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Past Lecture Events

Wed, 4/3 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 010 East Pyne

Francis and Nature

Jacques Dalarun, Medieval Historian


April 11, 2023 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · East Pyne 010

The Rise of the Christian Economy in the post-Christian West

Ian Wood, University of Leeds


November 1, 2022 · 5:00 pm6:30 pm · Room N107, School of Architecture

Getting to the Point. Genealogies of the Analog Code

Wolfgang Schäffner, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin


April 1, 2022 · 12:00 pm1:20 pm · Zoom

Seminar Series: Race, Race-Thinking and Identity in the Middle Ages and Medieval Studies: Archaeology and Race

Bonnie Effros, University of British Columbia and Susanne Hakenbeck, University of Cambridge 


November 22, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 161 East Pyne and Zoom

How to Write a W – On the Magical Beginning of German Writing

Stephan Müller, University of Vienna


November 10, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 219 Aaron Burr Hall and Zoom

Not Just Rabbis: Rethinking Jewish Communal Leadership in Medieval Europe – The Case of Cologne

Ephraim Shoham-Steiner, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev


October 13, 2021 · 12:00 pm1:30 pm · Zoom

The Affects of Manumission: Racial Melancholy and Roman Freedpersons

Dan-El Padilla Peralta, Department of Classics, Princeton University


October 6, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

An ‘Under’ World of Practices: Romano-British Religious Cults in the Severn Valley

Janet Kay; Avner Goldstein, Department of Art & Archaeology


April 30, 2021 · 12:00 pm · Zoom

Race, Racecraft and Necropolitics in Greek Epic

Jackie Murray, University of Kentucky


March 31, 2021 · 12:00 pm · Zoom

Empires and Racialization: The Myth of the Martial Race

Nino Luraghi, Oxford University


February 11, 2021 · 11:00 am · Zoom

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

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


February 5, 2021 · 1:00 pm2:30 pm · Zoom

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

Chris Wickham, University of Oxford, Emeritus


December 14, 2020 · 12:00 pm2:00 pm · Zoom

Seminar 3: What can we learn from the archeology of medieval Egypt that we can’t learn from the documents?

Chris Wickham, University of Oxford, Emeritus


December 9, 2020 · 10:00 am12:00 pm · Zoom

Seminar 2: Reading Session on Arabic-script Documents

Chris Wickham, University of Oxford, Emeritus


December 7, 2020 · 9:00 am11:00 am · Zoom

Seminar 1: What can we learn from Arabic-script documents about economic exchange in medieval Egypt (800–1150)?

Chris Wickham, University of Oxford, Emeritus


November 23, 2020 · 12:00 pm1:15 pm · Zoom

The Light Ages? Reconstructing the Practices of Late Medieval Astronomy

Seb Falk, Cambridge University



November 3, 2020 · 1:30 pm · Zoom

Past Answers to Current Concerns, Seminar 5: Failing Strategies 2

Emmanuel Kreike, Department of History, Princeton; Thayer Patterson and Miguel Centeno, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies


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