The Yale Medieval Lunch Series is an interdisciplinary colloquium that meets regularly throughout the academic year. It is the program’s primary forum for exchanging ideas, sharing research findings, and presenting work-in-progress within Yale’s broad and diverse Medieval Studies community.
The colloquium draws on the skills and expertise of departmental faculty members, graduate students, research scholars, postdoctoral fellows, librarians, curators, and occasional visitors from outside Yale. In the past few years, presentations have included new research from the fields of English; linguistics; history of art; religious studies; history; Judaic studies; numismatics; legal studies; economic history; paleography and manuscript studies; textual criticism; and Italian, Spanish, French, Slavic and Near Eastern languages.
Medieval Lunch is held Wednesdays at noon in Humanities Quadrangle 107.
Fall 2024
Sept 4: Meet-and-Greet
Sept 25: Alternative Academics Professional Development Panel: Agnieszka Rec (Curator, Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library), Gina Marie Hurley (Associate Director for Teaching Development and Initiatives, Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning), and Chelsea Connelly (Publishing Coordinator, Yale University Press)
Oct 2: Tobias Scheunchen (Yale Law School), ‘No Place for Written Law? Islamic Law, Legal Documents, and Western Scholarship’
Oct 9: Aaron Forman (Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, NYU), ‘The Twin Struggles of Abraham Maimonides: Examining Ideas and Practice Together’
Oct 23: Camila Marcone (Program in Medieval Studies, Yale), ‘Technological Transfer in Conquest: Technology in the Libros de Repartimiento’
Oct 30: Charlie West (Dept. of Italian Studies, Yale), ‘Who Can Blame Him?: Dante’s Sodomites in the Commentary Tradition’
Nov 6: Clara Poteet (Yale University Art Gallery), (title tbd)
Nov 13: Claire Adler (Dept. of English, Yale), (title tbd)
Nov 20: Victor Fong (Council on East Asian Studies), (title tbd)
Dec 4: Miles Lourenco (Center for Scandinavian Studies, Aberdeen), ‘Landscape as Catalyst in Icelandic Pagan-Contact Þættir’