Medieval Events Calendar Archive

Events Calendar Archive for 2003-2004

This is an archive of past announcements from the Medieval Studies Events Calendar for academic year 2003-2004.

The 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.

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.

Tuesday, September 2nd, 7 p.m., Lucy's (Corner of Rosemary and Henderson), Chapel Hill.
CAMS discussion group and business meeting
For information on the reading see the readings page on the CAMS website http://www.unc.edu/student/orgs/cams/discuss.htm

Saturday, September 6th, 5-7 p.m., West End Wine Bar, 450 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill.
CAMS beginning of the year happy hour. All are welcome!

Saturday, September 13th, 2-6:30 p.m., National Humanities Center.
Symposium: Clerical Constructions/Constrictions of Late Medieval Culture: Reunion of Four Medievalists from the 2002/2003 Class of the National Humanities Center.

Schedule: Saturday afternoon, presentations and discussion, 2-5; Wine and cheese reception, 5-6:30.

Kalman Bland, Department of Religion, Duke University (Animals, Technology, and Souls: Human Identity in Medieval Jewish Thought): Animal Fables and the Subversion of Theology in Medieval Jewish Thought
Edwin David Craun, Department of English, Washington and Lee University (Fraternal Correction: The Ethics of Medieval English Reformist Literature): Fraternal Correction: Sin, Reform and Power
Gail McMurray Gibson, Department of English, Davidson College (Childbed Mysteries: Performances of Childbirth in the Late Middle Ages): Monks and the Stage Managing of Late-Medieval Childbed
Annabel Jane Wharton, Department of Art History, Duke University (Selling Jerusalem: Towards an Historical Economy of Images): The Pious Banks and Sacred Mountains of the Franciscans.

This event is free. If you wish to attend, you are asked to email linda.stubblefield@duke.edu

Monday, September 15th.
Deadline for submissions to Kalamazoo!

Monday, September 15th, 7 p.m., Lucy's (Corner of Rosemary and Henderson), Chapel Hill.
CAMS discussion group and business meeting
For information on the reading see the readings page on the CAMS website http://www.unc.edu/student/orgs/cams/discuss.htm

Tuesday, September 30th, 7 p.m., Lucy's (Corner of Rosemary and Henderson), Chapel Hill.
CAMS discussion group and business meeting
For information on the reading see the readings page on the CAMS website http://www.unc.edu/student/orgs/cams/discuss.htm

Wednesday, October 1st, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Donovan Lounge (Greenlaw, 2nd Floor).
Fall Medieval Studies Reception
Introductions, announcements, refreshments, and plans for the year to be discussed. All are welcome. View the reception flyer (where appropriate, please post).

Thursday-Friday, October 2-3.
Duke Program on "Theory and the Study of Premodernity" presents a lecture by Sarah Kay (Cambridge University), "Original Skin: Didacticism, Flaying, and Codicology in Medieval Culture."

Sunday, October 5th, 3 p.m., Hanes Art Center Auditorium.
David Summers (University of Virginia), "Scene-Painting and Shadow-Painting: The Beginnings of Optics and Classical Art." Reception to follow.
Part one in Prof. Summers' four-part Bettie Allison Rand Lectures on "Painting and Optics from Antiquity to Leonardo da Vinci." View the poster for the series (in PDF).

Monday, October 6th, 6 p.m., Hanes Art Center Auditorium.
David Summers (University of Virginia), "Speculum Animatum. Brunelleschi's First Perspective Demonstration."
Part two in Prof. Summers' four-part Bettie Allison Rand Lectures on "Painting and Optics from Antiquity to Leonardo da Vinci." View the poster for the series (in PDF).

Wednesday, October 8th, 6 p.m. Hanes Art Center Auditorium.
David Summers (University of Virginia), "Speculum Mundi. Jan Van Eyck's Lost Map of the World."
Part three in Prof. Summers' four-part Bettie Allison Rand Lectures on "Painting and Optics from Antiquity to Leonardo da Vinci." View the poster for the series (in PDF).

Thursday, October 9th, 6 p.m. Hanes Art Center Auditorium.
David Summers (University of Virginia), "Narcissus and the Mirror Without Stain."
Part four in Prof. Summers' four-part Bettie Allison Rand Lectures on "Painting and Optics from Antiquity to Leonardo da Vinci." View the poster for the series (in PDF).

Monday, October 13th, 7 p.m., Lucy's (Corner of Rosemary and Henderson), Chapel Hill.
CAMS discussion group and business meeting
For information on the reading see the readings page on the CAMS website http://www.unc.edu/student/orgs/cams/discuss.htm

Friday, October 17, 5:30 p.m., 220 Gray Building, West Campus, Duke University.
The Duke Center for Late Ancient Studies presents a lecture by David Brakke (Indiana University), "Shenoute's 'In the Night': A Late Ancient Wrestling Match between a Monk and a Demon."
Refreshments will be served.

Tuesday, October 28th, 7 p.m., Lucy's (Corner of Rosemary and Henderson), Chapel Hill.
CAMS discussion group and business meeting
For information on the reading see the readings page on the CAMS website http://www.unc.edu/student/orgs/cams/discuss.htm

Sunday, November 9th, 5 p.m.
Monthly meeting of Duke's Graduate Writing Workshop. Topic: "'Trwe mon trwe restore': Restitution, Reconciliation, and the Carnivalesque in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" by Cara Hersh.
Please contact Vin Nardizzi at vjn@duke.edu for more information on participating in the workshop.

Monday, November 10th, 7 p.m., Lucy's (Corner of Rosemary and Henderson), Chapel Hill.
CAMS discussion group and business meeting
For information on the reading see the readings page on the CAMS website http://www.unc.edu/student/orgs/cams/discuss.htm

Tuesday, November 11, 5:30 p.m., Murphey 116.
Fall 2003 Bring It Home Lectures: "Punishing Fornication: Medieval 'Leyrwite' and its Historians" by Judith Bennett (History) and "Fashion, Feminism, and the Virgin's Underwear" by Jane Burns (Women's Studies).
A reception with light refreshments will follow the presentations.

Wednesday, November 12, 12:00 p.m., Donovan Lounge (Greenlaw).
The Medieval Studies Curriculum presents a lecture by Siegfried Wenzel (emeritus, University of Pennsylvania), "Preaching in the Academy."
Part of the Brown Bag lecture series. Feel free to bring your lunch!
View a flyer for this talk (in PDF).

Thursday-Friday, November 13-14 (details TBA).
Duke Program on "Theory and the Study of Premodernity" presents a lecture by James Porter (University of Michigan).

Wednesday, December 3, 4 p.m., Hanes Auditorium.
Tom Burman (University of Tennessee-Knoxville) will speak on "Reading the Qur'an in Latin Christendom: Polemic, Philology, and Ambivalence." View a selection of posters for this lecture in PDF (Warning: each poster is from 1.2 to 2.6 MB): poster 1, poster 2, poster 3.

Monday, January 12th, 7 p.m., Lucy's (Corner of Rosemary and Henderson), Chapel Hill.
CAMS discussion group and business meeting
For information on the reading see the readings page on the CAMS website http://www.unc.edu/student/orgs/cams/discuss.htm

Thursday, January 15th, 7:00 p.m., Breedlove Room, Perkins Library 204, Duke University.
Geraldine Heng (University of Texas, Austin) will speak on "Race-making before Race: Romancing the Beast in the Middle Ages." With a response by Priscilla Wald (Duke University).
This lecture is part of the series "Romancing the Humanities: New Theories for Romance Studies."

Friday, January 23rd, 11:00 a.m., English Dept. Lounge, 328 Allen Bldg., West Campus, Duke University.
Duke Medieval and Renaissance Studies Graduate Colloquium, Discussion with Bruce Smith, University of Southern California. Open to all local graduate students, including those from UNC.

Friday, January 23rd, 4:00 p.m., 101 Biddle Music Building, East Campus, Duke University.
Bruce Smith (University of Southern California) will speak on "Listening to the Wild Blue Yonder: The Challenges of Acoustic Archaeology."
This lecture is part of the Duke Music Department's "The Modern Ear" Lecture Series (Co-Sponsored by the Dept. of English and Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies).

Sunday, January 25th, 12:00-5:00 p.m., Carolina Club, UNC-CH.
The Carolina Club and the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) will sponsor a Medieval Festival, featuring a variety of performances, competitions, and displays, as well as a medieval buffet (advance reservations requested for the buffet).
For details, see the announcement on the Carolina Club website.

Sunday, January 25th, 5 p.m.
The Duke Medieval and Renaissance Studies Graduate Writing Workshop will meet to discuss Kate Crasson's "Performing Poverty: Labor, Charity, and the Guilds in the York Corpus Christi Plays." For directions and a copy of the paper to be discussed, contact Joanna Kucinski at jjk8@duke.edu.

CANCELLED--Rescheduled for 2/3. Tuesday, January 27th, 3 p.m., Rare Books Collection, Wilson Library, UNC-CH.
CAMS is sponsoring a tour of the medieval holdings with Libby Chenault. All are welcome.

CANCELLED. Tuesday, January 27th, 7 p.m., Lucy's (Corner of Rosemary and Henderson), Chapel Hill.
CAMS discussion group and business meeting
For information on the reading see the readings page on the CAMS website http://www.unc.edu/student/orgs/cams/discuss.htm

Friday, February 6, 4:00 p.m., 220 Gray Building, West Campus, Duke University.
Duke Center for Late Ancient Studies lecture by Diskin Clay (Duke University) on "The Art of Hell from Late Antiquity to Dante." Refreshments will be served.

Monday, February 9th, 7 p.m., Lucy's (Corner of Rosemary and Henderson), Chapel Hill.
CAMS discussion group and business meeting
For information on the reading see the readings page on the CAMS website http://www.unc.edu/student/orgs/cams/discuss.htm

Tuesday, February 10th, 4:00 p.m., Carpenter Boardroom, 223C Perkins Library, Duke University.
Duke Department of English Symposium Series, Co-Sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, presents a lecture by Wendy Wall (Northwestern University) on "Just a Spoonful of Sugar: Dying Domestically in Early Modern England."

Thursday, February 12, 5:00 p.m., John Hope Franklin Center Conference Room (room 240), Duke University.
The Duke Program on "Theory and the Study of Premodernity" presents a lecture by Paul Strohm (Columbia University): "Water Flowing Underground: The Martyrdom of Richard, Duke of York, and Shakespeare's First Tragic Hero." Parking is available in the Pickens Health Center lot across the street from the Franklin Center.

Friday, February 13, 11:00 a.m., English Dept. Lounge, 328 Allen Building, West Campus, Duke University.
The Duke Medieval and Renaissance Studies Graduate Colloquium presents a discussion with Paul Strohm, Columbia University. Nota bene: This meeting is geared toward graduate students, but other interested parties are welcome.

Friday, February 20, 4 p.m., Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw Hall, UNC-CH.
"Torture, Guilt, and Confession in the Later Middle Ages," Esther Cohen, Professor of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and 2003-2004 National Humanities Center fellow. A reception will follow. All are welcome.
Dr. Cohen is the keynote speaker for the North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
For information on the colloquium see the home page http://www.unc.edu/student/orgs/cams/ncc All events are free and open to the public.

Saturday, February 21, Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw Hall, UNC-CH.
Sessions for the North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
For information on the colloquium see the home page http://www.unc.edu/student/orgs/cams/ncc All events are free and open to the public.

Tuesday, February 24th, 7 p.m., Lucy's (Corner of Rosemary and Henderson), Chapel Hill.
CAMS discussion group and business meeting
For information on the reading see the readings page on the CAMS website http://www.unc.edu/student/orgs/cams/discuss.htm

Wednesday, February 25th, 12:00 p.m., Donovan Lounge (223 Greenlaw Hall), UNC-CH.
The Medieval Studies Curriculum presents a lunchtime lecture by Shantanu Phukan (Asian Studies): "None Mad as a Hindu Woman: Indianizing the Islamic Imaginaire."
Part of the Brown Bag lecture series. Feel free to bring your lunch!
View flyers for the talk (flyer one, flyer two) in PDF (1.05 MB ea.).

Friday, February 27th, 3 p.m., Hanes Art 117, UNC-CH. POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER. RESCHEDULED FOR MARCH 31 (See below)

The Art Department presents a lecture by Stephen Murray (Columbia University, and currently a fellow at the National Humanities Center) on "Telling the Story of Gothic."

Monday, March 15th, 7 p.m., Lucy's (Corner of Rosemary and Henderson), Chapel Hill.
CAMS discussion group and business meeting
For information on the reading see the readings page on the CAMS website http://www.unc.edu/student/orgs/cams/discuss.htm

Wednesday, March 17th, 12:00 p.m., Hamilton Hall 569 (please note room change), UNC-CH.
The Medieval Studies Curriculum presents a lunchtime lecture by Maura Lafferty (Classics): "The Metamorphosis of St Patrick: Unlearned Sinner to Learned Scribe."
Part of the Brown Bag lecture series. Feel free to bring your lunch!
Promotional flyers in PDF: black and white, color (caution: large files).

Wednesday, March 17th, 5:00 p.m., Alumni Commons Room, Divinity School (Gray Building), Duke Campus
The Duke Center for Late Ancient Studies presents a lecture by Daniel Boyarin (University of California at Berkeley): "Why is Rabbi Yohanan a Woman? Platonic Love in the Talmud."

Thursday, March 18th through Saturday, March 20th, Dey Hall, UNC-CH.
The International Petrarch Symposium, "Francis Petrarch and the European Lyric Tradition," will take place at UNC-CH.
The entire program is available online. The Symposium is free and open to all. The registration desk will be located outside of Toy Lounge on the 4th floor of Dey Hall.

Thursday, March 18th, 5:00 p.m., Franklin Center Conference Room (240), 2204 Erwin Road, Duke Campus.
The Duke Program on "Theory and the Study of Premodernity presents a lecture by Daniel Boyarin (University of California at Berkeley): "Hybrids and Heretics: Postcolonial Theorizing and the Making of Religion."
Free parking is available after 4 p.m. in the Pickens Clinic parking lot across the street from the Franklin Center.

Friday, March 19th, 3:00 p.m., Main Conference Room, National Humanities Center, 7 Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park.
The Lilly Seminar on Religion and the Humanities presents a lecture by Patrick Geary (UCLA), topic TBA.
For more information and advance copies of the paper, contact Kent Mullikin at kent@ga.unc.edu.

Wednesday, March 24th, 5:15 p.m., Murphey 116, UNC-CH.
The 2004 Dorothy Ford Wiley lecture on Renaissance culture: Kate Lowe (University of London), "Embassies from Sub-Saharan Africa to the Renaissance Papacy: Cultural Aussumptions and Connections."
Light refreshments will be served.

Friday-Sunday, March 26-28th, John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University.
Duke international symposium: "In the Footsteps of Petrarch: Poetry, Music, Art, Culture." This interdisciplinary symposium is dedicated to Ronald Witt, History, Duke University, on the occasion of his retirement. For details, see the symposium webpage.

Monday, March 29th, 5:30 p.m., Murphey 116, UNC-CH.
CAMS presents the Spring 2004 "Bring It Home" lecture panel, featuring papers by
Dorothy Verkerk (Art History), "Life after Death: The Biographies of Funerary Sculpture," and
Richard Pfaff (History), "How Did the Eadwine Psalter Come About?"
A reception will follow.

Tuesday, March 30th, 7 p.m., Lucy's (Corner of Rosemary and Henderson), Chapel Hill.
CAMS discussion group and business meeting
For information on the reading see the readings page on the CAMS website http://www.unc.edu/student/orgs/cams/discuss.htm

Wednesday, March 31st, 5:00 p.m., Hanes Art 117.
The Art Department presents a lecture by Stephen Murray (Columbia University, and currently a fellow at the National Humanities Center) on "Telling the Story of Gothic."

Dr. Murray's research interests include Medieval art, Gothic architecture, social and cultural history, and the application of the digital media to Art History. He received his Ph.D. from the University of London in 1973. For more information his research, see his webpage.

Monday, April 12th, 7 p.m., Lucy's (Corner of Rosemary and Henderson), Chapel Hill.
CAMS discussion group and business meeting
For information on the reading see the readings page on the CAMS website http://www.unc.edu/student/orgs/cams/discuss.htm

Thursday, April 15th, and Friday, April 16th, 7 p.m. (both nights), Greenlaw 302, UNC-CH.
The Medieval Studies Curriculum presents a Joan of Arc Film Fest, featuring The Messenger (1999), dir. Luc Besson (on Thursday) and La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928), dir. C. Th. Dreyer (on Friday). View the flyer (in PDF).

Free Pizza and Soda on both evenings.

Friday, April 16th, 4 p.m., National Humanities Center (7 Alexander Drive), Research Triangle Park.
The Triangle communities of scholars of early modern European culture present a public lecture by Moshe Sluhovsky (Hebrew University of Jersusalem, and California State University, Los Angeles), on "Demonic Possession, Discernment of Spirits, and the Problem of Modernity."

Prof. Sluhovsky's research focuses on social and religious history, and the history of sexuality. He has published Patroness of Paris: Rituals of Devotion in Early Modern France, (1998) and "The Devil in the Convent," American Historical Review (2002). His talk will introduce us to his latest book manuscript, and his thinking on why there were so many women possessed – mystically/devilishly – in early modern Europe.

All are welcome to his talk, and to a reception thereafter.

Wednesday, April 21st, 3:30 p.m., Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library, UNC-CH.
The UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Germanic Languages in conjunction with the Duke University Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and the Max Kade Foundation, presents a lecture by Dr Jutta Eming (Research Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin and Max Kade Visiting Associate Professor at UNC-CH and Duke) on "Affect as Body-Style in Courtly Literature."

Reception to follow.

Wednesday, April 21st, 5:15 p.m., 204B East Duke Building, East Campus, Duke University.
The Duke Center for Late Ancient Studies presents a lecture by Jas Elsner (University of Oxford), entitled "Late Antique Art: The Problem of the Concept and the Cumulative Aesthetic."

Refreshments will be served.

Tuesday, April 27th, 7 p.m., Lucy's (Corner of Rosemary and Henderson), Chapel Hill.
CAMS discussion group and business meeting
For information on the reading see the readings page on the CAMS website http://www.unc.edu/student/orgs/cams/discuss.htm

Tuesday, June 1st, 7 p.m., Lucy's (Corner of Rosemary and Henderson), Chapel Hill.
CAMS discussion group and business meeting
For information on the topic, see the discussion group page on the CAMS website http://www.unc.edu/student/orgs/cams/discuss.htm

Monday, June 14th, 7 p.m., Lucy's (Corner of Rosemary and Henderson), Chapel Hill.
CAMS discussion group and business meeting
For information on the topic, see the discussion group page on the CAMS website http://www.unc.edu/student/orgs/cams/discuss.htm

Saturday, July 10th, Chapel Hill.
CAMS outing to see Bruckheimer's new movie, King Arthur.

Monday, July 12th, 7 p.m., Lucy's (Corner of Rosemary and Henderson), Chapel Hill.
CAMS discussion group and business meeting
For information on the topic, see the discussion group page on the CAMS website http://www.unc.edu/student/orgs/cams/discuss.htm

Tuesday, July 27th, 7 p.m., Lucy's (Corner of Rosemary and Henderson), Chapel Hill.
CAMS discussion group and business meeting
For information on the topic, see the discussion group page on the CAMS website http://www.unc.edu/student/orgs/cams/discuss.htm