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Fall
2008
Friday,
October 17
7:30pm, Room 4406
Erin Felicia Labbie (Bowling Green University)
“The Long Drive of Courtly Love: Amor
de Longh and the Object of Desire”
The Nineteenth Annual Rossell Hope Robbins Lecture
Sponsored by the Medieval Club of New York, Ph.D. Program in English and
Medieval Studies Certificate Program.
Information: http://medievalclubofnewyork.blogspot.com
Friday, November 14
7:30pm, Room 4406
Paul Moses (Brooklyn College/CUNY)
“Uncovering the Story of Francis and the Sultan”
Sponsored by the Medieval Club of New York, Ph.D. Program in English and
Medieval Studies Certificate Program.
Friday, December 5
2:00-4:00pm, 18th-Century Reading Room (Room C196.05,
downstairs in the Library)
Michael Sargent (English)
Workshop on Scripts and Manuscripts, ca. 1200-1500
A hands-on tour of late medieval paleography and codicology
Sponsored by the Medieval Studies Certificate Program
Friday, December 5
7:30pm, Room 4406
Cary Howie (Cornell University)
“Waiting for the Middle Ages”
Sponsored by the Medieval Club of New York, Ph.D. Program in English
and Medieval Studies Certificate Program.
Spring 2009
Friday, February 6
6:30pm, Metropolitan Museum
of Art
Barbara Boehm (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
“Choirs of Angels: Painting in Italian Choir Books, 1300-1500”
Sponsored by the Medieval Club of New York, Ph.D. Program in English
and Medieval Studies Certificate Program.
Friday, March 6
7:30pm, Room 4406
Matthew Goldie (Rider University)
“The Antipodes: Maps and Travel Literature about Another World”
Sponsored by the Medieval Club of New York, Ph.D. Program in English
and Medieval Studies Certificate Program.
Friday, March 20
9:00am-5:00pm, Skylight Room (Room
9101)
Consortium in Medieval Studies
Annual Conference
Program TBA
Sponsored by the Medieval Studies
Certificate Program
Friday, March 27
9:00am-6:00pm, Rooms 9204/9205
4th Annual Medieval Studies/Pearl Kibre Medieval Study
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Movement and Mobility in the Middle Ages
Program TBA
Sponsored by the Medieval Studies Certificate Program
Friday, April 3
7:30pm, Room 4406
Sarah Kay (Princeton University)
“Vernacular Verse Encyclopedism in Medieval France: System and
System-Failure”
Sponsored by the Medieval Club of New York, Ph.D. Program in English
and Medieval Studies Certificate Program.
Friday, May 1
7:30pm, Room 4406
David Gary Shaw (Wesleyan University)
“Information by the Way: Townspeople and Cultural Networks in Later Medieval
England”
Sponsored by the Medieval Club of New York, Ph.D. Program in English
and Medieval Studies Certificate Program.
Information
PREVIOUS EVENTS
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?"
7:15-8:00pm: The Voice of Erich Auerbach
Introduction: Martin Vialon
Erich Auerbach, “On Dante”: A Sound Recording of a Lecture Delivered at Penn
State University, 1948
Friday, November 9:
Skylight Conference Room (9th floor)
11:00am-12:30pm: Life, History, Politics
Jane O. Newman, “Figuration and Politics: Auerbach/Krauss,
Pascal/Corneille”
Matthias Bormuth, “Between St. Augustine and Goethe: Erich Auerbach’s
Idea of History and Life Conduct”
12:30-1:45pm: Lunch
Harold M. Proshansky Auditorium (C level)
1:45-3:15pm: Modernity and Post-modernity
Martin
Vialon, “Mimesis, Film, and Mechanical Reproducibility: What Benjamin Learned
from Auerbach”
Ackbar Abbas,”Auerbach's ‘Delicate Empiricism’: The Secular, the Empirical,
and the Post-Colonial”
3:30-5:00pm: The Jewish Context
James Porter, "Erich Auerbach and the Judaizing of
Philology"
Martin Treml, “Auerbach’s Readings and the Warburg Institute: Jewish
Legacies in the Fields of Kulturwissenschaft”
5:15-6:30: Keynote address
Stephen G. Nichols, “Fortuna, Fabula, Figura: Auerbach as
Philosopher of the Secular World”
6:30-7:30: Reception
English Program Lounge (4406)
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
2nd
Annual Medieval Studies/CUNY Medievalists Interdisciplinary Graduate Student
Conference
Body/Booty:
Medieval Ass-ets
Professor
Valerie Allen (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY) will deliver
the keynote address. Her most recent publication is On
Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages (Palgrave
2006).
Organized by the Medieval Studies Certificate Program and the
CUNY-Medievalists Pearl Kibre Library at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Information: bodybootymedievalassets@gmail.com
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:
Glenn Burger (English); Jill Stevenson (Theatre); Anne Stone (Music)
"How Manuscripts Figure in My Work as a Medievalist"
We will also take a few minutes to discuss ideas for informal events for
next semester.
4:00ish
HOLIDAY PARTY!
Spring 2006
WORK IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIES
Friday, February 17, 2:30-3:30 pm , Room 5109
Diane Auslander (History)
"The Multiple Identities of a Composite Saint: Ethnicity and Religion in
the British Isles"
Friday, March 10, 2:30-3:30 pm, Room 5109
Jill Stevenson (Theater)
"Performance and Visual Piety in Medieval York"
"During my talk, I will discuss my research trip to York and how I
attempted to recapture the materiality of lay devotional practices by
examining wills and inventories, and studying objects. I will also describe
how I situate my dissertation within theatre studies and the challenges I've
faced while trying to balance disciplinary priorities in an interdisciplinary
project."
Friday, April 28, 2:30-3:30 pm, Room 5109
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."
INTERDISCIPLINARY GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
Masculinities in the long Middle Ages
March 17, 2006
9:30 a.m. Registration, Room 5109
10:30 - 6 p.m. Panels, Room 9205
2:45 p.m. Keynote Address, "The Green Boy: Conquest, Memory and
Gender" Room 9205
6 p.m. Reception, Room 5109
Keynote Speaker:
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Professor of English and Human Sciences at George
Washington University. Professor Cohen is the editor of The Postcolonial
Middle Ages and Becoming Male in the Middle Ages, and the author
of Medieval Identity Machines and On Giants, among others.
This conference was funded through generous donations by The Pearl Kibre
Medieval Study, the Medieval Studies and Renaissance Studies Certificate
Programs, and the Doctoral Programs in Comparative Literature, English,
French, History, and Theatre at the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Conference Registration is free and open to the public!
For inquiries, email medievalmasculinities@gmail.com
ANNUAL CONSORTIUM CONFERENCE
Friday, April 7 at Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ
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 21st
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
Schedule:
10-10:10 Welcome, comments
10:15-11:30 Negation and Formation
Martin Eisner, Italian and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
"Boccaccio between Dante and Petrarch: the Marriage of Philology and
Galeotto in the Chigiano Codex.'
Mauricio Molina, Ph.D. Program in Music, CUNY
"The Square Drum in Medieval Spanish Iconography: Semitic and Messianic
Symbol."
Rutgers speaker, TBA
11:45-1 Fashion Systems
Laurel Ann Wilson, History, Fordham University
"Sumptuary Law, Livery Rolls, and Fashion in Fourteenth-Century
England."
Jenna Soleo, Ph.D. Program in Theatre, CUNY
"Staging Sienese Identity: the Politics of Performance Space in a Late
Medieval City-State."
Nicole Smith, English, Rutgers University
"Fashioning Penance in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
1-2 Lunch
2-3:15 Historiography
Shirin Khanmohamadi, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia
University
"Salvaging Native Culture, Appropriating Native Voice: the Cultural
Memory of Marie de France's Lais.."
Hannah Johnson, English, Princeton University
"Writing the Middle Ages: A Few Notes on Genre and History"
3:30-4:45 Praying and Fighting Together
Rebecca Slitt, History, Fordham University
"Brothers in Arms: Military Friendship in the Anglo-Norman World."
Jill Stevenson, Ph.D. Program in Theatre, CUNY
"Performance and Visual Piety in Medieval York."
Tom Boeve, History, Princeton University. Title TBA.
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 8th 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
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