2005-2006
October 1 @ University of Pennsylvania
Topic: “Navigating Seas and Sanctuary”
Organizer: Ann Matter, University of Pennsylvania
Speakers:
- Martin Connell (Saint John’s University, Minnesota), “The Liturgy of Aquileia”
- Alan Stahl (Princeton University), "The Codex of Michael of Rhodes, a Fifteenth-century Mariner in Service to Venice"
December 10 @ Princeton Theological Seminary
Topic: Language and Literature
Organizer: Paul Rorem, Princeton Theological Seminary
Speakers:
-Nadia R. Altschul (Johns Hopkins University), "Editing the Vernaculars: A 'Fourth Way' for Medieval Editorial Philology?"
- Israel Burshatin (Haverford College), "'Will the Real Heretic Please Stand Up': Voice and Presence in Inquisition Sources"
- Evelyn (Timmie) Birge Vitz (New York University),"A Medieval 'Rasa-esque' Performance Esthetics: Hommage to Richard Schechner"
February 18 @ Bryn Mawr College
Organizer: Elaine Beretz, Bryn Mawr College
Speakers:
- Larry Nees (University of Delaware) “Weaving Garnets: Thoughts about Two “Excessively Rare” Belt Mounts from Sutton Hoo”
- Cristina Maria Cervone (Villanova University), "Lilies, Charters, and Incarnational Poetics"
- Kathleen Biddick (Temple University), “The Cut of the Archive: The King's Second Jewish Body”
April 22 @ Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department
Topic: Turning Over a New Leaf: Current Research Related to the Medieval Collections of the Free Library of Philadelphia
Speakers:
- Anna Russakoff (Free Library of Philadelphia), “The Allure of the Leaf: The Artistic Taste of Illuminated Manuscript Collector John Frederick Lewis (1860-1932)”
- Nadezhda Karvus-Hoffmann (Independent Scholar), “An Epic Translation: Selections from the Free Library’s Portion of a ca. 1598-99 Mughal Razmnama”
- Adelaide Bennett (Princeton University), “The Artistic-historical Context of a Thirteenth-century North French Psalter: Widener Ms 9”
- Gerald B. Guest (John Carroll University), “Praying the Psalms in the Lewis Psalter: The Rubrics, the Initials, and the Work of Decoration”
- William G. Noel (The Walters Art Museum), “Master of the Miniature: William de Brailes and the Illustration of Biblical History”
- Consuelo W. Dutschke (Columbia University), “The Choirbook Redevivus: New Evidence in the Free Library of Philadelphia”