Medieval Studies at Princeton University

calendar

Fall 2005

Date Speaker/Sponsor Event Info Location Time
September 14
Wednesday
Medieval Graduate Colloquium

Welcoming reception for graduate students

 

Contact: Michelle Garceau (mgarceau@princeton.edu)

209 Scheide Caldwell House 4:45 pm
September 16
Friday
Nicholas Howe, University of California, Berkeley The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium Columbia University 4:30 pm
September 20
Tuesday

**Francesc Massip,
Universitat Rovira I Virgili in Tarragona

“La muerte en danza: iconografía macabre y espectáculo”

 

Sponsored by the Princeton University Spanish and Portuguese Department

105 Chancellor Green 4:30 pm
September 27
Tuesday
Colin Richmond, Emeritus Professor of History, Keele University

"The Missing Jews of Medieval London"

 

Opening Lecture and Reception

101 McCormick Hall 4:30 pm
October 1
Saturday

Alan Stahl,
Princeton University

Martin Connell,
St. John’s University

**Delaware Valley Medieval Association

University of Pennsylvania 2-4 pm
October 7
Friday
Bruce Holsinger, University of Colorado

The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium

Princeton U.  
October 11 Tuesday Peter Jeffery, Department of Music

“Prosodia Imago Musicae: Some Early Medieval Readers of Varro’s Lost Treatise on Greek Music Theory”

 

Reception to Follow

010 East Pyne 4:30 pm
October 12
Wednesday
Medieval Graduate Colloquium Contact: Michelle Garceau (mgarceau@princeton.edu) 209 Scheide Caldwell House 4:45 pm
October 19 Wednesday  

**Film -- The Nibelungen, Part 1: Siegfried’s Death (1922)

 

English intertitles; 143 minutes

010 East Pyne 7:00 pm
October 20 Thursday Giles Constable, Institue for Advanced Study

G.S. Professional Development Workshop

"Manuscripts and Textual Editing"

209 Scheide Caldwell House 12-1:15 pm
October 21 Friday

Stacy Klein,
Rutgers University

The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium

 

Faculty Work-in-Progress

New York University  
October 25 Tuesday Kathleen Davis, Department of English

“Venerable Bede, World History, and the Politics of Time”

 

Reception to Follow

010 East Pyne 4:30 pm
October 26 Wednesday  

**Film -- The Nibelungen, Part 2: Kreimhild’s Revenge (1922)

 

English intertitles; 143 minutes

010 East Pyne 7:00 pm
November 9 Wednesday Medieval Graduate Colloquium Contact: Michelle Garceau (mgarceau@princeton.edu) 209 Scheide Caldwell House 4:45 pm
November 10
Thursday

John Haldon,

Department of History

G.S. Professional Development Workshop
"How to Write and Publish an Academic Article"
209 Scheide Caldwell House 12-1:15 pm
November 10
Thursday
*M. Ceclia Gaposchkin, Dartmouth College

“Defining the Ideal King: Retrospective Interpretations of Saint Louis’ Reign”

211 Dickinson Hall 4:30 pm
November 17
Thursday

*Daniel Lord Smail,
Fordham University

“Western Civ and the Idea of Paleolithic Dystopia” 211 Dickinson Hall 4:30 pm
November 17
Thursday
**Michael Solomon, University of Pennsylvania

“Cutting ‘Don Quixote’: Jess Franco, Orson Welles, and the Rise

of Participatory Culture in Spain”

 

Reception to follow

Sponsored by the Princeton University Spanish and Portuguese Department

010 East Pyne 4:30 pm
November 22
Tuesday
Colum Hourihane, Index of Christian Art

“Before the Legend-Pontius Pilate in Medieval Art”

 

Reception to follow

106 McCormick Hall 4:30 pm
December 6
Tuesday

Celia Chazelle,
Institute for Advanced Study/The College of New Jersey

“Bible Production in Eighth-Century England: Laying a Foundation

for Social Reform”


Reception to follow
010 East Pyne 4:30 pm
December 8
Thursday

Mark Cohen ,

Near Eastern Studies

G.S. Professional Development Workshop
"Using the Cairo Geniza Documents for Historical Research"
209 Scheide Caldwell House 12-1:15 pm

December 10

Saturday

Evelyne Birge Vitz, New York University

Nadia Altschule, Johns Hopkins University

Israel Burshatin, Haverford College

** Delaware Valley Medieval Association Princeton Theological Seminary 10:30 – 3:30
December 14 Wednesday Medieval Graduate Colloquium Contact: Michelle Garceau (mgarceau@princeton.edu) 209 Scheide Caldwell House 4:45 pm

* Shelby Cullom Davis Center Seminars – Pre-circulated papers available from Jennifer Houle, G-13 Dickinson Hall, or e-mail jhoule@princeton.edu one week prior to lecture.

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