Committee on Medieval Studies

2024 May 02

Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop

3:30pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

Barker Center 024
Emily Sun (English), Women Without a Country: The Female Subject in Exile in the Encomium Emmae Reginae and the Poetry of Eavan Boland. Co-sponsored with the Medieval English Colloquium. Followed by the final "Bibendum/Gebeorscip" of 2024, on the Barker Center Lawn!
2024 Apr 19

Harvard Undergraduate Symposium in Premodern Studies

(All day)

Location: 

Barker Center 110 (the Thompson Room)
A daylong event featuring presentations on the ancient, medieval, and early modern world by an interdisciplinary group of Harvard College students, with reception to follow. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies, the Department of Classics, the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, Ancient Studies at Harvard, and Early Modern World at Harvard. This event is free and open to the public; a complete program and registration link can be found... Read more about Harvard Undergraduate Symposium in Premodern Studies
2024 Mar 26

Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop

3:00pm to 4:15pm

Location: 

Boylston 237
Guillem Gavaldà (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Visiting Fellow in Classics), The Manuscript Transmission of the Fortalitium Fidei. Co-sponsored by the Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop.
2024 Mar 20

Mapping Past Societies (MAPS): Data Science Meets the Human Past

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium

Mapping Past Societies (MAPS) replaces and expands the acclaimed Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations (DARMC), which attracted more than a million visits a year. MAPS is a free and public tool that enables users to peer into the human past with cutting-edge data analytics: this includes geospatial coverage of historical societies in Afro-Eurasia, North Africa and the overseas Spanish Colonial Latin America, with a rich selection of data in health, environmental, economic, and social themes.

This special event—chaired by Henry Gruber (University...

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2024 Mar 21

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in Context: LGBTQ+ Activism, Christian Traditions of Care, and Queer Medievalisms

(All day)

Location: 

The Braun Room, Swartz Hall, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue

An intersectional, interdisciplinary conference drawing together religious studies, queer studies, the history of Christian social care, LGBTQ+ activism in the community, and ‘popular medievalisms’. Keynote lecture on 21 March, 5:00 pm, by Miles Pattenden (University of Oxford) and...

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