Fall 2007

Fall 2007

Fall 2007 Events

• Monday, September 17
  • State of the Institute talk by H. Wayne Storey and a reading by Samuel N. Rosenberg from his new book, "Lancelot and the Lord of the Distant Isles, or, the Book of Galehaut Retold."
• Saturday, October 27
  • Early Modern Conference: “Premodern Gender and Sexualities.”
• Sunday, November 4
  • Medieval Studies Fall Party
• Thursday, November 8
  • Lecture by Alessandro Vettori, Rutgers University, “Dante’s Poetics of Exile: Purgatorio XXI-XXVI”

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Fall 2005-Spring 2006

Fall 2005 Events

• Friday, September 16
  • Professor Hildegard Keller (University of Zurich) has given the lecture entitled, “Melusine's Verticality. Lines of Descent in Genealogical Narrative.”
• Thursday, Oct. 6th
  • Lecture given by Prof. Jeffrey Hamburger: “Representations of Reading – Reading Representations: The Female Reader from the Hedwig Codex to Châtillon’s Léopoldine au Livre d’Heures.”
• Thursday, Oct. 13th
  • Sidney M. Johnson Memorial Lecture presented by C. Stephen Jaeger, Gutgsell Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature, Director of the Program in Medieval Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: "Gottfried von Strassburg and the Sublime Style in the Middle Ages."
• Thursday, Oct. 27th
  • Lecture given by Author Nicholas Basbanes: "Scholarship: A Happy Consequence of Book Madness" For more information on the acclamed author Nicholas Basbanes, please follow this link to his website.
    

Spring 2006 Events

• February 24th
  • The French and Italian Department in collaboration with the Medieval Studies Institute present a lecture by Professor Theresa Colletti (Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park). The title of Professor Colletti's lecture is: "Umberto Eco, the Middle Ages and the Historical Novel."
• Friday, March 24
  • The Colloquium Series in Musicology and Medieval Studies' Mediaevalia at the Lilly are pleased to present a lecture by Travis Yeager, entitled: "The Earliest Known Liturgy of St. Emmeram at Regensburg: New Evidence from the Lilly Library"
• April 7-8
  • The 18th Annual Symposium: Medieval Spiritualities: From the Mystic to the Mundane
• Thursday, April 6
  Michelangelo Zaccarello (University of Verona) presents: "Burchiello: A Literary Enterpreneur?" This lecture is given for the opening of the 15th Annual Colloquium of the French and Italian Graduate Students Organisation.
• Tuesday, April 11
  • Michelangelo Zaccarello (University of Verona) presents: "A Neglected Fourteenth-Century Manuscript of Dante's Comedy (Budapest, University Library, ms. 1)"
• April 15th, 2006
  • The Medieval Studies Institute in collaboration with the Early Music Institute presented the concert: "The Saint and the King : Music for Thomas Becket and Richard I"
    
    

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Fall 2002-Spring 2003

Fall 2002 Events

• September 18
  • The Medieval Studies Film Series will screen Jabberwocky at 7:00 pm. in WH 120.
• October 9
  • The Medieval Studies Film Series will screen Les Visiteurs du Soir (The Devil's Envoys) at 7:00 pm. in Chemistry 033.
• October 10
  • Prof. Tom Keirstead (CEUS) presents "The Return of the Samurai" at the Medieval Studies Coffee hour from from 4-5 p.m. in BH 004.
• October 16
  • Prof. Savely Senderovich (Cornell) lectures on "The Problem of the Origin of Russian Historiography in the 11th Century? from 7-8:30 pm. in BH 217.
• October 18-19
  • IU's Department of Spanish and Portuguese hosts 1502-2002: Five Hundred Years of Fernando de Rojas' Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea.
• October 25-27
  • The 41st Midwest Medieval History Conference will be held at Indiana University, Bloomington. The event features papers by IU graduate students Maria Krebs (French and It alian) and Katie Peebles (English / Folkore).
• October 28
  • Phi Alpha Theta hosts a fireside chat with Prof. William Chester Jordan (Princeton) on "Weapons, Relics, and Crusades" at 4:00 pm. in BH 004
• October 29
  • Prof. Jordan will lecture on "Sickness, Death and Devotional Practice during the Great Famine of the Early Fourteenth Century" at 4:00 pm. in the Georgian Room in the IMU.
• October 30
  • The Medieval Studies Film Series will screen Onibaba (Devil Woman) at 7:00 pm. in WH 120.
• November 2
  • The Eighth Annual Meeting of PIGSTII (Philologists in Germanic Studies at Illinois and Indiana) will be held at Indiana University, Bloomington, from 2:00-6:00 pm. in BH 004. The event features papers by IU graduate students Christopher M . Cain (English), John Durbin (German), and Betsy Williamsen (English).
• November 13
  • The Medieval Studies Film Series will screen Die Nibelungen: Siegfried at 7:00 pm. in WH 120.
• November 19
  • Glenn Peers (Univ. of Texas at Austin), will give a Burke lecture in the Department of History of Art. The title of his talk is "Orthodox Magic and the Mandylion: An Amulet Roll in Chicago and New York," in Woodburn 120 at 5 pm.
• November 22
  • Graduate Student Patrick Westhoff (FRIT) will present "Medieval Travel Literature: Texts and Contexts" from 2:30 - 3:03 pm. in BH 004 as part of the Department of French & Italian's Student-Faculty Forum Series. The presentation will be in English.

Spring 2003 Events

• January 29
  • Carole Levin (University of Nebraska) will lecture on "Sacred Blood and Monarchy: The Intersection of Dreams, Religion, and Politics in Elizabethan England" at 5:00 pm. in the Lilly Library.
• February 11
  • The English Department's first medieval candidate, Patricia Ingham (Lehigh University), will present her job talk in the University Club in the Union at 4:00.
• February 12
  • The Medieval Studies Film Series will screen Christopher Lambert's Beowulf at 7:00 pm. in Swain Hall East 140.
• February 17
  • The English Department's second medieval candidate, Nancy Warren (Utah State University), will present her job talk in the University Club in the Union at 4:00. Her topic is "French Women and English Men: Joan of Arc, Margaret of Anjou, and Christine de Pisan in England."
• February 18
  • Grad. Student David Marshall (English) and Prof. Larry Clopper (English) will hold an organizational meeting for their Robert of Sicily Drama production at 4:00 pm. in the MEST Lounge (BH 671).
• February 20
  • Prof. Bridget Balint (Classical Studies) will present an informal talk on her current research at the Medieval Studies Coffee Hour, 4:00 pm. in BH 004
• February 26
  • The Medieval Studies Film Series will screen A Knight's Tale on at 7:00 pm. in Swain Hall East 140.
• March 24
  • Christopher De Hamel will speak to the Early Book Group on "How a Manuscripts' Specialist Goes About His Daily Rounds," at 4:00 pm. Lilly Library. Dr. De Hamel is the author of The Book: The History of the Bible (2001) and A History of Illuminated Manuscripts (1986). He was the head of the Western Manuscripts department at Sotheby's, London, and is now the Keeper of Manuscripts at the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
• March 25
  • Christopher de Hamel will present his lecture, "What is a Book of Hours, How Was it Made, and How Do We Know?," at 4:00 pm. in the Lilly Library.
• March 29
  • "Ecco La Primavera," the annual Thomas Binkley Memorial Concert, will be held at 8 pm. in the IU Art Museum Atrium. Prof. Wendy Gillespie will direct students of the Early Music Institute. The concert will open this year's Medieval Symposium.
• March 31
  • Elizabeth Archibald will present a public lecture, "Family Problems, Problem Families: Medieval and Modern Attitudes to Incest," at 4:00 pm. in the Lilly Library. Dr. Archibald is a senior lecturer in Medieval English at the University of Bristol and the author of Incest and the Medieval Imagination (2001).
• April 4-5
  • The Fifteenth Annual Medieval Symposium, "Beyond Vice & Virtue: Rethinking Medieval Cultures," will take place in Woodburn Hall 101 & 120.
• April 16
  • The Medieval Studies Film Series will screen Red Sonya at 7:00 pm. in Swain Hall East 140.

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Fall 2001-Spring 2002

Fall 2001 Events

• September 12
  • Vincent Gillespie (Oxford University), "The Rise and Fall of a Great Library 1415-1539: The Books of Syon Abbey and How (or If) They Were Used." (Postponed due to 9-11 tragedy).
• September 16
  • The Medieval Studies Institute Fall Party
• October 1-13
  • Special exhibit in connection with "The Chancellor and the Mystics." The Lincoln Room, Lilly Library.
• October 8
  • H. Wayne Storey (French and Italian), "Making a Little Book in Medieval Florence." (History of the Book Seminar Presentation).
• October 9
  • Symposium for Sharon Stephens Brehm: "The Chancellor and the Mystics."
• October 12
  • Volker Mertens (Germanic Studies and Freie University, Berlin), "Piety in the Realm of the Senses: A Mediological Approach to Religious Literature in the Middle Ages."
• October 24
  • William Newman (History and Philosophy of Science), "Medieval Alchemy: Diversity in the Face of Stereotype."
• October 24
  • Medieval Film Series: Les Visiteurs.
• October 25
  • Early Music Institute directed by Wendy Gillespie: "Music for the Courts of Phillip Augustus and Louis the Pious."
• November 5
  • Molly Faries (History of Art), "Painting in Antwerp Before Iconoclasm: A Socio-Economic Approach." (History of the Book Seminar).
• November 7
  • Daniel Smail (Fordham University), "Imaginary Cartographies: The Case of Late Medieval Marseille."
• November 7
  • George Greenia (College of William and Mary), "Ethnography and Manuscript Culture: Medievalism and Its Artifacts."
• November 8
  • George Greenia (College of William and Mary), "Illuminators as the First Readers of Medieval Books."
• November 29
  • Daniel O'Sullivan (French and Italian), "The Beginning and End of Devotion: the Prologues and Epilogue of the Miracles de Notre Dame."

Spring 2002 Events

• January 14-May 5
  • Special exhibit, Lilly Library, "Music Makers: Dreamers of Dreams: Five Centuries of Musical Books and Manuscripts."
• January 22
  • Medieval Film Series: Alexander Nevsky
• January 25
  • Bridget Balint (Harvard University), "Who is Hildebert's Hercules? Competing Rhetorical Strategies in the Twelfth Century."
• January 28
  • Anthony Grafton (Princeton University), "Magic and the Practices of Learning in Medieval and Early Modern Europe."
• January 30
  • Nina Caputo (Mellon Fellow, University of Pennsylvania), "The Contested Authorities: Representations of Community in Medieval Barcelona Disputation Narrative."
• January 31
  • E. Jane Burns (University of North Carolina), "Saracen Silk: Dolls, Idols, and Courtly Ladies."
• February 1
  • Uli Schamiloglu (University of Wisconsin), "The Black Death in Medieval Anatolia and Its Impact on Turkish Civilization."
• February 4
  • Ann Brener (Queen's College), "A Meeting Between Poets: Judah Halevi and Moses ibn Ezra in Granada."
• February 13
  • Dagmar Reidel (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures), "The Sacred and the Secular Arts of the Book in Medieval Islam." Indiana University Art Museum.
• February 13
  • Arnold Franklin (Princeton University), "Constructing the House of David in the Middle Ages."
• February 14
  • Richard K. Emmerson (Executive Director, The Medieval Academy), "The Dull Fifteenth-Century? Middle English and the Development of Vernacular Iconography."
• February 15
  • Richard K. Emmerson: graduate symposium on how to submit articles for publication. (Attendance 30+)
• March 18-23
  • Special Exhibit, Lilly Library: "City, Court, and Cloister."
• March 22-23
  • 14th Annual Medieval Studies Graduate Symposium: "City, Court, And Cloister: Centers of Power in the Middle Ages."
• March 23
  • Early Music Institute Symposium Concert "Ha! Parisius!" directed by Wendy Gillespie.
• March 25
  • Michael Satlow, (Religious Studies, Indiana, University), "Authors as Redactors in the Babylonian Talmud."
• March 29
  • Hans Tischler (Musicology Department Colloquium), "The Performance of Two-Part Conductus: A Proposal."
• April 4
  • A symposium on Renaissance Humanism and Italian Literature will be presented by the department of French and Italian. Paolo Cherchi (University of Chicago), "Valerius, Petrarch and the Concordances of History," and Giuseppe Velli (Universita di Milano), "Modes of Renaissance Intertextuality: Petrarch, Poliziano, Sannazaro, Tasso."
• April 9
  • Richard M. Hogg, (University of Manchester, Smith Professor of English Language and Medieval Literature), "North Sea Waves: Stammbaum Theory and Wave Theory in Germanic."
• April 13
  • Thomas Allsen (Keynote speaker at Central Eurasian Studies Conference), "Skilled Hands in Motion: Technician Transfers in the Mongolian Empire." Christopher Atwood (Indiana University, CEUS), "Ulus Emirs, Seals, Marriage Partners, and Keshing Shifts; The Evolution of a Classical Mongol Institution." Aleksandr Naymark (Indiana University, CEUS), "The Barakhsha Palace." Ron Sela (Indiana University, CEUS), "Problems in Reconstructing Coronation Rituals in the Mongol Empire." Elliott Sperling (Indiana University, CEUS), "Tibetan Frontier Monasteries During the Ming." Soren Stark (Indiana University, CEUS), Nomads and Sedentary Societies in Early Medieval Central Asia."
• April 16
  • Richard M. Hogg (University of Manchester, Smith Professor of English Language and Medieval Literature), "Negative Contraction and Dialects."
• April 26-28
  • Eighth Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference with keynote speakers Susan Pintzuk (University of York), "The Syntax of Old English Poetry," and Richard M. Hogg (University of Manchester, Smith Professor of English Language and Medieval Literature) also to speak on a medieval topic.

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Fall 2000-Spring 2001

Fall 2000 Events

• October 10 (Tues.)
  • Elizabeth Clark lecture "Engendering Religious Studies," Jordan Hall A100, 7:30 p.m.
• October 12 (Thurs.)
  • Elizabeth Clark lecture "Rewriting Early Christian History," Jordan Hall A100, 7:30 p.m.
• October 18 (Wed.)
  • Carol Clover lecture "Trials, Lies, Sagas, and Movies," Ballantine Hall 228, 7:00 p.m.
• October 19 (Thurs.)
  • Early Music Institute concert, featuring the music of Guillaume de Machaut, Auer Hall, 8:00 p.m.
• November 9 (Thurs.)
  • Michael Lapidge lecture "Beowulf and Perception," Lilly Library, 4:00 p.m.
  • Jill Mann lecture "Wife-Swapping in Medieval Literature," Lilly Library, 4:00 p.m.

Spring 2001 Events

• January 22 (Monday)
  • Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski lecture "Visionary Narratives and Politics in the Later Middle Ages"
• February 19 (Monday)
  • MEST Coffee Hour with informal presentation by Jaques Merceron, BH 004, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
• February 21 (Wednesday)
  • Medieval Film Series movie "The Advocate," BH 109, 7:00 p.m.
• February 22 (Thursday)
  • Early Music Ensemble concert, Auer Hall, 8:00 p.m.
• February 27 (Tuesday)
  • Benjamin Bagby performance "Beowulf," Auer Hall, 8:00 p.m.
• March 1 (Thursday)
  • Benjamin Bagby Patten lecture "Beowulf, the Singer of Tales, and the Genesis of a Performance"
• March 1 (Thursday)
  • Call for Papers deadline for Medieval Symposium
• March 8 (Thursday)
  • Medieval Film Series movie "La Retour de Martin Guerre," Rawles 100, 7:00 p.m.
• April 19 (Thursday)
  • Medieval Film Series movie "Le Moine et la Sorciere," BH 109, 7:00 p.m.
• April 20-21 (Friday-Saturday)
  • Thirteenth Annual Medieval Symposium

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