Center for Medieval Studies at the University of Minnesota

Colloquia Fall 2006

*January*
25 Thursday 4:00 P.M. Nolte 125 Please note location	Colloquium: Geraldine Heng (University of Texas at Austin) "The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages" Co-sponsored with the Institute for Advanced Study
*February*
8 Thursday 4:00 P.M. Nolte 229	Colloquium: George G. Shuffelton (Carleton College) "Is There a Minstrel in the House? MS Ashmole 61 and Domestic Reading in Late Medieval England"
22 Thursday 4:00 P.M. Nolte 229	Colloquium: Ruth Mazo Karras (University of Minnesota) "The Policing of Non-Marital Sex in Late Medieval London and Paris" Follow these links for the abstract and the flier (pdf format).
*March*
8 Thursday 4:00 P.M. Nolte 229	Colloquium: James G. Schryver (University of Minnesota, Morris) "Communities, Interaction and Change on Frankish Cyprus" Flier and abstract available in pdf format.
22 Wednesday 4:00 P.M. Nolte 125	Colloquium: Hava Tirosh-Samuelson (Arizona State University) "Philosophy and Kabbalah on the Pursuit of Happiness" Co-sponsored with the Institute for Advanced Study and the Center for Jewish Studies
29 Thursday 4:00 P.M. Nolte 229	Colloquium: Irfan Shahîd (Georgetown University) "The Holy Land: Its Early Muslim Character, 7th-11th Centuries. The crusades Before the Crusades" Flier available in pdf format.
*April*
5 Thursday 4:00 P.M. Nolte 229	Colloquium: Julia M. H. Smith (University of Glasgow) "Gender and Sanctity in the Early Middle Ages" Co-sponsored with the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies
26 Thursday 4:00 P.M. Nolte 125	Colloquium: Norman Golb (University of Chicago) "The Rouen Discoveries: How Manuscript and Archeological Investigation Revealed the Forgotten History of the Jews of Medieval Rouen and Normandy" Flier and abstract available in pdf format.

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Archive of Past Events:

Fall 2003

*September*
21 Thursday 4:00 P.M. Nolte 125 Please note location	Colloquium: Lourdes Alvarez (Catholic University) “Songs in an Andalusian Key: Musical Style, Identity Politics and Andalusian Nostalgia in Pop Music from Spain, North Africa and Israel” Co-sponsored with the Institute for Advanced Study, the Center for Jewish Studies, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
*October*
9 Monday 4:00 P.M. Wilkens Room, Hubert H. Humphrey Center	Colloquium: Herwig Wolfram (University of Vienna) “Austria before Austria. The Medieval Past of Politics to Come” Co-sponsored with the Center for Austrian Studies, Annual Kann Lecture
12 Thursday 4:00 P.M. Nolte 125 Please note location	Colloquium: François Menant (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris) “Wealth, Culture and Vendetta: The Communal Elites in Italy, 13th – 14th Centuries” Co-sponsored with the Institute for Advanced Study
*November*
2 Thursday 4:00 P.M. Nolte 229	Colloquium: David Benson (University of Connecticut) “Rome and London in Chaucer and Langland”
30 Thursday 4:00 P.M. Nolte 229	Colloquium: Linda Seidel (University of Chicago) “The Three Rs of Romanesque Art”
*December*
7 Thursday 4:00 P.M. Nolte 229	Colloquium: Virginia Newes (Independent Scholar) “Masculine and Feminine Voices in a Pair of Lais by Guillaume de Machaut”

Colloquia Spring 2006

*February*
2 Thursday 4 P.M. Nolte 229	Colloquium: Tracy Adams (University of Auckland) "Isabella of France, Reigning Now by the Grace of God"
3 Friday 4:15 P.M. Nicholson 155	Minnesota Manuscript Research Laboratory Colloquium: Richard Janko (University of Michigan) “From the Santorini Eruption to Mopsus in Cilicia: Greek Memories of the Bronze Age” Co-sponsored with the Dept of Classical and Near Eastern Studies
9 Thursday 4 P.M. Nolte 229	Colloquium: Calvin Kendall (University of Minnesota) "Gascon Gastronomy: The West Portal of Oloron-Ste-Marie and the Pilgrim's Guide to Compostela"
10 Friday 7 P.M. Nolte 125	"Medieval Inventions: The Hospital?" Symposium Series lecture: Vivian Nutton (University College London) “Beyond the Jordan: Evidence for Early Hospitals among the Eastern Christians”
17 Friday 7 P.M. Nolte 125	"Medieval Inventions: The Hospital?" Symposium Series lecture: Melanie Holcomb (Metropolitan Museum of Art) “Vital Signs: Images of Healing in the Middle Ages”
23 Thursday 4 P.M. Nolte 229	Colloquium: Steven J. McMichael (University of St. Thomas) “Prayer in Medieval Jewish, Muslim and Christian Polemical Literature”
*March*
2 Thursday 4 PM Nolte 229 9 Thursday 4 P.M. Nolte 229	Colloquium: Barbara Weissberger (University of Minnesota) "Anxious Latinity: Gender and Humanism in the Court of Queen Isabel I of Spain" Colloquium: Anatoly Liberman (University of Minnesota) "The Origin of the Words ‘man’ and ‘wife’ and the Germanic View of Humanity"
13 - 17	Spring Break
30 Thursday 5 P.M. Nicholson 155	Minnesota Manuscript Research Laboratory Colloquium: John J. Collins (Yale University) “What Kind of Community Produced the Dead Sea Scrolls?” Co-sponsored with the Dept of Classical and Near Eastern Studies
*April*
13 Thursday 4 P.M. Nolte 229	Colloquium: Stephen Mitchell (Harvard University) “Charm Magic and Performance in the Nordic Middle Ages” *Co-sponsored with Scandinavian Studies*
20 Thursday 4 P.M. Nolte 229	Colloquium: Helen Damico (University of New Mexico) “Poetry and Politics: Beowulf's Queen Revisited”
27 Thursday 4:45 PM Nicholson 155	Colloquium: Please note: Date and Time Change Oliver Nicholson (University of Minnesota) 4:45 PM, Nicholson 155 “Preparation for Martyrdom in the Early Church” *Co-sponsored with the Dept. of Classical and Near Eastern Studies*

Colloquia Fall 2005

September
15 Thursday 4 P.M. Nolte 229	Co-sponsored by the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese Olivia Remie Constable (University of Notre Dame) "Chess and Courtly Culture in Medieval Castile: An Analysis of the Libro de Ajedrez of Alfonso X"
22 Thursday 4 P.M. Nolte 229	Columba Stewart (Hill Museum and Manuscript Library) "Origin of the Seven Deadly Sins"
October
6 Thursday 4 P.M. Nolte 229	Andrew Scheil (Department of English, University of Minnesota) "Beowulf and the Emergent Occasion"
20 Thursday 4 P.M. Nolte 125	Co-sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Study Sandra Hindman (Northwestern University) "The Impact of the Internet on Research in Medieval Manuscripts"
27 Thursday 4 P.M. Nolte 229	Karla Mallette (Miami University) "Vox populorum: Muslims, Christians, and Sicilian Literary History 1100-1250"
November
10 Thursday 4 P.M. Nolte 229	Paul Rouzer (Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Minnesota) "Patrons, Banquets, and the Rise of the Chinese Courtly Lyric"
December
1 Thursday 4 P.M. Nolte 229	Mark Swanson (Luther Seminary) "Sanctity and Resistance in Fourteenth-Century Egypt: The Life and Influence of Abba Marqus al-Antuni"
8 Thursday 4 P.M. Nolte 229	Barbara Newman (Northwestern University) "Frauenlob's Song of Songs: Translating a Medieval Marian Performance"

Spring 2005 Colloquia

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*January*
27 Thursday 4 P.M. Nolte 229	Bernard Bachrach (Department of History, University of Minnesota): "Papal War Aims in 1096: The Option Not Taken"
*February*
10 Thursday 4 P.M. Nolte 229	William Kennedy (Cornell University): "Petrarch as Homo Economicus: Interest, Growth, and the Futures of Style in the Rime sparse"
24 Thursday 4 P.M. Nolte 229	Paul Saenger (Newberry Library): "The Introduction of Hebrew Versification to the Latin Bible"
*March*
3 Thursday 4 P.M. Nolte 229	Matthew Z. Heintzelman (Hill Monastic Manuscript Library and St. John's University): "A Strong Desire for the Passion: The Final Performances of the Frankfurt Passion Play"
10 Thursday 4 P.M. Nolte 229	Melanie Holcomb (Metropolitan Museum of Art): "Looking Learned: The Scholar's Portrait in Carolingian Art"
*April*
7 Thursday 4 P.M. Nolte 229	Dennis Costa (Boston University): "nova res oblata: Dante's Vergil as Occasion of Meaning"
14 Thursday 4 P.M. Nolte 229	Anna Maria Busse Berger (University of California): "How Did Medieval Composers Compose Pieces in the Mind?"
21 Thursday 4 P.M. Nolte 229	Laura Smoller (University of Arkansas): "The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby: Creating the Image of Vincent Ferrer (d. 1419)"
28 Thursday 4 P.M. Nolte 229	Jole Shackelford (History of Medicine, University of Minnesota ): "The Chemical Transformation of Medieval Uroscopy in Late Renaissance/Early Modern Medicine"

Fall 2004 Colloquium Schedule

*September*
23 Thursday 4 p.m. Nolte Room 229	Karl Morrison Lessing Professor of History and Poetics, Rutgers University See also Workshops.	"Playing with Dolls and Other Empathetic Exercises"
30 Thursday 4 p.m. Nolte Room 229	Stephanie Cain Van d'Elden University of Minnesota	"Is a Tree Just a Tree? Tristan and Isolde in the Orchard"
Please note: this talk was originally scheduled for November 18.
*October*
11 Monday 4 p.m. Nolte Room 140	Rachel Jacoff Deffenbaugh and Carlson Professor of Italian Studies, Wellesley College	"Dante and the Jewish Question" This event is co-sponsered by the Center for Jewish Studies.
	Professor Jacoff will also lead a discussion workshop on Dante today at 12:30 p.m.
14 Thursday 4 p.m. Nolte Room 229	Nina Rowe Assistant Professor, Department of the Art History and Music, Fordham University	"The Jew on the Cathedral: The South Facade at Reims and Urban Spectatorship" This event is co-sponsered by the Center for Jewish Studies.
	Professor Rowe will also lead a discussion workshop Wednesday, October 13.
21 Thursday 4 p.m. Nolte Room 229	Rebecca Krug Department of English, University of Minnesota	"Margery Kempe and Prophecy"
November
11 Thursday 4 p.m. Nolte Room 229	Consuelo Dutschke Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Columbia University Library	"Digital Scriptorium: Trust and (Distrust?) in Accessing Medieval Manuscripts on the Web"
18 Thursday 4 p.m. Nolte Room 229	Colloquia: Yossi Maurey University of Chicago	"Saint-Martin of Tours and its Unique Repertory of Latin Songs"
December
2 Thursday, 4 p.m. Nolte Room 229	Donna Cardamone Jackson School of Music, University of Minnesota	"Images of Singer-Songwriters in the Middle Ages: A New Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Medieval Music"

Spring 2004 Colloquia & Other Events

*February*
5	Jane Satkowski Minneapolis Institute of Arts	"Sienese Influences on Painting in Catalonia in the 14th Century"
19	Postdoctoral Forum with Patricia MacCaughan and Deborah Shepard
*March*
11	Tina Thurston State University of New York at Buffalo	"The Archeology of the Viking Homelands" Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology
25	Theresa Vann Hill Monastic Manuscript Library	"A Medieval Library for the 21 st Century: the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library"
April
15	C.J. Liu & Dan Donnelly University of Minnesota	"Media Migration: Digitizing 8th Century Chinese Poetry for Access & Preservation" *This colloquium will take place in Walter Library, room 310.*
22	Albert Ascoli University of California at Berkeley	"The Will to Authorship: Virgil Crowns Dante"
29	Lars Lonnroth University of Gothenburg	"The Language of Fact and the Language of Emotion in Old Norse Tradition" Co-sponsored by the Center for Scandinavian Studies
April 30 —May 1st : The Department of Spanish and Portuguese presents "Questioning the Queen: Isabel I of Castile 500 Years Later"
May
13	CMS Picnic — Father Hennnepin Park, Minneapolis

Fall 2003 Colloquia & Other Events

*September*
11	Katherine Gill Hill Monastic Manuscript Library	"The Civic Work and Cultural Patronage of Uncloistered Religious Women in Late Medieval Italy"
18	Paul Freedman Yale University	"The Fragrance of Paradise: The Vogue for Spices in Medieval Europe"
*October*
2	James Masschaele Rutgers University	"The Medieval Jury: A Social History"
9	Martha Howell Columbia University	"The Social Life of Pots, Beds and Dresses in Late Medieval Cities"
23-25	Conference: "Text and Image in Medieval England" in Honor of Calvin B. Kendall
*November*
6	Joel Kaye Barnard College	"Reflections of Monetary Consciousness and Mercantile Ideals in 14th Century Chronicles and Literature"
27	*Thanksgiving*
*December*
4	Pat Conroy University of Washington	"The Oral Performance Traditions of Archaic and Modern Ballad Communities" Co-Sponsored by the Center for Scandinavian Studies
11	*Holiday Party*

Spring 2003 Colloquia

*January*
Monday 27 143 Classroom Bldg. 1701 University Ave.	Caroline Bruzelius Duke University	"Naples as Anti-Avignon: Queen Sancia, the Spiritual Franciscans, and the Convent Church of Sta. Chiara" Please note, this lecture takes place on a different day and in a different location.
30	McKnight Summer Research Presentations (3:30 - 5:00 PM) 125 Nolte Library
	Eva von Dassow	"Social Classes and Political History of Alalakh, circa 1450 BCE"
	Oliver Nicholson	"A Pagan Landscape: Constantinople and the Bosporus Before Constantine"
	Philip Sellew	"The Landscape of Egyptian Monasticism"
*February*
6	Peggy McCracken University of Michigan	"Miracles and Mimesis"
27	Lourdes Alvarez Catholic University of America	"Songs of Divine Intoxication: The Mystical Poetics of the Ibn al-Arabi and Shushtari" Co-Sponsered by the Dep. of Spanish and Portuguese
*March*
6	Gretchen Peters University of Wisconsin, Eau-Claire	"Politics and Civic Patronage of Music: A Comparison of Late Medieval Montpellier and Lyons"
17-21	Spring Break
27	Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan Sorbonne	"Cultures and Praxis of Urban Space in Late Medieval Venice"
*April*
Wednesday 2	McKnight Summer Research Presentations (3:30 - 5:00 PM) D. Shephard Room, Campus Club, Coffman Memorial Union
	Kathryn Reyerson	"Women, Economy, and Culture in Medieval Monpellier"
	Barbara Weissberger	"When Romance Was Not (Just) Sentimental"
	Ofelia Ferrán	"Women's Narrative and Film in Twentieth-Century Spain"
10-12	Medieval Academy of America Conference, U of MN, Minneapolis
17	Astrid Ogilvie University of Colorado	"Sagas, Sea Ice and Sediments: Climatic Clues from the Viking Age" Co-Sponsored by the Center for Scandinavian Studies
*May*
1	Ludo Jonen & Bart Veldhoen University of Leiden	"Middle Dutch Grail Romance"
8-11	38th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI
15	Picnic

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Fall 2002 Colloquia

*September*
3	Classes Begin
12	Anatoly Liberman University of Minnesota	"The Howling Berserk: A Double Legend"
26	E. Jane Burns L. M. Slifkin Distinguished Term Professor Curriculum in Women's Studies University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	"Chemises, Sleeves and Golden Spurs: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval Culture"
*October*
24	Stan Chojnacki University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	"Family Honor and Sexual Rebellion in Quattrocento Venice"
31	Ralph Hexter University of California	"Catullus and the Invention of Heterosexuality". The lecture will be in Folwell 306 at 4:30 PM
*November*
14	Walt Schalick	"Facials, Pharmaceuticals and Foundations: Medical Cosmetology and Physiognomy in Thirteenth- and early Fourteenth-Century Europe "
21	Bernard Bachrach University of Minnesota	"Charlemagne: A Study of Leadership"
28	*Thanksgiving*
*December*	Pamela Sheingorn Prof. of History, Baruch College & Prof. of History, Theatre, and Medieval Studies, The Graduate Center, City University of New York	"Gentle Violence: Constructing Saint Joseph the Carpenter"
12	*Holiday Party*
For more information about the dinner with the speaker following the lecture, or about the student breakfast the following morning, please contact the Center for Medieval Studies at (612) 626-0805, or cmedst@umn.edu. All Colloquia, unless otherwise specified, will be held at 229 Nolte Center, 315 Pillsbury Dr. S.E. on Thursdays at 3:30 P.M.

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Colloquia Fall 2006

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Archive of Past Events:

Fall 2003

September

October

November

December

Colloquia Spring 2006

February

March

April

Colloquia Fall 2005

September

October

November

December

Spring 2005 Colloquia

Fall 2004 Colloquium Schedule

Spring 2004 Colloquia & Other Events

Fall 2003 Colloquia & Other Events

Spring 2003 Colloquia

Fall 2002 Colloquia

The lecture will be in Folwell 306 at 4:30 PM