Medieval Studies at Princeton University

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Spring 2005

Medieval Studies

Date Speaker/Sponsor Event Info Location Time
January 21
Friday		 Richard Sacks, Columbia University Getting Started with Old Norse

Sponsored by the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium and the Program in Medieval Studies		 Rutgers Univ., Plangere Writing Center, Room 302 10:30 am - 1 pm
February 3
Thursday		 William Chester Jordan Anti-Corruption in Thirteenth-Century Europe 101 McCormick Hall 4:30 pm
February 9 Wednesday

Manuscript Reading Group

Meeting Weekly

 Contact: Sidney Tibbetts (tnst@princeton.edu) TBA 12 - 1 pm
February 9 Wednesday Medieval Literature (Graduate Reading Group) Contact: Aaron Hostetter (ahostetter@princeton.edu) Café Vivian 5 pm
February 14 Monday Sara Westphal-Wihl, Rice University The Moorish Woman in 1512: Gender, Race, and the Humanist Reinvention of a Medieval Text 010 East Pyne 4:30 pm
February 15 Tuesday Mary Carruthers, New York University Weeping and Argument: Aesthetic Experience and Logic in the Monastic Tradition and in Chaucer 106 McCormick Hall 4:30 pm
February 16 Wednesday Medieval Graduate Colloquium Contact: Erica Gilles (egilles@princeton.edu) 209 Scheide Caldwell House 4:45 pm
February 17 Thursday Mary Carruthers, New York University Allegory Without Teeth: Some Reflections on Figural Language in Piers Plowman 106 McCormick Hall 4:30 pm
February 18 Friday Maryanne Kowaleski, Fordham University Archives and Methods Workshop: “Local Records Offices” 203 Scheide Caldwell House 12 - 2 pm
February 26 Saturday **Delaware Valley Medieval Association
 “The Medieval Bible”

Speakers: Theresa Gross-Diaz (Loyola University- Chicago), Dorothy Shepard (Pratt Institute); For more information: http://www.princeton.edu/~ezb/dvma/		 University of Pennsylvania (Van Pelt Library)  
February 28 Monday **Michael Barry From Baghdad to Bengal: Court Paintings of the Medieval Caliphs, Sultans and Rajahs 106 McCormick Hall 7 pm
March 4 Friday Medieval Studies Advisory Council Information will be forthcoming for faculty and students on the meeting. Prospect House 9 am - 5 pm
March 9 Wednesday Medieval Graduate Colloquium Contact: Erica Gilles (egilles@princeton.edu) 209 Scheide Caldwell House 4:45 pm
March 23 Wednesday **Susan Einbinder Hebrew Union College -Jewish Institute of Religion/Cincinnati Institute for Advanced Study Beginning with Alef: Poetry, History, and the Explusion of 1306 from France 010 East Pyne 4:30 pm
March 25 Friday Alan Stahl Archives and Methods Workshop: “Numismatics” 2nd floor, Rare Books and Special Collection (Princeton) 12 - 2 pm Lunch provided
April 5 Tuesday Miri Rubin, University of London The Historian and Images of Mary 010 East Pyne 4:30 pm
April 6 Wednesday Graduate Reading Group Contact: Aaron Hostetter (ahostett@princeton.edu) Café Vivian 7 pm
April 16 Saturday   **Delaware Valley Medieval Association at St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia

For more information: http://www.princeton.edu/~ezb/dvma/		    
April 19 Tuesday John Fleming The Babylon and Jerusalem of Luis de Camoes: Sacred and Secular Exegesis in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 106 McCormick Hall 4:30 pm
April 20 Wednesday Graduate Reading Group Contact: Aaron Hostetter (ahostett@princeton.edu) Café Vivian 7 pm
April 22 Friday Larry Scanlon, Rutgers University Archives and Methods Workshop: “Penitential Manuals” 203 Scheide Caldwell House 12 - 2 pm Lunch provided
April 26 Tuesday Joel Kaye, Barnard College/Institute for Advanced Study Models of Equilibrium, 1225-1375 103 Chancellor Green  
May 4 Wednesday Elisheva Baumgarten, Bar Ilan University “Remember that Glorious Girl: Jephthah's Daughter in Medieval Jewish Culture” 010 East Pyne 4:30 pm
June 9-June 22 Led by Ralph Hanna, Oxford University Summer Paleography Seminar
Contact: Peggy Reilly (mjreilly@Princeton.edu) or Vance Smith (dvsmith@Princeton.edu)		    

Studies

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

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