Medieval Studies Events
Sunday October 2
Fort Tryon Medieval Festival: Ask A Medievalist Booth
Fort Tryon Park
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 17
Medieval Movie Night: The Northman (2022)
Fordham Rose Hill, Keating 1st Auditorium
with commentary by Sean Spillane (Fordham English PhD)
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
Monday November 14
Medieval Movie Night: Ironclad (2011)
with commentary by Nicholas Paul (MVST/ History)
Fordham Rose Hill, Location TBD
Monday December 12
Medieval Studies Holdiay Party
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
Zoom
The Point of the Soul: Facts and Values from Ulysses' Quest to Dante's Examination on Love
Alison Cornish (NYU)
Monday March 7th
Butler Commons | Rose Hill
Cultures of Exchange: Mercantile Mentalities Between Italy and the World
41st Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University
Saturday-Sunday, March 26-27, 2022
Lincoln Center
Medieval Movie Night: Al Nasser Salah Ad-Din/ Saladin the Victorious (1963)
Friday April 1st
McNally Amphitheatre | Lincoln Center
Economic Consolidation and the Decline of Puigcerdà in the 14th Century
Elizabeth Comuzzi (Fordham)
Thursday April 28th
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
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
Zoom Webinar
Co-sponsored with Les Enluminures
Ghent Autumn School in Medieval Languages and Cultures
Scales of Knowledge: From Cosmos to Book
Monday, October 18 - Thursday, October 21
Image as Compilation: Jerusalem in the Liber Floridus and Beyond
Hanna Vorholt (Universisty of York)
Thursday, October 21
Livestream
Autumn School 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
Zoom
Finding India: Land, Language, and History in The Book of John Mandeville & Pehr Kalm's Travels
Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Princeton - IAS)
Wednesday, December 1
O'Hare Special Collections, Walsh Library, 4th Floor | Rose Hill
Exhibiting Medieval Spain: Yesterday and Today
Sunday, December 5, 1:00pm
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
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 9 (UNC Dornsife)
Wednesday, February 3
Zoom
Annual Conference
Medieval French without Borders
Online, with pre-recorded videos, zoom webinars, zoom discussions, and a final roundtable
March 20-21, 2021
Zoom
The Impostor Sea: Fraud in the Medieval Mediterranean
Hussein Fancy (University of Michigan)
Tuesday, September 29
Zoom
Women and Wills in Medieval London: A Master Class
Caroline Barron (University of London)
Wednesday, October 21
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
Zoom
Seminar and Workshop: Pandemics through Time: The Renaissance Experience and Modern Pedagogy
Friday, November 13, 10:00am via Zoom
Co-sponsored with the Renaissance Society of America
Holy Healing: Saints and Leprosy in the Middle Ages
Jennifer Edwards (Manhattan College)
Thursday, December 3
Zoom
Faculty Book Talk: Getting the Blues: Vision and Cognition in the Middle Ages (2018)
Brian J. Reilly (Fordham University)
Friday, January 17
Campbell Hall, Multipurpose Room | Rose Hill
Sweet Friendship: Courtly Song & Dance from 15th-century France and Italy
Alkemie Early Music
Friday, January 24
Tognino Hall, Duane Library | Rose Hill
Saturday, January 25, 2020, 7:30 p.m.
Pope Auditorium, Leon Lowenstein Building (Lincoln Center)
Co-sponsored with the Department of Art History and Music
Medieval Movie Night: The Princess Bride
Friday, February 7
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
McMahon 109 | Lincoln Center
Planets and Angels, Facts and Values: Paradiso 29
Alison Cornish (New York University)
Tuesday, March 10
O'Hare Special Collections, Walsh Library | Rose Hill
The following events were canceled following the closure of the University due to COVID-19.
Medieval Movie Night: The 13th Warrior
Friday, April 3, 2020
A Concert by Collegium Musicum Fordhamense
Collegium Musicum Fordhamense
Friday, April 24
Butler Gallery | Lincoln Center
Co-sponsored with the Department of Art History and Music
Peter Lombard from the Manuscripts: Teaching, Career, and the Schools of Paris
Mark Clark (Catholic University of America)
Wednesday, April 29
O'Hare Special Collections, Walsh Library | Rose Hill
Medieval Movie Night: Becket
Friday, May 1
"The Series: Hoccleve's Year of Mourning"
Sebastian Sobecki (University of Groningen)
Tuesday, September 17
O'Hare Special Collections | Rose HIll
Co-sponsored with Department of English
25th Annual Fort Tryon Park Medieval Festival
Sunday, September 29
Fort Tryon Park
"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
FMH 314 | Rose Hill
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
McNally Amphitheatre | Lincoln Center
Biduum Latinum 2019 - De Architectura: Writings on Architecture from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Thursday and Friday, October 24 and 25
Featuring: Posicio Officinarum [monasterii], Codex Sangallensis 1092 (c. 820-830)
presented by Prof. Scott Bruce (History / Medieval Studies)
Friday, October 25
Walsh Library | Rose Hill
For the remaining schedule see here: Thursday. October 24 and Friday, October 25
"Memoria Sefardí"
Judith Cohen (York University)
Tuesday, October 29
Butler Commons | Rose Hill
"Writing as Wayfinding: Pilgrimage Ecopoetics and the Medieval Moment"
Susan Signe Morrison, University of Texas
Wednesday, November 6
O'Hare Special Collections | Rose Hill
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
McNally Amphitheatre | Lincoln Center
Co-sponsored with the Center for Orthodox Studies
"My Bestial Half: a Roman de Fauvel Project"
A concert by Collegium Musicum Fordhamense
Friday, December 6
McNally Amphitheatre | Lincoln Center
Co-sponsored with the Department of Art History and Music
"Everyone Has Problems. Difficult Documents and Messy Manuscripts: a Workshop"
Thursday, May 2
McMahon 109 | Lincoln Center
Social and Sacred in the Medieval Haggadah
Adam Cohen (University of Toronto)
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
McNally Amphitheatre | Lincoln Center
Co-Sponsored with the Program in Jewish Studies and the Department of Art History and Music
Ritual and Religion in the Medieval World
39th Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University
Saturday - Sunday, March 30-31
Lincoln Center
Fordham University Library MS 3, Private Collectors, and Public Libraries: The World of Linked Data
William P. Stoneman (Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts, Houghton Library, Harvard University)
First Annual Fordham Library Associates Lecture
Monday, February 11, 2019
O’Hare Special Collections, Walsh Library | Rose Hill
Co-sponsored with the Center for Medieval Studies
Cyprus, 1400: Island at the Crossroads of Culture
Concert presented by Alkemie Early Music Ensemble
Friday February 8
Lincoln Center
Guess Who's Coming to Seder: Skin Color in the Iberian Haggadot
Pamela Patton (Director of the Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University)
Thursday, January 24
McMahon 109 | Lincoln Center
Co-Sponsored with the Program in Jewish Studies and the Department of Art History and Music
Flowers of the Trecento: A Concert by Collegium Musicum Fordhamense
Part of the Fordham University Concert Series presented by the departments of Medieval Studies, Art History and Music
Directed by Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek
Thursday, November 29
Ildiko Butler Gallery | Lincoln Center
Bonaventure Colloquium: The Entrance of God into Theology
Emmanuel Falque (Institut catholique de Paris)
Thursday, October 25
Duane Library, Bepler Commons | Rose Hill Campus
Co-sponsored with the Department of Philosophy
The Work of Gothic Sculpture in the Age of Photographic Reproduction
Jacqueline Jung (Yale University)
Thursday, October 18
Lincoln Center Campus
Co-sponsored with the Department of Art History and Music, and the Department of Jewish Studies
Classical and Medieval Astronomy: the Phaenomena, Pliny and the Presentation of the Heavens
Eric Ramirez-Weaver (University of Virginia)
Friday, October 12
American Museum of Natural History, Kaufmann Theater
Sponsored by the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York
Co-sponsored by Fordham's Department of Classics and the Center for Medieval Studies
Biduum Latinum 2018 - De Arte Astonomica: Astronomy in Antiquity, Middle Ages, and Renaissance
Saturday, October 13
Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis, Bk. II (c. 79 AD)
Guillelmus de Conchis, Dragmaticon Philosophiae (c. 1150)
Nicolaus Copernicus, De Revolutionibus Orbium Caelestium (1543)
4:45 - 5:30 p.m. - Missa Latina (= Latin Mass) - Spellman Hall
Celebrated by Fr. Chris Cullen, SJ (Dept. of Philosophy)
The 34th Annual Medieval Festival at Fort Tryon Park
Sunday, September 30
Fort Tryon Park | Met Cloisters
The Question of Middle English Romance
Nicola McDonald (York University)
Tuesday, September 11
O'Hare Special Collections, Walsh Library | Rose Hill
Digital Day 2018
August 22-23
Walsh Library 044 | Rose Hill
Download the event program.
Thank you to all who attended or participated in this event.
View collected reportage of what took place at Digital Day.
Hymns, Heresy, and Hockets: Performing Philippe de Vitry
The Departments of Medieval Studies and Music at Fordham University Concert Series
Tuesday, April 24
Leon Lowenstein Center, 12th Floor Lounge | Lincoln Center
The War of Towers: Italian Maritime Rivalries in Thirteenth-Century Crusader Syria
Thomas Madden (St. Louis University)
Thursday, April 12
Bepler Commons | Rose Hill Campus
Inside Out: Dress and Identity in the Middle Ages
38th Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies
Saturday and Sunday, March 17-18
McNally Amphitheater | Lincoln Center
Guiraut Riquier's Songs: Time and Memory
Susan Boynton (Columbia University)
Wednesday, February 21
O'Hare Special Collections, Walsh Library | Rose Hill
The Trinitarian Debates, the Rise of Theological Debates, and the Parting of the Ways in Late Antiquity
Emanuel Fiano (Fordham University)
Tuesday, January 23
O'Hare Special Collections, Walsh Library | Rose Hill
A Flower in Winter: The Challenges and Rewards of Singing Hildegard
Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, mezzo-soprano (formerly of Anonymous 4)
Monday, November 27
12th Floor Lounge, Leon Lowenstein Center | Lincoln Center
Co-sponsored by the Music Department
Realism Versus Reality in Dante's Paradiso
Teodolinda Barolini (Columbia University)
Wednesday, November 8
O'Hare Special Collections, Walsh Library | Rose Hill
Roman Royal Histories: The Cultural Legacies of Kingdoms Allied to the Roman Empire After Their Annexation
Richard Teverson (Fordham University)
Thursday, October 19
O'Hare Special Collections, Walsh Library | Rose Hill
Total Medicine: An Approach to the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Healing Texts
John D. Niles (UC Berkeley and Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)
Friday, September 29
O'Hare Special Collections, Walsh Library | Rose Hill