Spring 2008

Friday, February 29
2:00-4:30 pm, Room 9204

The Culture of Appearances in Medieval & Renaissance Europe

Francesca Sautman (French/CUNY)
"Hidden in Plain Sight: Women and Veiling in Late Medieval France"

Martin Elsky (English/Comparative Literature/Renaissance Studies/CUNY)
"The Eroticized House and the Renaissance Invention of the Private Room"

Eugenia Paulicelli (Comparative Literature/CUNY)
"The Fashioned Self: Public and Private Spaces in Giacomo Franco’s Costume Book (Venice, 1600)"

Moderator: Glenn Burger (English/Theatre/Medieval Studies/CUNY)

Sponsored by Fashion Studies Forum, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, & Women's Studies Certificate Programs, Ph.D. Programs in English, French & Psychology

Friday, March 7
4:00pm, Room 4406

Theresa Coletti (University of Maryland)
"'And hit any pintelle beare": Sacred and Social Epistemologies in the Chester Slaughter of the Innocents"

Sponsored by the Medieval Studies Certificate Program, and the Ph.D. programs in English and Theatre


Friday, March 28
Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center

3rd Annual Medieval Studies/Pearl Kibre Medieval Study Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference.
Here Be Monsters: Beasts, Beastliness and Hybridity in the Long Middle Ages

Registration, 9:00 -9:30 a.m: in front of the Segal Theatre

Panel 1, 9:30 – 11:00 a.m: Textual Hybridity.
Moderator: Cynthia Hahn, Professor of Art History, Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center.

"A Mongrel Breed: Generic Hybridity and Monstrous Motifs in the Middle English Amis & Amiloun"
Adin Lears, English, CUNY Graduate Center.

"Humor and Other Purposes of the Late Medieval 'Profane' Badges"
Jennifer K. Cochran, Art History, Pennsylvania State University.

"The Monstrous Enemy: Demons (divs) in the Persian 'Book of Kings' (Shahnama)"
Francesca Leoni, Art and Archaeology, Princeton University.

"More than One, and Yet Not Many: Hybridity in Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew"
Clifford Stetner, English, CUNY Graduate Center

Panel 2, 11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m: Transformations.
Moderator: Steven Kruger, Professor of English and Medieval Studies, Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center.

"'To Sen þat Selcouþe Siyt': Monstrous Guises in The King of Tars"
Gary Lim, English, CUNY Graduate Center.

"The Un-Captivating of the Fowle: Potentiality of the Avian in Chaucer"
Joseph C. Russo, English, Brooklyn College.

"'Written on the members of his flesh': St. Francis's Hybrid Body"
Jennifer Little, English, CUNY Graduate Center.

"Medieval Interfaith Marriages [title unconfirmed]"
Stephen Koss, English, CUNY Graduate Center.

Brunch 1:00 - 1:45 p.m.

Keynote Address, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
"Hound, Horse, and Quarry as Ritual Participants in Medieval Hunting"
Susan Crane, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Panel 3, 3:15- 4:45pm: Wild (K)nights.
Moderator: E. Gordon Whatley, Professor of English, Queens College and the Graduate Center.

"Beastly Rehab: Life with the Animals in _Yvain_ and _Sir Gowther_"
Brigit McGuire, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University.

"Sir Orfeo, the Anti-Ywain or the Christianization of the Romance Genre"
Mikhail Lipyanskiy, Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center.

"Clothes Make the Man: Duality and Transformation in Marie de France's Bisclavret.''
Linda Stein, Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center.

A reception from 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. will follow in the Certificate Programs Office (Room 5109) on the 5th Floor of the CUNY Graduate Center.

Information:  medieval.beasts@gmail.com
Co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Certificate Program, Ph.D. Programs in English, History, and Theatre

Thursday, May 8

MUSIC IN MIDTOWN
Medieval Percussion Instruments in Spain & Italy:
A Little Festival

1:00pm, Elebash Recital Hall
"De mar a mar: Music in the Medieval Iberian Peninsula"
A concert by the Ensemble Sendebar
Mauricio Molina, Director

3:00pm, Room 3491
Susan Forscher Weiss (Peabody Conservatory/Johns Hopkins) and
Ichiro Fujinaga (McGill University)
"New Evidence for the Origins of the Timpani in Western Europe"

Mauricio Molina (Ensemble Sendebar)
"Fai totz los cascavels ordir: Reconstructing the Timbre and Performance Practice of the Medieval Iberian Round Frame Drum with Jingles"

Reservations required for the 3:00pm seminar.  RSVP to  phd-dmaconcert@gc.cuny.edu   
No reservations needed for 1:00pm concert.

Sponsored by the Ph.D.-DMA Programs in Music, Medieval Studies Certificate Program, Barry S. Brook Center for Musical Research and Documentation, Foundation for Iberian Music

Fall 2007

Friday, September 28
3:00-5:00pm, Certificate Programs Office (Room 5109)

Cocktail Hour
for Medievalists & Early Modernists
welcoming new medieval and Renaissance students

Hosted by the Pearl Kibre Medieval Study & the Early Modern
Interdisciplinary Group (EMIG)

Friday, October 19
4:00-6:00pm, 18th Century Reading Room (Room C196.05 in the Mina Rees Library)

Workshop on Paleography and Codicology

A workshop on paleography and codicology aimed at students from all levels.  Led by Professor Michael Sargent (English), the workshop will look at a variety of manuscripts in Latin and English.  The workshop will begin by briefly considering the importance of abbreviations in Latin manuscripts and then look at various manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales to consider the implications of page layout and scribal intervention, and finally, look at a variety of manuscripts relevant to late medieval devotional literature.  This will be an informal, hands on event.  No prior knowledge of manuscripts is required. 

 
Thursday, November 1
5:30pm, The Medieval Study (Room 5105)

Movie Night & Conference Planning Meeting

Sponsored by the Pearl Kibre Medieval Study

 

Thursday & Friday, November 8-9
Reappraising Auerbach’s Contexts
A Conference on the 50th Anniversary of Erich Auerbach’s Death

On the 50th anniversary of his death, join world-renowned literary critics from Germany and the US for public panels on the life and work of Erich Auerbach, exploring everything from Auerbach in the Weimar period and Jewish Berlin to his time in Istanbul to his significance in literary studies today. Among other topics, papers will explore Auerbach’s early publications on the law and previously untranslated archival materials, including those concerning Auerbach’s Marburg professorship and his dismissal by Nazi authorities, as well as previously untranslated materials from the years following his arrival in the US after World War II.

Thursday, November 8:
Martin E. Segal Theatre

5:30-7:00pm: Representation and Its Influences
Karlheinz Barck , “Dante Meets Surrealism / Surrealism Meets Dante: The Dialogue between Auerbach and Benjamin”

Alexander Gelley, "Auerbach and Hans Blumenberg: Which Mimesis?"

Erich Auerbach, “On Dante”: A Sound Recording of a Lecture Delivered at Penn State University, 1948

Friday, November 9:
Skylight Conference Room (9^th floor)

Conference organizers: Jane O. Newman (University of California-Irvine); Martin Elsky (The Graduate Center and Brooklyn College, CUNY).  Conference sponsors: Office of Research and Graduate Studies, University of California, Irvine; Renaissance Studies Certificate Program, CUNY Graduate Center; Zentrum für Kultur- und Literaturforschung Berlin;Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center; Center for Jewish Studies, CUNY Graduate Center; Ph.D. Programs in English and Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center; Medieval Studies Certificate Program, CUNY Graduate Center  

This conference is presented in coordination with an International Symposium organized by Claudia Hahn-Raabe (Goethe-Institut Istanbul) and Martin Vialon (Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin/Yeditepe University Istanbul): ERICH AUERBACH: PHILOLOGIE – GESCHICHTE – VERSTEHEN Teutonia-Haus, Tünel-Beyoğlu Istanbul, Turkey, December 14-15, 2007

Speakers's Biographies  
Conference Information

Friday, November 30
4:00pm, Ph. D. Program in English Lounge (Room 4406 )

Professor Sara Lipton (History/SUNY Stony Brook)
 “Jewish Eyes, 1120-70”

Sara Lipton’s first book, Images of Intolerance: The Representation of Jews and Judaism in the Bible Moralisée, won the John Nicholas Brown Prize for Best First Book. Her talk will draw on her work connected with her current book project on how changing concepts of vision and witness in medieval Christian society intersected with the visual representation of the Jew.Her talk is drawn from an ongoing project concerning the representation of Jews in the Middle Ages.
 

Spring 2007

Friday, March 9
4:00-6:00pm, Skylight Room

The Medieval & Early Modern Culture of the Book: A Conference in Honor of W. Speed Hill

Seth Lerer (Stanford University)
“From Medieval to Early Modern: Books and Readers of the 1550s”

Margreta de Grazia (University of Pennsylvania)
"Common-placing Shakespeare's Sonnets"

Co-sponsored by Ph.D. Programs in English and Comparative Literature and the Medieval Studies and Renaissance Studies Certificate Programs

Friday, March 16
9:00am-6:00pm, Segal Theatre

Thursday, April 26
3:00pm, Certificate Programs Office (Room 5109)

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

Professors Stephen Kruger (English), Jerrilyn Dodds (Art History),  Karina Attar (Italian)
"Medieval Jews and Muslims"
 

Friday, May 18
3:00pm, Certificate Programs Office (Room 5109)

Meet new Medieval Studies faculty, Professors Peter Simpson (Philosophy)
and Cynthia Hahn (Art History) & end-of-year party

Fall 2006

Friday, December 1, 3:00pm, Room 5109

ROUNDTABLE and DISCUSSION:

Spring 2007


Information

PREVIOUS EVENTS

Spring 2006

Diane Auslander (History)
"The Multiple Identities of a Composite Saint: Ethnicity and Religion in the British Isles"

Jill Stevenson (Theater)
"Performance and Visual Piety in Medieval York"

Jennifer Abeles (English)
"The Uses of Arthurian History in John Dee’s The Limits of the British Empire"

"John Dee’s The Limits of the British Empire is the earliest known text to argue for a British Empire that includes holdings outside of Britain, specifically in the New World. In my talk I will discuss Dee’s use of medieval historiography to legitimate his notion of a British Empire. I will also consider the particular challenges I faced in editing this previously unpublished Early Modern manuscript text."

Fall 2005


Friday, September 23
Professor Diane Watt  (University of Aberystwyth, Wales)
[co-sponsored with English]
5:00pm, Room C-202

Professor Watt is the author of Secretaries of God: Women Prophets in Late Medieval and Early Modern England and Amoral Gower: Language, Sex, and Politics in Confessio Amantis, and editor or coeditor of Medieval Women in Their Communities, The Arts of Seventeenth-Century Science, and The Letters of the Paston Women.

She will participate in a seminar on work-in-progress, discussing a chapter of her book on medieval women’s writing. A draft of the chapter, “The Paston Letters (1440-1489),” is available to be read before the seminar. Professor Watt will speak briefly to begin the seminar, but we hope that participants will have been able to read the chapter beforehand and participate in discussion of it.  For an electronic copy of the chapter, email Glenn Burger at gburger@gc.cuny.edu. Hard copies are also available in the Certificate Programs Office, Room 5901, on the table at the left of the main entrance.

MEDIEVAL STUDIES SEMINAR SERIES

Friday, September 30
Certificate Programs Office, GC Room 5109

2-4 PM: "GETTING PUBLISHED IN MEDIEVAL STUDIES"
4-6 PM: BEGINNING OF SEMESTER PARTY

Our first Medieval Studies Seminar this semester will be a workshop on "Getting Published in Medieval Studies," led by Professors Tom Head (MSCP and History), Steve Kruger (MSCP and English), and Anne Stone (MSCP and Music).

The workshop will address such issues as the relationship between conference paper and journal article, and dissertation and book; when to publish and where; publishing within the disciplines and interdisciplinarily; and much more.

There will be ample opportunity to deal with individual queries. So come Friday, September 30, 2-4 pm in the Certificate Programs Office (Room 5109).

A beginning of term party will follow at 4 pm. If you can't make the workshop, please drop by afterwards for drinks and snacks.


Friday, October 28
Professor Edward Wheatley, (Loyola University, Chicago)
“Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind: Constructions of a Disability in Medieval England and France”

 4 p.m., GC  Room 4406
[co-sponsored with English]


Friday, November 4
Professor Michael Sargent (MSCP and English, CUNY)
"Anglo-Saxon Paleography and Codicology: A Basic Introduction"

5:00 p.m., GC Library, Eighteenth-Century Reading Room (lower level)
[co-sponsored with Anglo-Saxon Studies Consortium]

Friday, December 9
Professor Eric Ivison (MSCP & History, CUNY)
Professor Ivison will discuss his ongoing involvement with an archeological dig
of a Byzantine site in Turkey

2:00 p.m., Room 5109 (Certificate Programs Office)

Spring 2005

Friday, February 25

Catherine McKenna (English/Comparative Literature/Medieval Studies Certificate Program)
“In from the Margins:  Celtic Studies and Medieval Studies in the 21^st Century”

3:15pm, Provost's Conference Room (Room 8113)

Friday, March 18

Anne Stone (Music/Medieval Studies Certificate Program)
"Medieval Music and Interdisciplinarity"

3:15pm, Provost's Conference Room (Room 8113)

Friday, April 15

Katharine Jager (English)
"The Dress of Sense: Clothing, Performance, and the Wife of Bath"

 and

Wan-Chuan Kao (English)
"Satorial Chaos and Visions of Sumptuary Order in Piers Plowman"

3:15pm, Provost's Conference Room (Room 8113)
 

Saturday, April 16

INTER-UNIVERSITY DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
PRINCETON CLUB
15 WEST 43RD STREET

Friday, April 22

The Medieval Studies Certificate Program,
the Provost’s Office, and the Ph.D. Programs in
Comparative Literature and English at the Graduate Center,
as well as the Department of English at Queens College,

 invite you to a party in honor of

Catherine McKenna

5:30-7:30 pm
Room 5109, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave

Join us to bid Catherine fond farewell as she takes up her new position as
Margaret Brooks Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures
at Harvard University

RSVP  to Glenn Burger: glenn_burger@qc.edu
c/o English, CUNY Graduate Center

Anyone interested in contributing to a gift for Catherine should send
a check made out to Glenn Burger at the above address.

Friday, May 13

Anne Johnson (Music)
"On the Nature of Music: The Significance of the Latin Term natura in Medieval Writings on Music"

3:15pm, Provost's Conference Room (Room 8113)
An end of the year celebration follows the lecture

Information: medievalstudies@gc.cuny.edu


 

Fall 2004

Friday, November 5

Pamela Scheingorn (History/Theatre/Medieval Studies Certificate Program)
"Medieval Studies and Interdisciplinarity"

2:30p.m., Room 5109 (Office of Certificate Programs)

Friday, November 19

Thomas Head (History/Medieval Studies Certificate Program)
"Medieval Studies and Anthropology"

2:30p.m., Room 5109 (Office of Certificate Programs

Friday, December 3

End of semester celebration and discussion of Medieval Studies seminars for the
Spring semester
 

4:30p.m., Room 5109 (Office of Certificate Programs)

Information: medievalstudies@gc.cuny.edu

2003-2004

CUNY FACULTY DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR
Expanding Medieval Studies: The Mediterranean Basin

This year-long seminar will bring to CUNY leading scholars in the areas of Byzantine, Near Eastern, and Andalusian medieval studies, each to present a paper on his or her area of research.

Schedule of Speakers:

October 17
Michael Sells (Haverford College)
"The Infinity of Desire: Poetry and Mysticism in the Islamic
and Christian High Middle Ages"
4:30 p.m., Room C201/202

October 24
Maureen C. Miller (George Mason University)
"A 'Shotgun Wedding'?: Episcopal Weakness and Ritual
Marriage in Medieval Florence"
4:30 p.m., Room 9205

November 14
Maria Rosa Menocal (Yale University)
"Meditations on the Memory of Medieval Spain"
4:30 p.m., Segal Theatre

December 12
Peter Brown (Princeton University)
"In the Shadow of Pirenne: Writing the History of the Early Middle Ages"
4:30 p.m., Skylight Conference Room 9100

February 6
Ross Brann (Cornell University)
"Andalusi Moorings"
4:30 p.m., Segal Theatre

February 27
Paul Freedman (Yale University)
"Spices and the Exotic in the Middle Ages"
4:30 p.m., Skylight Conference Room 9100

March 19
John Duffy (Harvard University)
Motifs on the Move: Some Byzantine Legends
and Beneficial Tales at Home and Abroad
4:30 p.m., Segal Theatre

April 23
Joanna Drell (University of Richmond)
"The Construction of Mediterranean Identity:
The Norman Kingdom of Southern Italy and Sicily"
4:30 p.m., Segal Theatre
 

2002-2003

Friday, April 25, 2003

The New York City Doctoral Consortium in Medieval Studies
Third  Annual Colloquium 12:30 – 6:00 p.m. Glucksman Ireland House, New York University
1 Washington Mews (at Fifth Avenue, south of 8^th St.) Hosted by The Medieval and Renaissance Center (MARC) New York University

PROGRAM
12:00 – 12:30  Light Lunch and Introduction
12:30 – 2:30    A Showcase of Doctoral Work in Medieval Studies
 

Christina Christoforatou, English, CUNY Graduate Center: “Byzantine Gardens of Desire”
Christine Sciacca, Art History, Columbia University, “The Body and Blood of Christ at Weingarten Abbey”
Caroline Dunn, History, Fordham University: “She Was Raveshid Ayens Hyr Wel, Whatsoever She Sey: Consenting Daughters, Threatened Fathers, and the Ravishment of Women in Late Medieval England”
Katherine Smith, History, New York University: “Miracle-Writing and Monastic Identity at the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel” 
 

2:30 – 2:45      Break
 

2:45 – 4:15      Student Panel: Anglo-Norman Studies
Organized by Prof. Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, English, Fordham University
Deborah Smith-Bernstein, CUNY Graduate Center, Chair of Round Table: “Introduction: Interdisciplinary Work for Graduates”
Karen Trimnell, Fordham University: “Denis Piramus's Prologue to La Vie Saint Edmund le Rei: The Good, Bad, and Best Uses of Literature”
Brenna Mead, Columbia University: “Ants, Jews, and Other Readers in Guillaume le Clerc's Bestiaire Divin”
Karl Steele, Columbia University: “Robert of Gretham's Prologue to the Miroir or Evangiles des Domnees”
Diane Auslander, CUNY Graduate Center: “Intercultural intertextuality in the Anglo-Norman Life of St Modwenna”
 

4:15 – 6:00   Reception
Friday, April 19, 2002
The New York City Doctoral Consortium in Medieval Studies
Second Annual Colloquium
2:00 – 7:30 p.m., Martin Segal Theatre
The Graduate Center  Hosted by The Medieval Studies Certificate Program
The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Program 2:00 - 4:00: A Showcase of Doctoral Work in Medieval StudiesDavid Georgi, Comparative Literature, New York University: "Language Made Visible: Language Names, the Writing of the Romance Vernaculars, and Francophone Identity in Post-Conquest England"; Michael Vargas, History, Fordham University: "An Average Guy Getting By: The Dominican Company Man in the Fourteenth Century, according to the Provincial Acta of Aragon.";Jacqueline Jung, Art History, Columbia University: "Peasant Meal or Lord's Feast? The Social Iconography of the Naumburg Last Supper";Jennifer Brown, English, Graduate Center, CUNY: "Watching Elizabeth: Elizabeth of Spalbeck and the Male Gaze"
4:00 – 4:30 Break
4:30 – 6:00: Faculty and Student Panel:Teaching the Medieval Survey Course:Thomas F. Head, History, CUNY, chair; Robert W. Hanning, English, Columbia;Martha Rust, English, NYU; Rick Wright, German, Fordham; Anna Russakoff, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
6:00 – 7:30  Reception, Room 5109
 

Friday, April 23, 1999, 1:30 p.m.
Recovering a Plausible Past: Discovering the Tombs of the Saints in Medieval Apulia
Thomas F. Head
Hunter College and GSUC

Grace Building Room 4069

Thursday - Sunday, April 8 - 11, 1999

The Annual Meeting of the Celtic Studies Association of North America

Co-sponsored by Glucksman Ireland House, New York University

For conference venues and program, click here.

Friday, December 4, 1998, 4:30 PM

Getting Started: The Weird and Wonderful Life of a Junior Medievalist

Leslie Abend Callahan
Mellon Fellow, University of Pennsylvania

Grace Building Room 4000

Tuesday, October 20, 1998, 4:15 PM

Violence in Medieval Spain

Louise Mirrer
Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs, CUNY

The President's Conference Room, 1804
33 West 42nd Street

Co-sponsored by the Medieval Study

Friday, October 2, 1998, 7:30 PM

Knowing Where the Bodies are Buried: Tradition and Invention in the Cult of Relics, c. 750-c. 1100
Tom Head
Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY

Third Floor Studio

Co-sponsored with the Medieval Club of New York

Wednesday, April 29,1998, 4:15 PM

The Hagiography of Saint Brendan: The State of Research

Tomas O Caoimh
The Heritage Council & University College Cork

Grace Building 4017