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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201214T120000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201211T120000
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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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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
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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
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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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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:20260628T031023
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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201110T133000
DTSTAMP:20260628T031023
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201105T123000
DTSTAMP:20260628T031023
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201103T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201103T133000
DTSTAMP:20260628T031023
CREATED:20201002T000425Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260628T031023
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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:20260628T031023
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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
DTSTAMP:20260628T031023
CREATED:20201001T235248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201001T235248Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201019T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201019T120000
DTSTAMP:20260628T031023
CREATED:20201007T193304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201009T143807Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201013T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201013T133000
DTSTAMP:20260628T031023
CREATED:20201001T234950Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201001T234950Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201006T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201006T133000
DTSTAMP:20260628T031023
CREATED:20201001T234702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201001T235705Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200618T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200618T150000
DTSTAMP:20260628T031023
CREATED:20200508T173000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200526T154303Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200611T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200611T150000
DTSTAMP:20260628T031023
CREATED:20200508T172604Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200608T144940Z
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SUMMARY:The Justinianic Plague: Apocalypse or Overblown?
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. \nThe impact of the Justinianic Plague (c. 541-750) has recently become the focus of a heated academia and media debate\, which will likely intensify in the context of COVID-19. For the last several decades some scholars have made the plague into a demographic catastrophe\, which caused the deaths of tens of millions – up to half the population of the Mediterranean. These interpretations also identify plague as a major factor in broader historical changes in late antiquity including the fall of Rome and the rise of Islam\, which are big narratives the media magnifies through catastrophic thinking. Using innovative interdisciplinary sources\, however\, recent scholarship argues that plague was largely inconsequential to historical change over the long-term. The talk will expand upon this new position\, which has challenged the standard narrative through a series of articles published over the last year. It discusses the most glaring problems with the traditional view of the Justinianic Plague\, surveys the diverse independent sources that suggest plague did not have a dramatic effect at a societal level\, and outlines a few future paths for research. \n  \nFor registration and Zoom ID for this seminar\, go to \nRegistration URL: https://princeton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0pcOutqj8uGdYPBkXxeQGAfxhgxgMNX51l
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/the-justinianic-plague-apocalypse-or-overblown/
LOCATION:via Zoom – Registration Required
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200604T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200604T150000
DTSTAMP:20260628T031023
CREATED:20200508T172252Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200603T153834Z
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SUMMARY:Avoiding Plague like the Plague: Some Pathogenic Context for Late Antique Pandemics
DESCRIPTION:Pandemics in the Past: from Prehistory to (almost) the Present \nPlague gets a lot of attention. It’s earned\, but it’s important to keep in mind that no outbreak of Yersinia pestis\, premodern or not\, has ever occurred in a vacuum. In late antiquity and early modernity\, plague occurred alongside a multitude of infectious diseases\, both old and new. Crucially\, the aggregate demographic toll (in either period) of those diseases\, both endemic and epidemic\, may have rivalled that of plague. This paper attempts to tease out some epidemiological context for first-pandemic plague. It focuses in particular on diseases resembling malaria and smallpox\, and emphasizes the importance of collaborative multidisciplinarity when pursuing the premodern history of pathogenic disease. \nSeminar series of  the Program in Medieval Studies and the Climate Change and History Research Initiative\, supported by  Humanities Council. \nFor registration and Zoom ID\, go to \nRegistration URL: https://princeton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIvcu2orj4qGdTIMPLIUXSDCDmbtoxOZ2wd
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/avoiding-plague-like-the-plague-some-pathogenic-context-for-late-antique-pandemics/
LOCATION:via Zoom – Registration Required
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200528T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200528T150000
DTSTAMP:20260628T031023
CREATED:20200508T173429Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200526T143348Z
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SUMMARY:The ‘Plague of Cyprian’: Sources\, Problems\, Origins and the ‘Crisis of the Third Century'
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. \nDuring the third century CE\, the Roman Empire experienced military anarchy\, civil wars\, rampant inflation\, famines\, dramatic changes in its religious landscape\, bloody persecutions of minority groups\, and raids and invasions from beyond the frontier. While the ‘crisis’ model has been hotly contested ever since Alföldi 1967 characterized the challenges the Roman Empire faced during the third century as ‘Weltkrise’\, and several more detailed case studies adduced examples of regional stability and even flourishing economies\, it is clear that the Empire had to battle grave threats to its existence which resulted in profound changes paving the way for late antiquity. Most debated in scholarship have been the reasons for these simultaneous predicaments the Roman Empire found itself in around the middle of the third century. Recent research has suggested that a pandemic\, the so-called Cyprianic plague\, triggered these cascading shocks. This paper will survey the main evidence we have for this plague and discuss its proposed origin\, timeline\, and impact on the course of Roman history. \nFor registration and Zoom ID for this seminar\, go to \nRegistration URL: https://princeton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkduGoqzksHdEc7XI88CJXmP2Rl0tcbTX6
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/the-plague-of-cyprian-sources-problems-origins-and-the-crisis-of-the-third-century-3/
LOCATION:via Zoom – Registration Required
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200521T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200521T150000
DTSTAMP:20260628T031023
CREATED:20200508T165631Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200520T194255Z
UID:10000439-1590067800-1590073200@medievalstudies.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Plague: From the Late Neolithic to the Black Death
DESCRIPTION:Recent advances in palaegenetics have taken our knowledge of plague history to new heights — in particular\, in relation to the long and complex history of plague evolution. The talk will survey the main contours of plague evolution in a very long run\, by focusing on its mysterious origins and outbreaks in Late Neolithic Eurasia\, and its subsequent development until the infamous Black Death of the fourteenth century. \nPandemics 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. \nFor registration and Zoom ID\, go to \nRegistration URL: https://princeton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrf-qqrTkrGdfFu2KMO01oKhwIkOgPpJ9P
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/plague-from-the-late-neolithic-to-the-black-death/
LOCATION:via Zoom – Registration Required
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200514T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200514T150000
DTSTAMP:20260628T031023
CREATED:20200508T165218Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200514T153052Z
UID:10000308-1589463000-1589468400@medievalstudies.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:The Story of Pandemics in Scholarship and Popular Culture\, 1890-2020
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. \nIntroduction by John Haldon\, Shelby Cullom Davis ’30 Professor of European History\, Emeritus \nFor registration and Zoom ID\, go to: \nRegistration URL: https://princeton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYlfu2tpjssE9zJ_Zmd-p2rKQHVpUhTX6M_ \n 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/the-story-of-pandemics-in-scholarship-and-popular-culture-1890-2020/
LOCATION:via Zoom – Registration Required
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200508T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200508T170000
DTSTAMP:20260628T031023
CREATED:20200508T173124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200508T173124Z
UID:10000444-1588924800-1588957200@medievalstudies.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:The ‘Plague of Cyprian’: Sources\, Problems\, Origins and the ‘Crisis of the Third Century’
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. \nFor registration and Zoom ID\, go to:
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/the-plague-of-cyprian-sources-problems-origins-and-the-crisis-of-the-third-century-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200508T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200508T170000
DTSTAMP:20260628T031023
CREATED:20200508T170348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200508T170348Z
UID:10000440-1588924800-1588957200@medievalstudies.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:The ‘Plague of Cyprian’: Sources\, Problems\, Origins and the ‘Crisis of the Third Century’
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. \nFor registration and Zoom ID\, go to:
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/the-plague-of-cyprian-sources-problems-origins-and-the-crisis-of-the-third-century/
LOCATION:via Zoom – Registration Required
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SUMMARY:Cancelled - Marina Rustow: Medieval Studies Faculty Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:RSVP required. Please send your RSVP request to Sarah Porter\, sp7@princeton.edu. \nA reception will follow the event. \nThe 2019-20 Medieval Studies Colloquium highlights members of the medieval faculty who will share and discuss their ongoing work\, insights\, questions\, ideas\, and future projects with other members of the medieval community here at Princeton (faculty\, graduates\, undergraduate certificate students\, and IAS members). It will be an opportunity to get together\, get to know each other a bit better\, and also to get a better sense of the diversity and wide ranging interests and projects of our community. \nAs on the day of the last colloquium\, there will also be an exhibit of the new medieval books\, journals\, editions etc. which the library acquired recently – a new joint venture of Medieval Studies with Princeton University Library and above all our history librarian Alain St. Pierre. The new publications will be on display in the History Reading Room (A-Floor 7-B) from Monday evening until Tuesday evening. \n  \nPLEASE SAVE THE FOLLOWING DATES FOR THE SPRING. All talks will be held in Scheide Caldwell 209. \nFebruary 4\, 12:00 – 1:20\,  Beatrice Kitzinger  (Art & Archaeology)\, “Wandalgarius’ Letters of the Law” \nMarch 3\, 12- 1:20\,   John Haldon (History)\, “Historical Change\, Archaeology and Environment: Examples from the East Roman/Byzantine World” \nApril 7\, 12 – 1:20\,  Daniela Mairhofer  (Classics)\, “The Nobodies of Medieval Latin Literature” \nMay 5\, 4:30 – 6:00\,  Marina Rustow (Near Eastern Studies/History)\, title TBD
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/marina-rustow-medieval-studies-faculty-colloquium/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Samurai’s Oath in Medieval Japan: From Princeton University Collection
DESCRIPTION:Comparative Diplomatics Workshops are a faculty-graduate student working group of the Comparative Antiquities network at the Humanities Council\, co-sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies. \nJoin the Comparative Diplomatics Workshop with Horikawa Yasufumi (East Asian Studies) presenting “Samurai’s Oath in Medieval Japan: From Princeton University Collection.”  All are welcome. \nConveners: Tom Conlan (EAS/History)\, Helmut Reimitz (History)\, Marina Rustow (NES/History)\nCoordinator: Brendan Goldman (JDS). \nTo receive announcements about the workshop and brief precirculated readings\, email Brendan Goldman at bgg2@princeton.edu. \n  \nUpcoming Comparative Diplomatics Workshops: \nFebruary 6 (Thursday)\, 4:30-6PM\nUmberto Bongianino (Oxford)\n“The caliph and the monks’ cattle: an Almohad decree in favor of a Catalan monastery (1217 CE)”\nJones Hall 202 \nFebruary 27 (Thursday)\, 4:30-6PM\nDebjani Bhattacharyya (Drexel)\n“Inscribing Land Titles: Geographical Imaginations in Legal Texts”\nJones Hall 202 \nMarch 3 (Tuesday)\, 6:30-8 PM\nHelmut Reimitz (History)\n“From Medieval Charters to Roman Law and Back Again. Some Examples from the Late Antique West”\nJones Hall 202 \nMarch 24 (Tuesday)\, 4:30-6 PM\nMegan Gilbert (EAS)\n“Curated Scrap Paper: Documents on the Reverse Sides of Medieval Japanese Diaries”\nJones Hall 202 \nApril 14 (Tuesday)\, 6:15-7:45 PM\nMiriam Frenkel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)\n“Rich Bride Poor Bride – Two Trousseau Lists from the Cairo Geniza”\nJones Hall 202 \nApril 30 (Thursday) 4:30-6PM\nHorikawa Yasufumi (EAS)\n“Samurai’s Oath in Medieval Japan: From Princeton University Collection”\nJones Hall 202
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/samurais-oath-in-medieval-japan-from-princeton-university-collection/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200414T181500
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Rich Bride Poor Bride: Two Trousseau Lists from the Cairo Geniza
DESCRIPTION:Comparative Diplomatics Workshops are a faculty-graduate student working group of the Comparative Antiquities network at the Humanities Council\, co-sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies. \nJoin the Comparative Diplomatics Workshop with Professor Miriam Frenkel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) presenting “Rich Bride Poor Bride – Two Trousseau Lists from the Cairo Geniza.” \nConveners: Tom Conlan (EAS/History)\, Helmut Reimitz (History)\, Marina Rustow (NES/History)\nCoordinator: Brendan Goldman (JDS). \nTo receive announcements about the workshop and brief precirculated readings\, email Brendan Goldman at bgg2@princeton.edu. \nUpcoming Comparative Diplomatics Workshops: \nFebruary 6 (Thursday)\, 4:30-6PM\nUmberto Bongianino (Oxford)\n“The caliph and the monks’ cattle: an Almohad decree in favor of a Catalan monastery (1217 CE)”\nJones Hall 202 \nFebruary 27 (Thursday)\, 4:30-6PM\nDebjani Bhattacharyya (Drexel)\n“Inscribing Land Titles: Geographical Imaginations in Legal Texts”\nJones Hall 202 \nMarch 3 (Tuesday)\, 6:30-8 PM\nHelmut Reimitz (History)\n“From Medieval Charters to Roman Law and Back Again. Some Examples from the Late Antique West”\nJones Hall 202 \nMarch 24 (Tuesday)\, 4:30-6 PM\nMegan Gilbert (EAS)\n“Curated Scrap Paper: Documents on the Reverse Sides of Medieval Japanese Diaries”\nJones Hall 202 \nApril 14 (Tuesday)\, 6:15-7:45 PM\nMiriam Frenkel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)\n“Rich Bride Poor Bride – Two Trousseau Lists from the Cairo Geniza”\nJones Hall 202 \nApril 30 (Thursday) 4:30-6PM\nHorikawa Yasufumi (EAS)\n“Samurai’s Oath in Medieval Japan: From Princeton University Collection”\nJones Hall 202
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/rich-bride-poor-bride-two-trousseau-lists-from-the-cairo-geniza/
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