Medieval Studies at Princeton University

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Fall 2004

 
Medieval Studies

Date Speaker/Sponsor Event Info Location Time
September 20 Monday **Peggy McCracken, University of Michigan.  Lecture is sponsored by the Princeton department of French & Italian. Miracles, Mimesis, and the Efficacy of Images 010 East Pyne 4:30 pm
September 27 Monday **Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, University of Pittsburgh.  Lecture is sponsored by the Princeton department of French & Italian. Political Allegory & the Great Schism of the Western Church (1378-1417) 010 East Pyne 4:30 pm
October 1 Monday **Erica Cruikshank Dodd, University of Victoria.  Lecture is sponsored by the Index of Christian Art. Evidence for a Syrian Style in Painting of the Medieval Mediterranean 010 East Pyne 4:30 pm
October 7 Monday **Kevin Brownlee, University of Pennsylvania.  Lecture is sponsored by the Princeton department of French & Italian. Genealogies of Power in Christine de Pizan 106 McCormick 4:30 pm
October 19 Wednesday Mark Miller, University of Chicago Agency and Dialectic in the Consolation of Philosophy

Pre-circulated paper
103 Chancellor Green 4:30 pm
November 2 Wednesday Robert Bjork, Arizona State and the Institute for Advanced Study Creating the Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages; Scandinavian Contributions to Old English Study

Two 20-minute presentations, each followed by 10-minute Q/A.
103 Chancellor Green 4:30 pm
November 16 Monday Edward Wheatley, Hamilton College Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind: Medieval Constructions of a Disability 103 Chancellor Green 4:30 pm
November 23 Monday Karl Morrisson, Rutgers University, and the Institute for Advanced Study Playing with Dolls & Other Empathetic Exercises: The Gothic Age (Ebner, Suso, Cusa) 103 Chancellor Green 4:30 pm
November 30 Monday Susan Kramer, Institute for Advanced Study The Priest in the House of Conscience—Sins of Thought in Early Scholasticism 103 Chancellor Green 4:30 pm
December 7 Monday Bruce Holsinger, Univ of Colorado at Boulder The Work of God: Liturgy, Vernacularity, and the Making of English Literary History 103 Chancellor Green 4:30 pm

 

Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium**

See ASSC website

Date Speaker/Sponsor Event Info Location Time
November 11 Friday Gillian Overing, Wake Forest University Anglo-Saxon Horizons: Places of the Mind in the Northumbrian Landscape

Luncheon sandwiches to follow the lecture.
103 Chancellor Green 12 noon
December 2 Thursday Robert Bjork, Arizona State Univ. and the Institute for Advanced Study The Symbolic Function of Job in Ælfric's Homily on Job, Christ II, and The Phoenix Kent 628, Columbia University, Morningside Campus 5:30 pm

 

Delaware Valley Medieval Association**

See DVMA website

Date Speaker/Sponsor Event Info Location Time
December 9 Thursday Bob Barrett (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Emma Dillon (University of Pennsylvania), and Chara Armon. PERFORMANCE Carriage House, UPenn -
December 2 Thursday Keith Busby (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Sara Poor (Princeton), and TBA. MANUSCRIPTS Princeton Theological Seminary -

 

Graduate Meetings

Date Speaker/Sponsor Event Info Location Time
September 29 Wednesday Graduate Reading Group - Café Vivian 7 pm
October 13 Wednesday Graduate Colloquium

Michelle Garceau
, History
Fear of a ‘Public Sphere’: The Trials of Francis Baiuli

209 Humanities Bldg 4:45 pm
October 13 Wednesday Graduate Reading Group - Café Vivian 7 pm
November 3 Wednesday Graduate Colloquium - 209 Humanities Bldg 4:45 pm
November 10 Wednesday Graduate Reading Group - Café Vivian 7 pm
December 3 Wednesday Graduate Colloquium

Juliet O'Brien, French & Italian
True Love & Eating Hearts: Reconsidering Courtly Love in Medieval Romance 209 Humanities Bldg 4:45 pm

The Humanities Programs Building has been renamed to the Scheide Caldwell House.

**Denotes events not sponsored or co-sponsored by the Program