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1996 - 1997 Calendar

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Fall 1996

September

  • Sunday, September 15: Johnson Art Museum, 3:30-4:30 pm. The Reverend Dr. George Pattison, Dean of the Chapel, King's College Cambridge, will give a slide presentation on the imagery of medieval stained glass in King's College Chapel.
  • Tuesday, September 24: Goldwin Smith 258, 4:45 pm. John Leyerle, Prof. Emeritus, English & Medieval Studies, the University of Toronto, will speak on "Guest-Host Relationships: An Outline of a Central Structure in Early Society."
  • Tuesday, September 24: The "Stone Palace" Ivy Room, Willard Straight Hall, 8:00-9:30 pm. John Leyerle will give a 1/2 hour mini-lecture "Job-Getting Strategies for Medieval Studies PhD.'s," followed by an informal seminar: "Literary Applications of Guest-Host Relations to the Canterbury Tales and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
  • Wednesday, September 25: Goldwin Smith 258, 8 pm. Patricia Eberle, Prof. Emerita, English & Medieval Studies, the University of Toronto, will speak on "Battling with Amazons: Three Medieval Versions of a Founding Story: the Knight's Tale, the Teseida, and the Roman de Troie."
  • Wednesday, September 25: Olin Library 603, 6:30-8:30 pm. Graduate Proseminar in Classics: J. Jasanoff and A. Nussbaum: Classics and Historical Linguistics
  • Thursday, September 26: Goldwin Smith 134, 4:30 pm. John Leyerle will speak on "Job-Getting Strategies for PhD.'s." This lecture will be directed at Romance Studies and will focus on the preparation of one's dossier. Sponsored by the Romance Studies, Medieval Studies, and English departments.

October

  • Wednesday, October 2: Olin Library 603, 6:30-8:30 pm. Graduate Proseminar in Classics: Y. Szekely: The Classics Resources of Olin Library
  • Tuesday, October 8: Goldwin Smith G22, 4:30 pm. Prof. Charles Donahue (Harvard Law School, Visiting Prof. at Cornell Law School) will be giving a lecture entitled "Malchus' Ear: Reflections on Medieval Canon Law as a Religious Legal System."
  • Wednesday, October 9: Olin Library 603, 6:30-8:30 pm. Graduate Proseminar in Classics: K. Clinton: Epigraphy (possibly in GS 122)
  • Wednesday, October 16: Olin Library 603, 6:30-8:30 pm. Graduate Proseminar in Classics: J. Rusten: Papyrology
  • Thursday, October 17: Johnson Art Museum, 12:00-1:00 pm. Art for Lunch . Director Frank Robinson will give a gallery tour of The Power of Women in Renaissance and Baroque Prints .
  • Wednesday, October 23: Olin Library 603, 6:30-8:30 pm. Graduate Proseminar in Classics: D. Shanzer: Palaeography
  • Thursday, October 24: Goldwin Smith 122, 4:30-6:30 pm. Medieval Studies Mellon Seminar. Scott MacDonald in Philosophy will be discussing his paper: "Primal Sin: Augustine's Explanation of How Flawless Creatures Can Fall." Copies of the paper will be available in the Medieval Studies Office (259 GS) as of October 16th.
  • Wednesday, October 30: Olin Library 603, 6:30-8:30 pm. Graduate Proseminar in Classics: J. Coleman: Archaeology

November

  • Wednesday, November 6: Olin Library 603, 6:30-8:30 pm. Graduate Proseminar in Classics: J. Rusten: Classics and Computing
  • Wednesday, November 13: Olin Library 603, 6:30-8:30 pm. Graduate Proseminar in Classics: D. Shanzer: Textual Criticism
  • Thursday, November 14: Goldwin Smith 122, 4:30 pm. Medieval Studies Mellon Seminar. Jo Miller & Sean Murphy will both be giving 30 minute papers and Lorraine Berry will be their respondent. The general topic for the session is: "Jews in the Middle Ages."
  • Thursday, November 21: Venue TBA, 4:30 pm. Rachel Fulton, from the University of Chicago, will give a lecture entitled "Liturgical Hagiography and the Feast of the Assumption." Dr. Fulton describes her research as focusing on the "history of spirituality, biblical hermeneutics and liturgy." Sponsored by Quodlibet.

December

  • Thursday, December 5: 800 University Avenue, 5 pm. Medieval Poetry Reading. Sponsored by Quodlibet.
  • Thursday, December 12: Goldwin Smith 122, 4:30 pm. Medieval Studies Mellon Seminar. Alex Sager of the German Studies Department will present "Only in Words: 'Minne' and Discourse in Wolfram's 'Titurel'" and Jennifer Welsh of Medieval Studies will present "The Foundation and Territorial Growth of the Hochstift of Bamberg."

Spring 1997

January

  • Thursday, January 23: Goldwin Smith 22, 4:30 pm. Ian Wood, Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Leeds, will deliver a lecture on "Northern Apostles--Describing Missionaries in the Ninth Century."
  • Friday, January 31: 100 Savage Hall, 11:15 am-12:05 pm. Ian Wood, Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Leeds, will deliver a lecture on the Pirenne Thesis: "Pirenne on the Transformation of the Roman World."

February

  • Saturday, February 8: A.D. White House. Medieval Studies Students' Colloquium. Graduate student medievalists from a variety of Cornell departments will give papers. Sponsored by SAGFC. (Click here for the program.)

March

  • Thursday, March 6: Goldwin Smith 22, 4:30 pm. Tom Hahn from the University of Rochester will give a talk entitled "Spoken Language, Literary Production, and National Identity: Writing in Britain 1100-1350." Sponsored by Quodlibet.
  • Thursday, March 27: Goldwin Smith 122, 4:30-6:30 pm. Medieval Studies Mellon Seminar: "Mohammed, Charlemagne, and the Pirenne Thesis." Chair: Paul Hyams, History. Speakers:
    • Beth Digeser, History: Germans and the Unity of the Mediterranean
    • Peter Hennigan, History: Did the Arab conquest really split the Mediterranean?
    • Jay Jasanoff, Linguistics: Latin to Romance: Linguistics and the Pirenne Thesis
    • Chris Jensen, History: The historiography: Pirenne the Belgian
    • Danuta Shanzer, Classics: Rancid Butter and Seven-Foot Patrons: Literary culture and the Pirenne Thesis
    • Vicki Szabo, Medieval Studies: Archaeology and the Pirenne Thesis
    • Jay Vegso, History: Charlemagne: why he is a boundary-line
  • Monday ,March 31: Goldwin Smith 281, 4:30 pm. Renaissance Colloquium. Marilyn Migiel will lead a discussion on her paper "Freed and Fettered: Decameron IX."

April

  • Monday, April 7: Goldwin Smith 156, 4:30 pm. Dermot Moran, Fellow of University College, Dublin, will be visiting Cornell and giving a talk: "The Concept of Signification in Anselm's Proslogion."
  • Thursday, April 10: Goldwin Smith 122, 4:30 - 6:30 pm. Medieval Studies Mellon Seminar on Huizinga's Autumn of the Middle Ages. Chair: Paul Hyams, History. Speakers:
    • Jon Bornholt, "Huizinga's Views on the Social Role of Fantasy and Ritual."
    • Bob Calkins, "Does Huizinga have any good reason to bring Jan Van Eyck in?"
    • Kathleen Long, "The Winter of the Renaissance!"
    • Sheryl Rees, "Huizinga and the Visual"
    • Raegan Russell, "Image and Imagination in The Autumn of the Middle Ages."
    • Alex Sager with a Germanist view from the east
    • Jeremy Stark with a Renaissance view from south of the Alps
    • Pete Wetherbee on ... Death!
  • Thursday, April 24: Goldwin Smith 122, 4:30 pm. Medieval Studies Mellon Seminar. Amy Phelan (History) will talk about Edward I's Trailbaston Commissions. Vicki Szabo (Medieval Studies) will talk about various aspects of the Archareology of the Early Medieval Whale.
  • Friday, April 25: 258 Goldwin Smith, 4:30 pm. Quodlibet and Medieval Studies present JamesW. Earl, Cornell Alumnus and author of Thinking about Beowulf [(Stanford U.P.]), who will lecture on: "Freud on Epic: The Poet as Hero"

May

  • Friday, May 2: 181 Goldwin Smith, 3:00 pm. Institute for German Cultural Studies Spring Colloquium. Volker Mertens of the Freie Universitat, Berlin will be discussing his paper "Concepts of Gender in the writing of Male Medieval Mystics."