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Book Colloquium: “The Sleep of Behemoth”

Please join us for a MEMS book colloquium discussing Jehangir Malegam's Sleep of Behemoth: Disputing Peace and Violence in Medieval Europe. The author as well as Professor Bjorn Weiler (Aberystwyth University, Wales) will be joining us for a round-table discussion of … Read more

DFW Compact Seminar: “Big Data for Intimate Spaces”

Hyde Hall

We talk a lot these days about magnitude: Big Data, crowd-sourcing, MOOCs, global access. And yet the humanities are concerned with human relationships, which often take place in intimate surroundings. During this four-day seminar, we will bridge the distance between … Read more

Encounters in European Art, 1300-1850

University Room, Hyde Hall

This year's Bettie Allison Rand Lectures will be held in the form of a mini-conference on the topic of "Encounters in European Art, 1300-1850." This event will feature panels exploring cultural contact and the making of European art.

Triangle Medieval Studies Spring Seminar

National Humanities Center, Main Conference Room

The Triangle Medieval Studies Seminar will be hosting its Spring 2015 event featuring a selection of paper presentations. This semester’s event will feature papers by Shannon Gayk (English, U. of Indiana-Bloomington/NHC), Joshua Hevert (History, UNC-Chapel Hill), and Christopher Melchert (Oriental Studies, Oxford/NHC). For program information as well as … Read more

Dorothy Ford Wiley Crossroads Lecture

569 Hamilton Hall

Please join us for our Spring 2015 Dorothy Ford Wiley Crossroads Lecture featuring Wendy Heller (Music, Princeton University). She will be presenting a lecture entitled "Enchanted Gardens: The Locus Amoenus in Seicento Opera."  

Lecture by Nicholas Paul (Fordham University)

569 Hamilton Hall

Please join us for a lecture by Nicholas Paul (History) of Fordham University. Paul's past research has concerned the world of the lay nobility in the central Middle Ages and the intersection between that world and the experience of crusading. … Read more

Fall Reception

Hamilton 569

5:00-6:30 Hamilton 569

Second Annual MEMS Book Colloquium

Join us for a discussion of The Islamic-Byzantine Frontier: Interaction and Exchange Among Muslim and Christian Communities (I.B. Tauris, 2014) by Asa Eger (UNC-Greensboro).