1. EVENTS IN AND AROUND BOSTON

Monday, April 23, 4:15 p.m.: Joëlle Burnouf
(Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne).
"Towns and Rivers, River Towns: Environmental
Archaeology and the Archaeological Evaluation
of Medieval Urban Activities and Trade."
Harvard University, Barker Center, Room 114,
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.
Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar.
A pre-circulated paper for the talk can be found on the Humanities Center website
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr/seminars/precirculatedpapers.shtml.

Monday, April 30, 4:15 p.m.: Elly Truitt (Harvard University) "Talking Heads: Divination, Sorcery, and Speaking in Tongues." Harvard University, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA. Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar.

Thursday, June 14, 5:00 p.m.: The Orlando Consort: The Rose, the Lily, and the Whortleberry: Medieval and Renaissance Gardens in Music.
Music inspired by the symbolic and allegorical allure of flowers, based on their best-selling CD. Emmanuel Church, 15 Newberry Street, Boston, MA. Tickets: $22-$56 at www.bemf.org or 617-868-2363.

Friday, June 15, 8:00 p.m.: Sequentia: Edda: Viking Tales of Lust, Revenge, and Family. A magically theatrical piece recounting one of the earliest Norse legends of the Rheingold curse: a bloody tale of revenge and seduction that also inspired Wagner's Ring Cycle. New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA. Tickets: $22-$56 at www.bemf.org or 617-868-2363.

2. CONFERENCES AND CALLS FOR PAPERS
(highlighted titles link to conference websites where available)

27-28 April 2007: Northeast Graduate Conference on Studies of Early Science. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. The conference will consist of a welcoming reception and networking dinner on Friday evening, followed by morning and afternoon sessions for presenting research in progress on Saturday. The ESWG will cater each day's events, and Harvard graduate students will host those in need of overnight accommodation. Parking will also be made available to participants arriving by car. We welcome presentations of research by graduate students at all levels whose research addresses ancient, medieval, and early-modern science. In keeping with the informal nature of the event, presentations need not consist of polished papers; the presentation of work in progress is especially welcomed. Attendance without presentation is also encouraged. If you would like to attend and/or participate, please contact Tope Fadiran Charlton (fadiran@fas.harvard.edu) by Friday, April 13, 2007. Presented by the Early Sciences Working Group of the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University.

27-28 April 2007: The Social Spectacle: The 28th annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum at Plymouth State University. Sessions not necessarily limited to the central topic. For full information see http://www.plymouth.edu/medieval and/or contact Dr. Naomi Kline, Art Department MSC 21, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH 03264 or e-mail: nkline@mail.plymouth.edu.

5 May 2007: Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic: Knowledge and Power. Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge. Please send queries and abstracts of no more than 300 words to Brittany Schorn (bs321@cam.ac.uk) Corpus Christi College, Cambridge CB2 1RH. For further details and previous programmes, please visit http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/currentstudents/current-cambridge-colloquium.htm.

19 May 2007: The Sixth Annual UCSB Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference: "Civic Culture: Cities and Towns in the Middle Ages." University of California, Santa Barbara, McCune Conference Room, IHC. Plenary speaker: Edward Muir (Northwestern University). Please e-mail abstracts to Corinne Wieben at cmwieben@umail.ucsb.edu by 1 March. If you have any questions please contact Edward D. English english@history.ucsb.edu or Corinne Wieben.

27-29 June 2007: Memory: The 4th Annual Symposium of the International Medieval Society-Paris. Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, Maison de Recherche. For details please visit www.ims-paris.org.

9-12 July 2007: Medieval Cities (special thematic strand), International Medieval Congress, Leeds. For information see www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc.

29 July-4 August 2007: XIIth Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS). Geneva and Lausanne. For more information, please visit www.unil.ch/icls2007 or contact icls2007@unil.ch.

19-21 June 2008: The Oral, The Written, and Other Verbal Media: Interfaces and Audiences: A Conference and Festival. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. For full details, see http://www.usask.ca/english/news/Orality%20CFP.pdf.

5-7 October 2007: Twenty-Seventh Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium. The Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University invites proposals for papers or works-in-progress on topics which relate directly to Celtic studies (Celtic languages and literatures in any phase; cultural, historical, or social science topics; theoretical perspectives, etc.). Papers concerning interdisciplinary research with a Celtic focus are also invited. We invite correspondence in any Celtic language. For further information please visit http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hcc/. The closing date for proposals is 1 May 2007.

19-20 October 2007: Ambrosiana at Harvard: New Sources of Milanese Chant. For information please visit http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/ambrosiana.html.

6-8 March 2008: The Sixteenth Biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies. New College of Florida, Sarasota, FL. The program committee invites one-page abstracts of proposed twenty-minute papers on topics in European and Mediterranean history, literature, art, and religion from the fourth to the seventeenth centuries. Interdisciplinary work is particularly appropriate to the conference's broad historical and disciplinary scope. Planned sessions are welcome. More information will be posted on the conference website as it becomes available, including plenary speakers, conference events, and area attractions: http://faculty.ncf.edu/MedievalStudies. The deadline for abstracts is September 15, 2007. Send inquiries and abstracts (e-mail preferred, no attachments please) to: Nova Myhill (nmyhill@ncf.edu) Division of Humanities, New College of Florida, 5800 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota, FL 34243.