Medieval Studies Events, Fall 2009

Thursday, 24 September, at 5:30 p.m. in Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, L160:
Jacqueline Jung (Yale University, Art History), "The Tactile and the Visionary: Notes on the Place of Sculpture in the Medieval Religious Imagination."
Art History Grad Forum Visiting Scholar Lecture. Organized by Art History





Friday, 25 September, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon in Conrad A. Elvehjem Buiding, L170:
Jacqueline Jung, workshop on medieval sculpture and the senses for graduate students.
Organized by Art History





Friday, 9 October, at 4 p.m in Helen C. White 7191:
Christopher Baswell (Columbia University/ Barnard, English), "Kings and Cripples: Royal and Eccentric Bodies in Medieval England."
Lecture organized by "Corpus: Premodern Books and Bodies," a workshop sponsored by the Center for the Humanities (with funding from the A.W. Mellon Foundation and the Helen C. White Fund)

Tuesday, 27 October, at 5 p.m. in Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room TBA:
Jeffrey Hamburger (Harvard University, Art History), "The Hand of God and the Hand of the Scribe: Craft, Collaboration and Inspiration in the Arnstein Bible."
Lecture organized by "Corpus: Premodern Books and Bodies," a workshop sponsored by the Center for the Humanities (with funding from the A.W. Mellon Foundation and the Helen C. White Fund), and co-sponsored by Art History

Thursday, 29 October, at 5:30 p.m. in Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, room TBA:
John Onians (University of East Anglia), "Art History and Neuro-Science."
To be followed by a workshop focusing on application of neuro-science to research on late antique/early medieval art. Organized by Art History

Monday, 2 November, 5 p.m-6. p.m in Conrad A. Elvehjem Buiding, Room TBA:
The Premodern Outloud. Bhaba Brinkman, "The Rap Canterbury Tales."

This event will be preceded at 4 p.m by a lecture on the Canterbury Tales by Professor Lisa Cooper (UW-Madison, English) .
Event sponsored by the Year of the Humanities Committee, the Medieval Studies Program, the Center for Early Modern and Renaissance Studies, and the Department of English

Monday, 4 December:
The Premodern Outloud. John Basinger's performance of Paradise Lost.
Event sponsored by the Year of the Humanities Committee, the Medieval Studies Program, the Center for Early Modern and Renaissance Studies, and the Department of English

 

Spring 2010

 

Wednesday, 27 January, at 4 p.m:
Carrie Roy (UW Madison, Scandinavian Studies), Title TBA.
Lecture organized by "Corpus: Premodern Books and Bodies," a workshop sponsored by the Center for the Humanities (with funding from the A.W. Mellon Foundation and the Helen C. White Fund)

Wednesday, 10 February:
Karl Shoemaker (UW Madison, History), "The Devil's Advocate: Justice, Grace and Tearful Supplication in Medieval Law."
Lecture organized by "Corpus: Premodern Books and Bodies," a workshop sponsored by the Center for the Humanities (with funding from the A.W. Mellon Foundation and the Helen C. White Fund)

Friday, ** February:
Rachel Fulton (University of Chicago, History), lecture on Marian devotion and prayer books.
Lecture organized by "Corpus: Premodern Books and Bodies," a workshop sponsored by the Center for the Humanities (with funding from the A.W. Mellon Foundation and the Helen C. White Fund)

Friday/Saturday, 4-5 March:
Symposium on Objects and Multi-Sensory Experience in the West from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern.
Speakers include Eric Palazzo (Centre d'études supérieures de civilisation médiévale), Pamela Sheingorn (CUNY Graduate Center, New York), Bissera Pentcheva (Stanford University), Kellie Robertson (UW-Madison), Thomas Dale (UW-Madison), and others soon to be announced. Organized by Art History

Tuesday, 6 April, at 5 p.m.:
Ruth Mazo Karras (University of Minnesota, History/ Medieval Studies), "Policing Sex in Late Medieval London and Paris."
Inaugural Lecture in UW-Madison's Medieval Studies Faculty Exchange with the University of Minnesota. Sponsored by Medieval Studies

Tuesday, 20 April:
Cynthia Robinson (Cornell University), "Birds, Thrones and Blinding Light: 'Misticismos Encontrados' Between the Nasrid Sultanate of Granada and the Christian Kingdom of Castile."
Organized by the Department of Spanish and Portugese (co-sponsored by Art History and Medieval Studies)