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)