Medieval Studies at Princeton University

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Spring 2007

Date Speaker/Sponsor Event Info Location Time
January 30
Tuesday

**ASSC
Elaine Treharne, Florida State University

“The Ideology of the Vernacular”

Reception to follow

Rutgers University, Murray Hall, Room 202 5:30 – 7:00 pm
January 31
Wednesday
**ASSC
Elaine Treharne, Florida State University

Paleography Workshop “Introduction to Early English Manuscripts, 900-1200”

Rutgers University, Murray Hall, Room 202 10:00 – 12:30 am
February 15
Thursday

*Peggy McCracken, University of Michigan

“The Virgin Mary in Jerusalem: Utopia, Body, and Place in Thirteenth-Century Marian Miracles”                                    

Commentator:  D. V. Smith

211 Dickinson Hall 4:30 pm
February 16
Friday
**Third Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference

“Echoing Anglo-Saxon England: Continuities, Encounters, Influence”

                                   
Columbia University, Buell Hall, Maison Française  
February 20
Tuesday

Rachel Fulton, University of Chicago

“Hildegard of Bingen’s Theology of Revelation"

Reception to Follow

010 East Pyne 4:30 pm
February 22
Thursday

Rachel Fulton, University of Chicago

“Wielding the Arma Christi”

Lunch Provided

209 Scheide Caldwell House 12:00
February 24
Saturday
**Delaware Valley Medieval Association “Hearing and Seeing” St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA  
February 28
Wednesday
Medieval Graduate Colloquium

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

209 Scheide Caldwell House 4:45 pm
March 1
Thursday

**ASSC

Christopher Jones, Ohio State University

Further details TBA -- Princeton University

103 Chancellor Green 4:30 pm
March 13  
Tuesday
Martha Newman, University of Texas at Austin/Institute for Advanced Study

“Vision and Doubt in Late Twelfth-Century Cistercian Exempla”

Reception to Follow

101 East Pyne 4:30 pm
March 14
Wednesday
Medieval Graduate Colloquium

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

209 Scheide Caldwell House 4:45 pm
March 31
Saturday

Graduate Conference:  “Emotion”

Keynote speaker William Ian Miller, University of Michigan Law School
more information

211 Dickinson Hall 9:30 am
April 3Tuesday Jan Dirk Mueller, University of Munich

"Love in View of the Court:  Riwalin and Blancheflur" Reception to Follow

010 East Pyne 4:30 pm
April 3Tuesday **ASSC
Clare Lees, King’s College, University of London
Further details TBA – Columbia University    
April 10 Tuesday Christopher J. Young, Cambridge University

“The Nibelungenlied after 9/11:  Heroism Between the Medieval Text and its Most Modern Adaptation”

105 Chancellor Green 4:30 pm
April 11
Wednesday
Medieval Graduate Colloquium

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

209 Scheide Caldwell House 4:45 pm
April 16
Monday
**Amitav Ghosh, Visiting Professor, Department of English, Harvard University

"The Making of In an Antique Land: India, Egypt, and the Cairo Geniza"

NES 29th Carolyn L. Drucker ’80 Memorial Lecture                                   


TBA 4:30 pm
April 24
Tuesday

Felice Lifshitz, Florida International University/Institute for Advanced Study

“Gendered Transmissions:  Heterosociability and Christian Culture in the Early Middle Ages”
Reception to Follow   

101 McCormick Hall                                  

4:30 pm
April 25 Wednesday **Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale University

"New Beginnings:  The Poetics of Purgatorio"

Reception to Follow 

101 McCormick  Hall 4:30 pm
TBA **ASSC
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
, University of York, UK

Further Details TBA – New York University

   
June 6 - June 19

Ralph Hanna is the Professor of Paleography at Keble College, Oxford

Paleography Seminar with Ralph Hanna Princeton University  

* 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