• September 3 - Get acquainted reception for new students, 4:30-6:30 pm, 258 Goldwin Smith Hall.

October

• October 17-18 - Conference - "New Views on Jews in Anglo-Saxon England," 258 Goldwin Smith Hall.
• October 30 - Quodlibet - Aranye Fradenburg, University of California, Santa Barbara, "(Dis)Continuities," 4:30pm, 102 Rockefeller Hall.
• October 30 - History Faculty Colloquium Series: Paul Hyams, "The Joy of Freedom and the Cost of Respectability," 7:00pm.

November

• November 6 - Quodlibet - Suzanne Hagedorn, College of William & Mary, "Amazons: Women Warriors & the Medieval Imagination," 4:30pm, Lewis Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall.
• November 14-15 - Romance Studies Conference - "Troubadour Theory: Subjectivity & Subjection in Medieval Lyric," Guerlac Room, A.D. White House.

December

• December 3 - Professor R. F. Yeager, Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English and Foreign Languages at the University of West Florida, will be giving the first "Honorary Winthrop Wetherbee Lecture": "What We Talk about When We Talk about Medieval Lyric," 4:30pm; Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.
• December 9 - Celebration of Medieval Readings, 4:00pm, Auditorium, Robert Purcell Community Center.

SPRING 2009

February

• February 3 - Sidney H. Griffith, Catholic University of America, "Doing Philosophy in Tenth-Century Baghdad: Faith and Reason in the Thought of the Christian Intellectual Yahaya ibn 'Adi and his Circle," 4:30pm, 104 White Hall.
• February 16 - Professor Gary Ferguson, University of Delaware, "(His)stories of Sexuality: Montaigne's Travel Journal and Same-Sex Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Rome," 12:20pm, 302 Uris Hall.
• February 19 - Quodlibet: Professor Anders Winroth, Department of History, Yale University, "Pagan Norway turns Christian: A Few Facts and Many Fictions," 4:30pm, Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.
• February 20 - Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium - John Phan, PhD candidate in East Asian Literature, will present a text by Lu Deming (556-627), 3:00pm, 374 Rockefeller Hall.

March

• March 1 - Medieval Studies Student Colloquium, A. D. White House. Click here for a schedule.
• March 12 - Laurent Ferri, Curator of the French Collections in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, "Heraldry is Sexy (and Discoveries are still Possible!)," 4:30pm, Rare Book Conference Room, Kroch Library.
• March 30 - David Hinton, University of Southampton, UK, "Smiths and Myths in Anglo-Saxon England," 4:30pm, 258 Goldwin Smith Hall.

April

• April 16 - Stacy S. Klein, Department of English, Rutgers University, "The Burning of Fleshly Inclination: Fidelity and Faith in the Old English Life of Mary of Egypt," 4:30pm, Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.
• April 29 - Bernhard Jussen, Department of History, University of Frankfurt am Main/Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, "Between Lexicometrics and Hermeneutics, or: Was There a Carolingian State?" 4:30pm, 258 Goldwin Smith Hall.

May

• May 28-30 - Cornell Summer Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy, all sessions in 144 Goldwin Smith Hall. See www.scottmacdonald.net/cscmp for details.
• May 29-30 - The 4th Annual Fiske Conference on Medieval Icelandic Studies; all sessions in 236 Goldwin Smith Hall. For a copy of the program, click here.