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SUMMARY:Archaeology\, Archaeogenetics and History: Methodological Advances and New Results
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, archaeogenetic research has made spectacular progress\, and can now address historical periods\, for which collaboration with archaeologists and historians becomes essential. The talk will sketch the development and the problems of this new line of research\, and present results of the largest project conducted in this field so far: the HistoGenes project\, funded by the European Research Council. It has brought new insights about Eastern Central Europe from the 5th to 9th centuries\, a period with numerous recorded migrations and political upheavals. \nReception to follow.  \nAudience: Campus community PU ID \n\nPresented by the Program in Archaeology. Co-sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/histogenes-seminar/
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Sophomore Open House
DESCRIPTION:Join the Program in Medieval Studies on March 19 to learn all about the minor\, related courses\, events\, and the vast resources for medieval studies at Princeton. \nThrough a flexible model wherein independent work may take various forms and coursework may intersect students’ plans of study in various ways\, the minor is designed to welcome students with any degree concentration. All students are welcome! \nRefreshments will be provided.  \nAbout the minor \nThe Program in Medieval Studies encourages the interdisciplinary study of the Middle Ages: its art\, literature (Latin and vernacular)\, music\, religion\, science\, philosophy\, politics\, and economic and social structures. The minor’s multidisciplinary training in the study of history\, culture and society fosters students’ future work in fields such as media\, heritage management\, archives and museums\, publishing industries\, legal studies\, public scholarship and academic research.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-sophomore-open-house-2/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:LAMB Workshop - “Patientia and the Reimagining of Courage in Early Christian North Africa”
DESCRIPTION:More information will be available shortly. \n\nAbout LAMB:  \nThe Late Antique\, Medieval\, and Byzantine Graduate Workshop at Princeton (LAMB) provides interdisciplinary forums for presenting research\, fostering community\, and training in professional development. \nOur full schedule for the term is available through our website. Contact Alice Morandy or Anna D’Elia with any questions. \nLAMB is sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies\, the Center for Collaborative History\, and the Departments of Art & Archaeology\, English\, Religion\, and Classics. \nSponsorship of an event does not constitute departmental or institutional endorsement of the specific program\, speakers\, or views presented. 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/lamb-workshop-patientia-and-the-reimagining-of-courage-in-early-christian-north-africa/
LOCATION:203 Scheide Caldwell House
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SUMMARY:Comparative Diplomatics - Ottoman firmans
DESCRIPTION:More information will be available shortly. \nComparative Diplomatics is an exploratory workshop on documents in late antiquity and the middle ages with occasional forays into the modern era\, as distinct from narrative and normative long-form texts. Its goal is twofold: to stimulate the production of new translations of late antique and medieval documentary sources that can be used in the classroom\, and/or harvest some of the translations already being made; and to bring languages\, subfields and approaches into contact in order to clarify methodological questions. \nEach presenter will translate an unpublished document or retranslate a previously published document that needs fresh examination\, and a few days ahead of time\, provide the group with an edition\, a translation and an image of the original.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/comparative-diplomatics-medieval-hebrew-documents-2/
LOCATION:210 Dickinson Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Book Club - Collected Fictions
DESCRIPTION:The Medieval Studies Book Club’s last meeting of the year will take place on Thursday\, March 26 at 4:30pm in Scheide Caldwell House 209. \nWe will be discussing Jorge Luis Borges’s Collected Fictions. Borges (1899-1986)\, one of the most important Spanish-language writers of the 20th century and considered a major influence on a range of genres\, from philosophy to fantasy\, has also long been a favorite of medievalists. An amateur medievalist himself\, Borges has explored and re-imagined the worlds of medieval Iberia\, Northern Europe\, and the Middle East in some of his most famous stories. Historians across specializations have in turn found the imagery of Borges’s stories to be useful metaphors to illustrate historical problems. This month\, the Medieval Book Club joins this endeavor.This meeting is the final one of the year and will be open not only to students but also to postdocs and faculty. We would be honored if you would join us. \nPlease sign up here by March 19. Copies are available to pick up from Anna D’Elia in 206 Scheide Caldwell. \nIn particular\, we will focus on the following stories within the Collected Fictions: \n\n\n\nHakim\, the Masked Dyer of Merv\nTlön\, Uqbar\, Orbis Tertius\nThe Approach to al-Mu’tasim\nPierre Menard\, Author of the Quixote\nThe Circular Ruins\nThe Library of Babel\nThe Immortal\nThe Theologians\nThe House of Asterion\nAverroës’ Search\nThe Zahir\nIbn al-Ḥakam al-Bokhari\, Murdered in His Labyrinth\nThe Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths\nThe Aleph\nDreamtigers\nA Dialog About a Dialog\nArgumentum Ornithologicum\nOn Exactitude and Science\n\n(My thanks to Jesse Noilly for helping to compile this list.) \nThis meeting is for Princeton University students and faculty only.  \n\n 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-book-club-2/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Seeing Sound\, Speaking Images: The Senses in the Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:2026 Medieval Studies Graduate Conference\nFriday\, March 27 |  5:30-7:30pm | Princeton Theological Seminary Chapel: \nKeynote concert with ModernMedieval Voices & DEMESTVO\nSaturday\, March 28 | 9:00am – 4:30pm | 300 Wallace Hall:\nGraduate Conference\nFor the full schedule and to register\, please visit the conference website. \nThis year’s theme considers the vibrant ways in which medieval people experienced\, described\, and theorized the senses. How did sound\, sight\, touch\, taste\, and smell shape devotion\, knowledge\, memory\, and identity? How were sensory experiences translated across media—into text\, image\, song\, or material form? What might sensory perception reveal about embodiment\, spirituality\, and the boundaries of human experience? \nMore information to follow shortly. For questions\, contact the organizing committee at msgradconference@gmail.com. \n\nThis conference is sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies\, Center for Collaborative History\, Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity\, Program in the Ancient World\, Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies\, and the Departments of Art & Archaeology\, Classics\, English\, Religion\, and Music. \nThis year’s conference is organized by Megan Coates (Art & Archaeology) and Claire Apostoli (Classics).
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/seeing-sound-speaking-images-the-senses-in-the-middle-ages/
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Coffee Hour - Fall Course Preview
DESCRIPTION:Join Medieval Studies faculty and students for a special coffee hour on March 31. For this discussion\, faculty in different departments will talk briefly about the medieval courses they are offering in Fall 2026\, and we will answer any questions about minor requirements and related coursework. \nRefreshments will be served. \nThis event is open to Princeton University students and faculty only. 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-coffee-hour-5/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Faculty Colloquium - "Reading by Candlelight in Late-Medieval Britain"
DESCRIPTION:Join Medieval Studies for our next faculty colloquium with Spencer Strub\, Lecturer in English and Associate Research Scholar in the Council of the Humanities. \nLunch will be provided. Please RSVP. \nMedieval people read\, and sometimes wrote\, at night. To do so\, they needed a source of light. In premodernity\, that light was invariably cast by burning organic matter—wood\, beeswax\, animal fat—that had been crafted for the purpose and brought to consumers through a web of economic processes: a single candle might reflect a history of animal husbandry and slaughter\, craft-guild organization\, huckster retail\, and routine domestic labor. Late medieval England provides a rich record of that multiform economy of light. The London guilds of Wax Chandlers and Tallow Chandlers\, for instance\, helped formalize the trade in relatively expensive forms of light starting in the late thirteenth century\, while local piecework across the country brought cheap rushlights into the homes of the poor. Collating such records with the glancing references to nocturnal reading and writing in English and Scottish poems\, letters\, and chronicles\, this talk offers a new history of the entanglement of textual culture and the preindustrial energy. \nThis event is open to Princeton University faculty\, students\, and staff only.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-faculty-colloquium-spencer-strub/
LOCATION:103 Scheide Caldwell House
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SUMMARY:LAMB Workshop - “Uncertain Masculinities: Reading Cruising Anxiety in Piers’ Hawkyn”
DESCRIPTION:More information will be available shortly. \n\nAbout LAMB:  \nThe Late Antique\, Medieval\, and Byzantine Graduate Workshop at Princeton (LAMB) provides interdisciplinary forums for presenting research\, fostering community\, and training in professional development. \nOur full schedule for the term is available through our website. Contact Alice Morandy or Anna D’Elia with any questions. \nLAMB is sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies\, the Center for Collaborative History\, and the Departments of Art & Archaeology\, English\, Religion\, and Classics. \nSponsorship of an event does not constitute departmental or institutional endorsement of the specific program\, speakers\, or views presented. 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/lamb-workshop-uncertain-masculinities-reading-cruising-anxiety-in-piers-hawkyn/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell House
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SUMMARY:LAMB Workshop - “The Sound(s) of Silence: The Singing Voice and Gender Performance in Le Roman de Silence”
DESCRIPTION:More information will be available shortly. \n\nAbout LAMB:  \nThe Late Antique\, Medieval\, and Byzantine Graduate Workshop at Princeton (LAMB) provides interdisciplinary forums for presenting research\, fostering community\, and training in professional development. \nOur full schedule for the term is available through our website. Contact Alice Morandy or Anna D’Elia with any questions. \nLAMB is sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies\, the Center for Collaborative History\, and the Departments of Art & Archaeology\, English\, Religion\, and Classics. \nSponsorship of an event does not constitute departmental or institutional endorsement of the specific program\, speakers\, or views presented. 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/lamb-workshop-the-sounds-of-silence-the-singing-voice-and-gender-performance-in-le-roman-de-silence/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell House
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SUMMARY:Between Binaries: Liminality and the Dynamics of Alterity
DESCRIPTION:In ancient and modern societies\, we can trace a complex dynamic created by wide-ranging interaction within the spectrum of human diversity. It triggers closures in which social boundaries are drawn between ‘us’ and ‘them’. These divisions enable an unequal distribution of power and resources. Yet in the long run\, they rarely fulfill the expectations of all those who feel entitled to a share in the privileges conferred by the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion put into place. The boundaries therefore come under pressure\, are contested and/or subverted. Depending on the societal distribution of wealth and power they can get more rigid or more flexible. Based on recent research\, we aim for a better understanding of the strategies of distinction formulated and employed by individuals and groups. How and when do social categorisations become more or less salient\, and how does their varying salience impact their use\, meaning and history? We focus on spaces between more or less well-delineated entities in which individuals and groups may find themselves\, driven by the own ambitions and/or ill fates. The people in-between have to mobilize all their resources to face the challenge. They may become cultural brokers\, ambitious converts\, a badly-treated workforce or destitute outsiders. It is no surprise that people who in the past produced the most interesting written accounts on their own societies would understand themselves as in-betweeners. But does this self-understanding correspond to assessments by historians? For which social spaces and individual fates does ‘in-between binaries’ provide a productive category? This is the main question we would like to pursue. We aim at a differentiated understanding of the fates and options of those who were caught in the middle\, in between constructed alterities. Observing how people occupied places in-between binaries\, and how boundaries were maintained by enforcing binary oppositions can provide us with a window into the histories of categorial infrastructures in different cultures\, societies and periods. \n\n\n\nGuest Speakers:\nKate Cooper\, Royal Holloway\, London \nMaximilian Diesenberger\, Institute for Medieval Research\, Austrian Academy of Sciences \nStefan Esders\, Free University Berlin \nFrancesca Fiaschetti\, Excellence Cluster Eurasian Transformations\, Austrian Academy of Sciences \nBoris Fonarkov\, Excellence Cluster Eurasian Transformations\, Austrian Academy of Sciences \nMariia Golovina\, Excellence Cluster Eurasian Transformations\, Austrian Academy of Sciences \nKatharina Heyden\, Bern University \nConrad Leyser\, Oxford University \nSalvatore Liccardo\, Excellence Cluster Eurasian Transformations\, Austrian Academy of Sciences \nSierra Lomuto\, Rowan University \nNaoise MacSweeney\, University of Vienna \nNina Mirnig\, University of Vienna \nWalter Pohl\, University of Vienna \nPavlína Rychterová\, Davis Center\, Princeton University / Institute for Medieval Research\, Austrian Academy of Sciences \nCord Whitaker\, Wellesley College \n\nOrganized by Helmut Reimitz \n\n\n\nSponsors\n\nCenter for Collaborative History\nProgram in Contemporary European Politics and Society\nHumanities Council\nStanley J. Seeger ’52 Center for Hellenic Studies\nProgram in Medieval Studies\nPrinceton Institute for International and Regional Studies
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/between-binaries-liminality-and-the-dynamics-of-alterity/
LOCATION:211 Dickinson Hall
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SUMMARY:Medieval Matters: Manuscript Culture and the Five Senses in the Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:This event is open to the public\, however\, registration is required. \nMedieval Matters: Manuscript Culture and the Five Senses in the Middle Ages\, a full day roundtable\, brings together senior and junior faculty from leading East and West Coast institutions to present and discuss current research and methodologies in Old French studies. The roundtable will include a response by Ardis Butterfield (Yale)\, as well as presentations by Eliza Zingesser (Columbia)\, Mary Channen Caldwell (Penn)\, Henry Ravenhall (Berkeley)\, Ariane Bottex-Ferragne (NYU)\, Fay Slakey (Princeton)\, and Julien Stout (Princeton). \nThe title of the roundtable plays on the verb to matter\, the medieval French term matiere—used to designate thematic cycles (matiere de Rome\, de Bretagne\, etc.)—and the modern concept of materiality. The theme foregrounds the physicality of manuscripts\, textual fragments\, and amulets—objects produced\, circulated\, and handled in the Middle Ages—while also approaching poetry and literature as forms of “matter” that resist reduction to mere metaphor. The roundtable aims to explore how literary and poetic forms invite multisensory engagement\, often simultaneously. \nGuiding questions include: \n\nHow does a song\, narrative\, or idea move in and out of different forms of materiality in medieval French manuscript culture?\nHow does this (im)materiality interact with the senses in the production\, transmission\, and reception of medieval French culture?\nWhat happens when\, within a poem\, some senses stand in for others\, or when they converge into “multisensory nodes” that create an intermedial space—perhaps echoing an abstract or “vertical” realm?\nHow are (im)material or (non-)corporeal beings—or parts of beings—involved in the experience of manuscript culture?\n\n\nPLEASE RSVP \n\nThe event will conclude with this year’s Medieval Studies Faber Lecture presented by Marisa Galvez (Stanford University). \nPresented by the Department of French and Italian. Co-sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies and the Center for Collaborative History. \n\nProgram \n9:00am-9:30am — Welcome and Registration \n9:30am-9:40am — Opening remarks (10 minutes max) \n10:00am-11:30am — Session 1: Touching\, Reading\, Grafting(20 minute presentations followed by 10 minute discussions) \nModerator: Prof. Simone Marchesi (Princeton\, French and Italian) \n\nHenry Ravenhall (UC Berkeley)\, Flamenca and the Erotics of Book-Touching\nFay Slakey (Princeton\, Comparative Literature)\, “De molt bons maitres avez lu”: The Materiality of Text in Two Tristan Narratives\nEliza Zingesser (Columbia)\, Grafting and the Roman de Saint Fanuel\n\n11:30am-1:00pm — Lunch Break (Lunch will be served on campus) \n1:00pm-2:30pm  —  Session 2: Multisensory verticalities  \nModerator: Prof. Daniel Heller-Roazen (Princeton\, Comparative Literature) \n\nAriane Bottex-Ferragne (NYU)\, “Pendu a sa diestre orelle li garira de ce mal”: Body\, Gesture\, and the Materiality of Old French Prayers\nMary Channen Caldwell (Penn)\, Curses\, Songs\, Dances: Moralizing through Senseless Voices and Impaired Bodies in a Medieval Story\nJulien Stout (Princeton\, French and Italian)\, Foreign Chaos: Naming “Formless Matter” in Old French Retellings of the Creation\n\n2:30pm-2:40pm  —  Break \n2:40 pm – 3:00 pm — Response \n\nArdis Butterfield (Yale)\n\n3:30 pm-5:00 pm —  Keynote Lecture (East Pyne 010) \n\nMaris Galvez (Stanford)
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medievalmatters/
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SUMMARY:Singing Matters: Song Ecologies from the Troubadours to the Global South
DESCRIPTION:Marisa Galvez\, Professor of French and Italian at Stanford University\, will present this year’s Medieval Studies Faber Lecture. \nPLEASE RSVP \nThis lecture serves as the keynote for “Medieval Matters: Manuscript Culture and the Five Senses in the Middle Ages\,” a full day roundtable which will bring together senior and junior faculty from leading East and West Coast institutions to present and discuss current research and methodologies in Old French studies. \nThis lecture analyzes how multisensorial aspects of troubadour lyric can be transferred into various matters such as precolonial gold objects and contemporary sculpture\, and thus aims to expand perspectives on song ecologies in medieval French and Occitan.  Lyric—as song put to music\, or words and sound together arranged into stanzas\, meters\, and rhymes—can be transferred into different media and historical situations through translation. \nThis approach to an expansive view of poetry is grounded in the work of contemporary translations of medieval lyric and can expand definitions of verse to global and indigenous song traditions. Writers and artists such as Édouard Glissant\, Augusto de Campos\, and Gérard Zuchetto and Jean-Luc Séverac anthologize and translate medieval poetry through an artisanal and sensual engagement with troubadour tropes such as entrebescar (interweaving) and compas (musical and metrical aligment). Their translations converge with the animism of Global South song\, whereby lyric selves are envoiced in a ritual manner that includes various persons – nonhumans\, supernatural beings\, and objects such as gold belts. \nUltimately these modern artists and writers enable us to see how lyric moves through various human and nonhuman selves and materials such as precolonial Philippine Gold as we recognize how lyric transference occurs in both medieval poetry and indigenous song in a conversant song ecology that maintains the distinctiveness and historical situation of both. Their translations of entrebescar and compas results in events of what I call “unthought medievalism” that enable the past to sing in the present in vital new ways.  \n\nA reception to follow the lecture.  This event is free and open to the public. \n\nPresented by the Program in Medieval Studies with support from the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council. Co-sponsored by the Department of French and Italian.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-faber-lecture-2/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260508T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260508T170000
DTSTAMP:20260801T192652
CREATED:20260403T205916Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Senior Reception & Faculty Book Party
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the Class of 2026 and recent book publications in the Medieval Studies Community. Snacks will be provided! \nPlease RSVP to Anna D’Elia. \nThis event is open to Princeton staff\, faculty\, and students.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-senior-reception-faculty-book-party/
LOCATION:Joseph Henry House Sunporch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T180000
DTSTAMP:20260801T192652
CREATED:20260629T124606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260629T124606Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies & CSLA Fall Welcome Reception
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Program in Medieval Studies and the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity (CSLA) for a Fall Welcome Reception on Tuesday\, September 8. \nWe look forward to gathering with you at the start of the new academic year! Brief remarks and introductions will start at 5:00pm. \nPlease RSVP Here. \nThis event is only open to Princeton University students\, faculty\, and staff. Please feel free to share this invitation with any new members of the community\, including incoming graduate students\, postdocs\, visiting students and researchers. \n*In case of rain\, we will be located on the first floor of Scheide Caldwell House.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-csla-fall-welcome-reception/
LOCATION:Scheide Caldwell House & Joseph Henry House Courtyard
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260916T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260916T131500
DTSTAMP:20260801T192652
CREATED:20260706T144334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260728T193008Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Seminar Series - Julia Perratore & Laura Filloy Nadal
DESCRIPTION:More Information available shortly \nPlease RSVP HERE. Lunch will be provided.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-seminar-series-julia-perratore-laura-filloy-nadal/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T131500
DTSTAMP:20260801T192652
CREATED:20260629T124750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T152412Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies & CSLA Lunch
DESCRIPTION:Join the Program in Medieval Studies and the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity (CSLA) for lunch on Wednesday\, October 7. \nMedieval Studies and CSLA will host informal\, monthly lunches throughout the year as an opportunity to gather with colleagues and meet new faculty and students in the programs. No paper\, no pre-read\, just food and conversation. Participants are free to stay for the whole time or drop in anytime between 12 – 1:15pm. All are welcome: undergraduate\, graduate\, post-doc\, faculty\, staff. \nThe next lunch will be on November 4.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-csla-lunch/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261027T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261027T183000
DTSTAMP:20260801T192652
CREATED:20260729T145926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T145926Z
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SUMMARY:Comparative Diplomatics
DESCRIPTION:More information will be available shortly. \nComparative Diplomatics is an exploratory workshop on documents in late antiquity and the middle ages with occasional forays into the modern era\, as distinct from narrative and normative long-form texts. Its goal is twofold: to stimulate the production of new translations of late antique and medieval documentary sources that can be used in the classroom\, and/or harvest some of the translations already being made; and to bring languages\, subfields and approaches into contact in order to clarify methodological questions. \nEach presenter will translate an unpublished document or retranslate a previously published document that needs fresh examination\, and a few days ahead of time\, provide the group with an edition\, a translation and an image of the original.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/comparative-diplomatics/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell House
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261028T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261028T131500
DTSTAMP:20260801T192652
CREATED:20260624T142256Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260624T142435Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Faculty Colloquium - "Hell\, and How to Get There"
DESCRIPTION:Join Medieval Studies for our first faculty colloquium of the year with Olaoluwatoni (Toni) Alimi\, Assistant Professor in Religion and the University Center for Human Values. \nLunch will be provided. Please RSVP. \nMore information will be available shortly. \nThis event is open to Princeton University faculty\, students\, and staff only.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-faculty-colloquium-hell-and-how-to-get-there/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261104T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261104T131500
DTSTAMP:20260801T192652
CREATED:20260629T124943Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T152434Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies & CSLA Lunch
DESCRIPTION:Join the Program in Medieval Studies and the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity (CSLA) for lunch on Wednesday\, November 4. During this lunch\, we’ll share information about spring 2027 medieval courses. Students can stop by at anytime to learn more and ask questions about next semester’s course offerings. \nMedieval Studies and CSLA will host informal\, monthly lunches throughout the year as an opportunity to gather with colleagues and meet new faculty and students in the programs. No paper\, no pre-read\, just food and conversation. Participants are free to stay for the whole time or drop in anytime between 12 – 1:15pm. All are welcome: undergraduate\, graduate\, post-doc\, faculty\, staff.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-csla-lunch-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261109T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261109T131500
DTSTAMP:20260801T192652
CREATED:20260706T145010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260706T145040Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Seminar Series - Laura Weigert
DESCRIPTION:More Information available shortly \nPlease RSVP HERE. Lunch will be provided.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-seminar-series-laura-weigert/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261112T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261112T131500
DTSTAMP:20260801T192652
CREATED:20260623T151401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260623T151401Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Seminar Series - Beate Fricke
DESCRIPTION:More Information available shortly \nPlease RSVP HERE. Lunch will be provided.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-seminar-series-beate-fricke/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261117T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261117T183000
DTSTAMP:20260801T192652
CREATED:20260729T150018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T150018Z
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SUMMARY:Comparative Diplomatics
DESCRIPTION:More information will be available shortly. \nComparative Diplomatics is an exploratory workshop on documents in late antiquity and the middle ages with occasional forays into the modern era\, as distinct from narrative and normative long-form texts. Its goal is twofold: to stimulate the production of new translations of late antique and medieval documentary sources that can be used in the classroom\, and/or harvest some of the translations already being made; and to bring languages\, subfields and approaches into contact in order to clarify methodological questions. \nEach presenter will translate an unpublished document or retranslate a previously published document that needs fresh examination\, and a few days ahead of time\, provide the group with an edition\, a translation and an image of the original.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/comparative-diplomatics-2/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell House
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261120T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261120T111500
DTSTAMP:20260801T192652
CREATED:20260727T193347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260728T191348Z
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SUMMARY:Dragons\, Dungeons\, and Documents: Writing Fiction and Nonfiction about the Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:Join Elizabeth Morrison\, author and Senior Curator of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum\, for this discussion on Friday\, November 20 over breakfast. \nPlease RSVP HERE. Breakfast will be provided.  \nUndergraduate students who RSVP by November 1 will receive a copy of Morrison’s The Lawless Land\, Book I (please look out for an email from Anna D’Elia with pick up instructions). Pending availability\, gratis copies may also be available for graduate students: please RSVP by November 1 and look for a notification about book availability. We encourage all students to read the book prior to the conversation on November 20 (take it on Fall Break!); please consider an RSVP a commitment to attend.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/dragons-dungeons-and-documents-writing-fiction-and-nonfiction-about-the-middle-ages/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261201T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261201T183000
DTSTAMP:20260801T192652
CREATED:20260729T150100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T150100Z
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SUMMARY:Comparative Diplomatics
DESCRIPTION:More information will be available shortly. \nComparative Diplomatics is an exploratory workshop on documents in late antiquity and the middle ages with occasional forays into the modern era\, as distinct from narrative and normative long-form texts. Its goal is twofold: to stimulate the production of new translations of late antique and medieval documentary sources that can be used in the classroom\, and/or harvest some of the translations already being made; and to bring languages\, subfields and approaches into contact in order to clarify methodological questions. \nEach presenter will translate an unpublished document or retranslate a previously published document that needs fresh examination\, and a few days ahead of time\, provide the group with an edition\, a translation and an image of the original.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/comparative-diplomatics-3/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell House
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261202T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261202T131500
DTSTAMP:20260801T192652
CREATED:20260727T194116Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260727T194116Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Faculty Colloquium - Elena Shadrina
DESCRIPTION:Join Medieval Studies for our next colloquium with Elenda Shadrina (History). \nLunch will be provided. Please RSVP. \nMore information will be available shortly. \nThis event is open to Princeton University faculty\, students\, and staff only.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-faculty-colloquium-elena-shadrina/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270127T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270127T131500
DTSTAMP:20260801T192652
CREATED:20260727T194517Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260727T194517Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Seminar Series - Colby Gordan
DESCRIPTION:More Information available shortly \nPlease RSVP HERE. Lunch will be provided.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-seminar-series-colby-gordan/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270202T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270202T183000
DTSTAMP:20260801T192652
CREATED:20260729T160339Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T160339Z
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SUMMARY:Comparative Diplomatics
DESCRIPTION:More information will be available shortly. \nComparative Diplomatics is an exploratory workshop on documents in late antiquity and the middle ages with occasional forays into the modern era\, as distinct from narrative and normative long-form texts. Its goal is twofold: to stimulate the production of new translations of late antique and medieval documentary sources that can be used in the classroom\, and/or harvest some of the translations already being made; and to bring languages\, subfields and approaches into contact in order to clarify methodological questions. \nEach presenter will translate an unpublished document or retranslate a previously published document that needs fresh examination\, and a few days ahead of time\, provide the group with an edition\, a translation and an image of the original.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/comparative-diplomatics-4/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell House
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270206
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270208
DTSTAMP:20260801T192652
CREATED:20260727T200232Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T202747Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Wrong in the Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:Save the Date for the 2027 Medieval Studies Graduate Conference – “Reading Wrong in the Middle Ages”\nThis year’s plenary speaker will be Rita Copeland\, Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Professor of the Humanities\, Professor of Classical Studies\, English\, and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. More information to follow shortly. \n\nThis conference is sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies\, the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity\, and the Departments of German and Comparative Literature. \nThis year’s conference is organized by Darcy Chanin (Comparative Literature) and Tina Zhang (German).
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/reading-wrong-in-the-middle-ages/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270210T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270210T131500
DTSTAMP:20260801T192652
CREATED:20260729T155425Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T155425Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Faculty Colloquium - Teresa Shawcross
DESCRIPTION:Join Medieval Studies for our next colloquium with Teresa Shawcross\, Associate Professor of History and Hellenic Studies. \nLunch will be provided. Please RSVP. \nMore information will be available shortly. \nThis event is open to Princeton University faculty\, students\, and staff only.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-faculty-colloquium-teresa-shawcross/
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