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"The Use of Documents of European Archives for the History of the Maghreb during the Colonial Period": A workshop with Dominique Valérian (Paris, History)
"Merchant Identities in the Medieval Mediterranean World": A talk by Dominique Valerian
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 médiéval (2006) and Bougie, port maghrébin, 1067-1510 (2006), and a co-editor of Chemins d'outre-mer (2005) and Espaces et réseaux en Méditerranée médiévale (2007).
The paper for the workshop can be downloaded ValerianTexts.doc.
Additionally cosponsored by the Identity in the Mediterranean World Collaborative.
October 22nd, 2009Stephen Martin of the University of Minnesota, Duluth will be speaking on Vetting the Variorum for French-Language Studies.
Where: Nolte Center 140
When: Tuesday, October 6 at 4:00 p.m.
"Religion and Law in the Global Middle Ages" brings together internationally distinguished scholars, faculty and students from the University of Minnesota, and community members including high school teachers, to discuss the period when some of our most compelling contemporary issues were first formulated.
September 24th, 2009Conrad Rudolph of the University of California, Riverside will be speaking on Time, Space and the Progress of History in the Medieval Map.
Where: Nolte Center 140
When: Tuesday, 22 September at 4:00 p.m.
Join us for the Center for Medieval Studies fall picnic!
Where: Nolte Center courtyard
When: Tuesday, 15 September 2009 at 4:30pm
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.
March 23rd, 2009Join 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.
IAS is proud to announce that Professor Enders from the Departments of
Theater and French & Italian at the University of California at Santa
Barbara will join them to speak about "The Devil in the Medieval Theatrical
Flesh." Friday, 6 March 12:00-1:30pm, 125 Nolte Center.
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Medieval Studies.
March 2nd, 2009The brochure and application for the 2009 Minnesota Manuscript Research Library co-sponsored by UMN's Center for Medieval Studies and the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library at St. John's University is now available. Please visit: http://www.tc.umn.edu/%7Eander002/MSS%20Research%20Lab%20web.htm for details and to apply.
Funding may be available for declared UMN Medieval Studies minors.
January 14th, 2009A colloquium by Antoinette Healey of the University of Toronto co-sponsored with the Celtic Studies Endowment, Department of English.
December 10th, 2008A talk co-sponsored by the Celtic Studies Endowment, Department of English.
December 10th, 2008
A workshop led by Daniel Smail, Harvard University
Co-sponsored with the Center for Early Modern History
Sharon Kinoshita, University of California Santa Cruz
Co-sponsored with the Department of French and Italian.
Herbert Kessler, Johns Hopkins University
Co-sponsored with the Department of Art History.
