Yale Lectures in Medieval Studies

08/25/2022

Hello medievalists and friends! YLMS is excited to announce the schedule for its 2022-2023 lecture series! We hope that you will attend and enjoy our events this year. We would also like to thank our sponsors for supporting us and our guest speakers.

04/29/2021

Hello everyone! A reminder that our final lecture of the spring 2021 series is today, at 5:30pm Eastern Time! See below for a link to register for the talk "Marco Polo and the Diversity of the Global Middle Ages" by Professor Sharon Kinosh*ta.

03/29/2021

Dr. Nahir Otaño Gracia’s lecture, "Broken Dreams: Medievalism and Race in Alejandro Tapia y Rivera's Póstumo el Envirginiado,” is now available to watch here: https://youtu.be/oHdio8WmiCc.

This talk was presented virtually to a remote audience on 25 March 2021 as part of the Yale Lectures in Medieval Studies 2020-2021 speaker series.

Dr. Nahir Otaño Gracia, Assistant Professor of English and Medieval Studies at the University of New Mexico."Broken Dreams: Medievalism and Race in Alejandro...

03/26/2021

Dr. Thomas Burman's lecture, "The Correspondence of Emperor Leo III (714-41) and Caliph Umar II (717-20): Arguing Mediterranean Religion across the Middle Ages," is now available to watch here: https://youtu.be/0cuNz_OIz20.

This talk was presented virtually to a remote audience on 4 March 2021 as part of the Yale Lectures in Medieval Studies 2020-2021 speaker series.

Dr. Thomas Burman, Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame."The Correspondence of Emperor Leo III (714-41) and Caliph Umar II (717-20): Arguing ...

02/22/2021

YLMS SPRING 2021 ZOOM REGISTRATION LINKS

The YLMS lectures this term will be held remotely via Zoom. Please register using the links below to receive instructions for accessing the webinars.

Lecture 1: March 4, 5:30 PM EST
"The Correspondence of Emperor Leo III (717-41) and Caliph Umar II (717-20): Arguing Mediterranean Religion across the Middle Ages"
Thomas Burman — Professor of History, University of Notre Dame

Register for lecture 1 here:
https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TKeXkfYAQQyaX21gwkUBKA

Lecture 2: March 25, 5:30 PM EST
"Broken Dreams: Medievalism and Race in Alejandro Tapia y Rivera's Póstumo el Envirginiado"
Nahir Otaño Gracia — Assistant Professor of English & Medieval Studies, University of New Mexico

Register for lecture 2 here: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2jpq_W1jQQeJWfEHFrrKBA

Lecture 3: April 8, 5:30 PM EST
"Landscape, Identity, and Song: Projections of Person in Thirteenth-Century Trouvère Songbooks"
Jennifer Saltzstein — Presidential Professor of Musicology, University of Oklahoma

Register for lecture 3 here:
https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bA56mctrQ0SI0RyhiAEi_Q

Lecture 4: April 29, 5:30 PM EST
"Marco Polo and the Diversity of the Global Middle Ages"
Sharon Kinosh*ta — Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz

Register for lecture 4 here:
https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_M8jIKfRnQc-uy1Oohl6ecQ

02/08/2021

Hello everyone! We are pleased to announce the lineup of lectures for this spring. The talks will continue to be held virtually and the Zoom links for specific events will be forthcoming. Thank you all for being a big part of what was despite the circumstances a very successful set of lectures last fall! We are looking forward to more of the same intellectual engagement and exciting research now in 2021.

09/24/2020

Dr. Mark Chinca's lecture, "Remembering the Last End in the Late Middle Ages: Rhetoric and Composition," is now available to watch here: https://youtu.be/nBBfZqRvQXM.

Mark your calendars for 10 December 2020, when we will host Dr. Jack Tannous (Princeton University) for his lecture, “Lost and (Not) Found: Syriac Literature as a ‘Miserable Wreck.'"

The lecture will occur at 5:30 P.M. EST via Zoom.

Dr. Mark Gianni Chinca, Reader in Medieval and Early Modern Germanic Literature at the University of Cambridge. “Remembering the Last End in the Late Middle ...