Medieval Studies at Princeton University

calendar

Spring 2009

Date Speaker/Sponsor Event Info Location Time
February 11
Wednesday
 

Medieval Graduate Colloquium
Contact:  Jamie Kreiner (jkreiner@princeton.edu) or
Mary Campbell (mmcampbe@princeton.edu)

209 Scheide Caldwell House 4:45 pm
February 17 Tuesday Alan Stahl Professional Development Lunch
"Grant Writing"
RSVP to jkreiner@princeton.edu or mmcampbe@princeton.edu     
TBA 12:00
February 17 Tuesday **Suzanne Conklin Akbari, University of Toronto "The Poetics of Siege" McCosh 48 4:30 pm
February 23 Monday **Steven Justice, Berekely "Chaucer's History-Effect" McCosh 48 4:30 pm
February 24 Tuesday Julia Smith Professional Development Lunch
"Studying Saints:  Pitfalls and Potentials"
RSVP to jkreiner@princeton.edu or mmcampbe@princeton.edu     
TBA 12:00
March 2 Monday **Andrew Cole, University of Georgia "Mirrors for Bishops:  Humanism & Literature in Late Medieval England" McCosh 48 4:30 pm
March 4 Wednesday Helmut Reimitz Professional Development Lunch
"The Sense of the Codex:   The Compilation of History in Early Medieval Manuscripts"

RSVP to jkreiner@princeton.edu or mmcampbe@princeton.edu     
127  East Pyne 12:00
March 10
Tuesday

Matthew Goldie, Rider University

"The Idea of the Antipodes"

209 Scheide Caldwell House 4:30 pm
March 12 Thursday Ronald Surtz, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Professional Development Lunch
"Sometimes a Pen Is Not a Pen: Hostility Toward Female Writing In Late Medieval Valencia"

RSVP to jkreiner@princeton.edu or mmcampbe@princeton.edu     
207 Scheide Caldwell House 12:00
March 19-20 Thursday-Friday **A Conference in Honor of Willibald Sauerländer "Gothic-Art & Thought in the Middle Ages"
http://ica.princeton.edu/conference.php
101 McCormick Hall  
March 31
Tuesday

Jeremy J. Smith,
University of Glasgow

"The Language of the Manuscripts of Gower's Confessio Amantis: Some New Perspectives"

209 Scheide Caldwell House 4:30 pm
April 1
Wednesday
 

Medieval Graduate Colloquium
Contact:  Jamie Kreiner (jkreiner@princeton.edu) or
Mary Campbell (mmcampbe@princeton.edu)

209 Scheide Caldwell House 4:45 pm
April 3 Friday *David Wasserstein, Vanderbilt University/Davis Fellow “Islam and the Making of Medieval Jewry” 211 Dickinson Hall 10:15 am
April 4 Saturday Graduate Conference

“Law and Legal Culture in the Middle Ages”
www.princeton.edu/~medconf

Scheide Caldwell House 9:30 am
April 14
Tuesday

Lynn Staley,
Colgate University/Institute for Advanced Study

“Landscape and Community”

209 Scheide Caldwell House 4:30 pm
April 28
Tuesday

David Aers,
Duke University

Langland on the "Via Moderna"

209 Scheide Caldwell House 4:30 pm
May 5 Tuesday Rita Copeland, Humanities Council/University of Pennsylvania "Naming, Knowing, and the Object of Language in a Twelfth-Century Grammar Curriculum" 209 Scheide Caldwell House 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

Meeting dates for the Anglo-Saxon Language, Literature and Culture Colloquium will be announced on the Web.  Please check the web for updates of events.