Calendar of Events

Race Before Modernity Book Club – Divine Variations: How Christian Thought Became Racial Science

Program in Medieval Studies

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

Chris Wickham, University of Oxford, Emeritus

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

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

Cord Whitaker, Wellesley College; Walter Pohl, University of Vienna

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

Medieval Studies Graduate Conference – Reclaiming Losses: Recovery, Reconquest, and Restoration in the Middle Ages

Program in Medieval Studies

Empires and Racialization: The Myth of the Martial Race

Nino Luraghi, Oxford University

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

Race, Racecraft and Necropolitics in Greek Epic

Jackie Murray, University of Kentucky

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

LAMB – Narcissus Redemptus: Visions of Specularity in Medieval Vernacular Poetics

Peter Makhlouf, Department of Comparative Literature

Program in Medieval Studies; Center for Collaborative History

Art & Archaeology Conference – Amassing Perspectives: Recent Trends in Syriac Iconography

Department of Art & Archaeology; Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity (CSLA); Center for Collaborative History (CCH)

Vance Smith – Forget Feudalism: Kenya and Balliol College

Vance Smith, Department of English

Program in Medieval Studies

LAMB – Long-Distance Optical Communications in the Byzantine World: Revisiting the Anatolian Beacon Line Through Digital Experimental Archaeology

Lucas McMahon, Department of History

Program in Medieval Studies; Center for Collaborative History