September 23 @ University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Instruments of War
Organizer:  Alison Williams Lewin, St. Joseph’s University

 

 

Speakers: 

 

 

– William Caffaro (Vanderbilt University), “Warfare and the Economy of Late Medieval Italy”

 

 

– Ida Sinkevic (Lafayette University), “ Art and Armor in Post-Medieval Europe”

 

 


December 2 @ Princeton University
Topic: Celebrating Newcomers

 

 

Organizers:  Elaine Beretz, Bryn Mawr College and Sally Poor, Princeton University

 

 

Speakers:

 

 

– Jessica Goldberg (University of Pennsylvania), “Whose Mediterranean? The Merchants of Cairo and the Coming of the Romans”

 

 

– Nino Zchomelidse (Princeton University), “Materiality versus Mimesis? The Medieval Image and Conceepts of Authenticity”

 

– Jamie Taylor (Bryn Mawr College), “Curiositas, Travel, and the Book of Margery Kempe”

 

 

February 24 @ St. Joseph’s University
Topic:  Seeing and Hearing
Organizer:  Elaine Beretz, Bryn Mawr College

 

 

Speakers:

 

 

– Robert Ousterout (University of Pennsylvania), “Icons in Space: The Art of Kariye Camii”

 

 

– Stephen Wright (Catholic University of America), “Picturing Performance: The Chatsworth Manuscript and Practical Stagecraft”

 

 

– Peter Jeffery (Princeton University), “’To Thee be Silent Praise’: The Ears of the Heart, the Affections of the Spirit”

 

 

April 21 @ Glencairn Museum

 

 

Organizer:  Donald Duclow, Gwynedd-Mercy College

 

 

Speakers:

 

 

– Susan L. Ward (Rhode Island School of Design), “The Glencairn Queen from Provins: Defining Romanesque and Gothic”

 

 

– Thomas Waldman (University of Pennsylvania), “ Suger’s Additions to the Altar Charles the Bald Gave to Saint-Denis”

 

 

– Tour of Glemcairn’s medieval collections with Michael Cothren (Swarthmore College) and Robert Maxwell (University of Pennsylvania)