“El último sefardí” is a documentary directed by Miguel Ángel Nieto in 2003. The film follows Rabbi Eliezer Papo on his journey through the medieval Sephardic tunnel of time. During this journey, places such as Jerusalem, Istanbul, Thessaloniki, Split, Sarajevo, Curaçao and Toledo are visited and explored. The main objective is the search for a language, Ladino, and a people, the Sephardim, the Jewish people expulsed from Spain with the Edict of Expulsion in 1492. Throughout the documentary, old songs, ancient stories, dramatic experiences and beautiful words that have survived for more than five centuries in the memory of the Sephardim are recovered.
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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”
Reception, 5-6pm
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.
Program
3:15pm – Participants arrive (Zoom meeting opens)
3:25pm – Opening remarks (Montserrat Piera, Temple University, DVMA President)
3:30 – 5:00pm – Speaker Session followed by Q & A
- 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 |
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.
Event Properties
| Event Date | 04/29/2023, 1:00 pm |
| Event End Date | 04/29/2023, 5:30 pm |
| Capacity | 150 |
| Individual Price | $15.00 |
Date: February 18, 2023, 1-5 pm
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.
To submit a proposal or request more information please contact Brooke.Adamski@temple.edu
Deadline for submissions: December 1, 2022
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.
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
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)