Medieval Studies Events Calendar

This calendar seeks to represent all upcoming medieval-related activities at UNC and in the surrounding area, including those organized through the Medieval Studies Program, CAMS, Duke's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, individual university departments, and others.

In anticipation of the proposed combined Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Curriculum here at UNC we have also begun including early-modern-related activities that might be of relevance.

To see events at going on at Duke please visit Duke's calendar website.

The calendar is continually updated as new information becomes available. Notice of upcoming medieval events can be submitted to medieval.events@unc.edu. Events are purged at the beginning of each month. To view past events, see the Calendar Archive.

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OCTOBER

Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 5:00 p.m., Faculty Lounge, Campus Y, UNC.

Talk by Edith Wenzel (Humboldt University, Berlin) on the topic of:
"Beautiful ladies, love, and adventure: Yiddish Literature in 16th Century Europe."

Refreshments will be served. Sponsored by Medieval Studies, UNC and Jewish Studies, UNC.

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Wednesday, October 10, 2007, 6:30 p.m., Greenlaw Hall 101.

Medieval Film Series: Beowulf & Grendl (2005)

Filmed entirely in director Sturla Gunnarsson's native Iceland, this 2005 retooling of the famous Anglo-Saxon epic poem lends both a distinctly Scandinavian flavor to the story, while utilizing the island's haunting and breathtaking scenery to provide an otherworldly flare. Hopefully this rather minimalist version of the legend will provide an interesting contrast with Robert Zemeckis's big-budget, Hollywood rendition staring Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, and Anthony Hopkins due out on November 16.

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Wednesday, October 24, 2007, 6:30 p.m., Greenlaw Hall 101.

Medieval Film Series: Robert Bresson's Lancelot du Lac (1974)

(French w/ English subtitles)

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Wednesday, October 24, 2007, 12:00 p.m. Brown Bag Lunch, Reading Room, 413 Dey Hall.

Jessica Lynn Wolfe (Department of English and Comparative Literature, UNC) will present a lunchtime talk on ""Odysseus, Paul, and polymorphousness in Erasmus's Adages."

Please bring your lunch. Cookies and beverages will be served.

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NOVEMBER

Wednesday, November 14, 2007, 6:30 p.m., Greenlaw Hall 101.

Medieval Film Series:John Boorman's Excalibur (1981)

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Monday, November 27, 2007, Time and place to be determined.

Talk by Toshiyuki Takamiya:

Professor Takamiya, professor of English at Keio University in Tokyo and prominent book collector, will talk about digitizing medieval manuscripts and the Gutenberg Bible and the efforts of the Humanities Media Interface
Project at Keio University.

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JANUARY 2008

Wednesday, January 30, 2008, 12:00 p.m. Brown Bag Lunch, Reading Room, 413 Dey Hall.

Brett Whalen (Department of History, UNC) will present a lunchtime talk on "Bertrand's Crusade: Claiming the Inheritance of First Crusader (ca. 1109)."

Please bring your lunch. Cookies and beverages will be served.

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MARCH 2008

Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 12:00 p.m. Brown Bag Lunch, Reading Room, 413 Dey Hall.

Carmen Hsu (Department of Romance Languages, UNC) will present a lunchtime talk on "Spanish Humanism and the Far East: The Great and Mighty Kingdom in the History of China by Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza."

Please bring your lunch. Cookies and beverages will be served.

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