Upcoming Med-Ren events at Columbia and beyond

These details from Alan Stewart.

The following events may be of interest to those working in medieval,
Renaissance, and early modern studies. The full list for the semester
is at www.columbia.edu/cu/medren under "events"

Tuesday, February 23
Barnard Translation Studies Research Group
SONIA VELAZQUEZ (Princeton)
"Writing the Outsider: Perspectives from Spain" [on Cervantes]
6 PM
Ella Weed Room, Milbank Hall.
This event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Mellon
Foundation. Phone: (212)854-5321. Email: barnardtranslation@gmail.com

Wednesday, February 24
The Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium
DANIEL DONOGHUE (Harvard)
"Reading Poems with Anglo-Saxon Eyes"
5.30 pm
523 Butler Library
Reception to follow
Co-Sponsored by the Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Thursday, February 25 [at NYU]
NYU English Department's Colloquium on Early Languages and Cultures in
English (CELCE)
CARY HOWIE (Cornell)
"The Poetics of Praise"
6:30 PM
19 University Place, Room 222, NYU
Contact Liza Blake (liza dot blake at gmail dot com), Katie Vomero Santos
(kathryn dot vomero at gmail dot com) or Sarah Ostendorf (sco229 at
nyu dot edu).

Friday, February 26 [at CUNY]
MEDIEVAL DEVOTION: PERFORMATIVE READING AND VISUALITY
Jessica Brantley (Yale)
"Sir Thopas and the Devotional Reader"
Marlene Hennessy (Hunter College, CUNY)
"London, British Library, Egerton MS 1821 and the Late Medieval Somatic Book"
Pamela Sheingorn (CUNY Graduate Center)
"Hearing an Illuminated Manuscript: The Role of the Auditory System in
Performative Reading"
2-4 pm
Room C-202,CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave
(Wine and Cheese Reception to Follow)

Friday, February 26 [at CUNY]
The Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group of the CUNY Graduate Center
ANDREA WALKDEN (Queen's College)
"Parallel Lives and Early Modern Legacies: Crusoe and the Cavalier"
2 PM
The CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, Room 5414
A reception will follow.
Email EMIG.CUNY@gmail.com for more information.

Tuesday, March 2
Medieval Studies University Seminar
KEES SCHEPERS (University of Antwerp)
"The Arnhem Mystical Sermons and the Sixteenth-Century Mystical
Renaissance in The Low Countries"
6:00 PM
523 Butler Library. If you do not have access to the library you must RSVP
to attend: Liam Moore, (917) 847-0107 or wrm2002@columbia.edu

Wednesday, March 3 (rescheduled from February 10)
Columbia University Book History Colloquium
THIERRY RIGOGNE (Fordham)
"Writing About Coffee, Reading in Cafes: Literature and Coffeehouses
in Early Modern France"
6 PM
523 Butler Library
Contact: Gerald W. Cloud (gc2339@columbia.edu)

Thursday, March 4
The Robert Branner Forum for Medieval Art
SHEILA BONDE and CLARK MAINES
"New Excavations at the Cistercian Monastery at Ourscamp" (working title)
6:00 PM
612 Schermerhorn Hall; reception to follow
Contact: robertbrannerforum@gmail.com

Thursday, March 4
The Heyman Center for the Humanities
STEVEN SHAPIN
"The Ivory Tower: A History on an Idea about Knowledge and Politics"
6:15pm
Heyman Center for the Humanities, Second Floor Common Room

Friday, March 5 [at Rutgers]
IMAGINING THE MEDIEVAL STAGE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM
Keynote: Alan E. Knight (Pennsylvania State)
Speakers: Susannah Crowder (John Jay, CUNY); Olga Anna Duhl (Lafayette);
Laura Weigert (Rutgers); 9 AM-1 PM
Rutgers University, Alexander Library, Teleconference Lecture Hall (4th floor)
169 College Avenue, New Brunswick
Sponsored by the Transliteratures Project, the Programs in Medieval
Studies and
Early Modern Studies, and the Departments of Art History and French.
The symposium is free and open to the public. For directions to the
Teleconference Lecture Hall at Alexander Library, please see:
http://maps.rutgers.edu/building.aspx?id=17.
For further information, please contact Laura Weigert
(weigert@rci.rutgers.edu) or Ana Pairet (apairet@rci.rutgers.edu)