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SUMMARY:An ‘Under’ World of Practices: Romano-British Religious Cults in the Severn Valley
DESCRIPTION:The Environmental History Lab of the Program in Medieval Studies invites you to join us for the first EHL seminar of Fall 2021. This is a virtual seminar via Zoom. \nSpeakers: \nDr. Janet E. Kay\, Associate Research Scholar\, Department of Art & Archaeology\, Princeton University\nAvner Goldstein ’21\, Doctoral Candidate\, Department of History\, Boston College \nQ&A and discussion to follow presentation.\nRegistration is required for this event. Please register at this link. \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/an-under-world-of-practices-romano-british-religious-cults-in-the-severn-valley/
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SUMMARY:LAMB - Long-Distance Optical Communications in the Byzantine World: Revisiting the Anatolian Beacon Line Through Digital Experimental Archaeology
DESCRIPTION:The Late Antique\, Medieval\, and Byzantine Workshop at Princeton University (LAMB) brings together graduate students from across departments and disciplines who study and research any region ca. 300-1500 CE\, and offers an opportunity to present and discuss their research with others from within and outside their fields. \nIn addition to providing scholarly support\, development\, and camaraderie\, LAMB prepares us to flourish after graduation. Pre-modernists are often tasked with teaching across geographies and time periods. Learning from each other through workshops provides an opportunity to put our research and our disciplines in conversation with one another. This is essential since medieval studies is unusually interdisciplinary by design\, necessity\, and institutional history. \nLAMB meetings are open to Princeton graduate students. \nRSVP is required. Please see the LAMB website for the RSVP form. \nFor questions\, please contact Abigail Sargent (ams5@princeton.edu) or Nick Churik (nchurik@princeton.edu).
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/lamb-long-distance-optical-communications-in-the-byzantine-world-revisiting-the-anatolian-beacon-line-through-digital-experimental-archaeology/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Vance Smith - Forget Feudalism: Kenya and Balliol College
DESCRIPTION:Medieval Studies is pleased to offer the Faculty Colloquium Series this Fall 2021\, beginning with D. Vance Smith on September 29. Professor Smith will present “Forget Feudalism: Kenya and Balliol College”. \n  \nAttendees may chose to attend in-person or Zoom\, registration required for both options: \nIn-person:  Registration is required to attend in person (at this link) and limited to Princeton-affiliated faculty and students. Space is limited to the first 30 people to register. Boxed lunches will be served. RSVP deadline for in-person attendance: Monday\, September 27. \n– All attendees must wear face coverings.\n– Ability to social distance may not be possible.\n– Princeton ID/Prox cards are required to enter the building. \nAttendance via Zoom: Registration is required to attend via Zoom (at this link). This option is open to the wider medieval community outside of Princeton\, as well as Princeton-affiliated faculty and students who prefer to socially distance. \nFor any questions\, please send a note to Sarah Porter (sp7@princeton.edu). \n  \n  \nAN INVITATION FROM THE LIBRARY \nAlain St. Pierre and the Princeton University Library invite the Medieval Studies community to the History reading room in Firestone Library (Floor A: turn left out of the main staircase) on colloquium days to view recently acquired titles in all subject areas of Medieval Studies. The books will be on display from Monday evening (9/27) through Thursday midday\, 9/30. Come browse! \n  \n 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/faculty-colloquium-vance-smith/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Art & Archaeology Conference - Amassing Perspectives: Recent Trends in Syriac Iconography
DESCRIPTION:Monastery wall paintings in Syria and Egypt\, the illuminations of the Rabbula Gospels\, and the architecture and decorations of churches in regions as diverse as Turkey and India are just some of the rich visual culture extant from the late antique and medieval Syriac tradition. Though there is a long tradition of studying Syriac visual culture\, there have been few monographs dedicated to the topic in recent decades. This conference gathers diverse scholars from across the globe whose research touches on all aspects of Syriac iconography and visual culture in any geographic region from late antiquity throughout the Middle Ages\, to roughly 1400 C.E. The conference will sum up the status quaestionis of research into Syriac art and architecture and spell out major desiderata for the field going forward. \nThe Syriac tradition has been rooted in politically sensitive regions in the world\, and its rich material heritage remains vulnerable to destruction and illegal sale on the black market. We hope to draw attention to this area and to provide a means and opportunity for the study of its artistic and architectural legacy. Given the academic significance of such a conference\, it is hoped that the conference proceedings will develop into an edited volume\, reflecting state-of-the-art research on Syriac visual culture. \nThe virtual conference will take place on September 17–18\, 2021. It is structured around roundtable workshop sessions for pre-circulated papers\, disseminated to registered participants approximately one month in advance. The conference is hosted by the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University\, with additional support from the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity (CSLA) and the Center for Collaborative History (CCH). \nThis is a virtual conference on Zoom\, and it is free and open to the public. Register for the Zoom conference and you will also receive access to the pre-circulated papers. Papers will be available at the beginning of September.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/art-archaeology-conference-amassing-perspectives-recent-trends-in-syriac-iconography/
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SUMMARY:LAMB - Narcissus Redemptus: Visions of Specularity in Medieval Vernacular Poetics
DESCRIPTION:The Late Antique\, Medieval\, and Byzantine Workshop at Princeton University (LAMB) brings together graduate students from across departments and disciplines who study and research any region ca. 300-1500 CE\, and offers an opportunity to present and discuss their research with others from within and outside their fields. \nIn addition to providing scholarly support\, development\, and camaraderie\, LAMB prepares us to flourish after graduation. Pre-modernists are often tasked with teaching across geographies and time periods. Learning from each other through workshops provides an opportunity to put our research and our disciplines in conversation with one another. This is essential since medieval studies is unusually interdisciplinary by design\, necessity\, and institutional history. \nLAMB meetings are open to Princeton graduate students. \nRSVP is required\, at this link. \nFor questions\, please contact Abigail Sargent (ams5@princeton.edu) or Nick Churik (nchurik@princeton.edu).
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/lamb-narcissus-redemptus-visions-of-specularity-in-medieval-vernacular-poetics/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Race\, Racecraft and Necropolitics in Greek Epic
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 30\n12:00 pm EDT\nJackie Murray\, University of Kentucky\n“Race\, Racecraft and Necropolitics in Greek Epic” \nModeration: Suzanne Conklin Akbari\, School of Historical Studies\, Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton\n \nPlease be sure to add this event to your calendar.\nRegister here for the seminar with Jackie Murray. \nFor any questions please contact Sarah Porter. \n\nThe Medievalists of Color\, the Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University\, the Division for Identity Studies at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences\, and the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study\,  launched a series of online seminars entitled “Sedimented History: The Ancient Precursors to Race\, Race-Thinking\, and Identity”. Funding has been provided by the Humanities Council at Princeton University. \nThe series of seminars convenes researchers based in North America and Europe in order to inspire and further establish reflections about race\, race-thinking\, and racialization among scholars of late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. A series of talks by Medievalists of Color will anchor what we hope will become a longer and wider conversation that spans various cultures and historiographies within Medieval Studies. The aim is to begin a discussion that will: 1) enrich scholarly debate about processes of racialization by bringing together approaches developed in the United States with those developed in other parts of the world; 2) move beyond simplistic either-or binaries (race/not race\, race/religion\, race/ethnicity\, and even US/Europe) and promote the development of more nuanced paradigms for racialization and its interaction\, overlap\, and interdependence with other forms of social categorization; 3) reflect on the diversity of approaches to and salience of race\, race-thinking and racialization in different parts of the world\, and different fields of study; and 4) investigate how Critical Race Theory and other (critical) forms of Identity Studies can inspire and inform historical study. \nWhile this conversation will begin with presentations by colleagues working in North America and Europe\, we hope to widen the geographical scope still further. This series on “Race\, Race-Thinking\, and Identity in the Middle Ages and Medieval Studies” strives to reach beyond disciplinary\, geographic\, and academic-cultural borderlines. Through intellectual exchange and nuanced multilateral criticism\, we seek to develop a richer and more productive understanding of the medieval past as well as its legacy in our modern age. \nInformation regarding future seminars in this lecture series will be updated soon.\nFor any questions please contact: Sarah Porter.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/jackie-murray/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Empires and Racialization: The Myth of the Martial Race
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, March 31\n12:00 pm EST\nNino Luraghi\, Oxford University\n“Empires and Racialization: The Myth of the Martial Race” \nModeration: Walter Pohl\, University of Vienna \nPlease be sure to add this event to your calendar.\nRegister here for the seminar with Nino Luraghi. \nFor any questions please contact Sarah Porter. \n\nThe Medievalists of Color\, the Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University\, the Division for Identity Studies at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences\, and the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study\,  launched a series of online seminars entitled “Sedimented History: The Ancient Precursors to Race\, Race-Thinking\, and Identity”. Funding has been provided by the Humanities Council at Princeton University. \nThe series of seminars convenes researchers based in North America and Europe in order to inspire and further establish reflections about race\, race-thinking\, and racialization among scholars of late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. A series of talks by Medievalists of Color will anchor what we hope will become a longer and wider conversation that spans various cultures and historiographies within Medieval Studies. The aim is to begin a discussion that will: 1) enrich scholarly debate about processes of racialization by bringing together approaches developed in the United States with those developed in other parts of the world; 2) move beyond simplistic either-or binaries (race/not race\, race/religion\, race/ethnicity\, and even US/Europe) and promote the development of more nuanced paradigms for racialization and its interaction\, overlap\, and interdependence with other forms of social categorization; 3) reflect on the diversity of approaches to and salience of race\, race-thinking and racialization in different parts of the world\, and different fields of study; and 4) investigate how Critical Race Theory and other (critical) forms of Identity Studies can inspire and inform historical study. \nWhile this conversation will begin with presentations by colleagues working in North America and Europe\, we hope to widen the geographical scope still further. This series on “Race\, Race-Thinking\, and Identity in the Middle Ages and Medieval Studies” strives to reach beyond disciplinary\, geographic\, and academic-cultural borderlines. Through intellectual exchange and nuanced multilateral criticism\, we seek to develop a richer and more productive understanding of the medieval past as well as its legacy in our modern age. \nInformation regarding future seminars in this lecture series will be updated soon.\nFor any questions please contact: Sarah Porter.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/empires-and-racialization-the-myth-of-the-martial-race/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Graduate Conference - Reclaiming Losses: Recovery\, Reconquest\, and Restoration in the Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:The Medieval Studies Graduate Conference will be held over Zoom on March 6\, 2021 with the following theme: “Reclaiming Losses: Recovery\, Reconquest\, and Restoration in the Middle Ages.” \nThis theme was developed prior to the global spread of the coronavirus. It is clear\, however\, that it now resonates with our collective preoccupations in entirely unexpected ways. We hope these resonances are uplifting and creative. We hope they will not only inspire new ways of thinking about the topic in its historical context\, but also that they will help point our present thoughts to the future and to the ultimate recovery we know is to come. \nThe conference’s keynote address will be given by Professor Hussein Fancy\, Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. \nThe CfP is provided below with a more detailed conference description. We warmly invite all interested contributors to submit a proposal abstract to Eric Medawar (emedawar@princeton.edu) by November 6\, 2020. If you have any questions\, please feel free to contact either of the conference organizers\, Eric Medawar (emedawar@princeton.edu) or Rachel Gerber (ragerber@princeton.edu). \n\nThe Program in Medieval Studies provides opportunities for graduate students from across departments and disciplines to participate in workshops\, lectures\, book clubs\, and the annual Medieval Studies Graduate Conference. Please visit this link for more information.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-graduate-conference-reclaiming-losses-recovery-reconquest-and-restoration-in-the-middle-ages/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Critical Approaches to Race and Ethnicity: Premodern Identities and the Trans-Atlantic Politics of Scholarship
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, February 11\n11:00 am EST\nCord Whitaker\, Wellesley College\nWalter Pohl\, University of Vienna \nModerator: Michelle M. Sauer\, University of North Dakota \nPlease register below for this seminar to receive the Zoom instructions\, and be sure to add this event to your calendar.\nRegister here for the seminar with Cord Whitaker and Walter Pohl. \n\nThe Medievalists of Color\, the Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University\, the Division for Identity Studies at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences\, and the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study\,  launch a new series of online seminars entitled “Race\, Race-Thinking\, and Identity in the Middle Ages and Medieval Studies.” Funding has been provided by the Humanities Council at Princeton University. \nThe series of seminars convenes researchers based in North America and Europe in order to inspire and further establish reflections about race\, race-thinking\, and racialization among scholars of late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. A series of talks by Medievalists of Color will anchor what we hope will become a longer and wider conversation that spans various cultures and historiographies within Medieval Studies. The aim is to begin a discussion that will: 1) enrich scholarly debate about processes of racialization by bringing together approaches developed in the United States with those developed in other parts of the world; 2) move beyond simplistic either-or binaries (race/not race\, race/religion\, race/ethnicity\, and even US/Europe) and promote the development of more nuanced paradigms for racialization and its interaction\, overlap\, and interdependence with other forms of social categorization; 3) reflect on the diversity of approaches to and salience of race\, race-thinking and racialization in different parts of the world\, and different fields of study; and 4) investigate how Critical Race Theory and other (critical) forms of Identity Studies can inspire and inform historical study. \nWhile this conversation will begin with presentations by colleagues working in North America and Europe\, we hope to widen the geographical scope still further. This series on “Race\, Race-Thinking\, and Identity in the Middle Ages and Medieval Studies” strives to reach beyond disciplinary\, geographic\, and academic-cultural borderlines. Through intellectual exchange and nuanced multilateral criticism\, we seek to develop a richer and more productive understanding of the medieval past as well as its legacy in our modern age. \nInformation regarding future seminars in this lecture series will be updated soon.\nFor any questions please contact: Sarah Porter.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/seminar-series-race-race-thinking-and-identity-in-the-middle-ages-and-medieval-studies-cord-whitaker-and-walter-pohl/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Islamic\, Byzantine and Latin Exchange Systems in the Mediterranean (800-1150)
DESCRIPTION:Public Lecture on Zoom – Registration Required at: \nhttps://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iz9K7Ms0QRyYvNILhdrQLg \nHow did Mediterranean trade work\, and how did it change from a low point in the eighth century to the great trade cycle of the central Middle Ages? Storylines have long focused on Italian shipping\, but Egyptian documents and advances in archaeology show a far more complex picture. \nChris Wickham is Chichele Professor of Medieval History emeritus at the University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College\, and will be Director of the British School at Rome\, January through July 2021. He is the author of numerous books on medieval rural and urban Italy as well as highly acclaimed comparative histories of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages\, most recently Medieval Europe (Yale UP\, 2016). He is currently writing a comparative history of the Mediterranean ca. 950–1180\, synthesizing textual and archeological evidence for long-distance and regional exchange.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/islamic-byzantine-and-latin-exchange-systems-in-the-mediterranean-800-1150/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Race Before Modernity Book Club - Divine Variations: How Christian Thought Became Racial Science
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Book Club – Race Before Modernity \nEarnestine Qiu and Justin Willson invite interested graduate students to join the second Race Before Modernity Book Club meeting on Wednesday\, December 16 at 2 pm EST over Zoom. We plan to read Terence Keel’s Divine Variations: How Christian Thought Became Racial Science (2020). If you would like to participate\, please RSVP by November 4th\, including your shipping address\, to Justin Willson (jwillson@princeton.edu)\, and we will have Labyrinth Books mail you a copy of the book. \nIn addition to discussing the texts themselves\, we hope to give special focus to the process of writing socially engaged scholarship. That way\, instead of just debating ideas abstractly we could use the forum to cultivate a practically minded discussion that gives graduate students strategies for integrating questions of race into their research. Thanks to a generous grant from the Humanities Council\, we will be able to invite all of our selected authors to our meetings\, including Professor Keel. \nIn keeping with book club tradition\, requesting a copy of the book constitutes a commitment to participate in the discussion. \nIn later sessions\, we will be reading (i) Sara Lipton\, Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitism (2014); (ii) Jean-Frédéric Schaub\, Race is about Politics: Lessons from History (2019); and (iii) Cord J. Whitaker\, Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking (2019). \nJoin the discussion at this link. \n\nThe Program in Medieval Studies provides opportunities for graduate students from across departments and disciplines to participate in workshops\, lectures\, book clubs\, and the annual Medieval Studies Graduate Conference. Please visit this link for more information.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/race-before-modernity-divine-variations/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Seminar 3: What can we learn from the archeology of medieval Egypt that we can’t learn from the documents?
DESCRIPTION:Seminar 3 Webinar Link: https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dP7jplXMQDqMVHrWx1L8dA \nPlease click on this link to access Handouts: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gxmFaQBHERtyk25cidCwmLS74Qae7Evo?usp=sharing \nChris Wickham is Chichele Professor of Medieval History emeritus at the University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College\, and will be Director of the British School at Rome\, January through July 2021. He is the author of numerous books on medieval rural and urban Italy as well as highly acclaimed comparative histories of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages\, most recently Medieval Europe (Yale UP\, 2016). He is currently writing a comparative history of the Mediterranean ca. 950–1180\, synthesizing textual and archeological evidence for long-distance and regional exchange.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/seminar-3-what-can-we-learn-from-the-archeology-of-medieval-egypt-that-we-cant-learn-from-the-documents/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:(Re-)Imagine all the peoples. Exegesis and ethnicity in the late Antique West
DESCRIPTION:The Medievalists of Color\, the Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University\, the Division for Identity Studies at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences\, and the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study\,  launch a new series of online seminars entitled “Race\, Race-Thinking\, and Identity in the Middle Ages and Medieval Studies.” Funding has been provided by the Humanities Council at Princeton University. \nThe series of seminars convenes researchers based in North America and Europe in order to inspire and further establish reflections about race\, race-thinking\, and racialization among scholars of late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. A series of talks by Medievalists of Color will anchor what we hope will become a longer and wider conversation that spans various cultures and historiographies within Medieval Studies. The aim is to begin a discussion that will: 1) enrich scholarly debate about processes of racialization by bringing together approaches developed in the United States with those developed in other parts of the world; 2) move beyond simplistic either-or binaries (race/not race\, race/religion\, race/ethnicity\, and even US/Europe) and promote the development of more nuanced paradigms for racialization and its interaction\, overlap\, and interdependence with other forms of social categorization; 3) reflect on the diversity of approaches to and salience of race\, race-thinking and racialization in different parts of the world\, and different fields of study; and 4) investigate how Critical Race Theory and other (critical) forms of Identity Studies can inspire and inform historical study. \nWhile this conversation will begin with presentations by colleagues working in North America and Europe\, we hope to widen the geographical scope still further. This series on “Race\, Race-Thinking\, and Identity in the Middle Ages and Medieval Studies” strives to reach beyond disciplinary\, geographic\, and academic-cultural borderlines. Through intellectual exchange and nuanced multilateral criticism\, we seek to develop a richer and more productive understanding of the medieval past as well as its legacy in our modern age. \nFriday\, December 11\n12:00 EST \nGerda Heydemann\, Freie Universität Berlin\n“(Re-)Imagine all the peoples. Exegesis and ethnicity in the late Antique West“ \nPlease register below for this seminar to receive the Zoom instructions\, and be sure to add this event to your calendar.\nRegister here for the seminar with Gerda Heydemann. \nInformation regarding future seminars in this lecture series will be updated soon.\nFor any questions please contact: Sarah Porter.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/re-imagine-all-the-peoples-exegesis-and-ethnicity-in-the-late-antique-west/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201209T100000
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SUMMARY:Seminar 2: Reading Session on Arabic-script Documents
DESCRIPTION:Seminar 2 Webinar Link: https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_T9YMqh7sTKmzFJ3ILG58Ng \nPlease click on this link to access Handouts: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gxmFaQBHERtyk25cidCwmLS74Qae7Evo?usp=sharing \nChris Wickham is Chichele Professor of Medieval History emeritus at the University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College\, and will be Director of the British School at Rome\, January through July 2021. He is the author of numerous books on medieval rural and urban Italy as well as highly acclaimed comparative histories of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages\, most recently Medieval Europe (Yale UP\, 2016). He is currently writing a comparative history of the Mediterranean ca. 950–1180\, synthesizing textual and archeological evidence for long-distance and regional exchange.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/seminar-2-reading-session-on-arabic-script-documents/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201207T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201207T110000
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SUMMARY:Seminar 1: What can we learn from Arabic-script documents about economic exchange in medieval Egypt (800–1150)?
DESCRIPTION:Chris Wickham is Chichele Professor of Medieval History emeritus at the University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College\, and will be Director of the British School at Rome\, January through July 2021. He is the author of numerous books on medieval rural and urban Italy as well as highly acclaimed comparative histories of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages\, most recently Medieval Europe (Yale UP\, 2016). He is currently writing a comparative history of the Mediterranean ca. 950–1180\, synthesizing textual and archeological evidence for long-distance and regional exchange.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/seminar-1-what-can-we-learn-from-arabic-script-documents-about-economic-exchange-in-medieval-egypt-800-1150/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201124T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201124T174500
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SUMMARY:Sharing Medieval Science Outside of the Academy
DESCRIPTION:The Program in the History of Science invites graduate students to attend a workshop with Seb Falk\, Cambridge University\, on Tuesday\, November 24. \n“Sharing Medieval Science Outside of the Academy”\nSeb Falk\, Cambridge University\nNovember 24\, 2020 | 4:30 – 5:45pm \nCo-sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies \nZoom Link: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/91058501891?pwd=aXBiTno3WkZZVHVuYlZiN09ISVdvUT09 \nPassword: 151223 \n\nSeb Falk is a historian\, teacher\, broadcaster and historical consultant. Seb teaches medieval history and history of science at Cambridge University\, where he was a Fellow of Girton College from 2016 to 2019. He specialises in the history of astronomy\, navigation and mathematics – theories and technologies – from their ancient origins to modern developments. \nSeb received his B.A. in History and Spanish from Oxford University\, and an M.Phil. in History and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge.  He stayed at Cambridge for a Ph.D.\, completing his thesis on late medieval astronomical instruments in 2016. (sebfalk.com)
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/sharing-medieval-science-outside-of-the-academy/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201123T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201123T131500
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SUMMARY:The Light Ages? Reconstructing the Practices of Late Medieval Astronomy
DESCRIPTION:The Program in the History of Science invites you to attend a colloquium with Seb Falk\, Cambridge University\, on November 23. \n“The Light Ages? Reconstructing the Practices of Late Medieval Astronomy”\nSeb Falk\, Cambridge University\nNovember 23\, 2020 | 12:00 – 1:15pm \nCo-sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies \nZoom Link: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/93187772834?pwd=WVppWmtRWmZiZjhyNlN1SDVybnVVQT09 \nPassword: HOSFalk \n\nSeb Falk is a historian\, teacher\, broadcaster and historical consultant. Seb teaches medieval history and history of science at Cambridge University\, where he was a Fellow of Girton College from 2016 to 2019. He specialises in the history of astronomy\, navigation and mathematics – theories and technologies – from their ancient origins to modern developments. \nSeb received his B.A. in History and Spanish from Oxford University\, and an M.Phil. in History and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge.  He stayed at Cambridge for a Ph.D.\, completing his thesis on late medieval astronomical instruments in 2016. (sebfalk.com)
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/the-light-ages-reconstructing-the-practices-of-late-medieval-astronomy/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201119T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201119T123000
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SUMMARY:LAMB - Carmelites\, Jews\, and the Miracles of Toulouse
DESCRIPTION:Fall 2020 Late Antique\, Medieval\, and Byzantine (LAMB) Workshop series \nThe Late Antique\, Medieval\, and Byzantine Workshop at Princeton (LAMB) provides interdisciplinary forums for presenting research\, fostering community\, and training in professional development. \nPlease join the Graduate LAMB group on November 19\, 12:30pm EST to welcome Sucharita Ray (History)\, who will be presenting on “Carmelites\, Jews\, and the Miracles of Toulouse.” Courtney Barter-Colcord (History) will serve as the respondent. The paper\, soon to be posted\, can be found on the LAMB website; the password is LAMBPU2019. \n\nThe Program in Medieval Studies provides opportunities for graduate students from across departments and disciplines to participate in workshops\, lectures\, book clubs\, and the annual Medieval Studies Graduate Conference. Please visit this link for more information.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/lamb-carmelites-jews-and-the-miracles-of-toulouse/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201117T120000
DTSTAMP:20260628T015106
CREATED:20201027T153813Z
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SUMMARY:Mail-order Mihrabs: Kashan Tiles and Architectural Design in Iran\, c. 1200-1330
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a Medieval Studies Colloquium presented by Professor Patricia Blessing. \nRegistration is required. \nThe city of Kashan in Iran\, an oasis located 240 km south of Tehran to the east of the desert of the Dasht-i Kavir\, was a major center of ceramic production from the late twelfth to the mid-fourteenth century. One of the hallmarks of this production were luster tiles that were used to clad the dado zones and mihrabs of mosques and mausolea. These tiles were installed locations ranging from major Shi’a holy sites such as the shrine of Imam Reza in Mashhad in eastern Iran to smaller tombs as far as Azerbaijan. Yet despite more than a century of extensive research and publications about the luster industry of Kashan\, two simple questions have not been asked: How were the tiles designed to fit the buildings\, and how were they transported from Kashan to their destinations? This talk will pursue these questions\, attending to issues of design practices\, scale\, transportation and logistics in medieval Iran. \n\nPatricia Blessing is Assistant Professor of Islamic Art History in the Department of Art & Archaeology\, specializing in the art and architecture of the Islamic world\, with a focus on the eastern Mediterranean and Iran from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. \n  \nimage:  Detail of luster tile mihrab from Imamzade Ali b. Ja’far\, Qom\, Iran\, dated 1 Ramadan 734 AH / 5 May 1334 CE\, and signed Yusuf b. ʿAli. Height: 3.28 m\, width 2.12. Islamic Museum\, National Museum of Iran\, Tehran. Photo P. Blessing
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/mail-order-mihrabs-kashan-tiles-and-architectural-design-in-iran-c-1200-1330/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201112T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201112T123000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Book Club - Ale\, Beer\, and Brewsters in England: Women’s Work in a Changing World\, 1300-1600
DESCRIPTION:Medieval Studies Book Club \nThe next meeting of the Medieval Studies Book Club will take place on Zoom on November 12 at 12:30pm. In this meeting\, we will dive into a classic\, and still highly relevant\, work of history: Judith Bennett’s Ale\, Beer\, and Brewsters in England: Women’s Work in a Changing World\, 1300-1600 (1996). \nBennett’s treatment of the Brewsters speaks to many of the core preoccupations of historical research. Among other things\, it raises interesting questions about the relationship between continuity and change and\, perhaps more importantly\, about the nature of change itself (for example\, when is change incidental and when is it structural? What is the difference? Why does it matter? Etc.). It also speaks to the role of gender analysis in historical research and\, more broadly\, to the question of whether/when historical analysis should be considered a foundation for assuming overarching continuities and drawing (modern) lessons from historical experience. \nIf you would like to join the session\, please send Rachel Gerber and Meseret Oldjira a note with your name and the mailing address to which you would like your copy of the book to be shipped by Thursday\, October 22. \nIf you have already sent your address for a previous session\, feel free to just send your name. \nPlease note that\, per book club tradition\, requesting a copy of the book constitutes a commitment to participate in the group discussion. \nAlso – many thanks to all who have sent us recommendations for future book club sessions. If you haven’t yet done so\, but have one on your mind\, all references are warmly welcome. We are particularly eager to ensure that we journey widely this year and cover ground well beyond western Europe. \n\nThe Program in Medieval Studies provides opportunities for graduate students from across departments and disciplines to participate in workshops\, lectures\, book clubs\, and the annual Medieval Studies Graduate Conference. Please visit this link for more information.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-book-club-ale-beer-and-brewsters-in-england-womens-work-in-a-changing-world-1300-1600/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201110T133000
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SUMMARY:Past Answers to Current Concerns\, Seminar 6: General team discussion
DESCRIPTION:The Climate Change and History Research Initiative\, in partnership with the Environmental History Lab of the Program in Medieval Studies\, and with the support of the Humanities Council\, launches a new series of six online seminars entitled “Past Answers to Current Concerns: Approaches to Understanding Historical Societal Resilience.” \nHow did environmental and climatic changes\, whether sudden high impact events or more subtle gradual changes\, impact human responses in the past? How did societal perceptions of such changes affect behavioral patterns and explanatory rationalities in premodernity? And can a better historical understanding of these relationships inform our response to contemporary problems of similar nature and magnitude\, such as adapting to climate change? The Climate Change and History Research Initiative (CCHRI) has been working on this initiative for four years now\, and we have made considerable progress in developing strategies to enable palaeoscientists\, archaeologists\, and historians to talk to one another and resolve issues of scale. One of our main foci has been to think about the ways in which socio-environmental asymmetries with different degrees of socio-political complexity and population density precondition the potentials for inherent resilience under environmental stress. By analyzing historical societies as complex adaptive systems\, we also contribute to contemporary thinking about societal-environmental interactions in policy and planning. \nTo expand our analytical tool-kit we are pursuing the application of Collaborative Conceptual Modeling (CCM) in combination with ‘qualitative scenario storylines’ (QSS)\, a technique used to translate quantitative modeling into real-world scenarios. We want to apply both these approaches to the adaptation of historical data about past societal responses and resilience to contemporary and future planning\, and to achieve this we engage specialists from the fields of history and archaeology\, as well as the field of risk assessment and future planning. \nThe presentations are open to the public. Each set of papers will be followed by a Q & A session of 30 minutes\, after which the public section will close and a specialist project team discussion will follow. Registration and Zoom information for Seminar 6 is listed below. \n\nTuesday November 10th 13:30\nSeminar 6\nGeneral team discussion focused around key themes (to be agreed and circulated to speakers\, chairs etc.) – what have we learned and where do we go from here? \nOpen to the wider public for audit only \nRegister here for Seminar 6
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/past-answers-to-current-concerns-seminar-6-general-team-discussion/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201105T123000
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SUMMARY:LAMB - Textile Thresholds: Manipulating Liturgical Space and the Body
DESCRIPTION:Fall 2020 Late Antique\, Medieval\, and Byzantine (LAMB) Workshop series \nThe Late Antique\, Medieval\, and Byzantine Workshop at Princeton (LAMB) provides interdisciplinary forums for presenting research\, fostering community\, and training in professional development. \nPlease join the Graduate LAMB group on November 5\, 6:00pm EST to welcome Erin Piñon (Art &Archaeology)\, who will be presenting on “Textile Thresholds: Manipulating Liturgical Space and the Body.” Earnestine Qiu (Art &Archaeology) will serve as the respondent. The paper\, soon to be posted\, can be found on the LAMB website; the password is LAMBPU2019. \n\nThe Program in Medieval Studies provides opportunities for graduate students from across departments and disciplines to participate in workshops\, lectures\, book clubs\, and the annual Medieval Studies Graduate Conference. Please visit this link for more information.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/lamb-textile-thresholds-manipulating-liturgical-space-and-the-body/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201103T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201103T133000
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SUMMARY:Past Answers to Current Concerns\, Seminar 5: Failing Strategies 2
DESCRIPTION:The Climate Change and History Research Initiative\, in partnership with the Environmental History Lab of the Program in Medieval Studies\, and with the support of the Humanities Council\, launches a new series of six online seminars entitled “Past Answers to Current Concerns: Approaches to Understanding Historical Societal Resilience.” \nHow did environmental and climatic changes\, whether sudden high impact events or more subtle gradual changes\, impact human responses in the past? How did societal perceptions of such changes affect behavioral patterns and explanatory rationalities in premodernity? And can a better historical understanding of these relationships inform our response to contemporary problems of similar nature and magnitude\, such as adapting to climate change? The Climate Change and History Research Initiative (CCHRI) has been working on this initiative for four years now\, and we have made considerable progress in developing strategies to enable palaeoscientists\, archaeologists\, and historians to talk to one another and resolve issues of scale. One of our main foci has been to think about the ways in which socio-environmental asymmetries with different degrees of socio-political complexity and population density precondition the potentials for inherent resilience under environmental stress. By analyzing historical societies as complex adaptive systems\, we also contribute to contemporary thinking about societal-environmental interactions in policy and planning. \nTo expand our analytical tool-kit we are pursuing the application of Collaborative Conceptual Modeling (CCM) in combination with ‘qualitative scenario storylines’ (QSS)\, a technique used to translate quantitative modeling into real-world scenarios. We want to apply both these approaches to the adaptation of historical data about past societal responses and resilience to contemporary and future planning\, and to achieve this we engage specialists from the fields of history and archaeology\, as well as the field of risk assessment and future planning. \nThe presentations are open to the public. Each set of papers will be followed by a Q & A session of 30 minutes\, after which the public section will close and a specialist project team discussion will follow. Registration and Zoom information for Seminar 5 is listed below. \n\nTuesday November 3rd 13:30 Seminar 5: Failing Strategies 2 \nEmmanuel Kreike (History Dept.\, Princeton) \nTsunamis\, El Nino\, and War on Aceh\, Sumatra \nThayer Patterson & Miguel Centeno (Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies)\nAre all unhappy systems alike? Finding Patterns in Historical Collapses \nOpen discussion \nRegister here for Seminar 5
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/past-answers-to-current-concerns-seminar-5-failing-strategies-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201027T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201027T180000
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SUMMARY:Dissimilar Similitudes: Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe
DESCRIPTION:Click here to register. \n\n\nTwo eminent scholars\, Caroline Bynum and Brooke Holmes (Classics)\, with a shared interest in women’s history and the history of materiality\, will be discussing holy objects. \nBetween the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries\, European Christians used in worship a plethora of objects\, not only prayer books\, statues\, and paintings but also pieces of natural materials considered to carry holiness\, dolls representing Jesus and Mary\, and even bits of consecrated bread and wine thought to be miraculously preserved flesh and blood. Theologians and ordinary worshippers alike explained\, utilized\, justified\, and warned against some of these objects\, which could carry with them both anti-Semitic charges and the glorious promise of heaven. Their proliferation and the reaction against them form a crucial background to the European-wide movements we know today as “reformations” (both Protestant and Catholic). \nCaroline Bynum considers some examples of such holy things\, among them beds for the baby Jesus\, the headdresses of medieval nuns\, and the footprints of Christ carried home from the Holy Land by pilgrims in patterns cut to their shape or their measurement in lengths of string. Bynum demonstrates that the objects themselves communicate a paradox of dissimilar similitude—that is\, that in their very details they both image the glory of heaven and make clear that that heaven is beyond any representation in earthly things. \nCaroline Bynum’s work has been instrumental in introducing the concept of gender into the study of medieval Christianity. Her early\, path-breaking books are Holy Feast and Holy Fast and The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christendom. Her most recent book is Christian Materiality. She is Professor emerita in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study. Brooke Holmes is Professor of Classics at Princeton University. She is the author of The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece and of Gender: Antiquity and Its Legacy. \nThis event is presented in partnership with the Institute of Advanced Study and Princeton University’s Humanities Council.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/dissimilar-similitudes-devotional-objects-in-late-medieval-europe/
LOCATION:Livestream
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201027T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201027T133000
DTSTAMP:20260628T015106
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SUMMARY:Past Answers to Current Concerns\, Seminar 4: Failing Strategies 1
DESCRIPTION:The Climate Change and History Research Initiative\, in partnership with the Environmental History Lab of the Program in Medieval Studies\, and with the support of the Humanities Council\, launches a new series of six online seminars entitled “Past Answers to Current Concerns: Approaches to Understanding Historical Societal Resilience.” \nHow did environmental and climatic changes\, whether sudden high impact events or more subtle gradual changes\, impact human responses in the past? How did societal perceptions of such changes affect behavioral patterns and explanatory rationalities in premodernity? And can a better historical understanding of these relationships inform our response to contemporary problems of similar nature and magnitude\, such as adapting to climate change? The Climate Change and History Research Initiative (CCHRI) has been working on this initiative for four years now\, and we have made considerable progress in developing strategies to enable palaeoscientists\, archaeologists\, and historians to talk to one another and resolve issues of scale. One of our main foci has been to think about the ways in which socio-environmental asymmetries with different degrees of socio-political complexity and population density precondition the potentials for inherent resilience under environmental stress. By analyzing historical societies as complex adaptive systems\, we also contribute to contemporary thinking about societal-environmental interactions in policy and planning. \nTo expand our analytical tool-kit we are pursuing the application of Collaborative Conceptual Modeling (CCM) in combination with ‘qualitative scenario storylines’ (QSS)\, a technique used to translate quantitative modeling into real-world scenarios. We want to apply both these approaches to the adaptation of historical data about past societal responses and resilience to contemporary and future planning\, and to achieve this we engage specialists from the fields of history and archaeology\, as well as the field of risk assessment and future planning. \nThe presentations are open to the public. Each set of papers will be followed by a Q & A session of 30 minutes\, after which the public section will close and a specialist project team discussion will follow. Registration and Zoom information for Seminar 4 is listed below. \n\nTuesday October 27th 13:30 Seminar 4: Failing Strategies 1 \nTom McGovern (Hunter College CUNY) \nSuccess and Failure in the Norse N. Atlantic: Origins\, Pathway Divergence\, Extinction and Survival \nEric Cline (Dept. of History\, George Washington University) \nAfter 1177 BCE: Resilience\, Resistance\, and the Relevance of the Rebirth of Civilizations for Today’s World \nOpen discussion \nRegister here for Seminar 4
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/past-answers-to-current-concerns-seminar-4-failing-strategies-1/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201020T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201020T133000
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SUMMARY:Past Answers to Current Concerns\, Seminar 3 - Managing Risks: Some Farmers’ Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:The Climate Change and History Research Initiative\, in partnership with the Environmental History Lab of the Program in Medieval Studies\, and with the support of the Humanities Council\, launches a new series of six online seminars entitled “Past Answers to Current Concerns: Approaches to Understanding Historical Societal Resilience.” \nHow did environmental and climatic changes\, whether sudden high impact events or more subtle gradual changes\, impact human responses in the past? How did societal perceptions of such changes affect behavioral patterns and explanatory rationalities in premodernity? And can a better historical understanding of these relationships inform our response to contemporary problems of similar nature and magnitude\, such as adapting to climate change? The Climate Change and History Research Initiative (CCHRI) has been working on this initiative for four years now\, and we have made considerable progress in developing strategies to enable palaeoscientists\, archaeologists\, and historians to talk to one another and resolve issues of scale. One of our main foci has been to think about the ways in which socio-environmental asymmetries with different degrees of socio-political complexity and population density precondition the potentials for inherent resilience under environmental stress. By analyzing historical societies as complex adaptive systems\, we also contribute to contemporary thinking about societal-environmental interactions in policy and planning. \nTo expand our analytical tool-kit we are pursuing the application of Collaborative Conceptual Modeling (CCM) in combination with ‘qualitative scenario storylines’ (QSS)\, a technique used to translate quantitative modeling into real-world scenarios. We want to apply both these approaches to the adaptation of historical data about past societal responses and resilience to contemporary and future planning\, and to achieve this we engage specialists from the fields of history and archaeology\, as well as the field of risk assessment and future planning. \nThe presentations are open to the public. Each set of papers will be followed by a Q & A session of 30 minutes\, after which the public section will close and a specialist project team discussion will follow. Registration and Zoom information for Seminar 3 is listed below. \n\nTuesday October 20th 13:30\nSeminar 3: Managing Risks: Some Farmers’ Perspectives \nBenjamin Trump (US Army Corps of Engineering R & D Center) \nUsing History to Understand Current Challenges with Resilience and Systemic Risk \nEdda Fields-Black (Dept of History\, Carnegie Mellon University)\, Travis Folk (Folk Land management\, Inc.) and Daniel Hanks (Clemson University\, Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation)\nQueen Rice: modeling human and natural systems of historic rice fields in the Gullah Geechee corridor in the face of climate change and sea level rise \nOpen discussion \nRegister here for Seminar 3
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/past-answers-to-current-concerns-seminar-3-managing-risks-some-farmers-perspectives/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Racialization in Late Antique Italy and Italian Historiography
DESCRIPTION:The Medievalists of Color\, the Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University\, the Division for Identity Studies at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences\, and the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study\,  launch a new series of online seminars entitled “Race\, Race-Thinking\, and Identity in the Middle Ages and Medieval Studies.” Funding has been provided by the Humanities Council at Princeton University. \nThe series of seminars convenes researchers based in North America and Europe in order to inspire and further establish reflections about race\, race-thinking\, and racialization among scholars of late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. A series of talks by Medievalists of Color will anchor what we hope will become a longer and wider conversation that spans various cultures and historiographies within Medieval Studies. The aim is to begin a discussion that will: 1) enrich scholarly debate about processes of racialization by bringing together approaches developed in the United States with those developed in other parts of the world; 2) move beyond simplistic either-or binaries (race/not race\, race/religion\, race/ethnicity\, and even US/Europe) and promote the development of more nuanced paradigms for racialization and its interaction\, overlap\, and interdependence with other forms of social categorization; 3) reflect on the diversity of approaches to and salience of race\, race-thinking and racialization in different parts of the world\, and different fields of study; and 4) investigate how Critical Race Theory and other (critical) forms of Identity Studies can inspire and inform historical study. \nWhile this conversation will begin with presentations by colleagues working in North America and Europe\, we hope to widen the geographical scope still further. This series on “Race\, Race-Thinking\, and Identity in the Middle Ages and Medieval Studies” strives to reach beyond disciplinary\, geographic\, and academic-cultural borderlines. Through intellectual exchange and nuanced multilateral criticism\, we seek to develop a richer and more productive understanding of the medieval past as well as its legacy in our modern age. \nThe first seminar of the lecture series: \nMonday\, October 19\n12:00 EDT \nNicole Lopez-Jantzen\, City University of New York\n“Racialization in Late Antique Italy and Italian Historiography“ \nPlease register below for this seminar to receive the Zoom instructions\, and be sure to add this event to your calendar.\nRegister here for the seminar with Nicole Lopez-Jantzen. \nInformation regarding future seminars in this lecture series will be updated soon.\nFor any questions please contact: Sarah Porter.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/racialization-in-late-antique-italy-and-italian-historiography/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Past Answers to Current Concerns\, Seminar 2: Risk Management and Historical Theory
DESCRIPTION:The Climate Change and History Research Initiative\, in partnership with the Environmental History Lab of the Program in Medieval Studies\, and with the support of the Humanities Council\, launches a new series of six online seminars entitled “Past Answers to Current Concerns: Approaches to Understanding Historical Societal Resilience.” \nHow did environmental and climatic changes\, whether sudden high impact events or more subtle gradual changes\, impact human responses in the past? How did societal perceptions of such changes affect behavioral patterns and explanatory rationalities in premodernity? And can a better historical understanding of these relationships inform our response to contemporary problems of similar nature and magnitude\, such as adapting to climate change? The Climate Change and History Research Initiative (CCHRI) has been working on this initiative for four years now\, and we have made considerable progress in developing strategies to enable palaeoscientists\, archaeologists\, and historians to talk to one another and resolve issues of scale. One of our main foci has been to think about the ways in which socio-environmental asymmetries with different degrees of socio-political complexity and population density precondition the potentials for inherent resilience under environmental stress. By analyzing historical societies as complex adaptive systems\, we also contribute to contemporary thinking about societal-environmental interactions in policy and planning. \nTo expand our analytical tool-kit we are pursuing the application of Collaborative Conceptual Modeling (CCM) in combination with ‘qualitative scenario storylines’ (QSS)\, a technique used to translate quantitative modeling into real-world scenarios. We want to apply both these approaches to the adaptation of historical data about past societal responses and resilience to contemporary and future planning\, and to achieve this we engage specialists from the fields of history and archaeology\, as well as the field of risk assessment and future planning. \nThe presentations are open to the public. Each set of papers will be followed by a Q & A session of 30 minutes\, after which the public section will close and a specialist project team discussion will follow. Registration and Zoom information for Seminar 2 is listed below. \n\nTuesday October 13th 13:30\nSeminar 2: Risk Management and Historical Theory \nLuke Kemp (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk\, U Cambridge) \nParticipatory Pasts and Fuzzy Futures: Tools to View History as a System \nSteven Hartman (University of Iceland) \nUNESCO’s Principles for Sustainability Science as Guidelines for Formulating Qualitative Scenario Storylines (QSS) and Collaborative Conceptual Modeling (CCM) \nOpen discussion \nRegister here for Seminar 2
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/past-answers-to-current-concerns-seminar-2-risk-management-and-historical-theory/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Past Answers to Current Concerns\, Seminar 1: Lessons from the past? Terms of the debate and some examples
DESCRIPTION:The Climate Change and History Research Initiative\, in partnership with the Environmental History Lab of the Program in Medieval Studies\, and with the support of the Humanities Council\, launches a new series of six online seminars entitled “Past Answers to Current Concerns: Approaches to Understanding Historical Societal Resilience.” \nHow did environmental and climatic changes\, whether sudden high impact events or more subtle gradual changes\, impact human responses in the past? How did societal perceptions of such changes affect behavioral patterns and explanatory rationalities in premodernity? And can a better historical understanding of these relationships inform our response to contemporary problems of similar nature and magnitude\, such as adapting to climate change? The Climate Change and History Research Initiative (CCHRI) has been working on this initiative for four years now\, and we have made considerable progress in developing strategies to enable palaeoscientists\, archaeologists\, and historians to talk to one another and resolve issues of scale. One of our main foci has been to think about the ways in which socio-environmental asymmetries with different degrees of socio-political complexity and population density precondition the potentials for inherent resilience under environmental stress. By analyzing historical societies as complex adaptive systems\, we also contribute to contemporary thinking about societal-environmental interactions in policy and planning. \nTo expand our analytical tool-kit we are pursuing the application of Collaborative Conceptual Modeling (CCM) in combination with ‘qualitative scenario storylines’ (QSS)\, a technique used to translate quantitative modeling into real-world scenarios. We want to apply both these approaches to the adaptation of historical data about past societal responses and resilience to contemporary and future planning\, and to achieve this we engage specialists from the fields of history and archaeology\, as well as the field of risk assessment and future planning. \nThe presentations are open to the public. Each set of papers will be followed by a Q & A session of 30 minutes\, after which the public section will close and a specialist project team discussion will follow. Registration and Zoom information for Seminar 1 is listed below. \n\nTuesday\, October 6\, 13:30\nSeminar 1: Lessons from the past? Terms of the debate and some examples \nHugh Elton (Ancient Greek & Roman Studies\, Trent University)\, John Haldon (History\, Princeton) and Adam Izdebski (Max-Planck-Institute for the Science of Human History\, Jena)\nGeneral introduction and a case study: How does an empire reconfigure itself? Rome and Byzantium\, 5th – 8th centuries CE \nLee Mordechai (Hebrew U Jerusalem) and Merle Eisenberg (National Center for Socioenvironmental Synthesis\, Annapolis)\nHow do pandemics affect early medieval societies? \nTim Newfield (History & Biology\, Georgetown U) and Dr. Annelise Binois (University of Copenhagen)\nThe societal impacts of livestock plagues \nOpen discussion\nRegister here for Seminar 1
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/past-answers-to-current-concerns-seminar-1-lessons-from-the-past-terms-of-the-debate-and-some-examples/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:From Healthscaping to Disease Tracing: Plague and Public Health After the Black Death
DESCRIPTION:Pandemics in the Past: from Prehistory to (almost) the Present \nSeminar series of  the Program in Medieval Studies and the Climate Change and History Research Initiative\, supported by  Humanities Council. \nThis talk will discuss the development of plague-focused public health measures over the course of the fifteenth century\, as urban governments adapted to what was no longer a new disease. Recent scholarship has shown that at the time of the Black Death urban public health measures were primarily hygienic: designed to create an environment conducive to human health. By the outbreaks of the later fifteenth century\, however\, medieval city governments began to employ plague measures concerned less with hygiene than with human movement. As municipal responses to plague became more sophisticated\, in other words\, they came to have less to do with creating a healthful environment. \n  \nFor registration and Zoom ID for this seminar\, go to \nRegistration URL: https://princeton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAocuiqrT4qHNdQSxwQsPoPmwbRIU6eLIgg
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/from-healthscaping-to-disease-tracing-plague-and-public-health-after-the-black-death/
LOCATION:via Zoom – Registration Required
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