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FALL 2007 |
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August |
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Friday,
August 24
5PM |
Freshman
English Orientation Party |
Home of Britt
Rothauser |
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Monday,
August 27
3:45-5PM |
English
Graduate Student Association
Professional Development Colloquium Series:
Jeremy DeAngelo |
University of Connecticut
CLAS 217 (Stern Lounge)
Storrs, CT |
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Friday,
August 31
12-1PM |
Medieval Studies Fall Meeting |
University of Connecticut
CLAS 217 (Stern Lounge)
Storrs, CT |
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September |
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Monday, September 3
11:30AM-3PM |
Medieval Studies Annual Labor Day Picnic |
Home of David and Pam Benson |
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Friday, September 7
4PM
(Dinner to follow
at the home of Bob Hasenfratz) |
Lecture:
“Women Reading About the Things of
God”: English Literary History?
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (University of York),
Fall 2007 Charles Owen, Jr. Visiting Professor
The title of this lecture alludes to a
well-known article by Felicity Riddy on later medieval literary culture,
used here as a starting point for exploring some readers and reading modes
of the thirteenth century and the implications for the later Middle Ages. |
University of Connecticut
CLAS 217 (Stern Lounge)
Storrs, CT |
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Monday, September 10
3:30-5:30PM |
Medieval Studies M.A. Workshop:
What does it mean to be interdisciplinary? |
University of Connecticut
CLAS 152 (Library)
Storrs, CT |
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Monday, September 24
3:30-5:30PM |
Medieval Studies M.A. Workshop:
Degree Requirements; Research Tools and Bibliographic Method 1: Languages
and Literature (Anne Berthelot and Bob Hasenfratz) |
University of Connecticut
CLAS 152 (Library)
Storrs, CT |
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Thursday, September 27
12 Noon |
English
Graduate Student Association Brown Bag Lunch:
Fred Biggs,
"Rejection Letters, Gnofs, and Chaucer's The Miller's Tale" |
University of Connecticut
CLAS 217 (Stern Lounge)
Storrs, CT |
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October |
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Wednesday, October
3
4PM
(Reception to follow) |
Lecture:
Robert Bertholf (SUNY-Buffalo)
Co-sponsored by Medieval Studies, English, and the Dodd Center |
University of Connecticut
Konover Auditorium, Dodd
Center
Storrs, CT |
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Monday, October 8
3:30-5:30PM |
Medieval Studies M.A. Workshop:
Research Tools and Bibliographic Method 2: History (Sherri Olson) |
University of Connecticut
CLAS 152 (Library)
Storrs, CT |
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Friday, October
12
4PM
(Dinner to follow
at the home of David and Pam Benson) |
Lecture:
"Problems of Memory in Chaucer's Man of
Law's Tale"
Francine
McGregor (Eastern Illinois University)
Medieval Studies is in the midst of a lively conversation
about the practices and significance of memory within medieval culture.
The most pronounced strain of such scholarship in literary studies
explores mnemonics, which treats memory as a technology and site of
control for those who remember and ask others to do so. This talk
suggests that The Canterbury Tales,
a collection that purports to be a feat of memory,
is also a conversation about remembering, as interested in its
failures
as in its capacity to organize knowledge and experience. Specifically,
The Man of Law’s Tale suggests some of the ways in which memory
thwarts an individual’s control, and in doing so, both victimizes and
constitutes the individual who remembers.
Francine McGregor graduated from the University of
Connecticut at Storrs in 2000. She is currently an associate professor at
Eastern Illinois University where she teaches courses in medieval
literature, literary theory, and writing. Her research is on Middle English
romance and Chaucer, and she has recently begun work on medieval
representations of memory. Her writing has appeared in The Chaucer
Review, Medieval Feminist Forum, and Essays in Medieval
Studies. |
University of Connecticut
CLAS 217 (Stern Lounge)
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Monday, October
22
3:30-5:30PM |
Medieval Studies M.A. Workshop:
Research Tools and Bibliographic Method 3: the Arts (Eric Rice) |
University of Connecticut
CLAS 152 (Library)
Storrs, CT |
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Tuesday, October
23
3:45PM |
English
Graduate Student Association Student Speaker Series:
“What’s Memory Got to Do with It?: Confession and Chaucer’s Romances,"
Kisha Tracy |
University of Connecticut
CLAS 217 (Stern Lounge)
Storrs, CT |
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November |
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Friday,
November 2
4PM
(Dinner to follow
at the home of David and Pam Benson) |
Lecture:
"Planting in the Middle Ages: Nature
and the Medieval Gardener"
Rebecca Krug (University of Minnesota)
This talk introduces the methods of
medieval gardeners (in particular, strategies for planting a garden)
and explores three different understandings of nature’s role in
gardening. It describes how medieval gardeners acquired seed and
plants, looks at planting techniques such as transplanting and
grafting, and considers differences among kinds of gardeners
(professional, monastic, domestic). Horticultural practices, it
argues, were underwritten by varied ideas about nature. Writings by
Nicholas Bollard and Geoffrey of
Franconia on grafting; Walahfrid Strabo’s poem Hortulus;
and the household book referred to as that of Le Menagier de
Paris are discussed as they articulate ideas about gardening and
nature.
Rebecca Krug is an
associate professor of English at the
University of Minnesota. Her book Reading Families:
Women’s Literate Practice in Late Medieval England was published
by Cornell University Press in 2002. She is currently working on
projects about Margery Kempe, medieval gardening, and self-help
literature from the Middle Ages.
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University of Connecticut
CLAS 217 (Stern Lounge)
Storrs, CT |
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Monday,
November 5
3:30-5:30PM |
Medieval Studies M.A. Workshop:
Basics of Paleography (Fred Biggs) |
University of Connecticut
CLAS 152 (Library)
Storrs, CT |
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Wednesday,
November 14
3:30-5:30PM |
Medieval Studies M.A. Workshop:
Where do we go from here? |
University of Connecticut
CLAS 152 (Library)
Storrs, CT |
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Tuesday,
November 27
4PM |
Lecture:
"Dante in Korea"
Sanjin Park (Pusan University; Visiting Professor, Harvard
University)
Co-sponsored by Medieval Studies and the Italian Department |
University of Connecticut
Arjona 221
Storrs, CT |
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December |
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Friday, December 14
10:30AM-12:30PM |
Dissertation
Defense: "Creating Lawgivers and
Peacemakers: Imagining Kingship in Anglo-Norman Society"
Wendy Hoofnagle |
University of Connecticut
CLAS 217 (Stern Lounge)
Storrs, CT |
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Friday, December 14
6PM |
Medieval Studies Annual Holiday Party |
Home of Bob Hasenfratz |
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SPRING 2008 |
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May 8-11, 2008 |
43rd
International Congress on Medieval Studies |
Western
Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI |
