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?

This event is organized by the Pre-Modern Research Forum Group at the Center for the Humanities at Temple and generously sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at Temple, Global Studies Program, the Department of Anthropology, Department of English, Department of Greek and Roman Classics, Department of French, German, Italian, and Slavic, Department of History, Department of Philosophy, Department of Geography and Urban Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, and the Delaware Valley Medieval Association. Contact Montserrat Piera (montserrat.piera@temple.edu) with questions.

The Spring Meeting of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association takes place 1:15pm-4:00pm on April 23, 2022 at Albright College and will be held virtually. The theme is “Communicating Trauma” and the meeting features three speakers including the DVMA Paper Prize and Digital Project Prize awardees. A business meeting of the DVMA directly follows the speakers’ session.

Program

1:15pm – Participants arrive (Zoom meeting opened)

1:20pm – Welcome (Abby McGovern, Albright College, DVMA Secretary)

1:25pm – Opening remarks (Ana Pairet, Rutgers University, DVMA President)

1:30pm-3:00pm – Speaker session followed by Q&A

• Matthew Aiello (University of Pennsylvania), “Lamenting Loss of Land in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MSS Junius 85 & 86” DVMA Paper Prize
• Lucas McMahon (Princeton University),“GIS Investigations into the Ninth-century Optical Telegraph between the Abbasid-Byzantine Frontier and Constantinople” DVMA Digital Project Prize
• Patricia Turning (Albright College), “Popular Control and Contested Sexuality in Late Medieval Toulouse: A Case of Rape or Childhood Prostitution?”  

3:00pm – 4:00pm DVMA Business meeting (discussion and vote on proposed amendments to the DVMA Constitution)

December Meeting of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association 

Princeton University, McCormick 106

December 9, 1 to 5 pm.

1:00 pm  Coffee

1:30 – 3:00 pm 

Eduard Muehle, Universität Münster, IAS, Princeton

The Slavic World in the Middle Ages – real or Invented Slavisism?

Adam Izdebski, University of Krakow/IAS, Princeton,

Climate Change and the Eastern Roman Empire. A new dimension of history

3: 30 – 5:00

Xin Wen, Princeton University

Reassembling the Ruins: Song Dynasty (960-1279) Views of the Tang Capital Chang’an

Thomas Conlan, Princeton University,

Law and Violence in Medieval Japan

5 pm Reception

Friday, October 29, 2021, 3 PM EST | Morgan Library & Museum

Join Joshua O’Driscoll, Assistant Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, for a virtual tour of the exhibition Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, ca. 800–1500, which offers a sweeping overview of manuscript production in the Holy Roman Empire. As the first major presentation of this subject in the English-speaking world, Imperial Splendor introduces visitors to fundamental aspects of this history, including how artists developed a visual rhetoric of power, the role of the aristocratic elite in the production and patronage of manuscripts, and the impact of Albrecht Dürer and humanism on the arts of the book.

Please note that the program will take place online. After registering, participants will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to participate using Zoom. Participants are advised to download the app in advance for the best user experience.

Tickets Options: Many of the Morgan’s digital programs are offered at low cost or free to the public. Please select the ticket price that best suits your needs and thank you for supporting the Morgan’s programming.

To register and for more information: https://www.themorgan.org/programs/imperial-splendor-art-book-holy-roman-empire-ca-800-1500-virtual-gallery-talk