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.

MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN WAYS SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM

MORNING SESSION. 10:00 am-12:00 pm

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”
2:30 pm-3:00 pm (EST), Q&A and Closing Remarks

Registration Link	https://temple.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JzgTXT6OSGuhx8Lw9pCwXw#/registration
Venue	Zoom Webinar
Starts	Fri Apr 11 2025, 10:00 AM EDT
Ends	Fri Apr 11 2025, 3:00 PM EDT

DVMA Spring Meeting – April 19, 2024 – Rare Book Department, Free Library of Philadelphia

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On April 19, 2024

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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”

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.

Curating Art of the Global Middle Ages, DVMA Fall Meeting, September 25, 2021, 1-4 PM

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On September 25, 2021

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Delaware Valley Medieval Association (DVMA) virtual meeting.

The event will feature curator-scholars and professor-curators who have engaged with the question of how to exhibit works of art in ways that foreground the intellectual and ethical dimensions of a global perspective on the middle ages.

The meeting will be run as a Zoom webinar, and registration is open now. The speakers are prerecording short talks discussing their recent and current curatorial work. Some of the talks are available already, and the rest should be ready for viewing by the end of August. The meeting will entail a roundtable discussion (1-3pm) followed by a discussion about curatorial careers in medieval art (3-4pm). Information about all this, links to register, etc. can be found on the event website here: https://curatingartoftheglobalmiddleages.blogs.brynmawr.edu/

While the Zoom Webinar format will not accommodate questions from the floor, the website allows for submitting questions in advance via the event website. The prerecorded talks can be incorporated into courses this fall, with an assignment culminating in a class devising one or more questions to submit.

Organizer:

Alicia Walker, Associate Professor, Department of History of Art, Bryn Mawr College

Speakers:

Andrea Achi, Assistant Curator, Medieval Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Kristen Collins, Curator of Manuscripts, the Getty Museum, Los Angeles and

Gerhard Lutz, Robert P. Bergman Curator of Medieval Art, Cleveland Art Museum

Amanda Luyster, Senior Lecturer, Visual Arts Department, College of the Holy Cross

Risham Majeed, Assistant Professor, Art History, Ithaca College

Elizabeth Williams, Curator, Dumbarton Oaks

DVMA Graduate workshop, October 16,2021

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On November 28, 2020

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Held in conjunction with the 46th Annual, Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference at Vilanova University, 10:00 AM-3 PM.

https://www1.villanova.edu/university/liberal-arts-sciences/programs/theology/events/pmr.html

Region and Enmity October 19-22, 2021

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On November 17, 2020

In Announcements

Region and Enmity

A RaceB4Race Symposium

October 19-22, 2021

Darkness and Light, DVMA Spring Meeting, April 24, 2021

By DVMA

On November 15, 2020

In Announcements

The History/Social Sciences and Arts departments at Bryn Athyn College in partnership with Glencairn Museum are proud to host the Spring Meeting of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association for 2021 (Hybrid event).

For more program information and to register, click here.

Virtual Symposium: “Transformed Bodies in Medieval Culture,” March 13, 2021

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On November 15, 2020

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Venue: Vilanova University (remote event)

In 2002, Alan Deyermond described his relationship with Harriet Goldberg as one of admiration “for the quality of her scholarship and her range of interests.” These interests focused on popular sayings and traditions, dreams, sexual humor, and riddles. Goldberg also noted how images of societal inversion or role reversal of could be conformed to express anxieties over gender and social identity. Inspired by Harriet Goldberg’s work on Iberian traditions, this conference seeks to examine different forms of bodily transformation, to map out the limits of gender, and to think of the ways in which current discussions on gender and identity intertwine with our understanding of the past.

The keynote address will be given by Michelle Hamilton (University of Minnesota), author of Beyond Faith: Belief, Morality and Memory in a Fifteenth-Century Judeo-Iberian Manuscript. (Brill, 2014)

This event is sponsored by The Delaware Medieval Association, the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Delaware and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Temple University.