The Center for Medieval Studies
The Center for Medieval Studies hosts four scholarly lectures each semester to which all faculty, graduate students, and interested undergraduate students 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.
Spring 2008 Lecture Seriess
Wednesday, January 16, 4:30 p.m.
Nicholas Paul, Fordham University
Lion Knights: Crusade, Memory, and the Culture of the European Nobility
Flom Auditorium, Walsh Library
Friday, February 8, 4:30 p.m
Catherine E. Schulze, Fordham Medieval Fellow
Eliminating a 'Cause of Ruin'? Expulsion and Reform at the Abbey of Saint-Jean of Laon, 1128
McGinley Center, Music Room
Monday, March 3, 1:00 p.m.
Beth Holman, Fordham Medieval Fellow
The Display Credenza/Buffet: Thinking about People and Things in Fifteenth-Century Europe
McGinley Center, Music Room
Saturday-Sunday, March 29-30, 9: 00 a.m.
Annual Conference: Remembering the Crusades: Myth, Image, and Identity
Lincoln Center campus, 12th Floor Lounge
Friday, April 11, 4:30 p.m.
Catherine Batt, Fordham University
Henry, Duke of Lancaster's Livre de Seyntz Medicines: Chicken Soup for the Fourteenth-Century Multilingual Soul
McGinley Center, Music Room
Friday, April 25, 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Fordham hosts the annual NYC Medieval Studies Doctoral Student Colloquium
McMahon Lounge, Lincoln Center campus
All are invited. A reception follows each talk
NYC Inter-University Doctoral Consortium – Annual Medieval Studies Colloquium
Spectatorship and Visuality in the Medieval World
Friday, April 25, 2008: Hosted by the Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University
113 W. 60th Street (at Columbus and W. 60th in the McMahon Lounge)
9:00 – 9:25: Coffee and pastries
9:25: Welcome: Maryanne Kowaleski, Director of the Center for Medieval Studies
9:30 – 11:00
Faculty Panel Discussion: Technologies, Methodologies and New Medieval Research
Chair: Suzanne Yeager, Fordham University
Michael Sargent, CUNY Graduate Center
Organic Metaphors for Manuscript Relations: Stemma - Cladogram – Rhizome
Colum P. Hourihane, Index of Christian Art, Princeton University
Celebrating Ninety Years – The Index of Christian Art as a Research Tool
Evelyn Birge Vitz, New York University
Medieval Literature: Performance Issues
11:00-11:20: Coffee Break
11:20 – 12:40
Session One: Envisioning Sanctity
Chair: Brigitte Bedos-Rezak, New York University
Maile Hutterer, New York University
Conflicts in Medieval Cathedrals: The Visibility of Stained Glass
Michelle Garceau, Princeton University
I saw him! Visions and Saints in Miracle Stories
12:40 – 2:15: Lunch (a list of local restaurants will be available)
2:15 – 2:45
Session Two: Religious Identity and Community
Chair: Susan Crane, Columbia University
Elizabeth Bonnette, Columbia University
Ex-votos and Effluvia in The Miracle Book of William of Norwich
2:45-3:15: Coffee Break
3:15: 4:30
Session Three: Readers and Visuality
Chair: Anne Stone, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center
Joni Hand, CUNY Graduate Center
Female Book Owners in the Burgundian Court, 1350-1550: Books of Hours as Vehicles of Identity
Heather Blatt, Fordham University
New Media, Old Media, and Participatory Readers in Late Medieval England
4:30– 5:30: Wine Reception, Plaza Atrium, Plaza Level
Registration is free, but please email RSVP to medievals@fordham.edu by April 22
For Information, e-mail: medievals@fordham.edu or call (718) 817-4655
Last modified:April 21,
2008
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