Upcoming MedRen 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 know of any other
events, please contact Alan Stewart on ags2105@columbia.edu.
Monday, March 29 [at Rutgers]
Rutgers' Program in Medieval Studies
KRISTIN BLIKSRUD AAVITSLAND (University of Oslo)
"Visual Orders? A discussion on ornament and iconography in Romanesque art"
4:30 p.m.
Voorhees Hall Graduate Student Lounge (basement), College Avenue Campus
(co-sponsored by the Department of Art History)
For directions or parking information, contact Samantha Kelly at
Samantha.kelly@rutgers.edu
Monday, March 29 [at NYU]
TOM PETTITT (University of Southern Denmark)
"In Quest of the Ballad: Anglo-Scandinavian Perspectives"
5:00PM
NYU, 19 University Place (just below 8th St), 1st floor, "Great Room"
Monday, March 29 [at Rutgers]
Rutgers' Program in Medieval Studies
SEETA CHAGANTI (University of California at Davis)
"Figure and Ground: Elene's Nails, Cynewulf's Runes, and Hrabanus Maurus's
Painted Poems"
6:00 p.m.
Murray Hall room 302, College Avenue Campus
(co-sponsored by the Department of English and Anglo-Saxon Studies)
For directions or parking information, contact Samantha Kelly at
Samantha.kelly@rutgers.edu
Monday, March 29
Columbia Early Modern Seminar
HEATHER DUBROW (Fordham)
"'Nor is here one single here": Lyric Immediacy and/or The Early
Modern Sonnet"
6:15PM
201D Philosophy Hall
Contact: Alan Stewart ags2105@columbia.edu
Tuesday, March 30 [at NYU]
NYU Medieval & Renaissance Center
TOM PETTITT (University of Southern Denmark)
"Folklore and Medieval Performance Culture: Confronting the Chapbook Barrier"
4:30-6:15 PM
13-19 University Place, room 228
Contact MARC at 212-998-8698 or mar.center@nyu.edu
Tuesday, March 30 [at Barnard]
Barnard Center for Translation Studies
MARKO MILETICH (Hunter College)
"Gender in Translation: Perspectives on Strong Women"
(concerning problems of translation in Cervantes' *Don Quixote*
6 pm
Ella Weed Room, 223 Milbank Hall, Barnard College.
Refreshments will be served.
For a map of the Barnard campus: http://www.barnard.edu/visitors/barnard.html
THE FOLLOWING EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED:
Wednesday, March 31
A Medieval Conversation
JOEL KAYE (Barnard) and PAUL STROHM (Columbia)
6:00-7:30 PM
Room 208 of the Diana Center on the Barnard campus (to the left of the
2nd floor elevators)
Wednesday, Thursday, April 1
The Robert Branner Forum for Medieval Art and Architecture
JUERGEN SCHULZ
"Communal Palaces of Northern Italy"
6:00 PM
612 Schermerhorn
Thursday, April 1 [at NYU]
The Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium
Forum of discussion with
EILEEN A. JOY (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville)
"Always Historicize?: Historicism, Post-Historicism, and Medieval Studies"
Panel includes: Patricia Dailey (Columbia), Daniel Remein (NYU) and
Karl Steel (CUNY-Brooklyn)
Reception 6:00 PM, Forum 6.30 PM
New York University, 13-19 University Place, room 222
For suggested reading and further information, contact Mo Pareles
Monday, April 5
The Heyman Center for the Humanities
PETER BURKE
"The Republic of Letters: Survival or Revival?"
6:15PM
Heyman Center for the Humanities, Second Floor Common Room
Tuesday, April 6
Columbia University Book History Colloquium
IVAN LUPIC (Columbia)
"Shakespeare, Milton, and the Battle of the Books
6 PM
523 Butler Library
Contact: Gerald W. Cloud (gc2339@columbia.edu)
Tuesday, April 6
The New York Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers and
the New York Academy of Medicine's Rare Book Room and Historical Collections
SYLVIE MERIAN (Morgan Library & Museum)
"Protection Against the Evil Eye? Votive Offerings on Armenian
Manuscript Bindings"
6:00PM - 8:30PM The New York Academy of Medicine Library, 1216 Fifth
Avenue and 103rd St
NYAM Library Reading Room, 3rd floor
This event sponsored by: The Guild of Book Workers, New York Chapter and
The New York Academy of Medicine Library Historical Collections
To register, please call Erin Albritton at 212-822-7364 or email
ealbritton@nyam.org
Suggested donation of $5.00 will be collected at the door
Thursday, April 8
The Robert Branner Forum
WILLIAM CLARK and TOM WALDMAN
"Rereading Abbot Suger on Saint-Denis"
6:00 PM
612 Schermerhorn Hall; reception to follow
Contact: robertbrannerforum@gmail.com
Thursday, April 8 [at NYU]
NYU English Department Colloquium for Early Literature and Culture in English
ELEANOR JOHNSON (Columbia)
"Feeling Time: Prose Aesthetics in The Cloud of Unknowing
6:30 PM
Room 224, 19 University Place, NYU; photo ID needed for visitors
Contact: Liza Blake elizabeth.blake@nyu.edu, Katie Vomero Santos
kathryn.vomero@nyu.edu
or Sarah Ostendrof sco229@nyu.edu
Friday, April 9
JORGE CANIZARES-ESGUERRA (University of Texas at Austin)
"Between the Heart of Christ and the Heart of Mary:
The Global Jesuit Mission in Quito ca. 1750"
4pm
622 Dodge Hall
Friday, April 9 [at CUNY]
Medieval Club of New York
Twentieth Annual Russell Hope Robbins Lecture
ROBERT MILLS (King's College London)
"Vezelay, Counterpleasure, and the Sex Lives of Monks: Experiences in
Translation"
Respondent: CAROLYN DINSHAW (New York University)
7:30 PM, followed by reception
Room 4406 (English Program Lounge), CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue
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