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Upcoming Events & Announcements

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

 


2002 - 2003 Calendar

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Fall 2002

September

  • Monday, September 2: Julia Barrow, University of Nottingham. Workshop on charters. 4:30 pm, Olin Library 106.
  • Wednesday, September 4: The William H. and Jane Torrence Harder Lecture: Winthrop Wetherbee, The Avalon Foundation Professor in Humanities and English, "The Spirit of Landscape in Medieval Poetry." 5:30 pm, Warren Hall Auditorium, B45, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Gala garden reception immediately following.
  • Thursday, September 12: Quodibet presents Jeffrey J. Cohen, George Washington University, "Blood, Race, and the Monsterization of the Jews: Norwich, 1144." 4:30 pm, Goldwin Smith 22. Sponsored by the Medieval Studies Program, the Department of English, the Institute for European Studies, the Jewish Studies Program, and the Soceity for the Humanities. Reception to follow.

October

  • Thursday, October 3: Quodlibet presents Edward James, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Reading and Visiting Professor at Rutgers University, "Heroism and Masculinity in Gregory of Tours." 4:30 pm, G22 Goldwin Smith Hall. Reception to follow in the Classics lounge.
  • Friday, October 18: A viewing of The 13th Warrior with Shawkat Toorawa, Department of Near Eastern Studies. 7:00 pm, Robert Purcell Community Center Auditorium.
  • Monday, October 21: The Renaissance Colloquium, with generous support from the Carl A. Kroch Rare Book Library, presents John Paul McDonald, Professor of French, University of North Carolina-Asheville, "Mabillon, Rance, and the Quarrel on Monastic Scholarship in Seventeenth-Century France." 4:30-6:00 pm, Kroch Rare Book Library Seminar Room B.
  • Monday, October 21: The Blumenthal Lecture - Janet Coleman, London School of Economics and Political Science, "Public Rationality in the Middle Ages and Renaissance." 4:30 pm, 134 Goldwin Smith Hall.
  • Thursday, October 24: Paul Kroll, Professor of Chinese, University of Colorado at Boulder, "Taoist Revelatory Verse in Medieval China." 4:30 pm, 374 Rockefeller Hall.
  • Thursday, October 24: Quodlibet presents Marilyn Migiel, Department of Romance Studies, "To Transvest Not To Transgress: Decameron II.9." 4:30 pm, G22 Goldwin Smith Hall. Reception to follow in the History of Art Gallery.
  • Monday, October 28: Simone Pinet, Yale University, "Archipelagoes: Maps and Other Fictions Between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance." Sponsored by the Department of Romance Studies. 4:30 pm, Romance Studies Lounge, 3rd floor, Morrill Hall.

November

  • Sunday-Tuesday, November 17-19: Twenty-first 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.

December

  • Wednesday, December 11: A Celebration of Medieval Languages (readings and other performances of medieval poetry, prose, and song in the original languages). Big Red Barn, 4:00-6:00 pm. Light refreshments served.

Spring 2003

January

  • Thursday, January 23: Medieval Studies Mellon Seminar - Andy Cain, Medieval Studies, "Working with an Ancient Letter Collection: The Case of St. Jerome." 4:30 pm, 156 Goldwin Smith Hall.
  • Friday, January 31: The Italian Studies Colloquium presents Robert Fredona, Department of History, "Liberem us diuturna cura populum Romanun: Hannibal in the Thought of Nicolò Macciavelli." 4:30 pm, 201 A. D. White House.

February

March

  • Saturday, March 1: The Annual Medieval Studies Student Colloquium. 8:30 am - 5:30 pm, the A. D. White House.
  • Thursday, March 6: David Knechtges, Professor of Chinese at the University of Washington, Seattle, "A Chinese Garden in Early Medieval China: The Mountain Estate of Xie Lingyuni." 4:30 pm, G-08 Uris Hall.
  • Friday, March 7: Sara S. Poor, Princeton University, "Transmission Lessons: Mechtild von Magdeburg and the Making of Textual Authority." Sponsored by the Institute for German Cultural Studies. 3:00 pm, 181 Goldwin Smith Hall.
  • Friday, March 7: The Italian Studies Colloquium presents Ashleigh Imus, Medieval Studies Program, "Gender and Authority in Catherine of Siena's Prayer to the Virgin." 4:30 pm, 201 A. D. White House.
  • Wednesday, March 12: Zlatko Plese, University of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, "Platonism and Barbarian Wisdom." Sponsored by the Department of Classics. 3:30 pm, Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.
  • Thursday, March 13: Medeival Studies Mellon Seminar - John Sebastian, Medieval Studies, "'A book to þe lewyd peple': Imagining God at the End of the Middle Ages" and Jordi Sanchez Marti, Medieval Studies, "The Transmission of the Middle English Ipomedon: Aural, Dividual, and Oral-Memorial." 4:30 pm, 122 Goldwin Smith Hall.
  • Thursday, March 27: Quodlibet presents Giles Constable, Professor Emeritus of the Institute for Advanced Study, "Women and Religious Life in the Twelfth Century." 4:30 pm, Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall. Reception to follow.

April

  • Thursday, April 3: Quodlibet presents Candace Robb, "The Fiction of an Everyman: Creating Historically Plausible Individuals." 4:30 pm, Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall. Reception to follow.
  • Friday, April 4: Quodlibet presents a fiction reading by Candace Robb. Sponsored by the Cornell Council for the Arts. 4:30 pm, 22 Goldwin Smith Hall.
  • Thursday, April 17: John Matthews, Yale University, "Living it up in Antioch: The Archive of Theophanes of Hermopolis." An informal seminar sponsored by the Department of Classics. 4:30 pm, 122 Goldwin Smith Hall.
  • Friday, April 18: John Matthews, Yale University, "Constantine the Great and the City of Byzantium." Sponsored by the Department of Classics. 4:30 pm, 122 Goldwin Smith Hall. Reception to follow.

May

  • Tuesday, May 6: Mellon Seminar - Niall Brady and Christina Fredengren, the Discovery Pogramme (Ireland), present a workshop on medieval archaeology. 4:30 pm, 122 Goldwin Smith Hall.