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SPRING 2007 |
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January |
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February |
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Friday,
February 9
4PM
Dinner : Home of
Kathleen Tonry |
Lecture:
“Synagoga and the City: Visualizing
Christian Triumph at Strasbourg Cathedral”
Nina Rowe (Fordham University,
Department of Art History &
Music)
Professor Rowe specializes in the art of northern Europe in the high
Middle
Ages (12th-14th century). Her work has examined Christian
representations of
Jews and Judaism in medieval art, and she is also interested the
production
and reception of illuminated manuscripts. Most recently she has
co-authored
and co-edited Manuscript Illumination in the Modern Age: Recovery and
Reconstruction (2001), and Excavating the Medieval Image: Manuscripts,
Artists, Audiences (2004). She is currently working on a project
entitled The Beauty of Defeat: Synagoga, Ecclesia and Urban Spectatorship in the
High
Middle Ages, an examination of monumental, sculpted representations of
the
Synagoga-Ecclesia motif in the thirteenth century. |
University of Connecticut
CLAS 217 (Stern Lounge)
Storrs, CT |
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Friday,
February 23
4PM
Dinner: Home of
Bob Hasenfratz |
Lecture:
“The Body of the Past: History and
Imagination”
Nicholas Watson (Harvard University, Department of English)
Professor
Watson’s research interests include: late-medieval European
literature; visionary writing; vernacular theology, 1100-1500; medieval
literary theory; and theory and practice of editing. His two most
recent
works are: The Idea of the Vernacular: An Anthology of Middle English
Literary Theory, 1280–1520 (1999) and The Vulgar Tongue: Medieval and
Postmedieval Vernacularity (2003). Current projects include: John of
Morigny's Liber florum celestis doctrine: An Edition, Translation, and
Study (with Claire Fanger); Balaam's Ass: Vernacular Theology and the
Secularization of England, 1100-1500 ; and The Lowest Part of Our Need: A
Guide to Julian of Norwich. |
University of Connecticut
CLAS 217 (Stern Lounge)
Storrs, CT |
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Saturday,
February 24
8AM - 7PM |
24th Annual New England Medieval Studies
Consortium Graduate Student Conference: "The Medieval World: From
the Secular to the Spiritual"
Plenary speaker: James Simpson (Harvard University
Professor of English and American
Literature and Language; Life Fellow, Girton College Cambridge; Honorary Fellow, Australian Academy
of the Humanities)
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University of Connecticut
Student Union
Storrs, CT |
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March |
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Friday, March
30
4PM
Reception: Nathan Hale |
Lecture: “Joshua Roll or Joshua Spiral: Codex Vaticanus
Palatinus Graecus 431 Explained – The preparatory drawings for a triumphal
column for the Emperor Heraclius (610-641)”
Stephen Wander (University of Connecticut, Department of Art
&
Art History)
Professor Wander’s current research focuses on the Joshua Roll—a
sheepskin
scroll that dates back to the Byzantine Empire and is inscribed with
Greek
text and pictures from the Book of Joshua In 2006, he was invited to
the
Vatican to examine sheets from the Joshua Roll, and to further his
research,
he has recently applied for a research Grant to the Dumbarton Oaks
Research
Library and Collection in Washington D.C. |
University of Connecticut
ART 106 (Art
Building)
Storrs, CT |
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April |
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Wednesday, April 11
8PM |
University of Connecticut Collegium Musicum
His Majesty's Music:
Service and Masque Music for the English Royal Court,
1600-1750
Works by Thomas Tomkins, Henry Purcell, G.F. Handel, and others |
St. Mark's
Episcopal Chapel
42 N.
Eagleville Rd.
Storrs, CT |
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Friday, April 13
9-2:30 |
Medieval Studies Outreach Seminar
Performance by the
University of Connecticut Collegium Musicum |
University of Connecticut
Student Union 304A
Storrs, CT |
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Friday, April
27
4PM
Dinner: Home of
David Benson |
Lecture:
"Spiritualizing
Marriage: Margery Kempe’s Allegories of Female Authority"
Alastair Minnis (Yale University, Department of English)
Professor Minnis’s research interests include: Chaucer and his
intellectual
milieu; late-medieval literature (chiefly Middle English, but also
French
and Italian); medieval literary theory; medieval study of the Bible and
classical literature (including Boethius); and scholasticism and its
vernacular intersections. His latest major publication was The
Cambridge
History of Literary Criticism, vol. 2: The Middle Ages, co-edited with
Ian
Johnson. He has recently finished a monograph Fallible Authors:
Chaucer’s
Pardoner and Wife of Bath, and is preparing a collection of essays for
Cambridge University Press. |
University of Connecticut
CLAS 217 (Stern Lounge)
Storrs, CT |
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May |
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May 10-13, 2007 |
42nd
International Congress on Medieval Studies |
Western
Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI |
