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Academic Year 2012-2013
| Date | Speaker/Sponsor | Event Info | Location | Time |
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| Sept. 15 Saturday |
Rita Copeland, Julia Verkholantsev, Robert Maxwell, and Dale Kinney | Delaware Valley Medieval Association | Philadelphia Museum of Art | 10am |
| Sept. 19 Wednesday |
Rosamond McKitterick, University of Cambridge | “The Power of Words. Glossaries, Cultural Memory and the Transmission of Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages” |
211 Dickinson Hall |
4:30pm |
Sept. 24 Monday |
Film Screening | "Season of the Witch" | 010 East Pyne | 4:30pm |
*Sept. 27
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John Haldon, Professor of History and Hellenic Studies, Princeton University |
“St Theodore the Recruit, Euchaita, and the Frontier with Islam: Archaeology, History and Warfare” |
010 East Pyne |
4:30pm |
| Oct. 5,6 Friday, Saturday |
Organized by The Index of Christian Art |
Patronage in the Medieval Arts |
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| *October 9 Tuesday |
Pamela Berger, Professor of Fine Arts, Boston College | “The Crescent on the Temple: The Dome of the Rock as Image of the Ancient Jewish Sanctuary” |
010 East Pyne | 4:30pm |
October 19 Friday |
Medival Studies Advisory Council Meeting | Palmer House | 9:00am-4:00pm | |
*Oct. 25 Thursday |
Karla Mallette, Associate Professor of Italian and Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan |
"Lingua franca: Muslims, Christians and Interconfessional Communication in the Medieval Mediterranean" |
219 Aaron Burr Hall |
4:30pm |
| Nov. 5 Monday |
Barbara Newman, |
"Felix Culpa and the Principle of Double Judgment" |
010 East Pyne | 4:30pm |
Nov. 6 Tuesday |
Barbara Newman, Professor of English, Religion and Classics |
Graduate Student Lunch Seminar | 209 Scheide Caldwell House | 12:00pm |
| Nov. 14 Wednesday |
The Kurt Weitzmann Lecture Sponsored by Art & Archaeology |
"The Empire of Things: Gifts and Gift Exchange in late Antiquity, Byzantium, Early Islam and Beyond" |
101 McCormick Hall |
5:00pm |
Dec. 1 Saturday |
Organized by Princeton University | Delaware Valley Medieval Association | 106 McCormick Hall | 10:45am-4:15pm |
Feb. 7 Thursday |
Dominik Perler Visiting Global Scholar in Philosophy |
"Living Bodies" A Reading Group in Medieval and Early Modern Thought | Tower Room, 1879 Hall | 4:30pm |
Feb. 16 Saturday |
Dominik Perler Visiting Global Scholar in Philosophy |
Metaphysics and Mind: Late Medieval and Early Modern Perspectives Program | 201 Marx Hall | 9:00am-6:30pm |
*Feb. 21 Thursday |
Andrew Romig, Assistant Professor of History, New York University |
"The Frankish Civil War and Religious Disillusionment: Secular Morality in the Ninth Century" |
010 East Pyne | 4:30pm |
| Feb. 22 Friday |
Dominik Perler, Visiting Global Scholar in Philosophy | "Ockham on Emotions" |
Woodrow Wilson School Bowl 2 | 4:00pm |
Mar. 8 Friday |
Inter University Doctoral Colloquium for Medieval Studies | Rutgers University | ||
| *Mar. 12 Tuesday |
Patrick Geary, Professor of History Institute for Advanced Study |
"War and Religion in the Early Middle Ages and the Twenty-First Century" | 010 East Pyne | 4:30pm |
| Mar. 13 Wednesday |
Dominik Perler, Visiting Global Scholar in Philosophy | "The Voracious Cannibal: A Medieval Thought Experiment and its Methodological Function" Poster |
TBA | 4:30pm |
Mar. 15 & 16 Friday & Saturday |
Symposium The Index of Christian Art |
"Maps and Diagrams in Medieval Art" More Infomation |
9:00am-4:00pm | |
Mar. 16 Saturday |
"Crossing Bridges" | Delaware Valley Medieval Association More Information |
University of Pennsylvania Art Museum | TBD |
Mar. 22 & 23 Friday & Saturday |
"Identity & Authenticity: Creating, Preserving, & Transmitting Identitites Across Time & Place" | Research Group on Manuscript Evidence Symposium
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106 McCormick Hall | Fri - 1:30-5:00pm Sat - 9:00-5:30pm |
Mar. 28 Thursday |
Rita Copeland University of Pennsylvania |
Department of Comparative LIterature Lecture |
010 East Pyne | 4:30pm |
Apr. 3 Wednesday |
Sophie Marnette Princeton University |
"Speech and Thought Presentation in Medieval French Lais: Une question de genre?" |
203 Scheide Caldwell House | 12:00pm |
Apr. 5 Friday |
Sophomore Open House |
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209 Scheide Caldwell House | 1:30pm |
Apr. 13 Saturday |
Medieval Studies Graduate Conference |
"War, Peace, and Religion in the Middle Ages" |
010 East Pyne | |
Apr. 13 Saturday |
Delaware Valley Medieval Association Symposium | Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the DVMA |
University of Pennsylvania | 9:30am-6:00pm |
Apr. 19 Friday |
Julia Smith Davis Center Fellow/University of Glasgow |
"Believing in Relics" | 211 Dickinson Hall | 10:15am |
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* Medieval Studies Lecture Series 2012-2013 on the theme of "Religion and War" Poster
Religious difference has led throughout the Middle Ages to conflict and war. From the Islamic conquest of the Middle East and the Iberian peninsula, Byzantine engagements with the Persians, the Merowingian clashes with Arian believers, Charlemagne’s campaigns against the Saxons, to the Crusades and beyond, religion has been crucial to the development of medieval culture. This lecture series seeks to explore the intersections of religiously motivated conflict with art, architecture, music, literature, political and social history, politics, medicine/science, theology, and philosophy. We understand “war” not only as “armed conflict” but also more broadly as any fundamental disagreement or controversy between two distinctly self-identified parties. Papers may address the effects of these conflicts (e.g., travel narratives, transfer of relics, pilgrimage, etc.) as well as theoretical approaches to any of these topics.
** Denotes event hosted by Department of History