How can communities generated by the theater and the classroom take arms against the Anthropocene’s rising sea of troubles? What can the premodern literary archive, embodied and emplaced anew, teach us about the present environmental crisis?

Join us in exploring the wonders of the premodern world, where you might encounter mythological creatures, be tempted by a devil, trade spices along the Silk Road, witness a terrible battle, or meet a beneficent deity.

Please join the English department for a talk by Edgar Garcia entitled "Caravaggio's Americas."

Women Medievalists on Medieval Women A "State-of-the-Field" Symposium and Reception

Fariba Zarinebaf, professor of History at University of California, Riverside, specializes in the urban, social, legal, gender and economic history of the Middle East and the Mediterranean world with an emphasis on Iran, the Ottoman Empire and France in the early modern era.

Talk given by Grace Delmolino

February 16, 2024 - 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

The NYU Consortium Medievalists are excited to host Dr.

In his influential article “Technical Innovation and Economic Progress in the Ancient World” (1965), historian Moses I. Finley asserted that societies in which slavery is deeply pervasive and entrenched become technologically stagnant.

The highlight of this solo guitar program is a work by composer Douglas Boyce, who dedicates his Partita No.

Course description:

Eighteenth Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade