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A criticism of the French film "Week-end" directed by Jean-Luc Godard and starring Mireille Darc is presented.

The article discusses the history of humanism in setting social boundaries at the Universität Köln university in Cologne, Germany during the 15th and early 16th centuries. The attempts to protect Jewish books by German humanist Johannes Reuchlin are examined along with the relationship between scholasticism and humanism.

The article presents a report from a December 10-11, 2015 conference in Münster, Germany on the history of conflist surrounding the Université de Paris. Topics of presentations delivered include attempts by French King Philipp the Fair to use the university for public relations purposes, the works of theologian John of Paris, and the suprematism art movement.

The article presents a report from a November 12-15, 2014 conference in Göttingen, Germany on the history of European tutoring culture in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern era. Topics of presentations delivered included the education of laypeople in 12th-century Italian communes, the metaphysics lecture book "Colliget principiorum” by Heymericus de Campo, and political elements at Middle Ages universities.

The article presents a report from an April 5-7, 2017 conference in Essen, Germany on alleged problems on premodern historical research. Topics of presentations delivered include historical source material on the murder of bishop Burchard III of Magdeburg, the 1492 antisemitic host desecration scandal in Sternberg, Germany, and English king Henry III's policy regarding services for converts.

The article reports on a panel on books and writing in the late Middle Ages at the Deutscher Historikertag (Conference of German Historians), held from September 25-28, 2012, in Mainz, Germany. Topics of discussion included the development and institutionalization of written government records in the County of Württemberg, Germany, in the 15th century, attitudes toward books among Franciscan monks, and the establishment of university libraries in the case of the university of Augsburg, Germany.

The article reports on a conference on late medieval and early modern standards of learning and scholarship, held in Göttingen, Germany, from February 29-March 2, 2012. Topics of discussion included the interest of Franciscan monk Roger Bacon in the occult, intellectual life in 18th-century China, and the distinction between mechanics and miracles in the work of German physicist Johannes Andreas Schmidt.

The article discusses the "Medieval History Seminar" held in Washington, DC from October 12 to October 16, 2011. The conference focused on medieval history. Topics discussed include the history of emotions in the Middle Ages, the social capital of those with doctoral degrees in 1500, and technical language in medieval English account books.