Events
All events are held at the Annmary Brown Memorial (21 Brown Street) at 5:30 PM and free of charge unless otherwise indicated.
The Rhode Island Medieval Circle Lectures
Fall 2011
- Thursday, Sept. 22, Margot Nishimura,
Deputy Director and Librarian, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University
"A World Alongside: Images in the Margins of Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts."
- Tuesday, October 11, David S. Areford
Associate Professor, History of Art, University of Massachusetts, Boston
"Seeing Through Tears: The Cummer Mother of Sorrows and Empathy in Detail,"
David S. Areford is the author of 'The Viewer and the Printed Image in Late Medieval Europe' (Ashgate, 2010) and co-editor (with Nina A. Rowe) of 'Excavating the Medieval Image: Manuscripts, Artists, Audiences' (Ashgate, 2004).
This talk is co-sponsored by Medieval Studies and Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
- Wednesday, Nov. 2, Joseph Pucci
Associate Professor, Classics, Comparative Literatures, Brown Uiversity
"Reading Virgil at Cassiciacum."
Spring 2012
- February 14 (note change of day), Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Professor, English, Fordhan University
"Thinking multilingually about medieval England: must we?"
This lecture uses medieval England as a test case for the differences that multilingual approaches to medieval culture can make to our sense of medieval England’s literary-visual culture and historical records
- March 8, Sara Lipton
Associate Professor History, Yale University
“The Jew in the Crowd: Surveillance and Urban Society in Late Medieval Religious Imagery”
- April 10, Emma Cayley
College of Humanities, University of Exeter
"Imag[in]ing desire in fifteenth-century French poetry and manuscript culture."
- April 19, Isabelle Cochelin
Associate Professor, History Dept and Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
"Servants' servants: The shifting invisibility of eleventh-century Cluny's famuli."
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May 3, Catherine Rider
University of Exeter
"The Church and Magic in Late Medieval England."
OTHER EVENTS CO-SPONSORED BY THE PROGRAM IN MEDIEVAL STUDIES
- Thurs. Nov. 10, 6:30 pm: Bob Ousterhout (Penn); “The Life and Afterlife of Constantine's Column.” (co-sponsored by Classics, Archaeology, and Medieval Studies)
- Sat. Nov. 12, 7 pm (Sayles Hall)
Capella Romana, Concert: “From Jerusalem to Constantinople: Byzantine Music for St. Catherine and Epiphany”
Preceded by a lecture (at 4 pm) on Byzantine Music by Alexander Lingas (City University, London)
The event is co-sponsored by the Depts. of Religious Studies, Music, Classics, History, the Programs in Early Cultures, Medieval Studies, the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, the Dean of the College Office, and the Cogut Center for the Humanities
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Religious_Studies/cram/CapellaRomanaConcert.html
AROUND BROWN
UConn Medieval Studies Lecture Series
For more information contact
Kisha G. Tracy
Program Assistant, University of Connecticut Medieval Studies Program
Medieval Studies Graduate Program, Ph.D., University of Connecticut
aquitaine1980@yahoo.com
kisha.tracy@uconn.edu