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Fall 2008

Below is a list of Penn-sponsored (and affiliated) events of interest to medievalists.

Date/Time Speaker Event Info Location
Sept 24
Wednesday

5:15 pm
Joseph Shatzmiller,

Duke University
"Pawnbroking in the Middle Ages: The Evidence of the Civil Courts


Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
420 Walnut Street
Sept 29
Monday

5:15
pm
E. Ann Matter & Robert A. Maxwell

University of Pennsylvania
"University of Pennsylvania MS Codex 1058: Textual and Visual Studies in the Middle Ages and Today"


History of the Book Seminar
Van Pelt Library, Lea Seminar Room (6th floor)

Oct 1
Wednesday

5:30 pm
Jacqueline Jung

Yale University
"Motion, Emotion, and Urban Space: The Wise and Foolish Virgins of Gothic Germany

Medieval and Early Modern Working Group in Art History
Oct 2
Thursday

4:30 pm
Casper de Jonge

Leiden University
"God, the Religious, and the Sublime: Dionysius and Longinus on hupsos"

Department of Classical Studies
437 Logan Hall,
Oct 6
Monday

5:00 pm
Gary Dickson

University of Edinburgh
"The Children's Crusade as a Rite of Passage"

Depts. of Religious Studies, History and the Henry Charles Lea Endowment
Van Pelt Library, Class of 1955 Room
Oct 20
Monday

Judah Galinsky

Bar-Ilan University
"Christian-Jewish Relations and the Medieval Gift Economy" Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
420 Walnut Street
Oct 28
Tuesday

6:00 pm
Margot Fassler

Yale University
"Hildegard of Bingen's Ordo Virtutum: Versions and Audience"

Lana Schwebel Memorial Lecture, Fisher-Bennett Hall
34th St. and Walnut, Rm 401
Oct 28
Tuesday

5:00 pm
Elisheva Baumgarten

Bar Ilan University
"Piety and Gender: Toward an Outine of the Religious Practice of Medieval Men and Women"

Houston Hall
Ben Franklin Room
Nov 3

Monday

5:00 pm

Katrin Kogman-Appel
Ben-Gurion University

"Christianity, Idolatry, and the Question of Hebrew Fibural Painting in the Middle Ages"



Williams Hall, Rm 301
255 South 36th St
Nov 13

Thursday

4:30 pm

Marjorie Curry Woods
University of Texas at Austin

"Emotion, Manipulation, and Creativity: The Rhetorical Interpretation of Speeches by Female Characters in the Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Classroom"



Classical Studies Seminar
401 Cohen (Logan) Hall
Nov 19
Wednesday

5:00 pm
David Wallace & Margreta de Grazia

University of Pennsylvania
Title TBA

Med-Ren English Group
Fisher-Bennett Hall 330
Nov 21
Friday

5:00 pm
Ruth Karras/span>

University of Minnesota
"Priests and their Partners"

Henry Charles Lea Lecture
Van Pelt Library, 6th floor gallery
Dec 3
Wednesday

5:00 pm
Maud McInerney

University of Pennsylvania
Title TBA

Med-Ren English Group
Fisher-Bennett Hall 330
Jan 21
Wednesday

Philip Lieberman

Richard Stockton College
Title TBA

Katz Center for Advance Judaic Studies
420 Walnut Street
Jan 28
Wednesday

5:00 pm
Emily Steiner

University of Pennsylvania
Title TBA

Med-Ren English Group
Fisher-Bennett Hall 330
April 1
Wednesday

5:00 pm
Chris Cannon

University of Pennsylvania
Title TBA

Med-Ren English Group
Fisher-Bennett Hall 330

For corrections or additions to this calendar, contact Tekla Bude.


 
 


   
 

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