Upcoming Med-Ren events at Columbia and beyond

The following events may be of interest to those working in medieval,
Renaissance, and early modern studies. The full list is at
www.columbia.edu/cu/medren under "events". If you wish to add to this
list, please contact Alan Stewart on ags2105@columbia.edu.

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
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 [at NYU]
NYU Early Modernities lecture series
BARBARA FUCHS (UCLA)
"Plotting Spaniards, Spanish Plots"
4-6 PM
19 University Place, Room 222, NYU
with light reception
Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature and NYUís
Humanities Initiative

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).

Monday, March 8
The Robert Branner Forum for Medieval Art
MADELINE CAVINESS
"The Material Culture of the First Written Law: Evolving Spaces and
Communities in Medieval Saxony
6:00 PM
612 Schermerhorn Hall; reception to follow
Contact: robertbrannerforum@gmail.com

Tuesday, March 9
Columbia University Book History Colloquium
MICHAEL SUAREZ (Rare Book School, Virginia)
Title tbc
6 PM
523 Butler Library
Contact: Gerald W. Cloud (gc2339@columbia.edu)

Tuesday, March 9
Columbia University Seminar in the Renaissance
LIN KELSEY (Yale)
"Meddling with Allegory: Spenser, Wordsworth and Coleridge"
RICHARD PETERSON (Connecticut-Storrs)
"The Influence of Anxiety: Spenser and Wordsworth"
Seminar at 7.30 PM; drinks at 5.45, dinner at 6.30
Faculty House
Contact: Ivan Lupic on il2177@columbia.edu

Thursday, March 11 [at Fordham]
Institute of Irish Studies at Fordham University
MICHAEL STAUNTON (University College Dublin)
"Who was St Patrick? The 'Apostle of Ireland' in History and Legend"
4 PM
Leon Lowenstein Building, Room 519, Lincoln Center Campus, Fordham
Information: Insitute of Irish Studies, 718-817-4634, estack@fordham.edu
Directions:
http://www.fordham.edu/discover_fordham/maps_and_directions_26615.asp

Thursday, March 11 and Friday March 12
The Italian Academy, Columbia University
THE POWER OF SPACE: CITIES IN LATE MEDIEVAL/EARLY MODERN ITALY AND
NORTHERN EUROPE
To view program, register, or find out more information, please visit
http://www.italianacademy.columbia.edu/events_calendar.html
or email Joanna Dee at jdd2002@columbia.edu