Medieval Colloquium
Welcome!
Welcome to the Harvard English Department's Medieval Colloquium! The Colloquium brings together students and faculty from Harvard and other universities to discuss current research on medieval literature and its contexts. If you have any questions or suggestions, or would like to be added to the Medieval Colloquium's email list, please contact our graduate student coordinator Joseph Shack and Andrew Maxwell. Stay tuned for upcoming events!
Harvard Medieval English Colloquium - Calendar of Events - Spring 2024
Thursdays at 5:00pm (unless otherwise noted)
HARVARD MEDIEVAL COLLOQUIUM – CALENDAR OF EVENTS – Spring 2024
Thursday, 25th February. Bibendum Library Crawl.
Thursday 1st February. Anna Wilson (Harvard University), “The Article Process from Pre-submission to Publication: A Workshop.” Co-organized with the Medieval Graduate Interdisciplinary Workshop. Barker 133.
Thursday 15th February. Ingrid Nelson (Amherst College), “Media Technologies of Romance in the Canterbury Tales.” Join us for dinner afterwards!
Thursday, 22nd February. Bibendum & Gebeorscipe (Widener D) Beginning at 4:00.
Thursday 29th February. Adrienne Boyarin (University of Victoria) and Nicholas Watson (Harvard University), “Writing the Literary History of a City: A Workshop Conversation” (Barker 211).
Thursday 4th April. Micah Goodrich (Boston University), “Trans Hermeneutics and the End(s) of the Pardoner.” Join us for dinner afterwards!
Thursday 17th April. Bibedum & Gebeorscipe (Widener D) Beginning at 4:00.
Thursday 25th April. Haruko Momma (New York University), “‘Saracen’ Sounds Comical: Terms of Terminology and the Question of Naming in Medieval Literature (and Medieval Studies)." Barker 114 (Kresge Room). Join us for dinner afterwards!
Thursday 2nd May. End of Semester Bibendum with Addendum.
HARVARD MEDIEVAL COLLOQUIUM – CALENDAR OF EVENTS – FALL 2023
Thursday 7th September. The first Bibendum & Gebeorscip of the year (on Barker Center Lawn)
Thursday 21st September. “Scansion Workshop: Alliterative Verse Plus.” (Graduate Student Workshop) Daniel Donoghue, Harvard University. Barker 018.
Thursday 28th September. Bibendum & Gebeorscip
Wednesday 4th October. Leah Whittington, Harvard University. “Spenser, Chaucer, and the Supplemented Book.” Cosponsored event with the Renaissance Colloquium.
Thursday 12th October. Bibendum & Gebeorscip
Thursday 9th November. Arthur Bahr, MIT. “Toward a Speculative Expansion of Pearl, Line 735.” Barker 133. Join us for dinner afterwards!
Thursday 16th November. Ahmed Seif, Harvard University. "In Reported Speech and Through It: Or, 'What Women Really Want.'" Barker 024. Bibendum & Gebeorscip to follow!
Thursday November 30th. James Simpson, Harvard University (Emeritus). “Modernity’s Selfhood and the Desacralization of Images; or, Being an Early Modern Image Hurts.” Barker 024. Cosponsored event with the Renaissance Colloquium. Join us for dinner afterwards!
Thursday December 7th. Bibendum & Gebeorscip
Medieval Studies at Harvard
The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies is a great place to start for resources in interdisciplinary medieval studies at Harvard. Here, you can:
View current medieval studies course offerings at Harvard
Learn about the Secondary PhD Field in Medieval Studies
View a calendar of upcoming events in medieval studies in and around Boston, including meetings of the Harvard Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar, which meets on Mondays at 4:15 pm
Inter Libros offers a great overview of electronic resources available for scholars in medieval studies; for more electronic resources, see below.
Houghton Library holds a wealth of incredible medieval manuscripts and related materials. Don't miss their collection of Digital Medieval Manuscripts, and be sure to check out their Search Strategies for locating other manuscripts in the collection.