Medieval Studies Past Lectures

The Center for Medieval Studies hosts a series of scholarly lectures each semester to which all faculty, graduate students, interested undergraduate students and interested members of the general public are invited. Each lecture is followed by a reception hosted by the Center. Talks, which are offered by the Fordham Medieval Fellows, the Fordham faculty, and medieval scholars specifically invited to Fordham for the lecture series, range over all the disciplines.

  • Tuesday, February 7
    York Medieval Lecture
    Fozia Bora (University of Leeds) 
    12:30pm ET/5:30 GMT | Zoom 
    Co-sponsored with The Centre for Medieval Studies at York, Department of History of Art at York, the Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies at Ghent, and the Centre for Medieval Literature (Southern Denmark and York) 

    Wednesday, February 8
    "Cinematic Imaginaries of Medieval England: Examining Race and Nation in ‘Angevin’ Film, 1938-1964" 
    Esther Cuenca (University of Houston-Victoria)
    5:30pm-7pm | Fordham University Rose Hill | Keating 3rd

    Monday, February 27 
    "Reproducing Wenches: Histories of Intersectional Disadvantage" 
    Carissa Harris (Temple University)
    1:00-2:30pm | Fordham University Rose Hill | Bepler Commons 

    Saturday, March 4 & Sunday March 5
    The 42nd Annual Conference, Fordham Center for Medieval Studies
    Lost & Found: The Legacies of Greek Culture in the Global Middle Ages
    Fordham University Lincoln Center, Leon Lowenstein Building 12th Floor Lounge 
    Co-sponsored with Fordham's Center for Orthodox Studies and Department of Theology

    Wednesday, March 22
    Elements and Edges: Inhabitable and Uninhabitable Worlds in Medieval Encyclopaedias
    Luke Sunderland (Durham University)
    5:30pm-7:00pm | Fordham University Rose Hill | Room TBD 

    Monday, March 27th
    A workshop with 2023 Medieval Fellow, Dr. Marianne Ailes 
    Tolerance, difference, respect: exploring attitudes to the religious Other in crusading literature. 
    Fordham University Rose Hill 

    Wednesday, April 12
    "Unseen/Unheard: Images of Silence in Medieval Art"
    Vincent Debiais (L’école des hautes études en sciences sociales)
    5:30pm-7:00pm | Fordham University Rose Hill | Keating 3rd 

    Tuesday, May 16
    Book Launch: Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism
    Magda Teter (History & Jewish Studies, Fordham), with a panel discussion featuring Bryan Massingale (Theology, Fordham) and Jed Shugerman (Fordham Law School), moderated by David Gibson (Center on Religion and Culture, Fordham)
    4:00pm | Fordham University, Lincoln Center | Room TBD & Zoom 
    Co-sponsored by Fordham's Center for Jewish Studies, Fordham's Center on Religion and Culture, Fordham Law School, and Fordham's Institute on Religion, Law & Lawyer's Work.

  • Wednesday October 5 
    “Singing Truth to Power: Medieval Protest Music" by Alkemie Early Music
    Fordham Lincoln Center, 12th Floor Lounge
    co-sponsored with the Dept. of Art History and Music 

    Monday, October 24 
    "The many lives of (sal) ammoniac: Finding the tacit tradition of materia medica in eleventh- and twelfth-century Sicily"
    Robin Reich (Fordham Medieval Fellow)
    Fordham Rose Hill, Joseph McShane Campus Center 112

    Friday, November 4
    “Indigeneity in the Early Medieval North Atlantic”
    Tarren Andrews (University of Colorado - Boulder)
    Fordham Rose Hill, Walsh Library, O'Hare Special Collections
    Co-sponsored with Dept. of English

    Saturday November 5
    Reframing the Tudors: A Symposium to Accompany the Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
    Fordham Lincoln Center, 12th Floor Lounge 
    Co-sponsored by RSA and Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • A Roundtable Discussion with the Editors of postmedieval

    Sara Ritchey (Associate Professor of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Shazia Jagot (Lecturer in Medieval and Global Literature, University of York), Julie Orlemanski (Associate Professor of English, University of Chicago)

    Wednesday February 16, 12:30pm 

    The Point of the Soul: Facts and Values from Ulysses' Quest to Dante's Examination on Love

    Alison Cornish (NYU)
    Monday March 7th, 5pm
    Butler Commons (Rose Hill)
     

    Economic Consolidation and the Decline of Puigcerdà in the 14th Century

    Elizabeth Comuzzi (Fordham)
    Thursday April 28th, 5pm
    Butler Commons (Rose Hill)
  • The Cloisters and the Jews in Medieval Spain: A Conversation on Art, Literature, and History
    Peter Cole, Katrin Kogman-Appel, and Jonathan Ray
    Sunday, September 19, 1:00pm via Zoom Webinar
    Sponsored by Fordham Center for Jewish Studies and the Met Cloisters


    The Now of the Rose
    Melanie Garcia Sympson, Elina Gertsman, Sandra Hindman, Meradith McMunn, Christine McWebb, Jonathan Morton, and Stephen G. Nichols
    Wednesday, October 20, 12:00pm via Zoom Webinar
    Co-sponsored with Les Enluminures


    Scales of Knowledge: From Cosmos to Book
    Ghent Autumn School in Medieval Languages and Cultures
    Monday, October 18 - Thursday, October 21
    &
    Image as Compilation: Jerusalem in the Liber Floridus and Beyond
    Hanna Vorholt (Universisty of York) 
    Thursday, October 21, 12:30-2:00pm via Livestream
    Co-sponsored with The Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies (Ghent), Centre for Medieval Literature (Odense and York), The Center for Medieval Studies (York)


    Virtual Lecture with Karla Mallette (University of Michigan)
    Wednesday, November 10, 12:30pm via Zoom
    Co-sponsored with The Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies (Ghent), Centre for Medieval Literature (Odense and York), and the Centre for Medieval Studies (York)


    In-person Lecture with Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Princeton - IAS)
    Wednesday, December 1, 2:30pm


    Exhibiting Medieval Spain: Yesterday and Today
    Sunday, December 5, 1:00pm via Zoom Webinar
    Sponsored by the Fordham Center for Jewish Studies and the Met Cloisters


    Putting on Cologne: An Exploration of a Medieval City
    Ephraim Shoham-Steiner (Ben-Gurion University)
    Wednesday, December 8, 4:00pm
    Co-sponsored with the Fordham Center for Jewish Studies

  • “Alexander the Minorite's Commentary on Revelation: Crusade and Prophecy in the Time of Frederick II"
    Jay Rubenstein (USC Dornsife)
    Wednesday, February 3, 1:00pm EST
     
    "Error and Forgetting: On Judgment and Wandering Texts"
    Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe (UC - Berkeley)
    Wednesday, February 10
    11:00am Lecture, 1:30pm Master Class
     
    "Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe"
    Ephraim Shoham-Steiner (Ben-Gurion University) in conversation with Nicholas Paul and Magda Teter
    Wednesday, February 17, 1:00pm
    Co-sponosored with the Fordham Center for Jewish Studies
     
    "Ravenna: Crucible of Europe"
    Judith Herrin (King's College London emerita)
    Tuesday, March 16 1:30pm EDT/ 5:30 GMT
    Co-sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies at York, Department of History of Art at York, the Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies at Ghent, and the Centre for Medieval Literature (Southern Denmark and York)
  • The Impostor Sea: Fraud in the Medieval Mediterranean
    Hussein Fancy (University of Michigan)
    Tuesday, September 29, 2020, 5:30pm via Zoom

    Women and Wills in Medieval London: A Master Class
    Caroline Barron (University of London)
    Wednesday, October 21, 2020, 12:00pm via Zoom

    "Go Forth and Learn”: The Artist Joel ben Simeon and a Newly Discovered Hebrew Manuscript
    A joint program between Fordham's Center for Jewish Studies and Les Enluminures, featuring Sandra Hindman, Sharon Liberman Mintz, Nina Rowe, with a keynote by Katrin Kogman-Appel
    Thursday, October 22, 1:00pm via Zoom

    Seminar and Workshop: Pandemics through Time: The Renaissance Experience and Modern Pedagogy
    Co-sponsored with the Renaissance Society of America
    Friday, November 13, 10:00am via Zoom

    Holy Healing: Saints and Leprosy in the Middle Ages
    Jennifer Edwards (Manhattan College)
    Thursday, December 3, 2020, 12:00pm via Zoom

  • Faculty Book Talk: Getting the Blues: Vision and Cognition in the Middle Ages (2018)

    Brian J. Reilly (Fordham University)
    Friday, January 17, 2020, 5 p.m.
    Campbell Hall, Multipurpose Room (Rose Hill)

    Medieval Movie Night: The Princess Bride
    Friday, February 7, 2020, 5:30 p.m.

    Scripture Transformed in Late Medieval England: The Religious, Artistic, and Social Worlds of the Welles-Ros Bible (Paris, BnF fr. 1)
    Kathryn Smith (New York University)
    Thursday, February 27, 2020, 6 p.m.
    McMahon 109 (Lincoln Center)

    Planets and Angels, Facts and Values: Paradiso 29
    Alison Cornish (New York University)
    Tuesday, March 10, 2020, 6 p.m.
    O'Hare Special Collections, Walsh Library (Rose Hill)

    The following event was canceled following the closure of the University due to COVID-19.

    Peter Lombard from the Manuscripts: Teaching, Career, and the Schools of Paris
    Mark Clark (Catholic University of America)
    Wednesday, April 29, 2020, 12 p.m.
    O'Hare Special Collections, Walsh Library (Rose Hill)

  • "The Series: Hoccleve's Year of Mourning"
    Sebastian Sobecki (University of Groningen)
    Tuesday, September 17, 2019, 1 p.m.
    O'Hare Special Collections
    Co-sponsored with Department of English

    "Geographic Information Systems, Reflectance Transformation Imaging, and the Prosopography of 13th-Century London"
    John McEwan (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Walter Ong SJ Center for Digital Humanities, St. Louis University)
    Tuesday, October 8, 2019, 5:30 p.m.
    FMH 314
    Co-sponsored with the Fordham Digital Humanities Consortium

    Jews and Christians in the Medieval City: Art, Archaeology, and Traces of the Past
    Thursday, October 24, 2019, 6 - 8 p.m.
    McNally Amphitheatre
    Fordham Lincoln Center

    Biduum Latinum 2019 - De Architectura: Writings on Architecture from Antiquity to the Renaissance
    Thursday and Friday, October 24 and 25, 2019
    Featuring: Posicio Officinarum [monasterii], Codex Sangallensis 1092 (c. 820-830)
    presented by Prof. Scott Bruce (History / Medieval Studies)
    Friday, October 25, 2019, 12 - 4 p.m.
    Walsh Library

    For the remaining schedule see here: Thursday. October 24 and Friday, October 25

    "Memoria Sefardí"
    Judith Cohen (York University)
    Tuesday, October 29, 2019, 6 p.m.
    Butler Commons

    "Writing as Wayfinding: Pilgrimage Ecopoetics and the Medieval Moment"
    Susan Signe Morrison, University of Texas
    Wednesday, November 6, 2019, 1:30 p.m.
    O'Hare Special Collections
    Co-sponsored with the Department of Art History and Music, and the Program in Jewish Studies

    "Jerusalem: City of the Book"
    Merav Mack (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Benjamin Balint
    Wednesday, November 13, 2019, 6 p.m.
    McNally Amphitheatre
    Co-sponsored with the Center for Orthodox Studies

  • Thursday, January 24 
    Pamela Patton, Princeton University
    Guess Who’s Coming to Seder: Skin Color in the Iberian Haggadot 
    Co-sponsored with Dept. of Art History and Music and the Jewish Studies Program  

    Friday, February 8 
    Alkemie Early Music Ensemble
    Cyprus 1400: An Island at the Crossroads of Culture 
    Co-sponsored by Dept. of Art History and Music 

    Monday, February 11 
    William P. Stoneman, Harvard University 
    Fordham University Library MS 3, Private Collections, and Public Libraries: The World of Linked Data 
    First Annual Fordham Library Associates Lecture 

    Wednesday, April 10 
    Adam Cohen, University of Toronto
    Social and Sacred in the Medieval Haggadah 
    Co-sponsored with Dept. of Art History and Music and the Jewish Studies Program 

    Thursday, May 2
    Paul Bertrand, University of Louvain 
    Jay Diehl, Long Island University, Fordham Medieval Fellow
    Laura Gathagan, SUNY-Cortland
    Benjamin Pohl, University of Bristol, Fordham Medieval Fellow 
    Leah Tether, University of Bristol, Fordham Medieval Fellow
    Everyone Has Problems: Messy Manuscripts and Difficult Documents (Workshop) 

  • Tuesday, September 11, 6:00 pm 
    Nicola McDonald, York University 
    The Question of Middle English Romance
     

    Friday, October 12, 6:15 pm
    Eric Ramírez-Weaver, University of Virginia
    Classical and Medieval Astronomy: the Phaenomena, Pliny, and the Presentations of the Heavens
    Co-sponsored with the Department of Classics

    Thursday, October 18, 6:00 pm
    Jacqueline Jung, Yale University
    The Work of Gothic Sculpture in the Age of Photographic Reproduction
    Co-sponsored with the Department of Art History and Music, and the Department of Jewish Studies

    Thursday, October 25, 5:30 pm
    Emmanuel Falque, Institut catholique, Paris
    Bonaventure Colloquium: The Entrance of God into Theology
    Co-sponsored with the Department of Philosophy
     

  • Tuesday, January 23, 6:00 pm
    Emanuel Fiano, Fordham University 
    The Trinitarian Debates, the Rise of Theological Debates, and the Parting of the Ways in Late Antiquity

    Wednesday, February 21, 6:00 pm
    Susan Boynton, Columbia University 
    Guiraut Riquier's Songs: Time and Memory 

    Thursday April 12,1:00 pm 
    Thomas Madden, St. Louis University 
    The War of Towers: Italian Maritime Rivalries in Thirteenth-Century Crusader Syria 

     

     

  • Friday, September 29, 12:00 pm
    John D. Niles, UC Berkeley & Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison 
    Total Medicine: An Approach to the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Healing Texts

    Thursday, October 19, 6:00 pm
    Richard Teverson, Fordham University 
    Roman Royal Histories: The Cultural Legacies of Kingdoms Allied to the Roman Empire After Their Annexation 

    Wednesday, November 8, 12:00 pm
    Teodolinda Barolini, Columbia University 
    Realism Versus Reality in Dante's Paradiso 

    Monday, November 27, 6:30 pm
    Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, mezzo-soprano (formerly of Anonymous 4)
    A Flower in Winter: The Challenges and Rewards of Singing Hildegard
    Co-sponsored by  the Music Department

     

     

     

  • Tuesday, February 14, 4:30 p.m.
    Medieval Poetry Reading
    Walsh Library, O'Hare Special Collections

    Thursday, April 27, 5:30 p.m.
    Frank Coulson (Ohio State University)
    A Newly Discovered Fragment of Giovanni del Virgilio's Expositio on the Metamorphoses in Walsh Library, Fordham University, Duane Library 351

     

  • Tuesday, September 13, 6 p.m.
    Robert Pinsky (Boston University)
    Quickness and Form, Absence and Being: a Technical Approach to Inferno
    Corrigan Conference Center, Fordham University Lincoln Center
    Co-sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies

    Wednesday, September 14, 12 p.m.
    Magda Teter (Fordham University)
    Simon of Trent: A Liminal Figure in Jewish-Christian Relations
    Walsh Library, O'Hare Special Collections

    Friday, September 30, 3 p.m.
    Robin Fleming (Boston College)
    Vanishing Plants, Animals, and Places Britain's Transformation from Roman to Medieval
    Humanities Institute, Mertz Library, New York Botanical Garden
    The lecture will be followed by an exhibit of medieval and Renaissance herbals

    Saturday, October 1, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
    Biduum Latinum Fordhamense (Latin Bootcamp)
    New York Botanical Garden
    Prior registration is required; Please RSVP to [email protected]

    Friday, October 14, 2016
    Scott Bruce (University of Colorado Boudler)
    Reading: The Book of the Undead
    Location and time to be determined

    Sunday, October 30, 10 a.m.
    Sarit Kattan Gribetz (Fordham University)
    Lecture and Tour of the Met Exhibit: "Jerusalem 1000-1400"
    The Met Fifth Avenue

    Tuesday, December 6, 6 p.m.
    John McCaskey (2016-17 Medieval Fellow: Fordham University)
    Inductio: The Medieval Transmission and Humanist Solution to 'The Scandal of Philosophy'
    Walsh Library, O'Hare Special Collections

     

     

  • Monday, January 25, 1 p.m.
    Thelma Fenster (Fordham University)
    Christine de Pizan and Poetic Justice for the Jews. Or not.
    Campbell Multipurpose Room

    Tuesday, February 23, 5 p.m.
    Dee Dyas (University of York)
    The Dynamics of Pilgrimage: Sensory Experience and the Power of Place
    Walsh Library, O'Hare Special Collections Room

    Wednesday, March 2, 6:30 p.m.
    Marc Epstein (Vassar College) and Sarah Lipton (SUNY Stony Brook)
    Jews in Medieval Art: A View from the Inside and Outside
    Fordham Law School, LAW 1-01, LC Campus
    Offered in connection with Magda Teter's Medieval Jewish history class; co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval Studies.

    Wednesday, April 20, 1 p.m.
    Jonathan Phillips (University of London, Royal Holloway)
    The Memory of Saladin in the Modern Middle East
    O'Hare Special Collections Room, Walsh Library, Rose Hill Campus

  • Thursday, September 17, 1 p.m.
    Sarit Kattan Gribetz (Fordham University)
    The Mothers in the Manuscripts: Christian Origins according to the Jewish Life of Jesus (Toledot Yeshu)
    McGinley Music Room

    Tuesday, October 13, 6:45 p.m.
    Joshua O'Driscoll (Morgan Library and Museum)
    The insight of inscriptions: Writing for Images in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries
    McGinley 235

    Thursday, November 12, 5:30 - 8 p.m.
    Christopher Baswell (Columbia University and Barnard College)
    Master Class on Scholarly Editing (by RSVP only; email [email protected])
    Campbell Multipurpose Room

    Tuesday, December 1, 1 p.m.
    Ronald Herzman (State University of New York College at Geneseo)
    Dante and the Frescoes at the Sancta Sanctorum
    Campbell Multipurpose Room

  • Tuesday, January 20, 6:45 p.m.
    Brian Reilly (Fordham University)
    Seeing Irony in Chrétien de Troyes's Cligès
    McGinley 236

    Monday, February 9, 1 p.m.
    Eleanor Johnson (Columbia University)
    Dramatic Contemplation: Participatory Likeness in the Play of Wisdom
    Walsh Library, O'Hare Special Collections Room

    Saturday , March 7, 9 a.m.
    35th Annual Conference of the Center of Medieval Studies
    Reading and Writing in City, Court, and Cloister
    Lincoln Center Campus

    Tuesday, March 24, 1 p.m.
    Bruce O'Brien (University of Mary Washington)
    Written Languages, Translation. and Ethnicity in the Aftermath of the Norman Conquest
    Walsh Library, O'Hare Special Collections Room

  • Monday, September 15, 1 p.m.
    Alex Novikoff (Fordham University)
    The Ars Disputandi and the "Art" of Disputation
    Walsh Library, O'Hare Special Collections Room

    Friday, October 10, 4 p.m.
    Emma Campbell (University of Warwick)
    Genre Trouble: Translating Textual and Sexual Identities in Old French Saints' Lives and Romance
    Faculty Lounge, McGinley 237

    Thursday, November 6, 1 p.m.
    Andrew Irving (The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church)
    Mass Transit: Mass Book Design in the Twelfth Century
    Walsh Library, O'Hare Special Collections Room

    Tuesday, December 9, 6 p.m.
    David Wrisley (Medieval Fellow and American University of Beirut)
    Islamicate Worlds, the Late Medieval Court of Burgundy and the Mediterranean: Representations, Encounters, Debates
    Faculty Lounge, McGinley 237

  • Thursday, January 23, 1 p.m.
    Robert Davis (Fordham University)
    Feeling Nothing: Affect and Absence in
    Late Medieval Christian Devotion
    Campbell Multipurpose Room, Campbell Hall

    Tuesday, February 25, 5:15 p.m.
    Janine Peterson (Marist College and Medieval Fellow)
    Between Sanctity and Heresy: Suspect Saints in
    Late Medieval Italy

    McGinley Center, Faculty Lounge

    Saturday and Sunday, March 29-30
    34th Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies
    The French of Outremer: Communications and Communities
    in the Crusading Mediterranean
    Lincoln Center Campus, 12th Floor Lounge

    Monday, April 28, 1 p.m.
    Mathew Mesley (University of Zürich and Medieval Fellow)
    Beyond Celibacy: Medieval Bishops and the Representation and Regulation of Clerical Masculinity.
    Walsh Library, O’Hare Special Collections Room

  • Monday, February 4, 5:15 p.m.
    Tia Kolbaba (Rutgers University)
    "All things are clear and open that are in the divine scriptures":
    Interpretative Ideals and Polemical Purposes in Byzantine Exegesis
    McGinley Center, Faculty Lounge
    Co-sponsored with Orthodox Christian Studies

    Wednesday, February 20, 7 p.m.
    Film and Discussion: "The Way" (2010)
    Introduced by Richard Gyug(Fordham University)
    Flom Auditorium, Walsh Library
    Co-sponsored with Frances and Ann Curran Center for American Catholic Studies

    Saturday and Sunday, March 9-10
    33rd Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies
    Putting England in Its Place:
    Cultural Relations and Cultural Production

    Lincoln Center Campus, 12th floor lounge

    Wednesday, March 20, 5:30 p.m.
    Susan Foran (University of Bergen and Fordham Medieval Fellow)
    A Nation of Knights: Chivalry and National History in
    Late Medieval Scotland

    McGinley Center, Music Room

    Monday, April 22, 12:45 p.m.
    Pamela O. Long (National Humanities Center)
    Thinking with Technologies and Material Culture in
    Medieval Europe

    McGinley Center, Faculty Lounge
    Co-sponsored with the Department of History

  • Wednesday, September 11, 12:30 p.m.
    Andrew Albin (Fordham University)
    Canor and Its Discontents: The Vicissitudes of Mystical Angelic Song in Late Medieval England
    Walsh Library, O’Hare Special Collections Room

    Friday, October 18, 4:30 p.m.
    Christopher Given-Wilson (University of St Andrews)
    Writing a Chronicle in the Late Middle Ages
    McGinley Center, Faculty Lounge

    Thursday, November 21, 12:45 p.m.
    Dale Kinney (Bryn Mawr)
    The Triconch Churches near Sohag,Upper Egypt
    Walsh Library, O’Hare Special Collections Room

    Tuesday, December 3, 4 p.m.
    Monica Green (Arizona State University)
    The Differential Impact of the Medical Translations
    Coming out of Southern Italy, Spain, and the
    Crusader Kingdoms in the 11th and 12th Centuries
    McGinley Center, Faculty Lounge

  • Friday, January 20, 4:30 p.m.
    O'Hare Room, 4th Floor, Walsh Library, Rose Hill Campus
    Queenship and the Language of Command: Some Evidence from the English Chancery Records
    Lisa Benz St. John, Fordham Medieval Fellow

    Monday, February 13, 1 p.m.
    Faculty Lounge, McGinley Center, Rose Hill Campus
    John Chrysostom on the Biology of Madness and the Pathology of Sin
    Wendy Mayer, Australian Catholic University
    Co-Sponsored by Christian Orthodox Studies and the Department of Theology

    Thursday, March 8, 4 p.m.
    Butler Commons, Duane Library, Rose Hill Campus
    Woden's Tree and Christ's Cross, The Mystery of the Stave Church
    Ronald G. Murphy, SJ, Georgetown University
    Loyola Chair Lecture

    March 31-April 1, Leon Lowenstein Building, Lincoln Center Campus
    32nd Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies
    Think Romance! : Re-conceptualizing a Medieval Genre
    Co-Sponsored with the Department of English

    Friday, May 4, 5:15 p.m.
    Butler Commons, Duane Library, Rose Hill Campus
    Balance and Imagination: The Impact of a New Model of Equilibrium on Scholastic Thought, 1250-1350
    Joel Kaye, Barnard College

  • Thursday, October 13, 5:30 p.m.
    Tognino Hall, Duane Library, Rose Hill Campus
    Blood Matters: Reading with the Heart in Medieval Devotional Literature
    Jocelyn Wogan Browne, Fordham University
    Inaugural Lecture, Thomas F. X. Mullarkey Chair in English Literature

    Monday, October 31, 5:15 p.m.
    Faculty Lounge, McGinley Center, Rose Hill Campus
    The Power of the Anglo-Saxon Concubine: Aelfgifu of Northampton
    Helen Damico, University of New Mexico

    Thursday, November 17, 1 p.m.
    Campbell Multipurpose Room, Campbell Hall, Rose Hill Campus
    The Apocalyptic First Crusade, 1095-1099
    Jay C. Rubenstein, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

    Friday, December 9, 4:30 p.m.
    12th Floor Lounge, Leon Lowenstein Building, Lincoln Center Campus
    Building-in-Time: Thinking and Making Architecture in the Premodern Age
    Marvin Trachtenberg, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

  • Sunday, February 13, 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
    12th Floor Lounge, Leo Lowenstein Building, Lincoln Center
    Challenging the Myths of Art History: A Symposium in Honor of Linda Seidel

    Saturday, February 26, 1 - 5 p.m.
    South Lounge, Leon Lowenstein Building, Lincoln Center
    A Symposium on Skaldic Poetry

    Thursday, March 3, 12:45 p.m.
    Music Room, 2nd Floor, McGinley Center
    Cipher, Celebrant, Symbol: Painting Priestly Identity in Late Medieval Italy
    Gregory Waldrop, SJ, Fordham University
    See article on Fr. Waldrop's talk from Inside Fordham

    Friday, March 25, 1 p.m.
    University Commons, 3rd Floor, Duane Library
    The Virtues of Jesus in Aquinas and Bonaventure
    Joseph Wawrykow, University of Notre Dame
    Sponsored by the Department of Theology

    March 26-27, Leon Lowenstein Building, Lincoln Center
    31st Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies
    The Metaphysics of Aquinas and Its Modern Interpreters: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives

    Friday, April 8, 5 p.m.
    O'Hare Room, 4th Floor, Walsh Library
    Ambiguity in Medieval Icelandic Sagas
    Rolf Stavnem, Fordham Medieval Fellow and University of Aarhus

  • Wednesday, Sept. 22,  3:30 p.m.
    Tognino Hall, 2nd floor, Duane Library
    London Theatre before the Theatre (1576) or How I Spent My Summer Vacations
    Mary C. Erler, Fordham University
    Third Annual English Department Inaugural Lecture

    Friday, Sept. 24, 5:15 p.m.
    Flom Auditorium, Walsh Library
    Tales from a Forgotten Rome: Pagan Image Programs in the Early Christian City
    Susanna McFadden, Fordham University

    Wednesday, Oct. 20, 11:45 a.m.
    O'Hare Room, 4th floor, Walsh Library
    What's Your Pleasure? Mass-Market Medieval Romance
    Nicola McDonald, Fordham Medieval Fellow and University of York, UK
    See article on Dr. McDonald's talk from Inside Fordham

    Friday, November 19, 5:15 p.m.
    O'Hare Room, 4th floor, Walsh Library
    DYSTOPIA: Augustine's City of Gaud
    Peter Kaufmann, University of Richmond
    Co-sponsored with the Dept. of Theology

    Monday, Dec. 6, 12:45 p.m.
    Tognino Hall, 2nd floor, Duane Library
    Vengeance, Jews, and the Christ Child in Les Enfaunces Jesu Crist (Bodleian)
    MS Selden Supra 38)
    Maija Birenbaum, Fordham Medieval Fell