• Friday, April 1: lecture by Prof. Michael Harney (U. Texas-Austin)—“Happy 500th Birthday, Don Quijote!” | Guerlac Room, A. D. White House, 4:30 PM, reception to follow.

Prof. Harney ( Kinship and marriage in medieval hispanic chivalric romance , 2001; Kinship and polity in the Poema de mio Cid , 1993) has published numerous articles on the Libro del caballero Zifar and the Poem of the Cid , questions of class, power and culture of medieval Spain, and on the crossroads between economy and culture both medieval and contemporary. Prof. Harney is an engaging speaker who likes to spark discussions on topics such as the constructedness of genre and periods.

• Thursday, April 28: Quodlibet Lecture —“Commerce, Court, and Cloister: The Literatures of Medieval Childhood,” Seth Lerer, Stanford University | Goldwin Smith Hall 142, 4:30pm

• Thursday, March 1: Quodlibet Lecture — “Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind: Constructions of a Disability in Medieval England and France,” Edward Wheatley, Hamilton College | Goldwin Smith Hall 134, 4:30pm

• Tuesday, March 29: Mellon Graduate Colloquium series on "Lost and Found in Translation":  Cynthia Camp, "The Politics of Hagiographic Translation in Fifteenth-Century England" | 4:30 pm, A. D. White House Library

• Thursday, February 3: Quodlibet Lecture — “Digging a Castle in Belgium, or How (and Why?) does a Medievalist Do Archaeology?” Bailey Young, Eastern Illinois University | Goldwin Smith Hall 134, 4:30pm

• Friday, February 11: “Old Texts in New Contexts: the Making of Medieval Written Culture,” Mark Stansbury, National University of Ireland | Goldwin Smith Hall 258 (Engl. lounge), 4:30

• Wednesday, February 16: Title TBA, Bridget Balint, Indiana University | Goldwin Smith Hall 258 (Engl. Lounge)? 4:30pm

• Saturday, February 19: Medieval Studies Student Colloquium, the annual colloquium featuring current graduate research | A.D. White House. View the program.

• Thursday, February 24: Quodlibet Lecture — “Hostages in Medieval Europe,” Adam Costo, Columbia University | Goldwin Smith Hall 134 , 4:30pm

• Friday, February 25: “The Perception of Difficulty in Latin Prose: The Case of Aldhelm,” Carin Ruff, John Carrol University | Goldwin Smith Hall 258 (Engl. Lounge), 4:30pm

• Thursday, September 7: Mellon Seminar — Theresa Earenfight “The Politics and Poetics of Capetian Sanctity in the Life of Isabella of France” | Goldwin Smith 122, 4:30pm

• Thursday, October 14: “Bastides: Medieval New Urbanism in Southwestern France,” Prof. Emeritus John W. Reps (author of 14 books on the history of American city planning and urban iconography; awarded Guggenheim, Fulbright, Eisenhower, and NEH fellowships) | Hollis Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, 6:30pm

• Monday, October 18: “Alegoría y ficción sentimental,” Oscar Martín, Yale University | Guerlac Room, A.D. White House, 4:30pm

• Thursday, October 28: Quodlibet Lecture — “Siraf: The Archaeology of a Medieval City in Iran,” Dr. David Whitehouse, Executive Director and Curator of Ancient and Islamic Glass, The Corning Museum of Glass. | Goldwin Smith 142, 4:30pm

• Thursday, October 28: The Dept. of Comparative Literature Speaker Series — “The Joy of Anachronism,” Cary Howie, Romance Studies. | A.D. White House Room 110, 4:45pm

• Monday, November 1: European History Colloquium — “Europe, the Reformation, and the Middle Ages,” Constance Fasolt, University of Chicago | A.D. White House room 201, 4:30-6:30pm

• Thursday, November 11: “Alternative Scriptures: Story, History, and the Canons of Romance,” Professor Jon Whitman of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem | Goldwin Smith 236, 4:30pm

• Thursday, November 18: Quodlibet Lecture — “Idealizing the Other: Textual Interplay in Medieval Dominican Representations of Male and Female Monastics,” Rebecca Garber, Independent Scholar | Goldwin Smith 142, 4:30pm

• Thursday, December 2: Mellon Seminar — Bernd Goehring and Libby Maxey | 122 Goldwin Smith, 4:30pm

• Thursday, December 2: CLC lecture — “Reduplicated Preterites in Germanic,” Professor Jay Jasanoff, Harvard University | Morrill Hall, room 111, 4:30pm

• Wednesday, December 8: Celebration of Medieval Readings | Big Red Barn, 4:00pm