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FALL 2005

September

Monday, September 5

3-6 PM

Annual Labor Day and Welcome Back Picnic Home of David and Pam Benson

Friday, September 16

12 NOON

Medieval Studies Program Fall Meeting

University of Connecticut

CLAS 217 (Stern Lounge)

Storrs, CT

Friday, September 16

4 PM

(Reception; Dinner to follow)

Lecture: "Absent Women: the Case of the Paston Women"

Diane Watt (University of Wales), Fall 2005 Charles Owen, Jr. Distinguished Visiting Professor

University of Connecticut

CLAS 217 (Stern Lounge)

Storrs, CT

October

Friday, October 7

2-3 PM

 

Sponsors: Spanish section of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Medieval Studies Program, and Humanities Institute

 

Contact: Benjamin Liu

Lecture/Workshop: "How to Get Published: Advice from an Editor and Insider"

George D. Greenia (College of William & Mary), Professor of Modern Languages, Editor of La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Spanish Language and Literature, Editor of American Pilgrim, Former Director of the Program in Medieval & Renaissance Studies (College of William & Mary)

University of Connecticut

Arjona 221

Storrs, CT

Wednesday, October 26

12 NOON

Brownbag: Derek Pearsall (emeritus faculty member, Harvard University; honorary member, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York)

University of Connecticut

CLAS 217 (Stern Lounge)

Storrs, CT

Friday, October 28

4 PM

(Reception; Dinner to follow at the home of David Benson)

Lecture: "Souls that Matter: The
Gendering of the Soul in Piers Plowman"

Elizabeth Robertson (University of Colorado)

Suggested Reading: representation of Anima in Passus IX and XV

University of Connecticut

CLAS 217 (Stern Lounge)

Storrs, CT

Saturday, October 29

New England Medieval Studies Consortium: "Florilegium" - 23rd Annual Graduate Student Medieval Studies Conference

Yale University

New Haven, CT 

November

Saturday, November 12 Conference: "Blood, Ink, Paint, and Tears: Constructing the Middle Ages"

Southern Connecticut State University

Engelman Hall A-120 (Rotunda)

New Haven, CT

December

Saturday, December 17

6 PM

Medieval Studies Annual Yuletide Party

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