Abigail Balbale’s book, Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts (Harvard University Press, 2018), edited with Intisar Rabb, launches with a talk November 28 at Harvard Law School.

Alicia Boswell presented a paper co-authored with Jessica Walthew and Gabriel Prieto titled “Bridging the Gap between Fieldwork and Conservation in Huanchaco, Peru” on October 15 at the 36th Annual Northeast Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory at the Penn Museum. On November 12, she presented a paper, “Ritual Regalia of the Ancient Moche” at the Archaeological Institute of America’s Staten Island chapter.

Ivan Gaskell delivered the Nineteenth Horst Gerson Memorial Lecture at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands: “Everything or Nothing? What Do University Museums Know?”

Freyja Hartzell has been on sabbatical this semester completing her manuscript, Living Things: The Modern Art of Richard Riemerschmid. The first book on Riemerschmid in English, it examines the career and production of the influential Munich architect-designer as a challenge to modernist conventions. Hartzell was also a panelist on the TEFAF New York Fall 2017 Coffee Talk, “Surface or Substance? Jewelry as Adornment and Power,” which she co-organized.

Deborah Krohn delivered a paper on November 3 at a workshop convened in conjunction with an exhibition on which she is collaborating at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, to take place in 2019. With the working title “The Material Cultures of Food,” the exhibition will highlight objects from the Fitzwilliam’s extensive collections.

Ittai Weinryb participated in a three-day workshop on the material culture of medieval Hildesheim, Germany. As part of the ongoing project, Zwischen Präsenz und Evokation. Fingierte Materialien und Techniken im frühen und hohen Mittelalter, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, it focused on, among other things, the bronze doors of Hildesheim Cathedral as well as the city’s spectacular manuscript collection.