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We cordially invite anyone who wishes to post announcements concerning events of interest to Cornell medievalists, such as lectures, conferences, and so forth, to send email to medievalst@cornell.edu and the Cornucopia webmaster.

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.

 


2007 - 2008 Calendar

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FALL 2007

August

  • August 21 - Get acquainted reception for new students, 3:00-5:00 pm, 258 Goldwin Smith Hall.

September

  • September 20 - Quodlibet: Mary Carruthers, Remarque Professor of Literature, New York University, "Thinking with Images: Recollection and Forgetting in the Medieval Arts of Invention," 4:30 pm, Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.
  • September 21 - Lunch discussion with Mary Carruthers, German Studies lounge (GS 177), 12:00-2:00 pm, on Speculum article "Sweetness."
  • September 24 - European History Colloquium: Nicole Marafioti, "Royal Tombs and Political Performance: New Minster and Westminster in Late Anglo-Saxon England," 4:30 pm, A. D. White House, room 110.
  • September 28-30 - "Mind and the Structure of Reality: A Conference on Augustine's De Trinitate," A. D. White House. For details see: http://cornellphilosophy.org/detrinitate/

October

  • October 4 - Quodlibet: Jeffrey Cohen, Professor and Chair of English and Professor of Human Sciences, George Washington University, "Green Children from Another World: Medieval English History and Its Aliens," 4:30 pm, Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.

November

  • November 5 - European History Colloquium, Jennifer Harris (Graduate Centre for the Study of Religion and Saint Michael's College, U. of Toronto) will discuss her paper, "Poetry for Burning Children: Reflections on Hopeful Pedagogy," 4:30-6:30, A. D. White House, room 110.
  • November 8 - Leah DeVun, Department of History, Texas A&M University, "Cures and Closures: Surgery, Intersex, and the Demands of Difference," 4:30 pm, A. D. White House.
  • November 9 - Lunch & discussion with Leah DeVun, noon to 1:30 pm, English Department Lounge, 258 Goldwin Smith Hall. Copies of her paper, "The Jesus Hermaphrodite: Science and Sex Difference in Premodern Europe," are available in 259 Goldwin Smith Hall (1:00-7:00pm).
  • November 29 - Field faculty meeting, 4:30 pm, G24 Goldwin Smith Hall.
  • November 30 - Lecture by Conrad VanDyk, visiting scholar from the University of Western Ontario, "The Judicial Exemplum in The Seven Sages of Rome and John Gower's Confessio Amantis," 4:30 pm, 258 Goldwin Smith Hall.

December

  • December 4 - Celebration of Medieval Readings, 6:00 pm, Robert Purcell Auditorium.

SPRING 2008

January

  • January 21 - Nicole Marafioti, grad, "Lost in Translation: Burying and Unburying King Harold Harefoot," European History Colloquium, 4:30 pm, A. D. White House, room 110.

February

  • February 11 - Tom McSweeney, grad, "The King's Dishonorable Champions: Approvers and the Role of Honor in the Judicial Duel, ca. 1150-1250," European History Colloquium, 4:30 pm, A. D. White House, room 110.
  • February 23 - Medieval Studies Student Colloquium, 9:30am-5:15pm, A. D. White House. MSSC Program.
  • February 28 - Asa Mittman, School of Art, Arizona State University, "The Beowulf Manuscript: Man-Eating Monsters and Fire-Breathing Dragons (But No Angelina)," 5:00pm, Johnson Museum of Art.
  • February 29 - Asa Mittman, "Virtual Ruminatio: How to Digitize the Medieval World": discussion and presentation of project for producing medieval maps in electronic form, including grant proposal and other information (for advance copies click here), 4:30pm, 258 Goldwin Smith Hall.

March

  • March 17 - Catherine Batt, Fordham University, "Headless Ladies and Female Suicide: Reiteration of Motif in Malory's Morte Darthur," 5:30pm, Ithaca College.
  • March 18 - Catherine Batt, "Psalms, Pomegranates, and the Penitential: Henry, duke of Lancaster's Book of Holy Medicines," 4:30pm, 258 Goldwin Smith Hall.
  • March 27 - Rossitza Schroeder, University of Virginia, "The Miracles of Christ and Their Byzantine Audience," 4:30pm, G22 Goldwin Smith Hall
  • March 28-30 - The Cornell Conference on Medieval Poverty, Statler Hotel Amphitheater. Details.

April

  • April 8 - Alban Gautier, Université du Littoral, "Hospitality in pre-Viking Anglo-Saxon England," 4:30pm, Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.
  • April 17 - Ashleigh Imus, grad, "Beatrice Unbound? Women in Sandow Birk's American Illustrations of Dante's Commedia," 4:30pm, 258 Goldwin Smith Hall.
  • April 24 - Steven Kruger, Queens College & the Graduate Center, CUNY, "Convert Orthodoxies," 4:30pm, Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.
  • April 28 - Yael Nadav-Manes, grad, "What is a Mother’s Worth? The Negotiation of Motherhood and Virtù in Machiavelli’s Comedies," 4:30pm, AD White House, room 110.

May

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