Susan McDonough, this year the George William Cotrell Jr member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, is an Associate Professor of history at UMBC. A scholar of women, gender and sexuality in the medieval Mediterranean, Susan is currently at work on two projects: one is solo-authored monograph on sex workers, the other, a collaboration with Michelle Armstrong-Partida of Emory University, began with Mediterranean singlewomen and has grown to include single men, migration, shared cultures of sexuality, and gender identity. Her work has been supported by fellowships with the NEH and the Newberry Library.
The topic of this virtual symposium, Medieval Mediterranean Ways, is conceptualized very broadly geographically as well as intellectually, and it seeks to examine both meanings of the word “ways”, as direction and as manner. Our articulation alludes to both Mediterranean ways as routes or directions as well as ways as manners, customs and cultural practices. Thus, this symposium aims at engaging in an intellectual dialogue that widely encompasses areas of inquiry as varied as trade, cartography, visual cultures and intercultural and interreligious relationships across the Mediterranean during the medieval period.
10:00 am-10:30 am (EST) Susan McDonough, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, Medieval History, “Moving in the Mediterranean: Public Women and Their Routes”
10:30 am-11:00 am (EST) Sébastien Garnier, Université Paris 1, “What lies behind al-Tiǧānī’s travelogue (scr. post 711/1311)?”
11:00 am-11:30 am (EST) David Wacks, Univ. of Oregon, Sephardic Studies , “Medieval Sephardic Narratives of Mediterranean Migration”
11:30 am-12:00 pm (EST) Q&A
12:00 pm-1:00 pm (EST) Lunch Break
AFTERNOON SESSION. 1:00 pm-3:00 pm
1:00 pm-1:30 pm (EST) Ariel Fein, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, Byzantine and Islamic Art History, “A Refugee Family across Syria and North Africa: Artistic Heritage and Communal Self-Memory”
1:30 pm-2:00 pm (EST) Michelle Hamilton, University of Minnesota, and Núria Silleras-Fernández, University of Colorado , “Iberia and the Multilingual Mediterranean”
2:00 pm-2:30 pm (EST) Uri Zvi Shachar, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, “Paths of Faith: Fourteenth Century Mediterranean Encyclopedism”
DVMA Spring 2024 Meeting, Friday, April 19, 1:00 p.m – 5:00 p.m
Please join us for the Delaware Valley Medieval Association’s Spring Meeting held in the William M. Elkins room at the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia (1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103). The event features three engaging speakers on topics of special interest to medievalists and includes a viewing of the manuscripts on exhibit.
PROGRAM
1:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Welcome and Introduction. Professor Montserrat Piera, Temple University
1:15 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Professor Emerita, Department of French and Italian, University of Pittsburgh
“Making Miracles in late Medieval France: Three Saints and Would-be Saints”
2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Roxanna Cosme-Colon, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish, Haverford College
“The Matter of Iberia: Fashioning the Legendary Carolingian Corpus for Iberian Popular Audiences”
“The Matter of Iberia: Fashioning the Legendary Carolingian Corpus for Iberian Popular Audiences”
2:45 p.m. – 3:30 p.m
Break
Refreshments
Viewing of Manuscripts Exhibit at the Rare Book Department
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Martha Easton, Associate Professor of Art History and Program Director, Museum Studies, Department of Art and Art History, Saint Joseph’s University
“Medieval Architectural Salvage in American Collections”
4:30 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Discussion and Closing Remarks
Registration is $10 for DVMA members, $15 for guests. Graduate students should register but attend at no cost (use code DVMA24GS at registration checkout). Payment can be made during web-registration or at the door.
The 2024 Winter Meeting of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association takes place on February 2, 1pm-6pm at the University of Pennsylvania’s Van Pelt Library, Class of 1978 Pavilion (6th floor). The theme is “Between Cultures.” Registration is $10 for DVMA members, $15 for non-members. Graduate students attend free of charge (use coupon DVMA24GS).
Program
Welcome, 1:00-1:05 Ada Kuskowski (Penn)
Plenary, 1:05-2:00pm
Anne Lester (Johns Hopkins) & Laura Morreale (Independent Scholar), “Life and Death in Crusader Acre: Collaborations across the Account-Inventory of Eudes of Nevers (1266)”
Panel 1, 2:00-3:25pm Moderator: Helmut Reimitz (Princeton)
Caz Batten (Penn) “Constructing the Feather Cloak: Disability, Masculinity, and the Prosthetics of Weland the Smith”
Elizabeth Urban (WCUPA) – “Unfree Women in Early Islamic Historical Narratives: A Genre Analysis”
Hartley Lachter (Lehigh), “Supernal Archons of the Nations: Christianity and Islam in Medieval Kabbalistic Theosophy”
Panel 2, 3:35-5pm Moderator: Elly Truitt (Penn)
Sarah Davis-Secord (IAS/UNM), “Muslim-Christian Encounters in the Italo-Greek Saints Lives”
Alicia Walker (Bryn Mawr), “Ethical Formation and the Byzantine Viewer: Navigating between the Classical and the Christian”
Samantha Kelly (Rutgers), “Negotiating Religious Diversity: Ethiopian Orthodox in Renaissance Rome”
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
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 the 2023 DVMA Prizes and Awards recipients and 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
We hope you will join us to learn more about the exciting scholarship taking place in our area with the support and recognition of the DVMA.
Event Properties
Event Date
12/06/2023, 3:25 pm
Event End Date
12/06/2023, 5:00 pm
Capacity
Unlimited
Individual Price
Free
We are no longer accepting registration for this event
DVMA Spring Meeting April 29, 2023 1:00pm -5:30pm Rubenstein Commons, Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, New Jersey
Please join us for the Delaware Valley Medieval Association’s Spring Meeting hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. This is an in-person event held in the Rubenstein Commons and features three engaging speakers on topics of special interest to medievalists. A reception follows.
Program 1:00-1:15 Introduction
1:15-2:15 Matilda Bruckner, Boston College “Playing with the Letter in Judges 19: Hospitality Gone Awry in the Bible moralisée“
2:15-3:15 Derek Krueger, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and School of Historical Studies “Is There an Icon in this Text?: Niketas Stethatos’s Life of Symeon the New Theologian and a Byzantine Theology of the Saints”
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30-4:30 Sarah Guérin, University of Pennsylvania “Unveiling the Sacred: On Ivory, the Covenant, and the Talmud”
4:30-5:30 Reception
Registration is $10 for DVMA members, $15 for guests. Graduate students should register but attend at no cost (use code DVMA23GS at registration checkout). Payment can be made during web-registration or at the door.
This event is co-organized by Suzanne Akbari and Montserrat Piera and is sponsored by the DVMA, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, and CHAT PreModern Research Forum at Temple University.
Location: Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Delaware Valley Medieval Association (DVMA) invites 250-word abstracts for 20-minute talks or 5-minute flash presentations by graduate students in any discipline and on any topic that pertains to medieval studies. Global medieval submissions are welcome and encouraged.
The purpose of this event is to provide graduate students with an opportunity to connect with an interdisciplinary community of graduate students and professors who specialize in the Middle Ages from other universities in the region, to gain experience presenting in a conference setting, and to receive feedback on their work in a casual environment. Hence, this call for papers is intentionally open-ended: the work you present at this event could include a developing chapter in your dissertation, a completed seminar paper, a work in progress, or simply a new line of inquiry that you would like to pursue.
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.
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.
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
