DVMA Fall 2023 Meeting, December 6, 2023, 3:15PM-5:00PM

The Fall Meeting of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association takes place on Wednesday, December 6, 2023; 3:15pm-5:00pm. This virtual speaker session features Isabella Weiss, Albert Kohn, and Reyhan Durmaz, the 2023 DVMA Prizes and Awards recipients. The meeting is co-sponsored by CHAT Premodern Research Forum at Temple University. A business meeting of the DVMA will be scheduled separately.

• Isabella Weiss (Rutgers University, Art History): “‘Portable Meadows’: Verdure Textiles and Living Turf in Fifteenth-Century Franco-Flemish Court Culture.” DVMA Travel Grant
  
  
• Albert Kohn (Princeton University, History): “The Reception of Gamaliel in the Medieval Latin West (1000-1350).” DVMA Paper Prize 
  
  
• Reyhan Durmaz (University of Pennsylvania, Religious Studies): “Visualizing Countryside,” a photograph archive of Orthodox Syriac churches and monasteries in south-east Turkey. DVMA Digital Project Prize

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Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference at Villanova University, Oct. 21-23, 2022

The International Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Conference is an annual academic conference bringing together keynote speakers and scholars from around the world and across the country. This three-day event has been held since the mid-1970s and is a true tradition of scholarship.

October 21 – 23, 2022 at The Inn at Villanova
Theme:  Through the Cross

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

2022 Princeton Medieval & Early Modern Studies Graduate Conference, Dec. 3

How did they learn? How did they teach?: Exploring Knowledge Transmission from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern

Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022; 9am-6pm, Princeton University
Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room A71

Much of our modern knowledge is the result of centuries of experiments driven by human desire to record and pass down successes, failures and lessons learned. The timespan from the periods often called "Late Antique" to that called "Early Modern" offers enormous scope to explore the historical record of knowledge transmission across diverse social contexts. While scholars in Baghdad, such as Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (9th c.), translated ancient medical texts, Theophilus (12th c.) distilled complex information to record proprietary painting techniques in his De diversis artibus. Just as Renaissance humanists classicized their curricula, Enlightenment thinkers sought to secularize scientific methods. In each case, knowledge was consistently safeguarded, amended, and transmitted. This conference will explore the many networks and forms of knowledge transmission active across the Late Antique and Early Modern periods. We will work within a wide span of geographical and chronological parameters as well as across disciplines.

The topic of education and knowledge transmission is timely. As the last two years have emphasized, learning and teaching methods can take on a variety of shapes and can change drastically in order to adapt to the rising needs of both students and educators. Pedagogical developments, though exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic today, have been inherent to the human experience throughout history and across the globe. However, the very concept of education and the interpersonal relationships knowledge and its transmission entails have greatly varied over time, and their historical models offer compelling challenges to our modern understanding of when, where and how learning takes place, who is a teacher, and who is a student. The conference invites graduate students to re-examine their own assumptions about education in the medieval and early modern eras and approach their material in a new light.

For full session details and to register please visit: https://medcremsconference.princeton.edu/schedule

9 AM Introductory remarks 

9:15 AM Panel I: Modes of transfer
Sarah Cohen (Columbia), Sofia Hernandez (Princeton), Fay Slakey (Princeton)

11:15AM Panel II: Language
Daniel Berardino (Fordham), Faiza Masood (Princeton), Yaacov Bronstein (Rutgers)

12:45PM Lunch + poster session
Princeton undergraduates present posters of their research

2:30PM Panel III: Pedagogical praxis
Anna Speyart (Princeton), Brooke Franks (Stony Brook), Jennifer Ruth Hoyden (Teachers College, Columbia)

4:30PM Keynote by Paula Findlen
"Francesco Carletti's Vision of Nature"
Followed by reception

Made possible thanks to the support of these Princeton sponsors:

The Medieval Studies Program and the Center for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, the Department of Art & Archaeology, the Center for Collaborative History, the Program in History of Science, the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, and the Graduate School. With additional support from the Delaware Valley Medieval Association.

DVMA Fall Meeting, Sep. 30, 2022: Epidemics and the Environment in the Pre-Modern World

Temple University
Friday, September 30, 9:00 am-6:30 pm

Please join us for the CHAT Premodern Research Forum Symposium. This virtual symposium will explore the wide array of environmental and institutional factors that influenced the way in which plague, in the broadest sense, and other epidemics originated and spread, as well as their intellectual, artistic, demographic and socio-economic consequences at a local and global scale throughout history from Antiquity to the 18th century. How did Pre-Modern societies cope with epidemics that presented challenges and upheavals comparable to the ones we are currently experiencing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic? What can the Pre-Modern past offer to better prepare us for our present and future?

Session I, 9:00am - 12:00pm EDT Hunter Gardner, Professor of Classics Winston Black, Gatto Chair of Christian Studies Susan Einbinder, Professor of Hebrew & Judaic Studies Elizabeth Duntemann, PhD Candidate, Art History   Session II, 1:00pm - 3:00pm EDT Stephen Dueppen, Professor of Anthropology W. George Lovell, FRSC, Professor of Geography Lori Jones, Professor of Medical History     Session III, 3:30pm - 5:00pm EDT Kristy Wilson Bowers, Professor of History Gwen Robbins Schug, Professor of Biology Rita Krueger, Professor of History     Response and Q&A, 5:30 - 6:30pm EDT Respondent: Sharon DeWitte Distinguished Professor of Anthropology