Medieval Studies Events

The Affects of Manumission: Racial Melancholy and Roman Freedpersons

Race, Racecraft and Necropolitics in Greek Epic

Medievalists of Color; Program in Medieval Studies; Division for Identity Studies at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences; School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Jackie Murray

Empires and Racialization: The Myth of the Martial Race

Medievalists of Color; Program in Medieval Studies; Division for Identity Studies at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences; School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Nino Luraghi

Critical Approaches to Race and Ethnicity: Premodern Identities and the Trans-Atlantic Politics of Scholarship

Medievalists of Color; Program in Medieval Studies; Division for Identity Studies at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences; School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Cord Whitaker, Wellesley College; Walter Pohl, University of Vienna

Islamic, Byzantine and Latin Exchange Systems in the Mediterranean (800-1150)

Program in Near Eastern Studies; Humanities Council; Center for Collaborative History, Chris Wickham

Seminar 3: What can we learn from the archeology of medieval Egypt that we can’t learn from the documents?

Program in Near Eastern Studies; Humanities Council; Center for Collaborative History, Chris Wickham

Seminar 2: Reading Session on Arabic-script Documents

Program in Near Eastern Studies; Humanities Council; Center for Collaborative History, Chris Wickham

Seminar 1: What can we learn from Arabic-script documents about economic exchange in medieval Egypt (800–1150)?

Program in Near Eastern Studies; Humanities Council; Center for Collaborative History, Chris Wickham

The Light Ages? Reconstructing the Practices of Late Medieval Astronomy

History of Science; Program in Medieval Studies, Seb Falk

Mail-order Mihrabs: Kashan Tiles and Architectural Design in Iran, c. 1200-1330

Program in Medieval Studies, Patricia Blessing

Past Answers to Current Concerns, Seminar 6: General team discussion

Climate Change and History Research Initiative; Medieval Studies

Past Answers to Current Concerns, Seminar 5: Failing Strategies 2

Climate Change and History Research Initiative; Medieval Studies, Emmanuel Kreike, Department of History, Princeton; Thayer Patterson and Miguel Centeno, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies

Dissimilar Similitudes: Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe

Labyrinth Books; Humanities Council, Caroline Bynum, author; Brooke Holmes, Classics

Past Answers to Current Concerns, Seminar 4: Failing Strategies 1

Climate Change and History Research Initiative; Medieval Studies, Tom McGovern, Hunter College CUNY; Eric Cline, George Washington University

Past Answers to Current Concerns, Seminar 3 – Managing Risks: Some Farmers’ Perspectives

Climate Change and History Research Initiative; Medieval Studies, Benjamin Trump, US Army Corps of Engineering R & D Center; Edda Fields-Black, Carnegie Mellon University; Travis Folk, Folk Land management, Inc.; Daniel Hanks, Clemson University

Racialization in Late Antique Italy and Italian Historiography

Medievalists of Color; Program in Medieval Studies; Division for Identity Studies at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences; School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Nicole Lopez-Jantzen

Past Answers to Current Concerns, Seminar 2: Risk Management and Historical Theory

Climate Change and History Research Initiative; Medieval Studies, Luke Kemp, University of Cambridge; Steven Hartman, University of Iceland