The First Millennium Network’s Fall Colloquium for 2018, “Constructing the Past in the First Millennium,” will be held on Friday, November 9, at University of Maryland from 9:30-5:30, in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 0106. Registration is now closed.

Courtney Booker (University of British Columbia), “Carolingian Harts and Minds: or, On Remembering to Forget to Remember”
Fred M. Donner (The University of Chicago), “Reflections on early Islamic historiography”
Helmut Reimitz (Princeton University), “History, genre and identity in the post-Roman West”
Alison Vacca (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), “Stories of Sex and Power in the medieval Caucasus”

Francis Scott Key Hall is about a 20 minute walk from the College Park-UMD stop on the METRO Green line. If you’re planning on driving, parking information can be found here and here.