Voices from the Past: The Poetic Presence of Medieval Heroes in Contemporary German Literature. Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center German Studies: New Perspectives Seminar.

Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar: Collations

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Samantha Seal (University of New Hampshire; Visiting Scholar in Medieval Studies), 'Y comen of Cristen Blood': Crafting Racial Christianity in Chaucer's Prioress's Tale. Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar and the...

Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

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Cameron Cross (University of Michigan), Love at a Crux: The New Persian Romance in a Global Middle Ages. Co-sponsored with the Mahindra Humanities Center Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar.

Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

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Author Kisha Tracy, Associate Professor of English Studies at Fitchburg State University, discusses her new book Why Study the Middle Ages? (ARC Humanities Press, 2022) with Sean Gilsdorf, Administrative Director and Lecturer on Medieval Studies. This...

Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

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Author Michelle Warren, Professor of Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, discusses her new book Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet (Stanford University Press, 2022) with Ann Blair, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at...

Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

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Author Sarah Spence, Distinguished Research Professor emerita of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia, discusses her new book The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante (Princeton University Press...

Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar

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A Playground for Poets: author Maria Dahvana Headley discusses her new translation of Beowulf (Farrar Strauss Giroux, 2019) with Daniel Donoghue , John P. Marquand Professor of English and Chair of the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies. Co-sponsored...

Center for Jewish Studies-Medieval Studies Lecture in Medieval Jewish Culture and Society

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Katrin Kogman-Appel (University of Münster), A Jewish Perspective on World Politics: The Catalan Mappamundi (Majorca 1375). Co-sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies, the Mahindra Humanities Center...