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Race Before Modernity Book Club: Unpacking Historical Perspectives of Race and Ethnicity
Race Before Modernity Book Club: Unpacking Historical Perspectives of Race and Ethnicity
The Race Before Modernity Book Club (RBMBC), in collaboration with Princeton's Program in Medieval Studies, invites you to our upcoming event featuring Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Institute for Advanced Study) and […]
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Medieval Studies Faculty Colloquium: “Burial Archaeology and the Justinianic Plague”
Medieval Studies Faculty Colloquium: “Burial Archaeology and the Justinianic Plague”
Janet Kay will present the lunchtime talk, “Burial Archaeology and the Justinianic Plague.”
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Medieval Faculty Colloquium: “How Tang Literature Became ‘Ancient’: Evolving Models of Tang Dynasty Literary History in the Northern Song”
Medieval Faculty Colloquium: “How Tang Literature Became ‘Ancient’: Evolving Models of Tang Dynasty Literary History in the Northern Song”
Please note that this event was rescheduled from February 20 to March 19. Please email Anna D'Elia with any questions. The Program in Medieval Studies is pleased to offer the Faculty Colloquium series for Spring 2024. Anna Shields, Professor of East Asian Studies and Chair of Department of East Asian Studies, will present this lunchtime talk […]
Medieval Studies Book Club: Roma in the Medieval Islamic World: Literacy, Culture, and Migration
Medieval Studies Book Club: Roma in the Medieval Islamic World: Literacy, Culture, and Migration
Join us for the next book club meeting on March 19th at 6pm. We will be reading Kristina Richardson’s Roma in the Medieval Islamic World: Literacy, Culture, and Migration (2021). This book draws on a wide array of sources to investigate the lived experiences of the Banu Sasan (later named Ghuraba or ‘Strangers’ from which the prerogative ‘Gypsies’ derives), in the […]
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LAMB Workshop: “An Oath of Fidelity in Cyprus: The 1191 Conquest and Mediterranean Idioms of Lordship”
LAMB Workshop: “An Oath of Fidelity in Cyprus: The 1191 Conquest and Mediterranean Idioms of Lordship”
Join us for this Late Antique, Medieval, and Byzantine workshop on Monday, March 25 at 12 pm in 209 Scheide Caldwell. We will discuss Daniel Berardino's (History, UC Berkeley) paper “An Oath of Fidelity in Cyprus: The 1191 Conquest and Mediterranean Idioms of Lordship” with comments by Jake Ransohoff (Seeger Center PostDoc). Lunch will be provided. RSVP and […]
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Comparative Diplomatics: “The growth of the mestizo sangley in early 17th century Manila as seen in two 1630s documents”
Comparative Diplomatics: “The growth of the mestizo sangley in early 17th century Manila as seen in two 1630s documents”
This paper seeks to contribute to the growing number of studies on early modern period intercultural relations, focusing on Chinese-Filipino-Spanish interactions in the early 1600s and the resulting rise of the mestizo sangley, children of Filipino and Chinese unions. The paper is based on two 1630s documents in the Archivo de la Universidad de Santo Tomás […]
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“The Greater Sea”: The Black Sea and Medieval Eurasia
“The Greater Sea”: The Black Sea and Medieval Eurasia
Join us for the annual Medieval Studies Faber Lecture with David Abulafia (University of Cambridge) on March 27 at 4:30 pm. A reception will follow the lecture. This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP HERE. The role of the Black Sea in medieval trade is often seen from the perspective of its […]
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EHL Seminar: “Connecting With a Remembered Past: Uncovering the Layers of Disease, Death, Motherhood, and Magic in a Late Antique Rural Roman Community”
EHL Seminar: “Connecting With a Remembered Past: Uncovering the Layers of Disease, Death, Motherhood, and Magic in a Late Antique Rural Roman Community”
*Refreshments will be served after the talk.* For Zoom, register here. In the late 1980’s, archaeologists excavating an elegant First Century Roman villa in the Tiber River Valley were surprised to discover the remains of infant cemetery. Ritual materials and paleopathological evidence suggested the formation of the cemetery had followed an epidemiological event many centuries […]
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Francis and Nature
Francis and Nature
Join us for a lecture with Jacques Dalarun on April 3 at 4:30pm. A reception will follow the lecture. This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP HERE. Francis of Assisi is often cited, including by popes, as the precursor of our modern idea of ecology. But what about his actual relationship with […]