October 9 @ University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Performance Speakers: Rob Barrett (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Emma Dillon (University of Pennsylvania), Chara Armon December 11 @ Princeton Theological Seminary Topic: Manuscripts Speakers: Keith Busby (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Sally Poor (Princeton University), Theresa K. Nevins (University of Delaware)
February 26 at the University of Pennsylvania (Van Pelt Library)
Topic: The Medieval Bible
Speakers: Theresa Gross-Diaz (Loyola University-Chicago), Dorothy Shepard (Pratt Institute), plus a visit to Penn’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library
April 16 @ St. Joseph’s University
Topic: The Future of the Past: Graduate Student Papers
Speakers: Benjamin Anderson, Bryn Mawr College; Jeanne-Marie Musto, Bryn Mawr College; Alex Novikoff, University of Pennsylvania; Manu Radhakrishnan, Princeton University; Jonathan Hsy, University of Pennsylvania A List of Speakers and Topics from 1979-2004 can be downloaded here .
October 1 @ University of Pennsylvania
Topic: “Navigating Seas and Sanctuary”
Organizer: Ann Matter, University of Pennsylvania
Speakers:
– Martin Connell (Saint John’s University, Minnesota), “The Liturgy of Aquileia”
– Alan Stahl (Princeton University), “The Codex of Michael of Rhodes, a Fifteenth-century Mariner in Service to Venice”
December 10 @ Princeton Theological Seminary
Topic: Language and Literature
Organizer: Paul Rorem, Princeton Theological Seminary
Speakers:
-Nadia R. Altschul (Johns Hopkins University), “Editing the Vernaculars: A ‘Fourth Way’ for Medieval Editorial Philology?”
– Israel Burshatin (Haverford College), “‘Will the Real Heretic Please Stand Up’: Voice and Presence in Inquisition Sources”
– Evelyn (Timmie) Birge Vitz (New York University),”A Medieval ‘Rasa-esque’ Performance Esthetics: Hommage to Richard Schechner”
February 18 @ Bryn Mawr College
Organizer: Elaine Beretz, Bryn Mawr College
Speakers:
– Larry Nees (University of Delaware) “Weaving Garnets: Thoughts about Two “Excessively Rare” Belt Mounts from Sutton Hoo”
– Cristina Maria Cervone (Villanova University), “Lilies, Charters, and Incarnational Poetics”
– Kathleen Biddick (Temple University), “The Cut of the Archive: The King’s Second Jewish Body”
April 22 @ Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department
Topic: Turning Over a New Leaf: Current Research Related to the Medieval Collections of the Free Library of Philadelphia
Speakers:
– Anna Russakoff (Free Library of Philadelphia), “The Allure of the Leaf: The Artistic Taste of Illuminated Manuscript Collector John Frederick Lewis (1860-1932)”
– Nadezhda Karvus-Hoffmann (Independent Scholar), “An Epic Translation: Selections from the Free Library’s Portion of a ca. 1598-99 Mughal Razmnama”
– Adelaide Bennett (Princeton University), “The Artistic-historical Context of a Thirteenth-century North French Psalter: Widener Ms 9”
– Gerald B. Guest (John Carroll University), “Praying the Psalms in the Lewis Psalter: The Rubrics, the Initials, and the Work of Decoration”
– William G. Noel (The Walters Art Museum), “Master of the Miniature: William de Brailes and the Illustration of Biblical History”
– Consuelo W. Dutschke (Columbia University), “The Choirbook Redevivus: New Evidence in the Free Library of Philadelphia”
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)
October 6 @ University of Pennsylvania
Speakers:
– Kathleen Andersen-Weyman (Barzoport College), “Andreas Capellanus and Medieval Concepts of Self”
– Edward Peters (University of Pennsylvania), “The Lady Vanishes: Gervaise of Tilbury on Heresy and Wonders’
December 8 @ Princeton University
Organizers: Elaine Beretz, Bryn Mawr College, and Gregory Moule
Speakers:
– David Peterson (Washington and Lee University0, “Religion and the Church in Renaissance Italy”
– Thomas Izbicki (Rutgers University), “Defending a Conservative View on Witches: Cardinal Juan de Torquemada OP on the canon Episcopi [C. 26 q. 5 c. 12]”
– Caroline Walker Bynum (Institute for Advanced Studies), “Matter and Miracles”
February 16 @ Lutheran Theological Seminary at Phildelphia
Organizers: Donald Duclow, Gwynedd-Mercy College, and Elaine Beretz, Bryn Mawr College
Speakers:
– David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania), “Discovering Margery Kempe”
– Ljubomir Milanovic (Rutgers University), “Advertising the Body: Translatio of St. Stephen and the Fresco Cycle in the Church of San Lorenzo fuori le mura in Rome”
– Marcia Colish (Yale University), “The Book of the Gentile and the Three Sages: Ramon Llull as Anselm of Canterbury Redevivus?”
April 26 @ University of Delaware: Joint meeting of the DVMA and the University of Delaware Medieval-Renaissance Colloquium Topic: Papers on English Medieval Literature, History and Art in Honor of Mary P. Richards Organizer: Lawrence Nees, University of Delaware Speakers:
Laura Cochrane (University of Delaware), “‘Where There Is No Time:’ The Quadrivium and Images of Eternity”
Lisa Letau (University of Delaware), The Cloud of Unknowing: The Individual Reaching for God”
Kathleen Davis (Princeton University), “How English Law Has Been Written: Collection, Translation, and Tailoring in the 11th- and 12th Centuries”
Dorothy Shepherd (Pratt Institute), “Anglo-Norman Manuscript Production in Canterbury”
September 27 @ University of Pennsylvania, University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Organizer: Lawrence Nees, University of Delaware Speakers:
Richard Hodges (Williams Director, University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania), “Rethinking S. Vincenzo al Volturno and the Plan of St. Gall”
Alan Gaylord (Winkley Professor of English, emeritus, Dartmouth College; Senior Scholar, English, Princeton University; Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania), “Medieval Literature and Medieval Readers: Performed Out Loud or Imagined by Single Readers?”
December 13 @ Princeton University Organizer: Lawrence Nees, University of Delaware Speakers:
Julia Smith (University of Glasgow; visiting member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton), “Rulers and Relics in the Early Middle Ages”
Erik Thun? (Rutgers University), “The Early Medieval Apse: Observations on Liturgy and Reception”
Mary Morse (Rider University), “Julitta and Quiricus: Childbirth Protectors in Medieval English Manuscripts and Devotional Traditions”
February 11 @ Rider University Topic: The Hidden and Revealed in Medieval and Early Modern Culture Speakers:
Linda Carreiro (University of Calgary), “Revealing the Anatomical Body: Inscriptions within Early Modern Dissection Culture”
Timothy McCall (Villanova University), “The Signore Hidden and Revealed: the Coretto of Pier Maria Rossi of Parma”
Joseph Salvatore Ackley (New York University), “Increasingly Improper: 13th and 14th Century Manuscript Illuminations of Biblical Sodomite”
Matthew Boyd Goldie (Rider University), “The Global South of Medieval Maps”
Dominick Finello (Rider University), Cultural Landscapes and Esthetic Norms in the Quijote”
Geoffrey Shamos ( University of Pennsylvania), “A Crucial Divide: Visions of Zechariah in the Hortus Deliciarum, fols. 64v. and 65r”
Nick Welding (Georgia State University), “Unmasking the World: Galileo and Authorship”
Laura Levine (New York University), “Magic and Counter-magic: Spectacles of Visibility”
Robert J. Dobie (LaSalle University), “The Hidden and the Revealed in Medieval Philosophy”
Keynote Ingrid Rowland (Notre Dame’s School of Architecture in Rome), “The Secret World of Athanasius Kircher”
April 19 @ The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Organizer: Lynn Ransom, University of Pennsylvania Speakers:
David Reynolds (Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University), The Roman de la Rose Digital Library
Stephen Nichols (Johns Hopkins University), Digital Humanities: New Challenges
Giles Constable (Institute for Advanced Study), Cluny and Rome
Martha Easton (Bryn Mawr College), Nudity and Dress in the Belles Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry
September 26 @ University of Pennsylvania Organizer: Lynn Ransom, University of Pennsylvania Speakers:
Erik Knibbs (University of Pennsylvania), “The First Seven Miracles Performed by Aldhelm of Malmesbury”
Martin Foys (Drew University), “The Digital Mappaemundi Project: Making the World more than Word”
Round-table Discussion with Kathleen E. Kennedy (Penn State University-Brandywine) & Paul Patterson (St. Joseph’s University) on “Reforming the Reformation of the Book: A Report on the recent NEH Seminar ‘Reformation of the Book'”
December 12 @ Princeton University Organizer: Matt Shoaf, Ursinus College Speakers:
Colum Hourihane (Index of Christian Art), “The Irish High Crosses – A New Interpretation”
Emily Zazulia (University of Pennsylvania), “Corps contre corps, voix contre voix: Conflicting Codes of Discourse in the Late Fifteenth-Century Combinative Chanson” WINNER OF THE GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER PRIZE
Robert Hollander (Princeton University), “Dante’s Problematic Cato the Younger: Purgatory I& II”
February 21 @ Bryn Mawr College Topic: Translatio and Translation in Medieval Europe Organizer: Ellie Truit, Bryn Mawr College Speakers:
Maud McInerney (Haverford College), “Hector in the Alabaster Chamber: Translating History in the Medieval Troy Story”
Jennifer Borland (Oklahoma State University and Penn Humanities Forum), “Accessing Health in the Regime du corps”
Jamie Taylor (Bryn Mawr College), “From Mouth to Page: William Langland’s Testimonial Book”
Nicholas Watson (Harvard University), “Work in Progress: The Thirteenth-Century Pastoral Revolution and the Making of Lay Identity”
April 17 @ Temple University Organizer: Montserrat Piera, Temple University Speakers:
Susan Einbinder (Hebrew College), “Seeing the Blind: On Misreadings of the Medieval Jewish Past”
Ronald Surtz (Princeton University), “The Perils of Female Writing in Late Medieval Valencia”
Kathleen Biddick (Temple University), “Dead Neighbors: The Sovereignty of Miracles”
Meetings held in 2010-2011
April 9 @ Temple University Topic: Performing Medieval Women
Organizer: Montserrat Piera (Temple University)
Speakers:
• Margaret Schaus (Haverford College), “When Adam Delved and Eve Span”: Taking Account of Women and Gender”
• Jessica Van Oort (Temple University), “The Wound of the Left Foot”: Agnes Blannbekin’s Theory and Practice of Sacred Performance and Dance”
• Ruth Mazo Karras (University of Minnesota), “Why did Medieval Women Want to Get Married?”
• Geoffrey Gust (Temple University), “Performing the Middle Ages: Cinematic Frames, Gender Games, and the Theater of Medieval Studies”
Feb. 26 @ Rutgers University Topic: From England to Byzantium: Geography, Manuscripts and Architecture in the Middle Ages
Organizer: Erik Thuno
Speakers: • Matthew Goldie (Rider University), “England’s Insularity in the Late Middle Ages: Theoretical and Material Geographies” • Robert Maxwell (University of Pennsylvania), “Illuminating Absence: Signatures and Signs on Romanesque Charters” • Jeanette Patterson (Johns Hopkins University), “Stolen Scriptures: The Wartime Politics of Owning the Bible Historiale” (Winner of the Graduate Student Paper Award) • Jelena Trkulja (Princeton University), “Hidden Revelations: Semiotics of Byzantine Architecture”
December 11 @ Princeton University Topic: Contemplation, Image and History in the Middle Ages Organizer: Colum P. Hourihane, Princeton University Speakers: • Lynn Ransom (Lawrence J. Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts), “The Stein Quadriptych and the Pictorial Vita Christi Tradition in the Late Middle Ages” • Don C. Skemer (Princeton University), “English Genealogical Chronicle Rolls and their Readers” • Constance Bouchard (University of Akron), “The Twelfth Century Contemplates Its Merovingian Past” • Karl Morrison (Rutgers University), ” ‘The image of God is one thing; what is contemplated in the image is another’: Paradoxes of Art and the Self” • Katrin Kogman-Appel (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), “Women with Books in Medieval Jewish Art: Female Education and (Il)literacy from Cairo to Worms” • Michael Curschmann (Princeton University), “Integrating Anselm: Pictures, Inscriptions and Music in a 12th-Century Manuscript of His Prayers and Meditations” September 11 @ Free Library of Philadelphia Topic: Transmedieval Techne Organizer: Kathleen Biddick, Temple University Speakers:
Larry Scanlon (English-Rutgers), “The Premodern Real”
Kathleen E. Kennedy (English- PSU Brandywine), “Transmedieval IT: The Law”
Margaret Mullett (Director of Byzantine Studies-Dumbarton Oaks), “A Life of Bliss: Positioning Byzantine Studies in the 21st Century”
Catherine Conybeare (Classics-Bryn Mawr), “Postmodern Positivism: On Techne & Text Editing”