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The members of the Medieval and Early Modern Research Group invite you to join them for their Annual Spring Colloquium. Three graduate students will present short selections of their work, a
question and answer session will follow, light lunch provided.
What: The Medieval and Early Modern Research Group (MEMRG)'s
Annual Spring Colloquium
When: This Friday 27 March 2009, 12:00pm
Where: Pillsbury Hall, 110
Our three presenters are:
Adam Oberlin (German, Scandinavian, and Dutch)
"Wandering Glosses for Gothic runa and Their Old English Cognates."
Eric Carlson (English)
"Drinking, speaking, and acting in Beowulf."
Elissa Hansen (English) "The 'Pilgrim Way': Travel, Ecclesiastical
Authority, and Regional Identity in Two Eighth-Century Hagiographies."
Please join us for an intellectually stimulating afternoon.
Generously sponsored by the Office of Student Unions & Activities and Coke.
03/23/09Join us on Saturday, April 4, 2009 for a sampler of presentations specifically targeted to undergraduates, but of interest to many others about the fascinating and often unexpected world of the Middle Ages.
Place: The President’s Room, Coffman Memorial Union
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities East Bank Campus
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Schedule (subject to change)
10:00am - Registration & Welcome
10:15am - Introduction to Exhibit of Medieval Books
10:30am - On the Road with the Crusades
11:15am - Food, Feasting & Fasting
12:00pm - Lunch
1:15pm - Beowulf: Fact, Fiction, & Film
2:00pm - Exploring a Medieval City
2:45pm - Readers’ Theatre: The Chase: Harts & Hearts
To reserve space for you or your students, please contact Pat Eldred (PMEldred@stkate.edu)
Deadline: March 18, 2009
Sponsored by the Medieval Research Group, Metro State University, and the University of Minnesota’s Center for Medieval Studies and James Ford Bell Library.
9:00 AM 10/24/2009
Location: Nolte Center for Continuing Education, 125, Sponsored by Center for Medieval Studies: A Conference Presented by the Center for Medieval Studies, University of Minnesota, with generous funding from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and the Provost's Imagine Fund. (On September 8, University of Minnesota Provost Tom Sullivan announced a new $1.3 million system-wide initiative de...
4:00 PM 11/5/2009
Location: Nolte Center for Continuing Education, 125, Sponsored by Institute for Advanced Study: Dominique Valérian is maître de conférences at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is the author of Les sources italiennes de l'histoire du Maghreb médieéval (2006) and a contributor to Chemins d'outre-mer (2005). Addition...
What was the name of the wife of the Emperor who created the corpus juris civilis?
Answers to gabriel gryffyn (ggryffyn.cms@gmail.com) with the subject line “trivia” by noon on Wednesday, 20 May.
May 13th, 2009Last Wednesday, 18 March 2009, UMN History graduate students Philip Grace and Basit Qureshi traveled to Cambridge-Isanti High School in Cambridge, MN to present our first “Making a Medieval Book” Outreach program of the year.
Social Studies teacher Donna Ferber’s two classes welcomed Philip and Basit, and enjoyed both learning about book construction in the middle ages, and the medieval dress worn by the two presenters.
Ms. Ferber wrote us with her impressions:
I just wanted to thank you for helping to set up the visit by Basit and Philip. It went really well! They were engaging speakers who knew how to interest a teenage audience. The visuals were very helpful, and everyone—including me!—learned a lot. The costumes were a hit as well. All in all, the experience has been entirely positive for me and my students. Some of them talked the next day about how much they enjoyed the visit. Thank you for helping me to make history real to my students.
We look forward to more successful Outreach presentations this spring!
