GCMRS Special Summer Seminar: 2009
Wednesday, 24 June 2009, 5:15pm
8 University Gardens, Room 101
Prof. Rachel Dressler (Art History, State University of New York, Albany)
Sculptural Representation and Spatial Usurpation in a Medieval Chantry Chapel
GCMRS seminars: Spring 2009
Thursday, 22 January, 5:15 p.m. (cosponsored by Celtic)
9 University Gardens, Room 206 (Seminar Room)
Dr Geraldine Parsons (Celtic, University of Glasgow)
Cycle and Convention in Medieval Gaelic Literature: The Case of Fíanaigecht Writing
Dr Parsons will also conduct a masterclass from 2:00-3:00pm in 16 University Gardens, Room 303 on Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Concerns in “Tales of the Elders of Ireland” (Acallam na Senórach)
Thursday, 12 February, 5:15 p.m. (cosponsored by History of Art)
8 University Gardens, Room 101
Dr Claudia Bolgia (History of Art, University of Edinburgh)
Benedictine Monasticism and Artistic Patronage in Thirteenth-Century Rome: The Case of S. Paolo fuori le Mura
Dr Bolgia will also conduct a masterclass from 2:00-3:00pm in 8 University Gardens, Room 308 on The Wonders of Rome: Master Gregory and the Mirabilia Tradition (12th-13th Centuries)
Wednesday, 4 March, 5:15 p.m.
12 University Gardens, Room 1
Prof. Willy Maley (English Literature, University of Glasgow)
Saxon Agonistes: Milton’s History of Britain (1670) and the Lament for a Lost England
Thursday, 19 March, 5:15 p.m. (cosponsored by History)
Wolfson Medical Building, Yudowitz Seminar Room
Prof. Miri Rubin (History, University of London)
Mary and the Jews
Prof. Rubin will also conduct a masterclass from 2:00-3:00pm in Boyd Orr, Room 506 on Ecclesia and Synagoga: Same and Different
Thursday, 12 March, 5:15 p.m.
8 University Gardens, Room 101
Prof. Katrin Kogman-Appel (History of Art, Ben Gurion University)
'Coping with Christian Art in the Jewish Community of Worms: Examples From an Early 14th Century Hebrew Prayer Book'
GCMRS seminars: autumn 2008
GCMRS seminars: autumn 2008
Thursday 30 October 2008
Dr Truus van Bueren (University of Utrecht), His or Her Place: Gender Related Issues in the Medieval Culture of Remembrance'
at 5.15pm, in 10 University Gardens, Lecture Room 203
Thursday 6 November 2008
Dr Pollie Bromilow (French, Liverpool University), Rereading Lucretia in Hélisenne de Crenne's Angoysses douloureuses. Dr Bromilow will also conduct a masterclass (time/venue TBA) on ‘Convent writing: An Emerging Genre?
at 5:15 p.m, in 16 University Gardens, Room 205 (5)
Thursday 13 November 2008
Dr Melinda Metzger (English, Furman University), Latin Glosses on Old English Text? The Strange Case of BL, Cotton Faustina A.x
at 4:15 p.m. (cosponsored by English Language), in 12 University Gardens, Room 1
Tuesday 18 November 2008
Prof. Madeline Caviness (History of Art, Tufts University), The Sachsenspiegel Picture Books: Working to Put Women & Jews ‘In Their Place’
(cosponsored by the International Center for Medieval Art)
at 5:15 p.m, in the Wolfson Medical Building, Hugh Fraser Seminar Room
Thursday 20 November 2008
Prof. John Hines (History & Archaeology, Cardiff University), Sceattas and Scillingas: Two Very Meaningful Terms in the Earliest Old English Law-Codes
at 5:15p.m. (cosponsored by English Language), in 12 University Gardens, Room 1
Prof. Hines will also conduct a masterclass (time/venue TBA) on ‘Death and Burial in Anglo-Saxon Archaeology and Old English Literature’