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Past Lecture Events

October 27, 2020 · 1:30 pm · Zoom

Past Answers to Current Concerns, Seminar 4: Failing Strategies 1

Tom McGovern, Hunter College CUNY; Eric Cline, George Washington University


October 20, 2020 · 1:30 pm · Zoom

Past Answers to Current Concerns, Seminar 3 – Managing Risks: Some Farmers’ Perspectives

Benjamin Trump, US Army Corps of Engineering R & D Center; Edda Fields-Black, Carnegie Mellon University; Travis Folk, Folk Land management, Inc.; Daniel Hanks, Clemson University


October 19, 2020 · 12:00 pm · Zoom

Racialization in Late Antique Italy and Italian Historiography

Nicole Lopez-Jantzen, City University of New York


October 13, 2020 · 1:30 pm · Zoom

Past Answers to Current Concerns, Seminar 2: Risk Management and Historical Theory

Luke Kemp, University of Cambridge; Steven Hartman, University of Iceland


October 6, 2020 · 1:30 pm · Zoom

Past Answers to Current Concerns, Seminar 1: Lessons from the past? Terms of the debate and some examples

Hugh Elton, Trent University; John Haldon, Dept. of History, Princeton; Adam Izdebski, Max-Planck-Institute for the Science of Human History; Lee Mordechai, Hebrew University Jerusalem; Merle Eisenberg, National Center for Socioenvironmental Synthesis, Annapolis; Tim Newfield, Georgetown University; Annelise Binois, University of Copenhagen


June 18, 2020 · 1:30 pm3:00 pm · via Zoom – Registration Required

From Healthscaping to Disease Tracing: Plague and Public Health After the Black Death

Abigail Agresta, George Washington University


June 11, 2020 · 1:30 pm3:00 pm · via Zoom – Registration Required

The Justinianic Plague: Apocalypse or Overblown?

Lee Mordechai, Hebrew University; Merle Eisenberg, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center in Annapolis


June 4, 2020 · 1:30 pm3:00 pm · via Zoom – Registration Required

Avoiding Plague like the Plague: Some Pathogenic Context for Late Antique Pandemics

Tim Newfield, Georgetown University, Washington


May 28, 2020 · 1:30 pm3:00 pm · via Zoom – Registration Required

The ‘Plague of Cyprian’: Sources, Problems, Origins and the ‘Crisis of the Third Century’

Sabine Huebner, University of Basel


May 21, 2020 · 1:30 pm3:00 pm · via Zoom – Registration Required

Plague: From the Late Neolithic to the Black Death

Phil Slavin, University of Stirling


May 14, 2020 · 1:30 pm3:00 pm · via Zoom – Registration Required

The Story of Pandemics in Scholarship and Popular Culture, 1890-2020

Merle Eisenberg, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center in Annapolis; Lee Mordechai, Hebrew University


May 8, 2020 · 8:00 am5:00 pm ·

The ‘Plague of Cyprian’: Sources, Problems, Origins and the ‘Crisis of the Third Century’

Sabine Hübner, University of Basel


May 8, 2020 · 8:00 am5:00 pm · via Zoom – Registration Required

The ‘Plague of Cyprian’: Sources, Problems, Origins and the ‘Crisis of the Third Century’

Sabine Hüber, University of Basel


March 10, 2020 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · East Pyne 010

What Medieval Africa Offers for Thinking Global Connectedness

Francois-Xavier Fauvelle, Collège de France


March 2, 2020 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · A6 McCormick

The Salaberga Psalter and the Ethiopian Face

David Ganz, Comité international de paléographie latine


February 27, 2020 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · East Pyne 010

Metrical Latin lives of Mohammed

Francesco Stella, Università di Siena


October 21, 2019 · 4:30 pm · East Pyne 010

Medieval Futures: The Shape of Time in Universal Histories

Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Institute for Advanced Study


April 16, 2019 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 219 Aaron Burr and Zoom

Scribal Illuminators and the Making of Middle English Literature

Sonja Drimmer, University of Massachusetts


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