Medieval Studies Events: Fall 2007

• 18-20 October 2007: Major conference, "Al-Andalus: Cultural Diffusion and Hybridity in Iberia (1000-1600)." More information available on the conference website.

• 16-20 October 2007: "Legacies of Al-Andalus: Islam, Judaism, and the West." A series of presentations by leading writers, scholars, and artists on the legacies in the modern world of "Al-Andalus," the Muslim kingdom on the Spanish peninsula from 800 to 1492. For a detailed schedule and more information, see Center for the Humanities website .

• 26 October 2007, 10:30 a.m.: Roundtable with Paul Strohm for faculty and graduate students, 7101 Helen C. White. Suggested readings before this event: "York's Paper Crown: 'Bare Life' and Shakespeare's First Tragedy" (2006), "Sovereignty and Sewage" (in press)

• 26 October 2007, 4 p.m.: Public lecture by Paul Strohm (Columbia University)-- "Conscience: From Piers Plowman to Henry VIII," 6191 Helen C. White.

  NOVEMBER

• 16 November 2007, 4 p.m.: Illustrated public lecture by Chris Kleinhenz (Emeritus Professor of Italian, UW-Madison)-- "New Light on Dante: The Discovery of the Lost Letters" (a sequel to his famous comic lecture on the autograph manuscript of the Divine Comedy), 104 Van Hise.

  DECEMBER

• 6 December 2007, 3:30 p.m.: Public lecture by Charles Faulhaber (University of California, Berkeley)-- "PhiloBiblon, Past, Present, Future: History of a Research Project," 120 Ingraham. Reception follows in 1066 Van Hise.

  Medieval Studies Events: Spring 2008

  MARCH

• Friday, 7 March 2008, 4:00 p.m.: Informal colloquium on 12th-century charters and other legal documents, with two speakers-- Rick Keyser (medieval historian at Western Kentucky and a current fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities), "Love Surpasses Law: A Twelfth-Century Legal Idea in Context," and Nick Doane (emeritus professor of English at UW-Madison), "Documenting the Death of Old English: the King's English and the Monks' Last Tape." Memorial Library room 126.

• Thursday, 27 March 2008, 5:30 p.m.: Public lecture by Hanns Hubach (University of Zurich)-- "Matthias Grunewald's 'Lamentation of Christ' and the Veneration of the Holy Sepulcher in Aschaffenburg," L150 Elvehjem. This event is jointly sponsored by Medieval Studies, Art History, and Religious Studies. Reception follows in 7191 H. C. White.
  (In this lecture Hubach situates this celebrated masterpiece by Grunewald in its original religious and ritual contexts, arguing that the Lamentation originally formed the front of a so-called Heiliggrabtruhe --a painted coffin designed to temporarily hold a sculpture of the dead Christ and a host to commemorate the burial and resurrection of Christ.)

  APRIL

• Thursday, 10 April 2008, 7:00 p.m.: Public lecture by Marianne Kalinke (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) on "Cultural Transfer in the Norse World: The Case of Klari saga." 7191 Helen C. White Hall.

• Thursday, 17 April 2008, 5 p.m.: Public lecture by Amy Eichhorn-Mulligan (faculty member at the University of Memphis, currently a Solmsen Fellow at the Humanities Institute) on "Mother Ireland becomes King: Women, Power and Sovereignty in Medieval Ireland." Memorial Library room 126.

  MAY

• Thursday, 1 May through Sunday, 4 May 2008: Annual Conference 14 of the Society for Germanic Linguistics. See GLAC website for conference program and further information.

• Friday, 16 May and Saturday, 17 May 2008: Major conference at the Pyle Center, marking the retirement of William Courtenay, Hilldale Professor and C. H. Haskins Professor of History: "Crossing Boundaries at Medieval Universities: Intellectual Moments, Academic Disciplines and Societal Conflict." Conference program: View pdf.