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Spring 2007

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

Date/Time Speaker Event Info Location
Feb. 5
Monday

5:15 pm
Talya Fishman

Department of Religious Studies
How Did Medieval Jews Preserve the Orality of the 'Oral Torah' After the Inscription of Talmud?”

[History of Material Texts Seminar]
Lea Library, 6th Floor of Van Pelt Library
Feb. 10
Saturday

9 am - 6
pm
Interdepartmental Conference (including Penn-affiliated faculty and students)

Center for the Study of Books and Media, Princeton University
2007 Graduate Student Conference on Books and Media

Registration required.
See the conference website for deatils.

Friend Center 004, Princeton University
Feb. 27
Tuesday

5:30 pm
Pawel Kras

History, The Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
John Wyclif's Writings in Fifteenth-Century Bohemia and Poland”

Open to the public.
Reception to follow.

[The Henry Charles Lea Lecture, 2007]
Rosenwald Gallerry, 6th Floor, Van Pelt Library
Feb. 28
Wednesday

5 pm
Stacy Klein

Department of English, Rutgers University
I Sing of Arms and Yet Much More: Imagining Sexual Difference in the Old English Judith

[Medieval/Renaissance Seminar]*
Grad Lounge, 3rd Floor, Fisher-Bennett Hall
Mar. 21
Wednesday

4:30 pm
Sarah Kay

Romance Languages, Princeton University
Touching Singularity: Consolation, Philosophy, and Poetry in the French  dit Cherpak Lounge, 5th Floor, Williams Hall
Apr. 11
Wednesday

4:30 pm
Michael Solomon

Romance Languages
Fictions of Well-Being: Sickly Readers and Vernacular Popular Medical Writing

[Medieval/Renaissance Seminar]*
Grad Lounge, 3rd Floor, Fisher-Bennett Hall
May 17 - May 19

Thursday - Saturday


All day

International Conference

University of Pennsylvania Department of English, in association with The Yearbook of Langland Studies
Fourth International Conference for the Study of Piers Plowman


Registration required.
See the conference website for deatils.
Locations TBA - see program for details

* Medieval/Renaissance Seminar – Pre-circulated papers are available from Rosemary O'Neill (one week prior to the scheduled event).

For corrections or additions to this calendar, contact Jonathan Hsy.


 
 


   
 

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