2006-2007
September 23 @ University of Pennsylvania Topic: Instruments of War Organizer: Alison Williams Lewin, St. Joseph's University
Speakers:
- William Caffaro (Vanderbilt University), “Warfare and the Economy of Late Medieval Italy”
- Ida Sinkevic (Lafayette University), “ Art and Armor in Post-Medieval Europe”
December 2 @ Princeton University Topic: Celebrating Newcomers
Organizers: Elaine Beretz, Bryn Mawr College and Sally Poor, Princeton University
Speakers:
- Jessica Goldberg (University of Pennsylvania), “Whose Mediterranean? The Merchants of Cairo and the Coming of the Romans”
- Nino Zchomelidse (Princeton University), “Materiality versus Mimesis? The Medieval Image and Conceepts of Authenticity”
- Jamie Taylor (Bryn Mawr College), “Curiositas, Travel, and the Book of Margery Kempe”
February 24 @ St. Joseph’s University Topic: Seeing and Hearing Organizer: Elaine Beretz, Bryn Mawr College
Speakers:
- Robert Ousterout (University of Pennsylvania), “Icons in Space: The Art of Kariye Camii”
- Stephen Wright (Catholic University of America), “Picturing Performance: The Chatsworth Manuscript and Practical Stagecraft”
- Peter Jeffery (Princeton University), “’To Thee be Silent Praise’: The Ears of the Heart, the Affections of the Spirit”
April 21 @ Glencairn Museum
Organizer: Donald Duclow, Gwynedd-Mercy College
Speakers:
- Susan L. Ward (Rhode Island School of Design), “The Glencairn Queen from Provins: Defining Romanesque and Gothic”
- Thomas Waldman (University of Pennsylvania), “ Suger’s Additions to the Altar Charles the Bald Gave to Saint-Denis”
- Tour of Glemcairn’s medieval collections with Michael Cothren (Swarthmore College) and Robert Maxwell (University of Pennsylvania)