DVMA Spring 2024 Meeting, Friday, April 19, 1:00 p.m – 5:00 p.m

Please join us for the Delaware Valley Medieval Association’s Spring Meeting held in the William M. Elkins room at the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia (1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103). The event features three engaging speakers on topics of special interest to medievalists and includes a viewing of the manuscripts on exhibit. 

PROGRAM

1:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.   

Welcome and Introduction. Professor Montserrat Piera, Temple University

1:15 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Professor Emerita, Department of French and Italian, University of Pittsburgh

“Making Miracles in late Medieval France: Three Saints and Would-be Saints”

2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.

Roxanna Cosme-Colon, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish, Haverford College

“The Matter of Iberia: Fashioning the Legendary Carolingian Corpus for Iberian Popular Audiences”

“The Matter of Iberia: Fashioning the Legendary Carolingian Corpus for Iberian Popular Audiences”

2:45 p.m. – 3:30 p.m

Break

Refreshments

Viewing of Manuscripts Exhibit at the Rare Book Department

3:30 p.m. –  4:30 p.m. 

Martha Easton, Associate Professor of Art History and Program Director, Museum Studies, Department of Art and Art History, Saint Joseph’s University

“Medieval Architectural Salvage in American Collections”

4:30 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.

Discussion and Closing Remarks

Registration is $10 for DVMA members, $15 for guests. Graduate students should register but attend at no cost (use code DVMA24GS at registration checkout). Payment can be made during web-registration or at the door.

Delaware Valley Medieval Association (DVMA) virtual meeting.

The event will feature curator-scholars and professor-curators who have engaged with the question of how to exhibit works of art in ways that foreground the intellectual and ethical dimensions of a global perspective on the middle ages.

The meeting will be run as a Zoom webinar, and registration is open now. The speakers are prerecording short talks discussing their recent and current curatorial work. Some of the talks are available already, and the rest should be ready for viewing by the end of August. The meeting will entail a roundtable discussion (1-3pm) followed by a discussion about curatorial careers in medieval art (3-4pm). Information about all this, links to register, etc. can be found on the event website here: https://curatingartoftheglobalmiddleages.blogs.brynmawr.edu/

While the Zoom Webinar format will not accommodate questions from the floor, the website allows for submitting questions in advance via the event website. The prerecorded talks can be incorporated into courses this fall, with an assignment culminating in a class devising one or more questions to submit.

Organizer:

Alicia Walker, Associate Professor, Department of History of Art, Bryn Mawr College

Speakers:

Andrea Achi, Assistant Curator, Medieval Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Kristen Collins, Curator of Manuscripts, the Getty Museum, Los Angeles and

Gerhard Lutz, Robert P. Bergman Curator of Medieval Art, Cleveland Art Museum

Amanda Luyster, Senior Lecturer, Visual Arts Department, College of the Holy Cross

Risham Majeed, Assistant Professor, Art History, Ithaca College

Elizabeth Williams, Curator, Dumbarton Oaks