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2000 - 2001 Calendar

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Fall 2000

September

  • Wednesday, September 13: Kristín Bragadóttir, National and University Library of Iceland, will speak on Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir, an Icelandic heroine who joined an expedition to North America a millennium ago. Kristín will accompany her presentation with slides. Sponosored by The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. Lecture room (2B48) of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, 4:30 pm.
  • Thursday, September 14: William Sayers, Cornell University Library, "Woodworking and Wordworking: Shipbuilding Imagery in Old Norse Poetics." Illustrations will accompany his presentation. Sponosored by The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. Lecture room (2B48) of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, 4:30 pm.
  • Thursday, September 28: Medieval Studies Mellon Seminar: Walter Cohen, Vice-Provost and Dean of the Graduate School, Cornell University, will discuss his paper (part of a book) on medieval epic. Goldwin Smith 122, 4:30-6:00 pm.
  • Friday, September 29-Sunday, October 1: German Studies Conference: "Nature-Nurture: Art and Lêre in Medieval and Early Modern Germany." A. D. White House.

October

  • Tuesday, October 3: Dr. Carl Grindley, "The History of O: Textual Criticism and Critical Texts of Piers Plowman." Goldwin Smith G22, 4:40 pm.
  • Thursday, October 5: Lynn Staley, Colgate University, "Richard II and the Production of French Culture." Sponsored by Quodlibet. Goldwin Smith G22, 4:30 pm. Reception following in English Department Lounge.
  • Sunday-Tuesday, October 29-31: Nineteenth International Conference of the Charles Homer Haskins Society for Viking, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman and Angevin History. Statler Hotel. (See http://www.haskins.cornell.edu/Hask2000info.html for more information.)

November

  • Thursday, November 2: Kelley Wickham-Crowley, Georgetown University, "Buried Truths: Shrouds, Cults and Female Production in Anglo-Saxon England." Sponsored by Quodlibet. Goldwin Smith G22, 4:40 pm. Reception to follow.
  • Friday, November 17: A screening of "Leif Eriksson: the Man Who (Almost) Changed the World." Sponsored by the Institute for European Studies and the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library on the occasion of the visit to Cornell University of His Excellency Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson, Ambassador from Iceland to the United States and in recognition of International Education Week. 2B48 (the lecture room) Kroch Library, 9:45 am.
  • Friday, November 17: Suzanne Akbari, University of Toronto, "How to Order the World? Mandeville's Moveable East." Sponsored by Quodlibet. Goldwin Smith G22, 4:30 pm. Reception to follow.
  • Friday, Novmeber 17: Joseph Rife, Townsend Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, "Life and Death in the Late Antique Greek Countryside: The View from the Isthmus." Goldwin Smith 142, 4:30 pm.
  • Monday, November 20: James Graham-Campbell, Institute of Archaeology, University of London, "What Is a Viking Horde and What Does it Tell Us?" 115 Rockefeller Hall, 1:15 pm.
  • Thursday, November 30: Medieval Studies Mellon Seminar: Judith Peraino, Department of Music, "Monophonic Motets: Grafting and Sampling in the Middle Ages." Goldwin Smith 122, 4:30 pm.

December

  • Thursday, December 7: Medieval Readings: Prose and Poetry. Tammany Cafe, Risley Hall, 3 pm.

Spring 2001

January

February

  • Thursday, February 1: Kathryn Walls, English Department, Victoria University in the University of Wellington, New Zealand, "Allegory from Medieval to Renaissance: the Afterlife of De Guileville's Pilgrimage of the Life of Man." Goldwin Smith 258, 4:30 pm.
  • Friday, February 16: Robert Kaster, Princeton University, "Invidia, Nemesis, Phthonos, and the Roman Emotional Economy." Sponsored by the Department of Classics. Goldwin Smith 122, 4:30 pm. Reception to follow.
  • Monday, February 19: Lynn Jones, Society for the Humanities, "Relics of the True Cross and Aspects of Medieval Identity." Visual Culture Colloquium. History of Art Gallery, Goldwin Smith Hall, 5:00 pm. Reception to follow.

March

  • Friday, March 2: Esperanza Alfonso, Visiting Fellow, Cornell University, "Imagining al-Andalus: Romantics, Colonizers, Scholars/España medieval en la memoria: Románticos, Colonialistas, Académicos." Stop Five of "Around the World in 8 Days," sponsored by Noyes Community Center, Department of Near Eastern Studies, and Cornell Faculty Programs in Residential Communities. Noyes 3rd floor Browsing Library, 8:00 pm. (Free dinner in Jansen's Dining at 7:00 pm.)
  • Friday-Saturday, March 2-3: The Medieval Studies Student Colloquium, "Town and Country in the Middle Ages." The A. D. White House. (Click here for the program.)
  • Thursday, March 8: Allen Franzen, Department of English, Loyola University, Chicago, "St. Edmund, Chivalry, and the Abjection of Heroic Masculinity." Sponsored by Quodlibet. Goldwin Smith G22, 4:30 pm. Reception to follow.
  • Thursday, March 8: Tobias Foster Gittes, Columbia University, "The Martyrdom of St. Boccaccio, Pimp of Parnassus." Uris Hall 254, 11:40 am.
  • Wednesday, March 14: Lynn Jones, Mellon Fellow, Department of the History of Art, "Power and Piety in Medieval Armenia: The Palace and Palace Church at Aghtamar." Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America Finger Lakes Chapter. Goldwin Smith G22, 8:00 pm. Reception to follow.
  • Thursday, March 15: Nancy Caciola, University of San Diego, "Spirit Possession and Trance in the Middle Ages." Co-sponsored by the European History Colloquium and Medieval Studies. A. D. White House, 4:30 pm.
  • Wednesday, March 28: Patrick Geary, UCLA, "Medievalists and the Challenge of Ethnic Nationalism." University Lecture sponsored by Medieval Studies. Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, 4:30 pm. Reception to follow.
  • Friday, March 30: Gail Berlin, Indiana University, "Medieval Studies and the Corporate Agenda in Higher Education." Sponsored by Quodlibet. Goldwin Smith G22, 4:30 pm. Reception to follow.

April

  • Thursday, April 5: Mellon Seminar: Discussion of Paul Freedman and Gabrielle Spiegel's "Medievalisms Old and New: The Rediscovery of Alterity in North American Medieval Studies." Goldwin Smith Hall 122, 4:30 p.m.
  • Friday, April 20: Julia Haig Gaisser, Bryn Mawr College, "Allegorizing Apuleius: Fulgentius, Boccaccio, Beroaldo, and the Chain of Receptions." Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Renaissance Colloquium. Goldwin Smith Hall, G22, 4:30 pm. Reception to follow.
  • Monday, April 30: Andreas Schwarcz, The University of Vienna, "Theodoric the Great and His Reconstruction of the Western Empire." Goldwin Smith Hall 122, 4:30pm