Meetings held in 2012-2013

April 13 @ LGBT Carriage House, University of Pennsylvania
Symposium in Celebration of the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association


Organizer:  Martha Easton
Speakers:

• Edward Peters (University of Pennsylvania), “Just One More Foundation Myth: From the Lilly
Pennsylvania Program to the DVMA”

 • Agnieszka E. Szymańska (Temple University),”Designing the Vault of Heaven at the Cappella Palatina, Palermo”

 • Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (George Washington University), “Medieval/Environmental Activism”

 Participants in Roundtable Discussion of “The Future of Medeival Studies”:

 • Celia Chazelle (The College of New Jersey)

 • Dallas G. Denery (Bowdoin College)

 • Darin Hayton (Haverford College)

 • E. Ann Matter (University of Pennsylvania)

 • Karen Overbey (Tufts University)

 • David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania)

March 16 @ University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Topic:  “Crossing Bridges”

Organizer:  Dale Kinney

Speakers:

• Larry Nees (University of Delaware), “Arculf”

• Louis Hamilton (Drew University), “Invisible Cities, Invented Histories: Jerusalem and Rome       in the Exegesis of Bruno of Segni”

• Jesse Mann (Montclair State University), “Juan de Segovia & Islam: 

  Opportunities, Obstacles and Contexts”

• Renata Holod, University of Pennsylvania, Lecture and Gallery Visit


December 1 @ Princeton University


Organizer:  Colum Hourihane
Speakers: 


•  Johanna Seasonwein (Princeton University Art Museum), “A Tale of Two Windows: the Gothic Revival at Princeton University”

• Courtney Palmbush (Princeton Theological Seminary), “The Frontier and Patrick’s ‘Ministry of Slavery’ ”  

• Susan Auth (Curator Emerita, Newark Museum), “Birds and Their Symbolism in the Late Antique Art of Egypt”  

• Danielle Oteri (International Center of Medieval Art, The Cloisters), “The Unicorn Tapestries at the Cloisters:   Weaving a New Interpretation”  

• Anna Zayaruznaya (Princeton University), “Cis chans veult boire! On the Anthropomorphisation of   Late-Medieval Song”  

• John Rassweiller (Independent Scholar), “A collection of seal matrices of the common People:  Signatures and a Portal to Medieval Life”  

• Mayke de Jong (Utrecht University), “Epitaph for an Era: Paschasius Radbertus and his Lament  for Wala”


September 15 @ The Philadelphia Museum of Art
Topic:  Visions of Wonder, Thoughts of the Divine


Organizer:  Geoffrey W. Gust


Speakers:

 •  Rita Copeland (University of Pennsylvania), “Living with Uncertainty:  Reactions to Aristotle’s Rhetoric in the Later Middle Ages” 

 •  Julia Verkholantsev (University of Pennsylvania), “The Two Bibles of St. Jerome:  The Question of the

    Vernacular and the Legend of St. Jerome’s Slavonic Rite and Letters” 

 •  Robert Maxwell (University of Pennsylvania), “Fraud” 

 •  Dale Kinney (Bryn Mawr College), “Holy Popes”