| Date/Time |
Speaker |
Event
Info |
Location |
Sept.
15
Thursday
5:30 pm |
Adam Kosto
Professor of History, Columbia University
|
“A
Barbarous Relic of Ancient Times? Hostages in the European Middle Ages”
[Annenberg Colloquium in
European History] |
College Hall
209
|
Sept.
16
Friday
5:00 pm |
Robin Kirkpatrick
Professor of Italian, Cambridge University (UK) |
“New
Penguin Dante: Translating the
Commedia for the Twenty-First Century”
Reception to follow |
Cherpack
Lounge, 5th Floor, Williams Hall
|
Sept. 19
Monday
5:15 pm |
Jonathan Hsy
Doctoral Candidate, Department of English |
“Merchants'
Marks: Signification and
Identity in Late-Medieval England and Flanders”
[History of Material
Texts] |
Penn
Humanities Forum,
3619 Locust Walk
|
Sept. 20
Tuesday
4:00 pm |
Michel Zink
Chair of Medieval Literature, Collège
de France |
“Rereading and Rewriting Medieval Literature
Today”
Reception to follow |
Cherpack
Lounge, 5th Floor, Williams Hall
|
Sept. 21
Wednesday
4:00 pm |
Michel Zink
Chair of Medieval Literature, Collège
de France |
“La Poesie comme recit: l'exemple medieval”
Reception to follow |
Cherpack
Lounge, 5th Floor. Williams Hall
|
Sept. 21
Wednesday
4:30 pm |
Nicolette Zeeman
King’s College, Cambridge University |
“The Gender of Song in Chaucer”
[Medieval/Renaissance Seminar]* |
Penn
Humanities Forum, 3619 Locust Walk
|
Sept. 23
Friday
9-5:30
pm |
Elective Affinities
(IAWIS/AIERTI 7th International
Conference on Word & Image Studies) |
Medieval/Renaissance Sessions
Events continue all day:
See program
for details |
Various
Locations:
See program |
Sept. 28
Wednesday
12:00
noon |
David Stern
Near Eastern Lannguages and Cultures |
“The
Earliest Dated Jewish Codices and
the Early History of Jewish Reading” |
Center for
Advanced Judaic Studies, 420 Walnut
|
Sept. 29
Thursday
3 pm
|
Martin Connell
St. John’s University (Minnesota)
|
“Manuscripts
in the Medieval Christian
Liturgy”
|
Logan Hall 204 |
Oct.
1
Saturday
2-4 pm |
Martin Connell
St. John’s University (Minnesota)
Alan Stahl
Princeton University |
“The
Liturgy of Aquileia”
“The
codex of Michael of Rhodes, a fifteenth-century mariner in service to
Venice”
[Delaware Valley Medieval Association]
Discussion and reception to follow |
Carriage
House, 3907 Spruce
|
Oct. 4
Tuesday
5:15 pm
|
Jennifer Saltzstein
Doctoral Candidate, Music History
|
“What
is a Refrain?: Musical Quotation in 13th-Century France”
[Department of
Music Colloquium Series] |
Music
Building, Room 302
|
Oct. 5
Wednesday
4:30 pm |
David Wallace
Department of English |
“Periodizing Women: Mary Ward (1585-1645)
and the Premodern Canon”
[Medieval/Renaissance Seminar]* |
Penn
Humanities Forum, 3619 Locust Walk
|
Oct. 17
Monday
12:00
noon |
Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig
Bar-Ilan University |
“On the Validity of Images in
Hebrew Manuscripts as Historical Sources”
[The Jewish Book] |
Center for
Advanced Judaic Studies, 420 Walnut |
Oct. 19
Wednesday
4:30 pm |
Stephanie Gibbs Kamath
Doctoral Candidate, Department of English |
“'Thereof was I noon auctor': Thomas
Hoccleve, Authority, and Allegory”
[Medieval/Renaissance Seminar]* |
Penn
Humanities Forum, 3619 Locust Walk
|
Nov. 2
Wednesday
4:30 pm |
Jamie Taylor
Doctoral Candidate, Comparative Literature |
“Piers Plowman, Book, and the Personification of
Salvation”
[Medieval/Renaissance Seminar]* |
Meyerson
Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Van Pelt Library
|
Nov. 16
Wednesday
4:30 pm |
Stella Singer
Doctoral Candidate,
Department of English |
“Beyond Jerusalem: Pilgrimage and Place in The
Book of Margery Kempe”
[Medieval/Renaissance Seminar]* |
Meyerson
Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Van Pelt Library
|
Nov. 17
Thursday
3 pm |
Tamar Herzig
Hebrew University
(Visiting Scholar, Penn)
|
“The Prophet's Name: Sister Girolama
Savonarola and the Savanarolan Reform in Ferrara” |
Logan Hall 204 |
Nov. 17
Thursday
4:30 pm |
Christopher Celenza
Professor of Romance Languages, Johns Hopkins University
|
“The Uses of Latin in the Italian
Renaissance from Petrarch to Poliziano”
[Annenberg Colloquium in European History] |
College Hall
209 |
Nov. 21
Monday
12:00
noon |
Piet Van Boxel
Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies |
“A Jewish Encyclopedia for Non-Jews: Jewish
Tradition Censored and Christianized under Pope Gregory XIII”
[The Jewish Book] |
Center for
Advanced Judaic Studies, 420 Walnut |
Nov. 29
Tuesday
5 pm
|
Patricia Stirnemann
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
(Paris)
|
“A Wealth of New Discoveries in the Tres Riches Heures of Jean, Duc de
Berry” |
Rosenwald
Gallery, 6th Floor, Van Pelt Library |
Nov. 30
Wednesday
4:30 pm |
Kurt Schreyer
Doctoral Candidate,
Department of English |
“Shakespeare and the 'Dry Bones' of Medieval Drama”
[Medieval/Renaissance Seminar]* |
Meyerson
Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Van Pelt Library |
Dec. 7
Wednesday
4:30 pm |
Stephanie Trigg
University of Melbourne |
“Scenes from the History of Shame: The Order of the Garter from Medieval
to Early Modern”
[Medieval/Renaissance Seminar]* |
Penn
Humanities Forum, 3619 Locust Walk |
Dec. 14
Wednesday
5:30 pm |
David Frankfurther
University of New Hampshire
|
“The Vitality of Egyptian Images in Late
Antiquity: Christian Memory and Response” |
College Hall
209
|
