GCMRS Seminars and Masterclasses: 2010/2011
Thursday, 11 November, 4:15 p.m.
(cosponsored by English Language)
Sir Charles Wilson Building, Room 201
Prof. Mary Carruthers (Dept. of English, New York University) Instruments for Invention: The Arts of Memory in the Middle Ages
Prof. Carruthers will also conduct a masterclass from 2:00-3:00pm in 8 The Square, Room G26 on The Treatise on the Cherub and the Medieval Craft of Memory
Thursday, 2 December, 5:15 p.m.
(cosponsored by History of Art)
7 University Gardens, Hepburn Room (Room 208)
Dr. Jill Burke (History of Art, University of Edinburgh) What It Is To Be Human: Discovering Naked Natives and the Birth of the Renaissance Nude
Dr. Burke will also conduct a masterclass from 2:00-3:00pm in 8 University Gardens, Room 303 on ‘Men with Breasts’: Michelangelo’s Women and the Historical Context for Body Image
Thursday, 27 January, 5:15 p.m.
10 University Gardens, Room 203
Dr Bettina Bildhauer (German, University of St Andrews): Best Eaten Cold: The Psychology and Physiology of Revenge in Late Medieval Culture
Masterclass (2:00-3:00 p.m., Boyd Orr Building, Room 506): Medieval Blood and Bodies
Thursday, 10 February, 5:15 p.m. (rescheduled after 2 December cancellation)
(cosponsored by History of Art)
7 University Gardens, Hepburn Room (Room 208)
Dr Jill Burke (History of Art, University of Edinburgh): What It Is To Be Human: Discovering Naked Natives and the Birth of the Renaissance Nude
Masterclass (2:00-3:00 p.m., 8 University Gardens, Room 308): ‘Men with Breasts’: Michelangelo’s Women and the Historical Context for Body Image
Thursday, 24 February, 5:15 p.m.
(cosponsored by History of Art)
10 University Gardens, Room 203
Professor Matthew Strickland (History, University of Glasgow): ‘A King without a Realm’: Henry the ‘Young King’ (1155-1183) and the Politics of Succession in the Angevin Empire
Thursday, 10 March, 4:15 p.m.
(cosponsored by English Language)
12 University Gardens, Room 101
Dr Anke Timmermann (English Language, University of Glasgow): Nature Unbound: The Art, Craft and Science of Alchemy
Masterclass (2:00-3:00 p.m., Boyd Orr Building, Room 506): Scientific Sources for Medieval and Early Modern Scholars
Thursday, 24 March, 5:15 p.m.
(jointly sponsored with The International Center for Medieval Art [New York] and History of Art)
Wolfson Medical Building, Yudowitz Seminar room
Professor Lucy Sandler (Fine Arts Institute, New York University): The Bohuns and Their Books: Illuminated Manuscripts for Aristocrats in Fourteenth-Century England
Special Summer Class 2011
Monday, 27 June, 4:00 p.m.
(cosponsored by History of Art)
7 University Gardens, Hepburn Room (208)
Prof. Asa Simon Mittman (History of Art, California State University, Chico): Medieval Monsters and Modern Monster Studies