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Events Calendar Archive for 2005-2007 This is an archive of past announcements from the Medieval Studies Events Calendar for academic years 2005-2007. 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. _______________________________________________________________ Thursday, September 27, 2007, 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Medieval Studies Fall Reception, Donovan Lounge, 223 Greenlaw Hall. Refreshments will be served. _______________________________________________________________ Wednesday, September 19, 2007, 12:00 p.m. Brown Bag Lunch, Reading Room, 413 Dey Hall. Mary Raschko (Department of English and Comparative Literature) will present a lunchtime talk on "Parabolic Revision: the Wedding Feast in Cleanness". Please bring your lunch. Cookies and beverages will be served. ______________________________________________________________ February 19, 2007, Caroline Walker Bynum will be at UNC to deliver the Mary Reckford Lecture in European History. Professor Bynum will give a formal lecture (free and open to all) at 8PM in the auditorium of Tate-Turner-Kuralt.  Her topic will be the subject of her latest book, Wonderful Blood. Also, there will be an afternoon discussion from 3:30 to 5 PM in the University Room of Hyde Hall on her article, “The Presence of Objects: Medieval Anti-Judaism in Modern Germany,” which is available in advance. Space for the afternoon session is limited. _____________________________________________________________ Fiona Somerset of Duke University and the National Humanities Center will give a talk on "Lollards and Feeling: Historicizing the theory and practice of emotion in a late-medieval heretical group." Tuesday, January 23 at 4:00 in Greenlaw 223. _______________________________________________________________ Brown Bag Lecture. Edward Donald Kennedy will speak on "The End of the Arthurian Story: The Prose Brut, Harding's Chronicle, and the Alliterative Morte Arthure." Wednesday, November 29 at 12:15 in Greenlaw 223. _______________________________________________________________ Brown Bag Lecture. Carolyn Connor will speak on "The Lost Mosaics of Constantinople and Byzantine Church Decoration." Wednesday, November 8 at 12:15 in Murphey 104. _______________________________________________________________ Brown Bag Lecture. Dino Cervigni will speak on "Vestigal Orality in Dante's Vita Nuova." Wednesday, October 4, 12:15 in Greenlaw 223. _______________________________________________________________ Annual Medieval Studies Fall Reception. September 27th, 4-6 PM, Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 223. For all Medieval Studies students, faculty, and anyone else interested. Refreshments served. This page is copyright © 2006, UNC-CH Medieval Studies. Last update: 18-Jan-07. Corrections and suggestions: medieval.web@unc.edu. http://www.unc.edu/depts/medstud/calendar/index.html

Tuesday, September 6th, 7:00 p.m., W.B. Yeats Restaurant and Pub (W. Franklin Street), 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, September 8th, 7 p.m., West End Wine Bar (W. Franklin Street), Chapel Hill.
CAMS Fall Kick-Off Happy Hour
Students and professors working in Medieval Studies from all departments are welcome and encouraged to come out for this annual gathering. Everyone is welcome!

Friday, September 9th, 1 p.m., 121 Hanes Art Center, UNC-CH.
"Court Culture and the Villa in Tenth-Century Islamic Spain"
Dr. Glaire Anderson, Lecturer in Fine Arts, Brandeis University.

Thursday, September 15th, 6 p.m., Lucy's (Corner of Rosemary and Henderson), Chapel Hill.
Middle High German Reading Group.
Reading will begin around line 230 of Book V of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival.

Monday, September 19th, 7:00 p.m. W.B. Yeats Restaurant and Pub (W. Franklin Street), 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, September 21st, 4-6 p.m., Hamilton Lounge (569) UNC-CH.
Annual Medieval Studies Reception.
All students, colleagues, and members of the community interested in Medieval Studies are welcome. Light refreshments will be served.

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Wednesday, September 21st, 4:00-5:00 p.m., Rare Book Collection (Wilson Library, 3rd Floor), UNC-CH.
Graduate School-Library workshop series presents an "Introduction to Rare Books and Early Manuscripts." Learn how to approach primary sources from medieval period manuscripts through incunabula and early printed books. Will be repeated again on October 19th.

If you have any questions, please contact Libby Chenault in the Rare
Book Collection (chenault@email.unc.edu).

Tuesday, October 4th, 7:00 p.m. W.B. Yeats Restaurant and Pub (W. Franklin Street), 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, October 6th, 5:00 p.m., National Humanities Center
Maryanne Kowaleski, "Gossip, Gender, and the Economy: The Origins of Scolding Indictments in Medieval England."

Tuesday, October 11th, 4:30 p.m., Hill Hall (103), UNC-CH
UNC Department of Music presents a Colloquia Lecture by Thomas Kelly (Harvard University). “The Programs of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique."

Wednesday, October 12th, 12:00 p.m., Hamilton Lounge (569), UNC-CH.
The Medieval Studies Curriculum presents a lunchtime lecture by Hassan Melehy (Romance Languages)."'Grand' richesse': Du Bellay and Marot, a Petrarchan Navigation"

Part of the Brown Bag lecture series. Feel free to bring your lunch!

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Wednesday, October 19th, 4:00-5:00 p.m., Rare Book Collection (Wilson Library, 3rd Floor), UNC-CH.
Graduate School-Library workshop series presents an "Introduction to Rare Books and Early Manuscripts." Learn how to approach primary sources from medieval period manuscripts through incunabula and early printed books.

If you have any questions, please contact Libby Chenault in the Rare
Book Collection (chenault@email.unc.edu).

Friday, October 28th, 6:45 p.m. Dey Hall 203, UNC-CH.
CAMS presents "The Fellowship of the Ring" (extended version) as part of the Annual Medieval Studies Film Series.

Please join us for the extended version of Peter Jackson's award-winning " Fellowship of the Ring" (2000), based on the beloved book by Anglo-Saxon Professor and Oxford don J.R.R. Tolkien. The film will be introduced by UNC History Professor Brett Whalen, with the opportunity for discussion afterward.

Free and open to the public! Everyone is invited! There will be popcorn!

Tuesday, November 1st, 7:00 p.m. W.B. Yeats Restaurant and Pub (W. Franklin Street), 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, November 9th, 5:00 p.m. Hamilton Hall Lounge (569), UNC-CH.
The Medieval Studies Curriculum presents a fall lecture by Maryanne Kowaleski, Visiting Scholar from the National Humanities Center entitled "Living by the Sea: An Ethnography of Maritime Communities in Medieval England."

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Friday, November 11th, 4:15 p.m., Hill Hall (103), UNC-CH
UNC Department of Music presents a Friday Lecture by Jeanice Brooks, (University of Southampton, UK). "Music as Erotic Potion in a Renaissance Romance"

Monday, November 14th, 7:00 p.m., W.B. Yeats Restaurant and Pub (W. Franklin Street), 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, November 16th, 12:00 p.m., Hamilton Lounge (569), UNC-CH.
The Medieval Studies Curriculum presents a lunchtime lecture by Patrick O’Neill (English). "Bede and the Irish".

Part of the Brown Bag lecture series. Feel free to bring your lunch!

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Wednesday, November 16th, 4:30 p.m., Hanes Art Room 121, UNC-CH.
The Carolina Association for Medieval Studies Bring It Home Lecture

Professor Joseph Wittig (English) will give a lecture entitled, "Boccaccio, Boethius, and Chaucer: Dimensions of 'Love' in 'Troilus and riseyde'".

Reception to follow.

Wednesday, November 16th, 7:00 p.m. Location TBA, UNC-CH.
CAMS presents "Utlaginn" (The Outlaw), from Iceland, based on an Old Norse saga as part of the Annual Medieval Studies Film Series.

Free and open to the public! Everyone is invited! There will be popcorn!

Wednesday, January 18, 2:00 p.m., House Undergraduate Library 205, UNC-CH.
Asian Studies is pleased to announce a lecture by Alexander Elinson (Queens College, CUNY), "Narrating Identities: Writing the Border between Muslim Spain and North Africa."

For information, contact Sarah Shields, sshields@email.unc.edu.

Wednesday, January 25th, 12:00 p.m., Hamilton Lounge (569), UNC-CH.
The Medieval Studies Curriculum presents a lunchtime lecture by Brett Whalen (History), "The Papacy and the Frontiers of the West on the Eve of the First Crusade."

Part of the Brown Bag lecture series. Feel free to bring your lunch!

Printable posters: Color PDF (4.2 MB), Color GIF (412 KB), Black & White PDF (1.4 MB), and Black & White GIF (332 KB).

Friday-Saturday, February 3rd-4th, Dey Hall, UNC-CH
The North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Renaissance Studies Seventh Annual Graduate Student Conference "True or False?"

For further information and a complete schedule, see the Colloquium webpage, or contact Margaret Swezey at mfswezey@email.unc.edu.

Of particular interest is the keynote lecture by Prof. Ruth Nisse (Univ. Nebraska), "False Texts or True Prophecies? The Twelve Tribes of Jews in Late-Medieval England," which is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 3 at 5 pm in Toy Lounge.

Thursday, February 9th, 4:00 p.m., Toy Lounge (Dey Hall), UNC-CH.
The Medieval Studies Curriculum presents a Medieval Studies public lecture: Prof. Alastair Minnis (Ohio State Univ., and Fellow, National Humanities Center), "Protecting Marriage in Chaucer's England: The Heresies of Spousal Sex."

Printable posters: Color PDF (607 KB), Color JPG (204 KB), and a Black & White PDF (244 KB).

Monday, February 13th, 7 p.m., W.B. Yeats pub, Chapel Hill.
Carolina Association for Medieval Studies (CAMS) bi-weekly discussion group and business meeting. All are welcome. Please join us to discuss our plans for the semester.

Wednesday, February 15th, 12-1:30 p.m., Toy Lounge (Dey Hall), UNC-CH.
The Curriculum in Women's Studies prsents their February Luncheon Colloquium: Sahar Amer (Asian Studies), "A Saracen Eye for the French Gal."

Cookies & drinks will be served; please bring your lunch.

Background: Dr. Amer is interested in cross-cultural relations between the Arab world and Europe, between Muslims and Christians from the Middle Ages through the present day. She is currently completing a book entitled Border Crossings: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures, on cross-cultural and comparative representations of same-sex desire between women in the Middle Ages. She has previously published work on medieval literature, the literature of the Maghreb, multiculturalism in the Middle Ages, and the status of Muslim women in France today. She is currently a Fellow at the National Humanities Center.

Monday and Tuesday, February 21st-22nd, 5:30 p.m., Manning 209, UNC-CH.
Screening of Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King (1991).

This screening is in conjunction with Prof. Starkey's Getting Medieval course.

Wednesday, February 22nd, 12:00 p.m., Hamilton Lounge (569), UNC-CH.
The Medieval Studies Curriculum presents a lunchtime lecture by Lucia Binotti (Romance Languages), "Coins, Jewelry and Stone Inscriptions. Ambrosio de Morales and the Re-writing of Spanish History."

Part of the Brown Bag lecture series. Feel free to bring your lunch! Light refreshments will be served.

Printable posters: Color PDF (514 KB), Color JPG (314 KB), Black & White PDF (514 KB), and a Black & White JPG (314 KB).

Monday and Tuesday, March 6th-7th, 5:30 p.m., Manning 209, UNC-CH.
Screening of Tom Donovan's Lovespell (1979).

This screening is in conjunction with Prof. Starkey's Getting Medieval course.

Wednesday, March 8th, 7:00 p.m., Hanes Art 121 (the auditorium), UNC-CH.
Screening of Anthony Harvey's The Lion in Winter (1968), starring Peter O'Toole and Katherine Hepburn.