A Forum for Scholars of Early Medieval England THE ANGLO-SAXON STUDIES COLLOQUIUM

The Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium aims to foster intellectual exchange among faculty and graduate students whose interests embrace the language, literature, and culture of early medieval England. Currently based in Columbia, New York University, the University of Rhode Island, Rutgers, UC Berkeley, and King's College London, the Colloquium seeks to expand the resources available to Anglo-Saxonists from these universities and other institutions in the area, and also to create a welcoming intellectual community for anyone who is interested in Anglo-Saxon studies. To join our email list, please send a message to: ASSC@columbia.edu Core Faculty Committee: Patricia Dailey, Columbia University; Kathleen Davis, University of Rhode Island; Stacy Klein, Rutgers University; Clare Lees, King's College, University of London; Haruko Momma, New York University; Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, UC Berkeley. Sponsored by: The Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University; The Office of the Dean for the Humanities, FAS, New York University; The Department of English, Rutgers University; University of Rhode Island; The Department of English, UC Berkeley. CURRENT COURSES OF INTEREST in Consortium Universities (Fall 2011 - Spring 2012) PAST COURSES OF INTEREST in Consortium Universities ASSC Graduate Student Bios COLLOQUIUM EVENTS The following events have been scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year. Further details will be added in due course. To learn about past events with ASSC, from Fall 2004 to Spring 2011 click here. Fall 2011 Oct 25 Tuesday Andrew Rabin (University of Louisville) "Holy Bodies, Legal Matters: Theorizing Law and Gender in an Early Medieval Saint's Life" at Rutgers University 6:00 pm, Murray Hall, 302 Nov 2 Wednesday Nicholas Sparks (University of Cambridge) "The Theft and Dismemberment of Ancient Codices: Two Case Studies at Columbia University 2:40-3:55pm, Hamilton Hall, 503 This is the story of the theft and mutilation of two medieval English manuscripts. The first a copy of Ælfric's Grammar and Glossary from Exeter, now MS Hh.1.10 in Cambridge University Library. The second, the Codex Amiatinus, the best, oldest, and only complete surviving Latin Bible from before the time of Charlemagne. How did these books come into being? What clues might dismemberment provide? Neither manuscript bears any obvious indications of its provenance nor of circumstances of their dismemberment; however, these companion pieces allow us to think about books and their production as historical processes conditioned by time, space, and materials. They are not lifeless objects, but artifacts with stories to tell, often with cultural, political, social, and economic significance. Nov 7 Monday Carol Braun Pasternack (UC Santa Barbara) two events: "Bloodlines: Purity, Warfare and the Procreative Family in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica" at Columbia University Butler 523 4:30 pm, Reception to Follow Email for rsvp and readings: pdailey@columbia.edu Nov 8 Tuesday "Remaking Sex: The Holy Family and the Rest of Us in 'The Advent Lyrics'" Workshop at Rutgers University Murray Hall, 207 4:30-7:30 pm For readings, please contact pietrasb@gmail.com Spring 2012 TBD tbd Jay Gates (John Jay College) at Columbia University Feb 24 & 25 Friday & Saturday Eighth Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference "Philology" UC Berkeley Conference Website: http://graduatemedievalists.org/assc.html For full schedule see Conference Poster All talks to be held in 300 Wheeler Hall Friday, 24 February 5:00 Keynote - “We Philologists” Jan Ziolkowski Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin, Department of Classics, Harvard University Director of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection Reception to follow in 330 Wheeler Hall Saturday, 25 February 9:30 Light breakfast & registration 10:15 Opening Remarks 10:30 Session I: Words, Words, Words: Lexical Approaches to Old English Dave Wilton, University of Toronto “You Keep Using That Word. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means: Fæhð in Beowulf” David Pedersen, Fordham University “Wyrd in the Old English Poem Solomon and Saturn II” Leonard Neidorf, Harvard University “Beow in Beowulf: New Evidence for an Old Emendation” Respondent: Jacob Hobson, UC Berkeley 12:00 Lunch – 330 Wheeler Hall 1:30 Session II: Where Did the Middle Ages Go? The Modern Reception of Anglo-Saxon England Peter Buchanan, University of Toronto “Caedmon and the Gift of Song in Black Mountain Poetics” Joseph Livingstone, New York University “‘Like solid rocks’: Language, Nature and the Nature of Language” Annie Abrams, New York University “‘Mutilated Remains’: Longfellow’s Historicized Anglo-Saxons Respondent: Marcos Garcia, UC Berkeley 3:00 Coffee break – 330 Wheeler Hall 3:30 Session III: The Form of the Content: Formal Approaches to Old English Literature Kathryn Jagger, University College London “Words for Learning in Alfred’s Preface to the Pastoral Care: Philology and the History of Intellectualism in West Saxon Literature” Leslie Carpenter, Fordham University “A New English Verse Form: Poems of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" Emile Young, New York University “Runes, Wisdom, and Textual Transmission” Respondent: Jennifer Lorden, UC Berkeley 5:00 Banquet – 330 Wheeler Hall – please RSVP by 16 February if planning to attend March 2 Friday Catherine Sanok (University of Michigan) Workshop: "Rethinking Community in the Middle Ages" at Columbia University conference room, 602 Philosophy Hall March tbd Seth Lerer (UC San Diego) at New York University COLLOQUIUM EVENTS ARCHIVE