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Upcoming Events & Announcements

November 3 -- Catherine Brown, University of Michigan, "Remember the Hand: Early Iberian Scribes and the Articulate Codex," Guerlac Room, A. D. White House, 4:30 p.m. Co-sponsored with the Department of Romance Studies.

November 5 -- Quodlibet: Mark Amodio, Vassar College, "Embodied Texts and Entexted Bodies: Performance and Performative Poetics In and Of Beowulf," 4:30 pm in G22 Goldwin Smith Hall.

November 12 -- Celia Chazelle, College of New Jersey, "Why is This Feast Different from All Other Feasts? The Eucharist in Early Medieval Europe," 4:30 pm in 258 Goldwin Smith Hall.

December 9 -- Readings in Medieval Literatures, Guerlac Room, A. D. White House, 7:30 p.m.

 


2005 - 2006 Calendar

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Spring 2006

February

  • February 4 - Medieval Studies Student Colloquium | 8:30am - 5:30 p.m., A. D. White House. | Schedule | Abstracts
  • February 21 - Josiah Blackmore, University of Toronto, "Monsters, Melancholy and Expansion," 4:30 p.m., A. D. White House (sponsored by Romance Studies)
  • February 23 - Quodlibet speaker Virginia Burrus, Drew University, "Shame and the Sexing of Sanctity in Late Ancient Christian Hagiography," 4:45 p.m., 102 Rockefeller Hall

March

  • March 6 - Robin Jensen, Vanderbilt University, "The Role of the Nude in Early Christian Art," 4:45 p.m., Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
  • March 7 - Marina Rustow, Emory University, "Orality, Literacy, and Book Culture Among Jews in the Medieval Islamic World, 4:30 p.m., 106 White Hall (sponsored by Near Eastern Studies)
  • March 21 - Ralph Hanna, "The Wilderness of Wirral and Some Thoughts on 'The Gawain-Country,'"
    4:00 p.m., Colgate University
  • March 22 - Ralph Hanna, Paleography/codicology/textual editing seminar 1 (Middle English, French, Latin), 1:30-3:00 p.m., English Lounge, 258 Goldwin Smith Hall
  • March 23 - Ralph Hanna, Paleography/codicology/textual editing seminar 2 (Problems with Literary Manuscripts and the Question of the commercial scriptorium), 1:30-3:00 p.m., English Lounge, 258 Goldwin Smith Hall
  • March 24 - Ralph Hanna, Paleography/codicology/textual editing seminar 3 (Problems with editing texts), 2:00-3:30 p.m. (note slightly later start time), English Lounge, 258 Goldwin Smith Hall
  • March 27 - Quodlibet speaker Ralph Hanna, Oxford University, "The Topography of the York Play," 4:45 p.m., Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall

April

  • April 10 - Tamer El-Leithy, NYU/Harvard Society of Fellows, A talk on Coptic conversion narratives (official title TBA), 12:15-1:15 p.m., 104 White Hall (sponsored by Near Eastern Studies)

Fall 2005

September

  • September 29 - Medieval Seminar with Marilyn Migiel, Romance Studies, "Can the Lower Classes be Wise? (For the Answer, See Your Translation of the Decameron)," 4:30 p.m., 236 Goldwin Smith Hall

October

  • October 3 - Judith Peraino, Music, "Delinquent Descorts," 4:15 p.m., 316 Lincoln Hall Library
  • October 4 - MSSC organizational meeting, 4:30 p.m., 348 Goldwin Smith Hall
  • October 27 - Quodlibet speaker Samantha Herrick, Syracuse University, 4:30 p.m., 22 Goldwin Smith Hall

November

  • November 3 - Quodlibet speaker Geoffrey Russom, Brown University, "Why There Are Three Old Norse Meters," 4:30 p.m., 134 Goldwin Smith Hall
  • November 17 - Quodlibet speaker Marilynn Desmond, SUNY Binghamton, "All Under Correction: The Wife of Bath and the Ethics of Erotic Violence," 4:30 p.m., 134 Goldwin Smith

December

  • December 1 - Medieval Seminar on Hagiography, presented by Cynthia Camp, Nicole Marafioti, Tricia Har, and Prof. Savely Senderovich, Russian Literature, 4:30 p.m., 142 Goldwin Smith Hall
  • December 6 - Celebration of Medieval Readings, including a holiday reception, 4:00 p.m., Big Red Barn