MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE EVENTS AT COLUMBIA AND BEYOND

Monday, October 22 UPenn

The Orthodox Christian Studies Center Presents
The Internal Lives of Biblical Figures in Early Byzantine Christian Hymns

Prof. Derek Krueger Derek (North American Byzantine Studies Association and co-editor for the Divinations Monograph Series at UPenn)
Monday, Oct. 22 at 3:30-4:30 pm
in the O'Hare Special Collections room on the fourth floor of Duane Library

Derek will speak to grad students about the state of the field in early and medieval Christianity at 3-4:30.  He will then give a public lecture at 5:15 pm in the O'Hare Room. 
All are welcome to attend.
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Tuesday, October 23 Columbia University

Curatorial Discoveries: New and Newly Found in the Rare Book and
Manuscript Library
https://alumni-friends.library.columbia.edu/content/alumnifriends/news/curatorialdiscoveries.html
6-8pm
Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 6th floor Butler Library, Columbia
University
535 W. 114th St.
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Tuesday, October 23 Hunter College

Miraculous Plagues: An Epidemiology of Early New England Narrative (Oxford University Press)

Cristobal Silva (Columbia University)

October 23 at 7:30pm
Faculty and Staff Lounge, Hunter College
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Tuesday October 23 Princeton

Wealth and Power in Early Renaissance Venice: The Condulmer Family

Alan Stahl, Curator of Numismatics, Princeton University
Tuesday October 23rd,  6 PM
209 Scheide-Caldwell House, Princeton University

Please note that pizza and beer will also be provided at the start of the lecture.

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Tuesday October 23, Princeton University
Providence, Politics, and the Wind: Hurricanes in the Shaping of the Early Modern Caribbean
Lecture 1 of 3: Winds and God in a Spanish Sea

Stuart B. Schwartz
Tuesday, October 23
4:30 p.m. E. Pyne 010

A reception will follow–RSVP not needed

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Tuesday October 23, NYU

What´s the Worst Thing You Can Do to Shakespeare?
Tuesday October 23, 6:30-8:30
19 University Place, Room 222.

Visit here for more details: http://marc.as.nyu.edu/object/marc.events.ls.rburt
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Wednesday October 24, Columbia University

Panel discussion and book release party for The Best European Fiction 2013 anthology
and the first of ongoing regular events co-sponsored by the Columbia
RBML and the Dalkey Archive Press

http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/book/?GCOI=15647100059750

5-8pm with official program from 6-7pm
Butler Library Room 523, Columbia University
535 W. 114th St.
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Wednesday October 24, Columbia University

Feeding the Ear with the Spices of Vision: Synesthesia and the Depiction of Medieval Reading

Joyce Coleman, University of Oklahoma
5:30-7:00pm in Room 2 of Faculty House (Columbia University)

The talk will be followed by dinner at Faculty House at 7 pm. All those who wish to dine with the speaker after the talk must make reservations by contacting the rapporteur of the seminar, Jeffrey Wayno, either by phone or by email no later than one week before the talk. Phone: 607-342-5737; Email: jmw2202@columbia.edu

Dinner is a fixed buffet menu, which costs $25 per person. Payment can be made to the rapporteur by cash or check, although checks are strongly preferred. Please make checks out to "Columbia University."
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Wednesday October 24, Princeton University

Providence, Politics, and the Wind: Hurricanes in the Shaping of the Early Modern Caribbean
Lecture 2 of 3: Melancholy Occasions: Empires At Risk and the Community of Calamity

Stuart B. Schwartz
Wednesday, October 24
4:30 p.m. E. Pyne 010

A reception will follow–RSVP not needed
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Thursday October 25, Princeton University

Lingua Franca: Muslims, Christians and Interconfessional Communication in the Medieval Mediterranean

Professor Karla Mallette, University of Michigan
4:30pm, October 25th, 2012
219 Aaron Burr Hall
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Thursday October 25, Princeton University

Providence, Politics, and the Wind: Hurricanes in the Shaping of the Early Modern Caribbean
Lecture 3: Cursed Be Your Isles and Cursed Your Institutions: Revolutions, Slavery, and the Politics of Disaster

Stuart B. Schwartz
Thursday, October 25
4:30 p.m. E. Pyne 010

A reception will follow–RSVP not needed
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Monday October 29 Columbia University

Spiritual Secrecy and the Regulation of Secrets in Anglo-Saxon Monasticism

Benjamin Saltzman (University of California, Berkeley)
Monday, October 29th
2:40 pm at Columbia University
511 Hamilton Hall
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Monday October 29 Columbia University

Prof. Manuel Castiñeiras, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

“Cleric or Layman:  Literacy, Learning, and the Biography of Artists in Twelfth-Century Catalonia and Tuscany”
Place:  TBA
5:30-6:30

Sponsored by the Spanish and History of Art Departments
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Wednesday October 31, Columbia University

Jeanne-Marie Boivin (Université Paris-Est Créteil)

Wednesday, October 31, 5-6 pm
Philosophy Hall 507 or Maison Française upstairs
Des « Petits Ésopes » à La Fontaine : les premières fables en français

Since space is limited in 507 Philosophy Hall, send an email to Sylvie Lefevre  sl3002@columbia.edu if you are considering attending this conference. Beyond 15 people, the event will be Moved to French House, upstairs.
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Friday November 2, CUNY
Medieval Club of New York Presents
“Late Medieval Spirituality and…”, a panel with Andrew Cole, Princeton University; Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, University of Pittsburgh; and Katherine Smith, New York University
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue,
in the English Department Lounge, RM 4406 at 7:30 p.m.
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Crossing Borders:  Manuscripts from the Bodleian Library

September 14, 2012 -- February 3, 2013

The Jewish Museum, 1109 5th Avenue, New York

Over 50 stunning medieval manuscripts from England's renowned Bodleian Library highlight the role of Hebrew books as a meeting place of cultures in the Middles Ages.  The majority of these Hebrew, Arabic and Latin manuscripts, many brilliantly illustrated, are being shown in the United States for the first time.