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Upcoming Events & Announcements

May 16-17 - Third North American Interdisciplinary Conference on Medieval Icelandic Studies, 236 Goldwin Smith Hall. Program.

 


2001 - 2002 Calendar

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Fall 2001

September

  • Tuesday, September 4: Medieval Studies Proseminar - Prof. Alice Colby-Hall, Romance Studies, "Medieval French and Occitan Literature." 4:30-6:30 pm, B59 Kroch Library.
  • Wednesday, September 12: A Celebration of the Opening of SagaNet. Speakers will include Þorsteinn Hallgrímsson, Deputy National Librarian of Iceland ("Archiving the Icelandic Web"), Kristrún Gunnarsdóttir, Division of Digital Library and Information Technologies, Cornell University Library, formerly of the Icelandic National and University Library ("SagaNet: A Usability Study of Networked Access to Rare Materials"). 2B48 Kroch Library, 2:30 pm. Reception to follow.
  • Tuesday, September 18:Medieval Studies Proseminar - Prof. Thomas D. Hill, English, "Medieval Research and Electronic Databases." 4:30-6:30 pm, B59 Kroch Library.

October

  • Tuesday, October 2:Medieval Studies Proseminar - Prof. Paul Hyams, History, "Beauty from Dross: How to Become a 'Restricted Positivist' in One Easy Lesson." 4:30-6:30 pm, B59 Kroch Library.
  • Tuesday, October 16: Medieval Studies Proseminar - Prof. Scott McDonald, Philosophy. "Philip the Chancellor and the Doctrine of the Transcendentals." 4:30-6:30 pm, B59 Kroch Library.
  • Sunday-Tuesday, October 28-30: Twentieth International Conference of the Charles Homer Haskins Society for Viking, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman and Angevin History. Statler Hotel. For more information about the Haskins Society and its annual conference, click here.

November

  • Monday, November 5: David Whitehouse, Director of the Corning Museus of Glass, "A Medieval Islamic City at Siraf." Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America. G22 Goldwin Smith Hall, 8 pm.
  • Tuesday, November 6: Medieval Studies Proseminar - Prof. Pete Wetherbee, English, "How to Study Medieval Literature." 4:30-6:30 pm, B59 Kroch Library.
  • Friday, November 9: Quodlibet presents Dr. Richard Kaeuper, Professor of History at the University of Rochester, "The Holy Warrior: Violence and Piety." Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, 4:30 pm. Reception to follow.
  • Thursday, November 15: Mellon Seminar - Raegan Russell, Medieval Studies, "Constructing the Middle Ages, or Why Medievalists and Pre-Raphaelites Don't Mix" and Jon Bornholdt, Medieval Studies, "English in Transition: MS Bodley 343 and the Orderly Collapse of the Old English Inflectional System." G22 Goldwin Smith Hall, 4:30 pm.
  • Tuesday, November 27: Medieval Studies Proseminar - Prof. Robert G. Calkins, Art History, "Codicology and the Medieval Illuminated Manuscript." 4:30-6:30 pm, B59 Kroch Library.
  • Wednesday, November 28: Dr. Judith R. Cohen will present a workshop on Sephardic music from Spain, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. 316 Lincoln Hall, 4:00-6:00 pm.
  • Thursday, November 29 Mellon Seminar - Susan Brower-Toland, Medieval Studies, "Ockham's Three Theories of Judgment." 124 Goldwin Smith Hall, 4:30 pm.
  • Friday, November 30: Quodlibet presents Dr. Caroline Walker Bynum, Professor of History, Columbia University, "Violence in Medieval Religious Imagery." Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, 4:30 pm. Reception to follow.

December

  • Tuesday, December 4: A Celebration of Medieval Readings. Big Red Barn, 3:00 pm. Refreshments will be served.

Spring 2002

January

  • Tuesday, January 22: Medieval Studies Proseminar - Prof. Carol Kaske, English, "The Cornell Heresy? Making the Bible Work for You." 4:30-6:30 pm, B59 Kroch Library.

February

  • Tuesday, February 5: Medieval Studies Proseminar - Prof. Andrew Galloway, English, "Sermons and Middle English Literature." 4:30-6:30 pm, B59 Kroch Library.
  • Thursday, February 14: Carolyn Dinshaw, lunch and discussion of her work on Margery Kempe with graduate students. Sponsored by LGB Studies Program. 1:30 pm, English Department Lounge, 258 Goldwin Smith Hall.
  • Thursday, February 14: Carolyn Dinshaw, Department of English & Center for Gender & Sexuality Studies, New York University, "GLQ in Maylasia: LGBT Studies, Censorship, and Other Transnational Problems." Sponsored by the LBG Studies Program. 4:30 pm, Guerlac Room, A. D. White House.
  • Tuesday, February 19: Medieval Studies Proseminar - Prof. Paul Hyams, History, "Maria of Montpellier: Recovering the True Story." 4:30-6:30 pm, B59 Kroch Library.
  • Thursday, February 21: European Colloquium: Chara Armon, History, "Late-Medieval Reformers & the Development of Devotion to Saint Joseph." 4:30-6:30 pm, Room 110, A. D. White House.

March

  • Saturday, March 2: The Medieval Studies Student Colloquium. 8:30 am - 5:30 pm, A. D. White House. (Click here for the program.)
  • Tuesday, March 5: Medieval Studies Proseminar - Prof. Edward James, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Reading and Visiting Professor of History at Rutgers University, "The Death of King Chilperic (AD 575): An Historical Puzzle." 4:30-6:30 pm, B59 Kroch Library.
  • Wednesday, March 6: University Lecture: Edward James, "2001 and the Future: Sir Arthur C. Clarke's Utopian Vision." Sponsored by the University Lectures Committee. 4:30 pm, 142 Goldwin Smith Hall.
  • Thursday, March 7: Medieval Archaeology Lecture: Edward James, "The Death of King Childeric (AD 481): An Archaeological Enquiry." 4:30 pm, English Department Lounge, 258 Goldwin Smith Hall. Reception to follow in the Classics Lounge, 119 Goldwin Smith Hall.
  • Thursday, March 28: Quodlibet presents Dr. Roberta Krueger, Hamilton College, "Christine's Treasure: Women's Honor and Household Economics in the Livre des Trois Vertus." 4:30 pm, English Department Lounge, 258 Goldwin Smith Hall. Reception to follow.

April

  • Tuesday, April 2: Medieval Studies Proseminar - Prof. Judith Peraino, Music. 4:30-6:30 pm, B59 Kroch Library.
  • Thursday, April 4: Quodlibet presents Dr. Celia Chazelle, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and the College of New Jersey, "A Sense of Place: England, Rome, and the Codex Amiatinus." 2:30 pm, 2B48 Kroch Library. Reception to follow.
  • Friday, April 5: Marianne Kalinke, Professor of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Oswald of Northumbria: Continental Transformations." Sponsored by Pandaemonium Germanicum, Medieval Studies, German Studies, and Quodlibet. 3:00 pm, Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall. Reception to follow, 4:30-6:30 pm, German Lounge, 177 Goldwin Smith Hall.
  • Tuesday, April 16: Medieval Studies Proseminar - Prof. Danuat Shanzer, Classics. 4:30-6:30 pm, B59 Kroch Library.
  • Thursday, April 18: Mellon Seminar - Niall Christie, Visiting Scholar in Near Eastern Studies, ""Just a Bunch of Dirty Stories? Women in the 'Memoirs' of Usama ibn Munqidh." 122 Goldwin Smith, 4:30 pm.
  • Tuesday, April 30: Nicolai Petrov, Historical Faculty, Department of Archaeology, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. "The Vikings in Early Medieval Russia." Co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Program and the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Kroch Library. 2B48 Kroch Library, 4:30 pm.

May

  • Tuesday, May 7: Medieval Studies Proseminar - Prof. Peter Kuniholm. 4:30-6:30 pm, Wiener Dendrochronology Laboratory, Goldwin Smith Hall