Institute Events & Announcements

March 29-31, 2012

Vagantes 2012: The Annual Traveling Graduate Conference of the Medieval Academy of America

35 student presenters, representing 22 institutions across the U.S., Canada, and Europe, will come together to share ideas, make connections, and enjoy all Bloomington has to offer, including tours of the Lilly Library and the IU Art Museum, and a concert by the Early Music Institute. Participants will be invited to attend the annual Reader’s Circle, an evening of camaraderie, conviviality and recitation in medieval tongues. Our keynote speakers will be Shannon Gayk, Associate Professor of English at Indiana University, and Jordan L. Zweck, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

For more information, see the conference website here, and the full program here.

The whole conference is free and open to the public, but registration by March 5, 2012, is required.

Monday, February 27

Lecture and Graduate Workshop by Professor Steven Kruger: “Conversion Timing”

Professor Kruger's talk will take up questions about the temporality of medieval conversion narratives, considering how these complicate straightforward chronology and ideas of supersession with multiple and sometimes contradictory movements that show time standing still, repeating itself, deferring completion, completed before it begins (and so forth). In developing this argument, he will examine both writings by medieval converts and third-person representations of conversion experience (e.g., the Early South English Legendary Life of Mary Magdalene).

The graduate workshop, "Exegesis as Autobiography," will take place over lunch.
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Other Medieval
Events of Interest

March 9-10, 2012

Christianity and Culture in the Middle Ages

A conference to honor John Van Engen's 35 years of teaching at Notre Dame. Speakers will include: Giles Constable, William Courtenay, Susan Einbinder, Dyan Elliott, Roy Hammerling, Daniel Hobbins, William Chester Jordan, Ruth Mazo Karras, Richard Kieckhefer, Lezlie Knox, Rachel Koopmans, Robert Lerner, Bernard McGinn, David Mengel, Maureen C. Miller, Walter Simons, and Lisa Wolverton.

See the Conference flyer here.
Register here