Medieval Studies at Princeton University

calendar

Fall 2006

Date Speaker/Sponsor Event Info Location Time
September TBA

Medieval Graduate Colloquium

Welcoming reception for graduate students
Contact:  Erica Gilles (egilles@Princeton.EDU) or
James Byrne (jbryne@princeton.edu)

209 Scheide Caldwell House 4:45 pm
September 25
Monday
**David Wasserstein, Vanderbilt University

“Taxonomies of Inheritance:  Jewish texts in al-Andalus”

010 East Pyne 4:30 pm
September 26
Tuesday

Calvin Normore, University of California, Los Angeles

Opening Lecture and Reception
"The End of Medieval Logic"
Reception to follow

219 Aaron Burr Hall 4:30
October 4 
Wednesday
Medieval Graduate Colloquium

Contact:  Erica Gilles (egilles@Princeton.EDU) or
James Byrne (jbryne@princeton.edu)

209 Scheide Caldwell House 4:45pm
October 19-20
Thursday-Friday

 

**Colloquium on the Seven-Hundredth Anniversary of the  Expulsion of the Jews from France in 1306”
See workshop poster for details

   
October 26-27
Thursday-Friday
 

**Romanesque Art and Thought in the Twelfth Century
Sponsored by the Index of Christian Art, Princeton University
See http://ica.princeton.edu/conferences.html for venue for this conference.

   
October 26
Thursday

Beth Robertson, University of Colorado, Boulder

"'I have a soule for to kepe': The Indiscernability of the Female Subject in Chaucer's The Merchant's Tale."
Reception to follow

010 East Pyne 4:30 pm
November 1-4 
Wednesday-Saturday
 

**Poetry, Knowledge and Community in Late Medieval France
Sponsored by Princeton University French and Italian Department

   
November 8
Wednesday
Don Skemer, Curator of Manuscripts, Princeton University Library

 “Medieval Manuscripts at Princeton: A Treasure Tour”
                                      

Firestone Library, Department of Rare Books and Special     Collections  4:30-5:45 pm
November 8
Wednesday
Medieval Graduate Colloquium

Contact:  Erica Gilles (egilles@Princeton.EDU) or
James Byrne (jbryne@princeton.edu)

209 Scheide Caldwell House 4:45 pm
November 14
Thursday
Stephen Gersh, University of Notre Dame, Institute for Advanced Study

“Philosophy and Humanism in the Middle Ages”
Reception to follow

101 McCormick Hall 4:30 pm
November 28
Tuesday
Paul Rorem, Princeton Theological Seminary

“Love above Knowledge in the Dionysian Commentaries of Eriugena and Hugh of St. Victor”
Reception to follow

101 McCormick Hall 4:30 pm
December 2
Saturday

Nino Zcholmedise, Art and Archaelogy, Princeton University
Jaimie Taylor, English, Bryn Mawr
Jessica Goldberg, History, University of  Pennsylvania

**Delaware Valley Medieval Association

Princeton University 10:00 – 4:00
December 6
Wednesday
Medieval Graduate Colloquium

Contact:  Erica Gilles (egilles@Princeton.EDU) or
James Byrne (jbryne@princeton.edu)

209 Scheide Caldwell House 4:45 pm
December 14
Thursday
*Susan Dudash, Utah State University

“Strategies for Giving Voice to the People in Late Medieval France: Eustache Deschamps, Christine de Pizan, and Jean A. Gerson”

211 Dickinson Hall 4:30 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