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October 9 @ University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Performance Speakers: Rob Barrett (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Emma Dillon (University of Pennsylvania), Chara Armon December 11 @ Princeton Theological Seminary Topic: Manuscripts Speakers: Keith Busby (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Sally Poor (Princeton University), Theresa K. Nevins (University of Delaware)
February 26 at the University of Pennsylvania (Van Pelt Library)
Topic: The Medieval Bible
Speakers: Theresa Gross-Diaz (Loyola University-Chicago), Dorothy Shepard (Pratt Institute), plus a visit to Penn’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library
April 16 @ St. Joseph’s University
Topic: The Future of the Past: Graduate Student Papers
Speakers: Benjamin Anderson, Bryn Mawr College; Jeanne-Marie Musto, Bryn Mawr College; Alex Novikoff, University of Pennsylvania; Manu Radhakrishnan, Princeton University; Jonathan Hsy, University of Pennsylvania A List of Speakers and Topics from 1979-2004 can be downloaded here .
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”
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)