Medieval Studies at Princeton University

calendar

Spring 2006

Date Speaker/Sponsor Event Info Location Time
February 2
Thursday
Allen Frantzen, Loyola University

**The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium

"Dialaogue and Drama in Old English Poetry: Juliana and Beowulf"

Pane Room, Alexander Library, Rutgers University 5:30 pm
February 3
Friday
 

**The ASSC Graduate Student Conference

“Friendship and Community in Anglo-Saxon England"

 

Contact: ASSC@columbia.edu

Plangere Writing Center, Room 302, Murray Hall Rutgers University 9:30 – 2:00 pm
February 16
Thursday

Michael Curschmann, Emeritus Professor, Princeton University

Graduate Student Workshop

"Pictures as Historical Artifacts"

 

Lunch provided

209 Scheide Caldwell House 12:00
February 18
Saturday
Larry Ness, University of Delaware; plus graduate student papers to be announced

** Delaware Valley Medieval Association

 

For further information go to http://www.princeton.edu/~ezb/dvma

Bryn Mawr College 9:30 – 2:30 pm
February 21
Tuesday

Shona Kelly Wray, University of Missouri

"Communities and Crisis: Tracking the Populace of Bologna during the Black Death"

 

Reception to Follow

103 Chancellor Green 4:30 pm
February 23
Thursday
Roy Liuzza, University of Tennessee at NYU

**The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium

 

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/assc

   
March 1
Wednesday

Don Skemer, Firestone

"Medieval Manuscripts in the Princeton University Library"

Taylor Room – Firestone Library 4:30 pm
March 2
Thursday
Sarah Kay , Professor, Department of French and Italian

Graduate Student Workshop

"The Purposes of Theory" (this is critical, not social theory)

 

Lunch provided

203 Scheide Caldwell House 12:00
March 7
Tuesday
*Stephen Nichols,
Johns Hopkins University

"Reading and Seeing in a Troubadour Chansonnier"

 

Reception to Follow

103 Chancellor Green 4:30 pm
March 14
Tuesday
Katherine Zieman,
Institute for Advanced Study

"Testing Literacy in the Fourteenth Century"

 

Reception to Follow

010 East Pyne 4:30 pm
March 16
Thursday
David Ganz, Professor of Paleography, Kings College, London

"Learning to Write Latin Prose in the Ninth Century"

 

Reception to Follow

105 Chancellor Green 4:30 pm
March 17 Friday David Ganz , Professor of Paleography, Kings College, London

“Einhard as an Artistic Patron”

 

Reception to Follow

010 East Pyne 4:30 pm
March 20 Monday

David Ganz , Professor of Paleography, Kings College, London

Manuscript workshop on Hrabanus Maurus

Firestone Library Rare Books Taylor Room 10-12
March 28 Tuesday TBA

 

010 Chancellor Green 4:30 pm
April 3 Monday David Abulafia, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University

"The Mediterranean and the Atlantic 1415-1492"

 

Reception to Follow

010 East Pyne 4:30 pm
April 6 Thursday Daniel Heller-Roazen, Professor, Comparative Literature

Graduate Student Workshop
"Orienting Oneself in Medieval Philosophy and Theology"

 

http://complit.princeton.edu/index.php?app=people&id=12

 

Lunch provided

TBA 12:00
April 7 Friday Patricia Dailey, Kathleen Davis, Stacy Klein, Haruko Momma andGordon Whatley **The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium
"Recent Work in Anglo-Saxon Studies"
organized by the Medieval Club of New York

Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 5 th Avenue

(at 34 th Street), room 4406
 
April 8
Saturday

Keynote speaker, Jesús Rodriguez Velasco, Associate Professor of

Spanish & Portuguese, UC Berkeley

Medieval Studies Graduate Conference

"Medieval Environments"

207 Scheide Caldwell House  
April 11
Tuesday
Thomas Noble, Institute for Advanced Study and University of Notre Dame

"Charlemania: Writing Charlemange from the Ninth Century to the Present"

 

Reception to Follow

010 East Pyne 4:30 pm
April 20
Thursday
Peter Jeffery, Princeton University

**The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium
"Traces of the Anglo-Saxon Encounter with Roman Chant"

 

For directions, please see the Mobia website, http://www.mobia.org

at Mobia, 1865 Broadway at 61 st Street 4:00 pm
April 21 & 22
Friday & Saturday

 

John Fleming Conference

 

For more information please see the poster and the complete program.

106 McCormick Hall  
April 25
Tuesday
Agathe Sultan , Université de Paris IV – La Sorbonn

"Colors of the Voice. Musical Fictions in Medieval Poetry”

 

Reception to Follow

010 East Pyne 4:30 pm
April 29
Saturday
 

**Spanish Medieval Art Conference

 

Sponsored by the Index of Christian Art. Full details will be posted at http://ica.princeton.edu/conferences.html closer to that date.

 

106 McCormick Hall

9:00 – 5:30 pm
May 6
Saturday
ASSC Panel at Kalamazoo

**The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium

"The Powers of Language"

 

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/assc

  10 am

* 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